Episode 4: A Missing Link
10/19/2003
As Syd and Jack view a tape, Lazarey says "Julia"
before he dies.
A team stole four vials of Ebola from a French epidemiology
lab. Lauren and Syd question Laszlo Bogdan, a team member
who was infected and captured. He says The Covenant plans
to mutate the virus … and his team was set for a second
heist. Dixon IDs the team, led by a deadly freelancer named
Simon Walker. Syd is to pose as a security expert, join Walker's
team and track whatever they steal back to The Covenant.
A flirtatious Vaughan gives Syd a lipstick tracking device.
In Sevilla, a disguised Syd meets Walker. He calls her Julia
and greets her with a hot kiss. He says he's missed her. Syd
is coy and says she wants to work with him again. "What,
no future in murder?" he asks. Meanwhile, Syd meets the
crew. They test her by making her steal a 150 carat diamond
necklace from Princess Demetria of Greece. Walker gives her
a tranquilizer gun and a knife, then calls the police. She
has seven minutes to do it.
Dressed as a maid, she dopes the guard and enters the suite.
The princess is sleeping; Syd dismantles a phone, creating
an amplifier, and cracks the safe containing the necklace.
As the police arrive, she darts the princess and jumps out
the window into a pool far below. She returns to Walker with
the necklace.
On the plane home, Vaughn, who had heard the whole thing,
asks her what "Julia" was all about. She's mum,
admitting she can't trust him because of Lauren. At the CIA
Jack says Vaughn has been snooping. Syd considers admitting
her guilt.
Marshall creates a safecracking device for Syd. Dixon calls
a meeting with Syd, Jack and Vaughn. Jack has shown him the
video of Lazarey's murder and told him Syd was conspiring
to keep it a secret. Dixon is displeased but says that she
was not responsible. He prohibits Vaughn from mentioning this
to Lauren. Syd realizes Jack manipulated the situation so
the NSC, ie., Lauren, wouldn't find out. Later, Syd apologizes
to Vaughn.
In Spain, Walker receives pictures of Syd and Vaughn. Syd
returns to Walker, and as they kiss she tries to extract info
— she learns they met in Algeria. But the game is up
and he puts a knife to her throat and shows her the photos.
She says Vaughn is her supplier. Vauhgn calls Marshall, telling
him to create a criminal record for himself on Interpol, which
he does just before Walker checks it.
The team plans to go to a storage facility 35 miles outside
Ibiza, run by disease control ministry. They'll have five
minutes to get the package, a temperature-sensitive biological
element. Sark walks into the safe house to talk about the
deal! Syd manages to elude his notice. Lauren tries to pry
info about The Covenant from Sloan. He says that they'll be
able to create a bio-weapon against specific targets with
the new theft. Sloane baits Lauren, says she in her job because
of her father, a Senator.
Walker and Julia break into the facility's refrigerated vault.
Syd has about a minute to crack the safe, but Marshall's device
won't work. She reroutes the hardware and breaks in before
the temperature rises too high. They steal the canister and
put it in a cooler. As the switch vehicles, Syd grabs the
transmitter from the lipstick. Vaughn is in the other vehicle!
They've discovered he's CIA. To gain some control over the
situation, Syd stabs him in the ribs. Walker then kicks him
down a hill and they leave in a new vehicle.
- description from ABC.com
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