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THE PROPHECY:
"This
woman here depicted will possess unseen marks. Signs that
she will be the one to bring forth my works. Bind them with
fury. A burning anger, unless prevented. At vulgar cost, this
woman will render the greatest power unto utter desolation.
This woman, without pretense, will have had her effect, never
having seen the beauty of my sky behind Mt. Subasio. Perhaps
a single glance would have quelled her fire."
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Alias: Rambaldi, Season One
Episode
3: Parity
- Rambaldi
was Pope Alexander VI's chief architect, ex-communicated
for heresy, sentenced to death for suggesting that someday,
science could allow us to know God. After Rambaldi's death,
his workshop was torn apart, his plans and sketches were
traded and sold for next to nothing. For the next five centuries,
his work was scattered throughout the world.
- He
was drawing up plans for a cell phone around the time of
the Ottoman empire.
- He
wrote machine code in 1949. The entire sequence was written
on the back of two Rambaldi sketches. SD-6
possesses one, and the other one was in the private collection
of Eduardo Benegas.
- SYDNEY:
You already knew about Rambaldi?
VAUGHN: I didn't. The agency did. Davinci meets Nostradamus
-- personally, I don't buy it.
- Sydney
obtains the box of the 2nd sketch. Ana Espinosa of K-Directorate
has the key.
- They
meet to open it...
Episode
4: A Broken Heart
- When
they open the box, the paper inside starts to disintegrate
with acid. Sydney and Ana memorize the binary digits on
it before it's gone.
- Rambaldi's
designs were so advanced, they just assumed he was insane.
On some of his drawings, he made lists of part numbers.
I.D. numbers of actual technology not manufactured until
this year. He spent the last ten years of his life working
on one project. We don't know whether it's a weapon, a fuel
source, a transportation system. Based on the little
we do know, its technology is beyond anything we have ever
seen.
- Rambaldi
used a compression scheme in the code that points to a location
in Malaga, Spain.
- Sydney
finds a small "golden sun" made of synthetic polymer
at the church in Spain.
Episode
8: Time Will Tell
- Sydney
steals an ancient Rambaldi clock that FTL found in Tunisisa.
- The
clock retrieved was designed by Giovanni Donato. He died
in 1503, his initials are engraved on the bottom. Now, Donato
was a master clockmaker, but more importantly, he was the
only man Milo Rambaldi ever collaborated with. There is
a single reference to Donato in our Rambaldi archive. Apparently,
Rambaldi commissioned the clock himself.
- Rambaldi's
style was to hide codes in design within his artwork.
- The
clock doesn't work. Sydney is sent to a descendent of Donator
to get the clock fixed.
- Giovanni
Donato's timepieces were miracles of precision. Kings and
queens offered him vast riches if only he would design clocks
for them. He refused. But, he did make one exception. Rambaldi
made him a promise that he would live an impossibly long
life. He even revealed to him when he would die.
- The
symbol <0> on the clock stands for the magnificant
order of Rambaldi. Rambaldi's most loyal followers entrusted
with safeguarding his creations. Sadly, like most things
that once were pure, criminals now use this symbol to infiltrate
the order.
- SYDNEY:
What about this date?
DONATO: It must have meant something to Rambaldi.
The clock was built from one of his designs. He never did
tell me what it meant.
SYDNEY: What did you say? [catching him in his slip]
- SYDNEY:
Mr. Donato, what was Rambaldi working on?
DONATO: The clock is fixed now. It's over. [A sniper
shoots and Donato drops dead].
- Marshall
uses the "golden sun" on the clock and when set
to 12:22, and 1/22, it stops. When viewing the golden
polymer, he sees a star chart. A snapshot of the sky taken
from one specific place on earth at one specific moment
in time.
- If
assumed that the star chart refers to the date on the back
of the clock: August 16, 1523 at 12:22AM GMT, then the only
spot on earth with that exact view of the stars is the southern
slope of Mt. Aconcagua on the Chile/Argentina border.
- Sydney
and Dixon travel to Chile to retrieve whatever's hidden
there by Rambaldi. K-Directorate steals it from Sydney and
shoots Dixon.
Episode
13: The Box, Part 2
- Cole
and his men break into SD-6 and hold everyone captive. They
try to steal a vial of liquid with the Rambaldi symbol on
it, locked inside SD-6's vaults. Sydney retrieves it and
gives it to CIA.
Episode
14: The Coup
- A group
[the same that broke into SD-6] takes down FTL and steals
a Rambaldi artifact. This mysterious group they now have
what seems to be the most significant collection of Rambaldi
artifacts in the world.
- The
group [who works for "The Man"] sets up a meeting
with K-Directorate to share Rambaldi resources. They kill
the head of K-Directorate.
Episode
15: Page 47
- Rambaldi
was a 16th century inventor who seemed to have an almost
psychic vision of technology. The book seems to be some
sort of instruction manual.
- Sydney
steals the Rambaldi book that K-Directorate is delivering
to "The Man". She takes photographs of it for
the CIA.
- There's
one blank page in the manuscript. The forty-seventh page
of Rambaldi documents is always particularly significant.
This blank page was number forty-seven.
- Sydney
steals the blank page 47 from Sloane's vault.
- The
CIA uses the vial of liquid that they obtained from Cole,
to decipher the blank page.
- The
page has a drawing of Sydney's likeness on it with text
surrounding it.
Episode
16: The Prophecy
- Sydney
is investigated by the DSR because of the Rambaldi manuscript.
- Rambaldi
refers to future dates indicating the woman in the picture
is still alive.
- The
DSR calls page 47 of the manuscript "The Prophecy".
- The
DSR runs tests on Sydney, both mental and physical, to determine
if she is the woman in the drawing.
- Sydney
and Vaughn break into the Vatican to retrieve Rambaldi's
original code key. They find it in a painting of Pope Alexander
VI.
- Rambaldi
was his chief architect. Rambaldi made habit of hiding his
real work in ordinary things.
- Sydney
is captured by the FBI after "The Prophecy" is
decoded. She matches three specific anomalies Rambaldi
mentioned: DNA sequencing, platelet levels, and the size
of her heart.
Episode
17: Q & A
- CIA
has decoded forty-seven distinct and verifiable Rambaldi
predictions. They have all been true.
- Vaughn
and Jack decide to break Sydney out and bring her to Mt.
Sebacio, to make the prophecy false. Rambaldi was born there.
- Rambaldi
was an artist, an inventor. His designs were so technologically
advanced, at the time, they thought he was heretic. And
he was executed. Now, five hundred years later, many believe
he was a prophet.
- SD-6,
CIA, GRU, K-Directorate, the entire intelligence world,
is on a Rambaldi scavenger hunt. They assume that Rambaldi
had some sort of master plan.
- In
the book, Rambaldi refers to a single construction. The
agencies don't know what it is yet, but they're all afraid
the other guy's going to get it first.
- Sydney
infers that her mother is still alive, and SHE is the one
in the Rambaldi prophecy, not Sydney.
Episode
20: Rendezvous
- Another
blank Rambaldi page is found.
Episode
22: Almost Thirty Years
- Sydney
uses the solution to reveal the blank Rambaldi page. It
turns out to be information about the device from the pilot
episode ~ a U-shaped device with a red floating ball.
- Hadlacki
tells Jack that the device is a battery.
- Sydney
and Vaughn go to Khasinau's lab to destroy the device that
was created.
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