Episode 7: Detente
2/16/2005
In Irkutsk, Vaughn learns from a contact that Russia has
produced a breakthrough explosive called Black Thorine. The
contact suspects his superior stole it and sold it, and gives
Vaughn the man's bank account number. Soldiers arrive and
shoot the man, Vaughn escapes with Syd's assistance.
Syd arrives home to find Sloane visiting Nadia. Despite Nadia's
objection, Syd kicks him out, saying he can't be trusted.
She only took the APO job to watch him. Nadia realizes Syd
hasn't reconciled the past.
At APO, Sloane says that money was deposited into the account
by Boris Tambor, an oil magnate who moonlights as an arms
dealer. He's currently in Monte Carlo. Jack says he sits at
a high stakes poker table every night at 9. Their mission
is to get into his suite, find out where he keeps the black
Thorine and how he plans to move it.
Syd confides to Dixon that she may not be able to work with
Sloane. Dixon says he dreams of his dead wife Diane every
night; she tells him to do the right thing. That's how he
makes peace with Sloane -- he doesn't ignore the past, but
he makes the right decision today.
As they shoot targets at a firing range, Syd tells Nadia
that she needed to know her mother and so understands Nadia's
desire to know Sloane.
In Monte Carlo, Syd inserts a micro camera into the suite
and gets a visual on Tambor, who's watching a soccer match
- not going to the gaming table. Nadia and Syd notice perfume,
a purse, magazines. They realize he's got a girlfriend. Deducing
that the woman is bored, pissed off because she's being ignored
and sitting in the bar, they see their opening.
Dressed up to party, Nadia and Syd identify the girlfriend
through her perfume. They befriend the woman; she takes them
up to the room and past security. Syd clones his PDA hard
drive while Nadia chats up Tambor.
In LA, Sloane is angry at them for taking risks. Syd gets
indignant at what he deems "unacceptable." Everywhere
she looks, she says, she's reminded of Francie and Danny.
Marshall has broken the hard drive's encryption and finds
out that Tambor will sell the vial on his yacht, Argento,
which is sailing in Turkish waters in the Black Sea. It's
stored in a safe within a safe in a cabin below deck. Marshall
gives Syd a device that will allow her to read the safe's
combination through his clothes.
Jack lobbies for Sloane to allow Syd and Nadia to work together
again. They swim to the yacht and sneak on board. Syd uses
the combination reader while Tambor makes the deal. Sloane
recognizes the buyer as Leo Orissa, the head of a Russian
crime syndicate. Nadia opens the safe - revealing eight canisters
of Black Thorine.
Orissa ambushes Tambor, whose girlfriend turns on him. Tambor
is killed as Syd and Nadia escape to the water. Sloane tells
Syd he has to trust him and advises her to go back on board.
Confronting Orissa, Syd says she works for Arvin Sloane, which
sends fear into the man. Syd catalogues Sloane's depravity.
Orissa offers up the location of the lab. Meanwhile, Nadia
disposes of Orissa's thugs. The lab, Orissa says, is in the
Ukraine. Tambor's girlfriend shoots Orissa and fights Syd.
With an assist from Nadia, Syd kills her.
Nadia tells syd she's always been alone. Now she's glad to
work on a team. Sloane assumes Syd wants a transfer. Syd says
she will never forgive him. "I'll see you tomorrow,"
she says.
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