Episode 22: Almost Thirty Years
Will,
tranquilized and badly beaten, is dragged into a dingy storeroom,
where Mr. Sark asks him about "the circumference"...
with no answers. A sinister Taiwanese interrogator -- "Suit
And Glasses," who tortured Sydney months before -- enters
with an array of frightening instruments.
Sydney
receives a call from Sark, setting up the exchange of her
friend for the Rambaldi page that was stolen in Paris and
the ampule of solution... to take place in Taipei, in 24 hours.
Jack agrees
to help recover Will. He can easily get the ampule from CIA
storage, but recovering the page will be tricky -- it's in
an offsite SD-6 vault located off the coast of Santa Barbara...
and they will need Sloane's fingerprint and voiceprint in
order to gain access. Jack suggests that they study the Rambaldi
page themselves and determine its value, before negotiating
further with Sark. He also tells Sydney that she must keep
her plan from Vaughn -- the CIA has a mole.
When Vaughn
explains to Sydney that Will is still likely to be alive,
he senses that she hiding something. Later, he tells Weiss
that he suspects that Sydney has her own plan to rescue Will.
Her cancer
now in remission, Emily is out of the hospital. At a remote
beach house, Sloane finally tells her the truth about SD-6.
Later
at SD-6, Alliance member Ramon Veloso explains to Sloane that
they only allowed Emily to live because her future had been
pre-determined her by lymphoma. Sloane demands that her life
be spared... but protocol insists that she be terminated.
If he carries out their order, however, Veloso affirms that
he will become a fully-fledged member of the Alliance.
Wearing
a concealed recording device, Sydney visits Sloane in his
office, to speak candidly about Emily... In reality, she is
distracting him while Jack hacks into Sloane's computer to
collect the needed passwords, and takes a voiceprint and fingerprint
Having
now stolen the Rambaldi page from the remote SD-6 island vault,
Sydney climbs out of the water, only to be confronted...by
Dixon. He demands to know why she used the codename "Freelancer"
on Mount Aconcagua... Sydney is pleading when she insists
that she is not betraying her country, but also that she cannot
reveal the truth to him... and Dixon walks away.
Meanwhile,
Vaughn is summoned into a meeting with Devlin and Haladki.
Weiss has reported that Vaughn no longer fully trusts Sydney,
and now they all need to know what may be hiding.
Jack calls
Devlin. After taking the ampule from the CIA, he assures that
he will return the stolen item once his mission is completed...
Devlin demands that Jack return immediately.
Since
Will has disappeared, his friend Abby, at the newspaper, goes
straight to editor Litvack, with his sealed envelope about
SD-6. And the editor agrees to run the story...as front page
news.
Using
the Rambaldi solution, Jack and Sydney finally expose the
mysterious page. It reveals drawings for the same "Mueller
device" stolen by Sydney in prototype stage, from Taipei
months ago. Jack explains that this might explain Khasinau's
search for "the circumference," a precise set of
instructions for building the device in this drawing.
On a hunch,
Jack abducts Haladki, who under pain of torture, admits to
being the CIA mole...and that he has been working for Khasinau.
The instructions are for a "battery" that Khasinau
has been constructing in a Taipei lab... And after a treacherous,
and deranged Haladki spills all...Jack silences him, for good.
Vaughn
later finds Sydney alone at a train station. He has figured
out what she is planning, and agrees to help save Will. With
Jack, they will fly to Taipei...and while Jack makes the exchange
for her friend, Sydney and Vaughn are to simultaneously detonate
the lab where the battery is located.
At home,
Sloane mixes a powder into a glass of wine. With resolve,
he and Emily raise their glasses for a final toast... and
she forgives him for the mistakes that he has made.
Meanwhile,
after hours of torture, Will still hasn't revealed much about
"the circumference." When he is finally unchained,
he plunges a syringe into the neck of his sadistic interrogator.
Guards seize Will, and drag him from the room.
In an
alleyway, Jack meets with Sark and exchanges the page -- the
drawing, now exposed -- for Will, who has been spared, bloody,
but alive... Sobbing, Will embraces the stony-faced man who
has handed him back his future.
Across
town, Sydney and Vaughn find the Mueller device, behind lock
and key, in a Taiwanese dance club. It is, in fact, similar
to the prototype she retrieved before...only much, much bigger.
Sydney
detonates the explosive, unleashes a tremendous flood... and
she and Vaughn dash through the underground complex, trying
to escape the approaching torrent.
Sydney
makes it through a security door, but cannot hold it open
long enough for Vaughn, who is trapped -- on the wrong side,
in a room filling, perilously fast, with rushing water...
and seconds later, Vaughn is gone. When Sydney turns, she
is knocked out by sharp blow from a security guard.
She awakens
to a familiar scene: she is once again chained to a chair,
in a Taipei storeroom. But this time, instead of "Suit
And Glasses," her interrogator is Khasinau... who explains
that "his boss" has questions for her.
Puzzled,
Sydney admits she thought "The Man" was the one
in charge... But Khasinau is not "The Man." The
door opens... "The Man" is a woman... Sydney's mother.
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