I'll post the synopis for episode one here, after it airs.
Until then, I will post the last episode from last season, it aired last may, so I needed a refresher.
(Random thought: If you check the last paragraph, sydney is in wittenburg, the city the name Whidden came from. )
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Season 3: Episode 22 - "Resurrection"
5/23/2003
Sydney strategically places cell phones throughout the office. She patches into the CIA computer and downloads the Rambaldi equation. Then she contacts Sark - Sydney is actually Lauren in disguise! She shoots Marshall when he questions her. As she bolts, the cell phones explode. Vaughn follows "Syd," but she knocks him out, then escapes by stealing a car.
The real Syd is interrogated by Hank Foster, Counterintelligence Threat Analysis. Believing she was somehow involved in the break-in, he reassigns her to a desk job pending further investigation.
Vaughn tells Jack that he's prepared to exact revenge on Lauren. Jack tells Dixon to have Vaughn question Sark, in order to to increase the psychological fear. Vaughn beats Sark bloody during the investigation. Sark gives Lauren up.
Syd calls Vaughn, and intuits that Vaughn knows Lauren's location. She asks Jack why the Sark interrogation is classified. He dodges the question, saying that Vaughn should kill Lauren to gain closure. He says that he regrets letting Irina go.
Vaughn spies on Lauren decrypting the equation in a warehouse. He photographs the longitude and latitude, then surprises her and administers a beating. About to disfigure her with hydrochloric acid, Vaughn is stabbed from behind and collapses.
Sloane sneaks into a CIA safe house and begs Nadia to tell him the location of The Sphere of Life - the vessel in which Rambaldi's consciousness is stored. She's dubious. Before he leaves, he tells her how to find him.
Syd and Jack wait for Vaughn in the hospital. Now Syd vows to kill Lauren, whether Jack, who is alarmed at her transition, helps her or not.
Lauren appears in the jail cell next to Sark. She forgives him for giving her up. He tells her that the Rambaldi info is backed up on an offsite server and gives her the password. It's not Lauren, but Syd - who removes her mask! When she determines that the equation leads to Palermo, Sicily, she leaves immediately. Vaughn tells Weiss that Katya Derevko stabbed him and that Syd is walking into a trap. Vaughn uses Weiss to create a diversion to escape the hospital.
Syd finds Katya in the Palermo site. She says she's tracking The Covenant and that she knows Lauren is present. Katya tries to shoot Syd, but Syd had secretly removed the cartridge from Katya's gun. Syd then shoots Katya. Lauren arrives but Syd misses her shot and Lauren runs.
Nadia escapes the CIA safe house to meet Sloane, who tells her that the Sphere may be compromised because The Covenant has solved the equation. She says that she purposely altered the equation - The Covenant is looking in the wrong place. She and Sloane venture off together to find the Sphere.
Syd and Lauren fight. Lauren says that Syd still doesn't know the truth about her life. Lauren is about to finish Syd off when Vaughn shoots Lauren dead. Before she dies, Lauren tells Syd that the truth is in box 1062 in the Bank of Wittenberg. Syd and Vaughn kiss.
In Wittenberg, Syd opens the safe deposit box and finds top secret documents. She cries as she peruses files documenting her life, each one bearing Jack Bristow's signature. Jack enters and says she was never supposed to have found these documents.
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Season Premiere: Wednesday, Jan. 5
"Authorized Personnel Only, Parts I & 2"
In the season premiere episode, Sydney, Vaughn, Jack and Dixon are stunned by CIA Director Hayden Chase's (Angela Bassett) choice to be their new boss. Meanwhile, Sydney and Vaughn's possible reconciliation is surprisingly in doubt -- even though Lauren is dead -- and Sydney learns an appalling secret about Jack that threatens to destroy their relationship. Additionally, against Sydney's vehement objections, her new boss partners her with Jack to hunt down a modern-day samurai; Sydney's half-sister, Nadia, is reluctant to return to the spy game since learning the truth about her father -- Arvin Sloan; and Vaughn and Jack share a surprising bond over Jack's unspeakable past misdeed - much to Sydney's chagrin.
This was the first Alias Ihave seen, and I did it because I got tired of listening to you and becker about how goodit was.
Must say I enjoyed the premiere, Sydney sometimes reminds me of the old movie heroine Pauline in the Perils of Pauline. Every other scene she is jammed up by something that should kill her, but not our gal Sydney,she is a master of Karate, Kung foo, quick change artist and all round nice gal who has eyes that fill with real emotion.
Good episode will watch from now on, I like the"lover guy" Vaughn, He reminds me of the guy who was in Dark Angel ( Michael Weatherby or Weatherly) He
has a nice back. Ha Ha. But now Lost is another story and if I can find the thread will go there and join in.
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aka deltacent aka deltater
Life may not be the party I had hoped for.......
But while I'm here I might just as well listen to the music and dance..
Episode one and two synopsis. (the two hour premiere was actually two episodes shown back to back I guess.)
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Season 4: Episode 1 - "Authorized Personnel Only, Part 1"
1/5/2005
Sydney, on a train, in lingerie, flirts with a man to get into his … briefcase. He unlocks it, revealing a canister containing an unstable isotope. She knocks him out and takes it, runs into the corridor. A thug follows and is about to push her off the train...
Shanghai 72 hours earlier … Sydney, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, escapes with a contact into a club's bathroom. It's a mission gone bad, a fellow agent is killed, and in order to escape she makes her contact dress like a goth.
In LA, Syd is berated for violating protocol by Director Chase and stripped of her classified clearance. Sydney then quits the CIA. In Washington, Vaughn and Weiss talk about his meltdown after discovering Lauren's treachery. Vaughn says he's quitting.
Sydney walks down a subway, opens a secret doorway and enters an office. Director Chase is there and welcomes her. She explains Langley approved this black ops division only months ago. Dixon, Jack, Vaughn are all there -- a team handpicked by Sloane. Chase privately tells Syd that they need Sloane's contacts -- and the team is a safeguard against Sloane's potential treachery
Sloane explains that their covert unit is like the CIA's own SD-6, called APO -- Authorized Personnel Only. Their first mission targets a Russian scientist named Yuri Kamarov, who wants to sell an isotope to an unknown buyer on a Belorussian train. Vaughn will act as the buyer while Syd grabs the isotope. She's openly disdainful toward Sloane.
On the train, Syd barges in to Kamarov's room claiming that it's her room. Vaughn poses as Kamarov and meets the buyer, who works for a Mr. Vadik, while Sydney occupies the real scientist. The buyer recognizes Vaughn and puts a thug on him as he leaves. Vaughn signals Syd, who swipes the isotope. Vaughn beats the thug and races to save Syd. He throws her assailant off the train. They make love. After, he asks Syd what happened at Wittenburg. Syd flashes back -- she's reading a top-secret document as Jack enters.
Season 4: Episode 2- "Authorized Personnel Only, Part 2"
1/5/2005
Sloane plans for Syd to talk to Nadia about Vadik, whom she once tracked. Sloane says that Nadia quit the intelligence business and returned to Argentina after they found a Rambaldi artifact and handed it over to the US government. In Argentina, Nadia won't return but tells Syd that Vadik's right hand is Tomazaki.
At home, Syd tells Vaughn about Wittenburg -- she learned that day that her father had killed her mother, Irina Derevko.
Tomazaki has disappeared. They learn that five years ago he unsuccessfully tried to steal the Shintaro sword from a London museum. Sloane suggests they steal the sword as bait. At Dixon's suggestion, they enlist Marshall. In the museum, Syd triggers the alarms but manages to steal the sword and, with Jack's help, escapes the police.
Later Jack tells Sloane that he didn't tell Syd everything in Wittenburg.
Dixon arranges to sell the Shintaro sword to Tomazaki in Rio de Janiero. Tomazaki's jailed thug tells Jack that Vadik is Tomazaki. At the agreed meeting, Tomazaki kidnaps Syd. Vaughn asks Nadia for help. Tomazaki asks a perplexed Syd how she found out about the hit. He tortures her. He says he was supposed to assassinate her but the day before the hit, his client was killed.
Nadia steal a key card from a Tomazaki associate and saves Sydney from drowning during the water torture. Tomazaki knocks her out. He attacks Syd with the sword but she runs him through. Before he dies, he says that Irina Derevko hired him to kill her.
Sloane announces that Nadia has joined APO. Syd tells Jack that Tomazaki had the contract. He doesn't know why Irina wanted Syd dead. Vaughn comforts a shaken Syd.
Nadia and Syd travel to Moscow, where Syd had Irina interred. Syd tells Nadia she has no idea who killed her. Nadia swears that she'll kill whoever murdered their mother.
That was my first time seeing Alias, also. I had always wanted to watch it, but it was on at the same time as Angel, and obviously I couldn't miss that! Now that Angel has been canceled (grumble grumble, best season ever, grumble grumble), I am free to watch Alias.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Pippin said this in post #11 : That was my first time seeing Alias, also. I had always wanted to watch it, but it was on at the same time as Angel, and obviously I couldn't miss that! Now that Angel has been canceled (grumble grumble, best season ever, grumble grumble), I am free to watch Alias.
I miss "Angel" and also miss "Buffy"
But "Alias" is now one of my favs. I love the casting and action. It never slows down. Sydney is so hot she burns right thru my TV Tube.
12-06-2004 09:13 PM
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This is gonna be fun.
