Episode 17: A Clean Conscience
4/27/2005
The APO team watches footage of an explosion at the Indonesian
embassy in Copenhagen that killed 15 people, the work of terrorists
headed by Milos Kradic. Sloane says that an agent named Thomas
Raimes is undercover within the organization. Although Raimes
warned Langley of the attack, he failed to prevent the blast
or follow up with his handler. They speculate that Raimes
might have been caught or killed.
Sloane tasks Dixon and Vaughn with capturing Kradic. He asks
Sydney and Jack to run operations, though they have yet to
find out Kradic's motives.
Sophia, the headmistress who took care of Nadia in the orphanage,
phones to say she's coming to L.A. When Syd and Nadia meet
her at the airport, she's wheelchair-bound and covered with
bruises.
Sophia tells Nadia that she was attacked in her home and
doesn't know why. Sloane comforts her, clasping her hand.
Later, he peels off a thin layer of latex from his own hand
and has Marshall check Sophia's fingerprints. Sophia gives
Nadia a necklace reminding her of their past.
Jack receives treatment for his radiation poisoning. His
doctor, Atticus Liddell, warns him of side effects and advises
him to make peace with Syd - because the end may not be far
off.
In Amsterdam, Dixon tells Vaughn that he's previously worked
with Raimes. They corner Raimes in a club and ask why he didn't
stop the bombing. Raimes says that the 15 civilian deaths
were necessary in order to find out what Kradic wanted --
Hydrosek, a water-based weapon developed by Indonesia that
could wipe out entire eco-systems and kill half a million
people.
Dixon and Vaughn inform APO that Kradic bombed the embassy
as cover for the intel theft. Since embassy protocol dictates
that when a bomb goes off, all confidential intelligence goes
to offsite servers, the recent explosion triggered these protocols.
APO concludes that Kradic must've intercepted the outgoing
data, which includes the location of Hydrosek, and he is now
forming a team to steal it from Indonesians.
Raimes says their only option is to make Kradic lead them
to the weapon. Dixon agrees, and when Raimes says that Kradic
is about to meet Halsey, a hacker he's hiring for the first
time, Dixon suggests switching the hacker with an agent. After
they nab Halsey, Dixon approaches Kradic in the club and convinces
him that he's the hacker.
Sloane approaches Sophia and demands to know why she really
came. He says that he knows about the man she killed. Sophia
says the man was a danger to the girls in the orphanage. She
also adds that she wanted to protect Nadia, so she changed
Nadia's last name -and that her attackers in Lisbon were really
after this information. Sloane reveals that he knows who's
after her.
In the office, Jack tells Sydney that the embassy transmission
Kradic had intercepted came from a network tap that they can
still access. When Syd leaves the room to look for Marshall,
Jack scratches and probes his palm and finds a computer chip
stored in an embedded capsule.
Jack sees Dr. Liddell who tells him that this device regulates
his medication, and that the procedure was explained to him.
As Jack says he cannot recall this, the doctor reminds him
that memory loss is a side effect and admits that Jack's condition
is progressing quicker than expected.
Syd reports that Marshall located Hydrosek in a manufacturing
plant in Peru. Unfortunately, Kradic beat them to it. They
decide that the best course of action is to keep Dixon in
play.
Dixon tells Raimes that the embassy deaths were unacceptable.
When Raimes says that they were collateral damage and that
Dixon has gotten soft, Dixon explains that his wife was accidentally
killed during a mission.
As Kradic, his team, Raimes and Dixon approach a plane, one
of Kradic's men intercepts a communication from a lurker with
Coke-bottle glasses, regarding Dixon's embedded status. Knowing
now that one of them is an agent, he orders his men to kill
them both.
Raimes punches a thug, grabs a gun and shoots the others
as he's wounded. Dixon, still keeping his cover, pretends
to turn against Raimes - who is sacrificing himself for the
mission to continue. Knowing that Vaughn is on standby to
save Raimes, Dixon shoots Raimes and boards the plane with
Kradic.
Jack takes Sydney in a room with Sloane and Nadia, and the
men tell their daughters about info they've gathered about
Elena Derevko. Elena disappeared 30 years ago, Sloane says,
and she has been surveilling them for a decade. In fact, she
might be responsible for the attack on Sophia. Her motives
and location are unknown but they're doing everything they
can to find out.
Unbeknownst to Nadia, the necklace she's wearing - the gift
from Sophia -- transmits this conversation to … Sophia.
She contacts Coke-bottle glasses and tells him that she'll
contact him once she has Kradic's final destination. He responds
by saying, "I won't let you down, Elena."
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