Episode 8: Breaking Point
11/23/2003
Now in Lindsey's custody, Sydney is imprisoned and tortured
at Camp Williams, a secret NSC detention facility. She befriends
Campbell, another prisoner.
Lindsey relieves Dixon, who takes full responsibility for
hiding Syd's secret. Lauren accuses Vaughan of aiding a fugitive,
while he says Lindsey is funded by black money. Unconvinced,
Lauren travels with Lindsey to Washington to observe Syd's
interrogation.
Vaughn goes to Jack, who tells him that Sloane will help
them, making it look like The Covenant is trying to break
out Syd. They put together a team of eight mercenaries. They
will steal the Camp Williams blueprints from the FEMA building.
Lindsey pressures Lauren, who's unaware of Syd's torture,
to write a fair report of their treatment of Syd. He says
he will threaten Syd with the memory-retrieval surgery in
order to force her to decode a message found under her desk
in Rome. He promises it will only be a threat.
During her torture, Syd steals a paper clip. When Lauren
suspects torture, Lindsey blackmails her by threatening to
nail Vaughn for aiding Syd. Syd picks the lock with the clip,
kills her torturer and breaks free. Lauren sees the guards
beat Syd.
Jack and Vaughn contact Brill, an old comrade, who joins
them for a fee of $3 million. Jack takes Vaughn to a storage
facility of guns and money.
At FEMA, Sloane, in a van, knocks out their phone system and
routes all calls to a fake number. Vaughn answers their request
for a technician and Jack goes in. Meanwhile Sloane and Vaughn
break into the building's sub-basement. Tapping into the phone
lines, Sloane poses as a director and calls away Jack's guard.
Vaughn pushes in a video snake and snaps images of the blueprints
that Jack holds up to the camera.
Jack is discovered and Sloane saves his life by taking a
bullet for him. Sloane's allergic to morphine so Jack extracts
the bullet without anesthesia. Jack wonders why Sloane saved
his life. Sloane says he's a reformed man and that Jack and
Syd are all he has left — his absolution, considering
his crimes. Vaughn has Marshall access classified docs on
NSC's computer network. Marshall finds that all files pertaining
to Camp Williams have been removed. Lauren arrives, admits
that Vaughn was right and offers her help.
Lindsey tortures Campbell to force Syd to reveal the code.
She capitulates, says they are coordinates but doesn't know
to what. Campbell then reveals himself to be a fake. They
knew Syd's profile, which reveals her major weakness to be
empathy. Lindsey informs her that she will undergo the neuro-stimulation
surgery in one hour.
Jack, Vaughn and the team speed to the facility. Lauren,
already there, opens the main gate. Jack enters, finds Syd's
cell empty — she's on the operating table. The team finds
her just in time and a gun battle ensues. Lauren shoots and
kills Campbell. They take Syd to a chopper, where Sloane waits.
Syd says she gave Lindsey the wrong coordinates
- description from ABC.com
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