Alias: Rambaldi, Season Two
Episode
3: Cipher
IRINA:
Any piece of music can be expressed as a series of numbers.
Sark is looking for a music box designed by Rambaldi. The
box plays a unique tune. Encoded within the tune there's an
equation.
SYDNEY: For what?
IRINA: Zero-point energy - a fuel source. The military
applications alone would be unlimited.
SYDNEY: From a music box.
Sydney
plans to steal the music box. Irina helps to decipher the
code to activate it.
Episode
4: Dead Drop
Sydney
tells Sloane the music box was corroded.
SLOANE:
That's odd.
SYDNEY: What's that?
SLOANE: Milo Rambaldi. He's done this before, many
times. Hiding information inside works of art. The clock,
sculpture. Hmm. This time he chose to bury one of his most
important innovations -- the formula for zero-point energy
-- inside a music box.
SYDNEY: You're talking about an inventor who lived
five hundred years ago. Anything regarding Milo Rambaldi seems
odd to me.
SLOANE: Well, what's unusual isn't how he hid the information,
Sydney, it's where. Why would Milo Rambaldi go to the unimaginable
length of having catacombs built in Siberia only to leave
his music box exposed to corrosive elements?
SYDNEY: Another Rambaldi mystery.
Episode
6: Salvation
Sydney
finds out about the Rambaldi device she found in Taipei last
season: "We believe the device is the source of the
virus that infected the men in Geneva. Unfortunately, you
and Agent Vaughn may have been exposed. I'm sorry. We'd like
to draw some blood and keep you under observation."
Episode 7: Counteragent
Sark strikes
a deal with Sloane ~
SARK:
Here's the situation. Rambaldi's true aim is a puzzle. I have
certain pieces, you have others. We'll never solve his mystery,
but together -- together, we cannot fail.
JACK: Among the things Rambaldi experimented with
was self-sustaining cell regeneration. This artifact they're
opening today is reported to be Rambaldi's proof of endless
life.
Episode
10: The Abduction
SARK to SLOANE: The Indian western command carried
out an air strike on the PRF prison. The Rambaldi artifact
was destroyed. My contact in the region, Gerard Cuvee, mistakenly
believes I tipped the Indian authorities off. With all due
respect sir, could the leak have come from this office?
Episode
15: A Free Agent
JACK: Simply put, it's the study of geometric objects
and how they fit together. All Alliance facilities have been
raided yet we haven't found a single Rambaldi artifact. If
Sloane was expecting our raid, he could've had everything
moved to a secure location. He must be using Caplan to help
him assemble a Rambaldi device.
VAUGHN: So what happens when Sloane puts the pieces
together?
JACK: Whether or not you believe Rambaldi was a prophet,
he did anticipate technological advances, many of which seem
most applicable to warfare. It's likely Sloane is building
a weapon.
SLOANE to MR. CAPLAN: That manuscript is 500-years-old.
Those sketches were drawn by a man named Milo Rambaldi. You
will see that Rambaldi prophesied scientific principles centuries
ahead of his time. Protoypes of his designs have turned up
all over the world. For the past thirty years, I've been collecting
them.
Episode
16: Firebomb
SARK to SLOANE: Caplan finished earlier this morning.
The Rambaldi device is complete. I ran the test. I think you'll
be pleased with the results. When we agreed to combine our
resources, sir, you promised you'd show me incredible things.
But a suitcase neutron bomb designed in the sixteenth century
-- is that even a theoretical possibility?
Episode
17: A Dark Turn
IRINA: A key card to his home safe. In '93 Karpachev
came into possession of a Rambaldi manuscript. Sloane must
believe he kept it in his safe but he's incorrect. Karpachev
sold it.
JACK: What is this manuscript?
IRINA: Rambaldi's study of the human heart. As you
know, immortality was one of Rambaldi's obsessions.
JACK: We shared a similar unsentimental patriotism...and
a devotion to our wives. But Sloane changed and...it was Rambaldi
that did it. I'm not sure what it is -- he never told me --
but Sloane has a personal connection to Rambaldi.
IRINA: I lived for years with the same obsession, to
find a higher meaning in Rambaldi's work. I never understood
how you managed to avoid getting caught up in it.
Later, Irina escapes custody from the CIA with the real Rambaldi
manuscript.
Episode
18: Truth Takes Time
JACK: Before the operation, she swapped the Rambaldi
manuscript. She left us with a fake. She and Sloane are now
in possession of the original.
EMILY (about Sloane): He told me his plan, to find
out what this man Rambaldi was working on. He rationalizes
what he's done. He says he's doing it for us, for me. Even
if I believe him, I won't be the excuse for his crimes. I
won't live with that on my conscience.
SLOANE: What if I told you that I wanted you to buy
me out? That I'd be willing to sell you the breadth of my
assets, my contacts, all the Rambaldi artifacts I've acquired
over the last thirty years, everything?
IRINA: I'd say that either you're setting me up to
kill me or I underestimated your love for your wife.
Episode
19: Endgame
IRINA: We both had to make sacrifices, Arvin. You
won't forgive yourself if you stop now. We're so close to
knowing what Rambaldi knew.
SLOANE: I wish I never heard that man's name.
Episode
20: Countdown
MARSHALL: Um, okay, uh, take a look right here. Now,
these drawings are amazing. Like, Da Vinci-in-his-prime amazing.
But the what-could-he-have-possibly-been-smoking element?
Well, that is right here. Now, take a look in the corner.
You see these little drawings in the corner of the pages?
Now, they look just like normal squiggles or doodling, you
know, like-like you would do while you're on the phone talking
to-- Although... he probably wouldn't be on the phone because,
you know, it was the fifteenth century and they didn't actually
have phones yet but, um, they are actually specific strands
of DNA. Now, I strung them all together and I got a DNA fingerprint.
BRANDON: The DNA of this man. Protero Di Regno, private
citizen, living in Panama City. He works as an art restorer.
VAUGHN: You're saying that five hundred years ago Rambaldi
drew the DNA profile of a man who's alive today?
CARRIE: It gets even better. Di Regno's DNA profile
was a code key. It let us decrypt page 94 of the Rambaldi
manuscript.
DIXON: What's on the page?
BRANDON: Times and dates, each marking an apocalyptic
event. September the seventh, 1812 -- Napoleon's bloodiest
battle with the Russians. June twenty-eighth, 1914 -- the
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Started World War I.
August the sixth, 1945 -- Hiroshima. The list goes on.
SYDNEY: There's a future date listed on the page...
isn't there?
BRANDON: Forty-eight hours from now.
SYDNEY: What's the prediction?
CARRIE: The page doesn't say, it just gives the time.
It's the equivalent of midnight, eastern standard time.
JACK: We're coordinating with local authorities in
Panama City. When you find Di Regno, you'll escort him back
here.
BRANDON: Until the moment specified by Rambaldi has
come and gone, by national security directive, this operations
center is under the jurisdiction of NSA.
Later, Di Regno is killed and his heart is stolen.
CARRIE: To tell you the truth, I'm exhausted by the
world. Everything -- the evil and the rage and the darkness.
And the last thing I need is some fifteenth century dork telling
me I got a day and a half to live.
MARSHALL: What in God's name was keeping him alive
and why did Sloane want it so badly? Now, remember those heart
drawings he did? Well, I interpreted the text and Rambaldi
referred to conquering tissue degeneration.
SYDNEY: We know Rambaldi was fascinated with immortality.
MARSHALL: Yeah, but even so, what does all this possibly
have to do with the doomsday prophecy?
CONRAD: Your search for Rambaldi...has frustrated
you.
SLOANE: Frustrated me? You mean that meaningless quest
that you sent me on thirty years ago that made me abandon
the CIA and betray everyone I ever loved?
CONRAD to SLOANE: Thirty years ago, I could only tell
you so much. The information had to come to you over time
or you would not have understood. Certain events... need to
unfold. According to Rambaldi's writings, your wife's death,
although unfortunate, was a necessary step on your journey.
He gives him a piece of paper, and at that exact moment...
DELTA GUY: Sir, it's Delta leader. It's all clear,
we're packing up
BRANDON: Ohhh... I guess Rambaldi was wrong.
Episode
21: Second Double
IRINA to SARK: I've set up a meeting with someone
who can help us re-acquire the Di Regno heart. He'll get us
the plans to the NSA facility where they keep the Rambaldi
artifacts.
SLOANE: Come back to our partnership, Jack. I will
tell you everything I've learned about Rambaldi.
JACK: An obsession I've never shared.
SLOANE: Well, now's the time to sign up. For years
I collected his artifacts, as if that was the point. I thought
Rambaldi's work was that window to the past. Today... I am
one move away from proving to you that it is so much more
than that.
Episode
22: The Telling
IRINA to SYDNEY: Your friend was cleared. I told you
I'd want a favor. This is it. 266 Kroner Strasse in Zurich.
I've just given you the address of Sloane's warehouse where
he's hiding the Rambaldi artifacts. I had to be careful. I
needed you to trust me but I also couldn't tell you my plan.
Sloane had twenty-three Rambaldi artifacts, the CIA had twenty-four.
In order to assemble the device, they all had to be brought
together. Those are the pieces in Sloane's warehouse.
VAUGHN: Sloane may have most of the pieces to assemble
this Rambaldi device, but I don't think he has them all.
SYDNEY: The Di Regno heart.
KENDALL: If the NSA still got it.
SLOANE: He had so many brilliant creations. Rambaldi.
But there was one in particular, a machine. He called it "il
dire." The telling. The construction consists of forty-seven
pieces. Classic Rambaldi. As you know, it took me a long time
-- longer than I thought -- but I've acquired them all, including
the Di Regno heart with your help. They're in the next room,
Jack. I have a team assembling "il dire" right now.
They said it shouldn't be more than a day.
IRINA to SYDNEY: Sloane believes he's been chosen
to realize the word of Rambaldi. But you, too, have been chosen.
It's you in the prophecy, Sydney, not me. Only you can stop
him. Good luck, sweetheart.
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