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VAUGHN: You're being
investigated by the DSR.
They want to know why your
picture's in the Rambaldi book.
They've decoded
some of the text.
And?
What did it say?
They're calling it
"The Prophecy.
"
Vaughn!
Pursuant to national security
directive 8 1 A,
you are in the custody
of the government.
They broke the Rambaldi code
correctly.
So what does the prophecy say?
"This woman here depicted
will possess unseen marks,
signs that she will be the one
to bring forth my works.
Bind them with fury.
A burning anger,
unless prevented.
At vulgar cost, this woman
will render the greatest power
unto utter desolation.
"
[Sirens wailing]
It's vanilla.
Milk shake.
Will you do me a favor?
Will you remind them
that I cooperated?
That I didn't resist?
I don't need these restraints.
I'll tell them.
[Door closes]
The DSR met with the FBI.
The DSR didn't tell me anything.
You're interagency liaison.
Interagency liaison doesn't
put me in the inner circle.
You and I don't work well
together historically.
We've got this juvenile
animosity thing going,
and that's got to change.
Let's just start over.
Hi.
I don't know what they're
planning to do to Bristow.
If I were you, I'd let it go.
This buddy of mine at Princeton
knows Haladki.
She used to see him eating lunch
at the Webster rotunda.
That guy's got the table manners
of a 6-month-old.
I'm gonna ask you a question.
I need you to be honest.
Sure.
Do you believe this thing,
this prophecy?
You do, don't you?
No.
No, it's ridiculous.
But that picture
looks just like her.
Sydney's gonna take down
the world?
But the DNA sequence,
the heart size.
They both match
what Rambaldi wrote.
I mean, either this thing
is completely insane
Or it isn't.
Okay, what happened?
The FBI's involved?
Yeah.
There's an FBI tribunal
flying in from D.
C.
They're gonna question her
and decide
what the next move is.
Ms.
Bristow, I'm
Special Officer Kendall, FBI.
Ms.
Baker, Mr.
Dunn.
You're being held under
national security directive 8 1 A.
Per the directive,
we can legally file
formal charges against you
based on current evidence.
We would appreciate cooperation
in answering questions.
If you choose legal counsel,
this meeting is canceled.
We'll determine the charges
based on current evidence.
It's your decision.
I have nothing to hide.
Please state your name
and occupation.
Sydney Bristow.
I'm an intelligence officer for
the United States government.
- Under which agency?
- CIA.
How did you come
to work with the CIA?
Don't you already
have a file on me?
We would like this
in your words.
I came to work with the CIA
through my involvement
with SD-6.
And how did you get involved
with SD-6?
I was a student.
A freshman at college.
One day, a man came to me.
He said he worked
with U.
S.
Intelligence
and that they wanted
to interview me.
And you agreed.
No.
No, not at first.
It was the last thing
that I was interested in,
working for the U.
S.
Government.
Despite that,
I found myself wondering
if I could actually
become a spy.
You believed that you could?
Sort of, which is crazy.
I didn't even realize
what being a spy meant.
The truth is,
I didn't love any
of the subjects I was studying.
My father and I weren't
speaking.
My mother had died.
The highlight of my social life
was my dorm's salad bar.
So I called them.
SD-6.
They didn't use that name.
These men led me
to believe they were CIA.
They were very convincing
are very convincing.
So you met with an organization
that you believed was the CIA?
Yes.
They had me sign about 500
nondisclosure agreements,
and they offered me a job.
Just like that?
They had me take a job
as an office assistant
on the 20th floor of
a corporate bank downtown.
I just assumed that the bank
was somehow affiliated
with the CIA.
They told me they
would be watching me.
This was the evaluation phase.
That lasted for six months.
The transition?
Eight months of training, tests,
and propaganda.
Before that,
I had never fired a gun.
I had never thrown a punch.
It was during the transition
I first heard the term SD-6.
And at this time,
you believed that SD-6
was affiliated with the CIA?
Yes, that it was a black-ops
division of the CIA.
Meaning
You mean, what is black ops?
A division that is funded
by the CIA's black budget.
Operations that
are highly classified.
Even hidden from
congressional oversight.
They led me to believe
SD-6 was one of these divisions
and that was why they
didn't operate through Langley.
You never questioned that logic?
As I said before, Mr.
Kendall,
they were very convincing.
Now, I might not have been
a genius at 1 9 years old,
but I was smart enough to know
what questions to ask.
They had all the right answers.
Says here you were a genius.
And how did the transition end?
They made reference
to the SD-6 headquarters.
They told me
they'd take me there.
What I didn't realize
was that getting there
would only require
a ride in the elevator.
The office of SD-6 is located
on sublevel 6 of
the Credit Dauphine building.
The first time
I walked through there,
surrounded by strangers
who I thought were working
for the good of the country,
I felt wildly patriotic.
And then I met Arvin Sloane.
So you're Sydney Bristow.
Yes, sir.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Arvin Sloane.
Welcome to SD-6.
What happens if I need
to go to the bathroom?
I think we can arrange that.
Anything?
My FBI contacts don't have
access to Sydney's case.
What about Devlin?
They're not giving him
clearance.
All we know is that
Sydney's being held locally,
and we've got to find out
where she is.
It's how long she's in custody
that concerns me.
Sloane wants a meeting
with Sydney Tuesday morning.
Maybe the FBI
won't put as much credence
in Rambaldi's prophecy as DSR.
That's a miscalculation.
In the current climate,
the FBI's being wildly vigilant.
If another government agency
red-flags someone
as a potential security threat,
the FBI won't be so quick
to let them go.
Sydney could be held long enough
to blow her cover at SD-6?
Under directive 8 1 A,
they could conceivably hold her
without trial or charges
for the rest of her life.
KENDALL: Describe your role
within SD-6.
Desk work at first,
but I advanced quickly.
The first year, I was being sent
out on reconnaissance missions.
The whole time, believing that
you were working for the CIA?
With the exception of a
half dozen high-level officers,
the entire office believes
they work for the CIA.
And you remained in school
during all of this.
Why?
Did SD-6 want you to?
Actually,
they didn't want me to.
It was something I wanted to do.
Become a teacher.
I didn't want to give that up.
Who is Daniel Hecht?
Danny was my fianc�.
Could you tell us
what happened to him, please?
D ANN Y: [Shouting]
Build me up
Buttercup, baby
Then you bring me down
And mess me around,
and then, worst of all
You never call, baby,
when you say you will
We had been together two years
when Danny proposed.
Don't break my heart
I had never told anyone
about my involvement with SD-6.
But I knew that if I was
gonna marry Danny
he had to know the truth.
So I told him
that I was a spy.
While I was in Taipei
on an operation,
SD-6 had him killed.
So, SD-6 murdered your fianc�?
Yes, they did.
And that didn't seem
extreme to you?
I don't understand
your question.
We're trying to determine how
a girl as brilliant as yourself
could believe an agency that
could order the assassination
of an innocent civilian
could actually be affiliated
with the U.
S.
Government.
You're suggesting that I knew
what SD-6 really was all along.
You claim to have learned
the truth about SD-6 when?
It wasn't a claim.
It was the truth.
After Danny
I refused to return to SD-6,
which they saw as a betrayal.
That's when they came after me.
It was that night that I learned
that my father
who I was never
very close to
was also an officer with SD-6.
Get in.
Daddy?
And I learned who I was
really working for.
About a decade ago,
a pool of agents went freelance.
The Alliance of 12.
They're an enemy
of the United States.
I'm one of them.
SD-6 is not a black-ops
division of the CIA.
SD-6 is a branch
of The Alliance.
You work for the enemy
you thought you were fighting.
That's impossible.
SYDNEY: That was the first time
I heard the truth about SD-6.
The first time.
Make sure Susan
gets Donaldson's briefing.
Call Josh.
Tell him I'm gonna
have to cancel lunch.
What'd you say before
about Haladki?
- I don't think he showers.
- About your friend.
She used to see him at lunch.
- At the Webster rotunda.
- Yeah.
- At the Adams Federal Building?
- Yeah.
Why?
You're not allowed
in the rotunda
unless you're
a ranking FBI officer.
No way.
Hey, you know what?
Excuse me.
Before you joined the Agency,
you were with the Bureau.
My history with the FBI
is right on my r�sum�.
You know exactly
what FBI protocol is,
and you know where
Sydney's being held.
You have lost your mind.
You're the one
on the witch hunt.
Look, we decoded
Rambaldi predictions.
The guy hasn't been wrong once.
Where is she?
What if he's not wrong
about this one?
What if Sydney Bristow
is a threat?
What if Rambaldi got it right?
What did they tell you
was the objective of SD-6?
The retrieval and study
of intelligence,
both military and industrial,
throughout the world,
that is critical
to the superiority
and survival of
the United States of America.
It's the company line.
Well, what does
"SD" stand for?
Section Desparu.
The section that doesn't exist.
Alain Christophe,
one of The Alliance founders.
The term was his.
Explain to us
about The Alliance of 12.
The Alliance is like
a board of directors.
Some are
from the private sector.
Most are former intelligence
officers.
All wealthy.
They started a company together,
except this company, The
Alliance, trades intelligence.
So you're saying
they're after
Weapons, military secrets,
industrial intel,
medical tech, computer advances,
political agendas.
- Anything the other guy wants.
- The other guy being?
Governments, corporations,
wealthy citizens, families.
It's all black market.
It's organized crime.
Could you give me an example?
Do you remember the carbon proxy
disaster in '92?
An accidental
methyl isocyanate leak
at the manufacturing plant
in Bangalore, India.
Killed 3,000 people.
Another 1,000 disabled.
1 996, near Kyoto, Japan.
Bullet train accidentally
switched tracks and derailed.
1 50 people were killed.
Last year in Germany.
A transport plane suffered
mechanical failure
outside Munich.
12 lives were lost.
None of them were accidents.
Some were acts of revenge.
Others were personal favors
to those who helped
to fund The Alliance.
Some were distractions,
so local resources were occupied
so that SD-4 or SD-7 could
infiltrate a building somewhere
and retrieve sensitive data.
Go on.
After what they did to Danny,
what they tried to do to me,
I swore I'd destroy them.
SD-6.
But first, I had to
win back their confidence,
so I stole something that
I knew Arvin Sloane wanted.
A device based on
the design by Milo Rambaldi.
I'm back.
Then I went to the people
that I thought I'd been
working for all along.
That's where I met
my handler, Michael Vaughn.
I thought the job
would be over by Christmas.
It was Vaughn
who made it clear to me
what I was really up against.
So that's how I became
a double agent.
And a few days later,
your father came to see you
and revealed that he
was a double agent
working for the CIA.
That his job at SD-6
was cover, too.
Yes, that's right.
Father and daughter
double agents.
Yes.
Why would he recruit his
daughter into that environment?
He wouldn't.
He didn't.
Arvin Sloane was a friend
of my parents.
It was Sloane's idea
to bring me in.
He didn't tell my father
until after I was active.
Why did Sloane go after you?
I don't know.
You're sure Sloane brought you
into SD-6, not your father?
Why do you ask?
Your father's allegiance has
always been with the CIA.
Now, listen to me.
I have been very patient.
I've put up with implications
that I'm not to be trusted.
But I will not accept you
insulting my father.
That is unacceptable.
- It was just a question.
- It was an accusation.
You are questioning my honor,
my loyalty.
Based on a prophecy
written in a book
that you wouldn't have
if it weren't for me.
- I think we should take a break.
- I want to finish this.
I want to get out of here.
No, sit down!
Listen to me!
I want to go home!
- Wait a minute!
- [Door opens]
[Door closes]
Okay, here we go.
Look at this.
Rocking the cradle.
Yes.
"Unless prevented
at vulgar cost,
this woman will render
the greatest power
unto utter desolation.
"
You gotta stop reading that.
What's "vulgar cost"?
Michael, I don't know.
"This woman without pretense
will have had her effect,
never having seen
the beauty of my sky
behind Mt.
Subasio.
Perhaps a single glance
would have quelled her fire.
"
"Never having seen the beauty
of my sky behind Mt.
Subasio.
"
That's where Rambaldi was born.
Why don't we all go
to Mt.
Subasio, huh?
All right, here we go.
Around the world.
What?
What just happened?
Thanks for coming.
I checked out Security Section.
They have nothing on Sydney.
Look at this.
"This woman
will have had her effect
never having seen
the beauty of Mt.
Subasio.
"
If the FBI is gonna take
this so literally,
then every phrase
must have equal veracity.
According to Rambaldi,
the subject of this prophecy
will have never seen
Mt.
Subasio.
Meaning if Sydney were to go
there and see it
She couldn't be the woman
Rambaldi was talking about.
It's good, it's good.
Devlin put three calls
in to the FBI director.
He was stonewalled.
The FBI's not in the most
cooperative mood.
We'll have to extract her.
Get her to Italy ourselves.
I know Devlin
would sanction transit.
We can have a jet in an hour.
The question is how to find her.
Steven Haladki.
He works in the L.
A.
Office.
Former FBI.
He still has ties.
Haladki.
I'll talk to him.
He's not talking.
He'll talk to me.
When we left off, we were
chatting about your father.
What can you tell me
about your mother?
For most of my life,
I thought that she was
a Literature professor at UCLA.
I thought that she was
a loving mother
and an adoring wife.
Apparently, I couldn't
have been more wrong.
Could you elaborate?
A few months ago,
I noticed something unusual.
I found Cyrillic codes
in old books
that my father had purchased.
I began to suspect him
of having collaborated
with the KGB.
But that wasn't the case,
was it?
No.
Those Cyrillic codes
you found in those books.
Yes, they were orders
from the KGB.
And, yes,
they were orders to kill.
An agent received those orders
and carried them out.
But, Sydney,
I was not that agent.
Your mother was.
Your mother was a traitor.
Yes.
A woman who appeared to be one
thing, but actually was another.
Your mother.
Tell me how she died.
I
[Clears throat]
I used to think
my mother and father
were driving together.
I was wrong.
My mother was actually alone.
She was being pursued
by an FBI
counterintelligence officer.
The roads were slippery.
There was an accident.
The cars went into the river.
After she died, your father
raised you.
Is that right?
No.
He hired a nanny.
Like I said,
he and I didn't have much of
a relationship until recently.
So, like your father,
you're a double agent.
Tell us how that works.
It always begins with
something that SD-6 wants.
Information, technology,
classified data.
Typically, Sloane outlines
the mission objective,
then Marshall reviews the tech.
Marshall?
He's our tech guy.
This looks like
just a normal phone.
"Hi, I'm gonna be late
for dinner, Dad.
Don't wait up for me.
"
Biometric sensor.
What it does is
Barely touch it,
and you are knocked out cold.
Like freebasing Thorazine.
Boom, you're out.
Now, this looks just like
a normal purse
that you would wear
at the beach
putting in your
but it is
a parabolic microphone.
Not only do they
take pictures silently,
but they're super-swank.
Once I have the mission
laid out, I contact the CIA.
I detail the SD-6 operation
on a brown paper bag
and wait for the CIA
to contact me.
After the CIA reviews
the mission, what happens then?
I meet Vaughn
to get my countermission.
And could you give us
an example of a countermission?
SD-6 sends me to Moscow
to get computer disks.
The CIA wants copies.
I'm in the bar.
I can see you.
Are those the files?
If they are, cough.
Get ready to make a switch.
- [Man speaking Russian]
- [Speaking Russian]
After I get back to Los Angeles,
I have to complete a brush pass.
I give the stolen disks
to Vaughn
so that the CIA can make copies.
Before I leave the airport,
Vaughn passes the originals back
so I can deliver them
to Sloane
all without
my SD-6 partner knowing.
- Your SD-6 partner?
- Dixon.
Dixon believes that SD-6
is affiliated with the CIA.
He doesn't know you're a double?
That's right.
Does that ever cause problems?
SD-6 sent us
to retrieve a vaccine
from a plant in Badenweiler
and destroy the empty building.
[Alarm blaring]
While I was in the laboratory,
Dixon was setting
the explosive charge.
What Dixon didn't know,
what I couldn't tell him,
was that the CIA also had
a team in that building.
I've got a bomb to disengage.
We'd appreciate it.
My CIA countermission
included disarming Dixon's bomb.
- Did you get the inhalers?
- We're good.
I knew Dixon's detonator
wouldn't work.
That was the plan.
Come on.
We gotta go.
I brought a secondary detonator
in case there was
a frequency jam.
Let's go.
Can we take a break, please?
Just for a minute?
I have no desire to blow
your head off,
but I will unless you tell me
where Sydney Bristow is.
The federal building
on Moorpark.
What's the plan?
There's a safe house
half a mile away.
- When are they transferring her?
- What time? 5:30.
That was the plan.
Just so we're clear.
You report this conversation,
and you'll never
wear a hat again.
I got it.
No worries.
I got it.
We need a list of people
who are aware
of your double-agent status.
It's a short list.
Besides the CIA,
only my father knows.
You've never told anyone else?
No.
After what happened
to Danny,
I thought it might be a good
idea to keep my mouth shut.
I'm gonna call the bank.
I'm gonna quit for you.
My job might seem pointless
and stupid, but it's not.
And if you even knew
what I dealt with every day,
you might thank me
for doing my job so well.
What the hell
are you talking about?
Nothing.
I'm going to work.
KENDALL: You have a hard time
keeping secrets?
No, I don't have a hard time
keeping a secret.
What I don't enjoy
is lying to my friends
or being in a constant state
of jet lag
from flying to far corners
of the world
for a man that I wish were dead.
Sloane.
Yes, Sloane.
How often does SD-6
send you on operations?
[Gunshots]
Tell me why
we're all gluttons for pain
The girl
is totally insane
She doesn't know
the meaning of tame
Still, I can't
put out the flame
Hey, hey, I wanna play
On the team
that you despise
Every day, a new disguise
Every night, a Halloween
She says,
"Keep the motor runnin', man"
Like I was some machine
And you can talk, talk,
but I'm keeping her stock
I wouldn't even
change a thing
Why fight?
You've got me
roped and tied
I hit your baited line,
I'm so diggin' your scene
I said
you're playin' with my head
I could split instead,
I'm so diggin' your scene
I keep busy.
What does SD-6 want?
What is their priority?
At the moment, it's Rambaldi.
What can you tell me
about him?
Milo Rambaldi
was Pope Alexander VI's
chief architect.
He was an artist and inventor.
His designs were
so technologically advanced
that, at the time,
they thought he was a heretic,
and he was executed.
Now, 500 years later,
many believe he was a prophet.
And SD-6, CIA, GRU,
K-Directorate.
The entire intelligence world
is on a Rambaldi scavenger hunt.
Why?
They assume that Rambaldi
had some sort of master plan,
which was recently confirmed
following my trip to Argentina.
In that book,
Rambaldi refers
to a single construction.
The agencies don't know
what it is yet,
but they're all afraid the other
guy's gonna get it first.
I just have one more question.
Do you believe
Rambaldi was a prophet?
Do you?
You're not gonna
let me go, are you?
We're done for today.
Don't move! Get down!
Down! On the ground!
Don't move!
You! Come with us!
Go, go!
Go, go!
We've got a silver van,
California license plate 4
You're gonna be okay.
What the hell are you doing?
Proving this prophecy
is not about you.
We'll explain
everything when we get there.
- Dad?
- Hey, honey.
If the FBI
takes this prophecy seriously,
the key to your innocence
will be in the second paragraph.
Rambaldi wrote that
the woman in that picture
will have never seen
Mt.
Subasio.
The FBI would have kept you
in custody for months.
SD-6 would have investigated
and found out the truth.
Going to Mt.
Subasio should give
them the proof they need.
The FBI might have let me go.
This makes them certain
I'm guilty.
Escaping from federal custody
and crossing the border
proves that I've acted in
opposition to the government.
It was either do nothing
and get killed by SD-6
or take a risk
to protect your cover.
- I'm a fugitive from justice.
- Not for long.
Once you get to Italy,
we'll alert all agencies of
our actions and your location.
They'll extract you, and
you'll no longer be a suspect.
You don't know that.
We will have protected
a vital CIA asset.
You.
FBI's not gonna want
to make a big deal out of this.
They can't afford the press.
I'm gonna take you to the jet.
You have to get in the trunk.
What if the FBI was right?
What if Rambaldi was right?
What if he was talking about me?
Then everything's predetermined.
Nothing we do makes
any difference.
If Rambaldi's right,
there's nothing to lose.
Seriously, guys,
cops are everywhere.
When you get to Italy,
contact me.
So we can speak.
Alan, it's Steven.
I need to tell you
something that happened today.
No, I'm not okay, actually.
I did a stupid thing,
and I'll take
full responsibility for it.
Jack Bristow came
to see me earlier.
I told him about
Sydney's transfer time.
When?
Are you all right?
You didn't think about it,
not once,
the possibility that Rambaldi
could be right about me.
No, I didn't.
Why not?
I believe in you.
Did you think I'd just
throw anyone in my trunk?
I just checked
with transportation.
Four vehicles were taken out.
I have their makes
and license plates.
You're gonna take that car
to Dozer Field.
There's a jet waiting
to take you to Italy.
- Be careful.
- You too.
MAN ON TV:
The LAPD is in pursuit
Every day there's
another one of these.
They're so stupid.
Why doesn't
the guy just give up?
- It's not like he can escape.
- He's stupid.
Switch your engine off now!
Look at that guy.
This is the part where he gets
out of his car and surrenders.
Turn off the engine and step
away from the vehicle now!
Get your hands up!
Get your hands
where we can see them!
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
[Telephone rings]
- Yeah.
- It's me.
Sydney, where are you?
I need to see you now.
What happened to you?
That plane is ready
to take you to Italy.
- You need to go now.
- I know.
But I needed
to see you first.
Dad, I just drove a car
into the ocean.
I knew the police
were waiting for me.
I used the air from the tires.
I was underwater for 1 0 minutes
before I started to swim.
And as that car
started to fill with water,
I knew what my mother had done
in the same situation.
Dad, she could have
planned that accident.
It makes sense.
She was deceitful.
She was cruel, ruthless.
And in Rambaldi's prophecy
he uses details,
like that DNA sequencing.
Dad, I inherited that.
I mean,
it's either Mom or me.
I know it's not me.
Mom's alive.
I know it.