Alias s02e11 Episode Script

Prevlously on "Alias" Jack Bristow, this is Ariana Kane.
Ms.
Kane is the head of Alliance counterintelligence.
She's here to investigate the events leading up to my wife, Emily's, disappearance and the subsequent attempts to blackmail me.
If Sloane gets ahold of that terminal, The Alliance will be able to eavesdrop on corporatlons, Iaw enforcement, political campaigns.
The potential for blackmail and inSlder trading would be unlimited.
Gerard Cuvee former leader of The People's Revolutlonary Front.
One of Cuvee's men placed a call to a data storage facility.
It's Iikely Cuvee duplicated the Echelon software and had them stored in a secure server there.
SLOANE: Sydney, you're going in with Marshall.
You're the only one qualifled to hack the server without an electronic device.
Marshall has a photographic memory.
Once the files flash across the screen, he'll remember them.
I can't just give SD-6 a fake Marshall.
No.
But we can pull him out of SD-6.
Mom, I'll be home in a Iittle while.
Just getting back from my big buSlness trip in London.
What do you mean we didn't pick up Marshall? [ Sobbing .]
Please don't hurt me.
Please.
SYDNEY: Some people think there's a conspiracy.
That the government eavesdrops on everyone.
It's no conspiracy.
Right now, satellites and ground statlon antennas are Iistening in.
Faxes, Internet communicatlons, phone calls.
All routed to voice and optical recognitlon computers.
They can analyze words spoken and written in every common Ianguage on Earth.
The system's called Echelon.
Yeah, I heard about Echelon.
I just don't understand how it's legal.
It's a computer that Iistens to and reads everything? Looking for key words.
The system scans 2 milllon conversatlons an hour.
Yeah, while shamelessly vlolating the Constitutlon.
The Natlonal Security Agency argues it's one of its most important weapons.
And that they don't abuse the system.
Somehow, that's unreassuring.
Well, there's this man named Gerard Cuvee who figured out how to hack into Echelon.
He was able to pick up secure military communicatlons.
Because of that, he was able to locate and destroy a U.
S.
military Iab in Dresden.
In London, we shut down Cuvee's access to Echelon.
And, thank God, kept it away from SD-6.
So you get Echelon, you become Big Brother.
The best thing about this misSlon.
This guy that I work with, this sweetheart, Marshall, was pulled out of SD-6 and taken into protective custody.
The CIA's gonna give him a Iife.
A real Iife.
I can't tell you what a rellef it is knowing he's safe.
[ Gasping .]
You took something that doesn't belong to you.
My employer would Iike it back.
[ Gagging .]
[ Coughing .]
[ Speaking native Ianguage .]
No! Please! No! No! Epoxy is a binary compound.
You have just ingested the reSln.
Alone, it's not toxic.
But in combinatlon with a hardener the epoxy cures, pasSlng from a Iiquid state through a gel state to a solid state.
This transformatlon will puncture your vital organs.
Block your windpipe, cauSlng you to suffocate.
So let's start over.
The Echelon operating system.
Where is it? ¡Ó She was the only light I knew ¡Ó ¡Ó She was the real ¡Ó What? I have a crush on a guy at work.
Really? Who is he? Someone in my department.
We've worked together for about a year.
You're kidding me.
What's his name? Michael.
And he's I don't know how to describe him.
He's smart.
And he's funny.
He's so cute.
Hot cute.
Not goofy cute.
Hot cute.
So why haven't I met this guy? He has a girlfrlend.
Of course he does.
Which is ultimately irrelevant.
The bank has a policy against coworkers dating.
You know, you could quit.
I don't know what kind of a hold the bank I just can't quit my job.
I haven't heard you talk Iike this in forever.
No one in the free world works as hard as you.
I know it seems that way.
Maybe you and Michael are destined.
Maybe he can quit.
I got to go.
SYDNEY: What's wrong? Marshall was abducted.
What? -Our plan was to intercept him.
-I know what our plan was.
The extractlon team was about to move in when they saw this.
We ran the plates on one of the SUV's.
It was rented by Charles Williamson.
We put his photo I.
D.
through a facial recognitlon database.
It matched a known associate of Gerard Cuvee.
What steps are being taken? CIA's got one team radiating out from the abductlon point, another in London retracing his steps.
Our steps.
The misSlon in London was my op.
Marshall was my responSlbility.
Before being captured, Marshall e-mailed Cuvee's copy of the Echelon access program to SD-6.
We took away Cuvee's access to Echelon and gave it to SD-6? Yes, but when SD-6 downloaded the program, they discovered a problem.
Marshall's e-mail was broken up into packets of data and routed to SD-6 via Internet service providers around the world.
However, there was a malfunctlon.
And several data packets were not transmitted.
Without them, we cannot access Echelon.
Can we fill in the misSlng pleces? It would take Slx months.
Even then, there's no guarantee.
Do we know where the error occurred? A government-operated facility in Ho Chi Minh City.
I'm sending in Sydney and Dixon to retrleve them.
Who's leading the team to recover Marshall? We've changed his access codes.
There is nothing Marshall can tell Cuvee that could posSlbly hurt us.
He will be tortured.
Most Iikely killed.
Oh, yes.
I'm sure he will be.
I've already contacted SD-4.
There'll be a replacement in Op Tech by morning.
That was the extent of his concern.
It was as if someone had overcooked his steak.
You know what Cuvee's gonna do.
He's gonna try to get Marshall to reverse-engineer the software and get back on-Iine.
But you need two things to get on Echelon.
The software and an access point.
Software is Iike a map.
It leads you to the doorway of the system.
The access point is the door.
Most Iikely a satellite.
If we can find the door Cuvee went through and lock it, he won't get on, not even with Marshall's help.
Diagnostics has run a comprehenSlve systems analySls.
They can't find the breach.
Your mother thinks Cuvee may have used a RusSlan network.
Their verSlon of Echelon, called Swarm.
She told you that? JACK: I spoke with her.
She thinks she can find the back door.
But she has terms.
If you want to know where Cuvee breached, it'll take time.
But I could do it if I were given access to Echelon.
No restrictlons.
Kendall will never give that to you.
Then I would Slmply ask you to inform Mr.
Kendall that the technicians he'll asSlgn to do the job will discover it is Iike quicksand.
Your father was correct.
I declined the offer.
Second only to Arvin Sloane, Irina Derevko is the Iast person I want having access to the U.
S.
government secure network.
She'd be watched.
If she trled anything unusual, we could shut the system down.
Access to computers and telecommunicatlons equipment is prohibited by your mother's immunity agreement.
I think we might be wasting time.
We hire qualifled technicians.
What do you say we give them a shot? Your countermisSlon is Slmple.
You'll download the data packets SD-6 is looking for and switch it with this.
It's corrupted data.
We'll have what SD-6 needs.
They'll never be able to access Echelon.
And, Syd, we'll find Marshall.
I will ask you one more time.
Where is the Echelon software you took from us? I swear on my mother's grave, I don't know.
And though, technically, Mom's still alive, she has picked out her graveSlte.
Refusal to cooperate has a price.
No, no, no, no, no.
[ Gagging .]
We can find your mother.
Okay.
Okay.
I sent the Echelon software to SD-6.
There's nothing I can do about that.
I swear.
But I saw the code.
All of it.
And I have a photographic memory, so I can re-create it.
I can rewrite it.
Just don't hurt my mother.
Please.
You leave my mother alone.
We're off to a very good start.
What are you doing? Downgrading your network privileges.
Pending the outcome of my investigatlon, your security clearance has been revoked.
Get out of my office.
When Emily was killed, you claim you were in Taipei.
It is a fact, not a claim.
When a blackmailer stole $100 milllon of The Alliance's money in exchange for pictures, you were On asSlgnment.
Doing back-channel, unsupervised work you arranged for yourself.
I am a senlor officer with discretlon to arrange and carry out asSlgnments as I see fit.
I will not be subject to a witch-hunt! You have no protectlons here.
No civil rights or civil Iibertles or reasonable doubt.
See that I'm not disturbed again.
MAN: Yes, ma'am.
Get everyone you can from Op Tech now.
Notify assets in Istanbul, Taipei, and Azerbaijan.
We will need asSlstance in forging hard evidence of my being in those locatlons on specific days and times.
We have a Sltuatlon.
Ariana Kane, head of Alliance counterintelligence.
She's investigating me in connectlon with the murder of Emily Sloane.
She's checking the places you've been? You're covered.
Yes.
Enough to withstand a cursory inquiry.
This is anything but cursory.
I did not kill Emily Sloane.
But I do have secrets.
The Iast thing I can afford, the Iast thing Sydney can afford, is someone discovering that my loyalty does not Ile with SD-6.
We've got the prints for Istanbul.
This goes with the car you rented in Taipei.
We backdated phony charges through my credit card? Restaurants, car agencles, hotels.
Room charges.
They'll be on file by morning.
Good.
Bad time? -Yeah.
-What else is new? You left word with AnalySls.
When Tippin's profile came back, you wanted to be informed.
Anything I should know? Just run protocol and bring him in.
You got it.
What about surveillance? We thought about rotoscoping you out of surveillance.
But if they slow down the rate, they'd know it was altered.
This is the original feed from the Istanbul Intercontinental.
This is the footage that we filmed earller.
Use some subpixel masking, and we get Look.
I even gave you a shadow.
We've got your fingerprints on rent-a-car keys.
-Hair stitched into pillowcases.
-I want to revlew everything.
-I think you're good.
-Thinking isn't sufficlent.
I want to see the plane tickets.
Nina Bales from Tech Sky Industrles.
I'm here to see Mr.
Nguyen.
AccesSlng the system now.
I should be in mid-presentatlon.
Thank you for giving Tech Sky the opportunity to talk about our microsatellite technology.
[ Speaking Vletnamese .]
At your directlon, the projector will emit a high-intenSlty pulse strobe Iight that flashes at the same frequency as human brain waves, effectively rendering the targets unconsclous.
I can get the data packets and return and they won't know? For three minutes, they'll experlence it Iike a daydream.
Any longer, they'll regain consclousness and you'll be found out.
Make sure you put these glasses on first.
They're time-synchronized with the pulses.
A small constellatlon of satellites in low Earth orbit is cheaper to Iaunch and maintain than a traditlonal satellite network.
And if one micro sat fails, the entire system need not be replaced.
What you're looking at is a typical Tech Sky package.
DIXON: Okay, Syd, do your thing.
I'm almost in.
Okay, Syd, I'm in.
Lan Nguyen.
-Is that right? -Right.
His I.
D.
will give you access to any room in the ministry.
The data packets are in the hard drive in the server room.
Room 206.
You've got three minutes.
[ Rapid beeping .]
Syd, you've got two minutes to find the right hard drive.
[ Beep, buzzer .]
I'm not getting a poSltive Slgnal.
Data packets aren't on drives 1 or 2.
Drive 3 is misSlng.
Is there a serial number in the third bay? That drive is in for repairs.
Where? Level 1.
Room 147.
-I'm on my way.
-No.
The repair room is just off the lobby.
I'll go.
Meet me at the extractlon point.
Dixon, no.
I'll make it.
Robert Milton.
I'm here for the Tech Sky presentatlon.
MAN: One moment, please.
Yeah, I'm so Iate already, my boss is gonna kill me.
[ Beep, buzzer .]
I told you I could make it.
Start over there.
Work toward me.
-Got it.
-[ Rapid beeping .]
Okay.
Let's get out of here.
Sydney! The guards will be here any minute.
This is a great victory.
You both should be very proud.
Thank you, Slr.
But our thoughts are with Marshall.
Has there been any word? No, I'm afraid not.
But our efforts continue.
As do our prayers.
So now SD-6 has everything it needs to access Echelon.
Any idea how long before it's running? Midnight tomorrow at the Iatest.
You should have seen the look on Sloane's face.
I don't think I've ever seen him so happy about a misSlon.
He said he was praying for Marshall.
Listen.
About Marshall.
One of our teams traced Cuvee's unit that abducted Marshall to a safe house outSlde London.
But by the time they got there, it was abandoned.
It was wired with four pounds of C-4.
We never had a chance.
And it gets worse.
In Iight of the tragedy, the director ordered a halt in the search.
So for the moment, Marshall's on his own.
You think maybe he could point that somewhere else? All right.
Never mind.
It's not It's You know Sydney's sleeping off another buSlness trip.
Yeah.
Dublin, I think.
GIasgow.
Two more, I set a world record.
Will, I'm serlous.
Last week, it was Buenos Aires.
Before, it was Tokyo.
I mean, it never ends.
Fran, you know how much that used to bug me, right? I mean, I complained about it constantly.
But her job, what she does, it's important to her.
I don't care.
I am still worrled about her.
Ever Slnce Danny dled, all she does is work.
Oh, but now there's this new guy.
You should have heard her talking.
She sounded so happy.
She told you about a guy? Yeah.
Somebody from work.
Michael something.
You know him? No.
Of course not, because the jerks at the bank won't let them date because it's against the rules.
They're not dating? No, no.
He's dating somebody else.
She's just pining.
Oh, you know what? The mailman left this for you.
Guess there's a package for you at the post office.
Hey, Will.
I got your psych report back.
You did well.
I'm not a soclopath? Well, I didn't say that.
Do I have a job? Yes.
-A paying job.
-Yes.
As an analyst.
You'll revlew clasSlfled documents and file reports.
Think of it as writing articles, only your source material is clasSlfled.
In fact, your cover is as a journalist.
What does that mean? Am I an agent? What? Agents are fleld-trained.
You're desk-trained.
-You Slt at a desk.
-That's cool.
The agency operates a monthly magazine called "Trade Roads.
" There's a small L.
A.
office.
Go there when we page you.
The materials we'll need analyzed will be there.
But don't remove them from the building.
When you're done filling out the paperwork, just give it to Bill.
I get health insurance? Welcome to the CIA.
Thank you.
Listen.
Obvlously, you're a good guy.
And I can't tell you how much I appreciate this job.
And what I'm gonna say is inappropriate.
But Sydney cares about you.
And what you guys have or don't have means a great deal to her.
I want to make sure you respect that.
I just got off the phone with the director again.
He asked again if I knew we were in the intelligence buSlness.
SD-6 is, by our best estimates, less than 12 hours from accesSlng Echelon, which would give them all the intelligence capabilitles of the CIA.
Our efforts to prevent Gerard Cuvee from reaccesSlng Echelon ended in tragedy.
Four agents killed.
As far as we know, your SD-6 Tech Ops officer Marshall FIinkman could already have Cuvee up and running again.
As for Derevko's intel on Swarm, Info Sec has been unsuccessful in their search for a back-door access point.
[ Rapid beeping, motors winding down .]
-What just happened? -I had to shut down the system.
Swarm detected I was mapping its network and spit out a virus.
My mother knew this would happen.
That's the word she used.
Quicksand.
She might have set up the virus.
Why keep her here if you're not gonna use her? You said Derevko turned herself in as part of something we can't see.
Giving her access to Echelon could only help that.
In this instance, I think she could be an asset.
They found it.
Quicksand.
I told your father my terms.
Full access to the network.
No restrictlons.
Dad fought for you on this.
Don't make him regret it.
I'll need to send an access code.
How will we know you're not Slgnaling your organizatlon? You won't.
Do it.
Looks clean.
Slow it down 200%.
It's still good.
If this was faked, it's the best job I've ever seen.
Is this the Iast of the surveillance feeds? Karachi, Istanbul, Taipei.
Yeah.
That's it.
I think you should see this.
Yes, we should have full access to Echelon in a matter of hours.
[ Door opens .]
ForenSlc report.
AIain, I'll let you know as soon as we're fully operatlonal.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Merci.
Au revoir.
Brain matter was found in one of Jack Bristow's service pistols.
According to the munitlons log, he checked out a Glock 1 9 compact for one day, reporting a Slngle accidental discharge and no casualtles.
I thought you were here to investigate my wife's death.
The day Bristow checked out this weapon and covered it up was the day your wife was murdered.
Do you have enough cells to do a DNA profile? AIready being done.
Good.
Well, if it matches with Emily, let me know immediately.
Of course.
You guys Iike cherry Pez? You know, cherry Pez, the Iittle candy? Comes with the superhero thing? Yeah.
I collect the dispensers.
I thought I had the Iargest collectlon.
I wrote "The Guinness Book of World Records" about it.
They said there was a girl in Australia, 9 years old, had a Iarger collectlon.
Which kind of sucked, because she's so much younger than me.
And I'm so much older than her.
I'm kind of hungry.
You guys got some snacks? [ Mutters and shouts in native Ianguage .]
I agree.
Something's wrong with my computer.
Can you check it? Someone Iaunched a denial-of-service attack.
We're getting pinged over and over.
It's slowing down the network.
That's odd.
They didn't spoof the origin I.
P.
How can someone be smart enough to hack in here and forget to cover their tracks? -[ Speaking native Ianguage .]
-[ Shouting in native Ianguage .]
Whoa, whoa.
What? What's going on? What? We have a firewall.
You broke through it.
I want to know why.
I was just trying to download an MP3 off Audlogalaxy.
Look, an MP3, you know? A muSlc file? This, I am 75% done with.
I just I thought the rest of it would go a lot faster with some tunes.
I'm just gonna show you the MP3.
¡Ó Serlous ¡Ó You Iike Sammy Hagar? ¡Ó Juju ¡Ó ¡Ó Untled from the whipping post ¡Ó I'll, uh, go back to the program.
Come with me.
Marshall's in Mexico City? He Slgnaled us.
We traced him through the I.
P.
address he used.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
I'll notify the extractlon team at once.
We'd Iike your permisSlon to conduct the operatlon ourselves.
Yes, of course.
Are you making any progress here? Like Echelon, Swarm has access points.
If I can locate the directory, we'll know if there's access points.
VAUGHN: We could keep SD-6 and Cuvee off the system.
I'd Iike a coffee, please.
Cream or sugar? BIack.
Thank you.
-Kane called a meeting.
-Does she know anything? Unclear.
But she has Security Sectlon prepared to take me in.
I have to be ready for anything.
I have to admit I'm impressed.
I've rarely found a record as well-documented as yours.
You couldn't have been more thorough if you trled.
If I may ask, what is it you're looking for? There are only two pleces of evidence I haven't been able to corroborate.
Help me with them, and we're finished.
Damn.
She's got the place wired.
Jack, we make Slx agents from Security Sectlon.
Every time you make a phone call on your S.
T.
U.
, the Slm card on your cellphone communicates with the local cell tower.
Those communicatlons are recorded on the card's memory chip.
It's kind of Iike a mini travelogue.
We'll need the cell tower codes for Istanbul, Karachi, and Taipei.
Jack, Iisten.
What pocket is your phone in? In the left, hold up one finger.
In the right, hold up two.
You two ready to order? JACK: Not yet.
Thanks.
You have my phone records.
Which we both know could eaSlly be forged.
So, I'd Iike your phone.
You said there were two things.
Who is Steven Haladki? He was a CIA agent loyal to Irina Derevko.
Whom you murdered.
We found brain matter in the gun you fired on the day Emily was murdered.
I thought DNA tests would prove you killed her, but instead, they prove you killed Haladki.
We had reliable intel that Derevko was accesSlng informatlon through the CIA.
Her source turned out to be Haladki.
He was crucial to her operatlon and had to be removed.
I got the tower codes.
We can't wait for Bristow's phone.
Give me yours.
Vaughn, give me your phone.
The card's been reprogrammed.
I'll stamp Jack's serial number on your card.
Switch them out.
Here you go.
If Haladki worked with Derevko, why hide his death from Sloane? The death of a CIA agent draws unwanted attentlon and focus.
When it happens, the safest recourse is to say nothing.
Ever.
Are we through? As soon as I get your Slm card.
Yes, of course.
I'll be in touch.
Move in on the package.
Are you ready to party? Syd, I'm ready to receive.
Are we ready to party? I speak nine Ianguages.
Techno is not one of them.
I'll need cover now.
[ Volume increases .]
Dixon, wish me Iuck.
I've piggybacked the surveillance feed.
Are you getting a Slgnal? One second.
Okay, Syd, I'm in.
He's in the storage room on the 47th floor.
Take the eastern stairwell.
The room should be the second door on your left.
-Guards? -I make two.
I'll lock down the elevators, secure all access doors.
That should keep everyone away.
But, Syd, be careful.
Program's done.
We'll be uplinked to Echelon in minutes.
Excellent.
Tell your, uh boss or whatever that I'm finished.
The program's written.
We estimated SD-6 would have Echelon operatlonal by midnight.
It's 10 after.
The blue are Echelon access points.
The red are Swarm.
You said you'd find overlap.
I said I'd find out if one overlapped.
-And if they don't? -Then I can't help you.
You know where you can go, you freak? -Kill him! -Straight to hell, my frlend! Kill his mother! Hi.
Wow.
Let's go.
Syd, we've got a problem.
I've been locked out.
Their security system is operatlonal.
Get out of there now.
[ Gunfire .]
Dixon, we're trapped.
I'll get over to you now.
There's no time.
Come on! -We're on the 47th floor.
-Remember London? I compressed a tactical parachute in my jacket? Well, this one's got it, too.
Along with a hyper-extending tandem sling.
Come here.
I got it.
Hi.
My name is Marshall J.
FIinkman.
And I'm here to rescue you.
If this was some kind of manipulatlon The overlapping access point.
As promised.
Confirming a match with Echelon right now.
Close the access point, and SD-6 will be shut out.
We have confirmatlon.
It's a match.
As promised, AIain, we have Echelon at our disposal.
Oui.
I'm afraid something's happened.
So, Marshall saved our Iives.
How did I return the favor? By bringing him back to SD-6.
We had to, Syd.
Bringing Marshall into the CIA didn't make sense.
-Not after Sloane got Echelon.
-I know.
It's just Marshall has no idea who he's really working for.
¡Ó Here by my Slde, an angel ¡Ó ¡Ó Here by my Slde, the Devil ¡Ó ¡Ó Never turn your back on me ¡Ó It won't always be Iike this.
Right? It will end.
I should go.
Do not turn on the Iights.
You shouldn't have run from her, Jack.
Kane needs someone to blame.
Slnce she can't find who murdered Emily, she's decided to blame me.
I did not murder your wife.
But if I don't find who did, Kane will frame me for it.
I have some leads.
I need you to pursue them for me.
Can I trust you to do that? Of course.
This will stay between us.
[ Door opens, closes .]
[ Telephone rings .]
Hello? Agent Kane.
Arvin Sloane.
Jack Bristow just left my house.