Episode 8: Echoes
2/23/2005
Before the team meets, Nadia gushes about Weiss to Syd while
Weiss moons about Nadia to Vaughn. Sloane recuses himself
from the upcoming mission because it involves an operative
that he is not authorized to engage. He puts Jack in charge
and leaves the briefing. Jack says the target is Syd's old
nemesis Anna Espinoza, a former K-Directorate Agent and Rambaldi
follower, presumed to be dead. Intel indicates that Espinoza
is to receive something from an associate, Milos Sabine, in
Brussels. While reviewing the files, Nadia gets lightheaded
and walks out. Syd, Dixon and Marshall are to observe the
meet and bring her in if the opportunity exists.
At lunch with Nadia, Syd talks about past encounters with
Anna. Nadia says she saw something awful when she was connected
to Rambaldi last year -- She had a vision that she and Syd
were aiming guns at each other. She pulled the trigger and
shot Syd, she says, who seemed to expect it.
Syd takes a call - it's from Anna, who's actually sitting
behind Nadia. She kidnaps Nadia and demands that Syd pose
as her in Brussels for the meeting with Sabine.
In Brussel, Sabine says he wants to get his money's worth
before he gives her the item. He tells Syd to kill Willem
Karg, who's in a hotel bar, photograph the body as evidence
and bring back his right index finger. If she's not back in
40 minutes, she won't get the package.
Syd poses as a prostitute and lures Karg to go up to his
room - where Vaughn and Dixon wait. They cut off his finger
to save his life. She presents it to Sabine; he gives her
the "last remaining sample."
Anna has her thug Mr. Turner brand Nadia with the Rambaldi
symbol.
Marshall identifies the sample as the Dante Compound, a rare
putty that when mixed with V/X gas and other nerve agents,
will mutates them. Marshall believes Anna works for the Cadmus
Revolutionary Front, an offshoot of the Covenant. They've
been trying to acquire the compound for a year to make a chemical
bomb. He suggests they talk to Sark.
Sydney doesn't think they should follow through on a plan
to give Anna a replica of the Dante Compound because she may
kill Nadia. Sloane says Anna won't kill Nadia - he says it's
not her destiny. Syd realizes this is about Rambaldi. Jack
agrees that Syd should meet with Anna.
They meet in a Beverly Hills boutique. Syd gives her the
compound. Anna gives syd a remote car key and tells her to
go to the 4th floor of a parking structure across the street.
Anna threatens Syd, who starts a knock-down, drag-out brawl
that ends in a virtual stalemate. Realizing that they're getting
nowhere, they make the exchange. Syd finds Nadia locked in
a car trunk.
Vaughn visits Sark in the federal pen. Sark asks if he killed
Lauren because of espionage or infidelity. Vaughn hits him
and asks why the CRF has made repeated attempts to contact
him. When Sark goes silent, Vaughn has him shipped to Alder
Penitentiary, where he is to spend all his days in dark solitary
confinement.
Syd returns with Nadia. The surgeon says they can fix the
brand. Nadia relates Anna says that she and Syd will be torn
apart. Syd explains that according to their mother, the outermarkings
of the Rambaldi symbol are her two daughters, the center is
the object over which they'll do grave battle with each other.
Only one of the daughters will survive. Syd says some of these
predictions have come true, but that she doesn't believe in
it. The people who do, she says, are dangerous.
Jack injects Sark with a tracking device (and explosive)
while he sleeps in prison. As Sark is transferred, the vehicle
is attacked. - it's a set-up. And a man helps Sark escape.
Syd hears chatter about a meeting between the CRF and an
administrator of a Russian chemical facility named Vorich.
Syd thinks Anna may be there. Jack tells her to take Nadia
for surveillance only. If Vorich is there, he may have a sample
of V/X. Sloane is afraid that if Syd and Nadia go on the mission
together and Anna has her way, only one will return. Marshall
tracks Sark to Johannesburg.
In Johannesburg, the team raids what they think is CRF headquarters,
only to find Sark in an empty room guzzling champagne. He
agrees to locate CRF leadership in return for something.
In Estonia, Nadia and Syd find Vorich, who's quickly killed
by Anna. Nadia battles Mr. Turner as Syd chases Anna. The
dude falls on his knife, Nadia twists it until he reveals
in his dying breath why the CRF is assembling the bomb. Syd
think she's cornered Anna, but it turns out to be Nadia. Anna
then shoots Nadia in the back. She falls as the life ebbs
from her.
- description from ABC.com
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