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 fiance.
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've 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 know you have a lot of questions about your father.
I copied his file.
What do you know about case 332L?
There's some missing pages in my father's personnel file,
and references to case 332L.
And Agent Calder.
You read that, too.
Calder wasn't C.I.A., he was F.B.I.
Why would the F.B.I. be working with my father?
They wouldn't.
Unless they suspected him of selling secrets.
Okay, Your the counter.
You'll break into the building as planned.
Now, while Dixon sets the explosives, you'll retrieve the inhaler
and rendez-vous with the C.I.A. team, which will already be inside the building.
By this time, Dixon should have exited the building.
You'll disable the explosive while the C.I.A. team searches the rest of the lab's main computer system.
Come on, we've got to go.
Dixon, what are you doing?
I brought a secondary detonator.
You good to go?
All right, let's go.
Sydney?
We've got to run.
Sydney! We've got to move!
Sydney! We've got to move! NOW!
What's the matter, are you hurt?
No...
Let's go!
RUN!
Go, go, go, go! GO!
Don't stop!
Come on, Sydney. We've got to go.
I couldn't move.
Dixon had to drag me to my feet, just to get to the van.
When he asked me what was wrong, why I had just frozen...
I made up something about having a flashback to Danny.
- You did everything you could. - I was supposed to stop the detonation.
I didn't.
And because of that, four C.I.A. agents were killed.
You had no way of knowing Dixon had a second trigger.
There was nothing you could do.
I could've told him the truth.
Dixon needs to know who he's really working for.
- Sydney-- - I know, I can't put his family at risk.
- Or yourself. - I know all of that, but
it's the right thing to do.
Those men died for no reason.
No. Those men died for their country.
Sydney, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Hey.
You worked late.
Bar association dinner.
One of the lawyers wanted to sue me because his chicken was undercooked.
Can you believe that -- an obnoxious lawyer?
What about your obnoxious lawyer? Have you talked to him?
I'm meeting Charlie for lunch this week.
That's good.
Syd, he's going to break up with me.
Did he say that? He didn't say that.
He didn't have to. He was sneaking around on me. He was with that girl, Rachel.
And there's stuff he's doing that he can't tell me about? Please.
I don't think he'd be meeting with you just to break up with you. Guys don't do that.
If they want to end things, they just vanish. Right?
Your mom was so pretty.
Yeah, she was.
Thanks.
I got to go change. I feel a binge coming on.
Hey, how was your trip?
Oh.
Not good.
I was working with these people who... they were terminated.
Oh, man.
The economy sucks.
Hello?
This is Helen Calder, you left me a message?
Something about my husband having worked with your father?
I know that your husband worked with the F.B.I.
and that his job was to investigate C.I.A. agents that were suspected of spying for Russia.
My dad was one of the agents that your husband investigated.
I know that much. Did he ever mention the name Jack Bristow?
I'm sorry. Bentley didn't talk much about his work.
He looks kind.
Oh, he is.
I thought Bentley was dead?
Oh, oh, dear, no. That isn't Bentley.
That's my boyfriend, Gary.
This is Bentley.
He wasn't so nice.
When did Bentley pass away?
1981, in a car accident.
Do you have a copy of this?
I think so.
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 1x06 Reckoning
Original Air Date : November 18, 2001
For the last twenty years, I thought I knew how my mom died.
She and my dad had been out at the movies, they were coming home late
and a man -- some postal worker -- was driving, coming from the other direction.
The police said alcohol wasn't a factor. This man must've lalen asleep.
His car drifted over the white line. My dad swerved, and they went of the Canyon Creek bridge.
I always told myself that my mom didn't have time to know what was happening.
Now I know that Calder was hunting down a KGB agent -- my father.
So what happened that night was no accident.
Calder was probably chasing them, they probably lost control and the cars crashed.
Whatever it was, it brings me back to the same conclusion.
If my father hadn't been a double agent,
my mom would still be alive today.
I'm sorry to lay all this on you, it's just that I have no one to talk to about this.
It's okay.
I want to report him.
What?
I want to turn him in.
For what? For being under suspicion twenty years ago? The Agency knows that.
What about the file -- the one you pulled for me? There were pages missing.
Maybe it didn't end twenty years ago, maybe he's still working for Russia!
Stop. Okay? Stop. What matters, what is important, is taking down SD-6.
- Jack -- your father -- is helping us do that! - So, you're suggesting, once again, that I do nothing?
Not about this! We have too much work to do, and your relationship with him--
I wasn't supposed to do anything about Dixon, either.
Let me ask you this -- is anything EVER unacceptable to you?!
I understand that we're talking about your dad here,
and that if he did sell secrets, or is selling secrets, that would be hard.
I would hope that would be hard on you, too!
Before you do anything, let me find out if he's under suspicion, if he's being tracked.
Just give me two days, all right?
I get it.
You wanted to do it in person, but instead of coming right out with it,
you're making all kinds of small talk. Which I think is really pathetic.
- Francie-- - I've always supported you, no matter what.
And the idea that you would sneak around behind my back
- and lie to me about it, is just the worst part. I can't-- - Francie--
- After all that we have been through. - I want to be a singer.
A singer.
I wasn't going to say anything until I had everything set up.
That woman -- Rachel -- she plays piano.
When you saw us that night, we were rehearsing.
We have our first gig this Friday night.
A singer?
Sweetheart, I'm sorry I wasn't up-front about this before,
but being a lawyer, it's been my goal -- my family's goal -- forever,
and the thought of me doing something else... I've been wanting to do something else.
Fran, I've been to afraid to admit that.
You're not breaking up with me?
Are you kidding?
You're my baby.
Charlie singing? I wouldn't miss it.
- Hey, Will. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will be there.
Yes.
Yes. Best behavior, I got it.
- Get off my chair. - How's Sydney? That was Sydney, right?
Okay, you got to stop doing that. Anybody call when I was out?
Yep. A guy from the DMV.
He ran the license plate you copied off of Kate Jones' car.
The woman pretending to be Kate Jones.
According to her social security number, the real Kate Jones died in 1973.
Hello, Hank?
Hello, it's Will. Hey, you come up with anything?
Did that match the license plate number for 663, Sam, Tango, Frank?
Oh, you're the best.
Okay...
"Eloise Kurtz."
Eloise Kurtz is living proof that someone's covering up Danny's murder.
And she was definitely lying about having an affair with him.
223 Whitley Place, Hollywood.
Good work in Germany, Sydney.
The inhaler prototype's safely in Analysis.
The Badenweiler factory was demolished without any casualties.
Thanks. Dixon deserves the credit. Not me.
Jack will no longer be working out of Jennings Aerospace.
His assignment there is complete.
As of today, he will be working here with a cover as portfolio manager for Credit Dauphine.
This way, he can more actively participate in the planning and execution of missions.
Good.
Jack.
Two months ago, FTL vacated their forward base at Roubaix and their support station at Chaniers.
All the heavy equipment was moved, including the T-47s.
At the time, recovery team found this at Robaix.
Last week, we learned that FTL also abandoned their transfer facility at Kenilwork.
Our recovery team did a sweep, they returned with this.
Is the ink encoded?
Oh, that was my first thought as well.
You want some fritter? It's apple.
Analysis studied the music sample.
They foudn an identical pattern of numbers buried in the higher frequencies.
It's not noise. It is where they hide the code.
- Have we deciphered it? - No.
"Barrage" -- it's a converted salvage tug.
FTL uses it as a floating lab. Weapon design, data storage, crypto.
An SD-6 commando team stormed the ship last night as it was passing through the Panama Canal.
They brought back this.
What is it?
FTL's latest code machine. Without this device, we're unable to read any of their communications.
- How does it work? - Very well. Heh.
Uh, we don't-- we don't know yet.
The team gathered what they could. Unfortunately, there was a self-destruct on the ship.
Needless to say, they left fairly quickly.
From what they gathered, only eight of these decoders have been produced.
One of them is currently in the possession of this man.
John Smythe...
owner of the Hobbes End photo gallery in London.
He's also an FTL operative.
One of the code machines is being held in the gallery, awaiting pickup next Tuesday.
You leave for London tonight.
We want to find out where FTL relocated, and what they're up to.
Your job is to bring back the encoding machine.
I would have told you about the realignment, but you were in Badenweiler.
I heard about what happened. It's tragic.
I know about you!
That you were hunted by the F.B.I.!
- And I know that mom died because they went after you. - Sydney...
Every time I think I know just how awful you are,
I learn something worse.
But this time,
I'm going to make sure you pay.
- What's this? - A bug.
- What are you, twelve-years-old? - No, a bug.
We didn't know about Smythe.
After we get the code machine, they'll scan for listening devices.
Technology on this thing is totally passive.
The guys at Langley actually cribbed the design from a Russian device they pulled from the American embassy.
The thing only works when we hit it with a microwave beam off an orbital satellite.
Then it acts as a microphone. It's completely undetectable.
- And if they find it, they'll just think it's a bug. - Exactly.
What about the code machine?
Chances are, we won't have time to pull a switch, so deliver it to SD-6.
When they break the code, they'll inform their affiliate offices through the computer network.
Thanks to you, we're still downloading from their mainframe.
How much have you gotten so far?
Almost two per cent.
In all this time, that's all you got?
If we take too much, too quickly, they'll notice the leak. But we're patient.
We can get all their internal files and then we can do some real damage.
Good.
Oh, I checked around about your dad. He's clean.
- No internal investigations that-- - I told him.
- Told him what? - That I know everything --
about Calder, his spying for the KGB, the accident.
Damn it! I told you not to say anything.
I'm sorry, but I don't care.
If you'd been in my position, you probably wouldn't have been able to control yourself, either.
You're just going to have to learn how to do that.
Don't lecture me about my father.
Because of the spy trade, my mother is dead.
You couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have a parent die that way.
There's a book back at Langley.
They keep it locked up under glass,
and behind it is a marble wall with stars carved in it.
It's a memorial to the agents the company lost in action.
Families are never told how they died, or even where.
Only that they won't be coming home.
I was eight when my father became one of those stars.
At the funeral, there's a protocol the Agency representative has to follow.
What to say, whose hands to shake.
You're admonished -- that is actually the word they used, "admonished"
-- not to be conspiculously emotional.
Vaughn, I'm so sorry...
The agents that died in Badenweiler.
I've been asked to represent the Agency at their funearls.
Delivery.
Got a package for Eloise Kurtz.
I just need five minutes.
- How did you know my name? - I won't use it, if that's what you're afraid of.
Just leave me alone! I don't know anything!
See, it's people woh say that that always know much more than they think they do.
Do you know how they kiled him? Danny Hecht?
They broke into his apartment, and they shot him in his bathtub!
- I don't know anything! - It was three bullets.
It was two here and one straight through the heart.
- I'm warning you! - Come on, I just want five minutes.
Okay, I have pepper spray!
OWWW! Oh, God, my eyes!
- I told you! Okay, - My eyes...
- I warned you! Now, just go away! - okay!
You ready?
It should take me about twenty seconds to get down the hall.
Excuse me, sir. Hello.
Actually, this is a non-smoking gallery.
Not anymore.
Well, I'm afraid if you don't put that thing out, we're going to have to escort you out the door.
What kind of a deal you think I can get if I take the entire collection?
I'll go call the owner.
Yeah?
I'll be right there.
Chester Conlon is an award winning artist.
It is almost Keeferesque.
I said the same thing.
This bothering you, by the way?
Not at all.
I'm tempted, but I don't know.
Sir, I've already offered to come down ten per cent.
Ten per cent is not twenty per cent.
I'll eat the tax, but that is it.
Cherie,
I think I prefer the Lamborghini.
You are the birthday girl.
Could you do something with this?
He doesn't sing in the car. He doesn't sing in the shower.
He doesn't even sing at the national anthem at baseball games.
I mean, he doesn't even hum.
To, like, "I'm with the band." Kind of.
If he had a good voice, he would have used it somewhere once.
I would have heard it.
You're going to be there, right? I mean, I need you there.
Of course I'm going to be there.
When he's not --
if he's not good --
he's going to be so devastated. You know that.
Or it could be the start of something great.
- Raid my closet! - Thanks,
but, I got boobs.
- Hi, I'm Rachel. - Hi.
Charlie has told me so much about you.
Really?
Going for your MBA, best cook ever. You're like this mythic person.
Okay, I like her!
This is Will.
- You know anything about me? - And Sydney.
- Hi. - This is my sister, Amy.
Hi.
Will Tippin.
It's Eloise Kurtz.
Sorry, I can't hear you. Hold on.
This is so exciting!
A little terrifying.
We've got to get ready.
You guys are going to be great.
- This is going to be a disaster. - Stop it!
- Hi. - Are you all right?
- You mean can I see again? - I feel horrible.
No, it's okay. I was wearing my glasses.
I'm really not a bad person.
No, I never said you were a bad person.
You just got to tell me. Help me out here, please.
They gave me two thousand dollars cash to say that I was having an affair with Danny Hecht.
Well, who did? Who gave you the money?
I was in between jobs, my car was broken. It's still broken.
Anybody in my position would have done the same thing.
Can I buy you a cup of coffee, huh? Meet you in person?
Why don't you come by my apartment tomorrow afternoon?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about three o'clock?
I have a great car mechanic, if you need one, too.
Hello?
Yeah, I'm here...
Listen, everything's going to be okay.
It was a fact-checker. How's Francie?
A wreck.
WHOO-HOO! CHARLIE! WHOO-HOO!
♬ When the road gets dark, ♬
♬ and you can no longer see. ♬
♬ Just let my love throw a spark. ♬
♬ And have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ When the tears you cry ♬
♬ are all you can believe. ♬
♬ Just give these loving arms a try, ♬
♬ and have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ Have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ Have a little faith in me... ♬
That's my boyfriend.
♬ Have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ When your secret heart ♬
♬ cannot speak so easily... ♬
♬ come here, darlin', from a whisper start. ♬
♬ To have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ Have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ Have a little faith in me, ♬
♬ have a little faith in me. ♬
♬ Have a little faith in me... ♬
It tickles.
What just happened?
It took a piece of your thumb. A speck. A cell. And this is, like, true genius.
It created a code based on your DNA.
That's how the code from those greeting cards worked. The encoding was DNA based.
Whose?
We know he was the recepient of one of the cards.
Gareth Parkishoff, leader of the FTL cell in Rabat.
That's the good news. We know it's Parkishoff.
The bad news is Parkishoff is dead.
We need a sample of his DNA, and we don't know where he's buried. Marshall.
Marshall.
The system's... a little sluggish.
Marshall, get Fisher.
Last month we received intel that Parkishoff was assassinated by Martin Shephard.
Shephard's an interesting case.
His subconscious is programmed to react to a simple phrase.
Say it to him, and he'd do what you'd asked. Even kill.
Say it again, and those acts would be erased from his conscious mind.
He'd have no recollection of the acts he'd committed.
Now, we have known for some time what that phrase is.
- Oh, it's by John Donne. - Right.
And we want you to get close enough to Shephard, recite the poem, and get him to tell you where Parkishoff is buried.
Where is he?
Shephard checked himself in a mental institution in Bucharest, southern Romania.
Umm, if you don't mind, there's something kind of weird going on with the computer network.
Marshall.
There's kind of a bandwith leak...
Why don't you get me a report by the end of the day?
Agent Fisher will be your support on this one. His alias is Dr. Carlos Fontanetta.
- Hello. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
The Mangalov clinic is expecting Dr. Fontanetta to check a patient in the day after tomorrow.
You are that patient.
Your handler's unavailable. Once you locate Parkishoff, he wants you to relay the coordinates--
Vaughns' at a funeral. Four heroes who died because of people like you.
You are to relay the correct coordinates to SD-6.
- Once they have decoded the message, you are to inform-- - Go to hell!
People's lives are at stake!
Your life!
What you think you know, you don't know.
Then explain it to me!
You don't have clearance.
- Clearance? - Yes.
To be told how my mother died.
There are rules, Sydney.
Then you break them!
Just think about what you're saying.
Acting cavalier about breaking the rules.
Think about the last time you did something like that.
I'm not a perfect man, I know that.
But I am smart enough not to draw simple conclusions and then act upon them.
I would think if anyone had learned that lesson, it would have been you.
Miss Dicamila is bipolar.
We were doing some, uh, relief work up in the north when she suffered a psychotic break.
She's suffering from auditory hallucinations.
She thinks that her government wants to kill her.
Her previous doctor submitted her for some rather experimental treatment.
Lithium substitutes, neurolinguistic reprogramming.
All of which had no effect on her condition.
I'm still trying to find her parents, but until then, I need a place for her.
Is she taking any antipsychotics?
Olanzapine, twenty milligrams. QPM.
There are other institutions in Bucharest, how is it you honor us?
Uh, the consulate. They directed me here.
This way. We'll get her admitted.
Miss Kurtz?
I'm coming in. Easy on the pepper spray.
Your dad was a hero.
Oh, no.
That leak! The glitch! There's a worm! There's a hacker in our network!
They're downloading all the files off the server!
Got to cut the hard line!
Hello, Allan. We need to meet.
I think we have a mole.
Hi.
- Sorry to keep you waiting. - Oh, this is not a problem.
Two more forms and her admission is complete.
By the way, while you were waiting, I called the consulate.
Yes, I am speaking at the U.N. conference on refugees in New York next month.
I called them about a visa.
Naturally, I thinked them for having referred our institution
and I was surprised to hear that they were unaware of any such recommendation.
Do I...
know you?
No man is an island, entire of itself.
Every man is a peice of the continent.
Who... are... you?
Oh yes, of course. That is because the consulate referred me to the local health department.
They made a recommendation.
Well, that explains it.
We know what you're doing, Miss Bristow.
Hey, where's Vaughn?
He's covering the funerals. Badenweiler?
Why, did you finally get a date?
- You know that assignment Bristow's been sent to? - Yeah.
- The doctor who's running the place -- Krushnik? - Mmm-hmm.
He's with K-Directorate.
Fisher?