My name is Sydney Bristow.
Seven years ago I was recruited by a secret branch of the CIA
called SD-6. I was sworn to secrecy,
but I couldn't keep it from my fiancé,
and when the head of SD-6 found out,
he had him killed.
That's when I learned the truth --
SD-6 is not part of the CIA.
I'd been working for the very people
I thought I was fighting against.
So I went to the only place that could help me take them down.
Now I'm a double agent for the CIA,
where my handler is a man named Michael Vaughn.
Only one other person knows the truth about what I do,
another double agent inside SD-6 --
someone I hardly know.
My father.
Didn't Syd say she went to Seattle?
Yeah. So?
Well, why is there a return ticket from Italy
in her pocket?
I came here to pass along an order from devlin.
You're going to see a counselor
for trauma evaluation.
Khasinau has just converted $250 million worth of assets
into cash.
We need to know what he's spending that money on.
You're leaving for vienna tonight.
Noah?
Oh, my God.
Do me a favor, Syd. Tread carefully here.
Until he goes through debriefing,
I wouldn't get too friendly.
It's ancient history. It was five years ago.
You were the last person
that I ever wanted to see again --
ever.
And you were the only person
that I ever wanted to see again.
They found us.
We got to go.
Skyhook, this is white rabbit.
Copy, white rabbit.
Change of plan.
Tell me you can get us out of here 30 minutes early.
Affirmative.
Skyhook, we are being pursued!
We're not going to make it to the meeting point!
We need extraction here now!
Copy that. We've locked on to your signal.
Prepare for extraction.
Skyhook, wilco. Have you in sight.
Turning final approach from the South.
Syd, we got a hostile, 6:00.
Reverse course 1-8-0 degrees for recovery in 10...
Noah, hold on.
9...
Drive for me. 8...
7...
6...
5...
4...
I'm pulling the cord!
3...
2...
1.
Hold on!
The CIA has a new lead on khasinau.
Apparently, k-directorate is looking for revenge, too.
We received intel last night
that they've hired a fairly prestigious freelance assassin
to find khasinau and dismember him.
The snowman is his code name. Are you familiar with him?
The snowman.
He's been on the CIA's most-wanted list
for the last 12 years, presumed dead since '97,
but it seems we're not so lucky.
I'm looking for contacts.
I'm thinking maybe we can find khasinau
by following the snowman.
I just want to make sure
that you get to khasinau first.
I know how important this is to you.
Thank you.
Hey, um...
So, the, uh, the operation went all right
in arkhangelsk with Noah?
Yeah.
Good.
Are you sure she's coming back tonight?
That's what she said on the machine.
She's at the airport in San Francisco
waiting for a plane.
So, what, are we going to strategize this?
Strategize how?
I want to be gentle with her,
because we're accusing Sydney of lying.
You know what I was thinking?
What if she wants us to ask her?
Like she wanted you to find the plane ticket
because it's some sort of cry for help or something.
Well, maybe.
Hey, guys.
Hey. Hi.
So, how was San Francisco?
Two days of due diligence.
If I never see another financial statement,
it'll be fine with me.
I'm just going to crash if you don't mind.
No. No, of course not.
Okay. Hi.
Hi. Hey.
I can't believe you didn't say anything.
That's why I wanted to strategize.
Syd, you think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding.
I want you to go away with me.
My point is,
what happened the other night --
it was just too soon.
Russia's got a hell of a bootleg software industry.
When I was there, I figured out a way
of skimming money off the Russian mob.
What are you talking about?
I got a lot of money hidden in several offshore accounts.
Syd, I'm getting out.
I'm sick of lying to everyone I know.
I'm at the point where the idea
of just walking away from all these people
that are supposed to be my good friends,
my best friends, is a relief.
And you tell me you've never felt that way.
I'm just saying that I've got someone helping me out.
I'm not kidding, Syd. I want you to come with me.
I can't tell you where, but I can tell you
we won't need locks on the doors
and you will learn how to surf.
You know I can't do that.
Why?
Well, for about a million reasons.
Well, I highly doubt there are a million reasons.
There might be 50, and I'd like the opportunity
to refute all of them.
One of the biggest reasons that comes to mind
is my mother.
Khasinau was her superior.
My mother was a spy for the kgb,
and those files that we recovered
may help me find her.
I'm not going anywhere until I know where she is.
What if I wait?
Will you ever do it?
Sir, as you requested,
we followed up on agent Noah Hicks.
Is Hicks in the building?
Yes, sir. He arrived 12 minutes ago.
Tell McCullough I need to see him.
And don't let Hicks leave.
Dad?
Sydney.
Last time we spoke you said that
you were going to talk to someone.
I did. Thank you. I took care of it.
Marshall said he unlocked khasinau's computer core.
If I'd been consulted about your last operation,
I wouldn't have allowed it.
Those types of computers are primarily used
for theoretical analyses, war games.
Of the recovered files, none bear relevance
to khasinau's operation, his plans,
or his cache of rambaldi artifacts,
nor do they give any hint to his whereabouts.
But when I was there, I saw that there were
some files on mom.
Yes, I know.
Also recovered on the core
were some equally unhelpful archival files --
in the case of your mother, video footage.
Was she in the video?
Yes.
I mean, after the accident?
They showed her alive after the accident?
Yes.
I have no interest in watching the video myself.
Analysis is reviewing it.
So far there's nothing to help
in the hunt for khasinau, so the risk
was all for nothing.
Hey, Dixon.
Hmm?
I just keep trying to think of some kind
of opening line, you know -- something to start off with,
to talk to you.
Noah, I'll be straight with you.
I don't trust you.
Which wouldn't be such a problem,
except I'm an intelligence officer,
and if you stick around, sooner or later
my life is going to be in your hands,
and yours in mine.
And in that scenario,
the only person truly safe will be you.
Mr. Hicks, would you come with us, please?
Is there a problem?
Mr. sloane asked for you to come with us.
Well, that's never a good thing.
Excuse me.
And on march 16th of this year,
you opened an account with bank africana.
Yes, sir.
Explain.
Well, it was exactly like the account
we were just talking about.
It was opened up under an alias
as part of an s.V.R. Operation.
Mr. McCullough, I was working undercover,
and I was required to do a whole bunch of things
which probably seem very suspicious
when viewed from the outside.
$47 million was transferred
then withdrawn within 24 hours.
Yes.
To an untraceable account.
Who was the recipient of that money?
You don't seem real thrilled with these responses.
Have you ever conducted business
with the g.L. Bank of Austria?
Yes.
Please provide details.
This man is hiding something.
I'm curious to know what it is.
Would you like me to have a word with him?
My Russian or American name?
Uh, why not both?
Irina derevko and Laura Bristow.
When were you recruited for special duties?
In 1970, I was recruited to the kgb by you,
Alexander khasinau.
Describe the objective of your operation.
Phase one -- I was to pose as an American,
a student of literature.
Phase two -- I was to make the acquaintance
of a particular officer
in the central intelligence agency
to insinuate myself into his life,
to become his confidant, earn his trust.
Please state the officer by name.
Officer Jonathan donahue Bristow.
Phase three?
Phase three -- I was to begin to acquire,
through various means, details of the CIA operation
to which Bristow was assigned --
project Christmas.
You have no reason to believe
that anyone else was suspicious of you?
Nyet.
Hey.
I need you to feed Donovan. Who?
What do you mean, who? My dog -- Donovan. Come here.
Oh, right. Hey, wait.
Which key is to the -- where are you going?
That's the top lock, that's the bottom lock.
I'm going to bogotá.
Give him a can of the dog food
that's on the floor of the cupboard
and half a can of the dried stuff.
What's in bogotá? But only a half a can.
There's a bag of the dried stuff next to the canned stuff.
Right. What the hell is in bogotá?
I just got off the phone with the interpol liaison officer.
Was attacked by the snowman -- punctured heart, collapsed lung,
he lost an eye. It was --
okay, I got it. It was bad, yeah.
This guy kishell used to work with snowman.
Really? Who we know is after khasinau.
Right. So we get kishell, we can get to the snowman.
We can get khasinau.
Exactly. Half a can only.
I don't want to come back to a fat dog. All right.
There were two men in mom's video.
One was khasinau.
The other one, I recognized him.
I knew I'd seen his face before.
It was the man from the article,
the FBI agent who supposedly died in the accident with mom.
Calder's real name is Igor Sergei valenko,
the man who was pursuing mom.
The FBI spy hunter.
Dad, he was kgb.
It wasn't just mom's death they faked.
It was calder's, too.
If we can get to calder, maybe we can find khasinau.
You're assuming calder and khasinau still have ties.
But we know that khasinau recently liquidated
over $200 million in assets.
On that memo were initials -- I.S.V.
Also, six months ago, a man matching calder's description
was caught on an sd-4 surveillance camera
entering a financial office in cape town,
a known money-laundering operation.
I'm going to suggest to sloane
that we get to the cape town office,
seize their records, and find calder.
Noah spent years undercover in South Africa.
He'll be an asset.
SD-6 has run an additional profile on Noah.
There were anomalies,
including recent bank activity
which suggests he may have ties to k-directorate.
Noah's been taken into custody by security section.
What? No, that's --
wait, I know what that's about.
It has nothing to do with another agency.
Sydney, you have no perspective on who that man is.
You're as lost now as I was years ago.
Wait, dad, you don't know him.
And you don't know him, either.
That's the lesson in all this.
Dad, Noah Hicks is not a perfect man,
but he is also not a traitor.
He's a loyal officer who believes
that he is working for the CIA
and has no idea that SD-6 --
that they would kill him
if they thought he was a double agent.
Please.
Dad, talk to sloane.
I never actually met the snowman.
He always contacted me by telephone.
His name -- the snowman --
it comes from his method.
He prefers an icepick.
But he uses knives, too.
I helped arrange travel across difficult borders.
It was my specialty.
One operation, he was ambushed, attacked.
He fought off and killed eight men that night.
He thought it was me, thought I tipped someone off.
That was when he came after me.
He came to this house.
He attacked me while I slept.
Killing is his job.
He likes his job.
Mr. kishell, I appreciate you talking to me.
I know this must be very difficult.
I know difficult.
Talk is easy.
I know the CIA has spoken to you before, years ago,
but we recently learned that an organization
has hired the snowman for a job.
Now, I read the transcripts.
Last time, you said you had no leads.
I was hoping maybe this time you might have some.
You have come too far to go home with nothing.
For years I was afraid to do anything,
to seek revenge.
But enough time has passed, Mr. Vaughn.
I have no more fear.
Yes, I have some leads.
And you'd be willing to share them?
I will contact them myself.
See if I can find out where the snowman is,
what his plans are.
I'd appreciate that.
You must promise me one thing --
that when you find him,
he will suffer, too.
Oh, come on, sweetheart, you're in pain.
He can get you a stronger --
okay. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, just -- right.
Just promise me that you'll call me
after you talk to him, okay?
Good. Okay. Me too.
Bye.
I need a minute.
Yeah.
This is about Noah Hicks.
There's something he's not telling us.
I think he might have been turned.
If you have Hicks killed,
I think you'd be throwing away an asset.
How so?
You want khasinau. You're closer than you think.
Were you aware that calder, FBI,
was working with the kgb since 1973?
Sydney's designed an operation that will lead us to calder,
at which point we'll be one step away from khasinau.
And she wants Mr. Hicks involved.
This is becoming familiar, Jack --
your coming to me,
requesting special consideration
for the men in Sydney's life.
Tippin didn't turn out to be a problem, did he?
Sydney wasn't intimate with tippin.
She is with Hicks.
I'm not sure that's my business,
and I know it isn't yours.
♪ Little by little
♪ set this whole thing off
♪ I'm gonna lie
♪ I'm gonna try not to get caught up ♪
♪ it's the whole world in the palm of my hand ♪
♪ and it's looking at you
♪ and you don't give a damn ♪
♪ I've got the whole thing ♪
♪ caught up in my head
♪ sometimes these words will be better ♪
♪ just left unsaid
♪ I've got this whole thing caught inside of my head ♪
♪ don't you care?
Sloane accepted the mission I proposed.
Noah and I are going to cape town.
Calder's done some business
at a financial office there.
We're going to break into that office,
get their records, and hopefully find out
where calder is.
What's my countermission?
When you realized calder was really kgb,
you should have come to me.
Did you think that this was just an accident,
that I just wasn't thinking?
I don't know what the hell you were thinking.
I was thinking about the 36 hours
the FBI kept me in chains.
If I turned over the calder information to you,
you would be required, unless you wanted
to break federal law, to forward it to the FBI,
and we both know what they would do.
Classify it. Omega 17.
We wouldn't be allowed near that investigation.
I was supposed to give you this,
tell you to write down whatever information
you recover from calder.
Stick it in the waterproof chamber,
activate the beacon, and throw it in the trash can.
We'll retrieve it.
But I'm guessing you're not going to use it.
Vaughn, I promise you khasinau will not walk,
and I won't let SD-6 get to him first.
But I refuse to let the FBI get in my way again.
Nice shot.
Thanks. Easier to shoot tranqs.
No anxiety you're killing somebody.
The floor around the server room
is alarmed with highly sensitive motion detectors.
So we stay off the floor.
Well, of course, but it also has audio sensors
that can detect any sound above .05 dbs.
In other words...
This right here -- 2 dbs.
.05 dbs is closer to like the sound of a cockroach
rubbing its legs together -- you know...
Okay, so what do we do?
Well, active noise control.
It emits an out-of-phase audio signal
that cancels out any sound within a 200-foot radius.
Check it out.
That is really loud, right?
All right, and...
♪ Ready, steady, go
♪ ready, steady, go
♪ ready...Go
♪ yo, ready
♪ ready
♪ yo, ready, steady, go
♪ ready, steady, go
♪ strictly the mother--
the server case is alarmed,
so don't let anything touch it.
You're going to want to get a wireless modem
within 3 inches of the server.
Now, Mr. Hicks, you'll hack into the server
and then download all the data into your laptop.
Am I boring you?
♪ Ready...Go
♪ ready, steady, go
♪ strictly the mother--
♪ ready, steady, go
♪ strictly the mother--
♪ ready, steady, go
you have no reason to believe that anyone else
became suspicious of you?
Nyet.
Of course I would have told you.
Uh, how did you acquire your intel?
Every night for 10 years I went through his briefcase.
I eavesdropped on all of his private conversations.
I planted listening devices on his clothing.
He was blinded by his emotions.
He knew nothing.
I can tell you one thing.
Jack Bristow was a fool.
Dr. barnett.
Mr. Bristow.
Yes. I was, um...
I was wondering if you might have some time this afternoon.
I'll make some time.
Hey, I didn't pick that play.
No, the computer picked it for you. You didn't do it.
Yeah, but -- no, but I don't --
reset it! Touchdown!
You cheated. Score.
Dude! Score.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
What is going on?
Why are you looking at me like that?
Did you guys break something of mine?
No, it's, uh...
I found this in the pocket of your jacket
I borrowed last week.
You said you were in Seattle.
Syd, you can tell us
if it's none of our business, but...
We just care about you, that's all.
This is serious.
Um...
Okay, I've signed, like,
a dozen non-disclosure agreements,
so this is just between us.
Of course.
Six months ago, my job at the bank changed.
We have a handful of clients --
most of them are international --
who don't want their business
to go through the postal service.
They don't want a paper trail.
So, I fly to them
as the bank's representative.
I'm so sorry I had to keep this from you guys.
I just had no choice.
Is that legal?
Oh, yeah, it's totally legit --
it's just --
it's just secret.
Francie thought you were having an affair.
No, I didn't!
Yes, you did.
I just said if you were having an affair,
I would know about it.
Well, this is all there is.
So, I'm going to go change,
and then I'm gonna kick your ass in that game.
Oh, bring it on. Seriously.
I am so bored playing with francie, it's rid--
♪ I've got stones in my pocket ♪
♪ no feathers in my bed
♪ I see the road and I'm walking ♪
♪ but my legs are made of lead ♪
Hey, Marshall.
Hey, miss Bristow.
Anything yet? Any word on where calder is?
Mr. sloane didn't tell you?
There was no data recovered from Noah's laptop.
That server room must have had active countermeasures,
some sort of emf generator,
so, basically, when you ran out,
your laptop got pulsed and erased everything.
Hey.
Hi.
You heard about the computers.
Yes.
Syd, if your mom is out there,
you will find her. It's going to happen.
I just feel like I'm at a dead end.
How's the arm?
Well, it's, uh, it feels great.
The Lidocaine hasn't worn off.
26 stitches -- new personal record.
Hello, Sydney. Hello.
I was disappointed when I heard Marshall's news,
but I'm confident that we'll pick up calder's trail.
Noah, flight to baku leaves at 6:00.
In two weeks, you'll enter into a doctoral program
on petrol geoscience at gazar university.
Inside this folder, there's information
on dead drop procedure.
See I.D. Services for your passport
and travel visas.
Good luck, Noah.
Noah just got home from a 5-year deep cover assignment.
He's been home for two weeks.
Do you think it's wise to send him under again so soon?
I volunteered.
Thank you.
You're not really going to baku, are you?
No.
Tuvalu. It's an island in the South pacific.
I, uh, talked to my contact.
He says now's my window.
I'm leaving tonight.
And we could go together.
Sometimes all I want to do is disappear.
Just let all of this go
and just start over again.
But I have my personal reasons for staying.
Syd, this life is not worth it,
and you know it.
There's too many secrets.
There's too much lying to everybody in your life
that's supposed to be -- I know. I know.
Then come with me.
Here's what we're going to do.
I booked you on a flight for tomorrow night.
Syd, you come with me for one week to Tuvalu,
and let me prove to you that it can work.
Noah...
And if it's about your mother,
you and I can find your mother.
We don't need the CIA for that.
It'll be our last mission.
And after that, we'll just start...
Completely new. Can you imagine that?
Be on that plane, and give me one week.
Just one week.
One week.
Mr. sloane! Mr. sloane!
Listen, I know I've been somewhat impressed with myself
in the past, but this time I am like freaking out about it.
Marshall, could you just tell me what --
I used a signal lost recovery procedure
to examine the low-level data sector.
I created a raw image --
Marshall! What did you do?
I found valenko.
I mean calder.
Well, it's the same guy, right?
Well, I found him.
Marshall has impressively reconstructed
the data that you downloaded
from the server in cape town.
The financial routing information
directed us to mackay, Australia,
and Bentley calder's private residence.
Now, this one is straightforward --
a daylight snatch operation.
You lead a recovery team, grab calder at his house,
bring him here for questioning.
Plane leaves in two hours.
Dixon, could you give us a minute?
Sydney,
I told you I'd get you closer to your mother.
I'm always here for you.
You know that.
Thanks.
♪ Will you be my favorite regret? ♪
Hello?
Hey, it's me.
I am 35,000 feet over the pacific,
and you just missed the most beautiful sunset
that I've ever seen in my life.
Hi.
You're coming, right?
Tell me that you are coming to meet me.
Noah...
Come on.
If things were different.
Any word on calder?
No.
Noah, it was great to see you again, but --
Syd, whatever you're about to say,
it's not goodbye.
Okay?
Okay.
All right. I'll see you.
I'll see you, too.
Okay, I believe this isn't goodbye.
Joey's pizza?
Wrong number.
Devlin knows you're going to Australia.
You understand he'll be expecting a full report.
Yeah.
Syd, I know how important it is for you to find your mother,
and I'll help you however I can.
Thanks.
Any word on the snowman?
That guy I met in bogotá --
I'm waiting for him to call me back.
You want to tell me what's going on?
Sydney, you can talk to me.
Off the record.
I'm all right.
Wait until I open the main gate before you come in.
All right. "B" team will secure the perimeter
in case calder tries to take off.
Okay.
This is Vaughn.
Mr. Vaughn, I have spoken to my friends.
I have some information for you.
Dixon.
Are you at the junction box?
No, not yet. This is weird. I don't see any guards.
Weiss.
Yeah.
The snowman -- he's been spotted in mackay.
Sydney's there, too.
He's going after calder to get to khasinau.
Can you think of a way to contact Sydney,
put out a warning? We don't have her on comm?
No.
Dixon? Dixon? I just saw two --
I just saw three guards. They're dead.
Dixon?
Oh, no, calder!
No!
I tried to keep you from this.
I want you to know that.
Sydney!