Alias s01e02 Episode Script
So It Begins
Seven years ago, I was recruited to work for SD-6, which I was told was a covert branch of the CIA.
I was trained as a spy, warned not to tell anyone what I did.
I thought I was working for the good guys, until I told my fiancé about SD-6 and they had him killed.
That's when I learned the truth.
That SD-6 is part of the very enemy I thought I was fighting.
Now I'm a double agent, working with the real CIA to bring down SD-6, where my only ally is another double agent, a man I hardly know.
My father.
[ Sirens wailing .]
Arrêtez! Arrêtez! [ Shouting in French .]
[ Gunshots .]
[ Shouting in French .]
[ High-pitched squeal .]
[ Bell dings .]
Arrêtez! Arrêtez! SYDNEY: That was three years ago, when I met him for the first time.
Leonard Dreyfus.
He helps bankroll SD-6 operations.
This guy is very hands-on, not just in his business.
He's a real slime.
He runs a division in Geneva.
Go-to guy for transport.
He'll get anything anywhere fast.
Sloane relies on him.
He's a big target.
Also, there's a crew just outside Memphis.
They provide firearms, custom stuff.
Graphite, titanium, plastics.
-Memphis? -Memphis, Egypt.
I know I just started working with you guys at the ClA, but listen to me.
If we're gonna bring down SD-6, we have to eliminate their source of arms, lneni Hassan.
Three of her majesty's favorite.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
And now the new design, as I promised.
I named it "Abenni.
" That's my son's name.
It holds 12 rounds.
It's semiautomatic.
What the hell is this? [ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Shouting in Arabic .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
No! That was -- Uh, sorry.
I am sorry you had to see that.
SYDNEY: That was six months ago.
I have friends from the Middle East.
Hassan's not one of them.
I don't blame you.
We need to go after a geneticist in Kuala Lumpur.
-He was involved in -- -Okay, stop.
You have to listen to me now, okay? You said you wanted to talk about the plan.
I'm giving you the plan.
It's not your job.
I'm giving you the plan.
Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6.
Nothing should change.
When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag.
Bag.
Then you'll call this number.
Memorize it.
After three tones, press the appropriate digit, 1 through 6.
Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location.
We'll dead-drop, review your information, create a countermission, and contact you posing as a wrong number, Joey's Pizza.
Any questions? Yeah.
Can you show me what a bag looks like again? Now, you listen to me, Mr.
Vaughn I appreciate what your job is here -- even though I think you're a little young -- To establish a protocol between the ClA and their latest double agent.
But I am not sitting here to pick up the ins and outs of Langley procedure.
I am sitting here for one reason only.
To destroy SD-6, after which I am out.
I want no more of this spy crap.
That's why I went to you in the first place.
So listen to me, and I will hand you, in record time, the people who will render SD-6 useless.
Record time? Two months tops, and then I am out.
I walk.
Draw me a map.
Draw me a map of SD-6, all its allies, how far you think it reaches.
Do I look like I'm in junior high? -Are there braces on my teeth? -Draw an SD-6 family tree.
-Do you see a retainer?! -Just do it! I don't know what your problem is with me.
Maybe it's that I'm a woman, or you don't like my attitude or something.
I am sorry about that.
I really don't feel like wasting time here.
There is only one way we're gonna immobilize SD-6, and that's my way.
So forgive me for being forthright or female, but this is how it's gonna be.
[ Sighs .]
Since I've been at the ClA, I've only seen this map grow.
This is what you're in the middle of.
If shutting down the Los Angeles cell is all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago.
This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster.
This is about killing the monster.
And the work you have ahead of you the work your father's been doing.
It's complicated.
It's political.
It is long-term.
-Here, memorize this.
-I did.
Okay.
Well, I guess we'll wait to hear from you.
Hey, wait.
-Thanks.
-You're welcome.
Hey, see you in class.
For sure.
Oh, look.
This one's chipped.
Oh, that's okay.
Those were my mom's.
Oh.
Okay.
These are heavy.
Oh.
Put those down right here.
No problem.
Thank you.
Como sí.
I need a massage later.
Okay.
Good to know.
-Hey, finally.
-I know.
I'm sorry.
Litvack called, and I had to rewrite a whole piece in the parking lot.
-They didn't have horseradish.
-That's cool.
-That's annoying.
-No kidding.
There's a woman in Marina Del Rey who's eating newspaper.
-Eating it? -She's pregnant.
It's a condition that some women get.
Eating newspaper's a condition? This is what I write about.
This is how I make a living.
And Litvack says my writing's too judgmental.
I'm like, "Who cares? She's not gonna read it.
She's gonna swallow it.
" What are you doing Thursday? Rewriting this piece.
Charlie got an offer.
Hey, that's great! Where? Fleming Letterman.
That's corporate law, downtown office.
Yeah, I heard of that.
We're doing dinner on Thursday.
You are required.
I'm totally there.
Congratulations.
Hey.
Do you want your food? Yeah, I just want to get the closets done first so I feel like I live here.
Well, here.
Thanks.
I'm sorry.
I can't take it.
Oh, Will, please, let's not do this again.
You know that I can't let this go.
You took Amy's passport.
You took her credit card.
-I know what happened.
-You disappeared.
[ Pager beeping .]
[ Beeping stops .]
It's the bank.
What was going on with Danny? -I need you to do something.
-You need me to shut up.
I need you to accept what I've already told you.
You haven't told me anything.
I lost my mind a little.
I started imagining things.
Maybe you're not imagining it.
This is what I do.
I might be able to find something the police overlooked.
Stop it.
Please.
I'm trying to move on here.
I need your help to do that.
Okay? -Oh, uh, Miss Bristow.
-Hey, Marshall.
Hey.
Uh, listen, I don't normally get overly personal.
I don't like to cross that line.
You probably don't know this about me.
I'm really not much of a social person.
I don't -- I like myself.
I enjoy myself.
I don't feel that kind of pressure when I'm by my-- Did you ever feel that? You can say anything you want to me.
Okay, I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry about your fiancé and it's nice to have you back.
Thanks.
Let's start with what we know.
We've received two pieces of intel.
The first is this internal memo from G.
R.
U.
headquarters.
It seems that certain files were reported missing last week from the seventh floor of the aquarium.
Seventh floor? That's foreign intelligence.
Then we acquired the second piece.
Abul Hassein Navour, military attaché from Sudan whom you'll fondly remember from last year.
He's on his way to Moscow to meet these two gentlemen.
Kazimirets Chebekov and Luri Kapochev.
Both l.
D.
'd as members of the Russian Mafia.
We think these are the men who stole the documents.
The codes indicated in the memo that these lost documents pertained to the Soviet-American nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Navour's buying 20-year-old intelligence records.
Why? That's the part we don't know.
So you are leaving tomorrow morning.
Your job is to prevent the transaction and retrieve the stolen files.
Marshall, tell us what you got.
Okay.
Who here has trouble falling asleep at night? Hmm? Okay.
Well, on occasion, I find it difficult.
Mind racing, ideas, et cetera.
So this kind of pertains to the whole sleeping thing.
Now, I created this just for Navour.
You just take this little kind of round thing here.
It's pretty cool.
Just touch it with your finger, your hand.
Just, you know, barely touch it.
You're knocked out completely.
It's like freebasing Thorazine.
Boom.
Now, you only get two times on this thing.
It only works twice.
So you don't want to use it three times, 'cause Do we need to wear those gloves? Oh, no.
No, l, uh We can make you a nice, uh, ring or, um, you know, perhaps an attractive cuff link.
The reason why I'm wearing the gloves.
I accidentally touched this the other day.
I fell and knocked my head on the desk and was out cold for 20 minutes.
You guys should see the That's not, um I'm trying to be kind of Pavlovian about these puppies.
No pun intended.
They keep coming back, don't they? Who? You mean Navour? How is that man still able to walk? If it weren't him, it'd be someone else.
Then let it be someone else.
We kill ourselves to do the right thing.
Meanwhile, the bad people keep coming back.
Sydney, do you have a minute? Yes, of course.
I'll be in tech ops.
I know it's gonna take you some time to adjust to being back.
I just want to make sure you're all right.
I'm fine.
Thanks.
Good.
I need to show you something.
I'll leave you two alone.
It's all right.
The room's clean.
No one's listening.
Hello, Sydney.
What is this? I'm here to tell you what you already know.
That I work for SD-6, or so they think.
-I asked Sloane to do this.
-Why? Because it'll facilitate what we're doing if they know that you know.
It wouldn't hurt if you acted surprised when you left.
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? Yes.
Don't you ever speak to me again.
Abul Hassein Navour is attempting to purchase files stolen from the Russian government.
Sloane is sending us to Moscow to prevent Navour from getting the files.
Dixon will impersonate Navour.
My job is to break into Navour's hotel room and take the money for the buy.
So what's next? [ Telephone rings .]
Hello? Joey's Pizza? I'm sorry.
You've got the wrong number.
It's me.
-How you doing? -How am I doing? Things have been better.
I'm working with friends who have no idea who they're really working for.
I heard Sloane had you meet your father.
Yes, he did.
So, what's my countermission? Navour's been on our short list for the past six months.
In August, he attempted to purchase a nuke from Libya.
You already knew about Moscow? No, we didn't.
Thank you for that.
Don't mention it.
That was cold.
So, what's my move? Carry out your assignment.
Get the documents.
When you get back make sure you are holding the stolen files.
We'll execute two brush passes at the airport terminal.
The first one will take place at the gate.
We'll intercept the materials and create a duplicate copy, then return them to you in a second pass to be executed at the airport curb.
-That's it? -That's it.
-Want a Slush-O? -No, thank you.
They're delicious.
No, thanks.
I said I was cold.
Good luck.
No, I can imagine that must have been devastating.
Did he say anything to you after he drove over your cat? Uh-huh.
Did he ever make any threats? To you or your cat.
Sure.
Okay.
Well, you have my number at the paper.
All right.
Bye-bye.
-A man ran over his cat.
-I understand.
We live in a world where people drive over people's cats.
You never answered my question before.
-Which one? -What are you doing for dinner? Jenny, you're 19 years old.
I'm 20.
I'm not having this conversation, okay? I'm ancient compared to you.
Look at me.
Look how red my eyes are.
You don't look too bad.
Hey, do me a favor.
Can you pull me that file on Daniel Hecht? What, that murder? Your friend? Yeah.
Do you mind? No.
Thanks.
You don't take me seriously, do you? No, I don't.
Hmm.
Dixon, do you copy? Wow, that's loud.
You told Marshall you wanted it louder.
I was there.
Okay.
My headache and l are 1017.
Break a leg.
You too.
SYDNEY: I'm on 15.
Get the cash quickly.
That is the plan.
[ Speaking Russian .]
Chebekov and Kapochev just showed up.
Standing by for your call.
[ Man speaking Russian .]
Wow.
Bodyguard's out.
Navour's in the shower.
I'm going in for the money.
Move fast.
They spotted me.
Are you my Sudanese friend? Uh, Mr.
Chebekov? Kapochev.
I am the handsome one.
Uh, no protection with you? Why? Should I not feel safe here? Here? Here, you should feel very safe, yes.
Come.
Let's sit down.
I know the guy who owns this club.
Kapochev He thinks I brag too much.
It's true.
I do.
Yes.
I brag too much.
[ Laughs .]
[ Man speaking Russian .]
That's the problem with Sudan.
There is no place for fun.
It's a nice change being out of the Sudan.
I thought you said you travel often.
Yes.
But not often enough.
So, I can see you don't have the money with you.
-ls that correct? -No, not at the moment.
But the money is very close.
[ Speaking Russian .]
I got bad news.
Dixon, this wasn't a buy.
It was a holdup.
They were gonna steal the files.
There's no money here.
Fantastic.
What? Vodka.
Dixon, don't panic.
I'll be there in two minutes.
Any word from her yet? No.
I don't expect to hear anything till she gets back.
-Your girlfriend is Alice.
-Will you shut up? -I'm just checking.
-Get out of my office.
Okay.
Bye.
I'm in the bar.
I can see you.
Are those the files? If they are, cough.
Are they documents? Are they on disk? How many? Get ready to make a switch.
Just like a drug deal.
Would you like to taste the Coke? How do I know you haven't made copies? Those disks are encrypted.
[ Speaking Russian .]
Okay, enough nonsense.
Where's the money? You stay here.
I'll go get the cash.
Sounds good.
Who are you? At first, I thought Navour sent you.
Now I don't think that.
Ugh! We got two three-and-a-halfers.
We gotta move fast.
Let's use the third and fourth copies.
It should take about 90 seconds.
They're moving into customs.
We're talking seconds.
I hope they're not corrupted.
They're moving through the main terminal! How long is this gonna take? These disks are very old.
We're moving as fast as we can.
Let me see that data as soon as it comes up.
I'm not seeing it.
Okay, here we go.
Get me the other one! Ooh, ooh Pray God you can cope I stand outside This woman's work This woman's world Ooh, it's hard on the man Now his part is over Now starts the craft Of the father I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I should be crying, but I just can't let it show I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking Of all the things I should've said that I never said All the things we should've done that we never did All the things I should've given but I didn't Oh, darling, make it go Make it go away He says, "Honey, I asked for butter an hour ago.
" I'm sitting there thinking, "Uh, no, you asked the other black girl for butter, you rich, entitled son of a bitch.
" Some people go out to eat, this is just my theory, in order to abuse waiters.
-No question.
-Creepy, isn't it? There are some bad people in this world.
-Hello.
-Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
This is for the offer and for helping me move.
Thank you.
Wow, look at this.
Now we'll have something to drink when you guys come over.
Hey, can I talk to you for a second? Sure.
I'll be right back.
What's going on? We've known each other for three years.
Just confirm that.
Yes, three years.
It feels like a lot longer than that, right? We know each other pretty well.
Yeah, we do.
You know I would never do anything to hurt you.
You know that I'm a curious guy.
Will, what did you do? You never gave me any information on Danny.
Oh, God, Will.
So I looked around a little bit.
I found out one piece of information which you might not know, but maybe you do.
What? The night that Danny was killed Did you know that he was booked on a flight from L.
A.
X.
to Singapore? Yeah.
I knew that.
You did? You knew that? Yeah, Danny had a medical conference.
He wanted me to fly out and meet him afterwards.
Have a week in Bali.
I spend all day every day trying not to see him the way I found him.
I know you mean well.
I love you for that.
But please, please let this go.
-Syd, I'm sorry.
-No, it's okay.
That's it.
I get it.
I won't bring it up again.
Okay.
I just need a minute.
[ Sniffles .]
Syd, I feel horrible.
No, it's okay.
I swear to God, I'm okay.
I'll be right there, okay? Okay.
Doomsday 6.
That was the name of the operation.
During the Cold War, six fully armed nuclear weapons were smuggled into and buried within the United States.
In December '89, that information was disclosed to the U.
S.
government.
The bombs were quickly recovered and disarmed.
That was the information on those disks? No.
They revealed a seventh nuke buried still somewhere in the United States.
-Where? -We don't know yet.
Those disks were encoded with a sectional encryption.
Analysis is working on it.
This is all we've got so far.
"Milovich lvanov.
Buckingham, Virginia.
" Who's he? We assume he's the man Navour was looking for.
We have no file on him.
You think he's babysitting the nuke? Yes.
I do.
Go to that address.
Report back on lvanov.
Any aliases, where he lives, where he works, the type of coffee he drinks, the whole deal.
Thanks.
[ Rings .]
-Yeah? -I'm going to see lvanov.
-Who? -[ Click .]
Sydney? Sydney?! We have a name and an address.
We are not gonna sit on our hands here.
I understand, but we cannot move on that information.
We can, and we will.
We are risking Sydney Bristow's placement in SD-6 and perhaps her life.
That may be the case.
Yes, we might sacrifice a double in the process.
Sir, she's going to see him.
She's on her way.
We are talking about a nuclear weapon here.
What do you expect me to do, wait until Bristow contacts us? Read her file, sir.
Have you read her file? -Bristow -Do it.
She is an asset.
She is doing our work.
She was supposed to contact you.
There's a good reason she couldn't.
She is on her way to Virginia.
If we send in a team, we risk blowing her cover.
We cannot afford to do that.
Read her file.
I've read it.
What do you want? Five hours.
Give her five hours.
Five hours.
Thank you.
Whew.
Impressive.
Yeah.
Balls of steel.
That's what I'm gonna call you from now on.
Hey, have you met balls of steel? [ Grunting .]
[ Thump .]
[ Ticking .]
We've got a red wire, a yellow, a blue, a blue-white.
There's a white wire, a yellow-red, an orange-red.
A black, a white-black, an orange, a purple.
A purple-white, a green, a green-white.
Okay, okay.
Um, cut the blue-white wire.
Cutting the blue-white wire.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, hold the phone! Don't tell me to hold the phone! I'm sitting on a ticking bomb! Are there two timer panels or one? Just, uh, I only see one.
All right.
Uh, try the blue-white.
Try it? No, cut it! Cut it.
Okay.
[ Ticking stops .]
Hello? You called SD-6 instead of the ClA! That is unacceptable! You should have called me! You?! What would you have done?! The ClA has access to nuclear scientists.
Give me a break.
I had two minutes.
You went to Virginia without contacting us.
I did contact you! You are being irresponsible.
SD-6 happens to have a nuclear weapon.
It happens to be my fault.
After I called Marshall, SD-6 knew I'd found the bomb.
But you know what? We're gonna track it and steal it back.
It's in Cairo.
What? When SD-6 picked up our nuke, they put it on a plane bound for Egypt.
Are you ready for this? They sold the thing to lneni Hassan.
Hassan? Yeah.
Reflected on both our records, FYl.
What? I told you I've been there.
Hassan's.
-I can go back.
-No.
Can't do it.
-Why not? -Hassan knows you.
If you're spotted, it will get back to Sloane.
Then we'll just have to make sure they never see me.
Thanks for meeting me here.
I'm sorry about hitting you.
You're going to Cairo.
Devlin told me.
Yeah.
That's why I had them call you.
I need your help.
SD-6 can't know that's where I'm going.
I'll take care of it.
Dad it was you, wasn't it? Who bought the ticket to Singapore? You were in Taipei.
I'd arranged a flight for you as well.
From Singapore, you could have gone anywhere.
I went to Danny's apartment, except that I got there too late.
Just minutes too late.
Thank you.
I have to go.
Obviously.
[ Car door closes .]
[ Engine turns over .]
Tell Weiss I'm in operations, and if Alice calls -- I need you.
Yeah.
I know.
Call me if there's anything.
Let me just say this about Bristow -- Don't bother.
Don't apologize.
You're not in trouble.
Virginia was my call.
She is intimately familiar with the Hassan base.
She's gonna disable the weapon.
We are all over it.
Well, you don't have to be.
That's what I'm here to tell you.
You're being pulled off the Bristow case.
What? Why? Devlin wants a more senior officer.
You were right.
This girl is important to us.
[ Sighs .]
Yeah, I know.
He wants you to oversee the office presentation at the D.
C.
I.
nonproliferation meeting.
Under the circumstances, I think is pretty ironic.
[ Telephone rings .]
Yeah? Yeah, send him in.
Have you heard from Sydney? Yeah.
What's wrong with her? She went up North.
I think she just needed to get away.
-ls she okay? -She will be.
I think it's hard for her, that's all.
Accepting the news about what I do.
Are you all right? Yeah, of course.
Why? I don't know.
You seem a little What? Nothing.
Nothing.
-I'll see you tomorrow.
-Yeah.
Okay.
I'm in.
I think I found it.
MAN: Copy.
Yeah, I found it.
Copy.
Commence disabling.
I've got it open.
I'm going for the core.
Copy.
Radio silence until task complete.
I know we just met on the flight over, but do you have to talk like such a robotron? Radio silence requested.
I guess you do.
All right, Robotron.
I'm holding the core.
I was trained as a spy, warned not to tell anyone what I did.
I thought I was working for the good guys, until I told my fiancé about SD-6 and they had him killed.
That's when I learned the truth.
That SD-6 is part of the very enemy I thought I was fighting.
Now I'm a double agent, working with the real CIA to bring down SD-6, where my only ally is another double agent, a man I hardly know.
My father.
[ Sirens wailing .]
Arrêtez! Arrêtez! [ Shouting in French .]
[ Gunshots .]
[ Shouting in French .]
[ High-pitched squeal .]
[ Bell dings .]
Arrêtez! Arrêtez! SYDNEY: That was three years ago, when I met him for the first time.
Leonard Dreyfus.
He helps bankroll SD-6 operations.
This guy is very hands-on, not just in his business.
He's a real slime.
He runs a division in Geneva.
Go-to guy for transport.
He'll get anything anywhere fast.
Sloane relies on him.
He's a big target.
Also, there's a crew just outside Memphis.
They provide firearms, custom stuff.
Graphite, titanium, plastics.
-Memphis? -Memphis, Egypt.
I know I just started working with you guys at the ClA, but listen to me.
If we're gonna bring down SD-6, we have to eliminate their source of arms, lneni Hassan.
Three of her majesty's favorite.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
And now the new design, as I promised.
I named it "Abenni.
" That's my son's name.
It holds 12 rounds.
It's semiautomatic.
What the hell is this? [ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Shouting in Arabic .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
No! That was -- Uh, sorry.
I am sorry you had to see that.
SYDNEY: That was six months ago.
I have friends from the Middle East.
Hassan's not one of them.
I don't blame you.
We need to go after a geneticist in Kuala Lumpur.
-He was involved in -- -Okay, stop.
You have to listen to me now, okay? You said you wanted to talk about the plan.
I'm giving you the plan.
It's not your job.
I'm giving you the plan.
Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6.
Nothing should change.
When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag.
Bag.
Then you'll call this number.
Memorize it.
After three tones, press the appropriate digit, 1 through 6.
Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location.
We'll dead-drop, review your information, create a countermission, and contact you posing as a wrong number, Joey's Pizza.
Any questions? Yeah.
Can you show me what a bag looks like again? Now, you listen to me, Mr.
Vaughn I appreciate what your job is here -- even though I think you're a little young -- To establish a protocol between the ClA and their latest double agent.
But I am not sitting here to pick up the ins and outs of Langley procedure.
I am sitting here for one reason only.
To destroy SD-6, after which I am out.
I want no more of this spy crap.
That's why I went to you in the first place.
So listen to me, and I will hand you, in record time, the people who will render SD-6 useless.
Record time? Two months tops, and then I am out.
I walk.
Draw me a map.
Draw me a map of SD-6, all its allies, how far you think it reaches.
Do I look like I'm in junior high? -Are there braces on my teeth? -Draw an SD-6 family tree.
-Do you see a retainer?! -Just do it! I don't know what your problem is with me.
Maybe it's that I'm a woman, or you don't like my attitude or something.
I am sorry about that.
I really don't feel like wasting time here.
There is only one way we're gonna immobilize SD-6, and that's my way.
So forgive me for being forthright or female, but this is how it's gonna be.
[ Sighs .]
Since I've been at the ClA, I've only seen this map grow.
This is what you're in the middle of.
If shutting down the Los Angeles cell is all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago.
This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster.
This is about killing the monster.
And the work you have ahead of you the work your father's been doing.
It's complicated.
It's political.
It is long-term.
-Here, memorize this.
-I did.
Okay.
Well, I guess we'll wait to hear from you.
Hey, wait.
-Thanks.
-You're welcome.
Hey, see you in class.
For sure.
Oh, look.
This one's chipped.
Oh, that's okay.
Those were my mom's.
Oh.
Okay.
These are heavy.
Oh.
Put those down right here.
No problem.
Thank you.
Como sí.
I need a massage later.
Okay.
Good to know.
-Hey, finally.
-I know.
I'm sorry.
Litvack called, and I had to rewrite a whole piece in the parking lot.
-They didn't have horseradish.
-That's cool.
-That's annoying.
-No kidding.
There's a woman in Marina Del Rey who's eating newspaper.
-Eating it? -She's pregnant.
It's a condition that some women get.
Eating newspaper's a condition? This is what I write about.
This is how I make a living.
And Litvack says my writing's too judgmental.
I'm like, "Who cares? She's not gonna read it.
She's gonna swallow it.
" What are you doing Thursday? Rewriting this piece.
Charlie got an offer.
Hey, that's great! Where? Fleming Letterman.
That's corporate law, downtown office.
Yeah, I heard of that.
We're doing dinner on Thursday.
You are required.
I'm totally there.
Congratulations.
Hey.
Do you want your food? Yeah, I just want to get the closets done first so I feel like I live here.
Well, here.
Thanks.
I'm sorry.
I can't take it.
Oh, Will, please, let's not do this again.
You know that I can't let this go.
You took Amy's passport.
You took her credit card.
-I know what happened.
-You disappeared.
[ Pager beeping .]
[ Beeping stops .]
It's the bank.
What was going on with Danny? -I need you to do something.
-You need me to shut up.
I need you to accept what I've already told you.
You haven't told me anything.
I lost my mind a little.
I started imagining things.
Maybe you're not imagining it.
This is what I do.
I might be able to find something the police overlooked.
Stop it.
Please.
I'm trying to move on here.
I need your help to do that.
Okay? -Oh, uh, Miss Bristow.
-Hey, Marshall.
Hey.
Uh, listen, I don't normally get overly personal.
I don't like to cross that line.
You probably don't know this about me.
I'm really not much of a social person.
I don't -- I like myself.
I enjoy myself.
I don't feel that kind of pressure when I'm by my-- Did you ever feel that? You can say anything you want to me.
Okay, I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry about your fiancé and it's nice to have you back.
Thanks.
Let's start with what we know.
We've received two pieces of intel.
The first is this internal memo from G.
R.
U.
headquarters.
It seems that certain files were reported missing last week from the seventh floor of the aquarium.
Seventh floor? That's foreign intelligence.
Then we acquired the second piece.
Abul Hassein Navour, military attaché from Sudan whom you'll fondly remember from last year.
He's on his way to Moscow to meet these two gentlemen.
Kazimirets Chebekov and Luri Kapochev.
Both l.
D.
'd as members of the Russian Mafia.
We think these are the men who stole the documents.
The codes indicated in the memo that these lost documents pertained to the Soviet-American nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Navour's buying 20-year-old intelligence records.
Why? That's the part we don't know.
So you are leaving tomorrow morning.
Your job is to prevent the transaction and retrieve the stolen files.
Marshall, tell us what you got.
Okay.
Who here has trouble falling asleep at night? Hmm? Okay.
Well, on occasion, I find it difficult.
Mind racing, ideas, et cetera.
So this kind of pertains to the whole sleeping thing.
Now, I created this just for Navour.
You just take this little kind of round thing here.
It's pretty cool.
Just touch it with your finger, your hand.
Just, you know, barely touch it.
You're knocked out completely.
It's like freebasing Thorazine.
Boom.
Now, you only get two times on this thing.
It only works twice.
So you don't want to use it three times, 'cause Do we need to wear those gloves? Oh, no.
No, l, uh We can make you a nice, uh, ring or, um, you know, perhaps an attractive cuff link.
The reason why I'm wearing the gloves.
I accidentally touched this the other day.
I fell and knocked my head on the desk and was out cold for 20 minutes.
You guys should see the That's not, um I'm trying to be kind of Pavlovian about these puppies.
No pun intended.
They keep coming back, don't they? Who? You mean Navour? How is that man still able to walk? If it weren't him, it'd be someone else.
Then let it be someone else.
We kill ourselves to do the right thing.
Meanwhile, the bad people keep coming back.
Sydney, do you have a minute? Yes, of course.
I'll be in tech ops.
I know it's gonna take you some time to adjust to being back.
I just want to make sure you're all right.
I'm fine.
Thanks.
Good.
I need to show you something.
I'll leave you two alone.
It's all right.
The room's clean.
No one's listening.
Hello, Sydney.
What is this? I'm here to tell you what you already know.
That I work for SD-6, or so they think.
-I asked Sloane to do this.
-Why? Because it'll facilitate what we're doing if they know that you know.
It wouldn't hurt if you acted surprised when you left.
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? Yes.
Don't you ever speak to me again.
Abul Hassein Navour is attempting to purchase files stolen from the Russian government.
Sloane is sending us to Moscow to prevent Navour from getting the files.
Dixon will impersonate Navour.
My job is to break into Navour's hotel room and take the money for the buy.
So what's next? [ Telephone rings .]
Hello? Joey's Pizza? I'm sorry.
You've got the wrong number.
It's me.
-How you doing? -How am I doing? Things have been better.
I'm working with friends who have no idea who they're really working for.
I heard Sloane had you meet your father.
Yes, he did.
So, what's my countermission? Navour's been on our short list for the past six months.
In August, he attempted to purchase a nuke from Libya.
You already knew about Moscow? No, we didn't.
Thank you for that.
Don't mention it.
That was cold.
So, what's my move? Carry out your assignment.
Get the documents.
When you get back make sure you are holding the stolen files.
We'll execute two brush passes at the airport terminal.
The first one will take place at the gate.
We'll intercept the materials and create a duplicate copy, then return them to you in a second pass to be executed at the airport curb.
-That's it? -That's it.
-Want a Slush-O? -No, thank you.
They're delicious.
No, thanks.
I said I was cold.
Good luck.
No, I can imagine that must have been devastating.
Did he say anything to you after he drove over your cat? Uh-huh.
Did he ever make any threats? To you or your cat.
Sure.
Okay.
Well, you have my number at the paper.
All right.
Bye-bye.
-A man ran over his cat.
-I understand.
We live in a world where people drive over people's cats.
You never answered my question before.
-Which one? -What are you doing for dinner? Jenny, you're 19 years old.
I'm 20.
I'm not having this conversation, okay? I'm ancient compared to you.
Look at me.
Look how red my eyes are.
You don't look too bad.
Hey, do me a favor.
Can you pull me that file on Daniel Hecht? What, that murder? Your friend? Yeah.
Do you mind? No.
Thanks.
You don't take me seriously, do you? No, I don't.
Hmm.
Dixon, do you copy? Wow, that's loud.
You told Marshall you wanted it louder.
I was there.
Okay.
My headache and l are 1017.
Break a leg.
You too.
SYDNEY: I'm on 15.
Get the cash quickly.
That is the plan.
[ Speaking Russian .]
Chebekov and Kapochev just showed up.
Standing by for your call.
[ Man speaking Russian .]
Wow.
Bodyguard's out.
Navour's in the shower.
I'm going in for the money.
Move fast.
They spotted me.
Are you my Sudanese friend? Uh, Mr.
Chebekov? Kapochev.
I am the handsome one.
Uh, no protection with you? Why? Should I not feel safe here? Here? Here, you should feel very safe, yes.
Come.
Let's sit down.
I know the guy who owns this club.
Kapochev He thinks I brag too much.
It's true.
I do.
Yes.
I brag too much.
[ Laughs .]
[ Man speaking Russian .]
That's the problem with Sudan.
There is no place for fun.
It's a nice change being out of the Sudan.
I thought you said you travel often.
Yes.
But not often enough.
So, I can see you don't have the money with you.
-ls that correct? -No, not at the moment.
But the money is very close.
[ Speaking Russian .]
I got bad news.
Dixon, this wasn't a buy.
It was a holdup.
They were gonna steal the files.
There's no money here.
Fantastic.
What? Vodka.
Dixon, don't panic.
I'll be there in two minutes.
Any word from her yet? No.
I don't expect to hear anything till she gets back.
-Your girlfriend is Alice.
-Will you shut up? -I'm just checking.
-Get out of my office.
Okay.
Bye.
I'm in the bar.
I can see you.
Are those the files? If they are, cough.
Are they documents? Are they on disk? How many? Get ready to make a switch.
Just like a drug deal.
Would you like to taste the Coke? How do I know you haven't made copies? Those disks are encrypted.
[ Speaking Russian .]
Okay, enough nonsense.
Where's the money? You stay here.
I'll go get the cash.
Sounds good.
Who are you? At first, I thought Navour sent you.
Now I don't think that.
Ugh! We got two three-and-a-halfers.
We gotta move fast.
Let's use the third and fourth copies.
It should take about 90 seconds.
They're moving into customs.
We're talking seconds.
I hope they're not corrupted.
They're moving through the main terminal! How long is this gonna take? These disks are very old.
We're moving as fast as we can.
Let me see that data as soon as it comes up.
I'm not seeing it.
Okay, here we go.
Get me the other one! Ooh, ooh Pray God you can cope I stand outside This woman's work This woman's world Ooh, it's hard on the man Now his part is over Now starts the craft Of the father I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I should be crying, but I just can't let it show I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking Of all the things I should've said that I never said All the things we should've done that we never did All the things I should've given but I didn't Oh, darling, make it go Make it go away He says, "Honey, I asked for butter an hour ago.
" I'm sitting there thinking, "Uh, no, you asked the other black girl for butter, you rich, entitled son of a bitch.
" Some people go out to eat, this is just my theory, in order to abuse waiters.
-No question.
-Creepy, isn't it? There are some bad people in this world.
-Hello.
-Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
This is for the offer and for helping me move.
Thank you.
Wow, look at this.
Now we'll have something to drink when you guys come over.
Hey, can I talk to you for a second? Sure.
I'll be right back.
What's going on? We've known each other for three years.
Just confirm that.
Yes, three years.
It feels like a lot longer than that, right? We know each other pretty well.
Yeah, we do.
You know I would never do anything to hurt you.
You know that I'm a curious guy.
Will, what did you do? You never gave me any information on Danny.
Oh, God, Will.
So I looked around a little bit.
I found out one piece of information which you might not know, but maybe you do.
What? The night that Danny was killed Did you know that he was booked on a flight from L.
A.
X.
to Singapore? Yeah.
I knew that.
You did? You knew that? Yeah, Danny had a medical conference.
He wanted me to fly out and meet him afterwards.
Have a week in Bali.
I spend all day every day trying not to see him the way I found him.
I know you mean well.
I love you for that.
But please, please let this go.
-Syd, I'm sorry.
-No, it's okay.
That's it.
I get it.
I won't bring it up again.
Okay.
I just need a minute.
[ Sniffles .]
Syd, I feel horrible.
No, it's okay.
I swear to God, I'm okay.
I'll be right there, okay? Okay.
Doomsday 6.
That was the name of the operation.
During the Cold War, six fully armed nuclear weapons were smuggled into and buried within the United States.
In December '89, that information was disclosed to the U.
S.
government.
The bombs were quickly recovered and disarmed.
That was the information on those disks? No.
They revealed a seventh nuke buried still somewhere in the United States.
-Where? -We don't know yet.
Those disks were encoded with a sectional encryption.
Analysis is working on it.
This is all we've got so far.
"Milovich lvanov.
Buckingham, Virginia.
" Who's he? We assume he's the man Navour was looking for.
We have no file on him.
You think he's babysitting the nuke? Yes.
I do.
Go to that address.
Report back on lvanov.
Any aliases, where he lives, where he works, the type of coffee he drinks, the whole deal.
Thanks.
[ Rings .]
-Yeah? -I'm going to see lvanov.
-Who? -[ Click .]
Sydney? Sydney?! We have a name and an address.
We are not gonna sit on our hands here.
I understand, but we cannot move on that information.
We can, and we will.
We are risking Sydney Bristow's placement in SD-6 and perhaps her life.
That may be the case.
Yes, we might sacrifice a double in the process.
Sir, she's going to see him.
She's on her way.
We are talking about a nuclear weapon here.
What do you expect me to do, wait until Bristow contacts us? Read her file, sir.
Have you read her file? -Bristow -Do it.
She is an asset.
She is doing our work.
She was supposed to contact you.
There's a good reason she couldn't.
She is on her way to Virginia.
If we send in a team, we risk blowing her cover.
We cannot afford to do that.
Read her file.
I've read it.
What do you want? Five hours.
Give her five hours.
Five hours.
Thank you.
Whew.
Impressive.
Yeah.
Balls of steel.
That's what I'm gonna call you from now on.
Hey, have you met balls of steel? [ Grunting .]
[ Thump .]
[ Ticking .]
We've got a red wire, a yellow, a blue, a blue-white.
There's a white wire, a yellow-red, an orange-red.
A black, a white-black, an orange, a purple.
A purple-white, a green, a green-white.
Okay, okay.
Um, cut the blue-white wire.
Cutting the blue-white wire.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, hold the phone! Don't tell me to hold the phone! I'm sitting on a ticking bomb! Are there two timer panels or one? Just, uh, I only see one.
All right.
Uh, try the blue-white.
Try it? No, cut it! Cut it.
Okay.
[ Ticking stops .]
Hello? You called SD-6 instead of the ClA! That is unacceptable! You should have called me! You?! What would you have done?! The ClA has access to nuclear scientists.
Give me a break.
I had two minutes.
You went to Virginia without contacting us.
I did contact you! You are being irresponsible.
SD-6 happens to have a nuclear weapon.
It happens to be my fault.
After I called Marshall, SD-6 knew I'd found the bomb.
But you know what? We're gonna track it and steal it back.
It's in Cairo.
What? When SD-6 picked up our nuke, they put it on a plane bound for Egypt.
Are you ready for this? They sold the thing to lneni Hassan.
Hassan? Yeah.
Reflected on both our records, FYl.
What? I told you I've been there.
Hassan's.
-I can go back.
-No.
Can't do it.
-Why not? -Hassan knows you.
If you're spotted, it will get back to Sloane.
Then we'll just have to make sure they never see me.
Thanks for meeting me here.
I'm sorry about hitting you.
You're going to Cairo.
Devlin told me.
Yeah.
That's why I had them call you.
I need your help.
SD-6 can't know that's where I'm going.
I'll take care of it.
Dad it was you, wasn't it? Who bought the ticket to Singapore? You were in Taipei.
I'd arranged a flight for you as well.
From Singapore, you could have gone anywhere.
I went to Danny's apartment, except that I got there too late.
Just minutes too late.
Thank you.
I have to go.
Obviously.
[ Car door closes .]
[ Engine turns over .]
Tell Weiss I'm in operations, and if Alice calls -- I need you.
Yeah.
I know.
Call me if there's anything.
Let me just say this about Bristow -- Don't bother.
Don't apologize.
You're not in trouble.
Virginia was my call.
She is intimately familiar with the Hassan base.
She's gonna disable the weapon.
We are all over it.
Well, you don't have to be.
That's what I'm here to tell you.
You're being pulled off the Bristow case.
What? Why? Devlin wants a more senior officer.
You were right.
This girl is important to us.
[ Sighs .]
Yeah, I know.
He wants you to oversee the office presentation at the D.
C.
I.
nonproliferation meeting.
Under the circumstances, I think is pretty ironic.
[ Telephone rings .]
Yeah? Yeah, send him in.
Have you heard from Sydney? Yeah.
What's wrong with her? She went up North.
I think she just needed to get away.
-ls she okay? -She will be.
I think it's hard for her, that's all.
Accepting the news about what I do.
Are you all right? Yeah, of course.
Why? I don't know.
You seem a little What? Nothing.
Nothing.
-I'll see you tomorrow.
-Yeah.
Okay.
I'm in.
I think I found it.
MAN: Copy.
Yeah, I found it.
Copy.
Commence disabling.
I've got it open.
I'm going for the core.
Copy.
Radio silence until task complete.
I know we just met on the flight over, but do you have to talk like such a robotron? Radio silence requested.
I guess you do.
All right, Robotron.
I'm holding the core.