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Previously on "alias"...

I have a crush on a guy at work.

Really? Who is he?

Someone in my department.

We've worked together for about a year now.

You're kidding me. What's his name?

Michael.

What are you doing?

Downgrading your network privileges.

Pending the outcome of my investigation,

your security clearance has been revoked.

We have a situation.

Ariana Kane, head of alliance counterintelligence --

she's investigating me

in connection with the murder of Emily sloane.

I did not kill Emily sloane,

but I do have secrets,

and the last thing I can afford --

the last thing Sydney can afford --

is someone discovering

that my loyalty does not lie with SD-6.

Kane needs someone to blame.

Since she can't find who really murdered Emily,

she's decided to blame me.

I did not murder your wife,

but if I don't find the person who did,

Kane will frame me for it.

I have some leads.

I need you to pursue them for me.

Can I trust you to do that?

Of course.

This will stay between us.

Hello?

Agent Kane, arvin sloane.

Jack Bristow just left my house.

I want to report a murder.

Sit down.

Where was this murder committed?

San Francisco, last night.

Who was murdered?

I have five names -- alliance partners.

I was.

I need their whereabouts and phone records

for the dates listed.

I've included dead drop instructions.

Assume the usual protocols have been compromised.

Take it easy.

Dad, get in!

Sydney, what are you doing here?

Kendall contacted me.

He was worried because you haven't

alliance counterintelligence is after me.

Alliance? Dad, what the hell is going on?

Someone extorted about $100 million.

They think that person is me.

Mountaineer, you've got company.

Two vehicles --

an outrider paralleling you one block west

and a pursuit vehicle.

How long have you known about this?

I didn't tell you because it didn't concern you.

If the alliance thinks you're lying to them,

they'll kill you. That concerns me.

What concerns me is having them suspect you're my accomplice.

That's why I've kept you out of it.

Take your next left -- now!

Take your next right.

Your ride's a half a block ahead.

Several months ago,

the alliance offered sloane a partnership position.

In exchange, he had to kill his wife.

Because Emily had learned the truth about SD-6?

He poisoned her...

Or so he thought.

Soon after the funeral,

sloane began receiving odd messages --

messages designed to indicate

that his efforts had failed,

followed soon after by a terrifying delivery --

proof she was still alive.

And in exchange for Emily, they demanded money.

$100 million, which the alliance paid,

and the blackmailer killed her anyway.

The alliance obviously has to find someone to blame for this.

So why focus on you?

I was no more a suspect than anyone else,

but as they examined my conduct,

they realized I had secrets --

elements of my alibi that, because of our work for CIA,

I can't fully justify.

And sloane -- does he think you did this?

I'm not certain.

What are you going to do? Stay here?

For the moment. I'll research what I can.

The man I went to meet at the movie theater --

he had information about the alliance,

intel I'm not sure the CIA can access.

It's SD-6.

You have to go in.

No. I'm calling in sick. I'm helping you.

No, Sydney, you can't.

The agent heading up the investigation

is not interested in you -- not yet.

But if you don't show up, you will arouse her suspicions.

You can't allow that to happen.

Okay, let's be honest --

among life experiences to be avoided,

getting kidnapped definitely ranks near the top.

Except, actually, third grade kind of sucked, too.

There was this whole thing -- lunch money thing --

that's all right.

I kind of overdid it, but...

You saved my bacon. Thank you.

Marshall, thank you.

Don't worry about it. It's -- oh, um...

Mr. Dixon,

I really never have an occasion

to buy another man a present,

except my father at father's day.

Um, but -- anyway, it's cologne.

Thank you.

I think it's a really nice scent,

and it's going to be nice on you,

I mean, your natural scent's really very, uh...

Marshall?

You know, I'll be quiet now.

I appreciate that.

Actually, um, Mr. sloane,

I notice you're not wearing the tie I gave you.

That's okay.

You're looking at a prototype

of the triad's most startling achievement to date --

the quantum gyroscope missile guidance system.

According to the partial specifications

we were able to intercept,

not only is this device cheap and easy to manufacture,

but it is far more accurate

than anything in our current arsenal.

It is capable of transforming a '70s-era scud

into a precision guided munition

with range and lethality

equivalent to that of a cruise missile.

How did we get these photos?

Last month, sd-5 tasked a team of agents

to perform a recon op

on the triad's r & d lab in nice, France.

Your task is acquisition.

Here we have Karl schatz.

He's a courier for triad,

and he's transporting the prototype to Berlin

for mass production.

You will intercept it en route.

There is no room for failure in this one.

You can imagine the consequences

if enemies of the United States acquire this technology.

There are so many things I hate about arvin sloane,

but the thing that I hate the most is the way

he wraps his criminal activity in the flag.

Well, we won't let him get away with it.

Before you go, we'll make a defective copy

of that gyroscope for you to give to SD-6.

We'll need to see those photographs.

Dixon has them. He's already on his way to nice.

Then we'll have to get a team to France.

When you're through with your mission,

make sure you're holding the gyroscope.

We'll duplicate it on-site.

And, Syd, you should know that, uh,

we've been doing everything we can to help your father.

You've been helping my father.

Yeah.

You knew the alliance was investigating my father.

Yes. For how long?

Two weeks.

Syd, I understand you're upset. Yeah, I am.

Your father explained why we hadn't told you.

Now that I've had time to think about that --

it was a question of your safety.

He was almost killed. I saved him.

I didn't want you to have more on your mind.

Why are you worrying about what's on my mind?

It was a judgment call.

It was a judgment call that you've been making

for the past three months.

Involving you had no upside.

There's no upside to keeping me informed?

You didn't tell me about Manolo,

or that you had discussions with my mother.

You didn't even tell me

you were seeing Alice again.

Wait. What is this about?

This is about me being too old to be coddled.

Your life is complicated, Sydney.

Forgive me for trying to make it any easier.

I don't need you for that.

Jack, I'm sending this

through a secure server. I'm sorry.

I informed ariana Kane

that you visited my house last night,

not because I believe you're guilty -- I don't --

but because I had to.

This past summer,

when I was initiated into the alliance,

a device was implanted into my neck.

It was intended as a means of ensuring loyalty

among alliance partners.

Among other things, this device tracks

my whereabouts as well as my vital signs.

It also transmits my conversations

back to the alliance.

So you see,

they already knew you'd been to see me.

You offered many suspects,

but all your leads were dead ends.

Now I offer one of my own.

Last year, I murdered a member of the alliance, Jack --

Jean briault.

You can understand why I was reluctant to reveal this.

It is quite possible

that the blackmailer was stirred by revenge,

that he -- or she --

was close to briault.

Stay safe, Jack.

Good luck.

Briault has a wife and an adult son,

but neither would have had the necessary insight

to blackmail the alliance,

and the other partners considered briault soft.

No one was sad to see him go.

So you have nothing.

Are you considering going into Witness Protection?

That would leave Sydney exposed with no one to watch her back.

And have her spend the rest of her life

looking over her shoulder? That's not an option.

Then if you're not here to say goodbye,

why did you bring this to me?

I need someone to brainstorm with.

Surely the CIA has teams who specialize in these matters.

Forensics, profilers...

Yes, they do.

Have information resources

pull everything they have on briault.

I understand you have requested Sydney Bristow's computer.

Well, three months ago, agent Dixon reported evidence

suggesting she was a double agent.

That was a misunderstanding.

Dixon came upon Sydney as she was executing

an operation that Jack had authorized.

Yes, I read your report.

I think either she was an accomplice to his blackmail

or else the two of them have been up to something more...

Long-term.

You must have noticed that Bristow frequently

assigns his daughter to operations of his own design.

Sydney Bristow is an excellent agent.

All the more reason

he would enlist her help.

Once you recover the gyroscope,

you and Dixon will separate for your flights home.

Our team will be set up in this utility room,

where they'll duplicate the gyroscope.

Any questions?

Maybe you should go over it again.

It's a pretty complicated plan.

Maybe you could make it easier.

Okay, look, I don't want to be here any more than you do --

hey, look who's joining you in France. Hey.

"Hey"? Three months in the hospital,

I get a "hey"? How about a little sugar?

I'm glad you're back.

Oh, thank you.

And thank you for the plant, by the way.

Amazingly, I've been able to keep it alive.

All right, bring me up to speed. What's our plan?

I should get to my plane.

I'll see you in France.

Okay.

Excusez-moi, monsieur.

Une contribution?

Monsieur.

Ha ha ha. Merci beaucoup.

Nothing yet, Syd.

No sign of the courier.

Copy that.

Just let me know when to move.

You know what?

What?

I've already made 47 Euros.

Merci.

Hey.

You sure you don't want to talk about this?

There's nothing to talk about.

I share my fights with you. No, you don't.

Yeah, I do. Remember when Alan pissed in the living room?

That was your dog. Yeah, but I was angry about it,

and I let you know how upset I was.

I appreciate you trying to cheer me up.

All right, here's a thought -- tell her how you feel.

I know, I know.

I was the one who said this is a line you don't cross,

but that was before I nearly died,

and you know what they say about the white light and all that?

No. They're wrong.

It's darkness.

Darkness.

I understand.

Game time, Syd. Here comes our guy.

Gyroscope is in a shoulder harness

under his left pec. You can use the artful dodger.

Right.

Now, if it's not in his briefcase

and it's in his pocket,

here is a little goody every pickpocket could use.

I like to call this baby the artful dodger.

You know, after that movie, um...

"Oliver!"

Right. "Please, sir, can I have some more?"

I love that movie. It's a good one.

So, basically, you just turn it like that,

slip it on, turn it around,

and this little guy will cut through anything.

Damn it. I liked this tie.

Excusez-moi, monsieur --

une contribution pour les enfants?

Monsieur -- pour les enfants, monsieur.

Better hurry, Syd.

Syd, move.

♪ The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason ♪

How you doing?

It wasn't me.

Damn machine. That happens every time I go through these.

Whatever.

At jfk, I went through five times.

They literally had me take off my shirt.

♪ You hold me like you should ♪

♪ so I'm gonna keep on dancing ♪

Oh, my God.

Watch the hand. Hey, it's not a date.

Listen, you want to get your thrills?

Ooh.

Excusez-moi.

♪ So don't wake me if I'm dreaming ♪

Merci, mademoiselle.

Thank you.

Good work. I'll see you in L.A.

♪ Let's just keep on dancing ♪

Good work.

Base ops, this is boy scout.

Mountaineer has just delivered the package.

We're proceeding with the copy.

We're estimating two hours till the duplicate's ready.

Listen, uh, do you want to go to dinner?

When we were driving in town, I saw this place --

Rousseau, I think it's called.

Vaughn, we --

we can't do that.

Why not?

Well...

For a million reasons.

If alliance security sees us together,

they'll kill us.

The nearest alliance cell is in Zurich.

The CIA tracks SD-6 security section.

There haven't been any signals, no movement.

You're serious.

We've been to restaurants and sat near each other.

We've met in parks and convenience stores,

and all of them in L.A.,

where we are much more likely to be seen.

Two things --

one, I think it's not that great a risk,

and two, I am hungry. I'm starving.

I mean, we're going to be together anyway.

Why can't we be eating?

Aren't you hungry?

Yeah, I'm hungry.

Let's do it.

Yeah?

I'm going to change.

Ha ha. That's a good idea.

Okay.

And?

We're going to dinner.

Ooh! Ha ha.

I'm going to keep my comm channel open.

I need you to monitor the r.F. Frequency.

Got it. Okay. In exchange, I'll take an éclair.

No, I'm serious.

Any suspect signal, I want to know about it -- anything.

If they're small, bring at least two.

How we doing over here?

Sydney Bristow just left the airport

accompanied by a man.

Not Dixon.

Find out who he is.

Well, you speak French almost as well as I do.

Mademoiselle.

Thank you.

See what you like, and I'll be right back.

Merci.

I think wine would help the situation.

I was just thinking the same thing. S'il vous plaît.

There must be a dozen ways to blackmail the alliance,

all of them far less elaborate than this one.

So we can assume a secondary objective

was to make arvin suffer.

Someone harboring an acute hatred...

Meaning it could be anyone.

Does the alliance have

any permanent operations in Peru?

Peru? No. Why?

Jean briault,

whenever he traveled, he would use his credit card,

except here.

Six times this past year, he went to lima,

but not a single transaction.

I think there's a customs statement.

Six arrivals into Chavez airport.

Each time, he declared $70,000 in cash.

Why? What's he doing with all that money?

No investments, he's not buying art.

Is it possible he was running his own syndicate?

One the alliance wasn't aware of.

He can't wire his agents operational money --

the alliance will spot that --

so he bankrolls them in Peru.

Assume we're right.

Why would they want revenge for his murder?

Ahem.

I'll have customs send over

all arrivals and departures into Peru for one week

on either side of briault's visits.

When I was your wife...

I would meet my case officer in his hotel room.

I suggest you find out where briault stayed

and pull the hotel security footage.

So I heard you on the phone with base ops.

Your code name is boy scout.

Ha ha. Yeah.

Why?

Um, it goes back to cst -- clandestine service training.

You don't want to hear this.

Vaughn. Okay.

The boy scouts have a motto --

always be prepared.

On my first day, I showed up,

and I had forgotten my field manual,

so the instructor said, "that is your one screwup.

From then on, you'd better be prepared."

This story is a disaster.

Just tell her she's pretty. Are you an idiot?

Okay, I'm going to turn you off now.

Goodbye.

Sorry.

He's not SD-6.

Check U.S. dmv.

What makes you think he's American?

What makes you think he isn't?

Who's our mystery man?

Tell me about your pets.

What?

Your pets. I want to know about every pet you've ever had.

Look at that.

Michael Vaughn,

U.S. department of state.

Son of a bitch.

He's CIA.

Playing pool.

I can see it.

We should play sometime.

So, you liked everything?

C'était très bon. Merci.

Parfait.

So, uh, it is too late for you to set out for l'avignon,

and, uh, you had much to drink.

Upstairs, I have an inn,

and tonight, you are my guests. Please.

Take your time.

Merci.

Did you ask him to do that?

There are so many issues with this,

I don't know where to begin.

Hold on a second.

I think we should have an open mind about this.

An open mind.

It'd be rude to overlook such a generous offer

without proper consideration.

I wouldn't dream of it.

Okay.

But there are clearly issues.

Yes. I don't disagree.

Okay.

Jeff, right on time.

Go ahead, base ops.

Infosec just called.

Interpol reported a network intrusion.

Five minutes later, someone hacked into U.S. dmv

and downloaded Vaughn's info.

Both attacks originated from nice.

Boy scout, do you copy?

Boy scout, this is field station.

Do you respond? Boy scout.

Hey, what's the name of the restaurant?

Where they are having dinner -- what's the name?

Monsieur, vous avec un téléphone.

Merci.

Hello? You've been made. Get out of there now.

Syd, behind you!

Go! Go!

Your gun -- toss it over!

On your knees! Hands behind your head!

Down!

Down! Get down!

Potesh, Jonathan,

I.D. 6-tango-5, Charlie David.

Patch me through to Los Angeles, ariana Kane.

This is Kane. Hello?

Hello?

Take the car. I'll have weiss pick me up.

I'll pick up the copy of the gyroscope

before I get on the plane.

No, we're aborting the countermission.

When these guys don't show up, SD-6 is going to investigate.

This is the one time we can't deceive them.

We have to give SD-6 what they want,

as dangerous as that is. You know that.

We were so stupid.

It's my fault.

That's not true.

You have to go.

I'll see you back in L.A.

Hey.

Hey.

This your, uh, debrief for Kendall?

Yeah.

Okay, you can't show him this.

No, I'm serious. If Kendall sees this --

he needs to know why SD-6 has the real gyroscope.

I agree. I think so, too,

but this requires a little creativity.

Look, tell him it was my fault, okay?

Tell him that, um, grinding the lenses

took a little bit longer than expected,

and we weren't able to make Sydney's plane.

I won't let you cover for me.

I'm not, but it's partially my fault, too.

I'm the one that told you to take her on a date.

You told me to tell her how I feel.

Whatever.

I'm three months past a near-death experience.

What the hell were you listening to my advice for?

I'm recommending that I be replaced

as her case officer.

Okay, now you're just being stupid.

I'm sorry, but that's --

I nearly blew our entire operation inside SD-6,

not to mention putting Sydney's life in danger.

Hey, she wanted to go to dinner, too.

She's a big girl. She knew the risks.

My point is that my judgment was compromised.

All the damage that you and Sydney have done to SD-6.

Have you given any thought to the fact

that maybe all that work was done

because of the way you guys feel about each other?

How's that for spin?

It's not bad.

Well, whatever you decide to do,

just make sure you discuss this with Sydney first, okay?

I mean, this affects her, too.

Anything?

Whenever briault went to Peru,

he stayed at hotel cerocontidad.

We're scanning everyone who passes through the lobby.

If he met with any assets,

they'll show up on the federal database.

This is briault?

That's him last February.

That's him 2001, November.

2001, September.

Stop. Who's that with him?

Can we enhance this?

The shadows are pretty severe.

I can boost the gamma. Are they together?

Let me try something here.

This won't be perfect.

Jack, I just saw McCarthy.

Did he tell you about Kane?

Yeah, she and briault were having an affair.

I can't stand that I didn't put that together myself.

He also says you're going to SD-6.

To prove Kane blackmailed the alliance.

And you know this how?

The very day sloane handed over $100 million in bearer bonds,

Kane opened an account in Monaco.

The contents of that account are protected by privacy laws,

but SD-6 utilizes their cover as credit dauphine

to acquire illicit access to that information.

If I can get on their network, I can verify her balance.

But this is based on your assumption

that Kane just parked $100 million in the bank.

My point is if you're wrong,

they'll kill you.

Let me contact the director.

The CIA can verify what's in the account.

He'd have to get general counsel to sign off.

That's minimum 48 hours.

I may be safe here,

but if they haven't already,

they'll soon begin to suspect Sydney.

But I appreciate the offer.

Jack Bristow's here. He's in the building.

Security lock shows he came in two minutes ago.

Seal the exits. No one leaves until we find him.

Who monitors closed-circuit?

Jack.

Can I help you?

Yes. Come with us, please.

Hello, Jack.

There's a plane waiting to take us to London,

but I thought we should wait

for your daughter to return before we left.

I came here to investigate a blackmail, but...

You've proven far more compelling than a simple thief.

I know what you did.

Do you?

I'm eager to hear what that may be.

Sodium pentothal.

Won't take more than a few minutes.

Then we'll talk about Sydney.

Five minutes longer,

and I would have told everything.

Sydney and I would have been revealed as double agents

and killed.

Fortunately, sloane saw the e-mail

that I sent him from the server room

detailing what I discovered.

Ariana Kane had, in fact, deposited the bearer bonds

into that Monaco account,

but only long enough to convert them into cash,

which she then transferred out.

And have they recovered the cash?

Not yet.

And arvin never questioned why you ran?

No. He realizes Kane was on a witch hunt,

that running was a valid option.

In fact, he's taking a week off

and leaving me in charge while he's gone.

Thank you for everything.

There is one thing that strikes me as odd.

Yes. Me too.

You said sloane requested Kane to investigate.

The one person

who had an apparent motive for blackmail.

Someone easy to frame.

Interesting theory.

Or not.

Hey.

Hey. What did Kendall say?

He told me about your father.

He didn't mention anything about our date,

if that's what you mean.

Have you written your mission debrief?

No, not yet.

If I tell the truth, at the least,

they'll remove me as your case officer.

Despite what we did, how stupid we were,

I know we do good work.

We need to stay together.

I agree.

We do good work.

I don't understand.

When I got back to SD-6 and saw my father,

it was clear no one would be asking questions

about Kane's missing agents,

so I gave sloane the counterfeit gyroscope.

This is the real one.

We win.

At the airport, you took them both.

Always be prepared.

So I had a blood test today, for the health insurance,

and there was this guy there giving blood.

He's kind of cute,

so I look over, and I smile at him,

and guess what happens.

He fainted.

You just guessed that he...

It's a blood sugar thing.

Okay, well, fine.

Before I realized that, I was pretty psyched.

I was thinking, "wow, my smile

made a man go weak in the knees."

Hey, ooh, how was, uh...

Any news about that guy Michael from work?

No.

There's not going to be.

I realized it's not worth fantasizing about.

Nothing's ever going to come of it.

Right.

Okay.

Get your coat. We're going for cocktails.

Oh, no, francie.

I'm serious. You need the biggest Cosmopolitan.

I can't even tell you. Come on. Up, up, up, girl.

We're gonna paint this town. Let's do it.

Shake this off.

Damn, I'm good.

It's working?

What did I tell you?

You asked me if this was possible.

I said give me three months.

Look at that.

89 days later.

They can't hear us.

Nope. The hard part was cracking

the spread spectrum algorithm.

The transmission in here

has to match their receivers exactly.

You see that?

That's the switch.

What are my associates hearing?

I programmed in a variety of ambient sounds --

rain, TV chatter.

Right now, you're cruising down the 405,

listening to Miles Davis.

And the biorhythms?

Piece of cake. EKG readings, breathing patterns --

as far as they know,

you're as steady as Charlie watts.

$10 mil.

Holy God.

Must feel good.

What's that?

Being able to speak freely, nobody knowing your business.

Yeah.

It does.

We did it.

Are you sure?

Are you sure it worked?

Yes, my love.

We're free.