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Previously on "alias"...

Someone now has the ability to detonate six nuclear weapons,

and I am responsible.

So I am going to be part of the team

that finds and disarms those warheads.

I need your help.

There are two things you need to know

about this necklace.

One, it's layered with c-4.

If you remove it while it's armed,

you'll break the circuit, and it will detonate.

And two, if at any moment I believe

you're attempting to escape or sabotage us,

I'll activate this remote trigger

and blow your head off myself.

Hold it.

Back up now!

Is there something you'd like to tell us?

We'd like the warheads you've acquired.

Thank you for the supplies.

Of course. Of course. Absolutely.

Mr. Vaughn --

yes, sir.

Mr. Vaughn...

Yes, sir, as soon as we find out.

The necklace has been deactivated.

I'll have to call you back. When?

Just now. You've confirmed this?

Yes. Satellite imagery detects combat.

Combat?

What just happened?

It's over.

Can we tell if there's any survivors?

Not with this bird.

We need new satellites.

Even if they survive,

sending in a team is out of the question.

Why? They're on an authorized mission.

A clandestine mission.

If we start scouring the countryside,

the Indian government is going to figure out

that Pakistani-supported rebels in azad kashmir

have acquired nuclear weapons.

They're gonna launch preemptive strikes,

the pakistanis are gonna retaliate,

and I'm gonna get called in front of

a half a dozen congressional committees

demanding to know why we screwed up!

So the only thing we're interested in right now

is how to make this problem disappear.

I want an options paper from you in two hours.

And after that, I'd like to look quietly

for the bristows myself.

Nuclear weapons. Nuclear.

I understand.

I shouldn't have to define your priorities for you.

Obviously. I just don't think we should cut them lose.

Listen, alive or dead, the mission failed.

So if the bristows are out there,

they're on their own.

Hey, man, check this out.

Nothing like more bad news, huh?

Maybe they were just a roving patrol.

No, prf rebels would never be this deep

into Indian territory without being dispatched.

Your father's right.

We had one advantage -- surprise.

Now that's gone.

Just a second.

Can't stop. More patrols could be in the area.

Oh.

Oh.

What happened?

Nothing. I just scraped my leg.

Dad, I can do it.

I got it. You need to stop the bleeding.

Where are you going?

These bushes --

they have communis berries.

Their juice soothes the skin, helps healing.

You should put this on first.

Seriously, I'm fine.

You're not fine.

No, you're not fine.

Jack, I know you're determined

to get to srinagar,

but my contact in jaipur is much closer.

He's completely reliable, he has good equipment --

this is a CIA mission. I have operational control.

You're a prisoner.

Your only function -- sole reason

you're momentarily breathing fresh air

is to use your knowledge of the rebels' base

to help us steal the suitcase nukes and leave.

That's why we're using people I know and trust.

We're not having this conversation again.

You okay? Yeah. Thanks.

This is not a power play.

The facility we're headed for,

security's tighter than the NSA.

If I don't have the right equipment, it's pointless.

We should move.

Okay.

I know what you're thinking.

Do you?

The toaster.

What are you guys talking about?

Ah...

We used to have this toaster at home.

It was broken,

and using it one night,

I started a small fire.

We had something like this to drink,

and we both had a little too much.

I forgot about the toast I was making.

When was this?

You were 4 years old.

There was so much smoke,

we had to move out for a week.

We stayed in that hotel.

The summit.

The summit.

W-wait, was that the hotel with the sundaes?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I think you had one every night.

You should get some sleep.

Jack?

I would have called. I need your help.

Yes, yes, of course.

No one can see you dressed like this.

That's one of the reasons we're here.

It is good to see you again.

You too. You look well.

Well, imagine how bad I looked before.

Ha ha.

Are you who I think?

Is she yours?

Yes.

He always brags about you.

He showed me a picture once --

we need to penetrate a class-a target

outside muzaffarabad.

We'll need aliases, papers, transpo, ammo,

sat phone, and security penetration.

Yes.

Would you like some tea?

No, thank you. We also need tactical gear

and high-resolution night vision goggles.

Yes...Except no.

My main supplier died two months ago.

Saresh was killed?

Heart attack.

We are old men, Jack.

We don't live forever, especially in kashmir.

Of course, um, I can provide aliases,

basic weapons,

access to satellite phone and transportation.

What kind of security?

Biometric sensors, dual infrared passive

and microwave sensors,

fiber optics on the fence. What's your timeframe?

We have none. We're already behind schedule.

Well, I can do what I can do,

but it might not be enough for you.

We'll take whatever you've got. Thank you.

Yes. First thing --

you need to be looking not like you.

Hello?

Hi. I'm on a secure line.

Sydney. We saw the blast. What happened?

I'll fill you in later, but we were compromised.

I'm so glad you're okay. What about your parents?

With their parents. We go to India and look for nukes.

Listen, Sydney, we intercepted a communication.

The rebels say they're planning on activating

the nukes tomorrow at 1700 hours.

Activate how? We don't know.

Deploy, detonate?

Activate. That's the word they used.

Now, it might mean delivery, maybe detonation --

we don't know, but we have to assume the worst

since they got the control codes through SD-6.

And I got the control codes for SD-6,

which means I can deactivate the nukes.

If you get there in time.

Perfect.

Here.

My truck is parked on the other side of the market.

I owe you.

What kind of air filter does it have?

A foam filter.

That won't work.

It'll clog up from the desert conditions.

We'll return the truck as soon as we can.

We cannot use this truck. It'll never get us there.

Irina -- I know you think I'm always second-guessing you,

but if we don't get a car with a --

I told you, this is my decision. It is not negotiable!

Listen to me, both of you!

We have a job to do.

Your issues are going to have to be dealt with later.

Please excuse us.

Right now we have six suitcase nukes

that are going to be activated tomorrow.

Is that confirmed?

CIA doesn't have any details.

They want us to deactivate the nukes and steal them.

CIA needs to get authorization for a preemptive strike now.

They need confirmation that the nukes are there.

It'll be too late by then.

Not if we work together.

This is the way it's going to be --

dad will decide how we get to the base.

It's his call.

Once we arrive, mom takes over.

You were an officer there. You know your way around.

You'll lead us into the facility to the nukes and back out.

Then you will resume control and get us home.

There will be no objections to

and no deviations from this plan.

Three of these bins are filled with grain.

Irina, you'll be in the fourth.

You can't be serious.

She's the most likely to be recognized.

The rebels are looking for a 3-person team,

so we have a better chance of avoiding detection

if we alter our configuration.

Are you sure she can breathe in there?

Dad, we need to get moving.

I know. I'm just...

Preparing myself to let Irina out.

It will be fine.

Sydney, I've been doing this job a long time,

so when you lectured me about continuing the mission

and letting down protocol --

dad, my point was --

I know what your point was, and the truth is,

I needed to hear it.

I'm proud of you. That's all.

Thank you.

What are we doing here?

This is not the drop.

The filter got clogged, didn't it?

We're still 10 Miles away from the base.

We need to hike to the field,

where we'll access a sewage tunnel.

That'll lead us into the facility.

I thought you said security was heavy.

It is on the other side of the facility.

At the entry point we're using,

the rebels rely on land mines to keep intruders away.

We don't have the equipment to detect land mines.

We don't have the equipment

because your contact didn't come through.

I know where the mines are planted.

You want to walk through a minefield

you haven't seen in 19 years...

Is there another way?

And assume no new mines have been planted?

I just spent five hours in a grain bin.

It's my turn now.

Let's get to it.

I just spoke with Gerard cuvee,

leader of the prf.

He's quite charming, really --

more like a banker than a rebel leader.

But then you're a money man, too, aren't you?

Is everything in place?

The nuclear cores will be activated at 1700 hours.

As soon as it's done, they'll upload the results

to our server.

Yeah?

Sir, I have someone calling regarding your wife.

They won't identify themselves.

Record the call.

I need some privacy.

Yeah?

Romantic touch, don't you think?

Your wife's ring finger.

And by now your lab's confirmed

that despite your best efforts,

you didn't kill Emily, and now I have her.

What do you want?

$100 million in bearer bonds.

This is about money?

Everything is about money.

Instructions for the drop

have been electronically mailed to you.

You have 24 hours.

Fail to deliver the bonds,

and the next delivery will go to the alliance.

Where did the prf get all these mines?

You Americans have the worst inventory controls

in the world.

So, Sydney, how is school?

I'm writing my dissertation...

Supposedly.

Quiet.

Behind the tree!

To your left, Jack!

Jack, I need a gun.

Don't move.

You're on a mine.

Sydney, don't move!

Five steps forward.

Three to your left, and then straight towards us.

Are you hurt?

No. The bullet hit my vest.

It's an m-26 anti-personnel mine.

We'll need to pry off the panel

and remove the blasting cap.

You need to cut

the detonator core that leads to the blasting cap.

Her knife's not coated.

If she cuts the wires with metal,

she'll complete the circuit and set it off.

I can do it.

It's okay.

Over that hill is the entrance to the sewer tunnel.

We should hurry.

Follow closely.

Contact the bristows.

Tell them to pull out immediately.

I have no way of initiating. Why?

The Indians found out the Pakistani rebels

have acquired nukes.

They're launching air strikes in 24 hours.

What? We have to get them to back off.

We're trying, but they're angry

that we knew about the nukes and kept it from them.

They're insisting on going forward.

Then let me make a personal appeal.

Vaughn, everybody is working on this already --

state, nsc, dod.

Look, you're probably going to say no to this,

but I want to go to India.

I was stationed there for two years.

I have relationships with -- go.

Go?

I'll have a military aircraft waiting.

This is totally back channel.

You're just gonna --

are you trying to get rid of me?

Clear.

We're here.

The nukes will either be in a sealed R&D lab

or a vault located in the sub-basement.

The lab's the better bet

because its security system is more sophisticated.

So check the vault first?

Not if we only get one shot.

The lab has thermal sensors to detect intruders

through their body heat.

If we raise the room to body temperature --

98.6 degrees --

the sensors won't be able to distinguish between us

and the thermostat level of the lab.

Sydney, you'll get to the central heating

control panel here.

It's located in a room

near the stairwell in the sub-basement.

Find the panel for zone three.

Got it.

Jack, the lab door is controlled

by a voice-recognition system.

Only cuvee's voice is programmed to open it.

We need to break into the main computer system here

to access his file.

You'll erase his voice and substitute your own.

I'll be in Gerard cuvee's private office.

You and I are not separating.

Not in here.

Jack, listen to me.

Unless I deactivate the facility's

surveillance system from cuvee's office,

we won't get anywhere near the nukes.

No.

You've done good work getting us here.

I'm not blind to that.

But I'm also far from trusting you.

If you want those nukes for yourself,

this is a perfect setup.

You were an officer in this facility.

You've got friends here willing to work with you.

Friends?

You know what this place was when I was here, Jack?

A prison

where the kgb interrogated suspected traitors.

And, no, I wasn't an officer here.

I was a prisoner.

Why do you think I learned the sewage tunnels

or memorized the mine locations?

So I could escape, you idiot.

We're out of time.

We either split up

and meet at the lab in five minutes,

or we're going back. It's your choice.

Dad, she's right. We don't have any more time.

I'll be in the lab in five minutes.

I promise.

You better be.

Mera naam Gerard cuvee.

Mera naam Gerard cuvee.

Mera naam Gerard cuvee.

Thank you for agreeing

to this emergency meeting.

Despite my best efforts to comply with your orders

to kill my wife after she learned the truth about SD-6,

someone interfered.

And this person is now extorting me for her return.

Last week, the blackmailers sent me Emily's finger --

her ring finger.

Lab tests confirmed that Emily was alive

when they severed the finger.

Black coagulation tests are not 100% accurate.

Yes, but they are reliable.

And then, two days ago,

security section obtained those.

Those are photographs of airport security

in Santiago and London.

And we have confirmed

that Emily was on flight manifests last week.

Any idea on the men with her?

No.

But the blackmailer wants $100 million in bearer bonds

for her return.

Who else knew

about your instructions to kill Emily?

Only the people in this room.

You believe one of us may be behind this?

No.

But someone has infiltrated our secure communications.

Well, whoever it is will get nothing.

No. It's not quite that simple.

We have to eliminate this leak

before more damaging information

about the alliance gets out.

So I propose that we put a tracking device

on the bonds.

That we make this exchange.

That we follow the blackmailer,

and we assassinate him.

You understand, arvin, after all this,

if you get your wife back,

she will still have to be eliminated.

I understand.

The thermal sensors are neutralized.

Where's your mother?

I haven't seen her.

We got this far.

She must have gotten to cuvee's office

and disabled the surveillance system.

She'll be here.

Mera naam Gerard cuvee.

We're not waiting.

Use the control codes to begin deactivation.

The plutonium core is gone.

Hi, Mr. sloane, it's me -- Marshall --

sorry. You probably already know that.

We, uh, planned this.

Anyway, the tracer on the bonds

is working perfectly.

Good. I'm turning off my comm.

Yeah?

I see you.

Leave the briefcase on the bench

and keep walking.

Proceed toward the corner while we verify

the authenticity of the bonds.

Oh, yeah, I got you, baby.

Into my wheelhouse. Come on.

Go to the row of vending machines.

Take the "city view" fifth from the top.

I told you.

Invisible liquid tracer. Know what I'm saying?

I say, come on! Unh! Come on!

Wait a minute.

Wait. No. Where did --

oh, God, no. No!

I think you understand the situation

that you find yourself in...

Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible

for matchmaking you and Irina.

Didn't she tell you?

I was a supervisor at the kgb.

I was the one who gave her the assignment

to go to the U.S.

And marry a CIA officer.

Now, you weren't the only prospect, of course,

but you had the most potential.

Ha.

I actually thought it would dawn on you

that a woman like this would never

go for someone like you.

Luckily for me,

your ego was too big for that.

You're a dead man!

No, wait, wait.

I want what we came for.

Sark's made a deal with us.

What kind of double cross is he planning?

Maybe you didn't hear me.

We know sark has a new partner.

Who is it?

Herr sark is on telephone.

Get the information...

Uh-huh.

And meet me in my office.

Ha ha.

Damn it.

I was caught.

I had to do this, or we'd all be killed.

They're not detonating the nukes.

Here's what you have to do...

Is everything on target?

We ran into a few problems, but, uh...

What kind of problems?

We've got it under control.

We'll proceed as planned.

Then I'll expect your report on the rambaldi artifact

within the hour.

Trust me on this.

If you don't make it out, I'm sorry this happened.

Aah!

Mr. Vaughn, good to see you again.

But I'm afraid you came a long way for nothing.

General, we have people at the prf base right now

stealing the nukes.

And if they fail, we'll be the pakistanis' first target.

They won't fail.

You can't guarantee that.

General, if you launch those strikes now,

you will be killing some of our best assets.

Mr. Vaughn, your government knew the rebels acquired

the suitcase nukes.

Still, they said nothing.

They placed our whole country at risk.

At least delay a few hours until we get our people out.

I'm sorry. The air strike goes as planned.

You look more like your father every time I see you,

you know that?

My father wrote about you...

In his journal.

He wrote that he trusted you and respected you,

and that is why I came such a long way.

I cannot call off the strike.

But I will give you a head start.

Meaning what?

Meaning a chopper and a pilot.

But if you're going to try to rescue your friends,

you're doing so at your own risk.

Dad!

Shh, shh! How did you get free?

Sydney, your mother is helping us.

What? What about cuvee? She was torturing you.

She was putting on a show for cuvee.

Before she left, she put these in my hand.

She told me they're using the cores

to activate a rambaldi artifact.

They're not detonating the nukes?

Among the things rambaldi experimented with

was self-sustaining cell regeneration.

This artifact they're opening today

is reported to be rambaldi's proof of endless life.

Endless life?

We have no time to make any meaningful assessment.

All I know is that your mother claims to have provided us

with the opportunity to contact the CIA

for extraction, and we should act on it.

Can't this thing go any faster?

This is it.

We're going against the wind.

Operations.

Boot camp, this is mountaineer.

Voice I.D. Number Alpha Charlie 7-1-10.

I need to speak with agent Vaughn.

Vaughn's not available. Let me give you Kendall.

Agent Bristow, do you have the package?

We're in process. We'll need extraction within the hour.

Abort. The Indians have launched air strikes

against the base.

Air strikes? We're not finished.

You have to get them to hold off.

Listen to me. Fighter planes are in the sky.

You have to leave now.

Not until we get my mother.

Agent Bristow, I am ordering you to pull out

and head for the extraction point immediately.

This is Jack.

You'll either hear from us again, or you won't.

Our assignment from the CIA is to bring her back.

That's our job.

A flower?

That's what this is all about?

We need to get the cores and get out of here.

It's Vaughn!

We've got the cores.

Tell them to call off the air strikes.

This is agent Vaughn. Abort the air strikes.

I repeat, abort the air strikes.

You must have a lot of questions.

Yeah.

One thing that should not wait any longer

is why I shot you in taipei.

The rebel leader -- Gerard cuvee --

when you were in taipei,

he was in the next room watching

to see if I would betray him or you.

Shooting you in the shoulder,

giving you time to escape --

it was the only way I could think

to maintain his trust

and keep him from killing both of us.

We're both tired.

You should get some rest.

You too...

Mom.

Hi.

Hey.

Any word on the flower?

Preliminary analysis indicates

that it's anywhere from 400 to 600 years old.

Like I said, preliminary.

Oh.

What's this?

♪ Is there nothing I can say ♪

♪ nothing I can do

♪ to change your mind?

♪ I'm so in love with you

♪ you're too deep in

♪ you can't get out

♪ you're just a poor girl in a rich man's house ♪

♪ yeah

♪ baby, I'm cryin'

♪ over you

♪ don't you know promises were never made to keep? ♪

♪ just like the night...