Archive for July, 2005

Alias- episode guide S:4 E:3

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Season 4: Episode 3- "The Awful
Truth"

In Nassau, the Bahamas, Syd and Marshall arrive incognito at a bank under the
pretense of creating an account while Vaughn and Dixon
create a diversion. When the manager leaves
momentarily, Syd and Marshall access an account.

Back in LA, Weiss and Nadia - who’s now living with Syd - hit it off at a party
Syd hosts. Jack crashes the party, says her
Bahamas mission paid off, they have info on
Bishop, owner of the account, and Valta. He wants to know if she told Nadia that
he killed Irinia. Syd hasn’t but thinks it best if she does.

Sloane says Valta, a computer that will revolutionize info gathering from
satellite networks, was stolen from the NSA headquarters 10 days prior by
Martin Bishop, who will be deliver it to a German terrorist group. Bishop, a
British ex-pat living in Spain
,awaits final payment before delivering Valta.
The team must recover or destroy the computer.

They determine that Valta’s whereabouts are stored on a powerful server on
Bishop’s estate in Andalusia,
Spain
, and they can only hack into it from
the inside. Once in Spain
, the team
sets a trap for Bishop using Syd as bait - she portrays a mysterious woman
caught in an overturned car. Bishop rescues her and invites him to her home. He
tells her not to wander the grounds.

Jack administers a psych test to Nadia. He tells Sloane that he’s learned
enough to deal with the problem.

With Vaughn monitoring the
situation, Syd sneaks away and finds the server in the basement. She determines
that Valta is located at Malaga
’s Alameda Yards in container C0717.
Bishop’s suspicion is raised when he runs into Syd as she returns to her room.
Sloane sends a team to Malaga to find Valta and tells Jack
that Syd may be in trouble.

At Alameda Yards, a CIA team
destroys Valta, but Weiss is captured. Bishop is informed of the raid and
learns that someone accessed his server. An alarmed Syd signals for help, and
Vaughn and Dixon
go in only to find the house empty. Marshall tracks Bishop by his cell phone signal.

Jack tells
Nadia he doesn’t blame her for Irina’s infidelity and hands her classified
documents before they are dispatched to Spain
,where they liaison with Vaughn. Bishop holds
both Weiss and Syd captive. Bishop hopes to offer them up to the terrorist group
as a replacement for the computer. Syd breaks free of the ropes and beats the
guard — Weiss now realizes she’s black ops. They go after Bishop. Vaughn meets
up with Weiss. Syd trails Bishop, jumps on top of his car and shoots him
through the roof. He slams the breaks and she tumbles off. He’s about to shoot
her when he is killed by Nadia, who pumps a few extra rounds into him. She says
he was the one who killed Irina, their mother - Jack lied to her!

Later, Jack admits to Syd
that he adjusted details in the documents to manipulate Nadia and give her
closure. He says a satisfying lie can do more good than the awful truth.

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Alias-episode guide S:4 E:2

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Season 4: Episode 2-
"Authorized Personnel Only, Part 2"

Sloane plans
for Syd to talk to Nadia about Vadik, whom she once tracked. Sloane says that
Nadia quit the intelligence business and returned to Argentina after they found a Rambaldi
artifact and handed it over to the US
government. In Argentina, Nadia tells Syd that she
won’t return but that Vadik’s right hand is Tomazaki.

At home, Syd tells Vaughn about Wittenburg — she learned that day that her
father had killed her mother, Irina Derevko.

Tomazaki has disappeared. They learn that five years ago he unsuccessfully
tried to steal the Shintaro sword from a London museum. Sloane suggests they steal
the sword as bait. At
Dixon’s suggestion, they enlist Marshall. In the museum, Syd triggers the
alarms but manages to steal the sword and, with Jack’s help, escapes the
police.

Later Jack tells Sloane that he didn’t tell Syd everything in Wittenburg.

Dixon arranges to sell the Shintaro sword to Tomazaki
in Rio de Janiero. Tomazaki’s jailed thug tells Jack that Vadik is Tomazaki. At
the agreed meeting, Tomazaki kidnaps Syd. Vaughn asks Nadia for help. Tomazaki
asks a perplexed Syd how she found out about the hit. He tortures her. He says
he was supposed to assassinate her but the day before the hit, his client was
killed.
 


Nadia steals a key card from a Tomazaki associate and saves
Sydney from drowning during the water
torture. Tomazaki knocks her out. He attacks Syd with the sword but she runs
him through. Before he dies, he says that Irina Derevko hired him to kill her.

Sloane announces that Nadia has joined APO. Syd tells Jack that Tomazaki had
the contract. He doesn’t know why Irina wanted Syd dead. Vaughn comforts a
shaken Syd.

Nadia and Syd travel to Moscow, where Syd had Irina interred. Syd
tells Nadia she has no idea who killed her. Nadia swears that she’ll kill
whoever murdered their mother.

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Alias-episode guide S:4 E:1

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Season 4: Episode 1- "Authorized
Personnel Only, Part 1"

Sydney, on a train, in lingerie, flirts
with a man to get into his … briefcase. He unlocks it, revealing a canister
containing an unstable isotope. She knocks him out and takes it, runs into the
corridor. A thug follows and is about to push her off the train…

Shanghai: 72 hours earlier …

Sydney, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit,
escapes with a contact into a club’s bathroom. It’s a mission gone bad, a
fellow agent is killed, and in order to escape she makes her contact dress like
a goth.

In LA, Syd is berated for
violating protocol by Director Chase and stripped of her classified clearance. Sydney
then quits the CIA. In Washington, Vaughn and Weiss talk about his
meltdown after discovering Lauren’s treachery. Vaughn says he’s quitting.

Sydney walks down a subway, opens a secret
doorway and enters an office. Director Chase is there and welcomes her. She
explains Langley
approved this black ops division only months ago. Dixon, Jack, Vaughn are all there — a
team handpicked by Sloane. Chase privately tells Syd that they need Sloane’s
contacts — and the team is a safeguard against Sloane’s potential treachery.

Sloane explains that their
covert unit is like the CIA’s own SD-6, called APO
– Authorized Personnel Only. Their
first mission targets a Russian scientist named Yuri Kamarov, who wants to sell
an isotope to an unknown buyer on a Belorussian train. Vaughn will act as the
buyer while Syd grabs the isotope. She’s openly disdainful toward Sloane.

On the train, Syd barges in
to Kamarov’s room claiming that it’s her room. Vaughn poses as Kamarov and
meets the buyer, who works for a Mr. Vadik, while Sydney
occupies the real scientist. The
buyer recognizes Vaughn and puts a thug on him as he leaves. Vaughn signals
Syd, who swipes the isotope. Vaughn beats the thug and races to save Syd. He
throws her assailant off the train. They make love. After, he asks Syd what
happened at Wittenburg. Syd flashes back — she’s reading a top-secret document
as Jack enters.

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