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Previously on "alias"...

The prosthetics I'll apply

are lined with a carbon powder.

The system's database won't find a match.

Well, then let's begin.

You've cleared their system.

We're United States agents.

Lock down your vault. You're being robbed.

Sloane!

Hold your fire!

We've rigged the lower level with enough c-4

to level the entire city block,

so I suggest that you both lower your guns.

You, my dear,

you'll be driving me out of here.

Stand down.

Let agent Bristow leave with the suspect.

He's holding the detonator, and we have a clear shot.

No. You make one move, and one of his operatives

will detonate the explosives.

He's got the area under satellite surveillance.

That means let sloane go

and don't tail him until we get this stuff defused.

There's a current running through here.

If we clip the wires, we break the circuit.

There's a fail-safe.

The only way to take this out

is to disrupt the electronics.

The remote detonator operates on a radio frequency.

Wouldn't it be faster to find out

what that frequency is and just jam it?

Yes, but accessing the frequency

might trigger an explosion.

There's got to be a way to block it.

Not unless you have some way

to encase a detonator in concrete.

This is agent Vaughn. Get me the bank manager now.

I told you not to come after me, Sydney.

I warned you that I will kill you

if you interfere.

If you knew what I have in here,

if you knew what my plans are...

This is bigger than SD-6, Sydney,

than the CIA,

than you being deceived by me,

than me being betrayed by you.

If things were different...

The safe -- it's a friedlin model 42-c.

Okay, friedlin.

Friedlin, friedlin, friedlin number 9.

Friedlin... Okay, got it.

Constructed with 3 inches of high-density concrete

surrounded by heavy gauge steel.

Will it block the signal? I don't know. That depends on the detonator.

How big's the antenna?

An inch, inch and a half.

That means it's probably transmitting at, uh...

Divided by the speed of light times 1/4.

Marshall! 3 gigahertz, which means you should have

enough shielding so the signal can't get through.

Should have or have? Have.

Thank you. Tell Kendall to start tracking Sydney

in five minutes. She'll be in a Ford focus.

You know what model? Zx5.

What color? Blue. Why?

Uh, no, I was just curious.

I was thinking about getting one myself, you know.

Lower it a little, get some big tires, rims --

gold rims. And --

hello?

Syd?

We shielded the detonator. The bomb can't be triggered.

A team will intercept your car in five minutes.

Change of plans.

E.T.A. -- Five minutes.

The CIA has a hit list --

35 people worldwide

its agents are allowed to kill.

35 out of 6 billion.

You're one of them.

Which means when I kill you,

I won't even be breaking the law.

You jump, you die!

Officials with amcorp

are hiding behind Swiss banking laws

to avoid telling us what sloane stole from the bank.

For the moment his trail's gone cold.

In other words, we don't have a plan.

I mean, that's true, isn't it? We've got nothing.

May I remind you, miss Bristow,

that sloane was last seen in your custody?

I was in his custody. He was holding hostages.

You had the option to take him out.

You chose not to exercise it.

I chose not to incinerate 300 innocent people.

Are you telling me you think I made the wrong choice?

Okay, I think we should just stick to what we know.

Sloane is holding Neil caplan hostage

for the purpose of building some sort of a weapon,

and presumably what he took from amcorp

is helping him do that.

But, see, we don't know that, because we lost sloane.

And the reason we lost sloane is because he had something

we didn't -- satellite surveillance.

And if we'd tasked one bird to follow him

after we defused the bomb, we would have had him by now.

Our satellites were tasked elsewhere at the time.

That's my point. We didn't take advantage of the situation.

No, we prioritized.

What's the point of strategizing if we're not willing --

we're doing everything we can do! No, we're not!

Not even close.

I need a progress report.

Caplan says he's a day away.

We took the magnetometer from amcorp

to expedite the construction of the rambaldi device.

My flight is the day after tomorrow.

It needs to be completed before then.

I believe caplan to be a man of his word.

Mr. caplan is only assisting us

because he believes we're holding his family hostage.

If what he's putting together is as powerful

as I believe it to be, I don't want him

anywhere near it when it's operational.

I'll conduct the preliminary test myself.

You do that...By tomorrow.

I love the zamboni.

Zamboni's your favorite part?

No, coming home with you after the game

is my favorite part.

Zamboni was a close second.

Hello?

Hey. Kendall has something he wants to show you.

Uh, can it wait?

Apparently not.

He wants Sydney, too. Are you with her?

Uh, no. I haven't seen her.

I'm trying. Just find out what he wants.

Kendall?

Zamboni's your favorite part?

Could you at least try and pay attention?

Vaughn, can you hear me?

No, coming home with you

after the game is my favorite part.

Vaughn.

Zamboni was a close second.

We'll be there soon.

A cleaning crew is on notice

to sweep the apartment a.S.A.P.

I don't understand. How can the apartment be bugged?

I have countermeasures.

Will and I talk there sometimes about work.

He needs to be told.

Already being handled.

We need to know who you've spoken with, what was said,

and what intelligence might have been compromised.

Plus you need to compile a list of every person,

friend, serviceman, delivery guy, mailman

who has been in or out of the apartment.

Kendall's waiting for you. I'll take this to analysis.

What do you mean, you bugged the apartment?

Well, it's not like I broke in

and planted it myself.

I made it.

Here, if you take a look right there,

I soldered into the circuit board.

Can you see that? What is that?

It's a superman logo,

except this one's got an "m" on it.

It's kind of my signature.

Um, when I used to work at SD-6,

I made it special for sloane.

It operates using an md-14 data adapter

which cloaks the signal,

making it undetectable by bug killers.

I know. I know -- I'm that good...

Uh, which is bad.

Vaughn said he heard it repeat his conversation

through his cell phone.

Right, well, this is a burst transmitter.

It periodically transmits what it's recorded

to a receiver.

Can you reverse engineer the signal,

find out where the conversations

were being transmitted to?

Uh, well, if the transmitter records

the phone number that it sends the conversations to,

yeah, I guess that it's possible.

Then do it.

"Please" would be nice.

That's all right. Never mind.

Caplan finished earlier this morning.

The rambaldi device is complete. I ran the test.

I think you'll be pleased with the results.

When we agreed to combine our resources, sir,

you promised you'd show me incredible things.

But a suitcase neutron bomb

designed in the 16th century --

is that even a theoretical possibility?

Forgive the mode of transportation,

but a person in my position cannot be too cautious.

I understand.

Our mutual friend Mr. Dreyfus --

he sends his respects.

Let me pay you the courtesy of being blunt.

I don't do business with Americans.

I'm a man with no country

and few alliances.

All I have is a vision of an enterprise

that will influence an existing world order

that I believe to be corrupt.

I'm looking for partners who share that view.

I am but a humble Shepherd.

Whose control of the opium trade

along the silk road is worth

hundreds of millions of dollars.

In this part of the world,

it's better to be practical than visionary.

Why should I invest in your enterprise?

Ah, that, my friend, is a long discussion.

First, a gift.

It once belonged to khushal Khan khattak,

the great 17th century warrior-poet.

He united our lands

and is a hero to my people.

This is a treasure.

Tell me more about what you have planned.

Hey.

So, how's it going?

I'm good.

No, I mean about will.

Is this gonna turn into a thing?

What's going on?

Have you slept with him?

No, not yet.

Will hasn't said a thing.

He can't even look at me anymore,

he's so freaked out.

You know, Sydney, you've been acting

sort of weird lately.

Really?

And I thought you'd been acting weird.

I thought maybe it was because of will.

You don't talk to me anymore.

I'm sorry, francie.

I just get so caught up in work.

Don't forget --

we used to be really good friends.

You can talk to me.

Hello?

Get in here now.

Okay.

Who was that?

Someone from the bank.

There's a problem with a client in Tokyo.

I have to go in.

See you.

Hello?

They found the bugs.

How should I proceed?

They'll be looking for our L.A. asset.

Give them someone.

I'll take care of it.

Send a copy of that to Kendall.

Vaughn, is it sloane?

Did Marshall get a location

by reverse engineering the bug?

It works on an encrypted feed. It was untraceable.

But we got a lead on sloane another way.

An asset outside kandahar reported seeing

someone matching sloane's description

in the company of men loyal to Ahmad kabir,

the pashtun warlord who played footsie with the Taliban.

When they ran, so did he,

except we don't know exactly where.

We believe kabir's men took sloane somewhere

in the helmand valley.

Last year, sloane assigned an SD-6 agent

to infiltrate kabir's helmand operation

and intercept routing information

regarding a shipment of Soviet surface-to-air missiles.

Sloane stole a shipment of missiles

from kabir, but now they're meeting?

What am I missing?

Kabir has no idea who sloane is.

The agent he assigned got in and out undetected.

Who was the agent?

Marcus Dixon.

None of the records we acquired from SD-6

detail that mission,

and everything that Jack knows, now you know.

The only person who can help us is Dixon.

Who has made it clear that he has no interest

in cooperating with us.

Well, you're just gonna have to change his mind.

I want a full briefing on kabir by our analysts.

I don't think you appreciate Dixon's sense of betrayal.

Correct me if I'm wrong, agent Bristow,

but only yesterday you were standing here

complaining that we're not doing enough to find sloane.

If you do nothing and we lose him this time,

you'll have only yourself to blame.

Marcus doesn't want to see you.

And for what it's worth, neither do I.

I know, Diane. I do.

I promise you I wouldn't be here

if it wasn't important.

What good are your promises?

Right.

Hello, Sydney.

Hi.

I need some information.

I can't help you. Look, five minutes.

All I need is a location. He said no.

Look, it can mean the end of sloane.

Sloane's with Ahmad kabir.

All I need to know is where kabir operates from.

These are bad people. They need to be stopped.

Not by my husband, they don't.

The agency might try to compel you

to tell them what you know.

If they do, I'll tell them what I'm telling you.

We've made a decision as a family to move on.

Do you own a suit?

A suit? Yeah. Uh, one.

Put it on. Why? Why? What's going on?

You've only been doing analysis a short time,

but your written briefs are good.

One of them, on Ahmad kabir --

the director wants an oral presentation.

Wait, wait.

An oral -- like in person?

Yeah, just give him talking points.

It's not really a request. I'm a writer. I don't talk, I write.

It's part of your job.

Do you know Sammy's red hots?

Sure, Santa Monica and 17th.

Yeah. Be there in one hour.

Order the special, no pickles. I like pickles.

You'll be led out back, where a windowless van

will be waiting to take you to operations.

I'm going to be talking to the director.

Is that a big deal?

Yeah.

Oh, God.

It's from the 16th century.

Mm.

It is a carving of an arhat --

a worthy one.

In Buddhist tradition,

an arhat is the destroyer of the enemy.

How is it you know so much?

I'm a collector.

This piece is very special.

You want a partner,

someone to invest

in an incredibly ambitious global enterprise

which is at best a risky proposition.

What you offer in exchange --

to be my --

to be my arhat.

I need some assurance that you can deliver

on that promise.

Oh, naturally.

And that's why I'm fully prepared

to give you a demonstration.

I leave it to you to choose the target.

No suit, huh?

Well, it's been a while since I tried it on --

or worked out, apparently --

which makes me overwhelmed and fat.

Will tippin, professors Joyce and Fleming.

They flew in last night from the Kennedy school.

I'll go tell the others we're ready.

The Kennedy school? Where is that?

Harvard.

That's right.

Our objective today is simple --

to identify a person or persons

who can give us the exact location

of Ahmad kabir's helmand valley operation.

Despite the American-backed government,

the geopolitical reality of Afghanistan

is that it's still defined by ethnic rivalries.

The simplest way to find a pashtun like kabir

is to first find an enemy willing to sell him out.

Sharif rabani is on record

as accusing kabir's pashtun supporters

of engaging in ethnic cleansing.

I'm sure we'll have no problem getting him to lead us to him.

Then why hasn't he?

Well, the point is, yeah, they hate each other,

but they probably hate us more.

I mean, since 9/11, haven't we paid guys like this

millions of dollars for information

and gotten almost nothing in return?

Are you prepared to make an alternate recommendation?

Yes, actually, I am.

All I have are these photographs.

Sydney.

This woman's name is alia gizabi.

She's married to an administrator

with the Vatican embassy in Mexico city.

Alia gizabi used to be alia kabir.

She's kabir's ex-wife.

Since the Taliban got booted,

a woman can have her marriage annulled

if it's determined that she was forced

or sold into that marriage against her will,

according to court records.

You found court records? Yeah. Yeah, they're published on the net.

I realize that there's nothing

geopolitically correct about my analysis,

but in the "hell hath no fury" department,

I figure this woman would pay us to mess with her ex.

I mean, she hates him so much that she sent their son

into hiding with her relatives.

I'll get you that web address.

You should check it out.

Okay, I'll alert

our station chief in Mexico city.

Vaughn and Bristow, you will leave in one hour.

We need to protect this woman.

No one can know the CIA's contacted her.

You're going under an alias.

Kabir has chosen a target --

his ex-wife.

We're using the device on alia gizabi?

You'll be briefed en route to Mexico city.

You leave at once.

Surveillance confirms

gizabi's in the administrative wing

adjacent to the church.

Now, according to caplan's calculations

of the running requirements,

we'll need 20 million watts

to reach that section of the building.

20% of its capacity.

Yes, that should give us

coverage of the entire embassy.

But, sir, if caplan's off by even a microtesla,

this could go very wrong.

Do it.

That's easy for you to say, sir.

You're 8,000 Miles away.

I'll wait to hear from you.

I'm approaching the steps.

Señora.

I'm in.

All right, gizabi works on the first floor.

Can I help you?

I'm not here to hurt you.

I work for American intelligence.

I need some information about your ex-husband.

I know you're worried about retribution

for leaving him and taking his son.

That's why I've come in secret.

No one knows I'm here.

No one will ever know that you've talked with me.

I'm searching for a man -- a horrible, dangerous man.

He is with your ex-husband

at his residence in the helmand valley.

I need to know exactly where that is.

Vaughn? Can you hear me? Vaughn?

Yeah, what is it? What's wrong?

We just had an Echelon intercept.

Key words were picked up --

"terrorist," "weapons of mass destruction."

But you ready for this? "Rambaldi."

Did you get coordinates?

Yeah. Yours. We don't know when it's happening,

but you're not waiting there for us to find out.

Get out now.

I cannot help you.

Sydney, we have to get out of here now.

There's going to be some sort of an attack --

a car bomb, a suicide bomb, I don't know.

But I'm alerting the embassy.

They're going to start an evacuation.

There's a door at the end of the administration corridor.

Meet me there. You have to come with me. It's for your own safety.

I told you. I won't help.

Por favor.

Are you seeing this? We picked up a hot spot. Where?

It's directly behind you. It's huge.

What? What is it?

Some kind of a fire. Something burning.

No, listen to me, listen to me.

It's this inferno, and it's right behind you.

Is he seeing people, buildings, what?

Wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It disappeared. It's gone.

Gone? What do you mean, gone?

I don't know. It just -- it disappeared.

Let's go back.

I'll tell you where to find my husband.

62 people are confirmed dead

in what government officials are calling

the worst act of terrorism in Mexico city in a decade.

Some people describe it as an act of God.

The local officials are not releasing

any more information at this point.

All of the victims were incinerated

beyond recognition.

Absent positive identification,

a list of presumed dead was published.

Your ex is on the list.

What is this?

A small token of appreciation.

No.

No, this is too much.

I cannot accept this.

I saw you admire it, and deservedly so.

You have destroyed my enemy.

You are in every way my arhat.

I will have $40 million wired tomorrow

to the account of your choosing.

Video surveillance places sark

at the scene of the attack in Mexico city.

Subsequent to the attack,

intel tracked him as far as kabul.

Here's what we can assume.

Sloane dispatched sark to carry out his mission.

Now that it's complete, sark has returned to his master.

And thanks to Ms. gizabi, we now know where that is.

The plan is for you to lead a tactical unit

into the helmand.

You'll parachute into the compound,

affect a roof access, disable the weapon,

and signal for backup.

You know how people are describing it, don't you?

They're calling it a doomsday device,

saying it's the first sign of the coming armageddon,

like the devil himself rose up to attack that church.

Um, excuse me, if I may offer a scientific explanation,

I think it might, uh, help the, uh...

Ahem.

Hi, everybody. It's good to --

that's a really nice --

okay, come on.

Right.

What we're dealing with

is a high-energy pulse weapon.

Now, thanks to an Echelon intercept,

we were able to retask a kh-12 satellite

over the area, and this was what we found.

Okay, the blue dots --

those are the people in the church before.

Now, this is what the infrared picked up after.

The body temperature

of everyone in the affected area

increased by over 2,000 degrees.

They literally melted from the inside out.

And nothing else in the church was affected?

Well, that's because it works like a microwave.

It excites water and fat molecules

which don't exist in inorganic materials,

and then it converts them into atomic motion, or heat.

You said everyone in the radius was affected,

even people who were taking cover?

Yeah, well, there's no defense

against this kind of energy.

It goes through walls, concrete, steel, everything.

There's no shield?

No. Sorry.

Oh, um, I should probably also tell you

that, um, this kind of energy

knocks out computer circuitry, which means

if it's pointed at the sky, it could take down planes.

What concerns me is that sloane knows

this kind of use of force is a deliberate provocation

that demands a swift response, and yet he exercised it

on the ex-wife of a petty warlord.

Why?

I got the inventory back from the cleaners.

They found audio and video transmitters,

all next gen stuff.

Video?

Yeah, in the TV in your bedroom.

We're investigating everyone you've listed

who's been in your apartment.

So far they're all clean.

Hello?

Hey, it's me. Hey.

I know we had plans for tonight,

but I have to work.

What you have to do is quit that job of yours.

Fran, I'm sorry.

It's okay.

The truth is, I probably wasn't

going to be able to make it anyway.

So you don't want to kill me?

No, of course not.

Hey, you know, can we talk about this later?

I'm kind of in the middle of something.

Yeah, yeah, I'll call you later.

Bye.

Okay, um, you remember that movie "predator,"

when Schwarzenegger was being chased

by that crab who could only see in thermal?

No.

No? You never saw that? It was a great movie.

Schwarzenegger -- it was one of his better movies,

because "twins"...

Um, listen, anyway, kabir's security cameras,

they work the same way.

They read heat signatures, which is kind of a problem,

'cause, well, you're incredibly hot.

See? Huh?

Now, the solution I have devised

is you parachute onto the roof,

you rip off your tactical gear,

and then you slip on this baby.

Now, it's part of a cold suit.

It's all black, it's form-fitting,

and it will bring your body back down to...

Room temperature.

Put these babies on... So, as long as I'm covered,

the security cameras can't see me.

Yeah, you'll be the invisible woman. See?

I'm in the eastern stairs.

All right, go right at the bottom.

According to his ex, kabir keeps weapons and ammunitions

in a storage room at the end of the hall.

There's no door. What?

Work's been done.

Maybe this place was bombed in the war

and had to be reconfigured.

Meaning our intel's worthless.

There has to be another way in.

I've been made.

Sydney's been compromised.

You have to order the tac unit in after her.

Did she defuse the weapon? What difference does that make?

Kabir's been alerted. If he's got the weapon, he'll use it.

Issue the order.

You heard Marshall. There's no defense against it.

If you don't issue it, I will.

The tac unit wouldn't stand a chance.

We can't just leave her there.

Unless we can find another way in,

I'm afraid that's all we can do.

I don't think we've been formally introduced.

My name's Michael Vaughn. I work with Sydney.

I'm out.

Sydney's in trouble.

Respect my decision.

I can't do that,

not when your decision may cost Sydney her life.

You wouldn't tell Sydney

how you infiltrated kabir's,

so she found an alternate way in

using what turned out to be faulty intel.

She was captured.

And unless we find another confirmed access point,

no one will be sent in to get her out.

It's not that simple.

Yes, it is. You will either help save Sydney's life,

or you won't.

Please leave.

I can't do that --

not until I get your answer.

Admit you are CIA.

Submit to a videotape acknowledging you are here

in violation of international law.

Condemn the great Satan,

and maybe I will spare your life.

Sydney, tell him what he wants to hear...

Or this will not end well.

You know,

in many ways,

I will always consider you my proudest accomplishment.

Please, Sydney.

Unfortunately, I can't do anything about this.

Bye, Sydney.

Have you reconsidered?

Hmm?

Admitting you are CIA.

Perhaps you need a little incentive.

Enough.

My houseguests have left.

It would seem there's nothing more

for us to discuss.

The cartilage that lets the kneecap slide around

does not regenerate,

which you should know in advance of this.

You okay?

I don't understand. How --

how did you find a way in?

Let's go.

Let's go. We got the device.

Sloane?

No.

This way.

Good work.

I was lucky.

You got the weapon.

We've saved countless lives.

Yeah.

I didn't get sloane,

or figure out what the hell he's doing with kabir.

We found these on the plumber whose name you gave us.

He was murdered.

He's either responsible for the bugs in your apartment,

or he was set up.

At the moment, it's a dead end.

I'm glad you're home.

Hi.

Hi.

♪ So there my friend you're in the deep end ♪

I know I say this to you a lot.

Thank you.

♪ Just hanging on to hope

♪ by a loose string

I can't judge you for not telling me about SD-6.

If I had been in your position,

I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.

♪ To try and play pretend

what's going on with Diane?

♪ But maybe what's broken can start to shine ♪

I don't know.

♪ And you'll find this time tomorrow ♪

♪ we'll decide

♪ where it will all go in this life ♪

The kings are in town on Friday night.

You could watch the zamboni.

♪ You never saw yourself standing here ♪

♪ they disappeared

what we saw...

At the church --

every time we think we've seen the worst...

♪ Start keeping them close

♪ waves come and go

♪ and you'll find this time tomorrow ♪

♪ we'll decide

♪ where it will all go

you talk of power and control,

but when we create

an incredibly powerful weapon,

you leave it in the hands of a complete stranger.

Tell me, how was what happened good for us?

Hand me the top page of the manuscript.