Episode 20: The Descent
5/18/2005
A tactical group infiltrates the DSR and steals the Rambaldi
artifacts. Meanwhile, Sophia says goodbye to Nadia and Sydney,
telling them that the Lisbon police confirmed that it is safe
for her to go back home.
In the APO office, Vaughn plans to propose to Sydney and
asks for Jack's blessing. As Jack begins to express his disapproval,
a team of CIA agents arrive in the office with a search warrant.
Director Chase looks for Nadia in Syd's apartment. When Nadia
confirms that she is the only one who has access to her laptop,
Chase accuses her of overwriting the DSR security system by
deactivating the alarms. Just then, an agent finds the bugged
necklace that Sophia gave to Nadia.
Jack and Sloane arrive at the apartment. They then realize
that Sophia must be the reason why several missions have been
compromised. Jack postulates that Sophia is Elena Derevko,
who unfortunately, had found them first. He points out that
the string of orchestrated events -- Bill Vaughn's journal
and Sloane's clone -- were her handiwork. Sloane adds that
they can't let her assemble the Rambaldi artifacts. Later,
Sloane tells Nadia that Elena will go to Lazlo Drake with
the Rambaldi pieces.
Nadia flashes back to a year earlier in China, where she
and Sloane met Drake. Sloane explains that Drake discovered
a manuscript - a template describing how Rambaldi's artifacts
should be assembled, bringing forth the final prophecy. Drake
is taken with Nadia, but he refuses to share information since
Sloane is still missing one artifact: the Sphere of Life.
He says that Nadia is the only one who can retrieve the Sphere.
They then go to an underground cave in Sienna, where Sloane
asks Nadia to obtain the Sphere in a box perched on a podium
that is surrounded by stained glass floors. Nadia carefully
walks on the creaking glass and opens the box. As she touches
the Sphere, she sees a vision of destruction and refuses to
bring the Sphere to her father. Sloane calls her a coward
and attempts to walk across the glass floor by himself. The
floor shatters and he falls through, impaling him. Nadia nurses
him back to health.
In the present, Sloane tells the team about Drake and adds
that in Elena's hands, Rambaldi's endgame is apocalypse. They
attempt to locate Drake, who has been in hiding with the aid
of Grayson Wells - a billionaire who financed Drake's earlier
Rambaldi research. Sloane tasks the team to approach Wells,
and says he will talk to Drake himself.
At Cannes, Sydney poses as a spoiled heiress in a jewelry
store and brushes past Wells. She pretends to purchase a bracelet
and charms Wells into putting it on her wrist. As Wells sees
a Rambaldi mark on Sydney's hand similar to his, he offers
to buy the bracelet for her. Later, Wells now tied to a chair,
Sydney phones Sloane with the location.
Syd meets Sloane in Mexico. When she expresses her suspicions,
Sloane tells her that he would never do anything to hurt Nadia.
They approach a trailer; Drake lies dead inside. Syd finds
a surveillance video recorded from a hidden camera, revealing
Elena chatting with Drake. Before Sydney can listen to their
conversation, Sloane stabs her with a tranquilizer and heads
out to Elena's office.
Jack arrives in Katya's jail cell and demands to know Elena's
operations. In response, Katya asks for a full pardon and
immediate release. When Jack says he'll do everything he can,
Katya reveals that Elena has been acquiring artifacts for
several years through her front -- The Covenant. Katya says
she can help him find her, but it is only Irina who can stop
Elena from acting on her end game. Jack, if you recall, murdered
Irina.
Finding out that Elena is in an industrial facility in Prague,
Syd, Nadia and Dixon prepare to infiltrate. Dixon arrives
at a loading dock and watches the guards put a prisoner in
the van. Sloane emerges from the shadows and points a gun
at Dixon. He asks for Dixon's trust and tells him to get out
of there. Suddenly, Dixon is shot from behind by Elena and
Sloane looks at Dixon regretfully before leaving.
At the hospital, Syd and Jack observe as Director Chase cares
for Dixon. Jack admits that he lost sight of the one thing
he knew to be true -- that Sydney's mother, Irina, would never
hurt Sydney.
Jack crosses paths with Vaughn in an elevator. He says that
if Vaughn honestly believes that he can make Sydney happy,
then Vaughn has his blessing.
Dixon regains consciousness and talks to Nadia and Sydney.
He tells them that he saw a shackled prisoner at the loading
dock: Irina Derevko.
- description from ABC.com
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