Episode 12: Crossings
1/18/2004
In a North Korean jail, Syd passionately kisses Vaughn before
they're both led, in chains, to a firing line.
The backstory: In Los Angeles, the CIA learns of a phantom
offshore brokerage account. Encoded in the names of the stocks
is a message — a top Covenant official, Leonid Lisenker,
wants to defect. Syd and Vaughn will travel to N. Korea and,
posing as auditors, spirit him away.
Lauren asks Syd out to dinner during Vaughn's hockey night
but Vaughn warns her not to socialize with Syd. Later, Lauren
secretly meets with Mr. Zisman, a Covenant agent, to discuss
Syd and Vaughn's assassination. Lauren hesitates but soon
informs him that they'll board a jet at Dover Air Field. The
Covenant poisons the pilots.
Mid-flight, Syd gets angry at Vaughn's aloofness and says
they can no longer work together. The jet veers out of control
as the poison pilots take ill and die. Syd and Vaughn gain
controls and take evasive maneuvers to avoid incoming missiles.
The jet goes down. They survive the crash and flee the N.
Korean military. They have 8 hours to meet the defector. As
Syd and Vaughn commandeer a jeep, she admits to sleeping with
Will but says she's moving on.
Jack suspects the Covenant is responsible and Dixon, disobeying
orders, the team to help in any way. Sloane calls to offer
help but Jack denies him. He instead contacts Irina, who directs
him to Syd's apartment. Once there, he meets Katya, Irina's
sister, who confirms Syd's survival and offers her help on
the condition he murder Sloane. She calls it a "preventative
measure."
In LA's Koreatown, Jack and Katya enter a restaurant and
call on the owner, Mr. Cho, to repay a debt to Katya. When
he declines, she stabs his hands with skewers and demands
he contact Mr. Kwan.
Syd and Vaughn arrive in Gai-Li and identify Lisenker. They
see him with Sark, who's been informed of the defection through
Lauren's treachery and is posing as a CIA agent. As a knife-wielding
Syd confronts him, N. Korean troops appear. Sark flees as
Syd and the others are caught.
Jack enters Sloane's Zurich office, prepared to kill him.
Meanwhile, Katya calls Sloane to tell him to back off Irina.
She says he's not protected by his friends, even by Jack,
— who's visible on Sloane's security system — and
that his life is a favor from her. She then calls Jack and
tells him to abort. Sloane tells Jack that he never forgot
what it feels like to narrowly escape death.
Syd and Vaughn are beaten in prison. Vaughn admits he pushed
her away on purpose. She says they always find each other.
They kiss passionately before they're led out to the firing
squad. One soldier turns on all the others, it's Mr. Kwan.
They then rescue the Lisenker and escape.
They're welcomed back to the CIA. Syd notices that Vaughn
runs to Lauren. Jack tells Katya he knows what she did, that
she destroyed Sloane's trust in him. He wonders to what advantage
it served Irina. She says Irina's intentions will become clear
to him some day. And then she kisses him ferociously.
- description from ABC.com
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