Episode 5: Out of the Box
10/27/2005
Renee Rienne steals a chemical from an army storage depot
in Frankfurt while Jack meets Sloane in a restaurant. Sloane
asks to be reinstated in APO so he can find a cure for Nadia,
Jack says he's already made the request but a senator is blocking
the request.
In Marseilles, Rienne administers the chemical to a man who's
been cryogenically frozen. At the APO office, Dixon reports
that the chemical is Atropine ZX, an experimental substance
used to resuscitate gravely injured soldiers. The thief, who
he's identified as Rienne by way of video footage, had also
stolen the frozen body from DSR. As Syd volunteers to speak
to her, Jack privately asks Tom to keep an eye on Renee.
Syd and Tom meet Renee in Marseilles and return to her loft,
where the now revived but disoriented man surprises them.
He holds a knife to Renee's throat. They realize that the
man is Luc Goursaud, Renee's father, and calm him down. Luc
reveals that it was Aldo Desantis who had frozen him. Before
he can speak about Prophet Five, Luc has a seizure and slips
into unconsciousness.
Gordon Dean approaches Sloane and reveals the identity of
Senator Lewis, who is refusing his reinstatement. At Dean's
suggestion, Sloane wins his reinstatement by threatening the
senator's child.
Jack gives Tom and Syd the name of a doctor they could bring
Luc to. Overhearing the name "Desantis," Rachel
remembers that, while working for Dean, she had stored files
on Desantis in a San Francisco facility.
Mercenaries converge on Renee's loft and pump gas into the
vents. Tom makes his way out and plants a bomb in their van.
In a flashback, Renee recalls that her father had once worked
for Desantis, but they had become enemies.
Meanwhile, Dixon and Rachel go to the San Francisco facility
and ask to be shown a storeroom, where they leave a case.
Marshall's latest invention crawls out of the case: a spider
robot with a tomographic camera. Marshall controls the device
from a remote location, directing the spider to find and scan
Desantis' files. Later, they learn that the documents detailed
the manipulation of genetic and neural pathways. They also
discover that the brain scans of Luc Goursaud and the man
in the cryogenic chamber were not the same.
Tom returns to the loft and finds a beacon in Luc's cryogenic
chamber. He and Renee use the beacon to alert APO. Syd learns
about the beacon through Luc and discovers that he had guided
the mercenaries to the loft. His cover blown, Luc takes Syd
hostage. When Renee and Tom return, they realize that Luc
is not Renee's father. Suddenly, the building is blown apart
and a helicopter picks up Luc.
Later, in a North Korea hospital, Gordon Dean meets man formerly
known as Luc, referring to him as "Doctor Desantis."
Desantis reports that the "woman" is now calling
herself "Renee Rienne" and that she's working with
the CIA. Dean assures Desantis that keeping an eye on her
won't be a problem.
Sloane, his clearance granted, walks down the halls of the
APO office.
- description from ABC.com
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