6/6 Season Four: Episode Fifteen- Bad Timing–Scarecrow & Mrs King

Ready to finish up this episode??
Back to the episode!
Inside the tunnel Lee and Billy continue to chip away in the tunnel.
Billy: Katrina’s neutralized the force centers. We’re through and clear. 
[I have no idea what any of this means, except:  it’s time to go in!!!
Amanda navigates for Lee and Billy where to go. lol it’s not that complicated, couldn’t they remember the way? Heck, I guess it’s good to have a navigator in case you need to change your route. ]
There’s reminders of the time, plenty of dramatic music
[did you guys notice how they made the smk theme sound all sneaky?!]
and Lee and Billy sneaking along white empty corridors that are so stark they must be Russian.
[cough cough. I’m shocked there are no Lenin portraits.]
Anyway, at one point we see the time is 1109pm.
There’s more sneaking around.. and Colonel McJohn shows up in the UPS truck to tell Amanda the antidote (err antidote antibiotic) works immediately. So the only drama will be getting into Lee in time.
Oh phew. thanks for making that clear! Or ROFL… as Sara commented: {{SARA: Still Colonel McDowner.}
Back inside the embassy, Billy and Lee have a close call with a couple of Russian guards, sneaking into the elevator just in time..
The truck’s digital clock, reads 00:14:02.
Then, Lee punches a Russian dude without a sound. [genius!]
Doneck’s room has a guard on it..
Uh oh..
Lee (to mic): Amanda, get us another way to Doneck’s.
{Amanda studying the map.}

Amanda: There’s no alternative…The last corridor has been blocked with a permanent wall.

{There are two beeps, then sparks and an explosion. All the lights go out in the panel and throughout the embassy.}
[You know I love to include pics of smk explosions.. err big bang bangs!]
Lee: That’s it.

They  shoot the guard to Doneck’s suite with a dart and he goes down. Hoorah.

[whoooo I spotted one picture of an old white dude on the wall!]
They then put another explosive on Doneck’s locked gate.. There’s an explosion.  Lee and Billy approach Doneck’s door again. Two guards run up the stairs toward Doneck’s suite,

Lee and Billy aim over the banister, fire and hit both guards. They go tumbling down the stairs.
[Is this the bannister from The first time? Again?
Nooooo not the same… but a good excuse to share a pic of Lee in a tux no?!]
There’s chaos as Lee and Billy rush into the suite, there are other Russians in there and Billy takes care of them, while Lee takes care of Cardy wearing Doneck. whahahaaha..
Lee: All right now, my friend, I want the antidote.
[I’m really not following why Doneck would be motivated to hand it over. lol. I guess that’s why Lee asked for the chem kit.]
{Billy moves over to join Lee.}
Doneck: (answers in Russian)
{{SARA: Not sure what he said, but I don’t think it was, “of course, Lee, anything for you, good buddy.”}
[Rofl Sara!!!]
Lee: Okay.
{Billy grabs Doneck from behind to restrain him while Lee retrieves a tape recorder from his pocket.}
Lee: Amanda, we’ve got Doneck. Tell Francine to stand by.
{A view inside the truck with Francine, Colonel McJohn and Amanda. Then a view of the digital clock which reads 00:10:56}
Francine: We’ve made contact. Med team on alert. Back inside the embassy, Doneck gets a taste of his own medicine, Lee injects him with something! [Don’t forget to grab his wallet too Lee!]
Doneck starts slipping and Lee guides him toward the floor.
Aie, this final sequence is typical SMK.. I’m gonna use Sara’s descriptions – Sara you’re an angel!!!
Lee: I’ve got him.
{Billy gets up and closes the door.}
Lee: All right, Doneck. Now… I want the formula. The complete formula for the antidote of PD-2. You got that? The complete formula in English.
Doneck: The pathogen is a genetically…strain of versimiobestis. It is impervious to all standard antibiotics….
{Back inside the truck to a view of the clock, which reads 00:09:20 and counting down.}
Doneck: (off camera) …to modify tetracycline as follows.
{Back to Amanda in the truck.}
Amanda: Lee, you’ve got nine minutes left. You’ve got to get out of there.
{Return to Lee and Doneck.}
Doneck: At I-1, attach…
Billy: It’s clear. If we’re going to make a move, let’s do it now.
Doneck: …(muffled) 1-3, I-1 attach 1-3 dichlorobenzene…
Lee: All right. (to Amanda): Amanda, I’m attaching the microphone to Doneck. We’re out of here.
{Billy and Lee leave. Doneck continues mumbling the formula.}
Doneck: At the C-6 position and R-2…administer 750 milligrams IVQ3H for 24 hours.
{Another view of the clock, 00:06:32 and counting down.

Back inside the embassy, Lee and Billy in the corridor. They hear a door open and freeze with their guns drawn.

There is laughter and a couple staggers out. The man grabs the woman and picks her up, she says something back to him in Russian and they go back inside the suite. }
[Oh rofl. they must be so high or toasted they didn’t hear all those explosions!! haaaa. Or they heard them and just though whooo I’m really into this! haaa]

{Lee and Billy leave. Another view of the clock at 00:05:17 and counting down with Doneck still speaking off camera.}
Doneck: …then 500 milligrams Q4H for 48 hours.
{A view of Colonel McJohn, Amanda and Francine, while McJohn scribbles down the formula. He tears the sheet off the pad and gets up.}
Colonel McJohn: That’s it. That’s all I need. As soon as he gets here, bring him to me.
[rofl. He must really know his chemistry, I mean he immediately knew he had everything he needed. I bet Col. (Professor) McJohn is going to make the antidote himself!! haaaa]
{Inside Doneck’s suite, we see the Russian guard rush over to Doneck’s phone. He yells in Russian for the embassy guards. Elsewhere in the Embassy, we see Billy and Lee coming down the stairs and enter a hallway. As they turn the corner, two guards appear. One of them yells in Russian and fires his gun. Lee and Billy fire back. Both guards are hit. One of the guard’s bullets hits Billy, who goes down. Lee goes to help Billy. Billy is groaning.}
[Oh no!!!! ]
Lee: How bad are you hit.
Billy: Huh? You haven’t got time. Get out of here.
{Back inside the truck, where Francine and Amanda are listening.}
Lee: Why don’t you shut up? I’m going to make time. Here.
{Lee goes to pick up Billy. Quick view of the clock, 00:02:16}
Uh oh. Two minutes to gooooooo…
Billy: You’re never going to make it. You’re never going to make it carrying me.
Lee: I’m sure as hell not going to leave you here.
{Billy continues to groan. Close up of the clock reads, 00:02:00 and counting down.}
Lee (off camera): All right, Amanda. Billy’s been hit. Make sure a medevac is in position.
[This whole embassy seemed to only have a few guards. Phew. What luck!]
Amanda: They’re not going to make it out!!
{Amanda gets out of her seat and leaves. Francine jumps up and watches Amanda leave the truck.}
Francine: Amanda, where are you going?
[Francine is pretty hilarious.. Umm Francine she’s going to her man! And what are you doing huh? All Francine has done is breathe on Amanda while she ‘navigates’! rofl. she even has on her super stealth beanie!]

{Back in the embassy, Lee is trying to get Billy up (standing) and out. }
Billy: Lee, you don’t have—
Lee: Just get up! {Lee gets Billy standing and helps him back into the storage room. Close up of the watch reads 0:00:41 and counting down. Billy’s limping and Lee gets him seated.}
Lee: Come on.
Billy: We can’t make it.
{{SARA: Hey, what happened to Mr. Mel-rosy? Get your optimism back…stat!}
[But Sara, he’s been trained to say… Leave me!! lol.]
{Lee takes a key to the lock and locks it.}
Lee: You got to, man. Come on. We got to get out of here.
{View of his watch, 00:00:20 and counting down.}
Billy: Leave me, Lee, and save yourself.
[Whahahhahhaaaaaa… see Sara, they tell him to say that! ]
Lee: I’m out of time.
Billy: I told you, I told you.
Lee: Amanda. You got to pick up Billy in the aqueduct, you hear me? Pick up Billy in the aqueduct.
[Surprise!]
{Lee settles back against the boxes as Amanda climbs up through the aqueduct and into the storage room.}
[Billy settles too. lol at how the boxes behind him wobble. I was ready for that column of boxes to fall on his head!]
Amanda: We’ve got the antidote.
Lee: What?
[You know, the antibiotic antidote thingy]
Amanda: We got to get the watch off of you.
{Close up of the watch. Actual time reads 11:25. Time remaining is 7 seconds.}
Lee: Here.
{Amanda slides two keys into each end twists them and the watch is off and dropped. Close up of the watch lying open. A pin sticks up and green liquid squirts out.}
[I cackled with laughter when I saw it actually spurt out like that. Now they are going to have to call in a biohazard team – there’s cyanide everywhere! Oh and it turned out Amanda was not closer to Lee than Billy went things went down after all..
I know sometimes actually thinking while watching smk can get us into trouble.. but… dang! from the looks of that deadman’s watch, all Lee had to do what slide in a metal plate between the watch and his wrist and he would have been fine anyway. Haaaaa… ]

{Outside embassy. We see the truck drive up and stop. Francine gets out and meets Lee, Amanda and Billy coming out of the agency. She goes back into the truck and Lee and Amanda help Billy toward the truck.}
[I’m a bit confused about what street that is and why the truck had to drive up to the location, but I actually don’t really care enough to figure it out at this point. lol. There are two trucks? Aie. Whatever. Yeah there are two trucks. Just give Lee the antibiotics antidote-y thingy already or he has germies big time…]
Francine: Come on! McJohn and the med team are on their way. Come on.
{Billy groaning. Then we see another truck pull up behind Francine, Billy, Lee and Amanda. McJohn gets out and runs toward the other truck. }
Lee: Come on, Doc.
{Lee pulls his sleeve up, Amanda takes Lee’s hand and McJohn injects him in the arm with the antidote.}
[I thought Lee’s getting blood taken was the most awkward needed action I’d ever seen. I was wrong. I stand corrected! McJohn seems to be injecting Lee’s elbow. Now them’s the ouchies!!!! This must be the Russain way of giving injections that Doneck said was key to the antidote working!]
McJohn: The A.M.A. may not put its seal on this, but it’ll do the trick.
[snigger at how the AMA may not approve haaaa]
{McJohn pulls the needle out. Lee breathes a sigh of relief and Amanda goes to hug him.}
[Good Timing!!!]
The scene ends with a close up of Lee and Amanda hugging.. I’m heartened to see Francine watching on with a smile at their hugs!!

It’s tag time!!!!
{We see a limo driving down the street. The driver pulls up beside the curb of Amanda’s house.
[Lol the neighbours are gonna gossip!!]
Inside the limo are Lee, Billy and Amanda. Billy has a cane.}
[I hope Billy isn’t going to get a limp!]

Billy: I’ve got a 4:00 conference call with Dr. Smyth. He’s got a few questions. Luckily, I’ve got some pretty good answers. And having the antidote to PD-2 is going to smooth a lot of ruffled feathers.
[Hey! Billy was thinking ahead way better than I was lol. Kill the Russians with PD2 or heck, just neutralise the threat forever of PD2. Billy’s the king. Actually this explains why the military were involved I guess, they wanted to antidote to combat the biological weapon..
And this is what you were saying Peackcockdancer about how ridiculous that they didn’t have everyone moving heaven and earth to gt that antidote or the whole country could be in danger. Lol. too funny. Good call! ]
Lee: Well, you risked a lot for me, Billy. Everything.
Billy: Just balancing the scales a little. You’re turning into a pretty efficient team, you two. I’m glad I thought of putting you together. [AWH!!!!!!!]
Lee: Well, that’s why they pay you the big bucks.
Billy: Drop you by your place, Scarecrow?
Lee: Uh-no. Uh, Billy, I’ve got to… You know. [what Lee? do tell!!!]
Billy: Yeah, yeah, I know. All right, see you guys later.
Amanda: All set?
Lee: Yeah.
{Both get out of the limo and go toward the front entrance to Amanda’s house. Amanda opens the gate. Cut to the inside, where they pause by the entrance to the living room. Both fold their arms.}
Amanda: Oh.
Lee: It looks just like we left it.
Amanda: A hundred years ago.
[Is it covered in Fritz’s maps?]
Lee: Yeah. Come on, I’ll help you clean it up.
Amanda: Oh.
Lee: It’s good practice for the real thing.
{They take their jackets off and they both move toward the sofa.}
Amanda: Well, I’m a firm believer in practice.
Lee: Me too.
{They throw their jackets down
[errrr Ole!]
and go to sit. Amanda kicks her feet over his legs.}
[I thought Lee was gonna help clean up or something?
Iwsod they are having a moment.. and doing cute stuff.. who cares?! lol.]
Amanda: Haven’t we played this scene before?
Lee: Yep, and then the doorbell rang, remember?
Amanda: No. I tend to block out bad timing. [bom bom what a pun!]
Lee: See if this helps.
{They kiss.}

[About Flipping Time!!!! Grr Lee goes for it. ]
{Lee moves his head back after a moment.}
[Finally! a Real Kiss!! I guess they can do that now Lee doesn’t have PD2 germies haaaa]
Lee: How’s that?
[I give it an A+]
Amanda: It helps.
[Come on!!! Lee set that one up perfectly!!! Amanda you were supposed to say – You need to do much much more practice!!! Or how about… Lee’s gonna clean you up good!!! rofl. ]
Lee: Oh? Want some more?
[Yes. Please.]
{They resume kissing}
[whoa. check out this grab I got! haaaaaa… This had me sniggering away to myself.. what am I 8?! I laugh that I laugh, because it’s so ridiculous!  haaa..
But it’s a funny grab okay! You know it just doesn’t look right in a still! I should probably make their kisses gifs when including them in a blog post. Hmm maybe I can do that the next walk through the episodes!]
{They break the kiss when they hear an outside car pull up.}
Amanda: They’re home early. [bad timing!]
{Lee starts to get up.}
Lee: I’m gone.
Amanda: No, no, no, no!..
…No, we need practice in this, too. Come on.
Lee: I guess so.
Amanda: Ready?
Lee: Ready.
[But am I ready for a big Lee smile.. that is the real question.. ]
Dotty (off camera): Amanda, we’re home darling.
{Both smile and turn their heads toward the door.}
Lee and Amanda seem to rise to the occasion, and put on a good party face for Dotty.
The End!!

What do you all make of this tag?
I can’t complain, with all the kisses and cuddles.. but I find the whole plastering  a smile on your face to present to Dotty who has no idea what you both just went through the last 24 hours is really sad! But.. it’s not played that way, it’s played for laughs.

So for me, I don’t really feel the humour here on this watching but heck, maybe the next time I see it I will feel differently huh!!! Do tell – what do you think?

You are likely wondering – what’s next for JWWM? When will we start the walk through Do You Take This Spy? I’ve been trying to get it done so we could walk through it over the holidays, but it’s not going to happen I’m sorry!! Maybe everyone will be too busy over the holidays to be around for the walk anyway.

I’m thinking, let’s aim to start the walk mid/late January 2022- and I’ll try and time it so the wedding (spoiler alert haaaa) is being walked through on Valentine’s day 🙂 Who’s with me???? 

Anyway – still looking forward to hearing what you all think of this episode, and of course the blog is wide open to be added to for any episode at any time.. So if you are craving some smk time, dig into a past episode and share your thoughts if you like. 

Next up I’ll do an update on Operation Sandstorm, then there will likely be a smky christmas post of cheesy memes because well, why not. 
If anyone has any to add to the collection – do please email me your creations!