"Noah, I'll be straight with you. I don't trust you, which wouldn't be such a problem except I'm an intelligence officer and if you stick around, sooner or later my life is going to be in your hands and yours in mine. And in that scenario, the only person truly safe will be you." Dixon

Who here, besides Dixon, had No!Augh figured out way back when he was nothing more than a spoiler and the twinkle in your eye was the knowingness that Evil Mouth Man must die? Hmmmm? Whether it was Aunt Trish's prophetic channeling or just a wish your heart was making, No!Augh bit the big one. Which is fine because he was totally a Tool. An evil Tool. As a matter of fact, he was the whole damn Toolbox...for all kinds of reasons besides being Satan's spawn child who loved his job as serial killer for hire.

What I can't figure out, however, is why Dixon was the only person to possess this knowledge? On his own, mind you, without the use of the mighty brain-sucking machine that tells all secrets of the deep subconscious. I'm thinking the operative mental function here is 'intelligence' and at least one person knows how to use his. It's called being smart. At least that's what my shrink use to say when I was divorcing my Sloane-like ex-husband. She'd say: "Spygirl, you're intelligent, but you're not very smart. Smart means you know how to use your intelligence." She is wise, my former Goddess-shrink. Maybe she should be a double-dealing analyst for the CIA and SD-6.

Back to No!Augh. First off, we discover he's been skimming funds from the Russian mob. Oh that's brilliant, loser boy. But, it also means that No!Augh has tons of money floating around in all these "off shore" accounts. Now, I don't know about you but if I had money like that the first thing I'd do is find the best orthodontist in the world and ask them to do some mouth magic. [Get your minds out of the gutter because I was talking about surgery.]

Secondly...doesn't anyone do math anymore? Because if all the tell tale signs regarding No!Augh and his Chicago Cutlery slicing and dicing skills wasn't enough, surely the adding and subtracting of a few years here and there should have waved a few red flags. In spite of everything Syd has been through she has yet to develop a level of paranoia that would only equal Fox Mulder's [The X-Files].

According to Venerated Agent Vaughn, who can do no wrong, the Snowman first entered the renegade assassin scene twelve years ago. Even though he's remained on the FBI's most wanted badass list, it's suspected he died five years ago as he just kind of disappeared. What a coincidence as this is the same time No!Augh went into deep undercover. Not only that, Vaughn details the Snowman's propensity for killing with the use of his side arms, Stainless and Steel. Syd, take the clues and get a brain. You don't need Columbo to figure out this mystery. Sydney, unfortunately, can't see the forest for the trees as she's been temporarily blinded by the bittersweet after glow of copulation.

As much as I would like to expunge Sydney's appearance in Tool of the Week, she just hasn't paid enough penance for creating an unnecessary amount of angst in Vaughn's life and ignoring him while he wore black leather. She did, however, make a note worthy start by rejecting Mouth Man's offer to spend a life time with him on some sequestered island where they won't have to lock their doors. Then there's the fact that she chose not to tell No!Augh her information regarding Kashinau. But most importantly, she killed him. And I don't mean the Roberta Flack kinda killing. We're talking 86, on to the next incarnation, your karma is gonna suck in your next life, killing.

No!Augh is dead and somewhere in Bogotá there's a man named Kitchel, who is going to be really happy when he hears this news.

Spygirl, Vartan Ho # 5