Seven years ago, I was recruited to work for SD-6, which I was told was a covert branch of the CIA.
I was trained as a spy, warned not to tell anyone what I did.
I thought I was working for the good guys,
until I told my fiance about SD-6 and they had him killed.
That's when I learned the truth that SD-6 is part of the very enemy I thought I was fighting.
Now I'm a double agent, working with the real CIA to bring down SD-6,
where my only ally is another double agent,
a man I hardly know,
my father.
Arretez!
That was three years ago when I met him for the first time. Leonard Dreyfus --
he helps bankroll SD-6 operations.
This guy is very hands-on.
Not just in his business. He's a real slime.
He runs a division in Geneva.
Go-to guy for transport. He'll get anything, anywhere, fast.
Sloane relies on him. He's a big target.
- Okay, good, listen-- - Also, there's a crew just outside Memphis.
They provide firearms. Custom stuff -- graphite, titanium, plastics.
- Memphis? - Memphis, Egypt.
I know I just started working with you guys at the C.I.A., but listen to me.
If we're gonna bring down SD-6, we have to eliminate their source of arms -- Anini Hassan.
Three of her majesty's favorites.
And now, the new design, as I promised.
I named it "Abenni." That's my son's name.
It holds twelve rounds and it's semi-automatic.
What the hell is this?
NO!
That was -- uh, sorry.
I'm sorry you had to see that.
That was six months ago.
I have friends from the Middle East. Hassan's not one of them.
- I don't blame you. Listen-- - There's more.
We need to go after a geneticist in Kuala Lumpur. He's involved in--
Okay, stop. You have to listen to me, okay?
You said you wanted to talk about the plan. I'm giving you the plan.
It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the plan.
Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6. Now, nothing should change.
When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag.
Bag. Then you'll call this number. Memorize it.
After three tones, press the appropriate digit -- one through six.
Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location.
Now we'll review your information, create a countermission,
and we'll contact you posing as a wrong number. Joey's Pizza.
- Any questions, so far? - Yeah. Can you show me what a bag looks like again?
Now, you listen to me, Mr. Vaughn.
I appreciate what your job is here, even though I think you're a little young to be doing it,
to establish a protocol between the C.I.A. and their latest double agent.
But I'm not sitting here to pick up the ins and outs of Langley procedure.
I am sitting here for one reason only, and that is to destroy SD-6!
- Hey!-- - After which I am out!
I want no more of this spy crap, that's why I went to you in the first place.
So, listen to me and I will hand you, in record time,
the people who will render SD-6 useless.
- Record time. - Two months. Tops. And then I am out. I walk.
Draw me a map.
Draw me a map of SD-6 and all it's allies.
How far you think it reaches.
Do I look like I'm in Junior High?
- Just draw me a SD-6 family tree! - Braces on my teeth...
- How far you think it goes! - ...Headgear? Do you see a retainer?!
Just DO IT!!
I don't know what your problem is with me.
Maybe it's that I'm a woman, or
maybe you just don't like my attitude, or something, and I'm sorry about that.
But I really dont feel like wasting time here.
There's only one way we can immobilize SD-6, and that's MY way.
So, forgive me for being forthright or... female, but
this is how it's gonna be.
Since I've been at the C.I.A., I've only seen this map grow.
This is what you're in the middle of, Sydney.
If shutting down the Los Angeles cell was all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago.
This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster.
This is about killing the monster.
And the work you have ahead of you -- the work your father has been doing --
it's complicated, it's political, and it is long term.
- Here, memorize this. - I did.
Okay. I guess we'll wait to hear from you.
Hey, wait.
- Thanks. - You're welcome.
- Hey, see you in class. - For sure.
Jennifer Garner (as Sydney Bristow)
Ron Rifkin (as Arvin Sloane)
Michael Vartan (as Michael Vaughn)
Bradley Cooper (as Will Tippin)
Merrin Dungey (as Francie Calfo)
Carl Lumbly (as Marcus Dixon)
Kevin Weisman (as Marshall J. Flinkman)
Victor Garber (as Jack Bristow)
ALIAS 1x02 So It Begins
Original Air Date : October 7, 2001
Oh, look. This one's chipped.
Oh, that's okay. Those were my mom's.
Oh.
Okay, these are heavy.
Oh.
Put that down right... right here.
No problem.
Thank you.
Como si.
I need a massage later.
Okay, good to know.
- Hey, finally. - I know, I'm sorry.
Litvack called. I had to rewrite a whole piece in the parking lot.
They didn't have any horseradish.
No, that's cool.
- That's annoying. - Yeah, no kidding.
There's a woman in Marina Del Ray who's eating newspapers.
She's eating it?
She's pregnant and apparently it's a condition some women get before they--
Eating newspaper's a condition?
Yeah, yeah. This is what I write about. This is how I make a living.
And Lintback says my writing's too judgemental and I'm like,
"Well, who cares? She's not gonna read it anyway, she's gonna swallow it."
Hey, what are you doing on Thursday?
Probably rewriting this piece again.
Charlie got an offer.
Hey, that's great! Where?
Leming Letterman.
That's corporate law. Downtown office.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard of that.
We're doing a dinner thing on Thursday and you are required.
Totally, totally there. Congratulations!
Hey. Do you want your-your food?
Yeah, I just want to get the closets done first so I feel like I live here.
Well, here.
Thanks.
Syd, I'm sorry. I can't take it.
- Will, please. Let's not do this again. - C'mon, you know me. You know I can't let this go!
- Will, come on! - You took Amy's passport!
- I know! - You took her credit card!
- I know what happened! - You disappeared!
- I know! - Syd, I can't--
It's the bank.
What was going on with Danny?
- Because he must've been in some kind of trouble-- - I need you to do something.
- You need me to shut up, I know! - I need you to accept what I've already told you.
- You haven't told me anything, you're being so vague! - I lost my mind a little. I started imagining things.
Whatever the hell you're talking about, maybe you're not imagining it.
Syd, this is what I do. I might be able to find something that the police overlooked!
Stop it!
Please.
I'm trying to move on here.
I need your help to do that.
Okay?
- Oh, hey, Miss Bristow. - Hey, Marshall.
Hey, listen, I don't normally get overly personal. I don't like to cross that line.
You probably don't know this about me, but I'm really not much of a social person.
I don't like--I like myself, I mean, I enjoy myself,
I just don't feel that kind of pressure when I'm by my--you ever feel that?
You can say anything you want to me.
Okay. I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry about your fiance,
and it's nice to have you back.
Thanks.
Let's start with what we know.
We've received two pieces of intel.
The first is this internal memo from G.R.A. headquarters.
It seems that certain files were reported missing last week from the seventh floor of The Aquarium.
Seventh floor? That's foreign intelligence.
And we acquired the second piece. Abul Hassein Navour.
Military attache from Sudan whom you'll fondly remember from last year.
He's on his way to Moscow to meet these two gentlemen.
Kazimits Chebekov and Luri Kapochev.
Both ID'd as members of the Russian mafia.
We think these are the men who stole the documents
because the codes indicated memo that these lost documents pertained
to the Soviet-American nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Navour's buying twenty year old intel records. Why?
That's the part we don't know.
So, you are leaving tomorrow morning.
Your job is to prevent the transaction
and retrieve the stolen files. Marshall, tell us what you got.
Okay. Who here has trouble falling asleep at night, hmm?
OKay. Well, anyway, myself, on occasion, I find it difficult to nod off -- mind racing, ideas, et cetera.
So, this kind of pertains to the whole sleeping thing.
Now, I created this just for Navour.
Now, you just take this kind of little round thing here.
Pretty cool. You just touch it, just with your finger, your hand, you know,
just barely touch it and you're knocked out completely.
It's like freebasing Thorazine. Boom.
Now, you only get two times on this thing.
It only works twice, so you don't want to use it three times 'cause...
Do we need to use those gloves?
Oh, no, we can make a nice ring, or-or perhaps an attractive cuff-cuff link.
The reason why I'm wearing the gloves, I accidentally touched this the other day
and I fell and kncked my head on the desk and was out cold for twenty minutes.
You guys should see this.
That's not, um, I'm trying to be kind of Pavlovian about these puppies. No pun intended.
- They keep coming back, don't they? - Who? You mean Navour?
How is that man still able to walk after our apparel?
If it weren't him, it'd be someone else.
Then let it be someone else.
We kill ourselves to do the right thing, meanwhile the bad people keep coming back.
Sydney, do you have a minute?
Yes, of course.
I'll be in Tech Ops.
I know it's gonna take you some time to adjust to being back.
I just want to make sure you're all right.
- I'm fine. Thanks. - Good.
I need to show you something.
I'll leave you two alone.
It's all right, the room's clean. No one's listening.
Hello, Sydney.
What is this?
I'm here to tell you what you already know.
That I work for SD-6, or so they think.
- I asked Sloane to do this. - Why?
Because it'll facilitate what we're doing if they know that you know.
It wouldn't hurt if you acted surprised when you left the office.
Since I've known the truth about you,
I've asked myself questions. Thousands of questions.
But this one I have to ask you now.
When Danny was killed...
Dad...
did you know?
Did you know that's what they were going to do?
Yes.
Don't you ever speak to me again.
Abul Hassein Navour is attempting to purchase files stolen from the Russian government.
Sloane is sending us to Moscow to prevent Navour from getting the files.
Dixon will impersoonate Navour.
My job is to break into Navour's hotel room and take the money for the buy.
So, what's next?
Hello?
Joey's Pizza?
I'm sorry. You've got the wrong number.
It's me.
How you doing?
How I'm doing? I'd say things have been better.
I'm working with friends who have no idea who they're really working for.
I heard Sloane had you meet your father.
Yes, he did. So, what's my counter-mission?
Navour's been on our short list for the past six months. In August, he attempted to purchase a nuke from Libya.
You already knew about Moscow?
No, we didn't. So, thank you for that.
Don't mention it.
That was cold. So, what's my move?
Carry out your assignment. Get the documents.
When you get back, make sure YOU are holding the stolen files.
We'll execute two brush passes at the airport terminal.
First, one will take place at the gate.
We'll intercept the materials and make a duplicate copy
and then return them to you in a second pass to be executed at the airport curb.
- That's it? - That's it.
- Want a Slusho? - No, thank you.
- They're delicious. - No, thanks. I said I was cold.
Good luck.
I can imagine, that must've been devastating.
Did he say anything to you after he drove over your cat?
Uh huh. Did he ever make any threats to you, or your cat? Sure.
No, I--okay. You have my number at the paper. All right. Bye-bye.
- A man ran over his cat. - I understand.
We're in a world where people drive over people's cats.
- You didn't answer my question. - Which-which one?
What are you doing for dinner?
- Jenny, you're nineteen years old. - I'm twenty. You know I turned twenty--
We're not having this conversation. I'm ancient compared to you.
Look. Look at me. Look how red my eyes are.
You don't look too bad.
Do me a favor. Can you pull me that file on Daniel Hecht?
What, that murder? Your friend?
Yeah. Do you mind?
No, no.
Thanks.
You don't take me seriously, do you?
No, I don't.
Dixon, do yo copy?
Wow. That's loud.
You told Marshall you wanted it louder. I was there.
Okay. My headache and I are 1017.
Break a leg.
You, too.
I'm on fifteen.
Get the cash quickly.
That is the plan.
Chebekov and Kapochev just showed up.
Stand by on the call.
Wow. Bodyguard's out. Navour's in the shower, I'm going in for the money.
Move fast. They spotted me.
Are you my Sundanese friend?
Uh, Mr. Chebekov?
Kapochev. I am the handsome one.
No protection with you?
Why, should I not feel safe here?
Here, here you feel very safe, yes.
Come with us. Go.
I know the guy who owns this club.
He thinks I brag too much. It's true, I do... I brag too much.
That's the problem with Sudan. There's no place for fun.
It's a nice change, being out of the Sudan.
I thought you said you travel often.
Yes. Not often enough.
So, I can see you don't have the money with you, is that correct?
No, not at the moment. But the money's very close.
I got bad news.
This wasn't a buy. This was a hold-up.
They were going to steal the files. There's no money here.
Fantastic!
What?
...Vodka.
Dixon, don't panic.
I'll be there in two minutes.
Any word from her yet?
No. I don't expect to hear anything 'til she gets back.
- Your girlfriend's name is Alice, right? - Would you shut up?
- I'm just checking to see-- - Get out of my office!
I'm in the bar.
I can see you.
Are those the files? If they are, cough.
Are they documents?
Are they on disk?
How many?
Get ready to make the switch.
Just like a drug deal.
Would you like to taste the coke?
How do I know you haven't made copies?
Those disks are encrypted.
Okay, enough! Now where's the money?
- You'll stay here. I'll go get it. - Sounds good.
Who are you?
At first, I thought maybe Navour sent you. But now I don't even think that.
Okay! We got two three-and-a-halfers here. We gotta move fast!
Let's use the third and fourth copies. Take about ninety seconds.
They're moving into customs, we're talking seconds, not minutes!
I hope they're not corrupted.
They're moving to the main terminal! How long is this gonna take?!
Relax! We know these disks aren't normal, we're moving as fast as we can!
Let me see that data as soon as it comes up!
I'm not seeing it! I'm not seeing it!
Get me the other one! I'm not seeing it!
So, he says to me, "Hey, honey? I asked for butter, like, an hour ago."
And I'm sitting there thinking,
"Uh, no, you asked the other black girl for butter, you rich entitled son of a bitch."
Some people go out to eat -- and this is just my theory -- in order to abuse waiters.
No question.
Creepy, isn't it? There are some bad people in this world.
- Hello! - Hey.
Sorry I'm late. This is for the offer, and for helping me move.
Thank you. Wow. Look at this.
Well, now we'll have something to drink when you guys come over.
Hey, can I talk to you for a second?
Sure.
I'll be right back.
What's going on?
We've known each other for three years. Just confirm that.
Yes. Three years.
But it feels like a lot longer than that, right? I mean,
we know each other pretty well.
Yeah, we do.
And you know I would never do anything to hurt you
and you know I'm a curious guy.
Will, what did you do?
You never gave me any information on Danny--
- Oh, God, Will... - So, I looked around a bit and
I found out one piece of information which you might not know but maybe you do.
What?
The night Danny was killed,
did you know he was booked on a flight from L.A.X. to Singapore?
Yeah. I know that.
You did? You knew that?
Danny had a conference. A medical conference.
He wanted me to fly out and meet him afterwards. Have a week in Bali.
I spend all day, every day, trying not to see him the way I found him.
And I know you mean well, and I love you for that,
but please,
please, let this go. Please.
- Syd, I'm sorry-- - It's okay.
I get it. I won't bring it up again.
Okay. I just need a minute.
Syd, I feel horrible.
I'm okay. I swear to God. I'm okay. I'll be right there, okay?
Okay.
Doomsday Six. That's the name of the operation.
It seems that during the Cold War, six fully armed nuclear weapons were smuggled into and buried within the United States.
December '89 that information was disclosed to the U.S. government.
Needless to say, the bombs were quickly recovered and disarmed.
And that was the information on those disks.
No. They realized a seventh nuke buried still right now somewhere in the United States.
- Where? - We don't know yet.
Those disks were encoded with a sectional encryption.
Analysis is still working on it. This is what we got so far.
"Milovich Ivanov. Buckingham, Virginia." Who's he?
We assume he's the man Navour was looking for. We have no file on him.
You think he's babysitting the nuke.
Yes. I do. I want you to go to that address, report back on Ivanov
any aliases, where he lives, where he works, the type of coffee he drinks. The whole deal.
Thanks.
- Yeah? - I'm going to see Ivanov.
Who?
Sydney! Sydney!
We have a name, and an address. We are not gonna sit on our hands here!
Sir, I know, I understand that but we cannot move on that information!
We can and we will!
Then we are risking Sydney Bristow's placement in SD-6 and perhaps her life!
That maybe the case and yes, we might lose a double in the process--
Sir, she's going to see him! She's on her way!
We are talking about a nuclear weapon here. What do you expect me to do? Wait until Bristow contacts us?
Read her file, sir! Have you read her file?
- Bristow's-- - Do it! Then you will learn what I have!
She's an asset! She's doing our work!
She was supposed to contact you, and--
There was a good reason she couldn't! She is on her way to Virginia right now.
If we send a team, we risk blowing her cover! We cannot afford to do that! Read her file!
I've read it!
What do you want?
Five hours. Give her five hours.
Five hours.
Thank you.
Whooo. Impressive.
Yeah.
Balls of steel!
No, that's what I'm gonna call you from now on. Hey. Have you met Balls of Steel?
We've got a red wire, a yellow, a blue, a blue-white!
There's a white wire, a yellow-red, and orange-red.
A black, a white-black, an orange, a purple, a purple-white,
a green, a green-white, red-white, green, blue, a light blue--
Okay! Okay! Cut the blue-white wire!
Okay, cutting the blue-white wire!
Oh, hold the phone!
DON'T TELL ME TO HOLD THE PHONE! I'M SITTING ON A TICKING NUCLEAR BOMB!
Are there two timer panels, or one?
Just--I only see one!
All right!
Try the blue wire!
"TRY IT"?!
No, cut it!
Cut it!
Hello?
You called SD-6 instead of the C.I.A.! That is unacceptable! You should've called me!
YOU! What would you have done?
The C.I.A., Sydney! You know it has access to nuclear sciences!
- Give me a break, I had two minutes! - And going to Virginia without contacting us?!
- I DID contact you! - You are over-eager, you are being irresponsible!
You know what? Yes, SD-6 happens to have a nuclear weapon and yes, that happens to be my fault.
After I called Marshall, SD-6 knew I'd found the bomb, but you know what?
We're going to track it and steal it back!
It's in Cairo.
What?
When SD-6 picked up our nuke, they put it on a plane bound for Egypt.
And are you ready for this? They sold the thing to Anini Hassan.
Yeah.
Reflected on both our records, FYI.
- What? - I told you I've been there.
Hassan's. I can go back.
- No. Can't do it. - Why not?!
Hassan knows you. If you're spotted, it'll get back to Sloane.
Then we'll just have to make sure they never see me.
Thanks for meeting me here.
I'm sorry about hitting you.
You're going to Cairo. Devlin told me.
Yeah, that's why I had them call you. I need your help.
SD-6 can't know that's where I'm going.
I'll take care of it.
Dad...
it was you, wasn't it?
Who bought the ticket to Singapore?
You were in Taipei.
I had arranged a flight for you as well, from Singapore. You cold have gone anywhere.
I went to Danny's apartment except it was too late.
Just minutes too late.
Thank you.
I have to go, obviously.
Tell Weiss I'm in operations and if Alice calls, just--
I need you.
Yeah, I know.
Just call me if there's anything.
- Let me just say this, about Bristow-- - Don't bother. Don't apologize.
You're not in any trouble. Virginia was my call.
She's intimately familiar with Hassan's base, she's going to get in, disable the weappon. We are all over it.
Well, you don't have to be. That's what I'm here to tell you.
You're being pulled off the Bristow case.
What? Why?
Devlin wants a more senior officer.
Apparently you were right; this girl is pretty important to us.
Yeah, I know...
He wants you to oversee the office presentation at the D.C.I. non-proliferation meeting,
which under the circumstances is pretty ironic.
Yeah.
Yeah. Send him in.
You hear from Sydney?
Yeah. What's wrong with her?
She went up north. I think she just needed to get away.
- Is she okay? - She will be.
I think it's hard for her, that's all. Accepting the news about what I do.
Are you all right?
Yeah, of course. Why?
I don't know. You seem a little...
What?
Nothing, nothing.
- I'll see you tomorrow. - Yeah, okay.
I'm in.
- I think I found it. - Copy.
Yeah, I found it.
Copy. Commence disabling.
I've got it open. I'm going in for the core.
Copy. Radio silence until task complete.
Listen, I know we just met on the flight over, but do you have to talk like such a robotron?
Radio silence requested.
I guess you do.
All right, Robotron. I'm holding the core.