Episode 3: The Shed
10/13/2005
A woman arrives at a secured lab in Istanbul where scientists
in protective suits experiment with a liquid substance. She
shoots a guard and punches a code to enter the lab. Holding
the scientists at gun point, she steals two vials and breaks
a third before locking them in and bolting. They die instantly.
In the APO office, Marshall shows a video feed of this theft
to the team. The liquid, he says, is called Substance-33,
a deadly nerve agent that kills in seconds. He identifies
the woman as a lackey of Gordon Dean, based on her knowledge
of the code and the computer she used to hack it.
Marshall traced the hacker's signal to Prague. Jack gives
the case to Sydney, Marshall and Tom Grace. Sydney privately
asks Jack why Dixon isn't going. Jack says that Dixon is with
Sloane, who was allowed to meet a contact with information
about Nadia's cure.
Inside his prison cell, Sloane tells Dixon that he's paying
Dolzhenko, the contact, $300,000 for a lead. Later, in Omsk,
Sloane convinces a wary Dixon to allow him to meet Dolzhenko
alone. At the meeting, Dolzhenko points a gun at Sloane and
steals the money.
In Prague, the APO team tracks the hacker to a coffee shop.
Armed with a microprocessor concealed at the back of a mint
pack, Syd enters the café, and speaks to a man with
a laptop, assuming he's the hacker. Just then, the signal
fades - the real hacker has left the building. Tom and Marshall
give chase and capture her.
The team interrogates the hacker, whose name is Rachel Gibson,
in a hotel room. Tom catches her transmitting a signal through
her watch, and she admits she's a black ops CIA agent. After
she passes a lie detector test, Syd says she was in the same
situation 13 years ago - when she believed she worked for the
country but was actually an enemy.
When Marshall confirms that Rachel's signal went to Gordon
Dean, not the CIA, Rachel cooperates. She agrees to download
the encryption key from Gordon Dean's Vlasska office nearby
in order to enable a file transfer from Marshall's PC.
Rachel, thanks to Syd's remote guidance, successfully downloads
the encryption key. As Rachel walks to the elevator, her friend,
Peyton, joins her. Sensing Rachel's panic, Sydney receives
the key in a quick brush pass. Marshall begins his server
download.
Back in Dean's office, Peyton, who has been observing Rachel's
change in behavior, alerts Dean. After spotting the file transfer,
Dean and Peyton leave the building and trigger a bomb.
Marshall discovers that Dean had triggered an EMP that fried
all electronics. Tom rushes out the hotel room to help Rachel.
Bombs explode as Tom makes it to Dean's office. He finds a
semi-conscious Rachel beneath the rubble and cradles her in
his arms. Sydney, who arrives shortly after Tom, meets his
gaze silently.
- description from ABC.com
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