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Out of the Box

Episode Number: 93    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Thursday October 27, 2005    Prod Code: n/a
Syd and Tom discover that Renée has stolen the cryo container, and soon find themselves under siege by a group of mercenaries who want the contents of the container. Meanwhile, Sloane takes matters into his own hands to get himself back into APO and continues his quest to find a cure for Nadia.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Jesse Alexander
Director: Jay Torres
Star: Rachel Nichols (Rachel Gibson),  Victor Garber (Jonathan 'Jack' Donahue Bristow),  Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane),  Elodie Bouchez (Renée Rienne),  Jennifer Garner (Sydney Anne Bristow),  Balthazar Getty (Thomas Grace),  Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman),  Carl Lumbly (Marcus R. Dixon)
Recurring Role: Tyrees Allen (Gordon Dean)
Guest Star: Jennifer Hetrick (Senator Lewis),  Joel Bissonnette (Keach),  Annie Quinn (Daughter),  Patrick Bauchau (Luc),  Sean Smith (storage manager),  Patrick Gorman (flashback Desantis),  Ashlyn Sanchez (Young Renee)

Notes

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International Air Dates:
Australia: Sunday, July 15, 2007 on Network 7 (edit)
Music from this episode includes:
"The City Lights" by The Umbrellas (edit)

Quotes

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(Tom's at the shooting range eagerly firing at the targets)
Jack: Think you got him?
Tom: My mother always said if some one’s worth shooting once, it’s worth shooting twice.
Jack: I’m sorry I never met her, she sounds like my kind of woman.
(edit)
Jack: You seem to be enjoying your freedom.
Sloane: I was hoping to offer you more than prison food.
Jack: I must confess I'd grown rather fond of the shepherd's pie... I'm assuming you didn't bring me here simply for the cuisine. (edit)

Trivia

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Marseille is incorrectly spelled "Marseilles" with an S in the end. Although English allows the use of an S in the end of this word, there is no romanization problem (it is written using latin/roman letters without accents) and Marseille is a proper name (town name) and has only one correct spelling in French. In this case, the episode editor should have used the unique French spelling for this town name. (edit)
Although this episode aired October 2005, it is set in 2006; as Renée told her father the present year is 2006. (edit)
In the scene when Renée's father is bleeding from the ears, Syd said his pulse was all over the place. There is no way she could have known this in such short time. (edit)
Is it really a surprise that the body in cryo-stasis is Renée Rienne's father? Father issues are a recurring motif in J.J. Abrams series, like Lost. In Alias, we have Sydney and Jack, Nadia and Sloane, Sark and his father, as well as Vaughn's search for his own father last season. (edit)

Allusions

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Marshall: I hope none of you suffer from arachnophobia, ’cause this little six-legged freak (picks up the small robot he created) is not pretty, but she gets the job done. I call her Charlotte, for obvious reasons.

Reference to Charlotte's Web, a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a barn spider named Charlotte and her friendship with a pig named Wilbur. The story has been adapted for film three times: 1973, 2003 and 2006. (edit)
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7.2
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Continue » Posted Aug 19, 2007 3:37 pm PST
7.7
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"Well written"

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9.5
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"Revealing"
Great episode, not what I expected!
Continue » Posted Dec 2, 2006 9:33 am PST
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"Revealing"
The plot thickens.
Continue » Posted Jun 24, 2006 12:27 pm PST

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"They did this one already"
I’m quickly losing interest in what was once my favorite show of all time.
Continue » Posted Nov 7, 2005 11:10 pm PST
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Episode: Out of the Box
Season Number: 5
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