Episode 6: Nocturne
2/9/2005
A woman teaching English to foreign students believes she's
being watched. Convinced she can't escape, she draws a gun
and kills herself.
Syd and Vaughn, playing hockey when they get the call, report
to Sloane. He explains that when Nancy Cahill, an undercover
narcotics agent, shot herself, her last words were "Tell
them it's funny." Cahill's husband Jason, also an agent,
has gone off the grid. Syd and Jack are to search the Cahill's
Amsterdam apartment for clues.
In the apartment, Syd unlocks a crawlspace door and follows
a passage to a room plastered with disturbing drawings. She's
suddenly attacked and bitten in the throat by a feral Jason.
Jack shoots him dead.
As Syd undergoes a battery of tests, the doctor says the
Cahills came in contact with a drug that caused an acute melatonin
imbalance, which incited their acts of extreme violence. Syd's
diagnostics indicate that she's fine.
Sloane says Langley wants to find the drug, who manufactured
it and what it's used for. Marshall traces the calls Nancy
made and begins reconstructing erased files on her laptop.
Weiss says Jason was trying to determine what he was infected
with, even after Nancy locked him in the closet.
Syd can't sleep and begins hallucinating. Her temperature
reads 111.
Jason's files indicate he had a meeting scheduled in Bucharest
with "The Count," a drug supplier. Syd mission is
to pose as a Cahill associate and meet The Count. Dixon tells
Sloane it's a mistake to send Syd out so soon. Sloane harshly
reprimands him.
In Bucharest, Syd has a recurring hallucination of a spider.
Marshall calls Jack to say the drug's incubation period is
a few days, like a virus, and permanently alters brain chemistry.
Jack tells Vaughn that they should have her in sight at all
times. At the meeting, Syd imagines Vaughn kissing someone.
They take The Count into custody, and admits he recently delivered
samples of a drug called "Nocturne" to Jason. Once
the delusions begin, there's no stopping it. Syd, increasingly
off-kilter, imagines Sloanee threatening her. Syd chokes The
Count, who offers that the drug came from Prague and was an
old sample meant to be destroyed.
Nadia finds a group called Grappig, which means "Tell
them it's funny" - an affiliation of biochemical scientists
in Prague led by Dr. Letuza. Nancy had found out where it
came from but was too far gone. Vaughn says Letuza may have
developed a remedy if he knew he made a bad batch. In Prague,
Vaughn searhes for Letuza's files. Syd grows fearful that
Jack will kill her. She asks to be tied up and Jack obliges.
She imagines Jack comparing her to Irina. Syd head butts him,
takes his knife and cuts herself loose.
Vaughn finds vials of antidote and returns to see Syd crying
over an immobile Jack. She says she killed him, but it's a
trap. She has a gun, forces him to his knees. She says their
relationship is a cruel joke at her expense and that she's
scared she will betray him again. She fires but the gun has
no bullets. They fight. She beats him with a pipe. Jack wakes
and subdues Syd with a sleeper hold. Jack had taken the bullets
out! Vaughn administers the antidote.
In LA, Sloane says Interpol has raided Letuza's office and
eradicated the Nocturne threat. Sloane admits to Dixon that
sending Sydney was a tactical error. An angry and humiliated
Dixon says he never saw the nature of SD-6 because his only
failure was that of imagination -- he never imagined a person
as thoroughly toxic as Sloane could exist. When Sloane's true
motive reveals itself, Dixon promises to be there.
Syd and Vaughn kiss in her hospital room. She sees a spider
on her bed. Vaughn brushes it away and says spiders are good
luck.
- description from ABC.com
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