Episode 4: Mockingbird
10/20/2005
Wearing a glitzy outfit, Sydney emerges from a sleek car
in Monte Carlo and hands her key to Tom, dressed as the valet.
She goes inside the casino and starts attracting attention
with her boisterous behavior and consecutive wins. Meanwhile,
Tom drives the car to the basement and picks the lock of a
maintenance station.
With a big crowd, Dixon accuses Sydney of cheating. After
the casino guards bring her in the office, Syd shoots them
with a tranquilizer and goes to the office vault. With a laser
cutter and the key code that Tom relayed through her earpiece,
Sydney retrieves a laptop and drives away.
As she passes by a shipyard, she is stopped by a policeman
and is boxed in by another vehicle. Suddenly, a shipping crane
with a large magnet grabs her entire car and Syd is lifted
hundreds of feet off the ground. She gets a phone call from
Gordon Dean saying he wants Mockingbird back.
In the APO office 72 hours earlier, Rachel shares her guilt
with Sydney on getting her coworkers killed. When Sydney urges
her to rest and points out that it is Gordon Dean's fault,
Rachel insisted on finishing her report on Dean. Syd then
asks Rachel what "Mockingbird" is as written in
some of her reports, and Rachel replies that it's her call
sign.
At an industrial office, Gordon Dean tasks a man named Keach
with an assignment. After, Peyton approaches Dean and mentions
that they need money for an account transfer so they can rebuild
their offices. Dean types in his password.
Waiting in the APO office, Marshall announces that he has
been monitoring Dean's accounts based on Rachel's intel, and
recently, Dean had liquidated all his finances and stored
them all in one account. Rachel shares that the account is
Dean's fail safe account in Cayman Islands, and that since
she built it, she had made it a trap-door account. The only
way to access it is to be at the bank and go through Dean's
protocol questions. The answers are in Dean's servers in the
Prague office -which has been destroyed.
Later, Syd asks Rachel to go with her to Prague. Using Marshall's
recovery software, they can reconstruct protocols and help
Dixon and Tom with getting into Dean's account before traces
of Dean disappear once again. Rachel adamantly refuses.
In a Federal Building, Sloane sits in front of Boyd Harkin,
Special Prosecutor to Sloane's case. Unsympathetic and determined
to punish Sloane, he lists Sloane's criminal activities, and
expresses his disbelief on the pardon agreements that Sloane
had gotten in the past. Sloane admits to his wrongdoings and
promises that he is reformed. Later, Sloane is approached
in his cell by Keach. Keach says that he has benefactors who
can help Sloane. He considers this offer.
With their Czech Intelligence Badges, Sydney and Rachel enter
Dean's Prague office and heads to the servers. In spite of
Rachel's anxiety and difficult flashbacks, they find the hard
drive amidst the debris and was able to plug it into the laptop.
Rachel starts hacking.
Dixon and Tom sit at a beach in Cayman Islands and were approached
by the bank's emissary, Pierpont, earlier than expected. After
Dixon alerts Sydney of the sudden change, they go into a cabana
where Dixon and Tom is seated. With the guards' pistols aimed
at Dixon and Tom, Pierpont starts asking them a series of
questions. As Dixon subtly relays the questions through his
earpiece, Syd and Rachel supply answers from Prague with the
data they are slowly recovering. Despite a setback, Dixon
was able to withdraw all of Dean's finances.
At this moment, Dean and Peyton realize that they have been
cleaned out. As they conclude that Rachel is the only person
who could have done this, they make plans to get her back.
At the APO office, Dixon reports that because of the recent
events, Echelon was able to intercept a call revealing a location
where Dean stores one of his operation archives. With the
blueprints in front of them, they realize that they need to
retrieve the archive from an electromagnetic deposit box system.
When Dixon mentions that the mainframe resets passwords daily,
Rachel blurts out that she can get around it by decrypting
the building's network. With determination to destroy Gordon
Dean, she volunteers for this next assignment.
At Monte Carlo, after Sydney heads to the casino and Tom
brings the car to the basement, he pops the trunk and Rachel
goes with him to the maintenance station. Rachel decrypts
the algorithm and passes the code to Tom who relayed it to
Sydney. She goes back in the trunk and Sydney drives off.
With her entire car hanging from the crane, Syd speaks to
Dean on the phone who is demanding that Mockingbird be delivered
in 30 minutes. As Dixon attempts to rescue them, a camera
captures their presence and the car plummets 20 feet. Talking
Rachel through this predicament, Syd asks Rachel to call Dean
to confirm that she is on her way. As Dean listens, he hears
a foghorn in the background, revealing Rachel's actual location.
In a flash, Syd tells Rachel to kick the trunk, and grabbing
Rachel by her arm, Syd uses her laser cutter to attach herself
to the magnet -a split second before the car crashes to the
ground.
At the hearing, Sloane stands in front of Harkin, awaiting
his sentence. Sloane surprisingly gets pardoned and is released
from the federal penitentiary. Jack looks at him suspiciously.
On the plane ride home, Sydney tells Rachel that they can't
release her until Dean is brought in -and everyone involved.
Rachel sits back and realizes that her life is never going
to be safe.
- description from ABC.com
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