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Previously on "alias"...

Neil caplan -- he's a mathematician

working out of caltech.

The bureau just confirmed that he and his family were

kidnapped from the long beach aquarium yesterday.

You want me to help you, you let my family go.

All I need to know right now

is whether you want to come with me.

Yes.

I didn't have a clean shot,

and I took it anyway.

I'm putting in for reassignment

to the directorate of intelligence.

If I had the shot, I might have taken it.

I know what Emily meant to you.

I'm sorry.

Arvin?

Arvin?

This plan might not hold up.

The CIA knows too much.

They could guess why we were after the genetic database.

I'm not interested in the database.

I want satellite footage of Tuscany.

I want to know who murdered my wife.

We both had to make sacrifices, arvin.

You won't forgive yourself if you stop now.

We're so close to knowing what rambaldi knew.

I wish I never heard that man's name.

Good news --

relatively speaking.

Using the administrative codes we acquired at brucker

I was able to log into their system

and download a copy of the database.

But it's still encrypted.

Yes. Although Neil caplan is still analyzing

the remainder of the rambaldi text,

his background in mathematics should allow him

to crack the encryption algorithms.

I don't understand how we don't have

a single lead on sloane or mom.

There's a difference between intelligence

and actionable intelligence.

What about the earrings mom left me?

Analysis couldn't trace the signal source.

Marshall's still trying to figure out

how they receive anything.

Dad, we have to get ahead of them.

We know they're acquiring rambaldi artifacts.

We know they tried to access a DNA database.

So there must be some way to predict

what they're going to do.

Sydney, I understand your frustration,

particularly in light of Emily's death,

but sometimes there isn't a clear move to make.

Look at this --

Elsa caplan's debrief transcript.

It's barely 10 pages long.

Sloane kidnapped her husband two months ago.

All we have are 10 pages?

Sydney, if you feel Elsa caplan

was improperly debriefed, do it again yourself.

How's your son?

He's keeping me sane.

Even with this security detail,

it's hard to feel safe.

I don't want to make this more difficult for you,

but I need a little more of your help.

I'd like to bring you in

for a regression therapy session.

It's like hypnosis.

It's completely safe. I've done it myself.

No offense, but I don't feel comfortable

with the government poking around in my head.

I'll be honest with you.

We're out of leads.

What are you saying,

that if something happens to him,

it's my fault?

No, of course not.

These people threatened to kill my son.

He's still having nightmares about it. Elsa, wait --

you come here, and you tell me that I'm not doing enough?

Wait, that's not what I meant.

Aaron, sweetie. Sweetie, come on,

it's time to go.

How dare you?

Sweetie, honey, it's time to go.

We still need your help.

I just downloaded this.

That's a catalog of over 10 million people's DNA.

We're looking for someone specific -- a man.

But it's encrypted.

We need you to break it.

For the past two months,

I haven't heard a word about my family

or been given any indication

whether they're dead or alive,

so...

You can just kill me.

Just kill me, 'cause there's no way in hell

I'm gonna help you people anymore.

What if I told you

that your family's not only alive,

but we let them go?

Call your house.

Call.

Hello?

Elsa! It's me.

Hello?

Elsa!

Elsa, I'm alive.

She can't hear you.

I've modified the cell phone.

Hello?

They're home. They're safe.

Now you have something to live for, Mr. caplan.

Elsa caplan was living

under protective custody for the last two months.

I was so convinced that we were overlooking something

that I went over there and implied

that she wasn't doing enough to save her husband.

That was stupid.

No one's harder on themselves than you are.

♪ Yeah, did you know? Remember? ♪

♪ oh yeah

♪ finding out it could've been ♪

♪ is it just for free

♪ when suddenly he's in front of me ♪

♪ he's all I need to see

♪ I can't believe

♪ my eyes

♪ oh, come on, I can't believe my eyes ♪

Vaughn, I mean, okay,

the backpack is getting a little ridiculous.

What do you mean?

The middle drawer -- it's yours.

Yeah? It's just a drawer.

I'm just saying it's a great idea.

You sure? Uh-huh.

I love my drawer.

If we're gonna keep working, I need to go make a sandwich.

Okay.

Vaughn?

There were three calls made from the same number

to caplan's house over the last year.

They came exactly four months apart.

They were all made on a Monday night

at the same time,

and they all lasted one minute.

Where did the calls come from?

I need to talk to you.

Is it Neil?

Before Neil's abduction,

three calls were made to your house

over the last year at odd hours.

We traced the number to a reporter

named Gregory Ivanov.

Does that name mean anything to you?

No.

We ran a background check.

He was a journalist working out of Los Angeles

for itar-tass,

a news service known for giving cover

to Russian intelligence agents.

This man Ivanov -- we think he's one of them.

We put Ivanov under electronic surveillance.

An hour ago, he received a fax

from an unknown source.

I don't understand.

Your husband may have been working for the Russian svr.

It's their equivalent to the CIA.

What did the fax say?

A single Russian word -- razvyazka.

It means "endgame."

Neil's gonna die.

Elsa, we don't know that.

No. I do.

Not you.

I didn't want to be hypnotized

because I was afraid you'd find out.

Ivanov was my handler.

Seven years ago, I was ordered

to seduce and marry Neil.

My objective was to keep tabs on his work.

I was given a tracking device to implant in his arm.

But it has a secondary purpose.

It was designed to release 50 milligrams

of cyanide into his bloodstream.

It's a suicide pill.

That's what the fax was about.

It means it's been activated.

And you're not authorized to be telling me this?

I've just committed treason against my government

because I want to get him back.

I'm telling you because I love him.

I have a lead on sloane and Irina,

but we have to move immediately.

Elsa caplan shouldn't be processed as a walk-in.

She's an svr agent.

Which means technically we can classify her as a defector.

Or we can arrest her and try her for espionage.

Until we make that determination,

I'm holding her here.

She implanted a tracking chip in her husband.

The chip's activated by a code.

If we can get a locating device,

we can enter the code, find him,

and remove the device before it releases the cyanide.

I've already asked Marshall to look into the possibility

of reverse-engineering a locator.

I talked to Marshall. It'll take him three days.

Caplan will be dead by then.

The chip's set to release cyanide into his bloodstream

in 42 hours.

There's a black market contact who deals in svr contraband.

I'm going to meet him.

I'm not willing to risk your life

based on speculative intel

you acquired from a Russian spy.

Why would she lie? That's precisely the question.

She turned herself in. She's not the first.

Dad, I realize we're talking about a Russian agent

who betrayed her husband,

but Elsa caplan and my mother are not the same person.

Elsa's first instinct -- her first thought --

was for her husband's life.

That's your assessment.

If we find Neil caplan, we find sloane and derevko.

Isn't that worth the risk?

We'll move on Elsa's statement if, and only if,

we can corroborate it.

When did you start playing it safe?

You let derevko walk out of here

because you thought she could lead us to sloane.

A mistake I'm not anxious to repeat.

And if Neil caplan dies?

Then he dies.

Who has my son?

Aaron's fine. He's being taken care of.

I thought you believed me.

I do believe you. Then why am I in this cell?

I risked everything --

committed treason against my own government.

It's not that simple.

There are protocols we have to follow.

This is director Bristow.

I want solitary confinement imposed on Elsa caplan.

No unapproved visitors. Understood?

We still have 42 hours.

I want you to know we're doing everything we can...

Elsa, don't react.

You're listening to a recorded message

being transmitted to you

through a directional sound projector.

You're the only one who can hear this.

The CIA won't sanction an extraction team

to get the locator. I'm going in myself.

I know none of this is much of a consolation to you...

I need you to give me the locator codes.

Cross your arms and tap them out in morse code

with your index finger.

Back away from the glass, please.

I have authorization.

Back up now.

Thank you.

It's been 24 hours.

This database is encoded with an 8192-bit

military-grade polymorphic encryption.

Unless you want to kidnap a smarter genius than me,

it's going to be a little while.

Tell me what you need to speed this up.

I need access to a cray supercomputer.

I hope you're not stalling, Mr. caplan,

because your safe return to your family

is no guarantee.

Understand?

Aah!

Aah!

A few days ago... Ahh, my leg!

I would have done anything to keep you alive.

My leg...

Now...I don't care.

Arvin.

Arvin.

Arvin, don't.

We still need him.

My leg.

Where would you be transferred to?

I'll be reassigned within the agency,

maybe to Texas or D.C.

I'd be an analyst.

I'd be safe.

You'd be happy not being in the field?

I'd be happy

as long as you and the kids are with me.

Sloane's the man who ran SD-6,

the one who lied to you for years.

Marcus...

You are not responsible

for what happened to his wife.

He put her in harm's way.

That's not the only reason

I'm putting in for the transfer.

I'm doing it for us.

When you first told me the truth,

I said I didn't know who you were.

I was wrong.

I just didn't know what you did.

I have always known who you are.

You are the most decent man I know.

Whatever you decide,

I'll be with you.

Hello?

It's me. Is your source still in place?

Yes.

Good.

I need something from him.

Base ops, this is trailer. We have a 20 on the target.

Copy. Stay with her.

The pi delta exchange.

I think tom's gonna be there.

Shut up.

Ooh! Tommy.

She gave you a drawer, huh?

It was a gesture of convenience.

And, uh, what did you put in it?

Why do you care? What do you mean, why do I care?

Do you know how spoiled you are?

You know, a drawer -- I wish I had a girlfriend

to say, "hey, you want a drawer?"

I'll give you a drawer at my place.

I don't want a drawer in your place.

Hello?

Hey, it's me.

You okay?

Marshall told me your father shut you down this morning.

Yeah, I just needed to get out, cool down.

Dad was right -- like that's news.

I just wish there was more I could do.

Well, we're working on corroborating Elsa's intel.

Where are you?

At the drugstore, just picking up

some pictures I had developed.

I think there's this great one of us.

You could hang it in your hallway

by the coat rack.

What?

Although the developer said some of the pictures

might not come out because I used

the wrong film speed or something.

Next time, he said to keep in mind

I should use a slower roll.

Pen.

I'll probably be another 20 minutes.

I'll come over when I'm done?

Yeah. Okay. Bye.

Okay. Bye.

What?

She said she wanted to hang a picture next to the coat rack.

So?

Well, she's never been to my place.

I don't have a coat rack.

Okay, well, maybe it was some kind of message.

What did she say exactly?

She said, "keep in mind I should use a slower roll."

Oh. And...

This bag, please.

Where's your bathroom?

♪ You know I'd like to stay ♪

♪ 'cause you know I'd like to play ♪

♪ 'cause you know I'd like to stay ♪

♪ 'cause you know I like to play ♪

♪ don't you know what I'm gonna do, aha ♪

♪ don't you know what I'm gonna say, aha ♪

♪ don't you know what I'm gonna do, aha ♪

But I like it. I like this product,

and I've used this one before.

You have? Yeah --

sorry, I tried that once and totally broke out.

Oh, really?

Okay. Thanks.

Oh, my -- are you sigma gammas?

Yeah!

I was president of my chapter in West Virginia.

No way. I swear to God!

President?

Yeah.

It's Tuesday.

You still have a lunch exchange with the pi delts?

Yes, we do.

Wanna come? Can I?

Absolutely.

Oh, my God, I have been so homesick

since I graduated.

Thank you for inviting me.

♪ 'Cause you know I like to play ♪

♪ 'cause you know I'd like to stay ♪

♪ 'cause you know I'd like to play ♪

♪ 'cause you know I'd like to stay ♪

♪ 'cause you know I like to play ♪

♪ don't you know what I'm gonna do, aha ♪

Wait, I got it.

She's using skip sequence Cypher text.

Take the first letter from every word

and rearrange them.

She's going to Russia.

You wanted to see me?

Sydney clearly knew I was listening

to your phone conversation.

She also knew that by the time I decoded her anagram,

she'd be halfway to Russia.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt

and assume you had every intention

of reporting that fact to me.

I'm giving you this consideration

because when Sydney makes contact with you again,

you're going to tell me exactly where she is.

If I had known what she was doing,

I would have tried to stop her.

Now that she's gone, there's nothing we can do

to change her mind.

She's got 40 hours to find caplan.

Why not support her, give her backup?

If it's not obvious to you by now,

everything I do

is in the service of protecting Sydney.

For all we know, Elsa caplan's working with sloane.

For all we know, she was a conspirator

in her husband's abduction,

which means Sydney could be walking into a trap.

Or she isn't, and she is about to save Neil caplan's life.

This is not a debate.

And just because you've gotten comfortable

with my daughter

doesn't mean you should be comfortable with me.

If you don't report your next contact

with Sydney immediately,

I will take action that you will regret.

Okay, partner, let's get ready to ride.

Hold on, here you go!

Get up! Get up! You're no cowboy!

This is cowboy bar. Speak English.

I said, we have a mutual friend.

I don't care. This is eight second stable.

Everyone here has ridden bull for eight seconds.

Goodbye.

Oh, God.

Something like that?

Something like that.

Now, champion,

who is our mutual friend?

Elsa caplan.

When exactly did you talk to Elsa?

Yesterday.

We are old friends.

Elsa's parents were in kholokov's class

with my parents.

What do you need?

I need a tracking device --

latest svr issue.

$50,000 cash --

U.S. bucks only.

Deal.

Open the door.

I want to see my son.

Look, my family is all I care about.

Your family?

The one you manufactured

in order to steal classified information?

You don't know anything about me.

You couldn't be more wrong.

You're Sydney's father.

Irina derevko was your wife.

Which makes me an expert on someone like you.

It started as a job,

a duty to your country.

That it required you to prostitute yourself

was a small price to pay for serving the motherland.

At first everything went as planned.

Then --

surely an accident -- you got pregnant.

You considered terminating the pregnancy,

but, selfishly, you didn't.

You hoped somehow that becoming a mother

would redeem you, would absolve your guilt.

You're wrong!

But you continued to lie

and deceive both your husband and son.

I am not Irina derevko!

I probably care more about your son than you do.

That is not true.

If I have my way,

you're never going to see your son again.

Don't you dare take my son away from me.

Don't you take my son away!

Weiss.

Weiss, it's me. Sorry to call you,

but Vaughn's phone is probably tapped.

Is he there?

Yeah. Guess who.

Syd? Listen to me.

I've got the tracker. I input the codes Elsa gave us.

I found caplan

in a building in saria, Spain.

It used to be a software company.

I'm on my way now.

Syd, I'm not sure he's wrong.

I'm supposed to convince you to come home.

I will -- when I have caplan.

My father can't see straight when he looks at Elsa.

And if this ends up being a stupid mistake, so be it.

I believe her.

Then I'm coming with you.

I can't ask you to do that.

You don't have to.

There's an alley in saria behind the gandara hotel.

Meet me there.

Jack is going to shoot you in the face.

Just give me a half-hour head start.

Tell him that she called on your phone,

and you gave it to me.

We only have 10 hours to find caplan.

If we end up sharing a cell in federal prison,

I'm not giving you a drawer.

Okay, I got to go.

No, no. I got to go. I'm gonna be late.

You work for a travel magazine.

Just tell them you're traveling.

I wish I could.

Ooh. I'm sorry.

It's will, right?

Yeah.

Hey. I've seen you in the briefing rooms.

I'm kind of new around here myself, too.

It's Marshall flinkman.

Nice to meet you.

Hey, let me ask you --

they have you parking down in the federal annex?

'Cause I have to walk like a half a mile

to get here in the morning.

I'm exhausted by the time I get to my --

you know, I shouldn't really complain.

It's the only exercise I really get --

although I did see a gym on the --

excuse me. Yeah.

I got, uh...

That's all right.

Let's get some lunch or something

at the -- the CIA lunch -- hello?

Hey, honey, you got a sec?

Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up?

Uh, are you near a computer?

I was pulling up a recipe on my laptop,

and it crashed.

What, do you want me to pull up a recipe?

Would you mind? Sure. What's the web site?

Www.Bouillabaissecentral.Com

okay.

Okay, what do you need?

Will you tell me what kind of fish they list?

Okay, hold on. Let me find it.

Thank you for coming.

How much time do we have?

12 minutes.

Did you bring gear?

Did I bring gear?

I spoke to weiss after we landed.

Satellite's picked up five figures inside the building.

Basement level, north wing.

Sloane could be a block from here.

My mother.

If they are, they won't surrender to us.

I know.

What about the perimeter?

No activity.

Roof access will be our best bet.

Not that I'm a huge fan of you disobeying the CIA,

but that was pretty good -- the way you got away.

Thank you.

Yeah. It's me.

I need you to do something else for me.

So who are you, anyway?

What are you, 22, 23?

What are you doing working for a guy like sloane?

What do you expect to get out of all of this?

I was sent to school in england

at a very young age.

Out of necessity, one becomes self-reliant,

and perhaps prematurely ambitious.

I'm like anyone, Mr. caplan.

What I want is that which I never had.

You're gonna kill me, aren't you?

You wouldn't share any of that stuff with me

if you expected me to live.

I suggest you keep working.

I'll go around.

Syd!

Alto!

Is arvin sloane in this building?

Or Irina derevko?

No, no, no, no, but, uh, a blonde guy just took off.

Sark?

That's him, yeah.

I'll go after him.

What the hell's that for?

Mr. caplan, you have to listen to what I'm going to say.

You won't want to believe me,

but you have to

or you will die in less than 60 seconds.

What?

Freeze!

Your wife Elsa --

she works for Russian intelligence.

I know.

Six years ago, the NSA recruited me.

They, uh, they told me I was a target.

They had intel that I was going to be approached.

You're NSA?

They recruited me out of caltech --

even though if you ask them,

they'll deny any affiliation with me.

I knew Elsa was a spy the day we met.

Okay, look, your wife injected you with a cyanide caplet.

We have to remove it right now!

What? Listen to me.

She wouldn't do that. I came this far because of this.

She wouldn't try and kill me.

She didn't. Her handlers did.

Damn it.

When the hell did she implant me with this thing?

Mr. caplan, you have less than 30 seconds before you die.

We have to remove this right now.

Give me your left wrist.

Okay, look away.

No. I'm okay.

Aah!

Aah!

Oh, God. Come on. Hang on.

Hang on.

Ahh...

Ahh!

Ahh!

Thanks.

No matter what you may think of me,

I would have done anything to bring you home.

I know.

We both have a lot to figure out.

I don't think either one of us

are in a position to pass any judgments.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Ha ha.

I know I'm not in a position to ask you for any favors,

but whatever you plan on doing to me,

just please leave Vaughn out of it.

Vaughn will be escorting the caplans

to bambridge island.

I've granted Elsa defector status.

She is not Irina derevko.

We downloaded the DNA database caplan decrypted

from the computer he was working on.

We finally have a lead on sloane and derevko.

Good.

But, Sydney, if you go around me again,

I'll have you transferred,

and finding them will no longer be

part of your job description.

I owe you an apology.

Diane, you don't have to explain anything.

Oh, no. Let me say this.

When Marcus first told me about SD-6,

I felt so betrayed.

And, in part, I blamed you for that.

Your world has these rules

that force good people to lie --

even to those they're closest to.

Before I could accept that,

I had to understand it.

I rescinded the transfer order.

Diane rescinded the order.

Uh, Mr. Bristow -- Mr. Bristow.

Yes, Marshall?

Hi. Listen, I was doing some spelunking

on the CIA network -- mapping it, really,

just for kicks -- and, well, you can relax,

because the death star plans are not in the main computer.

Anyway, I did find a bandwidth discrepancy.

At first I thought it was a trojan virus

someone implanted on the system,

but unless it was locked into

a perpetually renaming ram cache, then --

Marshall!

Please, English.

I found a massive information hemorrhage.

Someone without authorization accessed the system

and downloaded 10 gigabytes worth of satellite footage

from Tuscany.

Tuscany? Yeah.

We're on a secure system. How did they hack in?

Well, they didn't. It came from this office.

No, there is no way

the agency has season tickets for the Lakers.

I'm telling you -- 4 seats, 12 rows back.

You know, by this point,

I don't know why I'm surprised, but I am.

I'll see you at home after I get the kids.

Mm-hmm.

Good night. Good night, Diane.

Good night. Good night.

Feels good --

having it out in the open.

See you tomorrow.

Oh! Ha ha ha.

By the way --

Diane!