Episode 19: Hourglass
4/18/2004
In a Nepal monastery, Sark, looking for info on The Passenger,
threatens the Rambaldi monk known as Conrad. The wise man
kicks the crap out of him. Olivia Reed appears and tranquilizes
Conrad. Sark then takes a manuscript regarding The Passenger,
called The Restoration.
During an online chat with Irina, Jack asks her about The
Passenger. The account is suddenly terminated. Vaughn admits
to Syd and Jack that Lauren is the mole. Jack says he should
play along. So when Lauren asks Vaughn to come to counseling,
he agrees.
Dixon receives intel that The Covenant has kidnapped Conrad.
In the Thar desert, Syd and Vaughn intercept the convoy on
horseback. Syd jumps into the truck, beats a guard and grabs
Conrad while Vaughn trails them. As they climb out toward
Vaughn, Sark shoots Conrad. With his dying breath he says
to Sydney, "The Passenger is your sister."
In LA , Jack reveals to Syd that Sloane had an affair with
Irina. Syd confronts Sloane at his prison cell. He says he
never knew he had a daughter with Irina until he reached the
Nepal monastery. The Di Regno heart and Il Dire gave him the
woman's DNA and the word "peace," which translates
to Irina in Greek. Using Omnifam, he gained access to DNA
databases but never found her. Now, he wants to protect her
from The Covenant. He asks Syd to convince Jack not to hide
evidence which would exonerate him. Jack later says he's hiding
nothing.
Only the CIA's Project Black Hole has the codekey that can
read The Restoration. Jack sets a trap - He leaks to Lauren
that Marshall has The Restoration and will begin decoding
it with the codekey. She copies his thumb print, using it
to access the Image Processing lab to duplicate the codekey,
which, in fact, is a fake.
Syd and Vaughn are shocked to find Lauren passing the fake
to her mother Olivia. They overhear Olivia say The Restoration
is at home in Richmond. During a counseling session, Dr. Barnett
slyly suggests that Vaughn take a trip with Lauren to Richmond.
Once there, Vaughn hides a sensor that Marshall uses to find
a hidden safe. Syd phones him and directs him to it while
Lauren and Olivia are outside. He scans and transmits the
documents with a watch. Vaughn finishes just before Lauren
enters. Syd disconnects her comm as they fool around.
The documents reveal a Rambaldi artifact known as the Hourglass,
which was auctioned to Masa Raidon, a yakuza keeping the arkwork
in a building in Little Tokyo. The manuscript says The Hourglass
will reveal the location of The Passenger only to her father.
Sloane will be executed in 6 hours. The Justice Dept won't
stay the execution.
Syd bluffs Jack into agreeing to turn over his info on The
Trust and exonerating Sloane. Jack then talks with Sloane,
bringing champagne to his cell to celebrate the knowledge
of a daughter. Jack accuses him of trying to take Syd away
from him. He refuses to help Sloane and threatens The Passenger.
Syd treads delicately in the Yakuza stronghold but when Marshall
tells her Dixon is at the execution, she kicks in to high
gear. As Sloane enters his execution chamber, Syd, double
guns blazing, mows down the guards and grabs The Hourglass.
Sloane slowly dies as he receives a combination of lethal
injections.
Syd later turns her back on her father. Lauren, informing
Olivia of Sloane's death, admits that Vaughn played her. Jack,
meanwhile, revives Sloane. He had given him an antidote in
the bottle of champagne. Jack orchestrated, he tells Sloane,
it because he needs him.
- description from ABC.com
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