Episode 11: Full Disclosure
1/11/2004
Agents from the Dept. of Special Research take possession
of the Rambaldi Cube before Marshall can finish his own analysis
of the tissue contained inside. Later, Syd is tranquilized
and taken aboard a jet, where she sees Kendall, who reveals
he's not FBI but Special Research. The Covenant has ambushed
his team and now has the Cube. He says he knows what happened
to Syd's missing two years but kept silent because she asked
him to.
Nine months after she was buried, he says, Syd called him
from Rome, where she had escaped from The Covenant. She told
him that she saw her funeral, paralyzed by a neurotoxin, from
the back of a van. Her torturer, Oleg Madrczyk, had injected
Syd's DNA into the teeth of a corpse, causing a false identification.
She was taken to St. Petersburg, where she was called Julia
Thorne and brainwashed. She killed a Covenant prisoner to
prove her readiness.
Syd is shocked at this tale, but Kendall says her Project
Christmas training prevented her from being turned. She killed
that man, who was doomed anyway, to protect herself and deceive
The Covenant. She then contacted Kendall, who advised her
to continue as Julia Thorne in order to gather info. Syd recalls
the pain when she observes Vaughn with Lauren but stays away
for safety's sake.
Julia/Syd then partnered with Simon Walker to search for
the Cube. She discovered Lazarey, an expert close to uncovering
the artifact. Although The Covenant wanted Julia/Syd to kill
Lazarey once he found the Cube, Kendall orders her to cut
a deal with him and work together — so she fakes his
death at her hands. Back in the jet, Kendall says he believes
Syd is Rambaldi's Chosen One and that The Covenant wanted
both her and the Cube to fulfill the prophecy.
Julia and Lazarey find and retrieve the Cube in a cave in
Namibia's Fish River Gorge. She has to amputate Lazarey's
hand when a closing vault door crushes it. She never delivered
the Cube to Kendall, however. He instead got a disc that showed
Syd revealing that she was hiding the Cube and having her
memory erased so it could never be found. She tells Kendall
never to tell her what she's been through.
In the jet, Kendall says Rambaldi's second coming is by way
of a child. The Covenant will use the DNA in the Cube to fertilize
the egg of the Chosen One. Syd looks at her scar — The
Covenant extracted her eggs!
Kendall says he respected her wishes, but four months after
Hong Kong she went straight for the Cube. Why, he wonders.
She remembers the package Sloane gave to her — the code
and the key to the Rome apartment, which led her to Lazarey
and the Cube. It was all a trick. Syd calls Marshall, who
had secretly put a tracking device on the Cube. Meanwhile,
Sark observes a series of test tube fertilizations.
At the CIA, Dixon admits he knew the truth and was ordered
not to say anything — a reversal of their SD-6 days.
Syd, Dixon, Vaughn and Weiss parachute into Patagonia and
storm to The Covenant's facility. Although Sark escapes, they
find the fertilization equipment. Kendall wanted it brought
back back for analysis but Dixon allows Syd to torch it all.
Vaughn and Weiss rescue Lazarey.
Later, Sark makes a phone call, ordering his father to be
killed. As Lazarey is transported to a hospital, he asks Syd
if she knows about the "passenger." He's then assassinated
by a sniper. Lauren packs up her gun and flees the scene.
- description from ABC.com
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