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Season 4: Episode 9 - "A Man of
His Word"

Sloane
and Syd watch over the injured Nadia, who remains stable in a medically-induced
coma. Syd tells him that Anna has the bomb.

Sark is brought before Sloane, who asks
him to retrieve that bomb. According to Sark, Ushek Sanko, the leader of the CRF, will take
possession of the bomb from Anna Espinosa. Sark agrees to retrieve the bomb on the condition that he be allowed to view Lauren
Reed’s body - and that Vaughn opens the coffin.

Lauren’s body is stored in a CIA mortuary lest her death become public
knowledge. Vaughn opens the lid. Sark, studying her bullet wounds, deduces that
Vaughn killed her.

Sloane tells Syd that, according to Rambaldi, Nadia can’t die by Anna’s hand.
Anna sneaks into the hospital to assassinate Nadia, but Sloane secretly had her
moved to a different room. Syd gives chase but Anna escapes through a window,
using a firehose to break her fall.

Nadia is moved to the CIA sickbay. Sloane tells Jack to eliminate Anna. Marshall
observing the security camera tape of Karg’s confession to Nadia, sees Anna
observing from the shadows - which explains why she wants Nadia dead.

Vaughn and Syd take Sark to meet Sanko at a club in Venice. Syd impersonates
Lauren in order to accompany Sark. She kisses Sark (biting him on the lip) to
titillate Sanko. Before Sanko can reveal any info, Anna shoots and kills him.
Syd handcuffs Sark to a railing while she and Vaughn look for Anna, who frees Sark
and extracts the tracking device/explosive from his neck.

Over dinner, Anna tells Sark that she killed Sanko because he wouldn’t pay her
enough for the bomb. She wants to contact a buyer, Michele Gignon, an arms
dealer with whom Sark has a relationship, and suggests they form a partnership.

Jack makes the risky decision to inject Nadia with a counter-agent, waking her
from the coma. He gleans the necessary info from her and passes it to Syd. The
doctor recognizes the drug in Nadia’s system and tells Sloane.

When Sark and Anna meet Michele in Venice, Syd and Vaughn make their move.
Vaughn recovers the bomb. Sark turns on Anna, and leaves her to Syd. They have
another hand-to-hand showdown. This time, Syd slaps the cuffs on her,
pistol-whipping her for good measure. Sark, however, escapes.

An angry Sloane confronts Jack about forcibly waking Nadia from the coma. Jack
quotes Sloane, saying his orders were "to do what it takes." He also
refers to the prophecy, saying it wasn’t Nadia’s time. Nonetheless, Sloane says
that Jack should have told him that he put his daughter at risk. Jack says
Sloane puts Syd at risk every day. Their relationship appears severely damaged.

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Season 4: Episode 8 -
"Echoes"

Before the team meets, Nadia
gushes about Weiss to Syd while Weiss moons about Nadia to Vaughn. Sloane
recuses himself from the upcoming mission because it involves an operative that
he is not authorized to engage. He puts Jack in charge and leaves the briefing.
Jack says the target is Syd’s old nemesis Anna Espinoza, a former K-Directorate
Agent and Rambaldi follower, presumed to be dead. Intel indicates that Espinoza
is to receive something from an associate, Milos Sabine, in Brussels. While reviewing the files, Nadia
gets lightheaded and walks out. Syd, Dixon and Marshall are to observe the meeting and
bring her in if the opportunity exists.

At lunch
with Nadia, Syd talks about past encounters with Anna. Nadia says she saw
something awful when she was connected to Rambaldi last year — she had a
vision that she and Syd were aiming guns at each other. She pulled the trigger
and shot Syd, she says, who seemed to expect it.

Syd takes a call - it’s from Anna, who’s actually sitting behind Nadia. She
kidnaps Nadia and demands that Syd pose as her in Brussels for the meeting with Sabine.

In Brussels, Sabine says he wants to get his
money’s worth before he gives her the item. He tells Syd to kill Willem Karg,
who’s in a hotel bar, photograph the body as evidence and bring back his right
index finger. If she’s not back in 40 minutes, she won’t get the package.

Syd poses as a prostitute and lures Karg to go up to his room - where Vaughn
and Dixon wait. They cut off his finger to save his life. She presents it to
Sabine; he gives her the "last remaining sample."

Anna has her thug Mr. Turner brand Nadia with the Rambaldi symbol.

Marshall identifies the
sample as the Dante Compound, a rare putty that when mixed with V/X gas and
other nerve agents, mutates them. Marshall believes Anna works for the Cadmus
Revolutionary Front, an offshoot of the Covenant. They’ve been trying to
acquire the compound for a year to make a chemical bomb. He suggests they talk
to Sark.

Sydney doesn’t
think they should follow through on a plan to give Anna a replica of the Dante
Compound because she may kill Nadia. Sloane says Anna won’t kill Nadia - he
says it’s not her destiny. Syd realizes that this is about Rambaldi. Jack
agrees that Syd should meet with Anna.

Anna and Sydney meet in a Beverly Hills boutique. Syd gives her the
compound. Anna gives Syd a remote car key and tells her to go to the 4th floor
of a parking structure across the street. Anna threatens Syd, who starts a
knock-down, drag-out brawl that ends in a virtual stalemate. Realizing that
they’re getting nowhere, they make the exchange. Syd finds Nadia locked in a
car trunk.

Vaughn visits Sark in the federal pen. Sark asks if he killed Lauren because of
espionage or infidelity. Vaughn hits him and asks why the CRF has made repeated
attempts to contact him. When Sark goes silent, Vaughn has him shipped to Alder Penitentiary,
where he is to spend all his days in dark solitary confinement.
Syd returns with Nadia. The surgeon says they can fix the brand. Nadia relates
that Anna says that she and Syd will be torn apart. Syd explains that according
to their mother, the outermarkings of the Rambaldi symbol are her two
daughters, the center is the object over which they’ll do grave battle with
each other. Only one of the daughters will survive. Syd says some of these
predictions have come true, but that she doesn’t believe in it. The people who
do, she says, are dangerous.

Jack injects Sark with a tracking device (and explosive) while he sleeps in
prison. As Sark is transferred, the vehicle is attacked. - it’s a set-up. A man
helps Sark escape.

Syd hears chatter about a meeting between the CRF and an administrator of a
Russian chemical facility named Vorich. Syd thinks Anna may be there. Jack
tells her to take Nadia for surveillance only. If Vorich is there, he may have
a sample of V/X. Sloane is afraid that if Syd and Nadia go on the mission
together and Anna has her way, only one will return. Marshall tracks Sark to
Johannesburg.

In Johannesburg, the team raids what they think is CRF headquarters, only to
find Sark in an empty room guzzling champagne. He agrees to locate CRF
leadership in return for something.

In Estonia, Nadia and Syd find Vorich, who’s quickly killed by Anna. Nadia
battles Mr. Turner as Syd chases Anna. Turner falls on his knife, Nadia twists
it until he reveals in his dying breath why the CRF is assembling the bomb. Syd
thinks she’s cornered Anna, but it turns out to be Nadia. Anna then shoots
Nadia in the back. She falls as the life ebbs from her.

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Season 4: Episode 8 -
"Echoes"

Before the team meets, Nadia
gushes about Weiss to Syd while Weiss moons about Nadia to Vaughn. Sloane
recuses himself from the upcoming mission because it involves an operative that
he is not authorized to engage. He puts Jack in charge and leaves the briefing.
Jack says the target is Syd’s old nemesis Anna Espinoza, a former K-Directorate
Agent and Rambaldi follower, presumed to be dead. Intel indicates that Espinoza
is to receive something from an associate, Milos Sabine, in Brussels. While reviewing the files, Nadia
gets lightheaded and walks out. Syd, Dixon and Marshall are to observe the meeting and
bring her in if the opportunity exists.

At lunch
with Nadia, Syd talks about past encounters with Anna. Nadia says she saw
something awful when she was connected to Rambaldi last year — she had a
vision that she and Syd were aiming guns at each other. She pulled the trigger
and shot Syd, she says, who seemed to expect it.

Syd takes a call - it’s from Anna, who’s actually sitting behind Nadia. She
kidnaps Nadia and demands that Syd pose as her in Brussels for the meeting with Sabine.

In Brussels, Sabine says he wants to get his
money’s worth before he gives her the item. He tells Syd to kill Willem Karg,
who’s in a hotel bar, photograph the body as evidence and bring back his right
index finger. If she’s not back in 40 minutes, she won’t get the package.

Syd poses as a prostitute and lures Karg to go up to his room - where Vaughn
and Dixon wait. They cut off his finger to save his life. She presents it to
Sabine; he gives her the "last remaining sample."

Anna has her thug Mr. Turner brand Nadia with the Rambaldi symbol.

Marshall identifies the
sample as the Dante Compound, a rare putty that when mixed with V/X gas and
other nerve agents, mutates them. Marshall believes Anna works for the Cadmus
Revolutionary Front, an offshoot of the Covenant. They’ve been trying to
acquire the compound for a year to make a chemical bomb. He suggests they talk
to Sark.

Sydney doesn’t
think they should follow through on a plan to give Anna a replica of the Dante
Compound because she may kill Nadia. Sloane says Anna won’t kill Nadia - he
says it’s not her destiny. Syd realizes that this is about Rambaldi. Jack
agrees that Syd should meet with Anna.

Anna and Sydney meet in a Beverly Hills boutique. Syd gives her the
compound. Anna gives Syd a remote car key and tells her to go to the 4th floor
of a parking structure across the street. Anna threatens Syd, who starts a
knock-down, drag-out brawl that ends in a virtual stalemate. Realizing that
they’re getting nowhere, they make the exchange. Syd finds Nadia locked in a
car trunk.

Vaughn visits Sark in the federal pen. Sark asks if he killed Lauren because of
espionage or infidelity. Vaughn hits him and asks why the CRF has made repeated
attempts to contact him. When Sark goes silent, Vaughn has him shipped to Alder Penitentiary,
where he is to spend all his days in dark solitary confinement.
Syd returns with Nadia. The surgeon says they can fix the brand. Nadia relates
that Anna says that she and Syd will be torn apart. Syd explains that according
to their mother, the outermarkings of the Rambaldi symbol are her two
daughters, the center is the object over which they’ll do grave battle with
each other. Only one of the daughters will survive. Syd says some of these
predictions have come true, but that she doesn’t believe in it. The people who
do, she says, are dangerous.

Jack injects Sark with a tracking device (and explosive) while he sleeps in
prison. As Sark is transferred, the vehicle is attacked. - it’s a set-up. A man
helps Sark escape.

Syd hears chatter about a meeting between the CRF and an administrator of a
Russian chemical facility named Vorich. Syd thinks Anna may be there. Jack
tells her to take Nadia for surveillance only. If Vorich is there, he may have
a sample of V/X. Sloane is afraid that if Syd and Nadia go on the mission
together and Anna has her way, only one will return. Marshall tracks Sark to
Johannesburg.

In Johannesburg, the team raids what they think is CRF headquarters, only to
find Sark in an empty room guzzling champagne. He agrees to locate CRF
leadership in return for something.

In Estonia, Nadia and Syd find Vorich, who’s quickly killed by Anna. Nadia
battles Mr. Turner as Syd chases Anna. Turner falls on his knife, Nadia twists
it until he reveals in his dying breath why the CRF is assembling the bomb. Syd
thinks she’s cornered Anna, but it turns out to be Nadia. Anna then shoots
Nadia in the back. She falls as the life ebbs from her.

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Season 4: Episode 7 -
"Detente"

In Irkutsk, Vaughn learns from a contact that Russia has produced
a breakthrough explosive called Black Thorine. The contact suspects his
superior stole it and sold it, and gives Vaughn the man’s bank account number.
Soldiers arrive and shoot the man, Vaughn escapes with Syd’s assistance.

Syd arrives home to find Sloane visiting Nadia. Despite Nadia’s objection, Syd
kicks him out, saying he can’t be trusted. She only took the APO job to watch
him. Nadia realizes Syd hasn’t reconciled the past.

At APO, Sloane says that money was deposited into the
account by Boris Tambor, an oil magnate who moonlights as an arms dealer. He’s
currently in Monte Carlo. Jack says he sits at a high stakes poker table every
night at 9. Their mission is to get into his suite, find out where he keeps the
black Thorine and how he plans to move it.

Syd confides to Dixon that she may
not be able to work with Sloane. Dixon says he dreams of his dead wife Diane
every night; she tells him to do the right thing. That’s how he makes peace
with Sloane — he doesn’t ignore the past, but he makes the right decision
today.

As they shoot targets at a firing range, Syd tells Nadia that she needed to
know her mother and so understands Nadia’s desire to know Sloane.

In Monte Carlo, Syd inserts a micro
camera into the suite and gets a visual on Tambor, who’s watching a soccer
match - not going to the gaming table. Nadia and Syd notice perfume, a purse,
magazines. They realize he’s got a girlfriend. Deducing that the woman is
bored, pissed off because she’s being ignored and sitting in the bar, they see
their opening.

Dressed up to party, Nadia
and Syd identify the girlfriend from her perfume. They befriend the woman and
she takes them up to the room, past security. Syd clones his PDA hard drive
while Nadia chats up Tambor.

In LA, Sloane is angry at them for taking risks. Syd gets indignant at what he
deems "unacceptable." Everywhere she looks, she says, she’s reminded
of Francie and Danny. Marshall has broken the hard drive’s encryption and finds
out that Tambor will sell the vial on his yacht, Argento, which is sailing in
Turkish waters in the Black Sea. It’s stored in a safe
within a safe in a cabin below deck. Marshall gives Syd a
device that will allow her to read the safe’s combination through his clothes.

Jack lobbies for Sloane to allow Syd and Nadia to work together again. They
swim to the yacht and sneak on board. Syd uses the combination reader while
Tambor makes the deal. Sloane recognizes the buyer as Leo Orissa, the head of a
Russian crime syndicate. Nadia opens the safe - revealing eight canisters of
Black Thorine.

Orissa ambushes Tambor, whose girlfriend turns on him. Tambor is killed as Syd
and Nadia escape to the water. Sloane tells Syd she has to trust him and
advises her to go back on board. Confronting Orissa, Syd says she works for
Arvin Sloane, which sends fear into the man. Syd catalogues Sloane’s depravity.
Orissa offers up the location of the lab. Meanwhile, Nadia disposes of Orissa’s
thugs. The lab, Orissa says, is in the Ukraine. Tambor’s girlfriend shoots Orissa
and fights Syd. With an assist from Nadia, Syd kills her.

Nadia tells Syd she’s always been alone. Now she’s glad to work on a team.
Sloane assumes Syd wants a transfer. Syd says she will never forgive him.
"I’ll see you tomorrow," she says.

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Season 4: Episode 6 -
"Nocturne"

A woman teaching English to foreign students believes she’s being watched.
Convinced she can’t escape, she draws a gun and kills herself.

Syd and Vaughn, playing hockey when they get the call, report to Sloane. He
explains that when Nancy Cahill, an undercover narcotics agent, shot herself,
her last words were "Tell them it’s funny." Cahill’s husband Jason,
also an agent, has gone off the grid. Syd and Jack are to search the Cahill’s
Amsterdam apartment for clues.

In the apartment, Syd
unlocks a crawlspace door and follows a passage to a room plastered with
disturbing drawings. She’s suddenly attacked and bitten in the throat by a
feral Jason. Jack shoots him dead.

As Syd undergoes a battery of tests, the doctor says the Cahills came in
contact with a drug that caused an acute melatonin imbalance, which incited
their acts of extreme violence. Syd’s diagnostics indicate that she’s fine.

Sloane says Langley wants to find the drug, who manufactured it and what it’s
used for. Marshall traces the calls Nancy made and begins reconstructing erased
files on her laptop. Weiss says Jason was trying to determine what he was
infected with, even after Nancy locked him in the closet.

Syd can’t sleep and begins hallucinating. Her temperature reads 111.

Jason’s files indicate he had a meeting scheduled in Bucharest with "The
Count," a drug supplier. Syd mission is to pose as a Cahill associate and
meet The Count. Dixon tells Sloane it’s a mistake to send Syd out so soon.
Sloane harshly reprimands him.

In Bucharest Syd has a
recurring hallucination of a spider. Marshall calls Jack to say the drug’s
incubation period is a few days, like a virus, and permanently alters brain
chemistry. Jack tells Vaughn that they should have her in sight at all times.
At the meeting, Syd imagines Vaughn kissing someone. They take The Count into
custody, and admits he recently delivered samples of a drug called
"Nocturne" to Jason. Once the delusions begin, there’s no stopping
it. Syd, increasingly off-kilter, imagines Sloane threatening her. Syd chokes
The Count, who offers that the drug came from Prague and was an old sample
meant to be destroyed.

Nadia finds a group called
Grappig, which means "Tell them it’s funny" - an affiliation of
biochemical scientists in Prague led by Dr. Letuza. Nancy had found out where it came from but
was too far gone. Vaughn says Letuza may have developed a remedy if he knew he
made a bad batch. In Prague, Vaughn searches for
Letuza’s files. Syd grows fearful that Jack will kill her. She asks to be tied
up and Jack obliges. She imagines Jack comparing her to Irina. Syd head butts
him, takes his knife and cuts herself loose.

Vaughn finds vials of antidote and returns to see Syd crying over an immobile
Jack. She says she killed him, but it’s a trap. She has a gun, forces him to
his knees. She says their relationship is a cruel joke at her expense and that
she’s scared she will betray him again. She fires but the gun has no bullets.
They fight. She beats him with a pipe. Jack wakes and subdues Syd with a
sleeper hold. Jack had taken the bullets out! Vaughn administers the antidote.

In LA, Sloane says Interpol has raided Letuza’s office and eradicated the
Nocturne threat. Sloane admits to Dixon that sending Sydney was a tactical error.
An angry and humiliated Dixon says he never saw the nature of SD-6 because his
only failure was that of imagination — he never imagined a person as
thoroughly toxic as Sloane could exist. When Sloane’s true motive reveals
itself, Dixon promises to be there.

Syd and Vaughn kiss in her hospital room. She sees a spider on her bed. Vaughn
brushes it away and says spiders are good luck.

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Season 4: Episode 5 -
"Welcome to Liberty Village"

A
Russian-speaking man steals a device from an armored truck. He goes home to a
suburban neighborhood and greets his loving wife in English.

At APO, Sloane says the stolen object was
an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse weapon. Marshall says it can destroy any electronic
equipment in a 10 mile radius and has a repeatable core. The thief, Yuri
Karylko, has ties to October Contingent. In related news, German authorities
have arrested a Chechen couple, the Tabakovs, who said the October Contingent
had made overtures to them. Syd and Vaughn are to pose as the Tabakovs to
infiltrate the Contingent, identify their mission and retrieve the EMP.
Marshall gives Syd a wristwatch that can send their GPS coordinates and is
capable of short burst transmissions. Sloane, meanwhile, tells Jack to contact
Alexi Vaselyvich.

In Moscow,
Karylko gives Syd and Vaughn new identities — they are to be known as David
and Karen Parker - and takes them to Liberty
Village. Marshall tracks their
journey to Training Sector 56B, a former Russian military base that now
resembles a suburban American neighborhood. Syd and Vaughn arrive at the
neighborhood. They are taken to their new home and introduced to the neighborhood.

Karylko, going under the name Tom, says Syd and Vaughn will be tested to see if
they can portray Americans convincingly. Marshall
picks up Syd’s transmission and identifies the "neighbors" as
assorted terrorists. Sloane wonders why the Contingent is dealing with
terrorists and why they’re in a government training ground.

Ironically, Tom tells Syd and Vaughn that they seem a little cold. He gives
them a gun. While Syd goes jogging, Vaughn practices assembling the gun. Syd
runs into Tom, who tells her that the neighborhood is heavily guarded.

Jack meets Alexi and asks if the Russians still run the old base. Alexi
bargains with Jack, expecting something in return for extracting Syd.

Tom gives Syd and Vaughn
wedding rings so they look more like a couple. He takes them to a car
dealership, their mission is to buy a convertible. The dealer sees the ring,
asks how he popped the question. Vaughn spins a tale that moves Syd. The dealer
says another couple is also interested in the car. The winning couple gets to
move on in the program, he says. The losing couple dies. He gives them a gun to
assemble, both couples race to assemble it.

Jack opens a book from Irina’s collection of 1st editions. The NSA had cracked
the orders the KGB encoded in the books. He tells Marshall
that the NSA missed something and puts him to work on it.

The couples
shoot it out in the car dealership. In the melee, Vaughn loses the gun. Syd
picks it up and kills the woman. She then jumps in the car and runs down the
man. Later, Syd notices that the watch is broken. She and Vaughn kiss in the
shower.

Marshall finds the code in the ink
of a period within an ellipsis. After magnifying it, he sees that it contains a
protocol related to one of Irina’s operatives, codename Sentinel. Jack says
Sentinel is a dead end, a deceased agent. Jack gives the book to Alexi, who
says he hasn’t heard from Irina a long time. He also says he has an aircraft
waiting to extract Syd and Vaughn.

Tom prepares to send Syd and Vaughn to Chicago,
where they are to gain access to the servers of Pierce Financial. Tom’s plan is
for a "redistribution of wealth" after an attack on the U.S.

Marshall receives word that the
Germans have moved the Tabakovs to a maximum security prison - and assumes the
Russians have been informed also.

Tom shows Syd how to use the EMP. He then receives a call from his wife.
Knowing her cover is blown, Syd knocks him over the head with a vase and they
fight. In another room, Vaughn battles another thug. Syd and Vaughn escape
outside where a helicopter has them pinned. Syd triggers the EMP and the
chopper falls from the sky.

Afterward, Sloane thanks Syd and Vaughn. He says Russian authorities deny an
American training ground ever existed in their borders but off the record
they’ve expressed gratitude for APO’s assistance in
taking down the October Contingent. Privately, Jack says his suspicions
regarding Sentinel are accurate, and the Russians are searching for Irina
Derevko. Sloane says they’ll have to move up their timetable. Syd and Vaughn
canoodle on the plane home.

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Season 4: Episode 4- "Ice"

With Vaughn and Dixon covering, Syd tries to buy a
bio-weapon called Ice 5 from an American at a foreign bazaar. When thugs
disrupt the deal, Syd bolts with the man. As they’re running, his leg snaps
off. He’s then shot - and literally explodes.

Marshall later determines that the biological
agent, which the man had swallowed, actually "freeze-dried" him,
crystallized him from the inside. He worked as a relief worker in a Montenegro hospital run by Fenton Keene, who secretly developed
Ice 5. Sloane wants the team to obtain a viable sample of Ice 5.

At Syd’s home, Nadia finds a
photo of Irina holding a baby. Nadia asks Sloane who the baby in the picture
is. He dodges the question.

Syd visits the hospital as a representative of Omnifam and does the grunt work,
while Weiss and Nadia put together a list of potential buyers. A patient comes
in showing symptoms of Ice 5 infection but the nurse, Kyra MacLane, says he was
in a car accident and won’t let Syd help treat him.

Vaughn, disguised as a priest with a black eye, flirts with MacLane and
convinces her to make confession. Fenton appears, tells Vaughn that he’s her
brother and asks to see the man in the car accident. Meanwhile, Syd swipes
MacLane’s card key and passes it to Dixon, who makes a copy and gives it to Syd.

Syd searches the lab and
finds 14 tanks of Ice 5. To her horror, she spies Fenton testing it on human
subjects. Weiss reports that they found a buyer in Damascus. They find MacLane is really Fenton’s sister,
and that they’re both former IRA. Vaughn feels she can be turned and approaches
her during confession.

When they meet, MacLane says her brother has done awful things. With Syd
listening in, Vaughn tells MacLane that he’s haunted by thoughts of his former
wife, whom he killed after she betrayed him. MacLane realizes Vaughn is
government. He tells her that he can protect her from her brother should she
turn on him.

MacLane takes Vaughn to the lab, where Fenton clobbers him. He’s forces MacLane
to inject Ice 5 into Vaughn’s eye. Syd enters and rescues Vaughn. During the
fight, Fenton stabs his sister by accident. She dies in Vaughn’s arms, but
forgives him before passing.

Jack asks Nadia for the photograph. He said Irina told her she was holding her
niece. The next day, he recalls, he proposed. He says he chooses to believe
it’s true, but says that everyone needs to find our own sense of closure.

On the return flight, Syd, sensing a disconnect, tells Vaughn he can talk to
her whenever he wants.

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