Episode 2: Succession
10/05/2003
In Berlin, a helicopter lifts an elevator carrying two CIA
agents out of its shaft. Satisfied that Syd is not brainwashed,
Jack dissuades her from admitting to the CIA that she killed
Lazarey. Later, Weiss helps Syd move in to a neighboring apartment.
He says that Vaughn was reluctant to return to the CIA.
The team learns The Covenant, a loose affiliation of Russian
nationals, is behind the kidnapping. They will execute the
men unless their demands are met. Syd volunteers to retrieve
a package in a Munich adult movie theater. Dixon informs Syd
of a therapy group for those who have lost their memory. Jack
tells Syd that she was cremated and Vaughn spread her ashes
at sea.
In the theater, Syd opens the package — it's the head
of one of the CIA agents. Shoved in his mouth is a note demanding
the the CIA exchange Sark for the remaining agent. Syd objects
but Lindsey says Sark has no more secrets and, based on info
provided by Sloane, believes they want to kill him.
Syd visits Vaughn at his classroom; he's a French teacher.
She tells him she could cope with his return to the Agency.
After her death, Vaughn says, he lost control and started
drinking. He was deeply in love with her, but he doesn't regret
moving on with his life.
Jack confronts Sloane, doubting his redemption and blaming
him for Syd's disappearance. Jack offers to stop his efforts
to invalidate Sloane's pardon if he gives details. Sloane
gives Jack a disc with his own leads into Syd's death. Despite
Sloane's denials, Jack says he'll bury Sloane for his involvement.
In a CIA jail, Sark denies knowledge of Syd's death. At the
exchange in the Sonora desert, Sark is unsure why The Covenant
wants him. The trade is interrupted by a Lindsey-ordered Delta
Force helicopter. In the confusion, Sark and the CIA agent,
a scientist, are taken by the Covenant. Syd later threatens
Lindsey in the men's room for pulling that stunt. A man named
Ushek San'ko says that Sark killed his brother, and demands
$800 million. He says Sark, unbeknownst to him, is worth that
much. Vaughn is reinstated while Jack discovers that Sark and
San'ko withdrew $800 million in gold bullion from a Grand Cayman
bank. The money belonged to Lazarey, a murdered Russian diplomat
and descendant of the Romanov family. When he died, it went
to his son … Mr. Sark.
Weiss tracked the scientist to a Frankfurt nightclub, run
by Otto Edel, a drug dealer. Jack believes The Covenant is
responsible for Syd's two year absence and compelled her to
assassinate Lazareey. He's contacts Irina, who offers her
help.
At the club, Syd poses as a chemist offering to triple Edel's
sales by making his drug more addictive. She threatens to
overdose him, but he locates the alarm terminal. Vaughn remotely
helps her deactivate the alarm. Syd opens the torture room
where the scientist is held, shoots the torturer. The dying
torturer remembers her, said she kept her promise to kill
him. He says that she was his favorite because she never broke.
At therapy, others discuss their amnesia and ensuring nightmares.
Syd later interrupts Dixon to tell him that although she still
has feelings for Vaughn, she won't be a part of the group.
Dixon introduces Syd to the woman to whom he was speaking,
Lauren Reed, the new NSC liaison, who'll be investigating
Lazarey's murder. She's Vaughn's wife.
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