Alias (TV series)
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Alias (2001–2006) was an American television show, airing on ABC, created by J.J. Abrams, about Sydney Bristow, an international spy recruited out of college and trained for espionage and self-defense.
[edit] Season 1
[edit] Truth Be Told
- Suit & Glasses: Who are you working for? I'll not ask you again.
- Sydney: Okay. Get a pen. Write this down. E M E T I B. You got that?
- Suit & Glasses: Yes.
- Sydney: Okay. Now reverse it.
- [Suit & Glasses rewrites, frowns, stares back at Sydney]
- Sydney: I've got bad news for you, man. I'm your worst enemy. I've got nothing to lose.
- Suit & Glasses: That's not exactly true. You have teeth. Okay. Let's try one more time. Who do you work for?
- [Sydney doesn't respond. Interrogator shoves some pliers into her mouth.]
- Sydney: Augh... Augh..
- [Interrogator removes pliers, listens for what she has to say.]
- Sydney: I just want to say... start with the teeth in the back. If you don't mind.
- Danny: I'm calling because I'm planning on asking Sydney to marry me and... I was hoping to get your approval.
- Jack: Danny, let me ask you a question.
- Danny: Sure.
- Jack: How well do you know my daughter?
- Danny: Um, we've been dating for two years...
- Jack: Because if you feel the need to ask me about this scenario, I have a sense you don't know Sydney at all.
- Danny: Sir, I love your daughter and I want to marry her. That's why I'm calling.
- Jack: First of all, Danny, the truth is this is just a courtesy call. Like when you say to your neighbor, "We're having a loud party on Saturday night if that's all right with you." What you really mean is, "We're having a loud party on Saturday night."
- Danny: Mr. Bristow,...
- Jack: Sydney doesn't give a damn what my opinion is. What interests me is that you do.
- Danny: It's just a custom to call the father, that's all this is...
- Jack: Well, then, I'll tell you what. I may become your father-in-law, that's just fine. But I will not be used as part of a charming little anecdote you tell your friends at cocktail parties so they can see what a quaint, old-fashioned guy Danny really is. Are we clear?
- Danny: Yes, sir...
- Jack: Good. Then welcome to the family.
- Sydney: [After Danny has been murdered] What did you do?
- Sloane: I might ask you the same question. Security section became aware of the breach and performed their function. You're familiar with the codes of conduct, Agent Bristow. You knew these codes apply to you, even if you put to risk the lives of every man and woman working in the agency.
- Sydney: Danny wasn't a risk... he was... he was just a man. He was... he was a doctor, he was just...
- Sloane: You listen to me. Information about this agency must be treated like a virus. There is only one response to a virus, and that response is containment. You put us in a compromised situation, and even though I despise the countermeasure, we have...
- Sydney: Stop saying "we." Stop talking about the agency. You killed the man I love!
- Sloane: No, Agent Bristow. You did.
- Dixon: If there's one rule you don't break, that's the rule you don't break.
- Vaughn: They're reviewing your statement. You wrote a lot.
- Sydney: I know.
- Vaughn: I mean, it's like Tolstoy lot. Devlin says it could take weeks to verify. But I know we could use another double agent in SD-6.
[edit] So It Begins
- Sydney: You said you wanted to talk about the plan. I'm giving you the plan.
- Vaughn: It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the plan. Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6. Now, nothing should change. When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag. [picks one up, showing her] Bag. Then you'll call this number. Memorize it. After three tones, press the appropriate digit -- one through six. Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location. Now we'll review your information, create a countermission, and we'll contact you posing as a wrong number: Joey's Pizza. Any questions so far?
- Sydney: Yeah. Can you show me what a bag looks like again?
- Weiss: Your girlfriend's name is Alice.
- Vaughn: Shut up.
- Weiss: Hey, just checking.
- Weiss: Balls of steel. That's what I'm going to call you from now on. Hey, have you met Balls of Steel?
- Marshall: [On the phone] Cut the blue-white wire!
- Sydney: Okay, cutting the blue-white wire!
- Marshall: Oh, hold the phone!
- Sydney: DON'T TELL ME TO HOLD THE PHONE! I'M SITTING ON A TICKING NUCLEAR BOMB!
- Sydney: Since I've known the truth about you, I've asked myself questions. Thousands of questions. But this one I have to ask you now. When Danny was killed... Dad... did you know? Did you know that's what they were going to do?
- Jack: Yes. [Sydney slaps him.]
- Sydney: Don't you ever speak to me again.
[edit] Parity
- Will: Hi, um, I don't know if I'm talking to the right person, but I need to borrow a million bucks. The Olsen twins went public, and I'm looking to invest.
- Sydney: You'll need some collateral. I don't think you've got any.
- Will: Well, have you seen my aqua blue Chevy?
- Sydney: You mean, with the hula girl on the dash? Yes, sadly, we've seen that.
- Sydney: I don't want it to be like that anymore, I'm just sick of it. I mean, I always had this feeling that maybe someday, I don't know, my dad and I would connect. That things could start to get better.
- Francie: Well, you know my opinion of your dad.
- Sydney: I know.
- Francie: But listen. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him for being the kind of guy he's been all your life, which I would find impossible and could never do, then you should make a real effort.
- Sydney: Are you insane? Calling me in here for a social event? SD-6 has a division whose sole responsibility it is to track their agents and report back suspect activity. "Your girl" is risking her life, and you yours, every time we lay eyes on each other. So, do me a favor: don't be so friendly.
- Lambert: I-I just love your spirit.
- Sydney: That's heartening. Are we done here?
- ...
- Lambert: I hate to pull rank, but time is a factor here.
- Sydney: Time is a factor here. You know how much time? Seven years. That's how long I worked for SD-6 before I found out who they really are. And now that I know, my days of blindly following orders are over.
- ...
- Sydney: Tell Devlin if Agent Vaughn isn't on the other end of this earpiece when I turn it on, the C.I.A. gets nothing.
- Lambert: Vaughn is a junior officer.
- Sydney: Then promote him.
- Anna Espinosa: [to Sydney] I heard about your fiancé. Very sad. I thought perhaps it was a security execution sanctioned by your employer. Maybe you said something in your sleep you shouldn't have. But then why would you be here in service for the men that killed your true love?
- Sloane: Marshall couldn't open the lock box.
- Marshall: Uh, in my defense, it was rigged with a brand-new tech, an internal device that will destroy anything inside if opened without the key--
- Sloane: Marshall, would you please go back to work?
- Marshall: Just to clarify, I'm not being fired?
- Sloane: 'Back to work' means not fired.
[edit] A Broken Heart
- Sydney: I'm sorry to call you. I just didn't know who else to call. My father and I were supposed to have dinner tonight for the first time since I was a kid. I can't even remember the last time. He just didn't show. He said he had work. And he didn't have work. This isn't just about my dad. When I was in Morocco the man who died was a friend of mine. He was a good man! Who thought he was fighting for the right side, that he was working for the CIA. He was lied to and now he's dead. I had his blood on my hands!
- Vaughn: Sydney...
- Sydney: I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I don't even know who I am anymore, or what I'm doing, or why I'm doing it.
- Vaughn: You just threw your beeper in the Pacific.
- Sydney: I know.
- Vaughn: When you first walked into my office with that stupid Bozo hair, I thought you were crazy. I thought you might actually be a crazy person. But I watched you, and I read your statement, and I've seen... I've seen how you think, I've seen how you work, I've seen how you are in this job. In this job, you see darkness. You see the worst in people and though the jobs are different and the missions change, and the enemies have a thousand names, the one crucial thing, the one real responsibility you have is to not let your rage, and your resentment, and your disgust, darken you. When you're at your absolute lowest, at your most depressed, just remember that you can always... you know. You got my number.
- Sydney: I don't want it to be like that anymore, I'm just sick of it. I mean, I always had this feeling that maybe someday, I don't know, my dad and I would connect. That things could start to get better.
- Francie: Well, you know my opinion of your dad.
- Sydney: I know.
- Francie: But listen. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him for being the kind of guy he's been all your life, which I would find impossible and could never do, then you should make a real effort.
- Francie: He has a law review in an hour.
- Sydney: You want to follow him.
- Francie: So much, I cannot even tell you.
- Vaughn: What wife? I have no wife.
- Sydney: No, there was a picture in your office. You and that woman. I thought you were married.
- Vaughn: No. She and I are not remotely m-- You thought I was married this whole time?
- Vaughn: Give them the correct number, Sydney! And that's an order.
- Sydney: An order? We need to have a long talk when I get back to Los Angeles.
[edit] Doppelgänger
- Sydney: I don't know how much longer I can do this. Sit in these meetings with Sloane. Look at him as if I don't despise him, as if I don't want to leap across the table and use the skills I've learned, against him.
- Francie: Okay, so I'm in my Operations and Technology Management class, and I realize two things. One, I prepared the wrong chapter.
- Sydney: No!
- Francie: I don't want to talk about it. And two, you and I are going to have a Halloween party.
- Francie: So, what's going on with work? You always talk about work and you haven't even mentioned it today.
- Will: I wasn't working on a S.A.T. story. When I bumped into you guys? There is no S.A.T. story. I was trying to track down a woman named Kate Jones. She was supposed to be seated next to Danny on a flight from Singapore to Hong Kong.
- Dixon: Sloane is asking about Berlin. He thinks someone might have gotten to Schiller. He thinks he might be a plant. He wanted to know why you had me change the pick up to Koenig Strasse.
- Sydney: I told you, I thought I was being followed.
- Dixon: Syd, is there something I should know?
- Sydney: No.
- Sydney: He practically apologized.
- Vaughn: Sloane did?
- Sydney: For thinking maybe I'd mailed him the wrong guy. Imagine that.
[edit] Reckoning
- Francie: Hey, how was your trip?
- Sydney: Oh. Not good. I was working with these people who - they were terminated.
- Francie: Oh, man. The economy sucks.
- Sydney: What about the file -- the one you pulled for me? There were pages missing. Maybe it didn't end twenty years ago. Maybe he's still working for Russia!
- Vaughn: Stop. Okay? Stop. What matters, what is important, is taking down SD-6. Jack - your father - is helping us do that!
- [Vaughn gives Sydney a small box with a child's plastic bug]
- Sydney: What's this?
- Vaughn: A bug.
- Sydney: What are you, twelve years old?
- Vaughn: No, a bug.
- Eloise Kurtz: Just leave me alone! I don't know anything!
- Will: See, it's people who say that that always know much more than they think they do.
[edit] Color-Blind
- Jack: Shephard killed Danny. I'm sure you know that already.
- Sydney: If I didn't, thanks for breaking it to me gently.
- Vaughn: [On the possibility that the SD-6 dead drop is a trap] Sydney's life is worth the risk!
- Jack: Not to Sydney! Taking them down is what gets her up in the morning. Or... did you think it was those meetings she has with you?
- Jack: Mr. Vaughn, you're young and you're eager, and I understand that. But one thing you're not, and this is something only time can provide really, is wise.
- [Marshall uncovers a big red inflatable chair]
- Marshall: Want to have a seat? I got a minor form of scoliosis, so the air ergonomically hugs me. Oh, you want to stretch out? I can inflate the couch.
- Sloane: I'll stand.
- Sydney: The irony is they never lied to me about what would happen if I told someone. It was the one thing they said that turned out to be true. Now I'm a double agent for the C.I.A. and I will be until SD-6 is gone.
[edit] Time Will Tell
- Will: [reading from a book] "Laura, all my love forever and a day. Jack." That's not, like, your dad Jack, is it?
- Sydney: Yeah.
- Will: Wow. That's uncharacteristically sweet of him.
- Sydney: I know. He actually has a heart, which I'm learning little by little.
- Marshall: You know that sound you're hearing, you know, that boom? That's my mind blowing.
- Jack: Lie detector test.
- Sydney: I studied the C.I.A. instruction book on how to take a successful LDT.
- Jack: This isn't like that. This test monitors variations in blood flow in the brain. It's very difficult to deceive. Tell your handler Vaughn he needs to prepare you for this. If he can't, he'll get someone who can.
- Boss: And on the eve of your first front-page story, you suddenly get cold feet.
- Will: What are you saying? What are you saying? I made this whole thing up? Look, I swear to God, the only reason I didn't want this story to run is 'cause I don't want to hurt Sydney Bristow. That's it.
- Boss: You're a talented writer, Will. But I promise you, if anything like this happens again, the only thing you'll be inventing are facts on your résumé.
[edit] Mea Culpa
- Marshall: [holding a gadget] Okay, now, this thing sucks... literally. Sucks all the information from the computer hard drive right into the internal flash RAM.
- Sloane: We both are. We're both doing our job. And I look at Sydney Bristow's test results -- I don't see a single spike. She didn't falter once.
- Dreyer: She's guilty. She's the one.
- Sloane: I think that's a dangerous accusation made by a desperate man.
- Dreyer: I'm not desperate, Mr. Sloane. But I am curious why you feel the need to defend Miss Bristow?
- Sloane: I always knew there was something about you, from the first time I saw you.
- Sydney: A lot can change in seven years.
- Sloane: It's been a lot longer than seven years. I've known your father since 1971. I met him at Langley. I knew your mother. I went to your parents' wedding. Sydney, I've known you since you were a baby. I was out of the country for most of your childhood, various operations, but I kept tabs on you. I checked in on you in my own way. I always thought of you as my daughter, even from the beginning. Well, I just wanted to let you know... before you went away.
- Will: Okay, okay, whatever, it sucks, all right? But it's why I wanted to become a reporter. I saw this when I was a kid and I loved it. And I was just like, I don't know, all the quick...
- Francie: Repartee.
- Will: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it just looked fun. You know, being a reporter looked fun. But it's not. It's not fun. It's a pain in the ass.
- Disguised Voice: [on the phone] You have questions about Kate Jones. How far are you willing to go, Mr. Tippin? I need to hear the words "I'm ready."
- Will: Why? Why, could my life be in danger?
- Disguised Voice: Say the words.
- Will: Yeah, I'm in. I'm ready.
[edit] Spirit
- Jack: I need you to tell me what's happening!
- Steven: You didn't hear this from me. [pause] While Sydney and Russek were in Geneva, a transmission was recorded from her location and it was not one of ours.
- Jack: You think it was Sydney?
- Steven: This is not the first indication that she might be working for someone else.
- Sloane: For the past few weeks, you've been under suspicion. We knew we had a mole and there were signs that indicated that it was you. And then when you were in Geneva, we picked up a third-party transmission and it seemed to confirm that you betrayed SD-6. And what I just learned is that it wasn't your transmission. It was Russek's.
- Sydney: Russek...
- Sydney: In the cell, when Russek was trying to get me to talk, I asked him questions about his interrogation. When he told me that they threatened to kill him, he was blinking at erratic intervals -- a classic indication that he was lying. So, I didn't talk only because I knew he wasn't in any real danger. Either Sloane still thinks I'm the mole and is using me somehow...
- Sydney: Look, to you, my job might seem pointless and stupid but it's not. It's far from pointless and if you knew what I dealt with every day, you might even thank me for doing my job so well!
- Will: [confused] What the hell are you talking about?
- Sydney: Nothing. I'm going to work. I'll see you guys.
- Sloane: I didn't know how it would finally materialize: the darkness. I had nothing to base it on. It wasn't as if the C.I.A. had just betrayed me, that my wife had just been diagnosed with lymphoma. None of that had happened yet. So, whenever life takes an unfortunate turn, as it has this week, I just remind myself that I could see it coming all along.
[edit] The Confession
- [After Sydney and Jack have escaped from captivity]
- Sydney: It took me a second to realize what you were doing.
- Jack Bristow: I was blinking as fast as I could.
- Sydney: I know. I was like, "Hard on your light"?
- Jack: Guard on your right.
- Sydney: Well, I figured it out. I was just never very good at Morse code.
- Sydney: Dad, can I ask you something? When you started with SD-6, you knew that they were a mercenary group and that they had no connection with the C.I.A. But I didn't. When I joined, I thought I was going to be saving the world and not making it more dangerous.
- Jack: What's the question?
- Sydney: Why didn't you say something? I mean, you could have told me what I was really doing - damage instead of good - but you kept quiet.
- Jack: [sighs] Revealing the truth about what you were doing would have required revealing the truth about what I was doing.
- Sydney: What happens when someone you care about is in trouble? What you said, that nothing else matters. It all just goes away. Last week when I learned what my father did for me, sacrificing Russek, it made me sick. But now, I know I would have done the exact same thing. You should have seen him.
- Vaughn: Your father?
- Sydney: Yeah, he was like ... he was like a pro. He was good. I mean, the way you talked about him once, what his reputation was, I could see it in action. He was ... impressive.
- Vaughn: There's nothing routine about that list. There's something very specific about it. It's been a mystery within the agency for over two decades. Who murdered those C.I.A. officers? I'm sorry, but we have our answer now. It was your father. And I'm going to report him.
- Jack: Those cyrillic codes you found in those books - yes, they were orders from the KGB and yes, they were orders to kill. An agent received those orders and carried them out, murdering officers of the C.I.A., including your father, Mr. Vaughn. All this is true. But, Sydney, I was not that agent. Your mother was.
[edit] The Box, Part I
- Jack Bristow: I know how this feels.
- Sydney Bristow: Not exactly. You've had a lot longer to make sense of this than I have.
- Jack: There was a time when this was news to me, too. Your mother was sent to the United States to steal secrets from a ranking officer of the C.I.A. How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. But it was just a set-up.
- Sydney: [voice over] There's something that happens when you discover the truth about someone. I know a little about this. The truth changes everything.
- Sydney: [talking to Vaughn about her mother] There's this woman, her personality like a collage I've put together from the photographs, the few memories I have, scraps of stories I've heard, the clothes of hers I've got... her books. And none of it's real. She wasn't that woman at all. She was... she was a horrible person... who killed your father.
- McKenas Cole: But another part that sucks is seeing guys you worked with, guys you thought were tougher than deer jerky... tortured to death. That's no good.
- McKenas Cole: You give us the codes, I won't have to open the box...which will be really excellent for you.
- Sloane: I can't be the first person to have difficulty taking you seriously, can I?
- McKenas Cole: You're going to give me the combination to the SD-6 vault and if you don't, I'm going to open this box. And Arvin, trust me when I tell you, you do not want me to open this box.
[edit] The Box, Part II
- Marcus Dixon: You okay?
- Marshall: [blood is running down his head] Except for my head injury, yeah.
- Haladki: Any irregularities at all?
- Michael Vaughn: What, you mean other than a desperate message from an agent begging for help?
- Vaughn: Let's just take this one step at a time. This is a charge of C-4. I can tell, 'cause it says "C-4" everywhere.
- McKenas Cole: [hasn't heard from Chen] I feel like I'm a mom at the mall! He said he was going down to the sub-basement. I don't know if his walkie's not working, if he's on a coffee break--
- McKenas Cole: [to Sydney] I know you didn't wanna kiss me, but when I was taking a hit off that bottle before, I backwashed in it. I mean, like, really big-time.
[edit] The Coup
- [Sydney is sliding across a wire on the top of the two buildings]
- Dixon: How's it hanging, Syd?
- Sydney: Very funny.
- Marshall: I mean, casino security is like an onion. It's layer after layer after layer and the more that you peel back, the more you want to cry.
- Will: [about his hickey] It's very embarrassing.
- Sydney: The fact that I saw it or just that it's there at all?
- Will: No, look at it. I feel like I'm 15 years old.
- Sydney: That's about the age of your intern.
- Will: When I said 15, I knew you would say--
- Sydney: Did the Clinton administration teach you nothing?
- Jack Bristow: When you asked me the other day about school, I couldn't help you. I... I'm out of practice when it comes to, uh... personal matters.
- Sydney: Dad, I'm in no rush.
- Jack: Believing your mother was a professor may have influenced you somewhat but the decision to go back to school was yours. And I'd trust that. I think that, uh, if you stick with it... you could become the kind of teacher your students will always remember.
- Sydney: Thank you.
- Vaughn: Yeah. Last week, when you talked about quitting SD-6--
- Sydney: I was being naive.
- Vaughn: No, but, um, what you said about wanting to go to a hockey game... wanting me to be part of your life... I, uh, I think I wasn't clear about something. [pause] That it would be nice to be in public with you, to actually get to look at you. Grab a pizza or go to a hockey game. I-I just... I wasn't clear that I would really like that, too.
[edit] Page 47
- Sloane: [watching a video of Will's visit to the prison] Lompoc prison, about two hours ago. The man talking to Tippin is David McNeil, software designer. About eight years ago, he created an encryption system that we wanted to acquire but he wouldn't sell. We don't have audio, but we got hold of the prison log. This is Tippin's third visit to McNeil in the last two weeks. You and I talked about Tippin some time ago. You convinced me that he was just a harmless metro reporter, far from a credible threat.
- Sydney: [talking about Sloane's wife, Emily]We still are. Less so since she's been diagnosed. She's been a little reclusive. Actually, I haven't seen her since before I learned the truth about her husband.
- Vaughn: I think this is a real opportunity. We'd like you to call Emily. Tell her you'd like to see her again and get invited to their house.
- Sydney: This is a bug? [flips paper clip over]
- Vaughn: It's good, huh? You should see the guys who make it, it's like they've never seen sunlight.
- Sydney: You should meet Marshall.
- Will: Sydney tells me you're doing analysis for the bank.
- Jacl: Strategy. Investment strategy. Arvin made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
- Emily: Oh, that sounds like my husband!
- Sloane: Some of the text is Italian, but most of it is in code. Code we haven't been able to break. Who was this man, Sydney? What did he see? What did Rambaldi see? [Flipping through the pages of Rambaldi's book, he comes to page forty-seven, the blank one.] Those who know about him - various agencies, a few in the private sector - they're spending millions to answer these questions. Millions. Men would die for this book. Men have died. You know, Sydney, the work we're doing here, trying to figure out who Rambaldi was, what he was working on, is becoming an obsession for me.
[edit] The Prophecy
- Sydney: Move out of my way, or I will make you move out of my way.
- Vaughn: You're being investigated by the DSR.
- Sydney: DSR?
- Vaughn: Department of Special Research. And it was created during World War II to investigate Nazi interest in the occult. After the war, an executive order was signed, empowering them to investigate fringe science, uh, parapsychology, remote viewing--
- Sydney: What do they want with me?
- Vaughn: They want to know why your picture is in the Rambaldi book. No, I know it seems ridiculous.
- Sydney: We'd have to leave tonight. You in?
- Vaughn: Yeah. I'll break into the Vatican with you.
- [As the FBI is taking Sydney into custody.]
- Vaughn: Those medical tests you took, they were looking to match three specific anomalies Rambaldi mentioned: DNA sequencing, platelet levels, and the size of your heart. You match all three.
- Sydney: So what does the prophecy say?
- Evans: "This woman here depicted will possess unseen marks. Signs that she will be the one to bring forth my works. Bind them with fury, a burning anger unless prevented at vulgar cost this woman will render the greatest power unto utter desolation."
[edit] Q & A
- Sydney: The truth is, I didn't love any of the subjects I was studying. My father and I weren't speaking, my mother had died when I was six and the highlight of my social life was my dorm's salad bar. So, I called them.
- Kendall: SD-6.
- Sydney: They didn't use that name. These men led me to believe they were CIA. They were very convincing. They are very convincing.
- Michael Vaughn: You're saying that Sydney could be held long enough to blow her cover with SD-6?
- Jack: Under directive 81A, they could conceivably hold her without trial or charges for the rest of her life.
- Kendall: What does "SD" stand for?
- Sydney: Section Disparu - the section that doesn't exist. Alain Christophe, one of the Alliance founders. The term was his.
- Kendall: Explain to us about the Alliance of Twelve?
- Sydney: The Alliance is like a board of directors. Some are from the private sector, but most are former intelligence officers. All wealthy. They started a company together, except this company - the Alliance - trades intelligence.
- Kendall: What can you tell me about him?
- Sydney: Milo Rambaldi was Pope Alexander VI's chief architect. He was an artist, an inventor. His designs were so technologically advanced, at the time, they thought he was heretic. And he was executed. Now, five hundred years later, many believe he was a prophet. And SD-6, CIA, GRU, K-Directorate, the entire intelligence world, is on a Rambaldi scavenger hunt.
- Kendall: Why?
- Sydney: They assume that Rambaldi had some sort of master plan.
- [Vaughn is driving and Sydney is in the trunk]
- Sydney: You didn't think about it. Not once. The possibility that Rambaldi could be right about me.
- Vaughn: No. I didn't.
- Sydney: Why not?
- Vaughn: Because I believe in you. Do you think I'd just throw anyone in my trunk?
[edit] Masquerade
- Sydney: No. I don't want an explanation. I came here because I need you to help me find her.
- Sloane: Mmm. Sydney, how much do you remember about the year after you were told that your mother died?
- Sydney: I remember... just feeling disconnected from everything. My father was away on business for most of that year.
- Sloane: No. Your father spent six months in solitary in a federal prison. He was suspected of being in collusion with Laura. The FBI almost tried him for treason and even though he was vindicated, the damage was done. And he began to unravel.
- Sydney: Unravel...
- Sloane: He drank. He started taking unnecessary risks. Come on, Sydney, you know the father he was to you all those years. He took a long time to fully recover and I was under direct orders from the DCI not to let him know that Laura survived the accident. Unfortunately, that also required lying to you.
- Agent: Excuse me. May I cut in?
- Dixon: [referring to Sydney] Of course. But I should warn you: she likes to lead.
- Sydney': A lot's happened since you left. And I want to fill you in but... I don't know if I feel comfortable doing that yet.
- Noah: Right. You're still mad.
- Sydney: No. When you left and you just disappeared, it was a kick in the stomach, and I carried that around for a long time.
- Noah: You were the last person that I ever wanted to see again... ever. And you were the only person that I ever wanted to see again.
- Dr. Barnett: [to Jack] I think you are a master. You have all your subconscious tells under control. You're smart enough to struggle with words. But I think you told me what I wanted to hear so you could get out of my office as quickly as possible. I also think that someone so skilled at deception is in danger of deceiving himself.
- Dr. Barnett: And how would you define a "normal" family?
- Jack: I suppose it's one in which the family members aren't under order to lie to each other.
[edit] Snowman
- Dixon: Noah, I'll be straight with you. I don't trust you. Which wouldn't be such a problem, except that I'm an intelligence officer and if you stick around, sooner or later, my life is going to be in your hands and yours in mine. And in that scenario, the only person truly safe will be you.
- Sydney: You know I can't do that.
- Noah: Why?
- Sydney: Well, for about a million reasons.
- Noah: I highly doubt there are a million reasons. There might be fifty, and I'd like the opportunity to refute all of them.
- Sydney: One of the biggest reasons that comes to mind is my mother. Khasinau was her superior. My mother was a spy for the KGB and those files that we recovered may help me find her. I'm not going anywhere until I know where she is.
- [Sydney watches the video footage of her mother.]
- Laura: My Russian or American name?
- Khasinau: Why not both?
- Laura: Irina Derevko and Laura Bristow.
- Vaughn: Mr. Kishell, I appreciate you talking to me. I know this must be very difficult.
- Kishell: I know difficult. Talk is easy.
- [Jack is watching the video footage of Laura.]
- Khasinau: How did you acquire your intel?
- Laura Bristow: Every night for ten years I went through his briefcase. I eavesdropped on all of his private conversations. I planted listening devices on his clothing. He was blinded by his emotions. He knew nothing. I can tell you one thing: Jack Bristow was a fool.
[edit] The Solution
- Sydney: But the truth is, it affects me. Never knowing who to trust, learning to expect betrayal, plotting in secrecy and hatred and anger. It's becoming a part of me. I am becoming what I despise.
- Francie: See, the thing about rats is they're clever. You have to out think them. You can't really just leave out cheese. You have to leave the good stuff. The heavy-duty stuff. The stuff that they want. It's the only way they're going to come out. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time.
- Emily: When you look back ... family, your friends. That's what matters. Work, your job. It wouldn't seem that important. [Sydney nods a little.] Even your job. Even working for SD-6.
- Will: This is an article I've written. Abby, you've got to do this for me. Make sure you keep it sealed, and don't mention this to anyone. And you got to promise me you're not going to open it, unless something happens to me. And if something happens to me, you got to publish it.
- Francie: I'm gonna send flowers to Will to thank him for babysitting our rodents. What do you think the card should say?
- Sydney: I had sex with someone.
- Francie: [laughs] Seriously.
[edit] Rendezvous
- Jack: You're going to tell your contact you want a meeting. A meeting to take place at your contact's discretion.
- Will: Why would he lead me to you knowing that you'd want to flush him out?
- Jack: He only told you my name so you would realize that my threat to you was a bluff. That I would never hurt Sydney, even if you continue your investigation. He didn't expect you'd have the guts to contact me.
- Will: Oh, well, I'll assume that's a compliment.
- Sloane: I feel rather awkward sitting here asking you to allow my wife to die of cancer.
- Christophe: Arvin, the agreement is simple. People with any unauthorized information regarding SD-6, or any SD cell, must be eliminated.
- Sark: I understand I am in no position to demand anything, but for the record, I'm far more comfortable talking over a glass of Chateau Petreuse... '82.
- Weiss: I don't want your thanks. I want it to stop.
- Vaughn: Look, Sydney's my responsibility ...
- Weiss: Mike, I'm not going to trivialize your relationship with her by calling it a crush ...
- Vaughn: A crush?
- Weiss: But whatever it is, it's starting to affect me and if that sounds selfish to you, I was hoping to retire fully vested. I know you genuinely care for her. I do, too. But there is a line that we have been sworn not to cross. We're about a mile past that.
- Vaughn: I don't know how to be Sydney's handler without making it personal.
- Weiss: Figure out a way.
- Sydney: He is my friend. He is, like, one of my best friends.
- Vaughn: I understand that.
- Sydney: No, you don't. You get to tell your friends that you work for the CIA while I go home and look desperately for a tiny moment that I can be honest with anyone about anything. Now that Will knows the truth - he's never going to trust me again. You should have seen his face in Paris. It was like he was looking at a stranger.
- Vaughn: But he wasn't. He was looking at you. Maybe for the first time. He was looking at you.
[edit] Almost Thirty Years
- Dixon: How am I supposed to know what you believe when you've been lying to me? I'm your partner!
- Sydney: Just think about this for a minute. Just think about everything we've been through. Just think about who I am. Now, what I am going to ask you to do is just accept the fact that I cannot tell you what this is about. What I am doing is classified but Dixon... I swear to you that I am not betraying this country. I could never do that. You know that!
- Dixon: I don't need rhetoric, Sydney. Right now, I need a reason not to report you to security section.
- Sydney: Hi. How did you find me?
- Vaughn: You told me a couple of months ago that when you feel the need to disappear, you go to the observatory. But the observatory was closed. And then I remembered you said the pier calms you down. But you weren't there. And you weren't at the bluffs and the palisades, either.
- Sydney: You didn't really go to all those places.
- Vaughn: Yeah, I did. And then I remembered you liked the train station, too. Normal people going to their normal jobs.
- Sydney: I can't believe you remember that.
- Jack: If you're not comfortable with me, we can waive our business for the night and say good-bye.
- Sark: Are you comfortable? Do you feel comfortable trading priceless documents for a low-grade reporter?
- Jack: You should read Tippin's stuff. It's not so bad.
- Sydney: Wait. I have questions for you.
- Khasinau: You can ask my boss.
- Sydney: Your boss? I thought The Man was the boss.
- Khasinau: Yes. Yes, but I am not The Man.
- ''[A woman enters and stands in front of Sydney.]
- The Man: I have waited almost thirty years for this.
- Sydney: Mom?
[edit] Season 2
[edit] The Enemy Walks In
- Sydney: I met Emily shortly after I started working at Credit Dauphine. Like many young women, I was intimidated... by the world. I was sort of desperate for a little guidance. As he had been for most of my life, my father was busy working. I'd lost my mother when I was six... so I didn't have anyone to go to. No role model. Arvin invited me for dinner one night. I remember after dinner was over, Emily walked me out to the car. I didn't know her at all and she said in this simple, reassuring voice... "You're gonna be okay." Thinking of Emily, I often wondered about my own mother and what she would have been like, had she lived. Would she have been as strong as Emily? As kind, as good? I always told myself that she would have had those qualities even though I couldn't see them, I simply believed them. But Emily wasn't just the mother I never had. She was the mother all of us wish we had.
- Jack: The only way SD-6 will let you live is if you destroy the life you've got.
- Will: I understand that, but you can't think of another way than this?
- Jack: Yes, I can think of a number of other ways. But they all involve your burial.
- Will: Is that your idea of a joke? You're morbid, Jack.
- Dr. Barnett: And you did all this with a bullet in your shoulder?
- Sydney: Do you not believe me?
- Dr. Barnett: It's impressive.
- Sydney: Not really. One thing I have learned doing this - there's no drug like adrenaline.
- Dr. Barnett: One more thing. You haven't said anything about your mother.
- Sydney: What, am I supposed to say something insightful? The first time I see my mother in twenty years, and she almost kills me. Which would have made me the thirteenth CIA officer she's killed. She's former KGB. She's betrayed my father. She's betrayed me. She's betrayed this country. All anyone needs to know about that woman is that she's a bad guy.
- Dr. Barnett: I think this was a good beginning.
[edit] Trust Me
- Sydney: The idea that the CIA is willing to work with Irina Derevko is insane.
- Jack: Worse, it's naive. Your mother didn't just conveniently turn herself in. This is all part of the manipulation.
- Sydney: Well, she's their problem now. She's not yours. And she's not mine.
- Kendall: Just so we're clear, Mr. Vaughn, I know all about your participation in busting Agent Bristow out of federal custody. Convince her to talk to her mother, or face charges of obstructing justice and harboring a fugitive.
- Vaughn: Guess it's two-for-one day on blackmail.
- Sydney: She told me to pull the alarm.
- Jack: Yes, and for all you know, that could've made things worse. Sydney, you're smarter than this. Your mother wants you to think she's your ally. That she can help you get what you want. Her intel might even be accurate once, twice, but the minute you start depending on her, she will gut you.
- Jack: [Referring to Irina] Sydney, she is the enemy.
- Sydney: And so is Sloane. And if the devil herself wants to help me bring him down, fine by me.
- Sydney: Let's get something clear. You are not my mother. My mother was Laura Bristow. Laura Bristow died in a car accident twenty-one years ago. You are a traitor and a prisoner of the United States government. [Irina looks away] Look at me! We will interact only when necessary. You will address me as "Agent Bristow" and answer only the questions I ask. There will be no personal anecdotes, no comments about my job performance, no condolences or congratulations. Do you understand me? [pause] Do you understand?
- Irina: Yes... Agent Bristow.
[edit] Cipher
- Irina: I've had this picture of your face in my mind for twenty years. I remember a loving husband, generous man, patriot. I may have been under orders to fabricate a life with you, but there were times when the illusion of our marriage was as powerful for me as it was for you, especially when Sydney was born. Looking at you now, I see that illusion is finally gone.
- Jack: I want to make something very clear to you. There are people here who believe you can repay the debt you owe this country through your continued cooperation. I am not one of them. And if Sydney in any way becomes victim to your endgame, I will kill you. She spent most of her life believing you were dead, she'll get used to it again. No matter what bond you try to forge with her.
- Irina: You haven't told her what you did to her after I disappeared... have you?
- Irina: You know, you haven't asked me how I could shoot my own daughter.
- Sydney: No, I haven't.
- Irina: I assume you wouldn't need this combination so urgently if you didn't know where the music box was. Sark won't hesitate to kill you. I don't want to lose the chance to explain myself someday.
- Irina: Speaking of Ms. Adams... just before I left I remember her encouraging you to try out for your school's Thanksgiving play. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but in the twenty years since I last saw you I often wondered... what part did you play?
- Sydney: I don't remember. It was around the time I was told my mother had died. Everything else is a blur.
- Sydney: Dad... do you remember the Thanksgiving play I was in that year in school? Because I sort of do. I mean, I have an impression of it, but I can't remember, was I a pilgrim, or an Indian?
- [Jack stares off]
- Sydney: What?
- Jack: You were neither. You were a turkey. You were the only turkey that was spared to celebrate the harvest.
- Sydney: You want me to talk to her again.
- Kendall: Mr. Sark has assumed control of your mother's operation...
- Sydney: Please stop referring to her as my mother.
- Kendall: Therefore, Ms. Derevko must know what he's looking for and she's made it clear she will only speak with you.
- Sydney: Look, I talked to her before because I had to. I have no intention of making this into a habit.
- Kendall: I assume you have an opinion on this, Agent Vaughn.
- Vaughn: Uh, I don't have an easy answer to that.
- Kendall: I'll take a complicated one.
- Vaughn: I can't pretend to hide my bias here. Irina Derevko betrayed this country and killed my father in the process. On the other hand, she is a certifiable Rambaldi expert and probably knows more about the inner workings of global organized crime than any other person in U.S. custody. Having said that, I believe Agent Bristow and I were effectively countering SD-6 before Derevko turned herself in and I stand behind whatever she decides.
[edit] Dead Drop
- Sark: Whatever Arvin Sloane pays you, it can't be enough. Would you consider coming to work for me if it meant I'd let you walk out of here? I believe if you took the time to hear the comprehensive offer, you might actually say yes.
- Sydney: [looks him up and down] You're cute, but I'll pass.
- Jack: You asked me what I was afraid of. I can tell you, it's obvious. I'm afraid of losing my daughter.
- Will: Well, I've got four weeks left of community service and then I'm done. Hey, um, you remember last week when I cooperated and let the CIA hypnotize me?
- Sydney: Yeah.
- Will: What happened with that? I mean, was I helpful at all? And I'm only asking because about five minutes ago I was doing pretty well as a reporter, you know, and now I'm a dishwasher living in denial. That's all.
- Sydney: The information you provided was huge.
- Jack: Irina Derevko gave you the operations manual for her syndicate. I would like you to tell me where you've hidden it.
- Richter: Derevko is a great woman.
- Jack: Morphine's not bad, either. Let me be clear. I've only given you enough to last five minutes. Cooperate and get all you want. Resist and you get none.
[edit] The Indicator
- Vaughn: Okay. I'll confer with your father about your countermission.
- Sydney: My father?
- Vaughn: He didn't tell you? Based on your father's instincts in the Madagascar incident, Devlin gave him operational approval.
- Jack: Sydney, Washington has made a decision regarding your mother. What she did to you invalidated her agreement with the CIA. The government is pressing charges. They're going to seek the death penalty.
- Vaughn: I saw de Souza. He told me that you hired him to rig those explosives.
- Jack: Irina Derevko would eagerly destroy all of our lives.
- Vaughn: I'm not a big fan, either. It still doesn't justify what you did.
- Jack: You do good work, Agent Vaughn. But your consistent shortcoming - you should know this - is your naive sense of morality. Evil must be eliminated by whatever means necessary.
- Kerr: Agent Bristow, I've seen your profile. Your spatial intelligence is stellar. It's no surprise that you can solve the puzzle.
- Sydney: But I wasn't solving it. When I was standing there, staring at the puzzle, it was like I remembered where every piece belonged. There wasn't any thought involved. You said the KGB developed a similar project, it's possible that my mother knew the techniques and maybe she -
- Kerr: Agent Bristow. If you are looking to uncover a trauma then I need to warn you. Hypnotic regression can trigger severe nightmares, flashbacks, acute depression -
- Sydney: Understand that to do what I do, maintain my cover at SD-6, I compartmentalize a lot. But the idea that I might have been programmed to be a spy ... I can't tuck that away. I need to know what happened to me.
- Sydney: I've seen the footage. Mom's briefing with her KGB handler. She was sent here for one specific purpose, to steal information from you about a project you were developing for the CIA. An operation to train children to be American spies. Project Christmas. Ever since Mom came back, you were afraid she'd figure out what you did to me. You weren't trying to protect me from her, you were trying to protect your secret. So the first opportunity you had, you set her up. In Madagascar.
- Jack: Sydney, understand something--
- Sydney: No, Dad, you understand something. You took away my choices in life. You programmed me to be a spy. I will never forgive you for this.
[edit] Salvation
- Jack: Please try to understand what I'm about to tell you, Sydney. After your mother left, I tested Project Christmas on you because I didn't want you to be a victim. I thought it was my responsibility to teach you how to think strategically, to see through people's lies, to be as strong as you could be in an environment where one mistake could cost you your life.
- Sydney: Then you should've told me the truth before I ended up here.
- Jack: Yes, you're right! I never intended you to lead a double life. I imagined recruiting you into the CIA after you finished college. But Sloane got to you first, and that is a mistake I will never live down.
- Sydney: I'd like to believe you, but I don't trust anything you say.
- Jack: I spent a decade with this woman and another twenty years analyzing how she could have deceived me for so long. Trust me when I tell you, I am protecting you.
- Sydney: No, you're not. I think you loved Mom so much that when she left you, you lost your soul. You know what else I think? I think the kind of man who'd use his own daughter to frame her mother, who'd test psych experiments when she was six-years-old is the kind of man who looks at his daughter and sees his greatest mistake.
- Jack: You can't honestly believe that.
- Sydney: It's true, isn't it? If Mom hadn't fooled you, if you hadn't been so gullible, I never would have been born.
- Vaughn: Look, I know this will drive you insane, but we can't employ you because you have a criminal record.
- Will: I have a criminal record because of a drug habit I never had.
- Jack: [talking about Sydney at his hearing] When I look at her, when I look at the little girl who raised herself to become one of the most extraordinary human beings and one of the finest agents I've ever had the privilege of knowing, I see only the promise of my own redemption. Turning myself in was the only way I could think of to make that clear to her, to prove that despite... my limited abilities as a father, I love her more than I could ever say.
[edit] The Counteragent
- Vaughn: I'm trying to live a normal life, which was always hard given what I do. But it's gotten harder since I met your daughter. It's not that knowing her hasn't made my life better. It has. But it's also made it that much worse. I think I've said enough.
- Irina: The problem, Mr. Vaughn, is that to the one person who matters, you haven't said anything.
- Vaughn: Listen, this may not mean anything to you. This may not be something you can understand or appreciate, but we have rules. Very clear and important rules that govern the relationship between a handler and his asset.
- Irina: And between a man and a woman?
- Sydney: Approaching the building.
- Sark: Good luck, Sydney.
- Sydney: I don't need you to wish me luck, you son of a bitch.
- Sark: That's a wonderful attitude.
- Sark: I need access to Arvin Sloane.
- Sydney: Why?
- Sark: Because I intend to kill him.
- Sydney: I can get you to Sloane, but only if you promise to let me keep the antidote.
- Sark: No. Sloane first. Then you'll get back your precious antidote.
- Kendall: What exactly did you promise Sark?
- Sydney: That I would render Sloane unconscious and deliver him to Sark.
- Kendall: So he could kill him.
- Sydney: Yes.
- Kendall: There are just so many problems with this that I don't even know where to begin.
- Sydney: Tell me you agree with me, that we have no choice in this.
- Jack: Of course we have a choice. And it's a moment I never wanted you to face. To kill someone. I'm not talking about self-defense. I'm talking about premeditated murder. To be there when the door closes on him for the last time. Knowing you are responsible. That is something you never came close to considering before getting to know your mother.
[edit] Passage, Part I
- Irina: [to Sydney] You're so willing to take risks for your country. Why aren't you willing to do the same for your own happiness?
- Vaughn: [to Sydney] This watch belonged to my father. It's broken now, but it used to keep perfect time. And when he gave it to me, he said, "You could set your heart by this watch." It stopped October 1st -- the day we met.
- Marshall: [to Sark] Hi. Welcome. Don't kill me.
- Sark: Look, I understand that none of you are inclined to believe a word I say but I assure you, it's not in my best interest to betray you. You've given me an opportunity of a lifetime, and I don't intend to squander it.
- Sark: I must admit, this is one of the most impressive operations I've seen. Though it is a touch pathetic how so many of them believe they actually work for the CIA.
- Sloane: Look at me. You've offered me a substantial prize to make our partnership worthwhile, but do not think for a second that gives you the right to insult my people.
- Sydney: [to Jack] You said you didn't tell us the truth because you were trying to protect me, because you didn't want to risk Sark finding out that I was a double agent. The thing is, someone now has the ability to detonate six nuclear weapons and I am responsible. So I am going to be part of the team that finds and disarms those warheds no matter what you do. But if you were telling the truth when you said you wanted to protect me, then, Mom, I need your help.
[edit] Passage, Part II
- Sloane: What do you want?
- Mysterious Caller: One hundred million in bearer bonds.
- Sloane: This is about money?
- Mysterious Caller: Everything is about money. Instructions for the drop have been electronically mailed to you. You have twenty-four hours. Fail to deliver the bonds, and the next delivery will go to the Alliance.
- Sydney: You know, some people go miniature golfing with their parents. We go to India and look for nukes.
- Cuvee: Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible for matchmaking you and Irina. Didn't she tell you? I was a supervisor at the KGB. I was the one who gave her the assignment to go to the US and marry a CIA officer. Now, you weren't the only prospect, of course. But you had the most potential. Ha! I actually thought it would dawn on you that a woman like this would never go for someone like you. Luckily for me, your ego was too big for that.
- Irina: You must have a lot of questions.
- Sydney: Yeah.
- Irina: One thing that should not wait any longer is why I shot you in Taipei. The rebel leader, Gerard Cuvee... When you were in Taipei, he was in the next room watching to see if I would betray him or you. Shooting you in the shoulder, giving you time to escape, it was the only way I could think to maintain his trust and keep him from killing both of us.
[edit] The Abduction
- Marshall: You know what I always say - if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!
- Sydney: [to Will] But after Danny and what happened to you, I've accepted the fact that it's a gesture of love to deceive the people I care about.
- Ariana Kane: More secrets have been revealed through pillow talk than through torture. If there's a prostitute or a stewardess out there you think may have heard you talking in your sleep, I need to know about it.
- Jack: There is one way for you to verify if my nocturnal activities are a security risk, Ms. Kane, but somehow I think we'd both prefer the torture.
- Ariana Kane: Men always call women crazy when they're caught with their pants down.
- Irina: I don't imagine that means you've decided to trust me?
- Jack: Our previous... dealings would indicate that your strategy here may be long-term. So for now, I trust that your behavior is predictable.
- Irina: By "previous dealings" you mean our marriage? You know, technically, we may still be husband and wife.
[edit] A Higher Echelon
- Sydney: I have a crush on a guy from work.
- Francie: Really? Who is he?
- Sydney: Someone in my department. We've worked together for about a year now.
- Kendall: I just got off the phone with the director again and he asked me again if I knew we were in the intelligence business.
- Jack: [About Sloane's reaction upon losing Marshall] It was as if someone had overcooked his steak.
- Dixon: I speak nine languages. Techno is not one of them!
- Vaughn: I got your psych report back. You did well.
- Will: I'm not a sociopath?
- Vaughn: Well, I didn't say that. [laughs]
[edit] The Getaway
- Sydney: How long have you known about this?
- Jack: I didn't tell you because it didn't concern you!
- Sydney: If the Alliance thinks you're lying to them, they'll kill you. That concerns me!
- Jack: What concerns me is having them suspect that you're my accomplice. That's why I kept you out of it.
- Jack: So we can assume a secondary objective, which is to make Arvin suffer. Someone harboring an acute hatred - meaning it could be anyone.
- Weiss: I share my fights with you!
- Vaughn: No you don't.
- Weiss: Yeah, you remember when, er, remember when Alan pissed in the living room?
- Vaughn: That was your dog.
- Weiss: Yeah, but I was angry about it and I let you know how upset I was.
- Marshall: Actually, um, Mr. Sloane, I noticed you're not wearing the tie I gave you.
- [Sloane ignores his comment]
- Marshall: [faded smile] It's okay.
- Vaughn: Involving you had no upside.
- Sydney: There's no upside to keeping me informed? You didn't tell me about Monolo or that you had discussions with my mother! You didn't even tell me that you were seeing Alice again!
- Vaughn: Wait. What is this about?
- Sydney: This is about me being too old to be coddled!
[edit] Phase One
- Geiger: Jack, I know you are disloyal. I know your daughter is too. Both your files, there were so many red flags, I thought I was in a Russian airport.
- Weiss: There's no way that guy smells as good as you.
- Vaughn: It's aftershave. I got a new aftershave.
- Weiss: Yeah, well, I'd lighten up on it.
- Vaughn: Yeah?
- Weiss: Oh, yeah. To the point of, er, non-use.
- Sark: The new boss has a dreadful personality, don't you think?
- Sydney: I've seen worse.
- Sark: Am I supposed to take that personally?
- Vaughn: And the thing that makes me crazy every day is people that would kill us if we're seen together - the Alliance, SD-6, Sloane - are the very forces that brought you into my life to begin with. What kind of a sick joke is that?
- Sydney: I need you to tell me.
- Vaughn: You need me to tell you what? That when you're on operations, I can't sleep at night? That when we're in debrief I have to force myself to remember what the hell we're supposed to be reviewing when all I wanna do is kiss you?
[edit] Double Agent
- Sydney: About last night ...
- Vaughn: Is this going to be about Alice?
- Sydney: I know it's complicated ...
- Vaughn: We're not together anymore.
- Sydney: Since when?
- Vaughn: Since this morning. The truth is, we've been over for a long time.
- Lennox: 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. You're right. It's hard to keep track.
- Sydney: I lost my fiancé last year and I know we're trained to compartmentalize things that hurt too much, but I still haven't been able to do that. As hard as it is, I would rather feel it than to not feel anything.
- Lennox: I could've sworn you were a blonde.
- Sydney: I was. My hair's usually brown. Hard to keep track.
- Jack: 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.
- Sydney: How is this possible without obvious scarring?
- Jack: The procedure isn't surgical. A patient's genetic code is altered to reshape their physical attributes.
- Sydney: Is it reversible?
- Jack: 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.
[edit] A Free Agent
- Sydney: I've had two years of perspective! I am through letting Arvin Sloane control my life and I don't need your approval to resign! I told you as a courtesy!
- Kendall: Well, then, I will pay you the courtesy of informing you that if you leave this agency, you forfeit the clearance to see your mother.
- Sloane: Ah... you must be the man that Sark told me about. The man that Sydney was willing to kill me for.
- Vaughn: She would have killed you for a lot less.
- Vaughn: Marshall? I'm Michael Vaughn. Welcome to the CIA.
- Marshall: [smiles nervously] Heard that one before.
- Vaughn: [smiles] Well, this time it's for real. [gestures for Marshall to turn] We have a desk set up for you.
- Marshall: [turns] Syd!
- Sydney: How are you?
- Marshall: I'm fine, except every few moments I fight the urge to weep openly. But that's normal, right?
- Sydney: Hello?
- Sloane: Congratulations, Sydney. You have so many things to celebrate today. I, myself, am still coping with the pain and disappointment of learning that you and Jack were double agents. The two people I trusted most in the world.
- ...
- Sloane: You don't really think it was a coincidence that I happened to be away these past two weeks, do you? The intel that you acquired that allowed the CIA to take down the Alliance -- I provided that. My involvement with the Alliance is merely a means to an end.
- Sydney: Why are you telling me this?
- Sloane: Because knowing that I'm alive is going to tempt you to come after me. Don't. We've helped set each other free, Sydney. And as much as I wish you well, I will end your life if you get in my way.
- ...
- Sloane: [On the phone] Our first honest conversation, Sydney, and you have nothing to say?
- Sydney: Listen to me, you son of a bitch! You have been a plague on my life. You repulse me! Every time I sat across from you, listening to your lies, all I could do was fantasize about slashing your throat!
- Dixon: How long have you known?
- Sydney: Two years. I wanted to tell you so many times, but I was ordered not to. The CIA had no way to verify what I knew in my heart was true -- that you would never consider working for a man like Arvin Sloane.
- Dixon: We were partners. You lied to me, then chose to tell me the truth when it was convenient for you. I never want to see you again.
[edit] Firebomb
- Sydney: [to Sloane] The CIA has a hit list. Thirty-five people worldwide its agents are allowed to kill. Thirty-five out of six billion. You're one of them. Which means when I kill you, I won't even be breaking the law.
- Vaughn: Can it wait?
- Weiss: Apparently not, he wants Sydney too. Are you with her?
- Vaughn: Uh ... No. I haven't seen her.
- Weiss: You're in bed with her right now, aren't you?
- Vaughn: I'm trying... just find out what he wants.
- Vaughn: You said everyone in the radius was affected, even people who were taking cover?
- Marshall: Yeah. Well, there's no defense against this kind of energy. It goes through walls, concrete, steel, everything.
- Kendall: There's no shield.
- Marshall: 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.
- Dixon: I'm out.
- Vaughn: Sydney's in trouble.
- Dixon: Respect my decision.
- Vaughn: 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.
[edit] A Dark Turn
- Jack: We may never have a better chance to get Sloane. Remember, without Irina's help, the operation in Kashmir would have been an embarrassment.
- Kendall: Jack, when the hell did we switch places? Derevko could be using this operation just to convince us that she's trustworthy.
- Jack: I've had twenty years to reflect on that woman's ability to deceive. Trust me. If she lies to me again, I'll know it.
- Irina: I wanted to see you because... it's going to be dangerous, setting this trap. I hope it goes well but there's no guarantee. So whatever happens, there's something I need you to know. Sydney, I love you.
- Sydney: Mom--
- Irina: You don't have to say anything. I'm pretty sure I haven't earned very much, and that's okay. This was just something I needed to say.
- Sydney: What is this about? I'd appreciate a little context here. You haven't even given me your name.
- Yeager: I'm Mitchell Yeager, I'm counter-intelligence threat analyst. That should give you a little context. I've been sent here to investigate Michael Vaughn. It's come to our attention that over the past three months, Mr. Vaughn has been in contact with a number of unapproved foreign operatives. He's also actively pursued contact with Mr. Pograski, who happens to be a former KGB assassin known to have ties with at least three terrorist organizations.
- ...
- Sydney: Listen to me, there is not a chance that he is a traitor, that he would be collaborating with an enemy.
- Yeager: You know, I knew your mother. About twenty years ago, met her with your father. We used to go to a lot of these agency functions, you know. She was, uh, charming. Very disarming woman... who wasn't what she seemed.
- Vaughn: Look, there is something you don't know about me. I don't like it when people question my loyalty. It makes me insane.
- Sydney: This isn't about loyalty. I never said anything about loyalty.
- Vaughn: When you ask me if I'm keeping secrets, the suggestion's pretty clear.
- Sydney: And you know what? Secrets will be a problem between us. After everything we've been through, you should know that.
- Sydney: Research? What kind of research?
- Vaughn: It's something private. Something just for me.
- Sydney: Who do you think you work for? Nothing is private. You're being investigated.
- ...
- Vaughn: I had to find out if she was deceiving us again. I mean, I could not sleep at night knowing I was doing nothing. That somehow, I was helping her.
- Sydney: And did you find anything?
- Vaughn: Nothing. She's clean.
[edit] Truth Takes Time
- Jack: Your mother betrayed us. Betrayed the CIA. Her meeting with Sloane was staged to secure her escape.
- Sydney: You don't know that. Sloane could've set up the meet to abduct her.
- Jack: Before the operation, she swapped the Rambaldi manuscript. She left us with a fake. She and Sloane are now in possession of the original. Sydney, they planned this.
- Sydney: My mother's earrings. They found a note she left. She wanted me to have them. Just now, when my dad was telling me, the first thought I had was that she was dead, that she'd been killed. I had this whole thing in my head that she died proving herself a hero.
- Dixon: No one can be blamed for trusting their own mother.
- Sydney: I wish she had been killed.
- Irina: I see through you. You must know that.
- Sloane: This is who I am.
- Irina: You may need to think of yourself as an honorable husband, a father figure, but I don't. I will never see that man in you, which frankly is why we have this agreement.
- Sloane: You need to get some rest.
- Irina: Never talk to me about your love for Sydney again.
- Sydney: You were right to investigate her.
- Vaughn: Sydney . . .
- Sydney: No, it's okay. It's the truth. I'm not blaming you, it's me. I was so naive about her.
- Vaughn: I don't think you should be a part of this task force. Look, you know how I feel about Irina Derevko but no one should have to hunt down their own mother, no matter what the circumstances are.
- Sydney: [watching Emily on security camera footage] She's alive?
- Jack: She walked through the front door, told the duty guard she is the wife of Arvin Sloane, that she wants to cooperate with the CIA and that she will only talk to you.
[edit] Endgame
- Irina: This plan might not hold up. The CIA knows too much: they could guess why we were after the genetic database.
- Sloane: I'm not interested in the database. I want satellite footage of Tuscany. I want to know who murdered my wife.
- Irina: 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.
- Sloane: I wish I never heard that man's name.
- Sark: I'm like anyone, Mr. Caplan. What I want is that which I never had.
- Sydney: Vaughn. I mean, okay. The backpack is getting a little ridiculous.
- Vaughn: What do you mean?
- Sydney: [she points to her bureau] The middle drawer. It's yours.
- ...
- Weiss: She gave you a drawer, huh?
- Vaughn: It was a gesture of convenience.
- Weiss: And, uh, what did you put in it?
- Vaughn: Why do you care?
- Weiss: 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, do you want a drawer?"
- Vaughn: I'll give you a drawer at my place.
- Weiss: I don't wanna drawer in your place.
- ...
- Weiss: [to Vaughn] If we end up sharing a cell in federal prison, I'm not giving you a drawer.
- Jack: I'm not willing to risk your life based on speculative intel you acquired from a Russian spy.
- Sydney: Why would she lie?
- Jack: That's precisely the question!
- Sydney: She turned herself in!
- Jack: She's not the first!
- Sydney: We downloaded the DNA database Caplan decrypted from the computer he was working on. We finally have a lead on Sloane and Derevko.
- Jack: 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.
[edit] Countdown
- Sloane: I'm taking a leave. I want you to continue without me.
- Sark: Sir, not to belittle your grief, but do not deny yourself the victory of a thirty-year pursuit.
- Sloane: If I don't see you again, Mr. Sark, tell Irina that I hope you both succeed where I couldn't.
- Vaughn: You're saying that five hundred years ago Rambaldi drew the DNA profile of a man who's alive today?
- Kerry: It gets even better. Di Regno's DNA profile was a code key. It let us decrypt page 94 of the Rambaldi manuscript.
- Dixon: What's on the page?
- Brandon: Times and dates, each marking an apocalyptic event.
- Sydney: There's a future date listed on the page, isn't there?
- Brandon: Forty-eight hours from now.
- Sydney: What's the prediction?
- Kerry: The page doesn't say, it just gives the time. It's the equivalent of midnight, eastern standard time.
- Jack: I've worked with Agent Dixon for nearly a dozen years. You've worked with him for little over a month. If he feels ready to be in the field, I'm going to accord him that respect.
- Vaughn: But given his state of mind, do you really think he's the right person to make that decision?
- Jack: Yes.
- Vaughn: Jack, he just lost his wife. I mean, with all due respect, why are you fighting with me on this?
- Jack: I'm not required to justify my decisions to you, Agent Vaughn. However, I recruited Agent Dixon into SD-6. I'm the man who sold him the lie he was working for the CIA. I introduced him to the man who killed his wife. I will not be the one to tell him he can't assist in Sloane's capture.
[edit] Second Double
- Fake Francie: [on the phone] Will Tippin may be compromised.
- Sark: Our superiors deal in absolutes. Either he is or he's not.
- Fake Francie: The CIA is on a mole hunt to find out who accessed the defense satellite communications system. It's only a matter of time before they trace it back to Tippin, and then to me.
- Sydney: I have known Will for years. Trust me on this.
- Jack: There's another possibility... that the man we have in custody is not Will Tippin. Project Helix. The doubling prototype that you destroyed in Poland was designed to reshape a person's physical attributes to identically resemble someone else. The prototype's database revealed two scheduled recipients of the procedure: Dr. Markovic who was killed, and a second unknown individual.
- Sydney: You think Will is the double.
- Kendall: We found Provacillium in Will's car. It's a medication usually taken by gene therapy patients to keep the body from rejecting the DNA mutations.
- Sydney: If someone wanted to set Will up, this is exactly what they would do -- plant these clues, condition him. I'd like permission to assign Francie protective detail. If Sloane is targeting my friends, she could be next.
- Jack: Done.
- Sydney: I'd also like to speak to her about Will. She might have information that could help.
- Jack: Tell her what you think is necessary, but only what's necessary.
- [Sloane joins Jack at his outdoor table at a restaurant.]
- Sloane: It's good to see you, Jack.
- Jack: I assume that since you're sitting across from me with so little regard for your life, I'm in the cross hairs of a sniper rifle.
- Sloane: Two of them.
- Sydney: You erased it...
- Irina: I transferred a