Episode 3: Cipher
10/13/2002
Sydney
learns the T-Wave Camera she had stolen was a prototype, and
that the Asiatic Space Agency and their client Sark will launch
the real camera, which can see 100 meters through solid matter,
into space in 72 hours from a site in Sri Lanka. Her mission
is to wire it so SD-6 can tap into the image.
At the
CIA, Kendall wants Syd to talk to Irina because Sark has assumed
control of her organization, so she must know what he's looking
for. Meanwhile, Jack tells the CIA psychiatrist that he wants
to keep Sydney away from Irina. She notes that Jack refers
to his ex-wife as Laura.
Irina
tells Sydney that Sark is after a Rambaldi-designed music
box. Encoded in the tune is a numerical equation for 0-Point
Energy. Sydney rebuffs Irina's attempts to talk about her
childhood. Later, Jack warns Syd about Irina, but says he
trusts her judgement.
Marshall
gives Sydney a hydraulic luge disguised as a suitcase. A grieving
Sloane gives her something more personal: Emily's seed box.
As part of her counter-mission, Vaughn gives her a circuitboard
to attach to the camera and suggests bringing in Will, who's
been stying with Syd and Francie, because he may remember
the code Sark was working on that activates the music box.
When they do meet, Will is surprised at Vaughn's youth and
is jealous at how much he knows about their lives.
In Sri
Lanka, Sydney disguised in a red wig as a European business
woman, appears at the launch facility as Dixon breaks down
the surveillance. She then dons a worker's jumpsuit and luges
through the exhaust ports to the launch deck. A suspicious
Sark speeds the launch. Syd barely completes wiring the circuitboard
and luges out at 125 mph. The camera locates the music box
in the center of a Siberian ice cavern.
Under
hypnosis, Will remembers the names on Sark's computer —
Dosteyevsky, Nabakov, Tolstoy, Checkov. Vaughn notices Sydney's
feelings for Will. Later, Irina decodes the names and warns
Sydney about Sark's ruthlessness, saying she wants the chance
to explain herself.
Sloane
receives a ghostly call from the Baranka B&B in Sonoma,
CA — where he an Emily were supposed to go before she
died.
Jack confronts
Irina, who says they had their good moments together. He threatens
to kill her if Sydney is harmed. She asks cryptically, "You
haven't told her what you did to her after I disappeared,
have you?"
In Siberia,
Sydney receives the code from Vaughn and plays the music box.
She records the tune and acts to disable the artifact. The
SD-6 team is ambushed by Sark's men, however, and Sydney falls
under the ice.
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