Episode 11: The Road Home
3/16/2005
Disguised as a French woman, Sydney acquires a microchip
from a contact named Thomas Connelly in a Paris restaurant.
Before the deal goes down, an assassin shoots Thomas. Vaughn,
watching from the shadows, prevents him from killing Syd.
As Vaughn and Syd corner him, he slits his own throat with
a knife.
In the APO office, Sloane tells Jack and Sydney that the
information downloaded from the microchip reveals that a Biometric
Targeting Device is being developed at a secure facility in
Austria. If attached to a weapons system, this device could
facilitate the targeting of an individual based only on a
DNA sample or a biometric scan. It is the next generation's
sniper.
Sloane tells Sydney that the assassin worked for Sasha Korjev,
a vicious arms dealer involved in developing the new targeting
weapon. Sydney's mission is to retrieve the Biometric device
in Salzburg, Austria. Sloane gives Dixon the task of locating
Korjev but Jack volunteers to do it himself.
Weiss suggests that Vaughn is mistaken in believing that
his father, Bill Vaughn, is still alive. Vaughn swears it
was his father's handwriting in the diary. Weiss hands Vaughn
a paper with the name Frank Murdoch, an ex-Special Forces
man in San Diego whose shop is mentioned in Bill's journal.
Jack later admits to Sloane that the CIA wants Korjev assassinated
and he can get closer to him than Dixon can. Jack adds Korjev
should've been eliminated years ago, when he "had the
chance."
In an Austrian club, Sydney befriends Sam, an American busboy,
and uses his I.D. to get into the basement. She finds a status
report revealing that the Biometric device has been moved
and is scheduled to leave the country in the morning. The
report also states that the device had been installed on a
weapon.
A guard shoots at Sydney. She decks him and overhears on
his walkie-talkie that the weapon is stored at the Delongpre
shipping yard - and that the guards are now after Sam. After
Marshall confirms that Sam is a civilian, Syd escapes with
him. She leaves him with her Austrian contact so he can be
put in a protection program.
In San Diego, Vaughn visits Frank, who shows a photo taken
with Bill in 1982. He says that Bill was ruthless enough to
shoot him in the back, then smoke a cigarette over his bloody
body before walking away. Vaughn later lies to Weiss, saying
he never found Frank.
Sydney's contact in Salzburg arrives with a stranger to pick
up Sam, and she senses something's not quite right. Realizing
his betrayal, she pounds them senseless and reluctantly explains
her mission to Sam including. She asks for his help to get
to the shipping yard.
In Angola, Jack meets Korjev, who wistfully remembers Jack
as a mentor. Later, Korjev speaks of Jack's betrayal. Jack
says he was the one betrayed and garrots him.
At the shipping yard, Syd discovers that the weapon has been
attached to an assault chopper. She tells Sam to wait in the
van. Syd defeats the guards in combat and attempts to retrieve
the weaponized mini-copter -- but the system activates and
locks on to her. As it fires, she runs through a maze of narrow
aisles and crates.
While Sam waits, he's wounded by a Korjev henchman. Syd tackles
the gunman but the chopper locks on to her again. Sydney quickly
uses the gunman as a human shield. The chopper, hovering closer,
senses the corpse and, believing its mission is accomplished,
settles on the landing pad.
Sydney arrives in the APO office in time to see Jack preparing
to leave. As Jack mentions that he is planning to have dinner
before heading home, Sydney asks if she could join him and
they leave together.
- description from ABC.com
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