Episode 8: Time Will Tell
Sydney
travels to Oxford to steal an ancient clock connected to the
Rambaldi mystery. She successfully completes the mission,
though Anna Espinosa is hot on her trail.
Jack confronts
Sloane about the death of Eloise Kurtz, and admits that he
hired the woman, a young SD-6 agent, to impersonate Kate Jones.
Sloane, however, did not trust Kurtz and had her silenced.
After
her latest trip, Sydney discovers that SD-6 has hired an agent
to trail her. Sloane insists that it is merely a routine procedure,
but Jack tells Sydney that SD-6 suspects they have a mole.
He urges his daughter to seek help from Agent Vaughn on how
to fool a functional imaging test -- a sophisticated lie detector.
Sloane
gives Sydney her next assignment -- travel to Positano, Italy
and have the mysterious clock repaired. The clock was designed
by Rambaldi, but built by a master craftsman named Giovanni
Donato in 1503. One of Donato's descendants still pursues
the family craft, and can repair the ancient artifact.
Meanwhile,
Will's editor rejects his story about the mysterious deaths
of Danny Hecht and Eloise Kurtz. The story contains questionable
facts, and editor Litvack suggests that Will is lying. She
demands that he cease his investigation, but Will has other
ideas. He is tipped-off to the location of Kurtz's car, and
continues playing detective. Inside the car, Will finds a
piece of jewelry, which turns out to be a piece of sophisticated
surveillance equipment...
In Italy,
Donato explains that the symbol on the clock, <0>, is
the mark of the Magnific Order of Rambaldi. When Sydney asks
about a date engraved on the clock, Donato says that Rambaldi
never told him what it meant. Donato realizes his verbal slip,
and quickly covers his tracks. The old man returns the repaired
clock, and a K-Directorate sniper fires at Sydney. Donato
is killed instead, and Sydney narrowly escapes.
Back at
home, Sydney reads a book that her father had given to her
mother. She uncovers a Russian code embedded on each page...
At SD-6,
Marshall discovers that the glass disc from the church in
Malaga fits into the clock. When the artifacts are together,
a star chart is revealed. Marshall deduces that the chart
was made from a specific location on Mount Aconcagua, near
the border of Chile and Argentina.
Before
Sydney and Dixon can travel to the mountain, Agent Dreyer
gives Sydney a functional imaging test. He doesn't reveal
the results to her, but he later confides to Sloane that "we've
found our mole."
At Mount
Aconcagua, Sydney and Dixon discover a tunnel marked with
the infamous <0> symbol. Sydney goes in alone, leaving
Dixon on the surface. Once underground, she discovers a book
with designs from Rambaldi.
Before
Sydney can retrieve the book, she hears gunshots through her
walkie-talkie. K-Directorate has crashed the party, and Sydney
has a fierce fight with Anna. In the heat of combat, Anna
grabs the book and crawls back to the surface. As Sydney pursues
her arch-rival, she falls from the rickety ladder and plunges
into the darkness...
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