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Previously on "alias"...

Tonight, at 2200 hours, the CIA will conduct

simultaneous raids on all alliance facilities.

And tomorrow morning, God willing,

the alliance will no longer exist.

Let's move in. Go, go, go.

Three agents down at sd-2.

We've gotten reports from all team leaders.

We appear to be in control of all alliance facilities.

So, congratulations, sir.

The alliance is gone.

I just wanted to let you know that phase one is complete.

Good.

Move on to phase two.

I've been asked to confirm

that you are in position.

Yes.

Everything's in place.

Maybe when we're done here, we should go back to Fiji.

Yeah, we should.

It was so great.

I'm gonna take a shower.

You're early.

I've been compromised.

How?

Something I said.

How do you want me to handle it?

Use her to send a message.

Make it public.

I heard you were here.

I couldn't sleep.

I was afraid I'd wake up and find out this was a dream.

I went for a run to clear my mind.

I ended up here.

Any word on Dixon or Marshall?

They'll be in debrief for a while.

Meanwhile, sloane's been put on interpol's most wanted list.

About last night... Is this going to be about Alice?

I know it's complicated. We're not together anymore.

Since when?

Since this morning.

The truth is, we've been over for a long time.

I was thinking,

I can actually go to the CIA

through the front door.

And I can actually give you a ride.

Folks, this is Christine Phillips,

our new clandestine services graduate.

Langley's approved her observing our operations

over the next few months. Hi.

FBI assistant director Kendall.

This is agent Michael Vaughn, agents Jack and Sydney Bristow.

I've read your operational file. It's a real honor.

Thanks.

Sir, we got a situation in Berlin.

The networks are carrying it live.

I'm putting it through to central display.

This is all that we know so far.

A woman apparently has been shoved out of a van --

a speeding white van, we're told.

This is in a public square...

Oh, my God.

Sir, that's agent Wallace.

You know her?

She's one of ours.

Give me a better look at those explosives.

Looks like c-4.

If the c-4's wired with a remote trigger,

any radio communication could cause detonation.

You're doing fine, Emma.

Just do what I told you,

and you will be fine.

Patch me through to the federal office in Berlin.

You speak German, right?

We'll have satellite coverage in the next 30 seconds.

Kh-11 coming online now. Bump up the resolution.

Sir, I've got the federal office on the line now.

Tell them to put you through to the ranking agent on site.

Tell him the woman is CIA

and any random radio communication

could detonate the explosives.

♪ All around the cobbler's bench ♪

♪ the monkey chased the weasel ♪

♪ the monkey thought it was all for good... ♪

♪ pop

♪ goes the weasel

♪ a -- a penny

♪ for a spool of thread

♪ a penny for a needle

♪ that's the way the money goes ♪

♪ pop

♪ goes...

Come on, come on, come, come on, come on!

I speak English.

♪ No patience to wait till time goes by... ♪

Instruct all of your agents to shut down radio communication.

This woman may be wired with a remote detonator.

I repeat --

agent Bristow, I've already ordered radio silence.

♪ Pop...

Excuse me...

Are you all right?

Hi.

Are you okay?

Sorry. I just wasn't ready for that.

Don't be sorry.

The CIA lost an exemplary agent today.

Those of you who knew Emma Wallace

may find it difficult to focus, but I'll ask you to try.

For the last two months, she was tasked

with a deep-cover assignment.

Her objective was to gain the trust of this man --

Dr. renzo markovic, a former r & d scientist

who's been developing a new classified technology

under the project heading "helix."

He's already received preliminary bids

from several terrorist organizations.

Weapons?

We don't know.

That's precisely the question that agent Wallace

was trying to answer before she was murdered.

Agent Wallace may not be the only casualty

in our effort against markovic.

She was sent undercover with a partner --

another CIA operative

whom we now presume to be captured or dead.

His final satellite transmission

indicated he was proceeding to cayo concha

off the coast of the Dominican Republic.

Markovic leases one of the lower floors

in the Serena del sol resort,

where he conducts his research.

If our operative's still alive,

he's being held there.

Agent Bristow, you're on point.

Agent Vaughn, you'll be assisting.

Conditions for success are twofold --

acquire what intel you can on project helix

and bring our man home.

Who is he?

He's one of our most decorated agents.

Here's his file.

James Lennox. You leave tonight.

Hi.

Hi.

Ready to go?

Yeah. Come on in. I'll get my stuff.

Nice place.

I'm gonna get a new couch.

Yeah?

Well, I don't know.

So, this is where you live.

This is where I live.

I love it.

I'm ready.

Okay, we, um...

We should go right now.

Hey.

Francie, this is Michael... From the bank.

Hey, francie, nice to meet you.

Nice to put a face with the name.

Same here.

We should get to our plane.

Another business trip?

Just a finance conference in New York, just overnight.

Well, have a good trip, you guys.

Thanks. It's nice to meet you. Thanks.

You too. Bye.

I'll see you later.

Arden jezek --

he's markovic's chief of security

at the resort, which means he's got access to project helix

and probably knows where Lennox is being held.

Why aren't we going after markovic directly?

Our surveillance teams say they lost track of him

four weeks ago.

Jezek's our best shot.

Hi.

I've injected you with a cardio toxin.

You'll have a heart attack within the hour

unless you do exactly as we say.

Then you get the antidote. Are we clear?

Yeah.

Is agent Lennox still alive?

Yes.

Where is he?

Sublevel, room 47.

You'll escort us down there

and you will help my partner download

everything you have on project helix.

Smile.

Uh, they are with me.

I'll see you at the exit point.

Yeah.

Sydney, if agent Lennox is still alive,

he may have undergone psychological reconditioning.

You could be walking into a trap.

Let's start over from the beginning.

I already told you everything.

Ahh...

Aah!

My name is Sydney Bristow.

I'm a CIA agent.

I've come to take you home.

I can't see. I can't see.

I can't see!

They used metachlorozine on you.

It's a photoreactive acid.

I'm covering your eyes with a bandage.

Keep this bandage on or you could be permanently blinded.

You're okay.

You're sweating because the poison is taking effect.

Type, and you'll be fine.

Okay, you're in the system.

You're doing great. You're almost out.

My partner Emma Wallace -- has she reported in yet?

Yes.

Stay here.

Ahh!

Aah!

Oh...Thank you.

Shut your eyes. Shut your eyes.

I know.

One more.

Your eyes should normalize in a few minutes.

Okay.

Thank you.

You okay?

What do you think?

No signs of any post-traumatic stress disorder

or symptoms of behavior modification.

He was holding his own with the interrogators

and he risked losing his sight to get us out.

I don't know.

We'll know more after the psych eval.

How are you doing?

I could have sworn you were a blonde.

I was.

My hair's usually brown.

Hard to keep track.

It's nice to...

See the face

of the person who saved my life.

So, um...

Where is, uh, Emma?

Is she, uh...

She back in L.A.?

Jim...

E--

Emma's dead.

I'm so sorry.

We know that you've been through hell,

agent Lennox, and I apologize

that your homecoming had to be celebrated

with a psych evaluation,

but you've been given a clean bill of health,

even though I'm sure it doesn't feel like that.

Agent Wallace's death

has left several questions unanswered.

Can you tell us how you infiltrated

Dr. markovic's organization?

We were hired on as freelance security experts

at his villa in Berlin.

Emma -- agent Wallace --

gained markovic's trust enough to become his driver.

In that capacity, she was privy

to a phone conversation between markovic

and someone she believed to be his superior

in which they indicated

project helix was ready for testing.

Are you saying that markovic answers to someone else?

That was agent Wallace's impression

based on the conversation. They didn't use names.

It was just a voice on the speakerphone.

And you never heard this voice yourself?

No.

How's your eyesight?

It's better.

Can you tell us what led to your capture?

When we reported to Langley

the project was proceeding, we were ordered

to break into the facility in cayo concha

and hack the central database.

I know there was a good chance we'd be caught.

I decided to go in alone so I could transmit the data

to Emma in Berlin if I were trapped.

They moved in before I could do that.

Do you have any idea how she was compromised?

No, I don't.

Okay.

I think we have a pretty comprehensive picture here.

There's a driver waiting to take you

to a safe house nearby.

Is there anything you'd like to add?

We were engaged.

So, in a case like this, we start by digitizing

all the news footage that covered the bombing.

Uh-huh.

You, uh, you like Italian food?

I have a boyfriend.

Yeah, me too.

Hey, weiss.

Excuse me.

I think the new girl has a thing for me.

I was going over agent Wallace's contact log.

She phoned in every two days like clockwork.

I mean, the slightest discrepancy in protocol,

and she contacted us for verification.

Your point being?

The day Lennox says he was captured,

we have no records of anything from her --

no warning, no extraction request, nothing.

Why didn't she make contact?

Agent weiss.

Roll it back.

That flash of static right before the blast --

an rf transmitter would account for the interference,

but all radio signals were shut off.

Wait. Uh, run it back. Slow it down a little bit.

There.

So if the signal interrupted the feed,

it had to have come from our trigger man's detonator.

Which would place him within a block of this camera.

All right, find out where the news van was parked,

check all atms, traffic cams.

We may just have this guy's face on video.

Lennox?

Jim?

Beware of the grieving man and his bottle.

Emma used to say

that she had spent so much of her life

pretending to be other people

that she was afraid she might disappear.

And I have been sitting here

trying to remember all her aliases.

And you're right.

It's hard to keep track.

I lost my fiancé last year.

And I know we were trained to compartmentalize

things that hurt too much,

but I still haven't been able to do that.

But as hard as it is,

I would rather feel it

than to not feel anything.

Hey.

Oh...

I'm sorry.

Agent Bristow? Agent Lennox?

What's going on?

Back up against the wall.

Wait. What is this?

Wait -- get your hands off me!

All right, stay down! Both of you!

Stay down! Sydney, go! Sydney, go!

Stay down! Go. Go, Sydney, go!

Okay, take it easy! Take it easy!

What is it?

He's gonna be placed in federal custody.

What's going on?

We've decrypted the specs on project helix

that you and Vaughn obtained.

The data describes a breakthrough

in next-generation molecular gene therapy.

It refers to a new procedure

whereby a patient's face and body are reshaped

to identically resemble someone else.

Agent Lennox was the first test subject to be doubled.

Doubled how? Like cloning?

Not exactly.

So you're saying the man that we rescued

isn't agent Lennox? It's possible.

So who is he?

Based on our intel, the procedure's first recipient

was the man who created the technology --

Dr. markovic.

There is no way the man we have in custody

is Dr. markovic.

I know it sounds insane,

but as we were analyzing the news footage,

Phillips noticed the interference of an rf signal

which helped narrow our search.

We got this from a traffic camera.

Over the last few years,

it's become common practice for wanted terrorists

to employ men who look like them --

decoys designed to mislead intelligence agencies.

With this new procedure,

that would no longer be necessary.

Men like osama bin laden could simply be made

to look like someone else.

And clearly, that is not something that we can afford

to have advertised on the black market.

How is this possible without obvious scarring?

The procedure isn't surgical.

A patient's genetic code is altered

to reshape their physical attributes.

Is it reversible?

It's unclear.

It only works on people

of a certain genetic disposition,

and the recipient must be induced into a comatose state

for several days while their cells regenerate.

The data indicates the only way to distinguish

the real person from the double

is by an ocular scan.

A flaw in the iris was deliberately

built into the procedure to tell them apart.

Even if Lennox is who he says he is,

there's no real way of guaranteeing

that he's not the man in that video.

I'm telling you, the man we rescued

just had his life destroyed.

He's on our side.

He is who he says he is.

What the hell do you mean I've been doubled?

The project you were investigating --

project helix. What about it?

It's a prototype surgical gene resequencer.

All right, meaning what? What does that mean?

Markovic created a technique that allows people

to change their appearance.

That's why we gave you the ocular scan --

to make sure that you were really you.

Do we know who it was --

the man who took my identity?

Dr. markovic.

Now I know why Emma didn't call for an extraction.

She had no idea I was captured.

We had a hotel room in Berlin.

She thought she was with me.

Markovic had the helix prototype

taken off cayo concha.

We've tracked it to a freight yard in Poland.

He's trying to hide it. What's the next move?

I've been ordered to find the prototype,

download the schematics, and destroy it.

I'm coming with you.

This is mountaineer.

We're in position in the train yard.

Copy, mountaineer. We've got you on satellite.

We're reading five guards.

One on the north side of track two.

One between tracks one and two.

Two on the Southern perimeter,

and one on top of the center car.

Wait. We just lost the last guard.

Hold while we reacquire his signal.

Do you have the drill?

Drill.

All right, I'm having trouble seeing the third tumbler.

Okay, the borescope's jammed. Hang on.

Do you have the audio?

All right, all right, all right.

We got it.

Okay.

I'm gonna rig the explosives.

All right, boot camp, I'm into the data log.

Copy that. Standing by to receive the schematics.

All right, wait a second.

According to this,

the sequencer's been used twice.

What?

I'm not the only one who's been doubled.

Who else?

It doesn't say.

Agent Vaughn, a call was routed

through the pbx you need to take right away.

Who am I talking to?

My name is James Lennox.

The man you rescued is Dr. renzo markovic.

I know that sounds impossible.

He's developed some kind of genetic doubling prototype.

Yes, we know that.

I was captured trying to infiltrate his medical lab

on cayo concha.

They knew the CIA would send in a team after me,

and they set you up.

I just escaped 12 hours ago

while they were trying to transport me off the island.

Where are you now? I'm in Poland.

I've tracked the prototype to a freight yard here.

I'm going to destroy it.

I got him.

He's 2 Miles away and traveling alone.

It could be markovic. One of the guards

may have alerted him, and he's now trying

to prevent us from sabotaging the prototype.

There's no way to be certain.

I'd like to believe you, but we just conducted a test

confirming Lennox's identity.

The ocular scan -- the ocular scan doesn't work!

That was disinformation he wanted you to download

so you would trust him!

The ocular scan is a joke!

Listen carefully. Do not approach the train yard.

I'm losing you.

I can't hear you.

Hello? I'm losing you!

Hello --

put me through to Sydney on a separate channel.

I only want her to hear this.

Got it.

Sydney, don't react. Just listen.

Do not take your eyes off the man you're with.

We just got a call from someone claiming to be

the real agent Lennox.

He's on his way to you now. It looks like he's alone.

Clear your throat if you copy.

Backup copy.

Sydney, there's no way for us

to identify the identity of either man.

Disarm the man you're with, then take cover

so you can do the same to the man heading your way.

Once they're both secure,

lead them to the extraction point.

We'll figure this out when they're in custody.

Don't move.

What are you doing, Sydney?

Against the wall.

On your knees. Hands behind your head.

Put your hands behind your head.

On your knees.

He's secure. How far away is the other man?

What other man?

You think I'm markovic.

Cloud cover has moved in over your position.

We're blind, but he's got to be right there.

Sydney, Sydney, you have to trust me.

Cuff yourself to the rail.

All right, if someone is headed this way

claiming to be me, it's markovic, all right?

I'm telling you, he is setting us up.

Then why is he traveling alone?

Because he knows if our satellite picks up

a security team headed this way,

we won't hesitate to destroy the prototype.

It is his only play to get his face back.

Sydney, he killed Emma. He will kill you!

Ahh!

Hold it!

Drop the gun and turn around.

Aah!

You don't work for markovic. You're CIA.

I'm Jim Lennox. I'm CIA, too. Drop the gun.

Drop the gun now.

Put the gun down.

Markovic's men are on their way here.

Drop it, or I'll shoot!

We have to trust each other.

Get down!

Sydney!

Oh! Drop it! You killed Emma, you son of a bitch!

He's lying! He has to say that!

I was tortured for four weeks.

He knows enough to pass himself off as me.

Don't listen to him! He took my life!

You're not walking out of here.

Neither of you can drop your guns.

What are you doing?

I hope you like your face, Dr. markovic.

You're going to have it for a long time.

Don't!

Yeah, all right.

Yeah, appreciate it.

Four weeks off. The least they could do.

Yeah, well, they offered me counseling,

but I haven't not worked in eight years.

Where are you headed?

Fiji.

I've never been there before.

Emma and I were going to go for our honeymoon.

She was from there.

I know.

I knew her.

You knew Emma?

One thing

about my fiancé --

I was lucky to have known him for as long as I did.

Thank you.

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ Take...

♪ The April snow

♪ reminds me of the night ♪

♪ I spent alone with you

♪ when I don't feel strong

♪ I have you

♪ I need you

♪ I have you...

You're so beautiful.

Dinner's ready.

I do have an oven, you know?

We can reheat.

♪ My dreams become reality

♪ when I'm with you everything's possible ♪

♪ because I never, never hold back ♪

♪ I have you

♪ I need you

♪ vocalizing...