Originally posted by: BigSmooth
Just thought of a pretty good one. In the episode two weeks ago, after Vaughn and Sydney got the USB drive from the hacker dude, they went to a CIA safe house. Just as Sydney tells Vaughn she thinks she saw Lauren in the club, Lauren magically shows up at the freakin' front door. She says that Dixon told her she "might find them there". Oh, and she's wearing a monstrous purple ring that "her mother gave her" (what, for a funeral present?). This was prior to anyone getting real proof that Lauren was the mole. OK, these are CIA agents
in the middle of a mission. They should not be stupid enough to think that just because Lauren called Dixon crying, he would reveal the location of a CIA safe house to her! I don't care what kind of NSA clearance she has, that would not happen. Plus, she is still undercover for the Covenant indefinitely and that's the best she could come up with - "Dixon said you were here" - which is a lie that is incredibly easy to disprove (Syd could have called Dixon immediately and he would have refuted it). Syd does question it somewhat but puts on an accent and calls Lauren's mother (who is also Covenant and goes along with the ruse) instead of Dixon for... some reason. Oh, and then the USB drive is mysteriously unreadable and Marshall says it was done intentionally, and not by the hacker... and STILL no one brings up Lauren's name in that conversation - even though she and Vaughn/Sydney are the only ones who had been around the drive. And Syd even seemed to NOTICE Lauren putting the big ol' (data-erasing) ring close to the USB drive while it was in the laptop... I guess that slipped her mind. And
still no one thinks to ask Dixon if he was the one that told Lauren where to find V/S. That's the kind of thing that happens all the time on this show. Granted, there is a heavy amount of suspension of disbelief involved for a CIA/Spy-type show like this, but sometimes it becomes what I consider a plot hole. Like I said, even though it doesn't make sense sometimes, I still really enjoy the show.