I realize that pointing out the plot holes of an episode of “Alias” is much like pointing out the spines on a porcupine, but in last night’s episode there was one too egregious to ignore. Towards the end of the episode, Sloan enters the APO interrogation room and kills Gordon Dean by stuffing a cyanide tablet down his throat. Later, as a summary to the extensive investigation that was apparently conducted into Dean’s death, Jack tells Sydney that Dean must have had the tablet hidden under the skin in his mouth and that his death will go down as a suicide.
One problem – wasn’t the room being monitored by a camera? They had a bunch of equipment monitoring Dean and his vitals earlier in the episode. Did they purposefully turn them all off and leave the room completely unsecured? How about checking the timestamps on the security keypad outside the door to see if anyone entered the room around the time he died?
Oh that’s right, they were conveniently doing a system scan that shut down all the security systems right at that moment.
Let’s get home and build that crib.
