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Previously on "alias"...

I woke up like it was one night!

And I have a scar on my stomach I have never seen before.

You're telling me two years have passed,

and that I need to be patient. Listen to me, Sydney. You have to relax.

What happened to the people in my life!

Sydney can no longer be your primary concern.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Be cruel if you have to.

Make her despise you.

Because your kindness tortures her.

So what does the prophecy say?

"This woman here depicted

"will possess unseen marks, signs that she will be

"the one to bring forth my works.

"At vulgar cost, this woman will render the greatest power

unto utter desolation."

You wouldn't do something like this.

Not to your own father.

Aah!

Now, I'm not exactly sure

what this means.

What is that?

What was inside the box.

It's human tissue.

There was a name etched inside the box.

Milo rambaldi.

Marshall, have you analyzed the cube?

I wish. The jerks are here.

Pretentious classified division of intelligence.

You know the type -- conspiracy theorists' wet dream.

Who they are exactly is on a need-to-know basis.

Suffice to say, their jurisdiction on this

supercedes ours, so --

well, they have a convoy here, and...

They're taking the cube away.

Wait, wait, wait. Taking it where?

If I knew, I'd go there.

You know, I should probably put a tracer on the cube

and track it back to their lab.

Imagine how cool that place would be.

I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.

Excuse me. I'm Sydney Bristow.

I'm the one who recovered that cube.

May I ask what you're doing?

We've been sent to retrieve the artifact for analysis.

Sent by who?

Department of special research.

You're dsr?

We're a division, yes.

Can I ask where you'll be taking it?

No, you cannot. If you'll excuse me.

This is unacceptable.

Every time I get close to some answers

about my missing two years,

the door gets slammed in my face.

I know.

Lazarey knew what happened to me.

He led me to that cube.

And before we just handed it off,

I at least wanted Marshall to finish his review.

He could have found some clues.

Sydney, listen to me.

We've broken at least a dozen federal laws

in pursuit of what happened to you.

If necessary, we'll break a dozen more.

But for now, there's nothing we can do.

We can bring Dixon into the loop.

This wasn't his call.

The order to remove the cube came from Langley.

There has to be something we can do.

We need to re-evaluate every piece of information

we've collected.

Start from the beginning. Assume nothing.

Do that,

and we may find a lead.

Good to see you.

Kendall.

I'm sorry we had to do it this way.

You're part of this?

Well, that all depends

on which part you're referring to.

You're covenant.

No. No, no.

No, that wouldn't go over too well at home.

No, I'm with special research.

I had a team transporting the rambaldi cube

to our facility,

and they were ambushed in transit.

The covenant got the cube.

What does that have to do with me?

It has everything to do with you.

We need to talk about the past two years.

As you may be aware, Mr. Kendall,

I have no recollection of that time.

I know you don't.

But I do.

I know what happened to you, Sydney.

I know the whole story.

Or...Most of it.

You've known?

All this time?

Yeah.

Then...

Why haven't you said anything?

Because you asked me not to.

Place your hand on the scanner.

I need clearance to hear about my own life.

You understand the information

you're about to hear is classified,

top secret, and any unauthorized disclosure

is a violation of section 23, paragraph 5 of the patriot act?

Yes.

Before we get started,

I'm curious about how you found the cube.

What led you to it?

You got to be kidding me.

Start at the beginning, and do it now.

I'm all out of patience.

You died.

Or at least we believed you did.

We found a body in your apartment.

The existing DNA matched your own.

And I went to your memorial service myself,

watched Vaughn spread your ashes

in the sea.

Nine months went by.

One day I got a phone call.

It was your voice.

You were calling from Rome.

You said you had just escaped from the covenant,

and you wanted to come in.

We met at a safe house in Tuscany.

Does my father know I'm alive? Does Vaughn?

Mr. Vaughn and your father will be informed

at the earliest possible opportunity.

So they don't know? What about will? Did he make it?

What you've been through

may have national security implications.

I need to talk to them.

All your questions will be answered in time.

First we need to know what happened to you.

You looked different.

It was an alias of yours I hadn't seen before.

I had a lot of questions, too.

We knew almost nothing about the covenant at that time.

So you took me back to the beginning.

You told me the first thing you remembered

after your fight with Allison.

So this is what happened to you, in your own words...

I shot her...

Three times.

Then I passed out.

Dead to the world.

When I woke up, it was days later,

and I was in the back of a van,

strapped down.

You and I are going to work together.

We will spend lots of time together.

But we will get the results

that my employers have requested.

I always do.

He injected me with a neurotoxin.

Temporary paralysis.

I couldn't move or speak.

All I could do was watch.

Your roommate was easy.

We unearthed her.

We left her in your apartment

before we burned it.

But you --

that was more difficult.

When a body is burned badly enough,

the DNA they test for is in the teeth.

We extracted pulp from your teeth,

and injected it into the teeth

of the corpse that was to be your replacement.

Of course, they tested the body they found.

To them,

it was you.

He will mourn and move on.

Find someone else, perhaps.

The sooner you accept

that you are no longer who you were,

the easier this will be.

Sydney Bristow...

Is gone.

Why don't I remember any of this?

I'll get to that.

From your funeral, you were taken

to a covenant facility near St. Petersburg.

This was the man who took you there.

The man from the van.

Oleg matrijik.

I killed this man.

It was only a week after I woke up in Hong Kong.

He had all the answers.

He died right in front of me.

You kept your promise --

that you would kill me.

You were my favorite.

Who the hell are you? What are you talking about?

Why did the covenant take two years of my life?

What did he do to me?

The covenant believed that you were crucial

to their operation.

They needed your cooperation, which you wouldn't offer.

So oleg began a brainwash protocol.

He spent months breaking you down.

He used sensory deprivation,

electroshock.

He would put you to sleep by running an I.V.

With a barbiturate into one arm, and shock you awake

with an amphetamine into the other arm.

I will kill you, you son of a bitch!

I promise you!

Once oleg believed you'd been broken,

he began a conditioning process.

He started with hypnosis.

Your name is Julia Thorne.

You were born in London on August 2, 1973.

My name is Sydney Bristow, you ugly bastard.

He disoriented you with narcotics.

Your name is Julia Thorne.

Really? Then why is my name Sydney Bristow?

He withheld food for weeks at a time.

He bombarded you with images, information --

classic techniques, tried and true.

Julia, your father's name was Kenneth Thorne.

Julia is.. Who you are. Your two brothers...

Daniel and tom.

The Latin school...

Confirmation at the all souls church...

After that, you lost your family in a fire...

You were the only survivor. You lost your family in a fire.

After that,

you became a contract killer.

You showed no pity.

Your first targets were the men

who destroyed your family.

You became a contract killer.

You showed no pity.

Your first targets were the men...

Who destroyed your family. Julia will eat well...

Live well...

Julia is who you are.

This went on over six months.

It was about that time

that oleg felt he'd had a breakthrough,

that his therapy was starting to work.

Julia?

Yes?

Lunch.

Once oleg believed that you were ready,

they gave you a test

to prove to them that you were a believer,

that you were in fact another woman.

May I present... Julia Thorne?

Welcome, miss Thorne.

The work you'll be doing for us

requires a certain commitment.

Of course.

Who this man is is not important.

What is important is the knife on the table.

Use it. Kill this unimportant man.

No!

No!

No! No!

No!

No, please! Listen! No! No! Please don't!

Aah! Aah!

Aah!

Who was he?

We don't know.

So I was programmed.

No. Not by the covenant.

Wait. Kendall, I don't understand.

I murdered that man. What do you mean,

I wasn't programmed by the covenant?

When you were young, your father subjected you

to the CIA's experimental program

to train and prepare children for intelligence work.

Yeah, project Christmas.

Among other things, that program contained

a fail safe to protect its subjects

from being turned.

Jack hard-wired you to stand up

to some pretty intense efforts at brainwashing.

I traded his life for mine.

That man, whoever he was,

he was taken, brought into a covenant facility.

He was dead no matter what you did,

and you must have known that.

It doesn't lessen what I did.

But if you hadn't gone through with it,

convinced them you'd been programmed,

you could never have contacted me.

I want to go home.

I want to see my dad.

Your father can't be contacted. He's under deep cover.

And as it is, you have no home to return to.

Agent Bristow, let me be clear.

You return home, you're putting in jeopardy

the lives of the people you claim to love.

You're just trying to scare me.

Look at your friend will.

The covenant left the son of a bitch for dead.

Listen to me.

If what little intel we have on the covenant

is anywhere near accurate, they have the potential

to be far more deadly than the alliance ever was,

which is why it is imperative

that you continue as Julia Thorne.

The covenant believes they have you programmed.

If you think I'm going back to them, you're insane.

If you don't, they're going to come after you.

After your friends, your family...

After Vaughn.

I have to see him.

Sydney, you've been gone nine months.

He loves me.

Nine months is nothing.

So I let you go.

Then you went home.

As hard as it was to see them together,

you couldn't confront Vaughn.

You realized your presence was a danger to him,

so you did the only thing you could.

This is Kendall.

I'll do whatever you want.

And that's how we started working together.

So I became Julia.

Yes, you did.

♪ Funny how I blind myself

♪ and never knew...

♪ If I was sometimes played upon ♪

♪ afraid to lose

♪ oh, I'd tell myself

♪ it's my life

they sent you to Algeria,

where you met with this man.

Simon Walker.

He was a thief.

You were introduced as a contract killer.

The two of you started working together

for the covenant.

During your time with Simon,

you pursued a variety of leads,

all the while keeping me informed

by passing on the intel to one of our operatives.

You informed me that Simon had found andrian lazarey,

a Russian diplomat, member of the romanov family,

who, like sloane, was devoted to studying rambaldi.

You believed that lazarey would know

where to find the cube.

It was a crucial acquisition,

because it contained the DNA of rambaldi himself.

You told me that the covenant wanted you

to get the information from him and then kill him.

Turns out you saved his life.

You went to lazarey

the night before you were supposed to kill him.

He's a reasonable man.

The two of you struck a deal.

I'll make this as simple as possible, Mr. lazarey.

Unless you do exactly as I say,

by this time tomorrow night, you will be dead.

So that's why I faked lazarey's death.

I was supposed to kill him anyway.

So the videotape --

we presumed there would be surveillance cameras.

The murder had to look real.

The paramedics were CIA operatives

working under my orders.

The kremlin carried out a thorough investigation,

and they believed, as did the covenant,

that andrian lazarey was assassinated.

Assuming everything you're telling me is true,

Mr. Kendall, what am I doing here?

Why are you telling me all of this now?

And where are we going?

We're going to my facility in Nevada.

Project black hole.

Four years ago when I was called in to question you,

I was never FBI.

I was special research overseeing the project.

I've never heard of project black hole.

Thank you.

This is everything the government has collected

on or about milo rambaldi since the 1940s.

A quarter of the artifacts we have

were collected by you.

You're actually something of a celebrity in house.

Which is also why the covenant needed you.

They believe rambaldi's prophecies.

They believe a lot of things,

including the idea that you are...

The chosen one.

My mother said that

the night I disappeared.

Get off the ledge!

I'll tell you what you need to know.

Get off the ledge now!

It's you in the prophecy, Sydney, not me.

Four months ago, you asked me

not to tell you any of this.

I honored that request as long as possible.

Trust me.

When I finish the story, you will understand.

The covenant had you.

If they could get the cube,

to fulfill rambaldi's prophecy.

You continued to feed the covenant false leads.

In truth, you and lazarey were working for the CIA

trying to find that cube.

And it took you nine months, but you found it.

Where was it?

Nothing's ever easy, is it?

It was in the fish river gorge

in Namibia.

For 500 years, the key to rambaldi's prophecy

lay buried in the depths of this cave.

To rambaldi's followers, this was the holy grail.

A mile-long trek brought you

to an elaborate vault that housed the cube.

Lazarey had devoted 30 years of his life

to acquiring the 12 keys to the vault,

the last of which he'd found

only two weeks before your journey.

Each one had a name on it that corresponded

to a keyhole in the wall.

This lock won't stay open.

I need to hold the key in place.

Uhh! Ahh!

Lazarey was trapped,

and the cave began to collapse around you.

Here, bite down on this!

There was only one way

you could both get out alive.

Aah!

So you got the cube,

and you got lazarey out.

Come on, you've got to run. Let's go.

Let's go. Come on, keep going. Come on.

Our agreement with lazarey

was that after he helped track down the cube,

we would let him disappear. Untraced.

After you let him go, you were supposed

to deliver me the cube.

But I didn't show up.

No, you didn't.

Instead I got this.

Do you want to know what happened to your memory?

You might want to sit down for this.

Kendall,

I'm sorry.

I know you're expecting the cube, the DNA,

and instead you get this.

You've been great to me.

I mean, a real friend, and I am grateful for that.

But I can't go along with it --

the plan we had.

You know what this is about.

And I'm hoping you can understand what...

What am I talking about?

So I'm taking care of it myself, the DNA.

I mean, even if it's with the CIA,

it'll never be safe, not really.

I've seen too much. Everything gets stolen.

Everything.

So I've -- I've got a plan.

I found someone, someone who can help me --

a man who has done advanced research

on how the brain stores short- and long-term memory.

I'm not going to tell you the specifics

of what I'm doing with the DNA.

In fact, I don't want to know them myself,

which is why I'm going to try and have my memories...

Erased.

To keep the covenant from ever doing

what they want with rambaldi's DNA,

I'm going to have everything that's happened

in the past two years removed.

If this doesn't work --

I mean, if this kills me --

better I did it than the covenant.

But if it works,

if I come back and I don't remember,

do me a favor.

Don't ever tell me about what I've been through.

Why are you doing this?

Telling me all this?

In his prophecy, rambaldi spoke of a second coming.

Those freaks want to clone him, don't they?

No. What the covenant believes is that rambaldi's work

was destined to continue beyond his time,

that he was due a second coming

by way of a child.

"This woman here depicted

"will possess unseen marks, signs that she will be

the one to bring forth my works."

"She will render the greatest power

unto utter desolation."

The fanatical point of view believes that rambaldi's DNA

can be transformed,

used to fertilize the egg of a surrogate mother,

someone referred to in his prophecy

as "the chosen one."

That's why they cut me open.

Yes.

So they could...

Extract my eggs.

Oh...

And that's why you went to such extraordinary lengths,

because his child would also be yours.

Sydney, that's why I came to you.

Not because of protocol. There was no official order.

Sydney, a couple years ago,

I got to know you a little bit,

and what I believed was that, despite your protests,

you would want to know about this.

The covenant has it all now.

I got this video two days before you turned up

in Hong Kong.

And despite my being pissed off,

I respected your choice, I opted to let it go,

but here we are four months later,

and you went straight for the cube.

Why, when you nearly killed yourself

trying to hide it?

Three weeks ago, arvin sloane gave me

a package that I had sent to him in the mail.

It was addressed in my handwriting.

Inside was a key

and an address to an apartment in Rome

that I had rented as Julia Thorne.

I found a code there --

coordinates that led me to a box buried in the sand.

It was a hand. It was lazarey's hand --

which led me to lazarey...

To the cube.

When the covenant learned I'd hidden the cube,

they didn't give up.

They kept looking. Eventually, they found it.

They found the cave... Lazarey's hand.

So they forged my handwriting.

They planted the code.

They wanted me to find the hand in the desert.

They planted it there.

They wanted me to ask these questions

to smoke out lazarey.

They tricked me into leading them back to the cube.

Why didn't you destroy it?

I don't know, and why did I just leave it at the hotel?

Maybe there was another step.

Maybe there was -- maybe there was someone else involved.

When we get back to the base,

I want you to look at all the artifacts,

see if anything jogs your memory.

I need a phone. I need a phone right now.

This is Marshall.

Marshall, I need you

to listen to me very carefully.

You said that the jerks were taking it away,

that you wanted to see their lab,

that you should put a tracer on it

because you can imagine how cool it must be.

Marshall, I need you to tell me the truth.

Did you put a tracer on that cube?

Marshall, please, if you did,

and if you're afraid you're going to get disciplined,

I swear to God you're going to be okay.

I didn't, Syd. I'm sorry. I didn't put a tracer on it.

I know you.

No one is more curious about technology than you.

Just -- I need to find that cube!

Listen, I didn't put a tracer on it.

I swear to you I didn't, okay?

Okay.

Okay, I put a tracer on it, but you cannot tell anyone,

because if they find out, they will fire me from this job,

and I cannot be fired, because I'm about to have

a baby soon, okay? Marshall, I love you.

I love you, too, Syd, but seriously,

you can't tell anyone, okay, please?

Can you locate the cube?

Well, no, not exactly, but I can narrow it down

to a 10-yard radius.

Marshall, that's called locating it.

Where is it?

Here's the big picture. At 2100 hours,

you'll be dropped from 10,000 feet over patagonia.

We have minimal intelligence on this facility,

but we believe the fertilization will happen tonight.

Chopper will be here in two minutes

to take us to the airport.

We'll review the operation en route.

This is Kendall.

Where is he?

What's going on with you two?

Nothing.

Come on, we got to prep.

Dixon.

What are you doing?

The day you showed up in Rome,

when you called in,

they put you through to Kendall.

I was there that day.

In the office.

When he hung up,

he told me that it was you.

Syd, I've known the truth about what happened to you,

and I was ordered to say nothing.

Dixon, we've been working together for months.

It's not easy, is it --

keeping the truth from someone you love?

Now I have an idea what it was like for you

at SD-6.

You're coming with us.

Of course I am.

It's personal for me, too.

Let's do it!

Kendall wants all of this brought back for analysis.

Do your thing.

Julia?

They have my father.

Take care of it.

Mr. lazarey...

You know...

About the passenger?

Excuse me?

The passenger.

We'll have time to talk at the hospital.

Dixon, it's me. I'm at the naval hospital.

There's a sniper. Lazarey's been shot!

He's dead. Get me a team out here now!

The matter's taken care of.

Yes, sir.

I will.