Episode 4: Dead Drop
10/20/2002
As Sydney
struggles underwater, she takes the gun of a drowned henchman
and fires through the ice. Dixon helps pull her through.
At the
SD-6 offices, Sydney tells Sloane that although Sark got away
with the music box, it was corroded anyway. Sloane wonders
why Rambaldi placed the artifact in ice. Later at the CIA,
Kendall refuses Jack's wish to have Irina removed. When Sydney
confronts Jack, he says he worries about the emotional aspects
of their dialogue and warns Sydney that she wants a mother.
Sloane
tells Jack about the mysterious phone call from the B&B
and has Dixon investigate. He also says that SD-6 retrieved
the corroded music box from Sark's safe house in the Falkland
Islands, where they also found a man named Klaus Richter,
who was seriously ill from a serum that Sark had administered.
Jack interrogates Richter and learns that he had designed
a map to lead Irina to The Bible, which he had hidden in a
remote location. The map, we learn, is hidden in a 1st edition
of War and Peace in a Moscow military library.
To prevent
Sydney from seeing Irina, Jack gives Sydney a fake map which
will lead SD-6 to the Sunken Forest — before she's given
the SD-6 mission and the CIA counter-mission. Sydney says
all she wants out of Irina is enough info to bring down SD-6
and get her out of the spy game.
In rehab,
Will meets Rebecca Martinez, a conspiracy theorist who presses
him to continue his expose of SD-6. Will refuses. Later she
meets with Sloane; she's SD-6, and was sent to test Will.
Dixon then returns with the B&B registry — signed
by Emily!
Irina
tells Sydney how to get to the map in exchange for her earrings
and expresses worry. Vaughn offers Sydney his unconditional
support during this difficult time. Meanwhile, an upset Jack
tells the CIA psychiatrist that he's afraid of losing his
daughter.
Sydney
appears in Moscow disguised as a military officer and, using
an electronic skeleton key fashioned from a medal, she finds
the book and retrieves the map. Suddenly Sark appears and
offers her a chance to work for him. Naturally, Sydney declines
and escapes Sark, only to become trapped in an office by Russian
guards. Sydney desperately calls Vaughn and has him enlist
Irina to get her out. Irina alerts Sydney to a secret passage,
which she uses to escape.
Later,
Irina decodes the map, which reveals that The Bible is in
a house in Madagascar. Kendall sends Vaughn and Sydney, over
Jack's objections. Jack privately hatches a plan and has the
building rigged with explosives. As Sydney and Vaughn arrive,
Sark's men overtake them and enter the building, which explodes.
As a result, Kendall has Irina taken to Camp Harris for unrestricted
interrogation. A heartbroken Sydney tells Jack that he was
right about Irina and apologizes for doubting him.
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