Episode 8: Bob
12/7/05
In Siberia, Lukas Basarov plants a bomb in a train car. It
explodes and incinerates only the people, leaving the rest
of the car intact. Upon learning of the explosion, Marshall
tells the APO team that it was a Micropulse bomb.
Meanwhile, Sydney dines with a lady at a Yorkshire garden
party. When she spots Elizabeth Powell, the wife of the French
ambassador, she hands her a napkin with a message from Jack.
Elizabeth meets Jack in the library and he asks her about
the attempts of French intelligence agency MI-6 to acquire
a Micropulse bomb. Elizabeth assures him that MI-6 isn't involved
but Jack asks her to look for a mole in the organization.
He says this might lead to info about Prophet Five.
Back at APO, Jack tells the team that his contact had identified
Basarov as the engineer of the Micropulse, and that MI-6 is
trying to acquire it off the books. Basarov, he says, is attending
a conference in Brazil and expects to receive a transmission
about the sale rendezvous through his laptop. He assigns Rachel
to intercept this intel. Before leaving, Syd reminds a stressed
Rachel to have fun.
Disguised as a British scientist, Rachel checks in a hotel
in Sao Paulo and ends up in an elevator with Sark, who's posing
as an American. They make a connection, and realize that they're
across the hall from each other. Once in their respective
hotel rooms, they start planting cameras for surveillance
in Basarov's room.
At the conference, Rachel asks for Basarov's autograph, which
she scans to produce a fingerprint copy. Later, when Basarov
steps into the shower, Rachel breaks into his room and tries
to access his laptop using the copied fingerprint. Rachel
takes to the window ledge when someone enters. He can't see
that it's Sark bugging the laptop. When he leaves, Rachel
puts her own bug in the laptop.
Sark hits on Rachel in a bar and they go back up to his room.
Rachel finds an airline ticket indicating the Bahamas as Sark's
next destination. Just then, Rachel's phone vibrates, signaling
the receipt of crucial intel. She quickly leaves and sends
the transmission to Marshall for decryption.
Back at the APO office, Rachel confides to Sydney about meeting
a guy. Jack says that Basarov is meeting the MI-6 double agent
in Spain. Later, Jack and Elizabeth stake out the sale in
Malaga. A terrorist organization led by Benjamin Masari ambushes
Basarov's group. Jack and Elizabeth are abducted.
Sydney and Sloane watch the video footage and conclude that
Sark intercepted the transmission at the hotel. Rachel, angry
at herself, says they can catch him in the Bahamas.
Upon landing, Sark sees Rachel with Sydney. Sydney tells
him that Masari has Jack and asks him to help in Jack's rescue.
Later, while Jack and Elizabeth are being brutally interrogated
by their captors, Masari gets a phone call from Sark. Sark
makes a deal with him to buy Jack and Elizabeth.
At the office, Dixon advises Syd not to go on the mission
in her pregnant condition. Meanwhile, Sark continues to flirt
with Rachel, but Rachel rejects him.
Dixon disguises himself as a local truck driver and Rachel
and Tom hide under the truck, When Sark enters Masari's Tunisia
office, Masari points a gun at him. A doublecross! Dixon shoots
the guards and breaks into the facility. He and Tom look for
Jack, while Rachel tries to locate the weapon. She finds it,
only that Sark is handcuffed to it. Marshall and Syd remotely
guide Rachel through its disarmament.
As Jack says goodbye to an injured Elizabeth, Dixon asks
Sark where they could wire his payment. Sark says this was
a freebie and walks away, leaving Rachel interested. Later,
Sydney talks to Jack over the phone and they make plans for
breakfast. Before they hang up, Syd tells her father that
she loves him.
- description from ABC.com
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