Wow-- I thought this was one of the more blah episodes I've seen. The big problems I had with it:
1) the toast scene seemed completely out of place-- why would Jack let his guard down right then, when he never did before?
2) Jack is acting like an idiot. I understand the whole Irina thing can cloud his judgment, but his constant rejection of Irina's suggestions was more annoying than anything, and not the sign of a mature agent
3) What kind of airstrike has 2 flyovers, only 2 bombs dropped, and minimal damage? Echo ravan.

Yay! SpyDaddy smiled! But poor Magic Marshall. I don't we've ever seen him so distraught.

Now that Encyclopedia das mentioned it, I do remember the mini-golf reference. Sydney said something about "Normal families go mini-golfing together... we're off running a mission in India." Or something like that.

So Vaughn gave Sydney passes to a mini-golf place? Okay, now I get it... kinda.

And re: constantly rejecting Irina's suggestions... she has betrayed him in about every way that she possibly could, personally and professionally. I wouldn't go along with everything she said, either. Plus, he was the agent in charge of the mission, not her. He calls the shots.

Maybe the Indian air force is low on munitions, so they wanted to drop just a few bombs and then perform fly-overs to fan the flames and make them spread faster?

Oh, and the Pakistani guard that caught Sydney and said something about how "they finally gave us something good to look at" is/was one of the residents on Scrubs. When worlds (and networks) collide!

I guess it's pretty silly to have us think that, after all these missions, she never ever kills someone. But, like last week, it was kind of ambiguous. Both Sydney and Irina are firing and bad guys are falling. The audience doesn't know for sure that Sydney shot anyone.

Yes, I'm definitely splitting hairs here.

What's the big deal if she kills bad guys or not?

Does Sydney only have a "license to maim"?