V
verdantheart
Guest
Our “Mirage” (4.18) begins in Vienna as the team (Sydney, Vaughn, and Dixon) close in on the hydrosek. Dixon, posing as Halsey, awaits delivery with Kradic. Meanwhile, Sloane wonders why Jack hasn't checked in with his assignment—the method of transport back to LA. In Vienna, Elena's associate with the glasses places a glass containing an explosive charge on Sydney's tray. She spots it, warns Vaughn, and tosses it aside in plenty of time to tangle with Glasses, preventing him from making off with the hydrosek. Dixon pulls his gun and goes for the hydrosek along with Kradic. Kradic grabs the case, but is chased down by Dixon and Vaughn. He threatens the water supply, but after pretending to relax, Dixon shoots him.
Glasses, having escaped Sydney's pursuit, reports back to an upset Elena. Nadia walks in and insists Sophia (Elena) stay at her and Sydney's house despite her protestations that she should move to a hotel.
Back in LA, Sydney worries that her father hasn't been seen for two days. She and Vaughn go to his house—which Sydney has never seen. They easily find a journal containing medical notations, unmarked pill bottles, and medical waste including hypodermic needles among the Spartan furnishings.
At APO, Nadia approaches Marshall, who is eagerly looking forward to analyzing the hydrosek. She gives him a sketch based on Sydney's description. Elena, listening in with Glasses is irritated that he allowed Sydney to get a look at him.
Jack visits Dr Liddell, who tells him about Dr Fleming's discovery of penicillin and goes on to describe his own discovery of an alkylating agent that seemed to assist some irradiated rats—with the unfortunate side-effect of an 84% mortality rate. He provides Jack with a prescription of sorts.
As Marshall works on an algorithm for searching databases for the possible people based on the sketch Nadia brought him, Nadia receives a call from Sophia. She invites Nadia, Sydney and their “boyfriends” to dinner as a thankyou for their generosity.
Jack meets with a contact, Anthony, who gives him the alkylating agent. He tells Jack to give the guy he is torturing only a few cc's at a time or he's likely to lose him.
Sydney approaches Marshall for a lead on her father and realizes that Marshall knows something about what happened. Marshall shows her his evidence and tells her that he pulled the fuel rods. He goes on to tell her that he researched any possible treatment and came up empty. Sydney runs to Sloane to begin an official search.
A briefing is called. There is no record of Jack having sought medical treatment—doctors would have been required to make special note of a condition such as Jack's. Further, at this point it would be likely that Jack's mental faculties would be impaired, so they have to be concerned about the possibility that Jack is being used.
Jack, meanwhile, approaches Dr Liddell's office, where he is prepped for the procedure. Marshall detects an ATM hit and ties into traffic surveillance to track the location of Jack's car. Sydney and Vaughn follow and find that Dr Liddell's office is not an office at all, but an abandoned building. They find Jack injecting himself with the lethal chemical.
Jack, however, mentions the name Liddell, which provides APO with a lead. Atticus Liddell in fact exists. He worked with survivors following a mysterious nuclear accident in the USSR, but was accused of being a spy (which he was). Jack extracted and hid him, but only he and his handler (now dead) knew his location.
Sydney sends Nadia off to Sophia's dinner while she stays with her father. She introduces Weiss, who says he “loves her already.” Sophia grabs both their bags, which she puts in the bedroom, where Glasses is waiting. As they eat, Nadia goes to the bedroom to answer her phone—but Weiss doesn't notice as Sophia holds her gun in her bag.
At APO, Jack awakes and mistakes Sydney for Laura. Sloane comments that Jack is too far gone to tell them where Liddell is. Sydney suggests hypnosis and then mentions that Jack called her Laura. Sloane notes that he called her Laura rather than Irina and suggests that they try placing Jack back in 1981, when Liddell was relocated.
As Sydney gets ready for the operation, Vaughn tries to settle her nerves. Sydney remarks that she just can't remember what her parents were like together, but Vaughn reminds her to trust her training. Sydney moves into the set as the finishing touches are put on it and Sloane is rearranging the knickknacks. Sloane mentions that Irina used to call Jack “Sweetheart.”
They wheel Jack in on a gurney, place him on the couch, and wake him up to the sound of vintage news. Jack switches it off. Sydney closes the door and calls Jack's name. Jack calls her Sydney, but Sydney says, “She's upstairs, isn't she?” and moves on. She mentioned that Arvin Sloane invited them to dinner, which seems to draw him in. He responds that they don't have to go—he knows she just puts up with him for his sake. Vaughn calls, pretending to be Jack's handler, with the call about Liddell. Jack hesitates. They send in the girl who is pretending to be Sydney, who starts playing piano. Jack finishes the call in code.
He tells Sydney (as Laura) that it's bad news from Grady. He needs to make a doctor disappear—that it's low risk, and cites the location, Finland. He's upset because it means he'll miss Sydney's birthday again. All his memories of his own father are of him leaving and he doesn't want Sydney to have the same experience. He says he's planning on leaving the agency. As he goes to play the piano with little “Sydney,” he's sedated.
Sydney heads to Helsinki, where she catches up with the real Dr Liddell.
Meanwhile, Marshall chases down Nadia and Weiss, anxious to know why in the world they would transfer the hydrosek to a low-security facility off-site. They protest that they did no such thing and hasten to retrieve it—but it's too late Elena and Glasses have gotten there first. But Elena has cleaned up her mess, leaving Glasses behind, dead.
Sydney arrives back at APO with Dr Liddell, where Sloane greets them. He's anxious to meet his patient. Jack awakes and asks, “Am I cured?” Dr Liddell says, “Not yet, but I'm here to make you better.”
Analysis . . .
I'll be skipping many observations regarding Jack so that I can put them into my Spy dad column for this week. I hope that you will make a point to take a look at that one this time because I think some of the points are rather interesting.
Let's deal with Nadia's side of the family first, shall we? Elena wants the hydrosek and has to deal with the problem that her associate, Mr Glasses has exposed himself. Once he has helped her get the hydrosek, however, she has no problem disposing of him.
However, this hyrosec better be important because its exposure should tip APO off that there is a security breach—after all, Glasses moved the hydrosek using their authorization. It might take a while to trace it down to “Sophia,” but the fact is that the breach itself is blatant and undeniable now. She could have listened in and gleaned mounds of information for months without significant dectection, but this lets them know they have to look for the breach. If they find the transmitter, it will be very difficult for her to explain how she is innocent when her gift is the problem. Can Elena make it disappear or exchange it for an innocuous bauble before APO discovers it? Or is she planning to disappear? It's a lot to risk, so that hydrosek better be worth a lot.
Sydney becomes concerned when her father, who has been behaving a little strangely lately, doesn't show up at work for a couple of days. She rounds up Vaughn and goes hunting. It turns out that she's never been to her father's apartment. Why aren't we surprised by this? Vaughn comments that he pictured Sydney's father living in a bunker. However, they found plain, simple surroundings—appropriate for a man who spends most of his time at the office or away on business. They did find evidence that Jack is a very sick man.
Sydney uses this as her lead and approaches Marshall. Since she came to him, he's relieved to find himself no longer bound by his promise to Jack and tells him the truth of Jack's sacrifice. Marshall, of course, has been doing his own research into possible treatments (you didn't think he'd simply sit and do nothing, did you?), and came up empty. Now, at least, everyone at APO can come together on the same page and know what they're dealing with. Jack, probably delusional is by himself—or possibly at the mercy of an opportunist.
With APO's help, Sydney and Vaughn locate Jack and manage to collect him just as he's self-administering a probably fatal dose of alkylating agent. But they manage to get the name Liddell. Jack has provided the name of perhaps the only man in the world who can help him. But Jack is the only man who has a lead on where Liddell is—because Jack is the one who made Liddell disappear many years ago.
But getting to that information with Jack in his delusional state turns out to be a difficult task for Sydney, who must become her own mother to transport her father back to 1981, when Liddell was relocated. Sydney doesn't remember what her parents were like together. She worries that she can't do it right—but Vaughn reminds her that this is the reason she has training. Jack will give her the cues she needs to pull through it.
Sydney goes into it to learn Liddell's location, but she learns a great deal more. She learns that Jack was very open with Laura about his work. He had told her before that Irina had known that he worked for the CIA and that he regretted being so open with her, but he did not reveal how very much more open with her than he should have been he actually was. He revealed where he was taking Liddell, for example. Yet, if we go back to season 3, we remember Katya's statement that indicates that Jack knew what Laura was well before this time. Given this scene, if this is the case, their bargain must have been very interesting indeed. Perhaps that was a continuity error after all and must be thrown out (see Random Thoughts).
Jack reveals that Irina privately expressed a dislike for Arvin Sloane. Is this perhaps because she was somehow forced into interacting with him in ways she wouldn't necessarily choose to in order to fulfill her mission? Or is it because she simply doesn't care for the man. In any case, Mr Sloane seemed somewhat dismayed by this particular tidbit.
Jack, who up until now has never mentioned his own parents, remembers his father by his absence. He doesn't want Sydney to remember him in the same way. Yet, sadly, this is just how she did remember him for quite some time. This must have been a choice on Jack's part. Obviously something connected with Irina's betrayal or it's circumstances changed his mind, but what?
To achieve a greater closeness with his family, Jack tells “Laura” that he plans to resign. But how much can we read into this statement? Is this something that he really proposed to Laura those years ago, thus precipitating her extraction, or is it simply something that he now wishes he had considered? After all, there are many factors that could have contributed to Irina's actions, including the KGB's desire to gain control of the Passenger. Meanwhile, I have long noted that the investigation of Jack Bristow by KGB plant in FBI counterintelligence, Caulder, indicates that the process of setting him up to take the fall for Irina's killings had been underway for some time. Jack already had an expiration date, it was just a matter of what that date was.
Does it really matter whether he really said those things then or not? He feels them now, and that is what is important to Sydney. For once, she can really see how very important she is to her father—not when it's just a matter of his throwing his life away in exchange for hers, but when it's a matter of changing his life forever to make her life better. She knows that her mother somehow betrayed her father, that she disappeared and abandoned them—that she allowed them to believe her dead for twenty years—but she doesn't know exactly how or why this changed things between Jack and her (Sydney)—and she still doesn't. What she does know is how much her father loved her mother—and her. And that is enough.
Random thoughts . . .
Yes, I must admit, the deluge of Sweetheart-ing almost had me gagging . . . can't they think of something else, anything else, for somebody? I know Jack isn't the most imaginative man when his mind strays outside engineering, game theory, and espionage, but, I mean, really . . . Irina . . . ? (I almost called this column “Let me call you Sweetheart,” but I didn't want to make myself sick . . .)
Dixon saves the day with a well-timed shot. Who would you rather see in the field, Vaughn or Dixon? Personally, I want Dixon with me.
OK, how oblivious was Weiss, not noticing Sophia holding that gun in her purse? Sheesh.
Hee hee, our untrustworthy Dr Liddell was untrustworthy, but because he was a delusion, not because he was a spy. But he was a very realistic delusion—see the upcoming Spy dad column for more . . . hopefully before Wednesday!
Hm, Dr Liddell did this research and made progress. Even though he had to go into hiding, did his research have to disappear with him? I'm sorry, but this just doesn't make sense. Something this important and useful would have at least made it into secret CIA files somewhere.
Katya's statement: continuity error or important fact? We must know! That Jack would simply tell her what was going on with Liddell indicates either they committed a really horrible continuity error (might I suggest looping next time?) or Jack had reason to believe he had some really good bargain going with Laura/Irina. Right now (I'm sorry to say) I'm leaning back toward continuity error. Yech. Another gripe to throw into the season 3 barrel. (But, frankly, this way it works out much more cleanly.) Don't you guys keep a timeline?!
Discuss . . .
Katya's during-the-marriage date for Jack's finding out that “Laura” was a KGB spy: continuity error or factoid? You make the call.
Should Weiss have noticed that Sophia was hinky? Why or why not?
Were you surprised that Elena/Sophia used Nadia/Weiss's authorization to move the hydrosek, thereby causing an obvious security breach? Why do you think this hydrosek is worth the risk?
(Let's discount Katya and assume Jack was clueless.) It seems Jack took the same open approach with Laura that Sydney wanted to take with Danny. Dixon disagreed and kept his secret from Diane, which got him into trouble when he found out about SD-6 and he confessed to her. Which policy is best and why—which would you take and how far would you take it? For example, it's one thing for a wife to know that you work for the CIA, another for her to know you're hiding a doctor in Finland.
Would you care to speculate on the reasons why Irina did not care for Arvin Sloane? Guilt? The fact that she had to do things with him that she preferred not to? Or just dislike?
Would you care to speculate on how Jack came to do just what he didn't want to—become estranged from the one person he cared for the most, Sydney?
Do you think that Jack really planned on resigning, or is that something that he now wishes he had done? Why?
Next:
hydrosek (or something) threatens world panic and disaster of genocidal proportions . . .
Modifications:
1. (2005/5/18) Spelling correction.
Glasses, having escaped Sydney's pursuit, reports back to an upset Elena. Nadia walks in and insists Sophia (Elena) stay at her and Sydney's house despite her protestations that she should move to a hotel.
Back in LA, Sydney worries that her father hasn't been seen for two days. She and Vaughn go to his house—which Sydney has never seen. They easily find a journal containing medical notations, unmarked pill bottles, and medical waste including hypodermic needles among the Spartan furnishings.
At APO, Nadia approaches Marshall, who is eagerly looking forward to analyzing the hydrosek. She gives him a sketch based on Sydney's description. Elena, listening in with Glasses is irritated that he allowed Sydney to get a look at him.
Jack visits Dr Liddell, who tells him about Dr Fleming's discovery of penicillin and goes on to describe his own discovery of an alkylating agent that seemed to assist some irradiated rats—with the unfortunate side-effect of an 84% mortality rate. He provides Jack with a prescription of sorts.
As Marshall works on an algorithm for searching databases for the possible people based on the sketch Nadia brought him, Nadia receives a call from Sophia. She invites Nadia, Sydney and their “boyfriends” to dinner as a thankyou for their generosity.
Jack meets with a contact, Anthony, who gives him the alkylating agent. He tells Jack to give the guy he is torturing only a few cc's at a time or he's likely to lose him.
Sydney approaches Marshall for a lead on her father and realizes that Marshall knows something about what happened. Marshall shows her his evidence and tells her that he pulled the fuel rods. He goes on to tell her that he researched any possible treatment and came up empty. Sydney runs to Sloane to begin an official search.
A briefing is called. There is no record of Jack having sought medical treatment—doctors would have been required to make special note of a condition such as Jack's. Further, at this point it would be likely that Jack's mental faculties would be impaired, so they have to be concerned about the possibility that Jack is being used.
Jack, meanwhile, approaches Dr Liddell's office, where he is prepped for the procedure. Marshall detects an ATM hit and ties into traffic surveillance to track the location of Jack's car. Sydney and Vaughn follow and find that Dr Liddell's office is not an office at all, but an abandoned building. They find Jack injecting himself with the lethal chemical.
Jack, however, mentions the name Liddell, which provides APO with a lead. Atticus Liddell in fact exists. He worked with survivors following a mysterious nuclear accident in the USSR, but was accused of being a spy (which he was). Jack extracted and hid him, but only he and his handler (now dead) knew his location.
Sydney sends Nadia off to Sophia's dinner while she stays with her father. She introduces Weiss, who says he “loves her already.” Sophia grabs both their bags, which she puts in the bedroom, where Glasses is waiting. As they eat, Nadia goes to the bedroom to answer her phone—but Weiss doesn't notice as Sophia holds her gun in her bag.
At APO, Jack awakes and mistakes Sydney for Laura. Sloane comments that Jack is too far gone to tell them where Liddell is. Sydney suggests hypnosis and then mentions that Jack called her Laura. Sloane notes that he called her Laura rather than Irina and suggests that they try placing Jack back in 1981, when Liddell was relocated.
As Sydney gets ready for the operation, Vaughn tries to settle her nerves. Sydney remarks that she just can't remember what her parents were like together, but Vaughn reminds her to trust her training. Sydney moves into the set as the finishing touches are put on it and Sloane is rearranging the knickknacks. Sloane mentions that Irina used to call Jack “Sweetheart.”
They wheel Jack in on a gurney, place him on the couch, and wake him up to the sound of vintage news. Jack switches it off. Sydney closes the door and calls Jack's name. Jack calls her Sydney, but Sydney says, “She's upstairs, isn't she?” and moves on. She mentioned that Arvin Sloane invited them to dinner, which seems to draw him in. He responds that they don't have to go—he knows she just puts up with him for his sake. Vaughn calls, pretending to be Jack's handler, with the call about Liddell. Jack hesitates. They send in the girl who is pretending to be Sydney, who starts playing piano. Jack finishes the call in code.
He tells Sydney (as Laura) that it's bad news from Grady. He needs to make a doctor disappear—that it's low risk, and cites the location, Finland. He's upset because it means he'll miss Sydney's birthday again. All his memories of his own father are of him leaving and he doesn't want Sydney to have the same experience. He says he's planning on leaving the agency. As he goes to play the piano with little “Sydney,” he's sedated.
Sydney heads to Helsinki, where she catches up with the real Dr Liddell.
Meanwhile, Marshall chases down Nadia and Weiss, anxious to know why in the world they would transfer the hydrosek to a low-security facility off-site. They protest that they did no such thing and hasten to retrieve it—but it's too late Elena and Glasses have gotten there first. But Elena has cleaned up her mess, leaving Glasses behind, dead.
Sydney arrives back at APO with Dr Liddell, where Sloane greets them. He's anxious to meet his patient. Jack awakes and asks, “Am I cured?” Dr Liddell says, “Not yet, but I'm here to make you better.”
Analysis . . .
I'll be skipping many observations regarding Jack so that I can put them into my Spy dad column for this week. I hope that you will make a point to take a look at that one this time because I think some of the points are rather interesting.
Let's deal with Nadia's side of the family first, shall we? Elena wants the hydrosek and has to deal with the problem that her associate, Mr Glasses has exposed himself. Once he has helped her get the hydrosek, however, she has no problem disposing of him.
However, this hyrosec better be important because its exposure should tip APO off that there is a security breach—after all, Glasses moved the hydrosek using their authorization. It might take a while to trace it down to “Sophia,” but the fact is that the breach itself is blatant and undeniable now. She could have listened in and gleaned mounds of information for months without significant dectection, but this lets them know they have to look for the breach. If they find the transmitter, it will be very difficult for her to explain how she is innocent when her gift is the problem. Can Elena make it disappear or exchange it for an innocuous bauble before APO discovers it? Or is she planning to disappear? It's a lot to risk, so that hydrosek better be worth a lot.
Sydney becomes concerned when her father, who has been behaving a little strangely lately, doesn't show up at work for a couple of days. She rounds up Vaughn and goes hunting. It turns out that she's never been to her father's apartment. Why aren't we surprised by this? Vaughn comments that he pictured Sydney's father living in a bunker. However, they found plain, simple surroundings—appropriate for a man who spends most of his time at the office or away on business. They did find evidence that Jack is a very sick man.
Sydney uses this as her lead and approaches Marshall. Since she came to him, he's relieved to find himself no longer bound by his promise to Jack and tells him the truth of Jack's sacrifice. Marshall, of course, has been doing his own research into possible treatments (you didn't think he'd simply sit and do nothing, did you?), and came up empty. Now, at least, everyone at APO can come together on the same page and know what they're dealing with. Jack, probably delusional is by himself—or possibly at the mercy of an opportunist.
With APO's help, Sydney and Vaughn locate Jack and manage to collect him just as he's self-administering a probably fatal dose of alkylating agent. But they manage to get the name Liddell. Jack has provided the name of perhaps the only man in the world who can help him. But Jack is the only man who has a lead on where Liddell is—because Jack is the one who made Liddell disappear many years ago.
But getting to that information with Jack in his delusional state turns out to be a difficult task for Sydney, who must become her own mother to transport her father back to 1981, when Liddell was relocated. Sydney doesn't remember what her parents were like together. She worries that she can't do it right—but Vaughn reminds her that this is the reason she has training. Jack will give her the cues she needs to pull through it.
Sydney goes into it to learn Liddell's location, but she learns a great deal more. She learns that Jack was very open with Laura about his work. He had told her before that Irina had known that he worked for the CIA and that he regretted being so open with her, but he did not reveal how very much more open with her than he should have been he actually was. He revealed where he was taking Liddell, for example. Yet, if we go back to season 3, we remember Katya's statement that indicates that Jack knew what Laura was well before this time. Given this scene, if this is the case, their bargain must have been very interesting indeed. Perhaps that was a continuity error after all and must be thrown out (see Random Thoughts).
Jack reveals that Irina privately expressed a dislike for Arvin Sloane. Is this perhaps because she was somehow forced into interacting with him in ways she wouldn't necessarily choose to in order to fulfill her mission? Or is it because she simply doesn't care for the man. In any case, Mr Sloane seemed somewhat dismayed by this particular tidbit.
Jack, who up until now has never mentioned his own parents, remembers his father by his absence. He doesn't want Sydney to remember him in the same way. Yet, sadly, this is just how she did remember him for quite some time. This must have been a choice on Jack's part. Obviously something connected with Irina's betrayal or it's circumstances changed his mind, but what?
To achieve a greater closeness with his family, Jack tells “Laura” that he plans to resign. But how much can we read into this statement? Is this something that he really proposed to Laura those years ago, thus precipitating her extraction, or is it simply something that he now wishes he had considered? After all, there are many factors that could have contributed to Irina's actions, including the KGB's desire to gain control of the Passenger. Meanwhile, I have long noted that the investigation of Jack Bristow by KGB plant in FBI counterintelligence, Caulder, indicates that the process of setting him up to take the fall for Irina's killings had been underway for some time. Jack already had an expiration date, it was just a matter of what that date was.
Does it really matter whether he really said those things then or not? He feels them now, and that is what is important to Sydney. For once, she can really see how very important she is to her father—not when it's just a matter of his throwing his life away in exchange for hers, but when it's a matter of changing his life forever to make her life better. She knows that her mother somehow betrayed her father, that she disappeared and abandoned them—that she allowed them to believe her dead for twenty years—but she doesn't know exactly how or why this changed things between Jack and her (Sydney)—and she still doesn't. What she does know is how much her father loved her mother—and her. And that is enough.
Random thoughts . . .
Yes, I must admit, the deluge of Sweetheart-ing almost had me gagging . . . can't they think of something else, anything else, for somebody? I know Jack isn't the most imaginative man when his mind strays outside engineering, game theory, and espionage, but, I mean, really . . . Irina . . . ? (I almost called this column “Let me call you Sweetheart,” but I didn't want to make myself sick . . .)
Dixon saves the day with a well-timed shot. Who would you rather see in the field, Vaughn or Dixon? Personally, I want Dixon with me.
OK, how oblivious was Weiss, not noticing Sophia holding that gun in her purse? Sheesh.
Hee hee, our untrustworthy Dr Liddell was untrustworthy, but because he was a delusion, not because he was a spy. But he was a very realistic delusion—see the upcoming Spy dad column for more . . . hopefully before Wednesday!
Hm, Dr Liddell did this research and made progress. Even though he had to go into hiding, did his research have to disappear with him? I'm sorry, but this just doesn't make sense. Something this important and useful would have at least made it into secret CIA files somewhere.
Katya's statement: continuity error or important fact? We must know! That Jack would simply tell her what was going on with Liddell indicates either they committed a really horrible continuity error (might I suggest looping next time?) or Jack had reason to believe he had some really good bargain going with Laura/Irina. Right now (I'm sorry to say) I'm leaning back toward continuity error. Yech. Another gripe to throw into the season 3 barrel. (But, frankly, this way it works out much more cleanly.) Don't you guys keep a timeline?!
Discuss . . .
Katya's during-the-marriage date for Jack's finding out that “Laura” was a KGB spy: continuity error or factoid? You make the call.
Should Weiss have noticed that Sophia was hinky? Why or why not?
Were you surprised that Elena/Sophia used Nadia/Weiss's authorization to move the hydrosek, thereby causing an obvious security breach? Why do you think this hydrosek is worth the risk?
(Let's discount Katya and assume Jack was clueless.) It seems Jack took the same open approach with Laura that Sydney wanted to take with Danny. Dixon disagreed and kept his secret from Diane, which got him into trouble when he found out about SD-6 and he confessed to her. Which policy is best and why—which would you take and how far would you take it? For example, it's one thing for a wife to know that you work for the CIA, another for her to know you're hiding a doctor in Finland.
Would you care to speculate on the reasons why Irina did not care for Arvin Sloane? Guilt? The fact that she had to do things with him that she preferred not to? Or just dislike?
Would you care to speculate on how Jack came to do just what he didn't want to—become estranged from the one person he cared for the most, Sydney?
Do you think that Jack really planned on resigning, or is that something that he now wishes he had done? Why?
Next:
hydrosek (or something) threatens world panic and disaster of genocidal proportions . . .
Modifications:
1. (2005/5/18) Spelling correction.