ALIAS – Season 5 – Episode 2
PROPHET 5, PART 2
SYDNEY – “I’m going to miss you.”

Part two of the Prophet 5 opening for Alias took off from where we left Sydney the previous week, talking to Renee Rienne, an assassin, but also the daughter of a man who worked with Vaughn’s father on the Prophet 5 project. Now everyone connected to the project is dead, including Vaughn.

Renee tells Sydney that she has blown a cover she’s worked hard on for the past three months. Sydney’s not going away and the two of them go to the back room of the building which is the operations center for the group. A goon stops them, but Renee shoots him. There are computers in there, but everything is being deleted. Sydney or Renee cannot stop them. Syd finds the security cameras feed and pulls out the tape that will give them information, she hopes.

Renee removes her hair…oh oh she’s really a brunette. Sydney gives her a cell to use to call APO and at first, she’s not going to use it, but Renee wants to know what Sydney knows about her and Syd tells her that she’s #8 on the CIA’s most wanted list, admitting too, that she doesn’t know much. Still Sydney wants Renee to trust her and the APO special ops.

“Number 8?”
“Yes.”
“I’m slipping; I used to be number six. Give me the phone.” Renee tells Syd that Vaughn was crazy about her (Sydney).

We next see Sydney at her Obstetrician’s office and she’s about to have an ultrasound. The woman doctor is chatty and wants to know if there is any one in the waiting room. Sydney says no. The doctor urges her not to be afraid to ask for help. She looks at the baby on the ultrasound and tells Sydney everything looks great. Sydney enters her car, looks at the picture, and you know she’s thinking about Vaughn.

Back at APO, Jack talks to Weiss and Dixon. The man who killed Vaughn is named Ivan Curtis. He was reportedly killed three years ago in a private plane crash…just like Gordon Dean. Further more the group supposedly has been in place for thirty years. Jack tells them he’s going to D.C. and they wonder if it too soon to get a replacement for Vaughn. Jack says they need one.

Sydney reviews the footage she swiped from the bar and she calls Marshall. She has picked up the surveillance tape from the bar and on it, there’s a phone call that Curtis made to someone. Marshall runs the systems analysis and tells Sydney that the call was made to a man named Heinrich Romar. Sydney recognizes the name.

She goes to the prison where Sloane is being held. She wants him to give her information on Heinrich Romar, whom SD-6 had dealing with before. Sloane tells her that Jack told him about Vaughn and that she was going to have a baby.

“He was a good man,” he says. “What you must be going through.”

Then he reminds her that revenge is not the best way to go. She responds by reminding him they know who she is, where she works. “I am not safe.” Sloane gives her the information.

Dixon and Weiss accompany Sydney to Amsterdam. Sydney is watching her screen outside Romar’s headquarters. Dixon has a watch that will connect with the cameras Romar has placed as security. She begins to pick up the action as he activates the cameras one by one. Curtis drives up and she tells the other two men he’s coming.

Weiss and he meet with Romar and give him a dummy order. Romar says that he will need $5,000,000 in order to fill it. Weiss accidentally spills ink on Dixon’s sleeve. One of Romar’s goons shows him to the rest room. Dixon clicks in three more cameras so Sydney can watch.

Back in his office, Romar is told Curtis is waiting to pick up his order. Roman goes into his warehouse and gives him an aluminum case. Romar is killed by Curtis’s goons. In the meantime, at the sound of gunshots, the goon guarding Eric starts a fight. They pretty much break up the office. Eric almost buys the farm but Dixon gets there in time to knock the attacker out. Curtis, in the meantime, has rushed outside to his car.

“Need a ride?” Sydney is there to take him prisoner and Dixon makes it out in time to knock out the driver.

Some place in Amsterdam, Curtis is cuffed to a chair. Weiss tells Syd that he and Dixon should handle the questioning, but she shakes him off. Inside the room, Sydney tells Curtis that he murdered her child’s father. She wants to know where Gordon Dean is, but he won’t tell her. She says that she woke up that morning feeling ‘hormonal.’

Meanwhile in the other room, Dixon listens to Marshall tell them that they have a box full of Iridium, which is used for space probes. They give him the lot number: 664RT4569. He identifies it as some that went missing from Russian processing plant. There is enough to cause Hiroshima times 50.

The three re-enter the room where Curtis is being held. Dixon removes one of the cuffs and hands him bottled water. He reminds Curtis that being in possession of Iridium is considered an act of terrorism and could mean imprisonment without a trial or formal charges. Curtis wants immunity from everything including the murder of Michael Vaughn. Then he laughs telling them:

“No deal.” He looks at Sydney’s baby and smirks, “Sorry baby, Daddy shouldn’t have gone snooping.”

Sydney responds by shoving him out of the window behind into the canal about six stories below. Dixon says they have about two hours before the isotope dissolves and they can track him.

Meanwhile, back in Washington D.C. Jack meets with O’Hearn who recommends a man to take Vaughn’s place: Thomas Grace, who is a former Special Forces guy, but does have a temper. Jack reads Grace’s file and his friend tells him it’s something he’ll have to deal with.

There is a segue to a fight scene in a bar to show Grace as he is. Jack interrupts it and tells Grace, he wants to see him outside.

While Sydney watches for the isotope to kick in, Weiss confesses he has been offered a promotion as Co-coordinator for Covert Ops of the NSC. Sydney tells him she’s going to miss him. Suddenly Weiss can’t do it. It’s all about Vaughn, Sydney and Nadia. Sydney talks him into doing it…that it is, after all, steps away from the President. The isotope kicks in and she says she can’t pinpoint it. Dixon looks and says that it’s because he isn’t on the ground.

Next, we see the girl whom we met last week as Dean’s mole and Curtis calls her. He says she is to call Dean and that they are two hundred miles out from their destination. She should get things(?) ready.

Sydney, Dixon and Weiss have phoned Jack who has to tell them the flight has diplomatic immunity. He can’t do anything. However, Sydney knows what they can do. Then next thing we see is a stealth bomber heading for the plane. Sydney, Weiss, and Dixon are on board. Marshall and Jack tell them they have not been detected. They want to know when the plane has been secured.

The bomber gently nudges itself into place beneath the airliner and attaches itself to the baggage/cargo door underneath. The three head on up and once there, shut the hatch and the bomber drops away. Eric and Dixon head into the plane to dismantle the goons with Curtis and take him prisoner.

In the meantime, Sydney is looking at the supposed bomb. It’s in what looks to be a wooden box…a rather large one…eight feet by three feet she tells Marshall. He wants her to find the detonator. She can’t find one. He insists if it is a bomb, there has to be a detonator. She opens the front of the box. Now she sees it is not a bomb.

“Marshall, I don’t think this is a bomb.”

Curtis is now in the cargo section with her as his men are involved in a gunfight with Eric and Marcus. He holds a gun on her, but she has a knife at the tube leading into the box. She has seen the monitors and a hand.

She wants to know who gave the order to kill Michael Vaughn. He says, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” She tells him she will cut the line if he does not give himself up. “I won’t survive the night in custody,” he says. He jumps out a door.

Eric and Dixon manage to take over the plane. The pilot was accidentally killed in the gun battle. Dixon takes over the controls.

Back at APO, Marshall informs everyone that the Iridium was being used to power a cryogenic chamber. The body has been taken to DSR for identification. Jack says they will just have to wait for the reports.

Sydney is morose and none to happy. She tells Jack she doesn’t know if she can make it. It’s hard not to have Vaughn by her side. She felt the baby’s heartbeat by herself. “He should have been there!” Jack offers to help. She says she has an appointment with her doctor in a few weeks. Will he go with her? “Sweetheart, of course I will.”

Tom Grace enters APO and starts to take Vaughn’s desk. Eric introduces himself and tells him the desk wobbles. Grace knows then it’s the agent’s desk he is here to replace. Eric tells him he can have his…he’s leaving.

Eric tells Sydney goodbye and Dixon interrupts. The body was stolen from DSR.

Sydney calls Renee and tells her the news. (Damn it…my video recorder cut off and I missed most of the final scenes taking care of a sick roommate…I may edit this before next week’s episode.)

The last scene is a view of the chamber as the monitors do some ‘blips” as the hand twitches. (That, I saw.)

REMARKS

Well, maybe Vaughn is not dead, although everyone seems to think so, even Sydney. Still I’m reserving the ultimate declaration. I been bit too many times when making a declarative statement with regards to Alias.

The group supposedly has been in place for thirty years. Oh my, does that mean Irina Derevko knows more about this group and what’s in the box? Ahhh all these little hints that Mom may show up.


I wonder if they used the ultrasound of Jen’s baby in the show. If so, does that mean the baby will earn residuals?

Nice bit of flim-flam by the production staff. That fall out of the window by our villain of the week…Ivan Curtis…more likely it was a dummy…

Boy, I hope she, the blond, has been duped by Dean also and doesn’t know. As I said last week, I do not want another blond to be a baddy.

Okay, does this mean the doctor will assume Jack is the father of the baby? I sincerely hope not. Too much of a cliché that’s been done time and time again.

DISCUSS:
Who is in the box?

Who is the man who gave the order to kill Michael Vaughn? I have my own ideas, but want to hear what you have to say.

Irina Derevko, does she know she’s about to become a grandmother? She knew about Michael Vaughn’s real identity. Did she know why he became Sydney’s handler? Do you?

Okay, I’m confused. Curtis is on the plane and he’s only two hundred miles out to his destination. Sydney, Weiss and Dixon board a stealth bomber and catch up with him. How is that possible? J. Orci who wrote the episode had the three in Amsterdam…

Was Curtis really going to North Korea? It sounded as if he was heading for the States.

My bet is always on Sloane as the villain, but I'm not very creative. Who had Vaughn killed? Good question. The guy said 'you wouldn't believe me if I told you', but it still could be a lot of people. Jack? Kendall? :huh: Hey, it's Alias we're talking about!

I didn't pick up on the hints about Irina, but it's something to look forward to. Probably the ONLY good thing in this new season...I don't like all those characters going away (Weiss was so much fun :( ), and the shady new ones we'll see in next episode. I'm not as excited as I used to be when I get a new episode.

As for the dummy, I've noticed that kind of things once or twice before (crash scene) and it's really disappointing. I still hope, against everything that I've seen for the past two weeks, that it WILL get better, but I'm getting impatient and doubt has settled in.

Always interesting to read your column, and to share opinions. Thanks for the pm.

I am not too sure what to think just yet

as you said making declarations re alias can bite you back - will vaughn be dead just to be one who actually dies when we all along think he is alive..

who knows what is in JJ abrams head

but i think irina will come back as will katya

as for the rest give me another week or two and I will have a better feel for the year- lots of changes taking place this season

Bren