Episode 9: The Horizon
12/14/05
Michael Vaughn arrives in Sydney's apartment and starts preparing
dinner. He also tells a very pregnant Sydney that she is going
to be a great mother. Syd looks at herself in a mirror and
sees a vision of herself, strapped in, with wires attached
to her head. She regains consciousness and finds out that
the vision is reality and "recently" being with
Michael Vaughn was part of a dream. A doctor injects her with
a chemical and she protests helplessly.
Two days earlier, Peyton stabs a man who has access to CIA
archives in San Francisco. She breaks in and retrieves Vaughn's
files. She calls Aldo Desantis and arranges a meeting.
At the APO briefing room, Jack tells them that the CIA archives
were breached and they had identified Peyton as part of Prophet
Five. He added that she stole files of killed agents in the
line of duty, including journals and protocols. Syd knew that
he meant Vaughn. As Jack tasks Sloane to oversee Rachel analyze
the intel, he asks Syd to meet with Renee Rienne who might
provide information about Prophet Five's motives.
In a warehouse, Peyton's team listens on mission tapes. This
leads them to believe that Vaughn had told Sydney crucial
information about Prophet Five, and Sydney might not even
be aware of it. Peyton calls Desantis and he recommends a
doctor who specializes in extracting information.
In Madrid, Sydney meets with Renee who confirmed that Vaughn
didn't keep anything on record related to Prophet Five. Just
then, Syd notices two men moving menacingly toward them. She
and Renee start moving away. Though Renee kills the two men,
Sydney gets abducted by another group and is thrown into a
van. As another van attempts to follow Sydney's, Renee shoots
it and opens the door to find Desantis.
Still trapped and bound in the interrogation room, Sydney
listens to the doctor explain to observers behind a one-way
mirror that the chemical he injected will force hypnosis.
When the doctor asks her to find a happy moment with Michael
Vaughn, Syd's subconscious reverts back to the time Vaughn
had proposed to her. In this dream state, she gains awareness
and frantically tells Vaughn in the dream that Prophet Five
is using her. Vaughn is taken aback at Syd's knowledge of
Prophet Five.
Renee contacts APO and tells Jack about Syd's abduction.
Jack moves the team to locate Sydney and points out that since
Desantis is involved, this means involvement of Prophet Five
experimental medical procedures. Jack asks Sloane if he knew
another Prophet Five contact and Sloane denies it. Later,
Sloane privately begs his Prophet Five contact to plead for
Sydney's release but to no avail.
At the lab, the doctor continues the regressive process attached
to Sydney's memory of Vaughn. She recalls speaking to Vaughn
on a hospital bed minutes before she lost him, and her conscious
mind breaks through in this memory and starts talking to Vaughn
about Prophet Five once again. Living in that state, she realizes
that the drink she had given him that was recommended by the
nurse caused Vaughn's body to crash. As she refused to let
him die, Vaughn tells her to let him go, since this is the
only way to defeat the people holding her captive. She recalls
another memory where they were stuck in a jail cell, and she
refuses to let Vaughn go.
Jack interrogates Desantis and threatens to torture him more
after cutting one of his ears off. Just then, Renee finds
a recurring address located in Hungary through a notebook
that she retrieved from Desantis. Jack realizes that one of
the dates listed is Sydney's delivery date. Jack leaves the
room and Renee shoots Desantis.
Meanwhile, the doctor once again urges Sydney to dive into
her memory. She recalls a moment where she speaks with Vaughn
at the pier, and in a similar pattern, Vaughn urges her to
let the memory of him go before they hurt her further. In
the memory, Syd's phone rings and she hears the doctor's voice
on the other end, asking her to draw a map. In the memory,
Syd and Vaughn tell each other that they give each other strength.
Syd's memory jumps back to one of her first meetings with
Vaughn, where they spoke about SD-6. When Vaughn shows Syd
the real map of SD-6, the doctor asks a semi-conscious Sydney
to read the information on the map. After Syd says "X-23
Norte," the observer from behind the mirror tells the
doctor to end this procedure. A satisfied Irina Derevko prepares
to leave and orders Peyton to tell their associates that the
location has been found, and to keep Syd comfortable.
In a deserted beach inside Syd's head, she meets with Vaughn.
They listen to the waves and Syd expresses how much she wants
to stay with him. Vaughn encourages her and tells her that
together, they will defeat these people -especially after
they find out that Syd had given them the wrong information.
He has to go so they can stop using her.
Renee and Jack arrive in the Hungarian address listed in
Desantis' notebook. They go into a deserted building, and
was surprised to find a room where a nursery was set up. Meanwhile,
with the chemicals wearing off, Sydney opens her eyes and
finds Peyton unstrapping her. With one hand, Syd stabs Peyton
with the drug and escapes. Still groggy, she finds her way
around narrow corridors. She bursts through a door and realizes
that she is in a ship, in the middle of an ocean.
- description from ABC.com
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