High-tech gadget guru Marshall Flinkman has been out on the field before (season 2's "Abduction" and season 3's "Repercussions" come to mind), but he has never been as heroic as he is in "Tuesday". With the rest of the APO team in lockdown after a biological attack on APO headquarters, Marshall - who got delayed at home that day - is the only one who can go to Cuba and rescue Sydney, who has been buried alive in a coffin after a deal she made with a bad guy to betray his boss was discovered by the boss. Luckily for her, he forgot to take away her cell phone! There is a great moment for Sydney, when she repeats the same sentences because the lack of oxygen inside the coffin has begun to affect her brain, and a great moment for Sloane, when he asks everyone to shut up and listen to him, but this is largely a Marshall episode, and Kevin Weisman clearly has a ball with his expanded role. However, all the strengths of "Tuesday" cannot hide the fact that this is yet another filler-ish episode, of the kind that has "helped" make season 4 the weakest of "Alias" so far. *** out of 4.
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Marshall saves the day
twice!
Tweekums12 September 2010
Warning: Spoilers
When Sydney is sent to Havana to make contact with a man offering to give her details about the 'Third Faction' she has little idea just how badly it will turn out. The meeting appears to go well and she gets the information that leads Dixon to a computer hard drive. Afterwards however she is captured along with her contact; he is promptly executed but she is destined for a far worse fate
she is buried alive. Meanwhile back at APO Dixon hands over the hard drive to one of the technical staff but as soon as he tries to access it a deadly toxin is released, this forces APO to go into lock down. The only member of the team outside is Marshall, this means he must get to Havana, track Sydney's phone signal and dig her up before her air runs out. If that wasn't enough once he has got her out they learn that the man responsible has a lot more of the toxin so the two of them must go to Berlin to retrieve the data off the real hard drive. As he has seen Sydney this means Marshall will have to bluff his way into the man's office and keep him talking long enough to clone his computer. Of course it isn't quite that simple and Marshall is forced to do some fairly serious things with a spork before their inevitable success!
This was a great episode with gave Marshall a chance to get out of the office and be the hero for once. Kevin Weisman does a great job in the role. It also made an interesting change to see Sydney genuinely terrified; usually she has a degree of control under the worst of circumstances but here she just has to lie there hoping that Marshall will get to her in time.
This was a great episode with gave Marshall a chance to get out of the office and be the hero for once. Kevin Weisman does a great job in the role. It also made an interesting change to see Sydney genuinely terrified; usually she has a degree of control under the worst of circumstances but here she just has to lie there hoping that Marshall will get to her in time.
One of the best
ElessarAndurilS25 October 2015
This episode of Alias made me stop and take the time to write this review as it took me back to the first two seasons in which every episode was so action packed and covered so much story line I had a hard time taking it in. "Tuesday" is a great throwback to the first couple of seasons of Alias thus I give it a 10 for taking me back to the show that after the first two episodes I shared was the fastest paced, most intense show I had never heard of (found it on Netflix and streamed it 10 years after going off the air). But good is good and this episode is great in more ways than I will comment other than to document it here for the series watchers to know that even in Season 4 they can still hit one out of the park!!!
Now You're Talking !
elshikh46 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
The return of the golden days of (Alias); that was my comment after this one came to an end. Actually (Tuesday) proves that this show had the great talent and had lost it for a long time too.
Here, we have a strong plot which had been divided into 2 good parts: How (Marshall) will save (Sydney) from burying alive in Cuba, and How (Marshall) and (Sydney) will make it together and steal a terrorist's secrets. Both of them were outstanding, especially at that time of (Alias), to the extent that you'll say: wow.. Maybe all the rest wasn't that bad after all. Yes it's THAT good!
Look at the idea of paralyzing the APO's agency by bacterial virus while (Sydney) is in a coffin under the ground in Cuba, then how the clumsy (Marshall) is the only agent who can rescue her from inescapable suffocation. I adore the entire sequence of (Marshall) in the cemetery. The second part was no less suspenseful when (Marshall) tried to imitate his role model (Jack Bristow)! It's all genius writing, and the final result was as powerful as the script. And with (Marshall)s song to his baby about the nonmetallic elements, you have to admit that smart touches, like this one, are what make a show surpass!
The previous episode was all for (Nadia), and now they made one for (Marshall) who's a beloved character and the only un-brawny one in the team. So when we had the opportunity to watch him as successful as them in action; it was a victory for the poor un-brawny us!
It was all exceptional from the start till the great last scene of (Sydney) and (Vaughn) dancing romantically in the train station like it's a finale of a beautiful classic movie. Well, I kept telling myself while watching: this what made (Alias) a cult TV once, this was made to watch not one time but several times, and if only it was written like this all along!
Forget all about How the whole APO had no agents out of it to rescue (Sydney)?!, or What was the need for (Sydney)'s cell phone with whatever (Marshall) invented out of an old Cuban radio, while in the same time he could have easily used the satellite's thermal power as he did eventually, or How all the terrorists in the world had their offices in night clubs?!, or the old trite one about How (Sydney) could work under (Sloane)'s authority??!! Here, all of those silly questions are not allowed to be asked, simply you won't even have the time to ask them, since you're in the joy zone, having the most interesting time.
Just compare this fine episode to other shoddy ones of (Alias), then you'll find out that the shoddy are too many, yet the good are too few and too masterly enjoyable as well; quite like this one.
Here, we have a strong plot which had been divided into 2 good parts: How (Marshall) will save (Sydney) from burying alive in Cuba, and How (Marshall) and (Sydney) will make it together and steal a terrorist's secrets. Both of them were outstanding, especially at that time of (Alias), to the extent that you'll say: wow.. Maybe all the rest wasn't that bad after all. Yes it's THAT good!
Look at the idea of paralyzing the APO's agency by bacterial virus while (Sydney) is in a coffin under the ground in Cuba, then how the clumsy (Marshall) is the only agent who can rescue her from inescapable suffocation. I adore the entire sequence of (Marshall) in the cemetery. The second part was no less suspenseful when (Marshall) tried to imitate his role model (Jack Bristow)! It's all genius writing, and the final result was as powerful as the script. And with (Marshall)s song to his baby about the nonmetallic elements, you have to admit that smart touches, like this one, are what make a show surpass!
The previous episode was all for (Nadia), and now they made one for (Marshall) who's a beloved character and the only un-brawny one in the team. So when we had the opportunity to watch him as successful as them in action; it was a victory for the poor un-brawny us!
It was all exceptional from the start till the great last scene of (Sydney) and (Vaughn) dancing romantically in the train station like it's a finale of a beautiful classic movie. Well, I kept telling myself while watching: this what made (Alias) a cult TV once, this was made to watch not one time but several times, and if only it was written like this all along!
Forget all about How the whole APO had no agents out of it to rescue (Sydney)?!, or What was the need for (Sydney)'s cell phone with whatever (Marshall) invented out of an old Cuban radio, while in the same time he could have easily used the satellite's thermal power as he did eventually, or How all the terrorists in the world had their offices in night clubs?!, or the old trite one about How (Sydney) could work under (Sloane)'s authority??!! Here, all of those silly questions are not allowed to be asked, simply you won't even have the time to ask them, since you're in the joy zone, having the most interesting time.
Just compare this fine episode to other shoddy ones of (Alias), then you'll find out that the shoddy are too many, yet the good are too few and too masterly enjoyable as well; quite like this one.
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