Episode 14: Double Agent
2/2/2003
CIA Agent
Jim Lennox is in bed with his partner, Emma Wallace. She tells
him that she'd like to go back to Fiji. He agrees and they
kiss. When he goes into the shower, she frantically types
an email: "Abort operation. Lennox is a …"
Lennox hits her before she completes the message. Sloane,
whom Lennox has called to say he'd been compromised, tells
him to make it public. Wallace, strapped with C-4, is thrown
from a van onto a Berlin street.
In L.A.,
Vaughn tells Syd that Marshall and Dixon are being debriefed
and Sloane is now on Interpol's most wanted list. He also
tells her that he broke up with Alice. Weiss introduces Christine
Phillips, a new clandestine services grad from Langley who
will observe for the next few months. They all watch as Wallace
appears on the news singing "Pop Goes the Weasel."
The agents watch in horror as Lennox remotely detonates the
C-4, killing Wallace.
Shortly
thereafter Kendall briefs the staff, saying that Wallace's
mission had been to gain the trust of Dr. Enzo Markovic, a
scientist developing a technology known as Helix, to determine
if it was a weapon. Enzo was believed to have gone to a secret
lab in the Serena del Sol Resort in Cayo Cancho, off the Dominican
Republic. Lennox is believed to be held there or dead. Sydney
and Vaughn's mission is to acquire intelligence and bring
Lennox back home.
Vaughn
picks up Syd at her apartment. They kiss and she introduces
him to Francie, who thinks they're going to a finance conference
in New York. Syd gets a strange vibe from her.
At the
resort, they force Enzo's security chief to reveal Lennox's
location. Syd interrupts Lennox's torture and beats his two
inquisitors. His eyes were affected so she blindfolds him
and leads him away while Vaughn acquires the Helix files.
When Syd is attacked by a guard, Lennox removes the bandage,
risking his eyesight, to shoot him. Back home, the CIA gives
Lennox a clean bill of health.
Under
questioning, Lennox explains that while he and Wallace were
working for Enzo as freelance security experts, the discovered
that he was working for someone else. Lennox was going to
hack the database in Cayo and transmit the data to Wallace
in Berlin, but he was caught before that could happen. Sydney
is shaken when he also reveals that he and Wallace were engaged.
Phillips
analyzes the tape of Wallace's death and, due to static on
the tape, determines that the detonator was within a block
of the explosion.A sympathetic Syd visits the grieving Lennox
at a safe house. He kisses her, but quickly apologizes.Two
men appear and accost Lennox. He beats them but then Syd subdues
him because the men are government agents who want to take
Lennox into federal custody.
At the
CIA, Jack reports that Helix is a new gene therapy that can
reshape a patient's face and body. The only way to determine
an actual identity is through an ocular scan — this flaw
was purposely built into the procedure. Lennox, he says, was
the first test subject to be doubled, meaning Lennox may actually
be Enzo. Vaughn then places Lennox at the scene of Wallace's
murder. Syd is dubious, believing Lennox's grief to be authentic.
Lennox's
scan checks out okay, and he's shocked when Syd tells him
he's been doubled. They learn that Enzo brought Helix to Poland.
Syd and Lennox are to find it, download the schematics and
destroy it.
At a railroad
depot, they disable the guards and break into the freight
car where the technology is hidden. Lennox reads data and
learns that another person has been doubled. Vaughn receives
a frantic call from a man claiming to be Lennox, who says
the man the CIA rescued is really Enzo. This Lennox says the
ocular scan is merely disinformation and that he's approaching
the freight car and will destroy the technology.
Vaughn
notifies Syd of the predicament. Jack tells her to disarm
both men and they'll figure out the mess once they're both
in custody. She makes Lennox handcuff himself to the freight
car. When she leaves, he breaks his hand in order to slip
through the cuff and picks up a gun.
Syd confronts
the second Lennox, but the first one appears. They're in a
standoff. Syd threatens to detonate Helix. The second Lennox
reacts and tries to shoot Sydney. The first — and real
— Lennox shoots and kills the phony. Sydney destroys
Helix.
At the
CIA, Lennox prepares to go to Fiji — he's never been
there; he and Emma were going to go on their honeymoon. Later
on in Syd's apartment, she and Vaughn fall into bed. But they're
being observed through a camera secretly installed in the
television. Francie watches — she's the other double.
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