Alias Season 1 Reviews by Billie Doux
Alias: Season One
1.1 Truth Be Told
1.2 So It Begins
1.3 Parity
1.4 A Broken Heart
1.5 Doppelganger
1.6 Reckoning
1.7 Color-Blind
1.8 Time will Tell
1.9 Mea Culpa
1.10 Spirit
1.11 The Confession
1.12 The Box (1)
1.13 The Box (2)
1.14 The Coup
1.15 Page 47
1.16 The Prophecy
1.17 Q&A
1.18 Masquerade
1.19 Snowman
1.20 The Solution
1.21 Rendezvous
1.22 Almost Thirty Years
1.1. Truth Be Told
Jack: "I guess we'll just have to learn to trust each
other."
This stunning pilot was wildly impressive. The action just
rocketed along, and the torture scenes actually shocked me.
It sucked me in and got me hooked.
"You are schizophrenic," her unknowing friend Francie
told Sydney near the beginning of this episode, and she pretty
much said it all; the main theme of the show is, of course,
Sydney Bristow's double life. The wholesome graduate student
with nice friends and a normal job working for a bank is constantly
contrasted with the dangerous existence of a secret agent.
When Sydney got engaged and told her fiance the truth about
herself, she caused her two worlds to collide.
Jennifer Garner was just wonderful here. Sydney is heroic,
charming, athletic, brilliant, emotional and sexy; she's the
ultimate heroine, and Garner is perfect for the part. I particularly
liked her aghast reaction to Danny's "Build me up, buttercup!"
proposal; the way she charmed Chinese torturer guy into thinking
that all she was doing was looking for a bathroom; her shock
and grief at Danny's death; and her determination at the end
to do what was right.
The most interesting character in the pilot, other than Sydney,
is by far and away her father, Jack Bristow (Victor Garber).
He went through several iterations here: at first a cold,
distant businessman who was sarcastic with his daughter's
fiance (the Jack/Danny phone call was a hoot); then an evil
cohort of Sloane's at SD-6; and finally, his true face was
revealed when we learned he was a double, like Sydney -- a
true hero, a patriot who risks his life every day. We saw
bits of Jack in all of these different personas, but the true
Jack is a cipher, and his relationship with his daughter is
a big, fascinating question mark.
Although the focus was mostly on Sydney, the major characters
were all introduced here: Arvin Sloane, who appeared to be
all business until he showed his ruthlessness by having Danny
killed; Dixon, Sydney's SD-6 partner, a nice, normal married
guy who also happens to be a spy; Marshall, a sort of young,
bumbling Q (from Bond, not Star Trek); Francie, Sydney's clueless
best friend and roommate; and Will, Sydney's reporter friend,
who is very obviously in love with her.
The briefest and least informative introductions were to
CIA agents Vaughn and Weiss at the end of the episode. Vaughn
appeared to be a stereotypical clean-cut CIA agent, and Weiss
was pretty much just someone for Vaughn to do dialogue with,
and that's it.
Bits and pieces:
-- Sydney has parental issues not just with Jack, but with
her mother, whose death after many years is still too painful
for her to discuss.
-- Is Sydney getting a masters in literature? Tennyson is
mentioned.
-- We learned here that SD-6 is part of the Alliance of twelve,
not part of the CIA, as Sydney believed for the past seven
years.
-- Rambaldi is not mentioned, but we learn in later episodes
that the ball of water device that Muller supposedly invented
was actually invented by Rambaldi.
-- Devlin, the director of the CIA, is mentioned but not
seen.
-- There was a lot of pop music in this episode... almost
too much. The best was "Forever young," which we
heard during the Sydney/Danny shower scene. Danny will never
get any older now.
-- The woman with magenta hair that Syd was using as a non-agency
alias was Will's sister, Amy. Good for the plot, but who keeps
their hair that color long enough to get a passport with it?
-- There was a photo of a blond woman with Vaughn on Vaughn's
desk.
-- Number 47: Marshall mentioned that he wanted to bring
the number of exposures in his camera from 42 to 47, and that
47 was a prime number.
-- This week's itinerary: Taipei, twice.
-- This week's cool gadgets: a lighter as a scrambler, and
a lipstick as the above-mentioned camera.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney spoke Chinese, Dixon
spoke Hebrew, and the unseen Mueller took notes in Demotic.
-- This week's hot look: the skin-tight red dress at the
party, and of course, the famous magenta hair.
-- In the credits, you can see the sign of the Magnific Order
of Rambaldi <o> over Victor Garber's name.
Five out of five stars,
Billie
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1.2 So It Begins
Sydney: "Do I look like I'm in junior high? Are there
braces on my teeth? Do you see a retainer?"
This episode was dominated by Sydney's forced and uncomfortable
interaction with her new CIA handler, Vaughn, whom she thought
was treating her like a child. Sydney doesn't want to play
Langley games ("Joey's Pizza"), and who can blame
her? Vaughn was taken off the case at the end of this episode.
Since Michael Vartan is a major hottie and is also in the
cast, I don't think this development will be permanent.
Sydney moved into a new apartment, with the help of Will,
Francie, and Francie's boyfriend Charlie. Why did she move?
She didn't live with Danny, but perhaps there were too many
memories there now. Will, an investigative reporter, wanted
desperately to investigate Danny's death, while Sydney wanted
desperately for him not to and of course, she could not tell
him why.
Again, the most interesting interaction here was Sydney with
her father, Jack. She discovered that Jack knew Sloane was
going to have Danny killed; after at first thinking the worst,
she discovered he had bought Sydney and Danny plane tickets
to Singapore.
We're left with our first cliffhanger: Sydney holding the
core of a nuke with a gun aimed at her head.
Bits and pieces:
-- Vaughn's girlfriend is named Alice. One assumes she's
the blonde in the photo from last week.
-- Two new characters were introduced: Francie's boyfriend
Charlie, and Jenny the nineteen-year-old intern/assistant/whatever
at Will's paper.
-- Marshall: "I'm trying to be kind of Pavlovian about
these puppies. No pun intended."
-- Weiss: "That's what I'm going to call you from now
on. Hey, have you met 'balls of steel?'" Weiss is very
cute, and very funny. Good character for Vaughn to banter
with.
-- Devlin is again mentioned, but we don't see him.
-- We learned that Will and Sydney have known each other
for three years.
-- This week's hot gadget: a spot the size of a pin head
that knocks people out instantly.
-- This week's incredible McGuffin: an old nuke buried in
a man's grave. I think I would have called Marshall instead
of Vaughn, too. No reflection on Vaughn.
-- This week's itinerary: Flashbacks in Paris, France, and
Memphis, Egypt, and action in Moscow and Cairo.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney spoke Russian, at
least to the extent of "I have your towels, sir."
-- This week's hot look: That blue thing Sydney was wearing.
(That wasn't spandex, was it? How could she kick in that thing?)
And Dixon's gold African robes were gorgeous.
Two out of five stars,
Billie
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1.3 Parity
Sydney: "My days of blindly following orders are over."
Sydney is getting behind on her schoolwork. The fact that
she was busy recovering nuclear weapons for her country is
no excuse.
This episode introduced a major "Alias" storyline:
the artifacts and designs of Milo Rambaldi, who died in 1496.
That's 1496, not 1996. (Vaughn: "DaVinci meets Nostradamus.
Personally, I don't buy it.") The machine Sydney stole
in the pilot episode was designed by Rambaldi, not Muller.
Rambaldi wrote machine code in the fifteenth century? Yeah,
right.
Although this episode had a very exciting face off between
Sydney and a K-Directorate agent named Anna (loved their fight
and the scene in the vault), the real story here was the relationships.
A love triangle seems to be developing. The tequila and ice
cream kiss with Will was pretty interesting, but I sense that
Sydney is developing a stronger relationship with Vaughn,
probably because of the dramatic nature of their association.
Lambert, Sydney's new handler who was very quickly her ex-handler,
was outright revolting ("Grab a little face time with
my girl"? Jeez), and Sydney's insistence on Vaughn's
reinstatement was very satisfying.
Sydney also tried to mend her relationship with her father.
Jack told Sydney that her mother knew Jack was in the CIA,
and that she died in an accident. But Jack lied, and Sloane
seems to know the truth -- which, of course, implies that
something spy-related was involved.
In the meantime, Will, despite what Sydney asked, continued
investigating Danny's death, anyway. Now it's the traffic
cameras, which weren't functioning for a mile around Danny's
apartment at the time of his death. Will is going to get smacked
down by SD-6 if he isn't more careful.
Tonight's cliffhanger: As Sydney and Anna opened the box,
Sydney said, "Oh my god." And we didn't get to see
what she saw. Darn.
Bits and pieces:
-- Charlie is cheating on Francie. I'm not sure I care.
-- My favorite scene was Sydney swinging through the air
on a chain, like Princess Leia or Indiana Jones.
-- Anna Espinosa from K-Directorate had the Rambaldi acolyte
mark <o> on her hand, above her thumb.
-- This week's itinerary: Madrid and Berlin.
-- This week's hot look: Red dress, red hair, fiberglass
pearls, and a microphone in a pendant.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney spoke Russian and
Spanish with Anna. As well as English.
Three out of five stars,
Billie
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1.4 A Broken Heart
Vaughn: "We have to be very careful here. We have to
be wildly crazy careful."
More Rambaldi, and more Anna Espinosa. We learned here that
Rambaldi spent the last ten years of his life working on something
major, but we didn't find out what it was. I dunno: creating
a synthetic polymer in the fifteenth century might have kept
him occupied.
Despite warnings, Will continued investigating Danny's death,
and I sense this won't end well. Will now knows that Danny
wasn't traveling alone; he would have been with Kate Jones,
which is an Alias of Sydney's. Except Will doesn't know that.
And it doesn't look like Sydney was ready for a romantic involvement
with Will, since their second kiss went nowhere and she actually
pushed the barrier with Vaughn by crying on his shoulder.
Did Sydney really think Vaughn was married this whole time,
or was she just checking him out? I think she was checking
him out. Sydney's too smart to bring up something like that
by accident: she wanted to know.
On the father/daughter front, Sydney asked Jack out to dinner
-- it was clearly a big step for her, and difficult to do
-- and he stood her up. At least he was feeling guilty for
keeping whatever it was from Sydney, as evidenced by his little
brain lapse with McCullough. Was he nervous about getting
closer to his daughter?
This week's cliffhanger: Sydney suspended above a clandestine
surgical operation.
Bits and pieces:
-- Francie: "Have you ever spied on anyone?"
-- There was another great fight scene with Sydney and Anna,
as well as one with the nasty guy who broke her arm a few
years ago in Corsica.
-- Francie was still worried about Charlie cheating on her.
And I'm still not sure I care. Although Sydney giving Francie
tips about how to spy on Charlie was fun.
-- There was mention of SD-3.
-- There was mention for the first time that Sloane has a
wife, Emily, who is ill.
-- I particularly liked the shot of Sydney crying on the
Santa Monica Pier with the Ferris wheel behind her. Beautiful.
-- My favorite scene was at the beginning, with Sydney and
Anna memorizing the code as quickly as they could while it
was dissolving.
-- I don't think braids and kerchief qualify as a hot look.
The tight golden pants she was wearing in Sao Paulo were pretty
cool, though.
-- This week's itinerary: A football field in Berlin (or
do they play soccer in Germany?); a five hundred year old
church in Malaga, Spain; shopping in Morocco; and a party
and clandestine surgical operation in Sao Paulo.
Three out of five stars,
Billie
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1.5 Doppelganger
Vaughn: "You can't volunteer a man for double agent
duty if he hasn't asked for it."
This episode showcased Sydney's partner, Dixon, a wonderful
partner and a good man who loves his country. I completely
sympathize with Sydney wanting desperately to tell Dixon the
truth, but Vaughn was absolutely right: Dixon has a wife and
children (we saw his wife Diane for the first time here).
How can Sydney put Dixon into such a hazardous situation essentially
without his permission? Except she can't get his permission
without telling him the truth. It's a classic conundrum.
On the other hand, how can Sydney continue to deceive a man
she works so closely with, a man she loves and trusts? This
was probably the point where she should have trusted Dixon,
and told him the truth, anyway -- no matter what the consequences.
Because it just got worse. Dixon has now inadvertently killed
several CIA agents because he doesn't know the truth. He will
certainly find out someday; how will it make him feel?
The double plot was excellent. We felt empathy for the brave
agent who stood in for Schiller. I was wildly impressed (again)
with Jack, who is a very, very scary guy. He was brutal enough
and calculating enough to deliberately break a friend's arm
as cover, but all the while he was risking his own life for
his country. What a fascinating man.
Vaughn is already operating outside the box, and his loyalty
to Sydney may be growing stronger than his loyalty to the
agency. Giving Sydney her father's file is way above and beyond,
and I'm sure it's ten kinds of illegal. (I wonder what Case
332L was?)
And Will is *STILL* on the Danny story... but he's giving
it up. Right. No, he's meeting someone called Kate Jones.
It's not Syd; it's a woman who was having an affair with Danny.
Who is she, and where did she come from? How come she is using
Sydney's alias?
There is now a back door to SD-6's computer system, and it
was Vaughn's idea. Very cool beans, and I'm sure we'll hear
about it in future episodes.
Bits and pieces:
-- Dixon actually got to perform surgery on his idol in the
back of an ambulance, and literally hoisted the bad guys on
their own explosive petard.
-- Jennifer Garner runs really well. And in gorgeous clothing,
too.
-- Sydney and Francie have known each other at least since
the seventh grade.
-- Dixon: "I just punched Dhiren Patel in the face.
I worship this man."
-- This week's itinerary: Sao Paulo, Berlin, and Badenweiler,
near the Black Forest.
-- This week's cool look: Loved Sydney's spiky hairdo in
Berlin.
-- This week's cool gadget: a business card that destroys
a firewall.
Excellent. Exciting, well written, beautifully acted. Five
out of five stars,
Billie
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1.6 Reckoning
Jack: "What you think you know, you don't know."
There was a lot of plot in this one.
The biggest development was that Jack is now working directly
with Sydney -- no more airplane parts for Jack. The angst
about Sydney's mother continued, with Sydney suspecting Jack
had something to do with her mother's death. And Sydney went
undercover as a lunatic in a Romanian insane asylum, an intensely
creepy place, to smoke out a programmed assassin who doesn't
know he's an assassin. (Are asylums in Bucharest really that
bad?)
In the Kate Jones who died in 1973 and is actually Sydney
saga, Eloise Kurtz, who lives at 223 Whitley Place, Hollywood,
and has pepper spray, finally admitted that she pretended
to be Kate Jones for money. And promptly disappeared. Bet
she's dead.
And finally, Charlie wasn't unfaithful after all. He's just
started a singing career. The fluff with the bar and the singing
just felt discordant, pardon the pun, compared to the rest
of the episode: the heaviness of what Dixon did in Badenweiler,
the asylum, the funerals, etc. It's hard for me to get involved
in the trivia of Francie's romantic life when Sydney's life
is so overwhelming.
This week's cliffhanger: Sydney is trapped in an asylum in
Romania, and her backup has been killed.
Bits and pieces:
-- The explanation/teaser at the beginning has changed; although
it's much the same, ID photos have been added.
-- We saw photos of mom. Mom looks a lot like Sydney
-- Vaughn shared the fact that his father, an agent, died
when Vaughn was eight. Sydney is not the only one who has
lost a parent tragically.
-- The CIA was still getting info through SD-6's back door,
until Marshall noticed something wrong with the computer network.
And now Sloane believes there is a mole. Uh-oh.
-- Sydney to Jack: "Every time I think I know just how
awful you are, I learn something worse." Is Sydney being
fair to Jack?
-- Will's sister Amy with the magenta hair is back.
-- This week's itinerary: More Badenweiler; London; Romania.
-- This week's hot look: That green piece of nothing Sydney
wore in London. I particularly liked the accessories: green
heels, glasses, bag, ring, the works.
-- This week's cool gadget: a bug that actually looks like
a bug.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney speaks Romanian, too.
Three out of five stars,
Billie
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1.7 Color-Blind
Shepard: "I feel like I've been stolen from myself."
Oh, goody. More torture.
This episode was sort of fascinating, with the color blindness
and programming and yet more torture. The escape from the
asylum was cool, too. I feel like I missed the beginning of
the Shepard story, though. Why would SD-6 go to all the trouble
of programming an assassin? Total secrecy? And the programming
broke down; wouldn't SD-6 know about that? It seems unlikely,
but hey.
Moving right along... it was indeed moving for Sydney to
discover that poor, unwitting Shepard was Danny's killer,
and John Hannah was just wonderful in the part. How could
she hate Shepard, when it wasn't his fault? At least she now
has a teeny bit of closure. It will have to hold her until
she brings down SD-6.
On the parental issues front, Jack and Sydney are getting
a little closer. He proved to her that he had never been KGB,
and in exchange, she gave him Thanksgiving leftovers. It's
a start.
Eloise Kurtz is dead, which is not exactly a surprise. Will
got the go ahead on the story, just when he was once again
ready to bag it. If Sydney knew what he was doing, she'd go
absolutely nuts.
The Thanksgiving party and Charlie proposing to Francie just
seemed like it didn't fit, somehow. (Don't do it, Francie!
I don't trust him!) And what the hell was Will doing with
Jenny, who was so young she was carded buying wine? Having
her there made Sydney look like a fifth wheel. But if Will
is involved with little Jenny, it clears the way for Vaughn,
who is definitely getting emotionally involved with Sydney.
Plus he broke up with Alice and spent Thanksgiving with his
mom. Hmmm.
Bits and pieces:
-- Jack and Vaughn met for the first time. Jack was clearly
unhappy about the file Vaughn pulled to show Sydney. Not the
way to impress your prospective honey's father, Vaughn.
-- Someone named Cretchmer is Jack's handler?
-- Jennifer Garner even looks good when she's crazy.
-- Sloane: "I believe in her as if she were my own daughter."
Does he, really? That sounds creepy, somehow, like maybe Sydney
*is* his own daughter. What if he finds out she's a mole?
-- Marshall: "You want to stretch out? I can inflate
the couch."
-- This week's itinerary: Mostly Romania, or whatever part
of Los Angeles stood in for it.
-- This week's Rambaldi: Something in Tunisia? Tune in next
week?
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.8 Time will Tell
Will: "Can I make a suggestion, just for like the eight
millionth time? Why don't you just quit your job?
Rambaldi's middle name should be "convoluted."
Milo Convoluted Rambaldi. A synthetic polymer five hundred
year old disk in Spain that only becomes a star chart of a
precise place on earth if you put it on a five hundred year
old clock found in Tunisia?
Interesting stuff about the clockmaker, though. Rambaldi
promised Donato an impossibly long life? The clockmaker knew
when he would die? And he also knew Rambaldi? So he was probably
the original Donato, not a descendant.
Does this mean Rambaldi himself is still alive?
The second big plot piece was the functional imaging test,
which seemed to have identified Sydney as the mole in spite
of all the practicing she did with Vaughn. (He was actually
flirting with her, wasn't he, asking her while she was wired
if she was romantically interested in someone? Very cute.)
The third big plot piece was Eloise Kurtz, who is dead, but
whose story just won't die. We finally found out Jack was
behind her little game, although it was Sloane who had her
killed. But wait! There was a listening device in her car,
and now Will has it. Will is going to get himself killed.
Would Spy Daddy kill Will? It's hard to tell with Jack.
And fourth -- Jack gave Sydney's mother Laura, who was a
teacher, first editions from Prague. They have KGB codes in
them, conveniently revealed by the lemonade that Francie spilled.
This made Sydney once again certain that Daddy Bristow was
KGB. And just when they were getting along, with the Thanksgiving
leftovers and all; she even went to him for help at the beginning
of the episode. Too bad.
This week's cliffhanger: If the fall doesn't kill Sydney,
Sloane will take her out because she's the mole. Things don't
look good for our heroine. Did Anna get away with Rambaldi's
journal? And what happened to Dixon?
Bits and pieces:
-- It was great to have Anna Espinosa back.
-- The jump off the balcony was very cool.
-- Sydney was still wearing Danny's ring, squelching any
ideas Will had about more awkward kisses. Interesting that
Sydney pointed out the ring to Will, almost as if she was
trying to forestall him.
-- Sydney's schooling is still suffering. ("If you want
to be a banker, be a banker.") Why is this woman in grad
school, anyway? She has a career already. She has enough career
angst going on for ten average people. If she survives her
job, she ought to retire at thirty-five and spend the rest
of her life on a beach drinking margueritas.
-- Sydney had another perfect opportunity to tell Dixon the
truth, and she didn't.
-- This week's itinerary: England, Italy, and Argentina.
-- This week's hot look: Sydney and Anna both looked excellent
in gorgeous black dresses.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney spoke a lot of Italian.
This episode had enough exciting plot in it for several episodes.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.9 Mea Culpa
Jack: "I know how Sloane works. He's bluffing."
That chess game between Sloane and Jack was just riveting.
More interesting info from the past: Sloane knew Laura, and
went to Jack and Laura's wedding. "I always thought of
you as my daughter. Even from the beginning." Sloane
has said this before; it looks like he truly has a weakness
for Sydney, something her own father doesn't seem to show.
Wouldn't a father who really loved his daughter be ready to
pull her out of a dangerous situation, not risk her life?
It's impossible to tell what Jack's ultimate agenda is, and
that's part of what makes him so fascinating.
Will provided the comic relief this week, sitting in a bathroom
stall talking to a brooch. Was he talking to Jack? Why would
Jack be playing spy games with Will? When Will's cell phone
actually did ring, I jumped out of my chair. I'm starting
to become intrigued with this subplot instead of annoyed.
Cliffhanger! A second transmission out of Geneva? Sloane
has her taken. Now what?
Bits and pieces:
-- Dixon's condition is an unknown. If he recovers, will
he remember Sydney referring to herself as "Freelancer?"
-- Marshall is too good. He should be working for the good
guys.
-- Francie is shopping for a wedding dress. I just get the
feeling it isn't gonna happen.
-- Francie to Will: "Leave her alone, or I will kick
your ass. I'm not kidding."
-- Weiss: "Oy. I just lost thirty pounds. I'm not kidding."
-- SD-4 has an office in Rome.
-- How many times has Sydney been ambushed in a parking garage?
-- This week's hot look: That amazing tiny dress and boots
she wore in Tuscany.
-- This week's cool gadgets: a computer sucker, and a latex
fingerprint copier.
-- This week's itinerary: Argentina, Tuscany, Geneva.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.10 Spirit
Jack: "I understand it's been a difficult week."
What Jack did in this episode just blew me away.
When I was watching this episode for the first time, I wasn't
sure what Jack's motivations were, and how he really felt
about Sydney. Did he really love her? Was he actually KGB,
after all? The moral ambiguity of what Jack did, and how he
didn't hesitate for a moment to sacrifice Russek for Sydney,
was just a fascinating insight into his character. He may
even be more ruthless than Sloane -- but it's now clear that
he loves his daughter, and will do anything for her.
Sloane was unbelievably creepy and totally evil in this episode.
Sydney is like a daughter to him, and he's ready to torture
her? When he reached out to Sydney, I actually shuddered.
We did learn here that the CIA betrayed him (although we don't
know how), and that his wife has lymphoma.
Will foolishly continued his suicidal investigation and now
he knows that it involves something called "SD-6",
from a deposition in the trial of a David McNeill, who is
now in Lompoc.
Vaughn has lost his heart to Sydney; he bought her a Christmas
present. Vaughn also managed to fake out Jack. That took courage,
and wasn't an easy thing to do.
In this week's cliffhanger, Jack has to kill Sydney? Somehow,
I just don't believe that's going to happen. Especially now
that we know for certain how he feels about her.
Bits and pieces:
-- The scenes in Cuba were photographed with a yellow tint.
-- Again, we saw Amy of the magenta hair.
-- The photos of Laura Bristow look a bit like Sydney.
-- Russek has been a nonentity so far, inserted in earlier
episodes in order to set up for this one, one assumes. Poor
guy.
-- Severin Driscoll wasn't in suite 47. Again with the number
47.
-- Shouldn't Hassan have recognized Sydney?
-- Will has succumbed to nineteen-year-old Jenny, probably
because of not getting anywhere with Sydney. Although that's
no excuse.
-- This week's itinerary: Kenya and Cuba.
-- This week's hot look: Red sunglasses, pink lipstick, blonde
hair... black bikini.
Five out of five stars,
Billie
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1.11 The Confession
Jack: "Sydney, I was not that agent. Your mother was."
No surprise in the opening scene: I was certain that Jack
wouldn't sacrifice Russek to save Sydney, and then turn around
and follow orders to kill her. Blinking Morse code was sort
of spy-a-rific silly, though. But we did get some serious
father-daughter spy bonding in Cuba. We learned that Jack
didn't want Sydney to be a spy, and Sydney finally asked him
why he didn't tell her about SD-6. It did make sense. I can't
imagine a loving parent wanting their child to do what Sydney
does. Sydney must know now that Jack really does love her,
and when Vaughn told her about the codes in the book, she
was not ready to believe it.
I don't know why it never occurred to me that Sydney's *mother*
was the KGB agent, not Jack, but it makes sense. Sydney has
super, super spy genes, talent coming from both sides of the
family. We also learned that William C. Vaughn was killed
by whoever that KGB agent was. So -- Sydney's mother killed
Vaughn's father; as melodramatic plots go, that one is a winner.
And the CIA knew, all this time. Now Vaughn and Sydney know,
too. What effect will it have on their non-relationship?
Hassan had guts, faking Vaughn out that way in order to save
his family. Good for him, even if he is a slimeball.
Bits and pieces:
-- Dixon is finally back. And he doesn't remember Sydney's
mistake. Sydney got lucky.
-- Weiss is back! I like Weiss. Cute and funny.
-- We finally got to see Devlin.
-- The Sydney and Vaughn meetings in that basement are starting
to feel like a rendezvous.
-- Does Will have a chance with Sydney after all? She did
cry in his arms.
-- The guy who tried to kill Sydney got fried. Instant karma's
gonna get you.
-- Even ickier than rubber gloves, that guy LICKED HER FACE.
Yecch. How did they film that? Did the actor actually lick
Jennifer Garner's face?
-- The taxi was supposed to pick up Sydney at the northwest
corner of Westwood and Wilshire. I go through that intersection
pretty often. Sometimes it's fun being a fan girl living in
L.A.
-- This week's itinerary: Cuba, Athens, Crete.
-- This week's cool gadget: a faked retina scan, wow.
-- This week's hot look: that red fringe-y dress. Garner
looks best in either black or red. Actually, she kinda looks
good in everything, which is probably why she's a big TV star
and all.
That ending was just amazing. Gotta give it a five,
Billie
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1.12 The Box (1)
Sydney: "I can't believe, of all things, we're saving
SD-6."
Poor Sydney has had it up to here, and as much as she wants
out, she knows she can't do it.
This was the ultimate in father/daughter bonding activities
-- and, ironically, in the service of SD-6. What a team Jack
and Sydney made. And they really do have a bond now, no matter
how far they still have to go.
Quentin Tarantino, as his usual oblique, hyper self, was
very believable here as a crazed, former SD-6 spy. Ron Rifkin
was also just fabulous; he always gives Sloane such tremendous
depth. And Victor Garber's Jack continues to be my favorite
character. Poor Jack! Now he knows that his wife was KGB,
and assigned to marry him. How nuts is that?
There was lots of Will in this episode, as he started considering
dropping the SD-6 story. Hey, Will -- I'm sure it's too late:
should have done it a long time ago. I thought it was Jack
who was playing with Will to keep him from going public with
the story, but Jack was in the elevator with Sydney when Will
got the call in the bathroom. So who the hell is calling Will?
And now that he's met McNeil's daughter, what is he going
to do?
The "your mom killing my dad" thing was definitely
a major issue for Sydney and prospective honey, Vaughn. The
shrink development was a LOT of fun. We got to see a new side
of Vaughn, too, when he went after Haladki, who is clearly
a threat to Vaughn's relationship, such as it is, with Sydney.
This week's cliffhanger: Sydney was left literally hanging
this time.
Bits and pieces:
-- Sydney and Vaughn, first hug! And Sydney asking Vaughn
out on a date? Going to a hockey game?
-- More about Sloane's wife being sick, although we still
haven't seen her.
-- Two new characters were introduced in this episode: the
toad-like CIA agent Haladki, and Dr. Barnett. ("Did you
purchase a Christmas present for Agent Bristow?")
-- This was also the first episode that mentioned "The
Man."
-- There are 50 agents at SD-6? That's the number Sydney
mentioned.
-- Really loved the shot of Sydney and Jack on top of the
elevator.
-- Sloane to Cole: "I can't be the first person to have
difficulty taking you seriously, can I?" Balls of steel,
Arvin, balls of steel. Dixon and Marshall also showed some
serious bravery here.
-- This week's itinerary: Mostly the air ducts and the Conversation
Room in SD-6.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.13 The Box (2)
Vaughn: "This is a charge of C-4. I can tell because
it says C-4 everywhere."
More of the same from last week. Very well written; I couldn't
tell what was going to happen from moment to moment. I thought
the dialogue was particularly clever, too -- especially the
Cole/Sydney scene about him asking her out, and her shooting
him down. I particularly liked Tarantino's line about the
mall, Haladki's about pizza, and Sloane's "tastefully
minimalistic office."
Jack proved irrevocably that he loves Sydney more than himself,
giving himself up to protect her. Which also left Sydney alone
to save the day, to deactivate the C4 before the vault door
opened. And Vaughn, upon receiving Dixon's plea for help,
galloped to Sydney's rescue, and he and Sydney got to do danger
stuff together. This was the first time was got to see Vaughn
in the field, wasn't it? He's cute *and* brave. My favorite
scene was the two of them trying to defuse the C4 without
knowing what they were doing.
Sloane has tremendous courage. I don't care if you know that
you're going to die if you don't; telling Jack to deliberately
cut off his finger took real guts.
Haladki became even more annoying and unreasonable. "Extraction
teams R Us." Now he has both Vaughn and Weiss mad at
him. They have good taste.
And Will decided to go ahead and make a stand. This is SUCH
a mistake.
Bits and pieces:
-- The scene where Cole just kills the SIS agent because
he was upset with Sloane was very effective. A life, a good
life, just gone.
-- Alva Varden. Wasn't that the ship in one of the Lethal
Weapon movies?
-- All of this carrying on was about a tiny bottle of Rambaldi
perfume? "Infinity. By Rambaldi."
-- Marshall: "Hey. Sloane gave me the finger."
-- Sydney: "Does anyone ever learn anything in seminars?"
-- This week's itinerary was still pretty much the depths
of SD-6, and the parking garage.
Five out of five stars. Marvelous.
Billie
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1.14 The Coup
Will: "Who the hell lives a double life like that? Seriously?"
Real life and spy life collided, as Francie and Charlie crashed
Syd's mission in Las Vegas. Charlie was cheating, and Francie
and Charlie are over. And I still don't care.
This episode introduced Mr. Sark, who works for "The
Man." In this episode, the very young, cute, and brutal
Mr. Sark assassinated the head of FTL in Hong Kong, and then
the head of K-Directorate in Moscow. He and/or "The Man"
have a huge thing for Rambaldi, specifically Rambaldi's journal,
much like everyone else in Alias-Spyworld. I'm assuming we'll
learn who "The Man" is, sooner or later, since we
keep hearing about him.
In this week's father/daughter bonding moment, Sydney acknowledged
that she may have gone to grad school only because she thought
her mother was a lit professor. Jack uncharacteristically
opened up to Sydney about his wife, and also uncharacteristically,
encouraged her to stay in school. These two may actually be
on their way to a real, honest-to-goodness relationship. Jack
is trying very hard, and it certainly isn't easy for him.
In this week's cliffhanger, Sydney is again literally hanging
in the air, being shot at.
Bits and pieces:
-- The Sydney/Vaughn romantic vibes are getting heavy. Vaughn
wants to date, huh?
-- Will: "What the hell is SD-6?"
-- Will is still with little Jenny. What can he be thinking?
(Sydney: "Did the Clinton administration teach you nothing?")
-- SD-6 (and Sloane!) gave Syd a little impromptu party for
saving SD-6. How weird is that?
-- That prick Haladki didn't win, since Vaughn is still Sydney's
handler.
-- The romantic Sydney/Vaughn scene was filmed at one of
my favorite L.A. places, the Griffith Observatory.
-- This week's itinerary: Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Moscow.
-- This week's cool gadget: A razor prism.
-- This week's hot look: The silver showgirl look. Woo-hoo!
Dixon looked a little like Rick James with all that hair,
though.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.15 Page 47
Jack: "There's a difference between concern and assassination."
Like the last episode, this one was about Sydney's personal
life colliding with her spy life.
We finally got to meet Sloane's dying wife Emily (Amy Irving),
and she's a sweetheart. Either that, or she's a great actress
-- but I don't think so. It seems so ... Sloane-like to have
a sweet wife who knows absolutely nothing about his evil,
double life.
Talk about uncomfortable. The dinner at Sloane's house had
layers all over the place, with Emily in one level of existence,
Will in another, Sydney and Jack in a third, and Sloane in
a world all his own. All these layers of knowledge, with only
Jack knowing everything. And the discussion of Will's article
about working for a man who was a monster? Transparent metaphors
are us.
We learned that the Rambaldi journal (which of course looks
like a DaVinci journal) is an instruction manual, and that
page 47 (of course, it's 47, since Rambaldi has a thing for
the number 47) has a picture of Sydney. Which is wild, as
well as this week's cliffhanger.
Will, still cradle-snatching and getting awards, ditched
Jenny to go out with Sydney, and got some instant karma when
Jenny ditched him by the side of the road. Note to Will: don't
break up with someone while they're doing you a favor: it's
tacky, and can even be dangerous. Jack was doing Will a favor
by kidnapping him and threatening him, interestingly enough.
Will finally did the smart thing and dropped the story on
McNeil and SD-6. For now. Again.
Bits and pieces:
-- Sloane's finger still hurts. Serves him right.
-- We saw Mr. Sark only briefly.
-- More Vaughn/Sydney sparks: "You look really pretty."
-- Vaughn's Aunt Trish sounds like an aunt of mine.
-- Francie is deeply bummed, but I think bum is the operative
word. She's better off without Charlie. The scene where she
and Sydney took off their rings together was very sweet.
-- Sydney, holding a paperclip: "This is a bug?"
Vaughn: "It's good, huh? You should see the guys who
make it. It's like they've never seen sunlight." Sydney:
"You should meet Marshall."
-- Syd lives at 4250 Cochran Street.
-- This week's itinerary: Moscow, Tunisia, Sloane's house.
-- This week's hot look: Red halter-top and cutoffs, definitely
Mary Ann instead of Ginger.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.16 The Prophecy
Sydney: "Maybe it's a picture of my mother."
Moving headlong into the mystical, we had two big developments
in this episode: (1) We finally saw the inner sanctum of the
Alliance (and having Roger Moore there was just fun); and
(2) Sydney herself has been integrated into the Rambaldi storyline.
Okay, three big developments: (3) Vaughn asked Sydney out
to dinner. Except it didn't happen yet.
There was added dimension to Arvin Sloane, too: his obvious
love for his dying wife, his willingness to murder a friend
to get something he wanted, and his vulnerability and anger
when he realized he had been manipulated. This is not a man
anyone should cross. Roger Moore had better watch his back.
Enter the NSA's Department of Special Research, the "fringe
science" X-Files guys, investigating Sydney to see if
she matches the three prophecy match points: DNA sequencing,
platelet levels, and heart size. Why the hell is Sydney in
a document that Rambaldi wrote five hundred years ago? (Haladki:
"It's like 666, guys. You see the writing on the kid's
scalp, you know there's some problems at home.") Did
they decode it incorrectly? Is it Sydney's mother, after all?
Sydney got her first op with Vaughn! "Yeah. I'll break
into the Vatican with you." And he wants to take her
to Trattoria de Nardi, his absolute favorite restaurant in
the world. Forget the restaurant. Why don't they just go hit
the sheets, or do something illicit in some other private
place? They clearly want to.
Bits and pieces:
-- There was more about "The Man," who is Alexander
Khasinau, former KGB.
-- I liked that Devlin stood up for Sydney.
-- Miss Evans (Lindsey Crouse) reminds me of Maggie Walsh,
the evil scientist Crouse played on "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer."
-- Emily thinks Sloane is a sweetheart?
-- Haladki is supposed to facilitate interagency cooperation?
Haladki?
-- Will and Francie were so out of the spy world in this
one, with a Lakers game and Francie obsessing about Kobe Bryant.
-- Okay, I'm not a nitpicker, but I think the Vatican would
have a better security system than we saw here. And don't
they have Swiss guards, not cops?
-- Here's the quote from Rambaldi: "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 week's itinerary: Brazil for a little parachuting,
Rome for a little breaking and entering, Montreal for a little
assassination, London for a little back-stabbing.
-- This week's language skills: Sydney and Vaughn both speak
Italian, and Sloane speaks French.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.17 Q&A
Vaughn: "Either this thing is completely insane... or
it isn't."
This one was a really terrific clip show interspersed with
new info -- the perfect way for new viewers to catch up with
the series. We got more background of how Sydney was recruited
and trained by SD-6, her engagement to Danny and his death,
Jack's role in all of it, Marshall, Dixon, the whole enchilada.
I am so in love with Spy Dad. (Jack to Haladki: "Just
so we're clear. You report this conversation, you'll never
wear a hat again.") And Haladki, our FBI mole and a total
pain in the butt, reported the conversation. What an idiot.
The man must have a death wish.
Vaughn and Jack are in cahoots now, "extracting"
Sydney and getting her to Mt. Subasio to render the prophecy
worthless. And Weiss went along for the ride, too. Weiss is
a lot of fun.
So Sydney's mother planned her own death, and is undoubtedly
going to show up as a character at some point. I don't know
why I'm surprised. I'm not sure I believe that she's the woman
in the Prophecy, though.
Bits and pieces:
-- There was no "My name is Sydney Bristow" piece
at the beginning; we went right into her driving the car off
the pier.
-- We learned more about Rambaldi: that he was Pope Alexander
VI's chief architect, and that he was executed. "The
entire intelligence world is on a Rambaldi scavenger hunt."
-- The episode introduced a new character: the wonderful
Terry O'Quinn as Kendall. I totally approve.
-- Marshall is such a hoot. I really liked the run-together
clips of Marshall explaining the tech stuff.
-- Sydney was raised by a nanny. I was wondering.
-- I loved Francie and Will watching the high speed chase
(Sydney) on the news. Is it me, or are they getting outright
couple-y?
-- The scene with Jennifer Garner under water sucking air
out of the tire couldn't have been easy to film.
-- Here's the rest of the Prophecy: "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."
-- This week's itinerary: a conference room, and all over
the place in flashbacks. Ditto for the hot look, although
I noticed that Jennifer Garner also looks good with shorter
hair.
Five out of five stars,
Billie
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1.18 Masquerade
Dr. Barnett: "I think that someone so skilled at deception
is in danger of deceiving himself."
The Mom plot thickened, as Sydney slid off the hook and Mom
took her place. We learned that Khasinau has a relationship
with Mom -- he was her superior in the KGB.
Jack is unraveling and drinking; he actually shocked me by
showing emotion in that scene in the car in the rain. Jack
must have loved Laura to be so upset, twenty years after her
betrayal. Losing Laura almost destroyed him, which explains
a lot about his character.
It also shocked me that Sydney turned him in for counseling.
And I thought it was fascinating and fun that Jack was trying
to charm the shrink, as well as lie to her. "How would
you define a normal family?" "I suppose it's one
in which the family members aren't under orders to lie to
each other." Will he have to keep on lying to her every
week?
So you run into an old boyfriend during an ultra secret double
mission in Vienna. What do you do? What do you do? Noah Hicks
(Peter Berg) is certainly cute and intriguing, but frankly,
I didn't like him from the moment he very coolly cut into
dead agent Wexler. Although you have to admire anyone who
has the nerve to kid the scary interrogator, McCullough.
On the home front, Will and Francie, who are acting more
and more like a couple every episode, found a ticket for Italy,
not Seattle. Sydney has some explaining to do.
This week's cliffhanger was sex. That's new.
Bits and pieces:
-- The credits this week were at the very beginning, after
the previously on.
-- Why didn't the Russian computer have cyrillic letters?
-- Whenever Sloane touches Sydney, it makes her cringe. And
now she owes him one. This can't be good.
-- This week's itinerary: Sunrise at Mount Whatever, Italy;
Vienna; Arkhangelsk? Where's that? Russia?
-- This week's hot look: The Eyes Wide Shut masks over evening
clothes.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.19 Snowman
Kishell: "Killing is his job. He likes his job."
This episode started with a post-sex chase, and ended with
a fight to the death -- and all with the same guy.
Noah was quirky, smart, interesting and reasonably good looking,
but I didn't see the attraction; Vaughn and Will were twice
as attractive, in my opinion. Vaughn was obviously jealous.
I didn't think Vaughn has anything to be jealous about, even
before Noah turned out to be a ruthless assassin. I don't
usually guess stuff ahead of time, but I was fairly sure early
on that Noah would turn out to be the Snowman. Plus there's
the Bonanza syndrome; if he weren't the Snowman, he probably
would have ended up dead.
That was some fight in the kitchen, one of the best I've
seen on this show. Did Noah hold back because it was Sydney?
I think he might have. He truly cared about her, after all.
We learned a lot more about Mom, a.k.a. Irina Derevko. We
saw her on that (conveniently fuzzy) videotape; we learned
that she posed as an American lit student to get the details
of Project Christmas; and Sydney recognized a man on the tape
who had supposedly died in the accident with Mom. Why the
accent? Wasn't Laura/Irina posing as an American student?
Was that supposed to signify that she was speaking in Russian?
Poor Jack; that tape was devastating for him, seeing his
wife's treachery, hearing himself referred to as a fool. Devastating
enough for him to actually seek out Dr. Barnett. I do adore
Jack. What a fascinating character he is, and what depth he
has.
Bits and pieces:
-- The helicopter/motorcycle rescue was very cool, but just
a bit too improbably James Bondy.
-- Why aren't Sydney and Vaughn throwing themselves into
each other's arms? They clearly want to.
-- Interesting that Dixon didn't trust Noah. Good instincts.
-- Sloane's dying wife and his tenderness toward her gives
Sloane dimension, makes him slightly more sympathetic. The
bandage on his formerly severed finger makes him seem more
vulnerable, too.
-- Now that Will has no exciting, dangerous subplot, he and
Francie seem more like a couple every week.
-- Jack's full name is Jonathan Donahue Bristow.
-- Much like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sydney isn't tremendously
lucky with guys, is she?
-- This week's itinerary: Ark wherever they were last week,
Bogota, Cape Town, and Mackay, Australia.
-- This week's cool gadget: that sound dampener. I'm sure
we've all had neighbors we would have liked to use it on.
Four out of five stars,
Billie
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1.20 The Solution
Sloane: "Are you suggesting that I allow you to kill
my wife to enhance my standing within the Alliance?"
This was a twisted, emotional episode, with worlds colliding
all over the place. Will and Emily both know about SD-6 now,
and I just keep thinking they're both going to die because
of it.
Oh, Will. What were you thinking, leaving a story with Abby?
I was pretty sure this story wasn't over, but I absolutely
cringed when Will said the words "SD-6" to Jack
in that bar. I don't want Will to die. Will, don't die!
Oh, Emily. I was also cringing when she mentioned SD-6 to
Sydney. Shades of Danny. Will Sloane have to kill the wife
he loves so much? The thing is, I have absolutely no idea
if he'll do it or not. Sloane is a different man with Emily,
but his position with the Alliance and possibly his own life
are in danger. That might be enough.
Sydney and Vaughn got to go on another CIA operation together
(to get Khasinau); the interesting twist is that Sloane sent
Dixon to counter. Did Dixon know Sydney? He did, didn't he?
Bits and pieces:
-- That fight with Sark was just wild.
-- Vaughn helped Sydney see that she's really accomplishing
a great deal. Good for him.
-- Francie also didn't like Noah. Again, good instincts.
-- Marshall makes pop-up books?
-- Will to Jack: "There are a few things we need to
talk about, and quite frankly, you scare me, so I'd rather
talk about them in a public place."
-- This week's itinerary: Algeria, Denpasar.
-- This week's language skills: Is Michael Vartan French?
He sure speaks it like a native.
-- This week's hot look: That Indonesian outfit Sydney was
wearing was impressive.
Five out of five stars,
Billie
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1.21 Rendezvous
Weiss: "There was a line we have been sworn not to cross.
We're about a mile past that."
This episode was like a rocket, it moved so fast, and there
was so much going on. Switching pages again? This mission
was so convoluted with the ampules and the Rambaldi pages
and the invisible ink that I was having a very hard time keeping
track.
The Alliance meeting was intense. Emily's natural death in
exchange for info from Khasinau? I couldn't get over his chutzpah,
thanking Sydney for not doing to him what he did to her and
Danny. His voice actually broke when he was telling Sydney
that Security wouldn't be taking out Emily. "That's more
than I did for you." I was convinced at this point that
Sloane would kill Emily. Painlessly, maybe? And now Emily
is in remission. Geez, Louise, what a situation for Sloane.
Sark is fascinating, smart, and utterly diabolical. Ready
to give it up immediately, so pragmatic. And he managed to
fool Sloane with that wine thing; Sloane thought he had Sark,
and Sark outsmarted him with a transfusion.
Will's reaction to seeing Sydney is Paris was absolutely
priceless, possibly the most fun moment of the season. Unless
he's dead. Did Sark kill Will?
Bits and pieces:
-- Did Jennifer Garner do her own singing? She's a multi-talented
woman.
-- Weiss is lying for Vaughn, and Vaughn is doing a poor
job of keeping his distance.
-- Sydney: "Now that Will knows the truth, he's never
going to trust me again."
-- Dixon is putting two and two together: the "freelancer"
thing, and her injury in Denpasar.
-- Roger Moore got his, didn't he?
-- This week's itinerary: Denpasar, London, Paris,
-- This week's language skills: Dixon and Sydney with the
French.
-- This week's cool gadget: a faked heartbeat?
-- This week's hot look: That black fantasy outfit and red
hair that Sark was staring at so lustfully while Sydney was
singing.
Five out of five stars, of course,
Billie
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1.22 Almost Thirty Years
Weiss: "Trust is a tricky thing."
Extremely dense episode. Let's take all of these developments
one step at a time.
It actually makes no sense that the Alliance would expect
fidelity and also expect its members to kill people they love.
Like Sydney continuing to work for SD-6 after Danny's death
-- it makes no sense. Does Sloane have a plan? An anti-Alliance
plan? Sloane rented a place that wouldn't be bugged so that
he could tell Emily... what, exactly? And is she dead? She
knew what was in the glass; did she die willingly for his
sake? How can a man that ruthless truly love anyone?
Will has guts and nerve. What a spy he would make. He had
to be terrified, being tortured for information he didn't
have, and he may have been genuinely weeping -- but he was
*thinking* at the same time. And he got Chinese Torturer Guy!
I loved him hugging Jack at the end; that was so cute.
Things with Dixon were left up in the air. He knows she's
not telling him everything. Will he take it all on trust?
Am I surprised that Jack was capable of killing Haladki in
cold blood? Not at all. Haladki was a traitor to his country
who endangered Sydney's life. Haladki was working for Khasinau
all this time.
Vaughn was so attuned at Sydney that he knew she wasn't telling
him something, just like last week when she knew he was keeping
something back. Vaughn went to every place Sydney's ever told
him she likes. That's love. And Vaughn has a conscience. He's
a loyal, principled man. And he's cute, too.
The water in the final moments was like a scene from "Titanic."
Is Vaughn dead? Only if they don't renew his contract.
Bits and pieces:
-- The credits started at the beginning of the episode, after
the "previously on."
-- The circumference was in Room 47.
-- Francie is opening a restaurant.
-- Sark: "Do you feel comfortable trading priceless
documents for a low grade reporter?" Jack: "You
should read Tippin's stuff. It's not so bad."
-- Why was Sark calling Sydney at home such a shocker? It's
the mix of secret life and real life, bleeding into each other.
-- Sark: "She has her mother's singing voice."
Sark knows Mom. He works for Irina, "The Man," not
for Khasinau.
-- We came full circle this season; we opened with Chinese
Torturer Guy and ended with him.
-- This week's itinerary: Taipei again. What goes around
comes around.
-- This week's hot look: Loved that periwinkle blue hair
and the outfit and collar she was wearing with it. Magenta
hair in the pilot, blue hair in the season ender. What goes
around magenta comes back periwinkle blue?
Outstanding. Six out of five stars,
Billie
- Reviews by Billie Doux
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