Fisico

Season 4:
Episode 15 - "Pandora"

Dixon is shot by a masked gunman.
The shooter approaches and takes off his mask, revealing … Vaughn.

Two days earlier, Vaughn meets a man named Roberts in a Paris cafe. Vaughn tells him that Roberts’
employer will only get the transformer coil if they give more information about
Bill Vaughn first. Roberts calls his employer and has him speak to Vaughn. The
voice says that since Vaughn didn’t follow their agreement, he must first
complete an assignment. As instructed, Vaughn reaches under their table and
opens an envelope containing surveillance pictures of Bill Vaughn, who, the
voice confirms, is very much alive.

At a federal prison, Nadia visits Katya Derevko, who fondly recalls her
childhood with Irina. Nadia refuses to talk about Syd, although Katya
desperately wants to see her.

Concerned about Jack’s exposure to radiation in the last mission, Marshall
secretly uses the oil from Jack’s fingerprints to create a sample that he sends
to forensics for analysis. Later, Marshall learns that the results show a
large-scale genetic mutation. He begs Jack to see a doctor.

Vaughn meets with a group of freelancers hired for the assignment. Roberts
announces that they must steal a valuable item from an armored van - but first,
they need a cold laser stored in a private hospital at Bordeaux. Vaughn and a
team member infiltrate the hospital, first disguised as a couple needing
medical attention, then as a doctor and a nurse. They successfully steal the
laser.

After Nadia confesses to Sydney that she’s been visiting Katya to learn more
about Irina, Syd warns Nadia and reveals that Irina had hired an assassin to
kill her. An angry Syd storms off to see Katya in the hospital.

Syd tells Katya to stay away from Nadia. Katya says that she would never harm
Syd, nor would Irina. Before her death, Katya says, Irina believed that someone
was setting her up to make it appear that she was trying to have Sydney killed.
Katya gives Syd a lead.

Roberts
briefs his team about their assignment: stealing a Rimbaldi manuscript from a
CIA convoy. An angry Vaughn confronts Roberts, declaring that he can’t betray
his agency, and that if he did this, he can’t go back. Roberts responds by
saying "like father like son," and that his father was a bad guy
himself.

Following Katya’s suggestion, Syd goes to a repair shop and brings home a music
box. Syd realizes that the box’s flashing lights project a set of numbers,
which Sydney researches in the CIA files. It leads to bank records containing
payments to Syd’s would-be assassin - whose source has the name "A.
Sloane." Since it exonerates Irina, Syd shares this with Katya.

Vaughn and his partner infiltrate an armored van in the CIA convoy by burning a
hole through the floor. Using the cold laser, they bypass security and secure
the artifact. Vaughn runs out with his partner - but Dixon, who is part of the
CIA convoy, chases them through a tunnel. Vaughn’s partner shoots Dixon and
Dixon fires back. Instinctively, Vaughn shoots Dixon. As Dixon slumps to the
ground, Vaughn peels off his mask, realizing what he’s done.

Vaughn meets Roberts at a warehouse and beats him silly. He demands the truth.
Roberts admits that Bill Vaughn is dead, and that the journals and pictures
were a set up. He says that he works for Sloane.

Vaughn arrives at Syd’s apartment and they embrace. Vaughn says his father had
been dead all along, and that he realized that the father he knew would never
have walked away from the people he loved. Vaughn tells Sydney that Sloane was
behind this.

In Santiago, Chile, a frustrated agent reports to his boss that Roberts failed
and the manuscript has not been recovered - he calls his boss "Mr.
Sloane." This Sloane, who resembles Arvin Sloane, tells him that
everything should proceed as planned.

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Season 4: Episode 14 -
"Nightingale"

Vaughn wakes up from a nightmare. Troubled, he tells Sydney that they should stop
pursuing his father’s past. Syd insists that they continue.

In a Siberian nuclear facility, two men lock an unconscious prisoner into a
test chamber, while a scientist observes behind glass. When the prisoner wakes
up, he realizes that he’s the subject of a gruesome experiment. His flesh melts
and he dies screaming.

Jack agrees to Syd’s request for clearance on files relating to Vaughn’s
father. Starting with one word - Nightingale - from Bill Vaughn’s journal, Syd
discovers its connection to Dr. Josef Vlachko. She also finds that he’s
currently working with Hans Dietrich, a money launderer involved in weapons
sales who funneled over a million euros to an account labeled Nightingale. Syd
presses on with the search.

A wary Sloane asks Jack how much Sydney and Vaughn know about Project
Nightingale. Jack suggests that they tacitly let the pair continue the search.

In a rogue operation, Syd and Vaughn go to Dietrich’s beer hall in Munich.
Dressed as a beer maid, Sydney
charms Dietrich. Then they go back to his private office where she beats him
and rips out the hard drive from his computer. As guards arrive, Syd and Vaughn
fight their way out.

Back in Los Angeles,
Vaughn secretly meets with a mysterious man named Roberts, who knows about
their "trip" to Munich.
Roberts says he’ll give Vaughn info about his father in exchange for the
transformer coil from Project Nightingale. Vaughn agrees, though he doesn’t yet
know what Nightingale is. Before he leaves, Roberts gives him his contact
information and the name "Philip Burke" as a lead.

Jack invites Sydney
out for dinner to learn more about their acquired intel. Sydney
says that Vlachko is running Project Nightingale in an abandoned nuclear plant
and using humans as test subjects for experiments. Jack tries to convince Sydney
to bring this intel to APO.

Sloane
tells Jack that due to Vlachko’s ties with Elena Derevko, he needs to send a strike
team to Siberia. Jack says they should wait for Sydney to willfully bring this to APO. Once she does, Jack will join the
mission so he can interrogate Vlachko without Syd and Vaughn’s knowledge.
Sloane advises Jack to eliminate Vlachko because he can alert Elena about their
agenda-or worse, talk to Sydney.

Vaughn tells Sydney about Philip Burke: he was killed
the same day that Bill Vaughn was supposedly killed, and his dental records are
identical to Bill Vaughn’s. Vaughn also says that he met with Roberts, who
wants the transformer coil. Syd suggests they bring this operation to APO, then acquire the coil through a
rogue countermission. After they report to APO, Jack says that he’ll join them in
the retrieval of the transformer coil.

After infiltrating the Siberian nuclear facility, Jack shuts down security
while Vaughn and Sydney run toward the test chamber. Sydney enters the chamber to retrieve the
coil inside the nuclear reactor’s containment shield. A guard arrives and
shoots at Vaughn, destroying the control panel in the process. Syd is trapped
inside as the nuclear reactor starts counting down. After Vaughn’s failed
attempts to stop the reactor, Marshall says another way to stop this is
through the removal of fuel rods from the core.

Meanwhile, Jack finds and interrogates Vlachko. Upon hearing that Sydney’s life is in danger, Jack shoots
Vlahcko and heads toward the nuclear core to remove the fuel rods. Marshall advises Jack against this as he
tries his best to bypass the system.

Suddenly, the nuclear reactor shuts down. Syd walks out the chamber and hands
the coil to Vaughn. After they kiss, Vaughn punches Sydney and runs away with the coil as Syd
watches him go. Sydney then goes to Jack and tells him that
Vaughn took the coil from her.

Jack and Sloane discuss Sydney and Vaughn’s deceit. Later, Marshall realizes that Jack shut down the
reactor himself. Jack tells Marshall that his daughter’s life depended on
it and demands that his actions remain a secret.

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Season 4:
Episode 13 - "Tuesday"

At an upscale nightclub in Havana, Cuba, Sydney invites a man to dance. It’s her
informant, and he tells her that the Third Faction is planning a large-scale
attack on a civilian target. He also tells Sydney where a hard drive containing more
information could be found, which Dixon soon retrieves. They’re
being watched, however.

As Syd travels to the airport, Vaughn, over the phone, promises her a slow
dance. Suddenly, attackers shoot Syd’s driver and the car crashes.

Dixon arrives at APO with the hard drive. Since Marshall is late, another agent is tasked
with the decryption. When the drive is plugged in it sprays a toxin in the
office, causing Dixon to go into a seizure. He’s
given an antidote and the office is locked down.

As Marshall arrives in the parking lot, he
phones Sloane to tell him that the firewall networks are still secure. Sloane
asks Marshall to stay on the line as they contact Sydney.

The ringing phone wakes Syd. To her horror, she realizes she’s been buried alive,
the dead informant beside her. Jack advises her to stay calm — but that help
won’t be coming for the next 36 hours while the office is locked down. Marshall volunteers to go to Cuba and track Sydney’s cell phone with a Radio Frequency
locator.

While Dixon recuperates, Sloane tells the rest of the team that the
Third Faction has enough toxin to infect an entire city. Despite their
predicament, they must still discover the target city and prevent the
Cyclosarin bomb from detonating.

Marshall arrives in Havana and creates his makeshift RF
Locator. Sydney takes a photo of the dead informant and sends it through
her phone to APO. Using the picture, the
team links the dead man to Ulrich Kottor, a significant figure in the Third
Faction, and the man who kidnapped Syd.

Syd’s phone
dies as Marshall arrives at the cemetery. Marshall realizes there are too many fresh graves for him
to search. He asks Vaughn to direct a satellite over his position and change
the view to thermal, figuring it will pick up Syd’s body heat.

Marshall digs frantically, finally opening
the coffin and finding Sydney unconscious. He performs CPR. After
a few tense moments, she opens her eyes. An exhausted Marshall drops to the ground.

In the office, Sloane reports that they have acquired information about Ulrich.
Since an attack is imminent, Sydney needs to get to Ulrich, find his
hard drive and upload the contents to APO so they can stop the detonation. Sydney responds by saying that Ulrich knows
her from Havana, and that they need to send someone else in: Marshall.

Syd advises Marshall on the spy game. Marshall, assuming an intimidating pose as
Jack Bristow, walks inside Ulrich’s private room and commands his attention. He
tells Ulrich that one of his men is betraying him. As his "cigarette
case" scans Ulrich’s laptop, Vaughn reports from APO that they still can’t access the
data, and that Marshall must go to the basement with Ulrich
in order to force him to shut down the network firewall. As Marshall tries to subtly assemble the gun he
brought, he accidentally shoots and kills Ulrich. He calls Syd for help.

From the APO office, Jack instructs Marshall to dig out one of Ulrich’s eyes. Sydney arrives and, using the eye, they
bypass the retinal scan in the basement security system. Marshall then starts downloading from the
hard drive and transmits intel to APO while Syd covers him. Later, Sloane reports that the
Ministry of Security confirmed the seizure of the Cyclosarin bomb in downtown Hong Kong.

Sydney drops Marshall off at his house and he invites her
in for dinner. A grateful Sydney refuses, saying that she needs to go the train
station. At the station, Vaughn arrives. They slow dance in the middle of the
train station, blissfully unaware of the bustling world around them.

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Season 4:
Episode 12 - "The Orphan"

It’s 1992. A man sneaks into
a Buenos Aires orphanage in the middle of the night and tries
to kidnap one of the girls. A young Nadia resists him and escapes. 

Vaughn shares his father’s journal with Sydney. He asks her for access to the
Operational Archives. Later, Vaughn decodes an address in Lisbon that may help reveal the mystery of
his father’s life.

At APO, Sloane says that the Belorussian
Institute of Science had developed a next gen optical component called the
Amplifying Glass, which can boost a laser pulse. It can enable a CD player’s
laser to shoot a plane from the sky or slice a tank in half.  A Jakarta faction has employed Cesar Martinez,
an Argentine resident, to acquire it for them. Nadia knows him - they were once
partners in crime.

Nadia reports that Martinez is a freelancer, and he earned his
reputation with the execution of former Argentine intelligence officer, Roberto
Fox. Their mission is to outfox Martinez and obtain the Amplifying Glass at a
party held in the Minsk Institute of Science. As the team leaves the room,
Nadia admits to Sydney that she knows Martinez.

A blonde Sydney arrives at an elegant party in the Institute of Science. She charms an architect, whose
Blackberry holds the building’s blue prints and project files. After scanning
his PDA with Marshall’s help, Syd waits for Nadia, who has
stolen a key from one of the scientists.

Later, Nadia spots Cesar Martinez. Nadia again flashes back to her teenage
years. She’s crying in the corner of a jail cell. Roberto Fox recruits her to
work in espionage for the government. Nadia consults the headmistress of the
orphanage, who encourages her to take the job. At the party, gunmen open fire
as Martinez follows Sydney’s path.

In the lab, Syd cracks the
safe and retrieves the Amplifying Glass. When Martinez and his thugs enter, Syd surrenders
the Glass. Martinez asks Sydney who she works for. Nadia
arrives and says, "She works with me." He spares their lives.

Back at APO, Sloane reprimands Nadia for not
sharing her past regarding Martinez. Nadia insists she can get the Glass
back from Martinez. She doesn’t tell them that she actually worked with Martinez under Roberto’s tutelage.

InBuenos
  Aires, Nadia sits at an outdoor restaurant while Sydney and Weiss observe
from a van.Martinez arrives and agrees to sell the Glass
to Nadia on the condition that she accompany him back to his office without
backup. Nadia agrees despite Syd’s reservations.

Martinez asks Nadia if she still thinks about Roberto
Fox. Nadia recalls finding her dying partner, who says that Roberto Fox is a
criminal who had them steal government intelligence. Nadia thought she’d been
working for the Argentine government. 

Nadia admits to killing Fox and says she’d do it again. Martinez levels a gun at her. She hits him
and turns the table, now aiming it at him. Sydney arrives with Weiss. Nadia tells them
that the Amplifying Glass is in the safe and Weiss takes Martinez away. Sydney and Nadia embrace.

In Lisbon, Vaughn rings the door of the
address mentioned in his father’s journal. The door opens to reveal Nadia’s
headmistress at the orphanage! She says the only time she met Vaughn’s father
was when he came to her, covered in blood with a baby in his arms — the baby
was Nadia. Pressed for further details the headmistress says she heard his
father mention one particular word during a phone conversation –
"Nightingale."

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Season 4:
Episode 11 - "The Road Home"

Disguised as a French woman, Sydney acquires a microchip from a contact
named Thomas Connelly in a Paris restaurant. Before the deal goes down, an
assassin shoots Thomas. Vaughn, watching from the shadows, prevents him from
killing Syd. As Vaughn and Syd corner him, he slits his own throat with a
knife.

In the APO office, Sloane tells Jack and Sydney
that the information downloaded from the microchip reveals that a Biometric
Targeting Device is being developed at a secure facility in Austria. If attached to a weapons system,
this device could facilitate the targeting of an individual based only on a DNA
sample or a biometric scan. It is the next generation’s sniper.

Sloane tells Sydney that the assassin worked for Sasha
Korjev, a vicious arms dealer involved in developing the new targeting weapon. Sydney’s mission is to retrieve the
Biometric device in Salzburg, Austria. Sloane gives Dixon the task of locating Korjev but Jack
volunteers to do it himself.

Weiss suggests that Vaughn is mistaken in believing that his father, Bill
Vaughn, is still alive. Vaughn swears it was his father’s handwriting in the
diary. Weiss hands Vaughn a paper with the name Frank Murdoch, an ex-Special
Forces man in San Diego whose shop is mentioned in Bill’s
journal.

Jack later admits to Sloane that the CIA wants Korjev assassinated and he can
get closer to him than Dixon can. Jack adds Korjev should’ve been eliminated years
ago, when he "had the chance."

In an Austrian club, Sydney befriends Sam, an American busboy,
and uses his I.D. to get into the basement. She finds a status report revealing
that the Biometric device has been moved and is scheduled to leave the country
in the morning. The report also states that the device had been installed on a
weapon.

A guard
shoots at Sydney. She decks him and overhears on his walkie-talkie that the
weapon is stored at the Delongpre shipping yard - and that the guards are now
after Sam. After Marshall confirms
that Sam is a civilian, Syd escapes with him. She leaves him with her Austrian
contact so he can be put in a protection program.

In San
  Diego, Vaughn visits Frank, who shows him a photo taken with Bill in 1982.
Frank says that Bill was ruthless enough to shoot him in the back, then smoke a
cigarette over his bloody body before walking away. Vaughn later lies to Weiss,
saying he never found Frank.

Sydney’s contact in Salzburg arrives with a stranger to
pick up Sam, and she senses something’s not quite right. Realizing his
betrayal, she pounds them senseless and reluctantly explains her mission to
Sam. She asks for his help to get to the shipping yard.

In Angola, Jack meets Korjev, who wistfully
remembers Jack as a mentor. Later, Korjev speaks of Jack’s betrayal. Jack says
he was the one betrayed and garrots him.

At the shipping yard, Syd discovers that the weapon has been attached to an
assault chopper. She tells Sam to wait in the van. Syd defeats the guards in
combat and attempts to retrieve the weaponized mini-copter — but the system
activates and locks on to her. As it fires, she runs through a maze of narrow
aisles and crates.

While Sam waits, he’s wounded by a Korjev henchman. Syd tackles the gunman but
the chopper locks on to her again.Sydney quickly uses the gunman as a human
shield. The chopper, hovering closer, senses the corpse and, believing its
mission is accomplished, settles on the landing pad.

Sydney arrives in the APO office in time to see Jack preparing
to leave. As Jack mentions that he is planning to have dinner before heading
home, Sydney asks if she could join him
and they leave together.

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Season 4: Episode 10 - "The
Index"

Sydney,
Weiss and Nadia discuss Nadia’s upcoming birthday. Nadia doesn’t want to
celebrate; she doesn’t even know when her real birthday is.

At the team briefing, Sloane tells them about the Blackwell Index, an encrypted
disc once owned by the CIA that contains incriminating evidence against many
government officials and corporate heads. The CIA was never able to crack it,
and now the disc has been stolen. The team is to steal a Decoder disc housed in
an evidence room in a Paris police precinct. Vaughn is
passed over for the mission - he’s heading toArizona to visit his comatose
uncle.

Dixon
approaches Syd, saying that he refuses to follow Sloane blindly and now double-
checks all information - he’s even installed a wiretap in his office, and
though the line is encrypted, he’s traced a call Sloane made to Miles Deveraux,
a former Alliance agent.

Dixon then goes to Director Chase, who
says he needs more proof that Sloane is reforming The Alliance. Dixon asks for Syd’s help in decoding the
conversations.

In the Arizona hospital, a nurse named Rosemary
tells Vaughn that his uncle frequently spoke about Vaughn’s father, Bill. She
gives Vaughn an envelope from the uncle, meant for Vaughn’s father. Later,
Vaughn opens a locker in a Mesa bus station and finds a diary with
entries dating to 1982. Bill Vaughn died in 1979.

Syd shows Dixon a mini-disc burner, created by Marshall, which will produce a corrupted copy
of the Decoder Disc. They agree to give Sloane the phony copy.

In Paris, Sydney, who is dressed as an
American punk, vandalizes Weiss’s vehicle in order to get arrested. Dixon arrives as Sydney’s lawyer and quickly shoots the
guard with a tranquilizer.

Nadia remotely guides Syd to the evidence room of the police station. She finds
the Decoder while Nadia scrambles the security camera. Sydney makes the corrupted copy and flees
from the police. She races to the roof and leaps on to a helicopter piloted by
Weiss.

At APO, Syd convinces Sloane to hold a
dinner party for Nadia’s birthday. At the party, Syd gets a phone call from Dixon. She retreats to Sloane’s office and
transmits Sloane’s decoded conversations with Devereux. The conversation
revealed Sloane’s contact with Deveraux, and an implied reformation of SD-6. As
Syd is about to leave, she sees Nadia standing before her. Nadia accuses Syd of
using her but Syd enlightens her. Dixon, armed with the decoded conversations,
convinces Director Chase that Sloane must be taken down.

In Brussels, Sydney, Nadia, Dixon and Chase observe Sloane as he enters an
abandoned building. Inside, Deveraux presents the Blackwell Index, which is to
be cracked using the decoder that Sloane now has, to a group of men.

Sydney,
Dixon and Director Chase run into the building, leaving Nadia to wait for them
in the car. As the three burst through the door, they find Sloane alone in a
deserted room, with a laptop. They discover that Sloane is actually conducting
surveillance as Jack meets with Alliance members. Syd realizes that Jack has
the false Decoder just as Devereaux begins to doubt Jack. Nadia speeds to the
meeting and arrives in time to takes out the Alliance members, saving Jack’s
life.

Miles away, Vaughn tries to speak with his comatose uncle. "Is he still
alive?" Vaughn asks. No answer. Vaughn asks the head nurse if he can speak
to Rosemary. The nurse says nobody by that name works there.

Sloane, in his home office, inserts the Decoder Disc into his laptop, revealing
the Blackwell Index. He then calls Jack and tells him it has everything they
need — and more.

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