Episode 13: Tuesday
3/30/2005
At an upscale nightclub in Havana, Cuba, Sydney invites a
man to dance. It's her informant, and he tells her that the
Third Faction is planning a large-scale attack on a civilian
target. He also tells Sydney where a hard drive containing
more information could be found, which Dixon soon retrieves.
They're being watched, however.
As a car takes Syd to the airport, she flirts with Vaughn
over the phone, with Vaughn promising her a slow dance. Suddenly,
attackers shoot Syd's driver and she's knocked out as her
car crashes.
Dixon arrives at APO with the hard-drive. Since Marshall
is late, another agent is tasked with the decryption. When
the drive is plugged in, it sprays a toxin in the office.
Dixon goes into a seizure and although he's injected with
an antidote, the office is locked down.
As Marshall arrives in the parking lot, he phones Sloane
to tell him that the firewall networks are still secure. Sloane
asks Marshall to stay on the line as they call Sydney to confirm
her flight.
The ringing phone wakes Syd. To her horror, she realizes
she's been buried alive, the dead informant beside her. Syd
calls back and Jack advises her to stay calm - but nobody
can leave the office for 36 hours. Marshall volunteers to
go to Cuba and track Sydney's cell phone with a Radio Frequency
locator.
While Dixon recuperates, Sloane tells the rest of the team
that the Third Faction has enough toxin to infect an entire
city. Despite their predicament, they must still discover
the target city and prevent the bomb from detonating.
Marshall arrives in Havana and creates his makeshift RF Locator.
Sydney calls the office and helps them identify Ulrich Kottor,
a significant figure in the Third Faction, by taking a photo
of the dead informant and sending it thru her phone. APO links
him to Ulrich.
Marshall arrives in the cemetery where Sydney is buried. Syd's
phone dies and Marshall realizes there are too many fresh graves
for him to search. He asks Vaughn to direct a satellite over
Marshall's position and change the view to thermal. In this
way, Vaughn and Marshall locate Syd.
Marshall digs frantically, finally opening the coffin and
finding Sydney unconscious. He performs CPR. After a few tense
moments, she opens her eyes. And exhausted Marshall drops
to the ground.
In the office, Sloane reports that they have acquired information
about Ulrich. Since an attack is imminent, Sydney needs to
get to Ulrich, find his hard drive and upload the contents
to APO so they can stop the detonation. Sydney responds by
saying that Ulrich knows her from Havana, and that they need
to send someone else in: Marshall.
Syd advises Marshall on the spy game. Marshall, assuming
an intimidating pose as Jack Bristow, walks inside Ulrich's
private room and commands his attention. He tells Ulrich that
one of his men is betraying him. As his "cigarette case"
scans Ulrich's laptop, Vaughn reports from APO that they still
can't access the information, and that Marshall needs to go
to the basement with Ulrich in order to force him to shut
down the network firewall. As Marshall tries to subtly assemble
the gun he brought, he accidentally shoots and kills Ulrich.
He calls Syd for help.
From the APO office, Jack instructs Marshall to dig out one
of Ulrich's eyes since the security in the basement works
on a retinal scan. Sydney arrives and they bypass the basement
system security using Ulrich's eye. Marshall then starts downloading
from the hard drive and transmits intel to APO while Syd covers
him. Later, Sloane reports that the Ministry of Security confirmed
the seizure of the Cyclosarin bomb in downtown Hong Kong.
Sydney drops Marshall off at his house and he invites her
in for dinner. A grateful Sydney refuses, saying that she
needs to go the train station. At the station, Vaughn arrives.
They slow dance in the middle of the train station, blissfully
unaware of the bustling world around them.
- description from ABC.com
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