Episode 2: So It Begins
Clutching
a stolen satchel, Sydney is dodging bullets and racing from
French guards at the Machlet Corporation. Taking the nearest
elevator, she punches the ceiling out and pulls herself out
the top. Climbing the cables, she escapes onto the street
to a waiting limo...
Back
home, Sydney briefs Vaughn about her mission and the overall
organization of SD-6. In her new role as a double agent for
the CIA, Sydney is intent upon destroying SD-6 within a matter
of weeks. But CIA Agent Vaughn illustrates for her that SD-6
is no small matter, it encompasses over 200 groups and contacts
- and not just the LA bureau where she works. A humiliated
Sydney accepts it will take a very long time to shut them
down.
Later that day, her journalist friend, Will, confronts her
about her recent disappearance and asks what her fiancé Danny
could have been involved with that got him killed. Sydney
tells Will that she has been disoriented since Danny's death
and to please leave it at that.
But Will's curiosity is piqued, and later, he learns and tells
her that Danny had a booked flight from LA to Singapore the
night he was killed...to which, Sydney must hide her shock.
Her first day back at SD-6, Sydney receives instructions from
Sloane to travel to Moscow, and to intercept a sale of stolen
files pertaining to Soviet-American nuclear arsenals. Afterwards,
Sloane leads Sydney to his office, revealing her father Jack,
who is waiting for her. In private, Sydney only wants to ask
him one thing...whether SD-6's plan to kill Danny had been
shared with him first. Later, Jack admits he was the one who
bought the plane ticket so he could send Danny to Singapore,
to hide from the SD-6 assassins. We learn that Jack had visited
Danny's home that fateful night, only to find he was too late.
In
Moscow, Sydney impersonates a hotel maid to gain access to
the hotel room of the CRC’s representative holding the payoff
money -- while Dixon meets the document sellers at a Moscow
club. After a violent confrontation with the bodyguards, Sydney
discovers the payoff money is false paper... Incognito in
party attire, Sydney races to the club, and makes a fast switch
with the two computer disks containing the stolen files -
with two plastic cocktail coasters. Dixon and Sydney knock
the agents out, and escape with the disks. At LAX, Vaughn
makes a ”brush pass“ with Sydney, duplicating the stolen floppies
for CIA, and returning them so she can present them to SD-6.
The information Sloane later retrieves from the disks, informs
that a nuclear device from the Cold War period is still buried
somewhere in the US.
Sydney's mission leads her to a Virginia cemetery, where she
finds a tombstone with the contact's name, Ivanov, on it.
Digging
up the grave, she finds the seventh nuclear device, rigged
to the coffin lid. She calls a panicked Marshall who guides
her through the process of disarming it with only a two minute
warning.
Angry, Vaughn informs Sydney that SD-6 has sold the device
to Ineni Hassan in Cairo, a known arms dealer. Since Sydney
knows Hassan, she volunteers to make the trip and get the
bomb back; making sure that SD-6 doesn't know that she's going
there. Back at the CIA, Davenport tells Vaughn that he's being
pulled off of the Bristow case because Devlin, the boss, wants
a more senior officer assigned.
Meanwhile, Sydney and a male CIA operative go to Cairo. When
Sydney finds the bomb, she quickly dismantles it and grabs
its bright green core... only to find a gun is pointed at
her head and cocked - and it's Hassan...
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