Episode 21: Legacy
5/2/2004
Sloane takes the notes that an entranced Nadia has written
and pins them to a board, where they form some kind of diagram.
With Sloane's guard down, Nadia stabs him with a hypodermic
and destroys the Rambaldi elixir, but he subdues her. He calls
a contact to deliver more bottles in exchange for $5 million.
The contact then calls Sark.
The CIA intercepts the call between Sloane and the contact
and learn that the elixir is stored in an inactive Russian
bunker called Novgorod 21 that was once the center of Soviet
Rambaldi research. Syd suggests they plant a tracking device
on one of the vials.
Syd and Vaughn arrive at the bunker only to find it ransacked
and the elixir missing. Vaughn begins to retrieve and upload
any available data to Marshall. They find video files revealing
Nadia Santos as a young girl, recording messages while under
a trance. Russian guards, led by Katya Derevko, surprise them.
She turns on the guards, however, and tranquilizes them. She
reveals herself to be Syd's aunt then orders them to wear
the guard uniforms. They run barrel through a checkpoint and
escape.
In St. Petersburg, Katya says Lauren and Sark took the elixir.
She reveals that the young Nadia was taken from that lab by
Vaughn's father before she could complete the message. Katya,
working with SRV (Russian Intelligence), says Irina gave birth
to Nadia in a Russian prison after she left Jack. Katya has
been helping Irina to locate Nadia ever since and is dismayed
to hear that Sloane has her.
Sark and Lauren deliver the elixir to Sloane in exchange
for a partnership. Sloane reluctantly accepts, and administers
a does to Nadia to prove that she's The Passenger. Marshall,
meanwhile, explains to Syd that the fluid contains potentially
toxic proteins that trigger a muscular memory, forcing Nadia
to relay the message. The memory is genetically stored only
in descendants of Rambaldi. They view an old videotape wherein
Dr. Jong Lee, aka Suit and Glasses, injects Nadia with the
elixir. Dixon reveals that Lee was in charge of conducting
Russia's Passenger experiments. He's now in a Cuban bio-weapons
facility.
Jack warns Vaughn not to let his thirst for revenge against
Lauren endanger Sydney. He gives Vaughn a key to his well-armed
security facility -implicitly suggesting he kill Lauren.
While Jack and Katya track Sloane's bank withdrawals, he
rebuffs her advances. He notices that Sloane made a large
payment to a Dayton Electrical, a company that did electronics
work in Chamonix. Jack makes the connection and visits Toni
Cummings in prison. When Jack agrees to reduce her sentence,
Cummings tells Jack that she drew up specs for a system for
Sloane but doesn't know where he built it.
In Cienfuegos, Cuba, Syd and Vaughn find Dr. Lee. He says
Nadia drew coordinates that would lead to Rambaldi. Vaughn
tortures him by dripping acid on his leg. Sydney is shocked
and appalled.
Marshall works with Cummings to get a delivery nexus for
parts to Sloane's system. Cummings unsuccessfully tries to
convince Marhsall to work for her. Marshall finds that Sloane's
sytem is in Japan. She says she needs to travel there to determine
which of the seven security variables she'd given Sloane is
being used.
In Sloane's Kyoto estate, Sark urges him to increase the
dosage to Nadia, who's building up a tolerance, even though
it might kill her. He refuses. Sark kills Sloane's guards
and Lauren ups the dose. Just then, Cummings hacks the security
system and the CIA storms the compound. Sloane escapes while
Syd tends to Nadia. Vaughn chases fruitlessly after Lauren
and Sark, leaving Syd to dispatch Sloane's guards herself.
Nadia shoots a guard about to kill Syd. They recover the drawings
and texts and escape.
Dixon says Vaughn allowed Sloane to escape. Syd covers for
Vaughn, despite her anger. He says she got Nadia and that's
what counts. Syd says they can't work things out until he
deals with his anger. Jack visits Katya and plants a kiss
on her. Vaughn goes to Jack's storage facility and chooses
a sniper rifle from the array of weapons.
- description from ABC.com
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