Episode 4: Ice
1/19/2005
With Vaughn and Dixon covering, Syd tries to buy a bio-weapon
called Ice 5 from an American at a foreign bazaar. When thugs
disrupt the deal, Syd bolts with the man. As they're running,
his leg snaps off. He's then shot - and literally explodes.
Marshall later determines that the biological agent, which
the man had swallowed, actually "freeze-dried" him,
crystallized him from the inside. He worked as a relief worker
in Montenegro hospital run by Fenton Keene, who secretly developed
Ice 5. Sloane wants the team to obtain a viable sample of
Ice 5.
At Syd's home, Nadia finds a photo of Irina holding a baby.
Nadia asks Sloane who the baby in the picture is. He dodges
the question.
Syd visits the hospital as a representative of Omnifam and
does the grunt work, while Weiss and Nadia put together a
list of potential buyers. A patient comes in showing symptoms
of Ice 5 infection but the nurse, Kyra MacLane, says he was
in a car accident and won't let Syd help treat him.
Vaughn, disguised as a priest with a black eye, flirts with
MacLane and convinces her to make confession. Fenton appears,
tells Vaughn that he's her brother and asks to see the man
in the car accident. Meanwhile, Syd swipes MacLane's card
key and passes it to Dixon, who makes a copy and gives it
to Syd.
Syd searches the lab and finds 14 tanks of Ice 5. To her
horror, she spies Fenton testing it on human subjects. Weiss
reports that they found a buyer in Damascus. They find MacLane
is really Fenton's sister, and that they're both former IRA.
Vaughn feels she can be turned and approaches her during confession.
When they meet, MacLane says her brother has done awful things.
With Syd listening in, Vaughn tells MacLane that he's haunted
by thoughts of his former wife, whom he killed after she betrayed
him. MacLane realizes Vaughn is government. He tells her that
he can protect her from her brother should she turn on him.
MacLane takes Vaughn to the lab, where Fenton clobbers him.
He's forces MacLane to inject Ice 5 into Vaughn's eye. Syd
enters and rescues Vaughn. During the fight, Fenton stabs
his sister by accident. She dies in Vaughn's arms, but forgives
him before passing.
Jack asks Nadia for the photograph. He said Irina told her
she was holding her niece. The next day, he recalls, he proposed.
He says he chooses to believe it's true, but says that everyone
needs to find our own sense of closure.
On the return flight, Syd, sensing a disconnect, tells Vaughn
he can talk to her whenever he wants.
- description from ABC.com
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