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.
I have this source who told me about you.
And I don't even know where he lives.
I don't know where he works,
but he knows -- he knows everything.
I'm proud of you.
What? Of me?
I've worked with a lot of people.
You make it look easy.
The alliance knows you disregarded their policy
and pursued khasinau.
They're going to want to see evidence
that your priorities are in order.
Are you suggesting
that I allow you to kill my wife
to enhance my standing within the alliance?
You'll meet with sark in denpasar,
disguised as a representative from the raslak jihad.
I'll cover you from a safe distance
while you broker the deal with sark
for the counterfeit rambaldi solution.
Sydney, it's Dixon.
He's here.
Hands in the air!
Take position over there,
but cover fire only. I don't want Bristow hurt.
I couldn't make the switch! Sark's got the real ampule!
I'm on him. Head to the extraction point.
Cover me!
Freeze!
Turn around. Hands on your head.
I don't want to hurt you.
Freelancer, are you at the extraction point yet?
Eagle eye, I got the ampule. I got you five by --
I need a 20 on freelancer. You cannot leave sark until he's secured.
Damn it, where is she?
Go.
Go!
Hello?
You said
you were back on the story. Why haven't you published?
I need something from you.
You're going to tell your contact
you want a meeting,
a meeting to take place at your contact's discretion.
Why would he lead me to you,
knowing that you'd want to flush him out?
He only told you my name so you'd realize
my threat to you was a bluff,
that I'd never hurt Sydney
even if you continued your investigation.
I didn't expect you to have the guts to contact me.
Well, I'll assume that's a compliment.
When you ask for the meeting,
your contact will refuse.
What do I say? You say...
I know something you'll be interested in.
I know about the circumference.
Okay, what the hell's the circumference?
It's not your concern.
I got to know what I'm talking about.
No, you don't. You just tell him
if he wants to know more, you'll have to meet.
Look, just meet with me
or find somebody else, because I tell you,
I'm just sick of all this cloak and dagger crap.
Very well, Mr. tippin.
You will be contacted with instructions.
I'm sure I speak for our distinguished friend
from Los Angeles when I say
how much we appreciate your coming on such short notice.
I know it reflects your understanding
that the business before us today
is as difficult as it is vital
to the very survival of our organization.
I understand you have some prepared remarks. Please.
Thank you, Ramon.
Before I begin, should we wait
until all the other members have arrived?
That won't be necessary.
I feel rather awkward sitting here
asking you to allow my wife to die of cancer.
Arvin, the agreement is simple.
People with any unauthorized information regarding SD-6
or any sd cell must be eliminated.
My wife is being eliminated
by cancer,
and the pending bone marrow biopsy reports
will merely inform us
as to the number of days she has left,
days that she will spend in an SD-6 hospital
where information can be contained.
Should you choose to intervene,
naturally, I'll be forced to resign,
something I believe
you should factor into your decision.
Now...
In the past 12 years, SD-6 has made for the alliance
over $400 million in arms sales alone,
plus another $300 million from various transactions
with anini Hassan.
In addition,
we have acquired more rambaldi artifacts
than all the sd cells combined.
Your service to the alliance is unquestioned,
with one exception.
We know you had our colleague Jean briault assassinated.
You know about poole, don't you?
That's why he's not here.
You know that khasinau had him in his pocket.
Our former colleague has, under duress,
acknowledged his connection with Mr. khasinau,
and his manipulation of you
that led to briault's unfortunate passing.
Faced with a breach of this magnitude,
we have reevaluated our position
regarding peaceful coexistence
with khasinau.
We know you have advocated a war with khasinau.
The alliance is now
fully prepared to engage in such an action.
I am relieved
and gratified.
He is an enemy worthy of our combined resources.
You must have a vision
of how all of this is supposed to play out.
I am assuming that your plan ends in assassination.
Yes, that's right -- assassination of khasinau.
Then your plan must change.
If we abduct khasinau, or worse yet, kill him,
most certainly we will never have an opportunity to learn
what it is he is after
or how he works
or with whom.
Put away your need for revenge.
Find out what you can.
Bring us substantial intel
and we will take your wife's situation
under advisement.
Hey.
You miss me?
So how was, uh...
Palm Springs.
Perfect.
Right, right. The desert.
I actually read a book.
You didn't go with anyone?
I asked will and francie, but they both had work.
It was good, actually, being alone.
I needed time to decompress.
Mm.
We've reacquired khasinau's trail.
We have?
Mm-hmm. We apprehended sark in denpasar.
Turns out there was a second ampule.
We intercepted a communiqué
detailing sark's plan to buy it
from a splinter group of the raslak jihad.
Did you get the ampule?
No. Sark didn't have it on him.
Hmm.
I'm going to read the op tech report,
catch up on what I missed.
Sydney.
For the record,
I did miss you.
Oh, Mr. Bristow. Good morning, francie.
I'm just here to give Sydney a ride to work. Sure. Come on in.
I've got to go. Bye.
Bye, francie.
Kretchmer briefed me on denpasar.
It was a sloppy operation.
Your pursuit of your mother is clouding your judgment.
You can't afford to continue.
And at the moment, I can't protect you.
I haven't regained sloane's trust.
He still hasn't reinstated me to active duty.
I'm not even privy to his briefings.
Then you haven't heard that SD-6 got sark.
While this might not seem like a particularly good day for you,
you'd be surprised.
We have people here trained in torture,
and they are so good at what they do,
I sometimes take them for granted.
But I'm not in the mood for torture.
No, there's been enough torture lately.
We've been somewhat curious about your employer...
Alexander khasinau.
Well...
You're in good company.
Yes.
But we have you.
Indeed.
I need to find your employer.
You raise an interesting point.
Given my current state of affairs,
it doesn't seem as if my affiliation
with Mr. khasinau is long for this earth.
We both know you're a very clever young man,
so we don't need to play games.
You're valuable to me.
You can help me find khasinau.
I'm valuable to you...
Obviously.
I understand I am in no position
to demand anything,
but for the record,
I'm far more comfortable talking
over a glass of chateau petreuse...
'82.
Why does that guy have such a guilty look on his face?
Yesterday, ginger told rod that Gavin was Ruby's pimp,
but rod didn't even know that Ruby was a prostitute.
Who's Gavin?
Ruby's father.
Ew.
Right.
Will.
Huh? Hi.
Oh, what's, uh, what happened to Ruby's dad?
Where are you?
I'm sorry, I just got this work thing...
Hello.
Listen carefully, Mr. tippin.
I'm about to give you instructions on where to meet.
They must be followed to the letter.
Guess who just tore me a new one.
Devlin.
Now ask me why.
Why?
Because I took a bullet for you today.
They want to know why you left sark
when he wasn't secured yet. I said I told you to,
I misread the feed from the satellite,
I thought the recovery team was nearby.
Thank you. I lied to save your ass.
That's what partners do for each other. I said thank you.
I don't want your thanks. I want it to stop.
Look, Sydney's my responsibility.
Look, Mike, I'm not going to trivialize your relationship
with her by calling it a crush -- a crush?
But whatever it is, it's starting to affect me,
and if that sounds selfish to you,
I was hoping to retire fully vested.
I know you genuinely care for her.
I do, too.
But there is a line that we have been sworn not to cross.
We're about a mile past that.
I don't know how to be Sydney's handler
without making it personal.
Figure out a way.
I must admit, I was only half serious
when I asked for the petreuse.
I just assumed, after what khasinau's done --
sending men into this facility,
murdering some of your men --
that, regardless of what I said,
you'd split my belly with a hunting knife.
Do you think that's the kind of activity
the CIA engages in?
Not the CIA.
Khasinau sent you to moscow to negotiate with k-directorate.
He trusts you.
You know things.
I suppose I better know things.
However, to be clear,
my employer hardly tells me everything.
Mmm.
We will collaborate,
you and I.
You will lead me to khasinau.
Understood?
May I?
Understood?
Understood.
As it turns out, our Mr. sark
is a very cooperative young man.
We have received independent confirmation for the intel
he's provided thus far.
It seems that Mr. sark's loyalty to khasinau
disappeared the moment that he was kidnapped.
So, what's the move?
Sark wasn't scheduled to make contact with khasinau
until Thursday night. They've arranged to meet
at a dinner club in Paris that khasinau owns.
That's where you're going.
Is this an abduction?
No. Khasinau is expecting the ampule.
According to sark, khasinau needs it --
the solution in it -- in order to read
a rambaldi document that they believe contains text
written in rambaldi's now-familiar invisible ink.
This rambaldi page will be at the Paris location.
Sark will be provided with a counterfeit ampule
which he will pass on to khasinau.
Your job is to steal this rambaldi page from his office
and replace it with a counterfeit.
Wait a minute. I don't understand.
We've been hunting khasinau for months.
Sydney, I know that you have a personal stake in this --
we're going to be in the same room as the guy,
and you want us to go after a document?
This is ridiculous. Let's just get the son of a bitch.
Sydney, no one wants khasinau more than I do.
No one.
Sark has provided us with detailed plans of the club,
its operation, and the location of the vault.
Luckily, an employee of the club is about to call in sick.
It's been arranged for you to take her place.
Marshall will provide you with the op tech.
Um...
Um, how's your -- your voice?
Why?
I was contacted.
Were you followed? No.
Tell me exactly what precautions you took.
I did what you told me -- I didn't use my blinkers,
I avoided the inner lanes,
I circled the block every 3 Miles.
What did your contact say?
He wants to meet. Good.
You'll be picked up by men in a van. They'll be armed.
Okay.
You'll be blindfolded and taken to another location.
Okay, I know what that feels like.
But they will not hurt you. They need you.
And they're going to take me to deep throat.
Or someone who works for him.
There's a miniature transmitter sewn into the lining.
What if they frisk me?
It's too small to be detected.
What were the terms? Terms?
Time, place, oral or visual tell?
There's a street corner.
I'm supposed to be reading
the business section of a local paper.
When? Tomorrow night, 7:00.
Where?
Paris.
Please tell me my countermission is to grab khasinau.
It's not. Well, it should be.
I'm going to be this close to him,
and nobody wants me to take him into custody?
SD-6 must not get the rambaldi document.
Now, in transit to your extraction point,
you'll replace what Dixon took from the vault with these.
That's it? Just switch the pages?
Yes. These are counterfeit.
Do you have any questions about the mission?
No, I do not.
Vaughn, what's going on?
Nothing. Do you have any questions?
Yes, I want to know what's going on with you.
You're acting...
Well, not like yourself.
I'm fine, but I should go.
Um, good luck.
Thanks.
I couldn't go through this without you.
Dr. levin and I discussed your pain management.
Arvin...
I don't want to be here in the hospital when...
I want to be home.
Promise me.
I promise.
Bonsoir. Bonsoir.
C'est mon téléphone.
Très bien. Madame?
Madame?
Or you could say it's a friendship ring, something
to signify platonic intimacy between two girls
or a guy and a girl, which a lot of people say is impossible,
that a guy and a girl would -- we're friends.
Right.
Okay, this actually is a cardiac event recorder.
Now, khasinau's vault uses biometric access control --
no code, no key, nothing.
So this will detect heartbeat signatures --
in khasinau's case, a very unique one
because this guy suffers from atrial fibrillation.
Now, what you want to do is put this kind of on
or, you know, on top of his thorax
or anywhere that you might get a pulse,
and then it will transmit the ecg data
to Dixon's cell phone,
who will use that to fool the biometric sensor
and, uh, voilà. Open sesame.
Merci.
Take this.
What's this?
A time-release methamphetamine
to counteract the effects of sodium pentothal.
Sodium pentothal. Like a truth serum.
They're going to give me that?
I would.
Great.
Don't worry. I'll be monitoring you the whole time.
You have your cover story straight?
They're going to kill me, aren't they?
If they wanted that,
you would have been dead long ago.
They need you
because you can publish the story
who knows about the circumference.
I wouldn't let you do this
if I thought the odds were in favor of your murder.
Great.
After tonight,
I'll have a recording of your interrogator's voice,
possibly even of your contact's,
if he's foolish enough to make an appearance.
Either way, we have a lead to trace.
Ah, Mr. sark.
Mr. khasinau.
Ah.
I hear you had some troubles in denpasar.
It's good to have you back safe.
Thank you.
Please.
Can I see the ampule?
Shall we proceed to my office?
Make sure you keep khasinau at his table,
and in case you have any thoughts of warning him,
I would advise against it.
We'll be taking precautions.
I took the liberty of ordering.
Yes.
Okay, good idea.
Yes, we celebrate your success first.
♪ You
♪ made me leave my happy home
♪ you took my love and now you're gone ♪
♪ since I fell for you
♪ my life
♪ brings such misery and pain ♪
♪ I know I'll never be the same ♪
♪ since I fell for you
♪ it's too bad
♪ and it's too sad
♪ but I'm in love with you
Almost got it, Syd.
A couple more seconds.
♪ And then you snubbed me
get in the van, Mr. tippin.
♪ I'm still in love with you
all right, I got it. I'm heading to the vault, Syd.
♪ I
♪ well, I-I-I guess I'll never see the light ♪
♪ I get the blues most every night ♪
♪ since I fell for you
Uh, no, no, no, no, no.
We have the young man from Los Angeles.
Mm-hmm. Proceed.
We're good, Syd.
I'll meet you out back in two minutes.
Your arm, please.
So are you the person I've been talking to?
He will be along shortly.
First, we have questions.
What's that, like, sodium pentathol?
So that our conversation will go smoothly.
Tell me, Mr. tippin,
how did you find out about the circumference?
I heard about it.
From who?
A name, Mr. tippin.
The name?
Okay.
Aah!
Oh, my God. What the hell's going on? How did you get here?
Will, listen to me. How did you get here?
What the hell's happening? Will!
I was following a story.
We have to move.
Come on. Come on.
Dixon, I can't get to you.
I'll see you at the extraction point.
Copy that. I'll meet you in 30 minutes.
Vitoly!
Stop!
We're going out the front!
Get down. Okay.
Come on.
Will!
Get in! Oh, Jack, thank God.
He came here with you?! Get down!
It's Bristow. I need a full identity switch
and cover escort, eta three minutes.
For his protection, we should not discuss this.
You call this protecting him?!
There are superceding considerations.
This one has no field experience. He needs a makeover.
Go with him. It's okay.
Which part of this is okay?
Take off your clothes.
What?
Now.
Pay attention.
Tout suite, tout suite, tout suite!
Your name is patrice lafont.
You were born in nantes,
where you lived until you were 5.
Okay.
How could you bring him into this?
I didn't. He was looking into Danny's death.
Sloane found out. I had to step in
to keep security section from executing him.
Why didn't you tell me?
Someone, possibly in intelligence,
contacted him -- very highly placed.
They've been steering him toward SD-6.
They told him about me. That's why we're here --
pursuing a lead to track his source.
Well, no one from intelligence was in that club.
Those people who were interrogating will --
they work for khasinau.
He wants to bring down SD-6.
He tried and failed with Cole.
Articles in the press would be less painful,
but equally effective.
None of this changes the fact that you were using will.
He was already being used. It's no coincidence
that out of all the reporters in the world, he was chosen.
What are you saying?
For some reason,
khasinau is trying to expose us.
You cannot tell anyone about this --
not anyone.
Do you promise me?
Okay.
I'll see you at home.
The Daniels are planning to fly out to visit next week.
I think that's a very good idea, sweetheart.
Bold of me to make plans for next week, don't you think?
Come on, honey.
Arvin...
You have to keep your sense of humor.
I suppose I do.
Honey?
Are you there?
Yes, Emily, I am.
Listen, darling, I need to take this phone call.
All right?
See you soon, my love.
Yes.
Yes, I will.
Alain.
Nice work in Paris.
You have deprived khasinau of a valuable prize.
Yes, thank you.
The alliance has decided,
due to your wife's illness, her condition,
your request has been approved.
Your wife will be spared.
Base ops, this is freelancer.
Freelancer?
Syd.
I want to ask you something,
and I need you to give me a straight answer.
Of course.
I know your arm is hurt.
How'd it happen?
I was hiking in the San jacinto mountains
above palm Springs,
and I lost my footing on a scree,
and I suddenly found myself in this rockslide.
I gashed it pretty bad.
Well, you should have told me.
We're supposed to let each other know about our injuries.
Full disclosure.
Sark must have tipped off khasinau.
It's the only way to explain why his men came after me.
Well, that complication notwithstanding,
the mission was a success.
But we lost sark.
When sark arrived at the club
and khasinau's team failed to detect a tracking device,
he must have thought that I was bluffing.
Now, the truth is that I was prepared for such a possibility.
When he asked for a bottle of wine,
I had security section lace it
with a nonlethal dose of a radioactive isotope.
We have a geosynchronous satellite in orbit
designed to detect particle decay.
We have been tracking sark since he left the club.
Where is he?
He's on a transatlantic flight, hopefully with khasinau.
It's too soon to project his destination,
but when he lands, we'll vector a team to his position.
That's all. You can go.
Sydney, stay for a minute, would you?
Emily told me that you visited her
at the hospital last week
and that you had a nice conversation.
Yes, we did.
I know that some of the things that she said
indicated her awareness of what we do here
and that usually, such a breach
would proscribe a deliberate course of action.
You know that better than anyone.
Because she's not likely to last a week...
I was able to sustain a reprieve.
I'm glad.
Yes, I knew you would be.
That's why I wanted to thank you
for being such a good friend to Emily...
And to me.
It was your duty to report Emily to security section.
You didn't.
And that's more than I did for you.
Please tell me you're not actually
feeling sympathy for arvin sloane.
No.
It's just the first time I've seen him express regret
for what he did to Danny.
He wouldn't hesitate to kill you
if he knew we were having this conversation.
You're right.
Anyway, I read your debrief. So did devlin.
We'll deal with the loss of the rambaldi document later,
but first you should know that, uh,
office of securities is drawing up
a contingency plan to keep will tippin safe.
What kind of contingencies?
Witness Protection.
Worst-case scenario, recruitment.
Absolutely not.
Sydney, we have to cover everything.
I can't believe I'm hearing this.
You're not bringing him into this life.
He is in this life now,
whether you like it or not.
He is my friend.
He is, like, one of my best friends.
I understand that.
No, you don't.
You get to tell your friends that you work for the CIA
while I go home
and look desperately for a tiny moment
that I can be honest with anyone about anything.
Now that will knows the truth...
He's never going to trust me again.
You should have seen his face in Paris.
It was like he was looking at a stranger.
But he wasn't.
He was looking at you,
maybe for the first time.
He was looking at you.
What is this place?
We're, like, in the middle of L.A.
Do you have places like this everywhere?
I told you not to pursue this story.
I know you did.
Danny was killed because he knew.
Because I told him.
They were going to kill me, too.
That's why you asked for my sister's passport.
I know that you have questions, and...
Look, I would like to answer them,
but I can't.
I am so afraid that you know anything about me at all.
I only went after this story because of Danny.
You didn't have any answers
as to who killed the man that you loved,
and I just couldn't stand that.
It broke my heart.
I wanted to help.
But you got to know this --
I'm not going to ask you a thing.
I am not going to ask anyone anything.
You never have to worry about that.
You promise me,
because Danny just left a message on the machine --
Syd, I promise you.
Never.
I was thinking on the flight back
what your life's like,
what you have to go through,
what you've had to keep from your friends,
how hard that must be.
Syd...
I don't love you because of what you do
or what you don't do.
I just love you.
♪ I feel lost
♪ so I'm looking out
♪ I'm searching for a guiding light ♪
Thank you.
You saved my life.
♪ So that my shadows won't fall behind ♪
Sir, Mr. sark has landed in Geneva.
How long before you can have a team in position?
One hour. Do we have authorization to apprehend sark?
Yeah.
You have it.
Hey, guys, is there a food situation?
Is there any chance, like,
I can maybe get something to eat?
Like a burger or something?
I'm easy.
I am sorry to keep you both waiting.
It's okay, doctor.
And I apologize for being underprepared.
I just got the tests back.
I thought you'd want to know.
Hmm.
The pain we suspected might indicate
a recurrence of the lymphoma
appears to be due to the rapid regrowth
of your bone marrow elements.
That's wonderful.
Isn't it?
In fact,
the lymphoma cells appear to be decreasing significantly.
Emily, you're entering remission.
Now, these are only preliminary tests.
Your blood panels will tell us more, but...
Arvin?
Oh, God.
Oh.
Alpha team position.
Sloane wants sark alive.
There's nothing here but medical equipment.
Blood bags, pump --
the son of a bitch had a transfusion.
Oh, yeah.
30 minutes or less.