Episode 15: Pandora
4/13/2005
Dixon is shot by a masked gunman. The shooter approaches
and takes off his mask, revealing … Vaughn.
Two days earlier, Vaughn meets a man named Roberts in a Paris
cafe. Vaughn tells him that Roberts' employer will only get
the transformer coil if they give more information about Bill
Vaughn first. Roberts calls his employer and has him speak
to Vaughn. The voice says that since Vaughn didn't follow
their agreement, he must first complete an assignment. As
instructed, Vaughn reaches under their table and opens an
envelope containing surveillance pictures of Bill Vaughn,
who, the voice confirms, is very much alive.
At a federal prison, Nadia visits Katya Derevko, who fondly
recalls her childhood with Irina. Nadia refuses to talk about
Syd, although Katya desperately wants to see her.
Concerned about Jack's exposure to radiation in the last
mission, Marshall secretly uses the oil from Jack's fingerprints
to create a sample that he sends to forensics for analysis.
Later, Marshall learns that the results show a large-scale
genetic mutation. He begs Jack to see a doctor.
Vaughn meets with a group of freelancers hired for the assignment.
Roberts announces that they must steal a valuable item from
an armored van - but first, they need a cold laser stored
in a private hospital at Bordeaux. Vaughn and a team member
infiltrate the hospital, first disguised as a couple needing
medical attention, then as a doctor and a nurse. They successfully
steal the laser.
After Nadia confesses to Sydney that she's been visiting
Katya to learn more about Irina, Syd warns Nadia and reveals
that Irina had hired an assassin to kill her. An angry Syd
storms off to see Katya in the hospital.
Syd tells Katya to stay away from Nadia. Katya says that
she would never harm Syd, nor would Irina. Before her death,
Katya says, Irina believed that someone was setting her up
to make it appear that she was trying to have Sydney killed.
Katya gives Syd a lead.
Roberts briefs his team about their assignment: stealing
a Rimbaldi manuscript from a CIA convoy. An angry Vaughn confronts
Roberts, declaring that he can't betray his agency, and that
if he did this, he can't go back. Roberts responds by saying
"like father like son," and that his father was
a bad guy himself.
Following Katya's suggestion, Syd goes to a repair shop and
brings home a music box. Syd realizes that the box's flashing
lights project a set of numbers, which Sydney researches in
the CIA files. It leads to bank records containing payments
to Syd's would-be assassin - whose source has the name "A.
Sloane." Since it exonerates Irina, Syd shares this with
Katya.
Vaughn and his partner infiltrate an armored van in the CIA
convoy by burning a hole through the floor. Using the cold
laser, they bypass security and secure the artifact. Vaughn
runs out with his partner - but Dixon, who is part of the
CIA convoy, chases them through a tunnel. Vaughn's partner
shoots Dixon and Dixon fires back. Instinctively, Vaughn shoots
Dixon. As Dixon slumps to the ground, Vaughn peels off his
mask, realizing what he's done.
Vaughn meets Roberts at a warehouse and beats him silly.
He demands the truth. Roberts admits that Bill Vaughn is dead,
and that the journals and pictures were a set up. He says
that he works for Sloane.
Vaughn arrives at Syd's apartment and they embrace. Vaughn
says his father had been dead all along, and that he realized
that the father he knew would never have walked away from
the people he loved. Vaughn tells Sydney that Sloane was behind
this.
In Santiago, Chile, a frustrated agent reports to his boss
that Roberts failed and the manuscript has not been recovered
- he calls his boss "Mr. Sloane." This Sloane, who
resembles Arvin Sloane, tells him that everything should proceed
as planned.
- description from ABC.com
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