- The Two (OAD 09/28/03)
Sydney is where we last left her, in a Hong Kong
safe house. Vaughn tells her she's been gone for two years. Will survived the
apartment fire, he says, but she died and her remains were identified.
Vaughn's now a teacher, but the CIA sent him to take her back. Syd attacks
Vaughn and escapes the safe house. She fights two CIA agents standing guard
and Vaughn finally brings her down with a dart.
She wakes in the Stafford Naval Hospital. Dixon is there; he's now director of
their division. Weiss calls Dixon away — he says Agent Scott Kingsley has the
chip and is on a train to Avignon. He says the Covenant is moving to intercept
and get the chip. A lead has placed a Covenant outpost outside Paris. Dixon
returns and reveals that Jack has been in solitary for a year, courtesy of NSC
Senior Director Robert Lindsey.
On train in Lyon, France, a gunman shoots and kills Kingsley. He finds the
chip. It shows the schematics for an undetectable spy drone that, the CIA
believes, could be used as a bio-weapon delivery system.
Sydney sees Marshall and Carrie, who is pregnant. In a meeting, Syd tells
Dixon she was held captive in The Covenant's Paris base and heard Kingsley's
name. Kingsley is just one of eight recent murders of CIA agents. Lindsey's
adamant that Sydney go on this mission. Syd agrees on the condition that she
gets to see her father. Lindsey agrees.
Syd tells a handcuffed Jack, who's been charged with resisting authority for
contacting Irina (#6 on the CIA Most Wanted List), that she lied about The
Covenant's Paris outpost in order to see him. He urges her to regain her CIA
clearance and continue his research into her disappearance. He knew she was
alive and has evidence. He also tells her that Vaughn isn't worthy of her
grief.
In a Paris hangar, Weiss leads Syd and small team looking for the chip. They
are attacked. Weiss is knocked unconscious and his throat about to be slit by
the man on the train. Syd saves him. She admits she was lying and now if she
goes back, her clearance will be pulled. Syd must identify this man. Weiss
advises her to see Sloane, who now runs the World Health Org. in Zurich and is
a consultant for the CIA.
She barges into Sloane's office. He was expecting her and identifies the man —
Gordei Volkov — a Russian hitman. Blaming him for her predicament, she
threatens to kill Soane. He says he's been redeemed, that the Rambaldi device
delivered a message of peace. He then gave the CIA info to dismantle two dozen
terrorist cells. Syd doesn't buy it.
Finding an old contact, Syd discovers Volkov has a meeting in Prague. She
ambushes him, blows up his car. In the ensuing melee, Syd stabs him and
retrieves the chip as he dies. She returns to Lindsey, threatening to destroy
the chip unless he releases her father. He acquiesces.
Vaughn meets Syd. She's angry with him for looking for closure. She says she
would have had faith and waited. But now she realizes it would have been an
absolute waste if she had.
Jack returns to the CIA and takes Syd to a storage room. He shows her
videotape of a Russian diplomat named Andrian Lazarey. On the monitor, a
blonde Sydney stabs the man in the neck, killing him.
- Succession (OAD 10/05/03)
In Berlin, a helicopter lifts an elevator carrying
two CIA agents out of its shaft. Satisfied that Syd is not brainwashed, Jack
dissuades her from admitting to the CIA that she killed Lazarey. Later, Weiss
helps Syd move in to a neighboring apartment. He says that Vaughn was
reluctant to return to the CIA.
The team learns The Covenant, a loose affiliation of Russian nationals, is
behind the kidnapping. They will execute the men unless their demands are met.
Syd volunteers to retrieve a package in a Munich adult movie theater. Dixon
informs Syd of a therapy group for those who have lost their memory. Jack
tells Syd that she was cremated and Vaughn spread her ashes at sea.
In the theater, Syd opens the package — it's the head of one of the CIA
agents. Shoved in his mouth is a note demanding the the CIA exchange Sark for
the remaining agent. Syd objects but Lindsey says Sark has no more secrets
and, based on info provided by Sloane, believes they want to kill him.
Syd visits Vaughn at his classroom; he's a French teacher. She tells him she
could cope with his return to the Agency. After her death, Vaughn says, he
lost control and started drinking. He was deeply in love with her, but he
doesn't regret moving on with his life.
Jack confronts Sloane, doubting his redemption and blaming him for Syd's
disappearance. Jack offers to stop his efforts to invalidate Sloane's pardon
if he gives details. Sloane gives Jack a disc with his own leads into Syd's
death. Despite Sloane's denials, Jack says he'll bury Sloane for his
involvement.
In a CIA jail, Sark denies knowledge of Syd's
death. At the exchange in the Sonora desert, Sark is unsure why The Covenant
wants him. The trade is interrupted by a Lindsey-ordered Delta Force
helicopter. In the confusion, Sark and the CIA agent, a scientist, are taken
by the Covenant. Syd later threatens Lindsey in the men's room for pulling
that stunt. A man named Ushek San'ko says that Sark killed his brother, and
demands $800 million. He says Sark, unbeknownst to him, is worth that much.
Vaughn is reinstated while Jack discovers that Sark and San'ko withdrew $800
million in gold bullion from a Grand Cayman bank. The money belonged to
Lazarey, a murdered Russian diplomat and descendant of the Romanov family.
When he died, it went to his son … Mr. Sark.
Weiss tracked the scientist to a Frankfurt nightclub, run by Otto Edel, a drug
dealer. Jack believes The Covenant is responsible for Syd's two year absence
and compelled her to assassinate Lazareey. He's contacts Irina, who offers her
help.
At the club, Syd poses as a chemist offering to triple Edel's sales by making
his drug more addictive. She threatens to overdose him, but he locates the
alarm terminal. Vaughn remotely helps her deactivate the alarm. Syd opens the
torture room where the scientist is held, shoots the torturer. The dying
torturer remembers her, said she kept her promise to kill him. He says that
she was his favorite because she never broke.
At therapy, others discuss their amnesia and ensuring nightmares. Syd later
interrupts Dixon to tell him that although she still has feelings for Vaughn,
she won't be a part of the group. Dixon introduces Syd to the woman to whom he
was speaking, Lauren Reed, the new NSC liaison, who'll be investigating
Lazarey's murder. She's Vaughn's wife.
- Reunion (OAD 10/12/03)
A fireball drops from the sky, devastating Moscow's
Gorky Park. At the CIA, Dixon explains the fireball was a falling satellite
and that it nearly prompted a nuclear response from Russia. Echelon picked up
a call between Sark and Boris Oransky, an employee at a French firm that built
the satellite. He and Sark discussed moving to "Phase 2." Sark has been
tracked to a Mexico City hotel. Dixon orders a team to follow him. Syd
believes they should apprehend him and argues with Lauren. Vaughn defends
Lauren, saying that capturing Sark will do nothing to shut down The Covenant.
Later, Vaughn asks a furious Lauren to give Syd the benefit of the doubt.
Jack tells Syd that the NSC has murky footage of Lazarey's murder. He again
tells Syd not to admit her guilt because of the dangerous techniques the CIA
would use to extract her memories. Jack views the tape with Lauren and
Marshall, who requires 72 hours to make the tape clear for identification.
In Mexico, Syd, disguised as a Gaucho, locates Sark and Oransky in a cafe.
Oransky gives Sark photos and codes, and mentions the word "Medusa." Sark
leaves and Syd is discovered by Oransky's thugs. Oransky takes a hostage and
forces Syd to drop her gun. Marshall determines the frequency of Oransky's
earpiece and pushes 180 decibels of feedback through it. Syd attacks the thugs
but Oransky escapes.
Syd tells Weiss she remembers something about Medusa at SD-6. Weiss tells a
curious Syd that Vaughn met Lauren when she deposed during the investigation
into Irina's mother.
Dixon discovers that Medusa was an SD-6 project.
It's an anti-satellite weapon that can cripple a network of satellites.
Oranksy destroyed the Russian satellite to discover their protocol for nuclear
attack. The pictures Syd took reveal a motorcade to the Russian Science
Ministry, where Medusa is stored. Russia claims not to have anti satellites so
the CIA must get to it before Sark. Despite Syd's protests, they decide Sloane
can help them get into the Science Ministry.
Syd, Vaughn and Lauren travel to Zurich, where Sloane — who has a relationship
with the Ministry due to his cancer research — refuses to help them. But after
Syd threatens him, he agrees to admit them to a Ministry banquet. Sloane
taunts Vaughn and Lauren.
Meanwhile, Jack bribes computer expert Pierre Lagravanese to corrupt the image
of Lazarey's murder. Jack's given a virus, which he must upload to a terminal
with administrative privileges. He installs the files.
At the Ministry, Syd and Vaughn once again feel an attraction. Vaughn creates
a diversion, allowing Syd, who's stolen a diplomat's fingerprints, to gain
them unrestricted access. In an elevator, they change into Russian military
uniforms. Down in the bunker, Sark has murdered the guards. Marshall and Dixon
watch Lazarey's murder as Jack is corrupts the files. The image won't render.
Syd and Vaughn engage in a firefight with Sark. He locks them in a sublevel
and disconnects the elevator. Oransky goes after Syd while Sark bolts. Syd and
Vaughn rig the generator to blow and crawl out intake vent as Oransky is
killed and Medusa is destroyed. Weiss gives her a 3rd edition of Alice in
Wonderland, a favorite of Syd's that was destroyed when her apartment
burned.
- A Missing Link (OAD 10/19/03)
As Syd and Jack view the tape. Lazarey says "Julia"
before he dies.
A team stole four vials of Ebola from a French epidemiology lab. Lauren and
Syd question Laszlo Bogdan, a team member who was infected and captured. He
says The Covenant plans to mutate the virus … and his team was set for a
second heist. Dixon IDs the team, led by a deadly freelancer named Simon
Walker. Syd is to pose as a security expert, join Walker's team and track
whatever they steal back to The Covenant.
A flirtatious Vaughan gives Syd a lipstick tracking device. In Sevilla, a
disguised Syd meets Walker. He calls her Julia and greets her with a hot kiss.
He says he's missed her. Syd is coy and says she wants to work with him again.
"What, no future in murder?" he asks. Meanwhile, Syd meets the crew. They test
her by making her steal a 150 carat diamond necklace from Princess Demetria of
Greece. Walker gives her a tranquilizer gun and a knife, then calls the
police. She has seven minutes to do it.
Dressed as a maid, she dopes the guard and enters the suite. The princess is
sleeping; Syd dismantles a phone, creating an amplifier, and cracks the safe
containing the necklace. As the police arrive, she darts the princess and
jumps out the window into a pool far below. She returns to Walker with the
necklace.
On the plane home, Vaughn, who had heard the whole thing, asks her what
"Julia" was all about. She's mum, admitting she can't trust him because of
Lauren. At the CIA Jack says Vaughn has been snooping. Syd considers admitting
her guilt.
Marshall creates a safecracking device for Syd. Dixon calls a meeting with Syd,
Jack and Vaughn. Jack has shown him the video of Lazarey's murder and told him
Syd was conspiring to keep it a secret. Dixon is displeased but says that she
was not responsible. He prohibits Vaughn from mentioning this to Lauren. Syd
realizes Jack manipulated the situation so the NSC, ie., Lauren, wouldn't find
out. Later, Syd apologizes to Vaughn.
In Spain, Walker receives pictures of Syd and Vaughn. Syd returns to Walker,
and as they kiss she tries to extract info — she learns they met in Algeria.
But the game is up and he puts a knife to her throat and shows her the photos.
She says Vaughn is her supplier. Vauhgn calls Marshall, telling him to create
a criminal record for himself on Interpol, which he does just before Walker
checks it.
The team plans to go to a storage facility 35 miles outside Ibiza, run by
disease control ministry. They'll have five minutes to get the package, a
temperature-sensitive biological element. Sark walks into the safe house to
talk about the deal! Syd manages to elude his notice. Lauren tries to pry info
about The Covenant from Sloan. He says that they'll be able to create a
bio-weapon against specific targets with the new theft. Sloane baits Lauren,
says she in her job because of her father, a Senator.
Walker and Julia break into the facility's refrigerated vault. Syd has about a
minute to crack the safe, but Marshall's device won't work. She reroutes the
hardware and breaks in before the temperature rises too high. They steal the
canister and put it in a cooler. As they switch vehicles, Syd grabs the
transmitter from the lipstick. Vaughn is in the other vehicle! They've
discovered he's CIA. To gain some control over the situation, Syd stabs him in
the ribs. Walker then kicks him down a hill and they leave in a new vehicle.
- Repercussions (OAD 10/26/03)
A frantic Sydney phones Jack, telling him to
activate the transmitter that she put on Vaughn. Later Syd breaks into Simon
Walker's room only to find the bio-weapon gone; he has sold it to Sark. He
kisses her and they part.
Weiss finds Vaughn. As he recovers in the hospital, Syd tells Lauren that she
stabbed him in order to save him. Lauren is incensed. The CIA picks up an
aircraft in the Ural Mountains deploying the bio-weapon against a prison. They
notice Sark extracting the sole survivor — Abasi Bomani, the largest arms
dealer in Africa. The Covenant tailored the weapon to spring Bomani.
Since Sloane had turned in Bomani years ago, the CIA decides to tap him for
more info. On the plane to Mexico City, Lauren pressures Syd to transfer to
another field office. Syd is defiant. As they enter Sloane's building, he's
kidnapped before their eyes; forced into a van by Sark and Bomani. Sloane,
trying to prevent his torture, says he can legitimize Bomani.
Lauren apologizes for threatening Syd. Later, Vaughn dreams of Sydney kissing
him, then stabbing him. He wakes to find Lauren at his side.
Sloane returns to the CIA, says Bomani let him go in
exchange for info — his Yakuza contacts have developed an AI computer virus
that probes networks and writes itself. It can crash markets, ruin banks,
paralyze the military. He wants the CIA to disable the virus, but not destroy
it. If Bomani finds it destroyed, he'll kill Sloane, who suggests he's now
valuable as a double-agent working for The Covenant but loyal to the CIA. Syd
is dubious but Marshall's lie-detector tests verify Sloane's sincerity.
Jack, posing as a potential client, meets Simon in Paris in order to learn
more about Syd's past. Javier IDs Jack and tells Simon that his daughter is
Syndey Bristow, alias Julia Thorne. Simon baits Jack, who ultimately murders
him when he refuses to divulge any info.
Marshall must see the code in order to render the virus harmless, so he's
chosen to go with Syd. They enter the Osaka casino dressed as a cowboy and his
floozy. He joins a blackjack table and cleans up, thanks to his skillful
cheating. Allowing himself to be caught, he and Syd are taken to a back room.
With Marshall's hands about to be cut off, Syd leaps into action. Together,
they handle the thugs. Marshall breaks into the system and disables the virus
just before Sark and Bomani enter the casino. They hide as Sark transfers the
useless code to his server.
Mission completed, Syd visits Vaughn in the hospital, where she happens upon
Lauren tenderly kissing Vaughn.
- The Nemesis (OAD 11/02/03)
Sloane tells Syd that intel about The Covenant's
next move is encoded in an image of the Vatican on a web site. She says that
he'll never have her trust or Jack's friendship.
At the CIA, Dixon says The Covenant is after device that can interface with
Russia's launch control, given them access to their nuclear arsenal. Its
designer, Robert Lang, altered his appearance and is on the run. He is to
retrieve new identity papers from Heinrich Strauss at a Milan nightclub. The
Covenant wants to grab Lang and the device. Dixon assigns a reluctant Syd to
be Sloane's handler and says Allison Doren is alive. An unnerved Syd later
says she will kill Allison.
Sark meets Allison in Strassburg, rekindling their love. Allison explains that
The Covenant found her and Syd after their fight. She recovered in 6 months
and has been working for them since. Sark says will find his father's murderer
and Allison swears Syd will pay for her scars.
Lindsay tells Lauren that a Russian government source has info that could lead
to Lazarey's murder and that The Covenant has moles in the Russian government.
He swears Lauren to secrecy and sends her to meet the source in Moscow. Lauren
lies to Vaughn about the trip. He gives Lauren a database of Lazarey's phone
calls, suggesting the murderer may be traced through calls.
In Milan, Syd is disguised as a Euro clubber. Vaughn uses a Marshall-made mini
x-ray camera, rigged via Syd's necklace, which can spot facial reconstruction.
Sark and Allison appear. Lang retrieves his papers and bolts when Allison
kills Strauss. They all chase Lang, but Allison finds him first and extracts a
tooth before killing him. Syd discovers the body, whereupon Allison knocks her
unconscious.
Back at the CIA, the x-ray images of Lang's tooth reveal a filling that is a
Radio Frequency Identification chip. Lang used the chip to open the launching
device. Lauren discovers a call from Lazarey's murderer and tracks it, through
voice analysis, to the London address KNG Microtech. The office is empty but
Lauren discovers it was leased to Julia Thorne.
Syd forces Sloane to meet with Sark and Allison in Prague and get them to
divulge the location of the device. Using his cover as a double-agent, Sloane
coaxes Sloane to admitting the device is in a vault in Sophia, Bulgaria. Syd
makes Sloane ask about her past. Allison says The Covenant ordered her not to
kill Syd because they want to retrieve something her memory. This makes Syd
want to undergo CIA memory retrieval, which Jack vehemently opposes.
Dixon sends Vaughn and Syd to Sofia. He privately admits to Syd that he wants
Allison dead because she murdered his wife. Using a tracking device, Syd and
Vaughn find Allison in an abandoned building in Sofia and give chase. Allison
corners Syd and says that Syd had discovered a formula for a medication in the
Rambaldi journal — which was ultimately used to heal Allison's wounds. Syd
grabs Allison's gun and shoots. She alive, but barely. They find the device on
her body.
Syd's suspicions are raised when Vaughn knows nothing about the formula. They
find the ambulance overturned, the medics dead and Allison missing.
- Prelude (OAD 11/09/03)
Syd wakes from a nightmare in which she sees an
angel-like figure, then pulls strange tubes from her mysterious scar. Shaken,
she asks a CIA psychiatrist about the memory-retrieval procedure. The doctor
shows her Kenneth Blake, a man whose memory was retrieved at the cost of his
sanity.
The Mexican police capture Simon's lackey Javier, who offers up info about a
CIA agent used by terrorists to kill a Russian diplomat.
At the CIA, Sloane says The Covenant wants him to attend a Chinese
governmental function in order to steal data. China intends to mount a
microwave laser on a satellite as an assassination weapon. It would make the
victim appear as if he died of natural causes. He wants Syd to accompany him
and corrupt the data. Syd will access the motherboard, connect to Marshall,
who will corrupt the system.
Vaughn and Lauren travel Mexico to interview Javier. Jack advises Vaughn to
impede the investigation. Vaughn disagrees, saying Lauren is their best chance
to keep Syd's secret from NSC.
Syd and Sloane attend the Beijing ball posing as lovers. Syd secretly
assembles a toy car controlled by Marshall, which he uses to follow a guard to
the security system. Sloane persuades Syd to dance for the sake of their
cover. Marshall shuts down the system. Syd gladly slaps Sloane in order to
give the impression they're having a lover's spat.
Meanwhile, Jack has bribed the Mexican police to detain Vaughn and Lauren.
When they're released, they find Javier dead in his cell, an apparent suicide
victim. Vaughn tells Jack if he ever puts his wife in danger again, he'll kill
him. Jack tells Vaughn that maybe now he understands the compromises one makes
when a loved one is in danger
Syd finds the vault, retrieves the case and connects to it, allowing Marshall
to corrupt the code. The guards repair the security system and spot Syd. She
fights off the guards as Marshall finishes his job. Afterward, Sloane says the
day she was found in Hong Kong, he received a letter in Syd's handwriting,
address to Sydney Bristow. He gives it to her. A key and paper fall out. It's
a series of numbers, a code.
Sark pays a visit to Lauren. He says that he had planned for Javier to be
extradited and forced to confess the identity of Lazarey's murderer. He gives
her a dossier, which includes a picture of Lazarey and Julia Thorne. Sark
identifies Thorne as Sydney.
Jack looks at the note Sloane gave Syd. He says the cipher text was devised by
Irina. It's the address of a penthouse in Rome.
Vaughn and Lauren argue about keeping Sydney's secret. He says Dixon ordered
him not to divulge anything, but she'll have none of it. Vaughn says Lindsey
will ship Syd off to Russia if he finds out. Lauren admits that she's already
reported Syd. Vaughn then tells Syd everything and arranges for her to fly to
Rome and pick up a new passport.
Syd asks him why he's helping her. He says some things don't change. "I'm not
going to lose you twice," he says, and they hug. Later, Vaughn tells Jack
he'll do anything to help Syd.
Under Lindsey's authorization, Lauren takes control of the task force from
Dixon, relieving him for "obstruction of justice."
Syd enters her apartment in Rome. Through the window, she sees the figure she
dreamt of. She searches the medicine cabinet and finds a bottle is prescribed
to Julia Thorne. The Italian police barge in.
- Breaking Point (OAD 11/23/03)
Now in Lindsey's custody, Sydney is imprisoned and
tortured at Camp Williams, a secret NSC detention facility. She befriends
Campbell, another prisoner.
Lindsey relieves Dixon, who takes full responsibility for hiding Syd's secret.
Lauren accuses Vaughan of aiding a fugitive, while he says Lindsey is funded
by black money. Unconvinced, Lauren travels with Lindsey to Washington to
observe Syd's interrogation.
Vaughn goes to Jack, who tells him that Sloane will help them, making it look
like The Covenant is trying to break out Syd. They put together a team of
eight mercenaries. They will steal the Camp Williams blueprints from the FEMA
building.
Lindsey pressures Lauren, who's unaware of Syd's torture, to write a fair
report of their treatment of Syd. He says he will threaten Syd with the
memory-retrieval surgery in order to force her to decode a message found under
her desk in Rome. He promises it will only be a threat.
During her torture, Syd steals a paper clip. When Lauren suspects torture,
Lindsey blackmails her by threatening to nail Vaughn for aiding Syd. Syd picks
the lock with the clip, kills her torturer and breaks free. Lauren sees the
guards beat Syd.
Jack and Vaughn contact Brill, an old comrade, who joins them for a fee of $3
million. Jack takes Vaughn to a storage facility of guns and money.
At FEMA, Sloane, in a van, knocks out their phone system and
routes all calls to a fake number. Vaughn answers their request for a
technician and Jack goes in. Meanwhile Sloane and Vaughn break into the
building's sub-basement. Tapping into the phone lines, Sloane poses as a
director and calls away Jack's guard. Vaughn pushes in a video snake and snaps
images of the blueprints that Jack holds up to the camera.
Jack is discovered and Sloane saves his life by taking a bullet for him.
Sloane's allergic to morphine so Jack extracts the bullet without anesthesia.
Jack wonders why Sloane saved his life. Sloane says he's a reformed man and
that Jack and Syd are all he has left — his absolution, considering his
crimes. Vaughn has Marshall access classified docs on NSC's computer network.
Marshall finds that all files pertaining to Camp Williams have been removed.
Lauren arrives, admits that Vaughn was right and offers her help.
Lindsey tortures Campbell to force Syd to reveal the code. She capitulates,
says they are coordinates but doesn't know to what. Campbell then reveals
himself to be a fake. They knew Syd's profile, which reveals her major
weakness to be empathy. Lindsey informs her that she will undergo the neuro-stimulation
surgery in one hour.
Jack, Vaughn and the team speed to the facility. Lauren, already there, opens
the main gate. Jack enters, finds Syd's cell empty — she's on the operating
table. The team finds her just in time and a gun battle ensues. Lauren shoots
and kills Campbell. They take Syd to a chopper, where Sloane waits. Syd says
she gave Lindsey the wrong coordinates.
- Conscious (OAD 11/30/03)
Hiding out in a warehouse, the team devises a plan
to frame The Covenant for Sydney's extraction: Lauren will tell Lindsey that
she escaped The Covenant but they're still holding Sydney in return for the
Rambaldi device. Sloane will confirm the story with Lindsey. Jack and Vaughn
will say they were investigating Syd's trail. Lauren needs to look as if she
was mistreated; Syd gladly punches her.
Sloane also suggests Syd contact a Yale researcher named Dr. Edward Brazzel,
who's invented a non-invasive technique for treating long-term amnesia. Jack
and Syd later track her secret coordinates to a location near the San Andreas
fault, where they find a severed hand bearing a Rambaldi tattoo. Meanwhile,
Lindsey has the FBI arrest Dixon for impeding a federal investigation. Lindsey
is suspicious of Lauren's story but agrees to trade for Syd.
The group visits Brazzel's lab and find him and his assistant Kaya to be
extremely eccentric. He believes dreams contain memories so, through a
cocktail of dangerous drugs, he fools the brain into entering a lucid dream
state. Once in this state, Syd must follow the thread of her last memory — and
be wary of new, traumatic memories.
Brazzel administers the drug and Syd enters the dream state. It's a surreal
mix of past and present. She remembers being picked up by 3 hooded men after
her fight with evil Francie. They inject her with something. She regresses to
childhood — she cuts a birthday cake, which becomes a severed hand, and sees
the face of a strange man. Back to the hooded men; she follows as they take
her limp body to Room 47. Lauren guides her away, saying "You know better,"
then tries to strangle her with hanging plastic.
In the real world, Brazzel revives Syd as she
goes into cardiac arrest. When she awakes, she kisses Vaughn passionately,
believing herself still in a dream.
Syd says it was Lazarey's hand. Marshall's forensics prove the hand was
attached to a living man only 4 months ago. Jack says the incriminating tape
could have been a performance. Syd tells Vaughn that Lauren strangled her, but
Brezzel says it was probably just a representational figure. Syd goes back
under.
Sloane meets Lindsey, who says he'll make the trade but wants Sydney
assassinated in what appears to be a Covenant doublecross. Lindsey tells
Sloane, who's wary of entrapment, that he knows what he's up to and gives
Sloane an envelope containing some sort of proof.
DNA from the Kremlin confirms the hand belonged to Lazarey, which means Syd
didn't kill him and Lindsey has nothing on her.
Syd is dreaming again. She's in a car, called a St. Aidan, with Dixon. She
takes the box that contained the severed hand and walks into her apartment.
Weiss and Marshall are there gambling. She enters the hanging plastic. Lauren
tells her to leave. Syd chokes Lauren, who becomes a Sydney doppleganger. They
struggle, the double says to trust Lazerey. Sydney shoots and kills the double
and enters Room 47. "Oh my god," she says.
- Remnants (OAD 12/07/03)
Sydney tells Jack about a dream — she's with Will in
her old apartment and there's cereal box that says St. Aidan. Jack advises Syd
to contact Will, who's in the witness protection program. Brezzel believes
Syd's memory of the missing time has been removed and that the precision of
the extraction indicates she may have been a willing participant.
Syd visits Will in Wisconsin. Suspicious, he pulls a gun but she proves her
identity, saying he's her oldest friend and that she loves him. Finally, he
believes her and they hug. Sloane, under pressure from Lindsey, contracts
Syd's assassin in Buenos Aires at a cost of $500K. Later, Jack socks Lindsey
when he doubts his and Vaughn's sincerity and speaks brazenly about Syd. Now
in custody, Jack advises Vaughn to push Syd away for her sake.
Syd tells Will that Allison Doren is alive and working for The Covenant. He
remembers that St. Aidan was the codename of an old Agency contact. He
arranges to meet St. Aidan in Warsaw. Meanwhile, Sark attacks Brezzel at his
lab and hooks him up to a morphine drip. Before he overdoses, Brezzel reveals
that Syd was going to contact Will. St. Aidan meets Will — it's Lazarey. He
refuses to talk about The Covenant. Syd has Will say that Julia Thorne sent
him, that she trusts him and she's in danger. "Do they have it?" he asks.
"Have they been to Gratz?"
Sark appears and shoots Lazarey with a tranquilizer. A gun battle ensues. Syd
and Will escape. Later, Will and Syd talk about the old days. She's lonely
and, in a moment of vulnerability, they sleep together. Laying in bed, Syd
realizes that she had "it," whatever that is, and assumes she would have
hidden it in the Hotel Verlustzeit.
Sydney tells Jack about a dream — she's with Will in her old apartment and
there's cereal box that says St. Aidan. Jack advises Syd to contact Will,
who's in the witness protection program. Brezzel believes Syd's memory of the
missing time has been removed and that the precision of the extraction
indicates she may have been a willing participant.
Syd visits Will in Wisconsin. Suspicious, he pulls a gun but she proves her
identity, saying he's her oldest friend and that she loves him. Finally, he
believes her and they hug. Sloane, under pressure from Lindsey, contracts
Syd's assassin in Buenos Aires at a cost of $500K. Later, Jack socks Lindsey
when he doubts his and Vaughn's sincerity and speaks brazenly about Syd. Now
in custody, Jack advises Vaughn to push Syd away for her sake.
Syd tells Will that Allison Doren is alive and working for The Covenant. He
remembers that St. Aidan was the codename of an old Agency contact. He
arranges to meet St. Aidan in Warsaw. Meanwhile, Sark attacks Brezzel at his
lab and hooks him up to a morphine drip. Before he overdoses, Brezzel reveals
that Syd was going to contact Will. St. Aidan meets Will — it's Lazarey. He
refuses to talk about The Covenant. Syd has Will say that Julia Thorne sent
him, that she trusts him and she's in danger. "Do they have it?" he asks.
"Have they been to Gratz?"
Sark appears and shoots Lazarey with a tranquilizer. A gun battle ensues. Syd
and Will escape. Later, Will and Syd talk about the old days. She's lonely
and, in a moment of vulnerability, they sleep together. Laying in bed, Syd
realizes that she had "it," whatever that is, and assumes she would have
hidden it in the Hotel Verlustzeit.
In a torture chamber, Sark confronts his father, who initially doesn't
recognize him. He says he staged his death to give Sark his inheritance. Sark
says the inheritance now finances The Covenant. Lazarey says they are true
evil and refuses to talk … Until Sark ignites a blowtorch.
Will and Syd check into the Gratz hotel, posing as rock stars. Syd taps into
the security system through the onscreen checkout and finds the location of a
safe deposit box belonging to Julia Thorne. After disabling the security
cameras, she breaks into the box, but Sark steals the object from under her
nose. Allison attacks Will with a knife while Syd chases after Sark. In close
combat, Will plunges the knife into Allison, killing her. Syd knocks out Sark
and steals the object.
Syd contacts Sloane, and prepares for the trade on the San Pedro docks. A team
posing as The Covenant takes the Rambaldi device in exchange for Syd. The
sniper fires — and kills Lindsey. Syd opens the crate in which the Rambaldi
device is stored — it's filled with junk. Sloane says it was a setup
engineered by Lindsey, who never intended to hand over the Rambaldi device.
Syd doesn't believe him and promises he won't get away with it.
At the CIA. Vaughn gives Syd the cold shoulder as Jack observes. Marshall
examines the box — it contains human tissue and Milo Rambaldi's name is etched
in the side. Will tells Syd that he's gotten no closure or satisfaction from
killing Allison. He says he's going to stay in Wisconsin and promises to see
her again.
- Full Disclosure (OAD 01/11/04)
Agents from the Dept. of Special Research take possession of the Rambaldi
Cube before Marshall can finish his own analysis of the tissue contained
inside. Later, Syd is tranquilized and taken aboard a jet, where she sees
Kendall, who reveals he's not FBI but Special Research. The Covenant has
ambushed his team and now has the Cube. He says he knows what happened to
Syd's missing two years but kept silent because she asked him to.
Nine months after she was buried, he says, Syd called him from Rome, where she
had escaped from The Covenant. She told him that she saw her funeral,
paralyzed by a neurotoxin, from the back of a van. Her torturer, Oleg Madrczyk,
had injected Syd's DNA into the teeth of a corpse, causing a false
identification. She was taken to St. Petersburg, where she was called Julia
Thorne and brainwashed. She killed a Covenant prisoner to prove her readiness.
Syd is shocked at this tale, but Kendall says her Project Christmas training
prevented her from being turned. She killed that man, who was doomed anyway,
to protect herself and deceive The Covenant. She then contacted Kendall, who
advised her to continue as Julia Thorne in order to gather info. Syd recalls
the pain when she observes Vaughn with Lauren but stays away for safety's
sake.
Julia/Syd then partnered with Simon Walker to search for the Cube. She
discovered Lazarey, an expert close to uncovering the artifact. Although The
Covenant wanted Julia/Syd to kill Lazarey once he found the Cube, Kendall
orders her to cut a deal with him and work together — so she fakes his death
at her hands. Back in the jet, Kendall says he believes Syd is Rambaldi's
Chosen One and that The Covenant wanted both her and the Cube to fulfill the
prophecy.
Julia and Lazarey find and retrieve the Cube in a cave in Namibia's Fish River
Gorge. She has to amputate Lazarey's hand when a closing vault door crushes
it. She never delivered the Cube to Kendall, however. He instead got a disc
that showed Syd revealing that she was hiding the Cube and having her memory
erased so it could never be found. She tells Kendall never to tell her what
she's been through.
In the jet, Kendall says Rambaldi's second coming is by way of a child. The
Covenant will use the DNA in the Cube to fertilize the egg of the Chosen One.
Syd looks at her scar — The Covenant extracted her eggs!
Kendall says he respected her wishes, but four months after Hong Kong she went
straight for the Cube. Why, he wonders. She remembers the package Sloane gave
to her — the code and the key to the Rome apartment, which led her to Lazarey
and the Cube. It was all a trick. Syd calls Marshall, who had secretly put a
tracking device on the Cube. Meanwhile, Sark observes a series of test tube
fertilizations.
At the CIA, Dixon admits he knew the truth and was ordered not to say anything
— a reversal of their SD-6 days. Syd, Dixon, Vaughn and Weiss parachute into
Patagonia and storm to The Covenant's facility. Although Sark escapes, they
find the fertilization equipment. Kendall wanted it brought back back for
analysis but Dixon allows Syd to torch it all. Vaughn and Weiss rescue Lazarey.
Later, Sark makes a phone call, ordering his father to be killed. As Lazarey
is transported to a hospital, he asks Syd if she knows about the "passenger."
He's then assassinated by a sniper. Lauren packs up her gun and flees the
scene.
- Crossings (OAD 01/18/04)
In a North Korean jail, Syd passionately kisses Vaughn before they're both
led, in chains, to a firing line.
The backstory: In Los Angeles, the CIA learns of a phantom offshore brokerage
account. Encoded in the names of the stocks is a message — a top Covenant
official, Leonid Lisenker, wants to defect. Syd and Vaughn will travel to N.
Korea and, posing as auditors, spirit him away.
Lauren asks Syd out to dinner during Vaughn's hockey night but Vaughn warns
her not to socialize with Syd. Later, Lauren secretly meets with Mr. Zisman, a
Covenant agent, to discuss Syd and Vaughn's assassination. Lauren hesitates
but soon informs him that they'll board a jet at Dover Air Field. The Covenant
poisons the pilots.
Mid-flight, Syd gets angry at Vaughn's aloofness and says they can no longer
work together. The jet veers out of control as the poison pilots take ill and
die. Syd and Vaughn gain controls and take evasive maneuvers to avoid incoming
missiles. The jet goes down. They survive the crash and flee the N. Korean
military. They have 8 hours to meet the defector. As Syd and Vaughn commandeer
a jeep, she admits to sleeping with Will but says she's moving on.
Jack suspects the Covenant is responsible and Dixon, disobeying orders, tells
the team to help in any way. Sloane calls to offer help but Jack denies him.
He instead contacts Irina, who directs him to Syd's apartment. Once there, he
meets Katya, Irina's sister, who confirms Syd's survival and offers her help
on the condition he murder Sloane. She calls it a "preventative measure."
In LA's Koreatown, Jack and Katya enter a restaurant and call on the owner,
Mr. Cho, to repay a debt to Katya. When he declines, she stabs his hands with
skewers and demands he contact Mr. Kwan.
Syd and Vaughn arrive in Gai-Li and identify Lisenker. They see him with Sark,
who's been informed of the defection through Lauren's treachery and is posing
as a CIA agent. As a knife-wielding Syd confronts him, N. Korean troops
appear. Sark flees as Syd and the others are caught.
Jack enters Sloane's Zurich office, prepared to kill him. Meanwhile, Katya
calls Sloane to tell him to back off Irina. She says he's not protected by his
friends, even by Jack, — who's visible on Sloane's security system — and that
his life is a favor from her. She then calls Jack and tells him to abort.
Sloane tells Jack that he never forgot what it feels like to narrowly escape
death.
Syd and Vaughn are beaten in prison. Vaughn admits he pushed her away on
purpose. She says they always find each other. They kiss passionately before
they're led out to the firing squad. One soldier turns on all the others, it's
Mr. Kwan. They then rescue Lisenker and escape.
They're welcomed back to the CIA. Syd notices that Vaughn runs to Lauren. Jack
tells Katya he knows what she did, that she destroyed Sloane's trust in him.
He wonders to what advantage it served Irina. She says Irina's intentions will
become clear to him some day. And then she kisses him ferociously.
- After Six (OAD 02/15/04)
At the CIA, the team discusses info gleaned from Lisenker, the Covenant
defector: He had hidden a microdisc containing Doleac Agenda, a
"playbook" detailing plans for the six Covenant cells, in an
impenetrable Chamonix chalet. Syd and Vaughn are to travel to Athens
posing as diamond smugglers seeking the aid of Toni Cummings, the
criminal expert who designed the chalet's security system. Under
pressure from Jack, Syd has Dixon replace Vaughn with Weiss.
Jack visits Sloane, who forgives him for the Katya incident. He says
Emily's absence is a void that all his charity work can't fill. Jack
tells him to stay focused and maintain his cover as a double agent. Syd,
talking to CIA psychiatrist Dr. Arnett, says she can't move past Vaughn,
whom she calls her "soul mate."
Sark, leering at Lauren, confronts her and says he knows she killed his
father. Knowing that she's Covenant too, and he proposes that they
murder the six Covenant cell leaders, steal the keys to their respective
headquarters, then meet with the head of Covenant operations in St.
Petersburg. They'll then demand more power within the Covenant in return
for not turning the keys in to the CIA.
In Athens, Syd and Weiss lure Cummings to offer details of the chalet's
lethal response security system. She gives them the schematics but says
there is no way to pass the deadly obstacles. Marshall gets to work.
Sloane shoots up, then calls Jack and tells him he needs a psychiatrist.
When she visits him, he tries to manipulate her. She won't give in.
Later, she says that she understands him. Sloane says he has a secret
regarding Jack and Syd that wears on him. Dixon, reporting that Covenant
officials are being killed, believes it's because the Covenant knows
they're after the Doleac Agenda. Syd and Vaughn leave for Chamonix
immediately. Jack accompanies them in order to execute Marshall's plan
remotely.
On the plane, Vaughn says he understands why Syd requested Weiss on the
earlier mission. Syd stands firm and refuses to be "the other woman."
Jack says the Agenda is encrypted in a microdoc hidden in the cork of a
bottle of Chateau Margot 1953.
At the chalet, Jack establishes a laser link to the security server,
allowing Marshall to tap in. They have five minutes to get to the
cellar. They inflate Marshall-manufactured inflatable Kevlar decoys,
which trigger the machine guns to fire until they empty their clips.
Carrie, Marhall's girlfriend, goes into labor and demands they get
married before she has the baby. Weiss goes online and certifies himself
as a minister and performs the ceremony while Marshall guides Syd and
Vaughn through the chalet. They make it though an electrified tunnel and
an acid kill zone, and find the bottle in the wine cellar as the alarm
sounds. They barely make it out, as Jack kills two pursuing guards.
Believing Lauren to be in LA, Sark travels to St. Petersburg to meet the
head of Covenant operations — it's McKenas Cole, the former SD-6 rogue.
Cole knows Sark's game; Lauren's double-crossed Sark. He knows the CIA
has the Doleac Agenda, however, and believes Sark's treachery benefited
them. As thanks, he gives Lauren and Sark leadership of the North
American cell. He then tells Lauren to stop her husband's
extracurricular activities. At the CIA, Lauren tells Syd to stay away
from Vaughn.
- Blowback (OAD 03/07/04)
Vaughn, unable to sleep, stares at his father's watch, which stopped the
day he met Sydney. As Vaughn leaves, Lauren's phone rings. At the CIA,
Dixon presents the team with a new mission: The Shining Sword, a
Filipino terrorist organization, has acquired a next-generation bomb
called a plasma charge, which they're shipping to Europe. The CIA has
traced a Shining Sword transmission from a digital storage facility in
Vancouver. Syd and Vaughn are to rent vault space at the facility and
search for a detailed archive of the shipment. Someone within the
Agency, Dixon adds, may be leaking info to the Covenant.
Syd and Vaughn, posing as astronomers, arrive at the facility. They
secretly download the shipping info and pinpoint location of plasma
charge. Their uplink to Marshall, however, is sabotaged by a virus.
Suddenly, they're attacked by a facility employee, who is mysteriously
shot dead. Syd and Vaughn lose the murderer after a car chase through a
parking garage. Back in LA, Marshall tells them he received 63% of the
data; he'll need 12 hours to extrapolate the rest. Sydney recalls the
previous day was the anniversary of Vaughn's father's death. Lauren
calls, interrupting their conversation.
In Zurich, Sloane apologizes to Barnett and asks her out to dinner. She
agrees "for professional reasons only." She thinks his transformation
from spy to humanitarian is remarkable and asks about the secret he's
harboring. He's offended and explodes at her, so she walks out on him.
Marshall's data reveals the plasma charge is on a Liberian freighter in
Lisbon. Once on the boat, Syd and Vaughn, using a tracking device, are
again fired upon.
We go back to the opening— after Vaughn leaves, Lauren receives a call
from Sark. He wants the plasma charge and tells her to get a lock on it,
which she does via Dixon's team meeting. Syd tells Lauren that's she's
not responsible for the problems in Lauren's marriage. Lauren then meets
Sark at the Vancouver facility, where they plant the virus and force the
employee to fire at Syd and Vaughn. When he misses, Lauren kills him and
flees. After escaping, Lauren and Sark get shagadelic.
Sloane apologizes to Barnett. He tells her his secret — he had a
one-night affair with Irina Derevko. Jack and Emily never knew. Though
he's never tried to prove it, he believes Syd is his daughter.
Back to the gun battle on the boat — Syd finds the plasma charge. Vaughn
stops Lauren, who's wearing a mask, and demands that she show herself.
Before she does, Sark corners Syd and threatens to kill her unless
Vaughn drops the gun. "If you love her, you'll drop the gun," Sark says.
Vaughn drops it. Lauren punches him and runs. Syd breaks away from Sark
and chases Lauren while Vaughn goes after Sark, who has the charge. He
engages the timer and tosses it to Vaughn, who, with Marshall's aid,
stops the countdown with seconds left.
Later, Lauren meets Vaughn at a bar. Sark calls to goad her. She kisses
Vaughn at Sark's behest. At the office late, Jack takes Syd out to
dinner.
- Façade (OAD 03/14/04)
Daniel Ryan, a freelance bomb maker whose bombs are impossible to
defuse, destroys a bank in Belfast as a calling card to The Covenant. If
he fails to cut a deal with The Covenant in 48 hours, he'll give notice
to other terrorist groups with a bombing in the U.S. When the CIA learns
that The Covenant is to meet him at the Black Stag Bar in Belfast, they
send Weiss and Syd.
Using Covenant defector Leonid Lisenker as a source of info, Syd poses
as a Covenant agent. To improve her credibility with Ryan, she rescues
him from an attempted CIA kidnapping led by Weiss. Ryan wakes in a
CIA-built replica of the hotel room in which he does business with The
Covenant. The ruse nearly fails, but Lisenker appears and vouches for
Syd. Ryan accepts the deal on the condition that the details be handled
by Sark, whom he's never met but knows is The Covenant's North American
co-commander.
Vaughn appears, posing as Sark. Ryan tells him the details will be given
to him on a flight from Rome to Paris by an associate who will recognize
him. He says the second bombing will be called off once the associate
meets Sark. The CIA hurriedly issues a communiqué that compels Sark to
board that flight, which Vaughn is also on. The associate never shows
up, however, meaning that Ryan wanted Sark on that plane for an unknown
reason.
Sloane, sleeping with Judy Barnett, receives a call from a desperate Syd.
He says Ryan's brother Christopher was killed by The Covenant. After
some research, Syd remembers that The Covenant made her kill Christopher
to test her Julia Thorne identity. Ryan plans to get revenge on The
Covenant by blowing up Sark's flight.
On the plane, Vaughn arrests and handcuffs Sark. After a call from Syd,
he finds the bomb in the cargo hold. Marshall discovers that the
detonator is based on barometric pressure — the bomb will explode if the
plane descends below 18 thousand feet. If Vaughn detaches the motion
sensor, Marshall says, they may be able to fool the bomb into thinking
it's in high altitude.
Syd, Weiss and Lisenker reveal themselves to Ryan, hoping the revelation
convinces Ryan to stop the bomb. Syd appeals to Ryan's compassion,
saying she was tortured by The Covenant and made to assume the Julia
Thorne identity.
Vaughn uncuffs Sark, and together they try to disable the motion sensor.
Ryan agrees to help and dials in a deactivation sequence. It's only a
ploy — he had heard a rumor that Julia Thorne had killed his brother —
he activates the bomb, as well as the one Marshall had been studying in
his office!
With the clock ticking, Jack chokes Ryan until he passes out, then
revives him. If he doesn't give them the code, Jack says, he won't be
revived next time. Ryan gives it up with one second to spare. The danger
over, Sark attacks Vaughn, who knocks him out and turns him over to the
French authorities. When Vaughn returns, a tearful Syd embraces him
- Taken (OAD 03/21/04)
Senator Reed, Lauren's father, arrives to oversee Sark's interrogation.
He tells Jack that they must learn the identity of Sark's partner in The
Covenant. Lauren advises against torturing Sark.
The plane carrying Sark to Dover Air Force Base from France lands in the
desert, 60 miles short of the runway. Syd and Weiss board the plane,
only to find the pilots and guards dead and Sark missing. The dead
appear to be frozen. Meanwhile, Dixon learns that Sark has kidnapped his
two children. Sark demands the release of five international prisoners
in 48 hours — an impossible task. A shaken Dixon demands the team find
the mole.
Marshall, analyzing the flight voice recording, learns that Sark made a
phone call and referred to someone as "love" before he bailed out over
Arizona. The CIA traces Sark to Nogales. Syd, Vaughn, Weiss and Dixon
enter the compound but the kids aren't there — it's a trap. They barely
make it out before the place blows.
Marshall searches the FAA database and discovers Sark's flight was
accessed from Switzerland via Dr. Barnett's IP address. Jack immediately
arrests Sloane and jails him. Syd stops Dixon from beating him. Dixon
returns home to find his boy safe but The Covenant now demands the
release of ten prisoners. Dixon appoints Jack as team leader and
privately tells Syd that The Covenant's demands are false. They're
actually demanding a Rambaldi object, from Project Black Hole, located
in the Nevada Desert. Syd agrees to help him retrieve it.
Syd sneaks into the facility via a steam shaft while Dixon enters with
his clearance. Dixon gains access to the security system and opens a
grate for Syd, just before she's steamed. Dixon directs Syd to the
correct room and she outfoxes a mechanized guard to retrieve the object
— a cube. Engraved in it is the name Irina.
Jack learns that The Covenant is close to locating a key to operate the
cube. The contents, he tells Syd, will threaten her life. Nonetheless,
Syd decides to exchange the cube for Dixon's daughter. Senator Reed,
learning that Dixon stole the cube, deploys a team to bring him into
custody. Lauren appeals to Vaughn to help Dixon.
With Federal choppers searching for Dixon, he, Jack and Syd meet Sark
and Dixon's daughter. Vaughn has Marshall misdirect the chopper's GPS
systems. Dixon gives Sark the cube. Sark fits the girl with a collar
armed with a deadly toxin as insurance that he escapes. Syd volunteers
to wear the collar. Jack disarms the collar as Sark flees.
A furious Barnett, visiting Sloane in jail, believes she's been used.
Proclaiming his innocence, Sloane asks that she keep mum about his
secret. Jack overhears Lauren call Vaughn "love."
- The Frame (OAD 03/28/04)
Vaughn and Syd travel to Mexico City searching for the key to open the
Rambaldi box. Via Vaughn's contact Kishell, they learn that the box
contains a bio-weapon. In 1941, they learn, two Soviet archeologists
found the "map," an etched crystal revealing the location of the key.
The men turned on each other, however, and died in the Karoo desert.
Kishell has images of Covenant kingpin Kazari Bomani at the site — with
the crystal. In the background is a truck belonging to Omnifam, Sloane's
humanitarian organization. Kishell says The Covenant refers to the map
as The Passenger.
Later, Sloane explains to Syd that the CIA forced him to partner with
Bomani to stay close to The Covenant. If his pardon is revoked, she
says, the death penalty will be reinstated. He says all Omnifam trucks
can be tracked with GPS. He offers to give her the tracking codes in
return for creature comforts.
At a restaurant, Vaughn tells Lauren that he wants to separate. Lauren
says it's about Sydney and storms off — straight to Sark, who tells her
to kill her father, which would compel Vaughn to return to her out of
compassion. Meanwhile, a suspicious Jack prints out Lauren's phone
records. Visiting Senator George Reed, Jack meets his wife Olivia. He
then reveals to the senator the paper trail leading to his Lauren. Reed
is incensed and denies his daughter's involvement.
Marshal tracks the Omnifam trucks to the Russian consulate in Gaborone,
where the CIA believes Sark and Bomani have the map. Syd and Vaughn
enter a function at the consulate, posing as a Russian couture designer
and a waiter, respectively. They engage in a firefight with Sark and
Bomani and escape with the crystal. On the return flight, Vaughn tells
Syd that he's separating from Lauren.
Marshal is unable to interpret the crystal's kaleidoscopic data. Syd
gives Sloane The Iliad in return for his help. He says that there are
four disks that fit into the box's carved slots. He tells them to look
under water. With this information, Marshal is able to use the data to
pinpoint a rock formation off the coast of Okinawa.
Lauren realizes her computer has been accessed by Jack (she has an
intrusion detection program). She calls Sark, who again advises her to
kill her father and then frame Jack. Lauren visits her father, who's now
convinced of Lauren's guilt. He suggests that he can help her get out of
it and they could start over to patch their relationship. Olivia walks
in, takes the gun from Lauren, and shoots him! She says, "Sark said you
might back out."
During the investigation, Olivia tells Jack that, before killing
himself, George had grown distraught about asking Lauren to do things
that he later regretted. He mentioned the Covenant, she says.
In the Sea of Japan, Syd and Vaughn scuba to an underwater cave and
locate the keys. Bomani arrives and says The Passenger is Irina's
legacy. Syd fights Bomani while Vaughn battles Bomani's mercenaries. Syd
beats Bomani, but he destroys their scuba equipment and flees with the
keys. They use a tank with a broken valve to act as a propulsion device
to rocket them to the surface. On the plane back, Syd says Vaughn's
problems are unfortunate, but she's hopeful. He asks her out to coffee
when they get home.
Dixon refuses Lauren's resignation, telling her that she was acting at
her father's instruction with what she thought was approved government
protocol. Jack tells Dixon there's no reason to believe it wasn't
suicide, but Dixon says they may still have reason to hold Sloane.
Vaughn and Syd arrive and learn of Senator Reed's death. To Syd's
dismay, Vaughn embraces Lauren. Later that night, Vaughn calls Syd to
tell her he's back with Lauren.
Sloane demands to be released after he learns that Senator Reed was
Covenant. But Dixon says the senator's records indicate he consulted
with Sloane about Rambaldi and that Sloane handed over certain artifacts
to him. The pardon has been revoked, Dixon says, and he'll be executed
in two weeks.
- Unveiled (OAD 04/11/04)
Dixon asks Sloane how Il Dire (The Telling) will help The Covenant
obtain The Passenger. Sloane asks to speak to Jack, even though Dixon's
made it clear that Sloane's execution won't be stayed.
Dixon explains to the team that a computer worm, originating in Berlin,
has targeted hospitals, laboratories and universities. They believe it's
a Covenant attack, a precursor to the Rambaldi bio-weapon. Syd and
Vaughn travel to a Berlin Goth club to find the culprit, a hacker known
as Cypher, and learn how to stop the worm.
In Florence, Sark and Bomani use the keys to open the Rambaldi box,
revealing the beating di Regno heart. The box is an elaborate writing
machine that scratches a message onto a scroll of parchment. Later
Bomani compares the codes gathered by the worm to the parchment. Sark
learns from Lauren that the CIA has discovered Cypher. Bomani expresses
doubts about Lauren's work.
Lauren tells Vaughn that, while he's in Berlin, she'll go to England to
meet her mother and scatter her father's ashes in Dover. In Berlin, Syd
locates Cypher with a PDA-sniffing pair of sunglasses given to her by
Marshall. Before he talks, however, he's shot. Syd thinks she sees
Lauren in the distance. Cypher's last act is to give Vaughn a small
drive containing the files with the worm's source code.
Lauren tells Sark that she has to corrupt the files before the CIA makes
a copy -- before Bomani knows that she failed. Sloane tells Jack that
two years ago Senator Reed recruited him to work for The Trust, an
organization within the U.S. government interested in Rambaldi, in
return for a pardon. He wants Jack to prove that this group exists.
At a CIA safe house in Berlin, Syd tells Vaughn that she saw Lauren.
Vaughn reacts angrily. Lauren shows up, looking to cry on Vaughn's
shoulder. He notices she's wearing an antique ring. She claims its an
heirloom. Syd calls Mrs. Reed to check out Lauren's alibi. Her story
holds. As Vaughn uploads Cypher's data to Marshall, Lauren touches the
ring to the drive. Later, Marshall tells them that flash drive's memory
was wiped. He suggests it was purposely exposed to an electromagnetic
pulse. However, he's able to partially reconstruct the source code and
determines that its real purpose was to gather information for The
Covenant.
Bomani realizes the CIA cut their data feed. Syd tells Jack that she
seriously suspects Lauren. Jack pays Vaughn a visit, tells him that
Irina would sometimes camouflage the truth in a kiss. An outraged Vaughn
says Lauren is no Irina and he is not Jack.
Marshall finds the worm was searching for the genetic code for one
woman. There are ten possibilities. Lauren downloads the data, then
tells Vaughn she has errands to run. He follows her to a mall, watches
her receive a phone call - Sark warns her off the drop; he wants to see
her in person. Vaughn has Weiss run a tap on Lauren's phone and he
overhears her speaking intensely. Later, Lauren tells Vaughn that she
got a call from her mother (which explains the phone call to Vaughn).
Dixon says the ten women are actually aliases for one woman. Records
reveal this woman was always treated by one doctor -- Robert Viadro in
Milan. Syd and Vaughn go to Milan. Lauren is already there. Viadro
knocks the amethyst from Lauren's ring but she subdues him in a Panic
Room and tortures him until he reveals The Passenger's location. Syd and
Vaughn arrive, fight off guards belonging to The Order of Rambaldi, and
find Viadro. Vaughn also finds Lauren's amethyst. When Viadro sees Syd,
he says, "You're the one from the prophecy. You will not hurt her." He
tries to kill Syd. Vaughn shoots him dead.
Lauren gives Bomani a computer disc. He's about to kill her when Sark
shoots him dead. Jack's contact Diego tells him the front for The Trust
is Project Centrigrade. Dixon tells Jack that Barnett's notes reveal
that Sloane had an affair with Irina. Jack tells Sloane that he couldn't
verify existence of The Trust. Sloane says that both Jack and Syd will
be affected if The Covenant finds The Passenger.
Jack tells Syd that he thinks The Passenger is Irina, because Il Dire's
message said "peace," the etymology of which is a derivation of Irina.
Vaughn asks Lauren what she did while he was gone. She just gives him a
kiss. Vaughn checks her belongings while she's in the bath. Under the
false bottom of a trunk, he finds a Goth wig, a passport and a gun
- Hourglass (OAD 04/18/04)
In a Nepal monastery, Sark, looking for info on The Passenger, threatens
the Rambaldi monk known as Conrad. The wise man kicks the crap out of
him. Olivia Reed appears and tranquilizes Conrad. Sark then takes a
manuscript regarding The Passenger, called The Restoration.
During an online chat with Irina, Jack asks her about The Passenger. The
account is suddenly terminated. Vaughn admits to Syd and Jack that
Lauren is the mole. Jack says he should play along. So when Lauren asks
Vaughn to come to counseling, he agrees.
Dixon receives intel that The Covenant has kidnapped Conrad. In the Thar
desert, Syd and Vaughn intercept the convoy on horseback. Syd jumps into
the truck, beats a guard and grabs Conrad while Vaughn trails them. As
they climb out toward Vaughn, Sark shoots Conrad. With his dying breath
he says to Sydney, "The Passenger is your sister."
In LA , Jack reveals to Syd that Sloane had an affair with Irina. Syd
confronts Sloane at his prison cell. He says he never knew he had a
daughter with Irina until he reached the Nepal monastery. The Di Regno
heart and Il Dire gave him the woman's DNA and the word "peace," which
translates to Irina in Greek. Using Omnifam, he gained access to DNA
databases but never found her. Now, he wants to protect her from The
Covenant. He asks Syd to convince Jack not to hide evidence which would
exonerate him. Jack later says he's hiding nothing.
Only the CIA's Project Black Hole has the codekey that can read The
Restoration. Jack sets a trap - He leaks to Lauren that Marshall has The
Restoration and will begin decoding it with the codekey. She copies his
thumb print, using it to access the Image Processing lab to duplicate
the codekey, which, in fact, is a fake.
Syd and Vaughn are shocked to find Lauren passing the fake to her mother
Olivia. They overhear Olivia say The Restoration is at home in Richmond.
During a counseling session, Dr. Barnett slyly suggests that Vaughn take
a trip with Lauren to Richmond. Once there, Vaughn hides a sensor that
Marshall uses to find a hidden safe. Syd phones him and directs him to
it while Lauren and Olivia are outside. He scans and transmits the
documents with a watch. Vaughn finishes just before Lauren enters. Syd
disconnects her comm as they fool around.
The documents reveal a Rambaldi artifact known as the Hourglass, which
was auctioned to Masa Raidon, a yakuza keeping the arkwork in a building
in Little Tokyo. The manuscript says The Hourglass will reveal the
location of The Passenger only to her father. Sloane will be executed in
6 hours. The Justice Dept won't stay the execution.
Syd bluffs Jack into agreeing to turn over his info on The Trust and
exonerating Sloane. Jack then talks with Sloane, bringing champagne to
his cell to celebrate the knowledge of a daughter. Jack accuses him of
trying to take Syd away from him. He refuses to help Sloane and
threatens The Passenger.
Syd treads delicately in the Yakuza stronghold but when Marshall tells
her Dixon is at the execution, she kicks in to high gear. As Sloane
enters his execution chamber, Syd, double guns blazing, mows down the
guards and grabs The Hourglass. Sloane slowly dies as he receives a
combination of lethal injections.
Syd later turns her back on her father. Lauren, informing Olivia of
Sloane's death, admits that Vaughn played her. Jack, meanwhile, revives
Sloane. He had given him an antidote in the bottle of champagne. Jack
orchestrated, he tells Sloane, it because he needs him.
- Blood Ties (OAD 04/25/04)
Jack tells Syd that he saved Sloane because he had learned that DOJ
Director Marlon Bell was part of The Trust and wanted Sloane dead. Syd
tells Sloane that she didn't grieve for him.
Sloane reveals that he found a Rambaldi text that contained a formula
for an elixir that would allow The Passenger to channel a message from
Rambaldi. Sloane had sampled the elixir, which had no effect. Sloane
explains that if The Covenant finds her, it will expose her to a massive
dose of the elixir, thus killing her. He swears he just wants to protect
his child. When Syd asks how to find her, he smashes The Hourglass,
revealing a glowing green ball.
Dixon has Weiss tail Lauren and advises Vaughn to continue as her
devoted husband in order to garner info. Lauren, however, soon loses
Weiss. Ex agent Thomas Brill contacts Vaughn. He says Vaughn's father
was a Rambaldi follower who freed The Passenger, then a little girl,
from KGB custody and hid her. He died protecting her.
On a plane to Washington, D.C., Syd holds the green ball, a battery for
a Rambaldi artifact that can locate The Passenger. The Trust has a cold
storage vault in the Smithsonian secured by a five-key retinal system
corresponding to the five member of The Trust -- all government
officials. In D.C., Sloane makes himself known to Bell, who calls a
meeting with The Trust that Sloane crashes.
Sark kidnaps and tortures Vaughn, trying to get The Passenger's
location. Lauren appears and, apparently disturbed by Vaughn's
condition, helps him escape.
While Sloane gathers the retinal ID's from the Trust via a hidden
scanner, Syd enters Smithsonian posing as a dinosaur expert researching
a paper. She charms the curator into letting her gain access to a
restricted area, where she finds the vault. Jack sends the scans to Syd,
who uses them to open the vault. She grabs the artifact.
Later, Sloane drops the green ball into the artifact, which etches a
brain wave pattern on parchment. They use a DOD satellite network
capable of remote encephalography to locate The Passenger. She's in a
labor camp in Chechnya, under the alias of Talia Kozlov. Syd infiltrates
the Chechen camp and finds her sister in a catatonic state and strapped
to a bed.
Vaughn flags a trucker and uses his cell phone to call Dixon. Vaughn is
rightfully suspicious. The truck crashes after the trucker attacks him.
Sark and Lauren grab Vaughn again but Marshall witnesses it on a
surveillance tape. They begin to administer the dreaded Inferno Protocol
serum on Vaughn when Sark receives a mysterious phone call revealing the
location. Lauren increases the dosage in order to kill Vaughn and they
leave. Weiss, using Marhsall's info, finds Vaughn barely alive.
The woman wakes and she and Syd battle their way out. She tells Syd that
her name is Nadia and she's with SIDE, Argentine Intelligence. Syd
reveals that they're sisters. They meet up with Jack and Sloane and
retreat to a safe house. Nadia recognizes Sloane, who tells her that he
changed because he didn't want to meet his daughter and have her despise
him.
Sark and Lauren break into the safe house. During the gun battle, Sloane
and Nadia disappear. Jack and Syd realized that Sloane tipped The
Covenant to give himself the opportunity to escape with Nadia. They
can't relocate her by her brainwaves.
Dixon tells Syd that Vaughn shows evidence of psychological
conditioning, thanks to Lauren. Syd visits Vaughn in the hospital. He
says she must let The Passenger go and reveals the reason that Irina
killed his father. He relays a prophecy: The Passenger and The Chosen
One will battle and neither will survive. Syd is unmoved.
Sloane injects Nadia, strapped to a table, with the elixir. She
convulses.
- Legacy (OAD 05/02/04)
Sloane takes the notes that an entranced Nadia has written and pins them
to a board, where they form some kind of diagram. With Sloane's guard
down, Nadia stabs him with a hypodermic and destroys the Rambaldi
elixir, but he subdues her. He calls a contact to deliver more bottles
in exchange for $5 million. The contact then calls Sark.
The CIA intercepts the call between Sloane and the contact and learn
that the elixir is stored in an inactive Russian bunker called Novgorod
21 that was once the center of Soviet Rambaldi research. Syd suggests
they plant a tracking device on one of the vials.
Syd and Vaughn arrive at the bunker only to find it ransacked and the
elixir missing. Vaughn begins to retrieve and upload any available data
to Marshall. They find video files revealing Nadia Santos as a young
girl, recording messages while under a trance. Russian guards, led by
Katya Derevko, surprise them. She turns on the guards, however, and
tranquilizes them. She reveals herself to be Syd's aunt then orders them
to wear the guard uniforms. They run barrel through a checkpoint and
escape.
In St. Petersburg, Katya says Lauren and Sark took the elixir. She
reveals that the young Nadia was taken from that lab by Vaughn's father
before she could complete the message. Katya, working with SRV (Russian
Intelligence), says Irina gave birth to Nadia in a Russian prison after
she left Jack. Katya has been helping Irina to locate Nadia ever since
and is dismayed to hear that Sloane has her.
Sark and Lauren deliver the elixir to Sloane in exchange for a
partnership. Sloane reluctantly accepts, and administers a does to Nadia
to prove that she's The Passenger. Marshall, meanwhile, explains to Syd
that the fluid contains potentially toxic proteins that trigger a
muscular memory, forcing Nadia to relay the message. The memory is
genetically stored only in descendants of Rambaldi. They view an old
videotape wherein Dr. Jong Lee, aka Suit and Glasses, injects Nadia with
the elixir. Dixon reveals that Lee was in charge of conducting Russia's
Passenger experiments. He's now in a Cuban bio-weapons facility.
Jack warns Vaughn not to let his thirst for revenge against Lauren
endanger Sydney. He gives Vaughn a key to his well-armed security
facility -implicitly suggesting he kill Lauren.
While Jack and Katya track Sloane's bank withdrawals, he rebuffs her
advances. He notices that Sloane made a large payment to a Dayton
Electrical, a company that did electronics work in Chamonix. Jack makes
the connection and visits Toni Cummings in prison. When Jack agrees to
reduce her sentence, Cummings tells Jack that she drew up specs for a
system for Sloane but doesn't know where he built it.
In Cienfuegos, Cuba, Syd and Vaughn find Dr. Lee. He says Nadia drew
coordinates that would lead to Rambaldi. Vaughn tortures him by dripping
acid on his leg. Sydney is shocked and appalled.
Marshall works with Cummings to get a delivery nexus for parts to
Sloane's system. Cummings unsuccessfully tries to convince Marhsall to
work for her. Marshall finds that Sloane's sytem is in Japan. She says
she needs to travel there to determine which of the seven security
variables she'd given Sloane is being used.
In Sloane's Kyoto estate, Sark urges him to increase the dosage to
Nadia, who's building up a tolerance, even though it might kill her. He
refuses. Sark kills Sloane's guards and Lauren ups the dose. Just then,
Cummings hacks the security system and the CIA storms the compound.
Sloane escapes while Syd tends to Nadia. Vaughn chases fruitlessly after
Lauren and Sark, leaving Syd to dispatch Sloane's guards herself. Nadia
shoots a guard about to kill Syd. They recover the drawings and texts
and escape.
Dixon says Vaughn allowed Sloane to escape. Syd covers for Vaughn,
despite her anger. He says she got Nadia and that's what counts. Syd
says they can't work things out until he deals with his anger. Jack
visits Katya and plants a kiss on her. Vaughn goes to Jack's storage
facility and chooses a sniper rifle from the array of weapons.
- Resurrection (OAD 05/23/04)
Sydney strategically places cell phones throughout the office. She
patches into the CIA computer and downloads the Rambaldi equation. Then
she contacts Sark - Sydney is actually Lauren in disguise! She shoots
Marshall when he questions her. As she bolts, the cell phones explode.
Vaughn follows "Syd," but she knocks him out, then escapes by stealing a
car.
The real Syd is interrogated by Hank Foster, Counterintelligence Threat
Analysis. Believing she was somehow involved in the break-in, he
reassigns her to a desk job pending further investigation.
Vaughn tells Jack that he's prepared to exact revenge on Lauren. Jack
tells Dixon to have Vaughn question Sark, in order to increase the
psychological fear. Vaughn beats Sark bloody during the investigation.
Sark gives Lauren up.
Syd calls Vaughn, and intuits that Vaughn knows Lauren's location. She
asks Jack why the Sark interrogation is classified. He dodges the
question, saying that Vaughn should kill Lauren to gain closure. He says
that he regrets letting Irina go.
Vaughn spies on Lauren decrypting the equation in a warehouse. He
photographs the longitude and latitude, then surprises her and
administers a beating. About to disfigure her with hydrochloric acid,
Vaughn is stabbed from behind and collapses.
Sloane sneaks into a CIA safe house and begs Nadia to tell him the
location of The Sphere of Life - the vessel in which Rambaldi's
consciousness is stored. She's dubious. Before he leaves, he tells her
how to find him.
Syd and Jack wait for Vaughn in the hospital. Now Syd vows to kill
Lauren, whether Jack, who is alarmed at her transition, helps her or
not.
Lauren appears in the jail cell next to Sark. She forgives him for
giving her up. He tells her that the Rambaldi info is backed up on an
offsite server and gives her the password. It's not Lauren, but Syd -
who removes her mask! When she determines that the equation leads to
Palermo, Sicily, she leaves immediately. Vaughn tells Weiss that Katya
Derevko stabbed him and that Syd is walking into a trap. Vaughn uses
Weiss to create a diversion to escape the hospital.
Syd finds Katya in the Palermo site. She says she's tracking The
Covenant and that she knows Lauren is present. Katya tries to shoot Syd,
but Syd had secretly removed the cartridge from Katya's gun. Syd then
shoots Katya. Lauren arrives but Syd misses her shot and Lauren runs.
Nadia escapes the CIA safe house to meet Sloane, who tells her that the
Sphere may be compromised because The Covenant has solved the equation.
She says that she purposely altered the equation - The Covenant is
looking in the wrong place. She and Sloane venture off together to find
the Sphere.
Syd and Lauren fight. Lauren says that Syd still doesn't know the truth
about her life. Lauren is about to finish Syd off when Vaughn shoots
Lauren dead. Before she dies, Lauren tells Syd that the truth is in box
1062 in the Bank of Wittenberg. Syd and Vaughn kiss.
In Wittenberg, Syd opens the safe deposit box and finds top secret
documents. She cries as she peruses files documenting her life, each one
bearing Jack Bristow's signature. Jack enters and says she was never
supposed to have found these documents.
