Alias s02e16 Episode Script
Firebomb
Prevlously on "Alias" MAN: The prosthetics are Iined with a carbon powder.
The system's database won't find a match.
Well, then, let's begin.
You've cleared their system.
SYDNEY: We're United States agents.
Lock down your vault.
You're being robbed.
Sloane! SLOANE: Hold your fire! We've rigged the lower level with enough C-4 to level the entire city block.
So I suggest that you both lower your guns.
You, my dear, you'll be driving me out of here.
[ Slrens wailing, helicopter blades whirring .]
VAUGHN ON RADlo: Stand down.
[ Speaking German .]
Let Bristow leave with the suspect.
He's holding the detonator.
We have a clear shot.
No.
One move and his operative will detonate the exploSlve.
He's got the area under surveillance.
That means let Sloane go.
Don't tail him until we get this stuff defused.
[ Speaking German .]
There's a current running through here.
If we clip the wires, we'll break the circuit.
There's a fail-safe.
The only way is to disrupt the electronics.
We need the water cannon.
The detonator operates on a frequency.
Wouldn't it be faster to find that and jam it? But accesSlng the frequency might trigger an exploSlon.
There's got to be a way to block it.
Not unless you have some way to encase a detonator in concrete.
This is Agent Vaughn.
Get me the bank manager now.
I told you not to come after me.
I warned you that I will kill you if you interfere.
If you knew what I have in here, what my plans are This is bigger than SD-6, than the CIA than you being deceived by me, than me being betrayed by you.
If things were different The safe.
It's a Frledlin Model 42-C.
Okay, Frledlin.
Frledlin.
Frledlin Number 9.
Frledlin.
Okay.
Got it.
High-denSlty concrete surrounded by heavy-gauge steel.
-Will it block the Slgnal? -Depends on the detonator.
-How big's the antenna? -Inch and a half.
Means it's transmitting at the speed of Iight times one-fourth.
-Marshall! -Three gigahertz.
You should have enough so the Slgnal can't get through.
-Should have or have? -Have.
Tell Kendall to start tracking Sydney.
She'll be in a Focus.
-You know what model? -ZX5.
-What color? -BIue.
Why? Just curlous.
Thinking about getting one.
Lower it, get some big tires, rims.
Gold rims.
Andhello? [ Beeping .]
Syd? We shlelded the detonator.
The bomb cannot be triggered.
A team will intercept your car in five minutes.
Change of plans.
E.
T.
A.
-- five minutes.
The CIA has a hit Iist.
are allowed to kill.
You're one of them.
Which means when I kill you, I won't even be breaking the Iaw.
You jump, you dle.
[ Gunfire .]
Officials with Amcorp are hiding behind Swiss banking Iaws to avoid telling us what Sloane stole.
For the moment, his trail's cold.
In other words, we don't have a plan.
It's true, isn't it? We've got nothing.
May I remind you that Sloane was Iast in your custody? I was in his custody.
He was holding hostages.
You had the optlon to take him out.
You chose not to.
I chose not to incinerate 300 people.
You think I made the wrong choice? VAUGHN: We should stick to what we know.
Sloane is holding Caplan for the purpose of building a weapon.
Presumably what he took from Amcorp is helping him.
We don't know, because we lost Sloane.
Because he had something we didn't.
Satellite surveillance.
If we'd followed him, we would have caught him.
Our satellites were tasked elsewhere.
We didn't take advantage of the Sltuatlon.
No.
We prloritized.
What's the point of strategizing -- -We're doing everything we can! -We're not! Not even close.
I need a progress report.
Caplan says he's a day away.
We took the magnetometer from Amcorp to expedite the constructlon of the Rambaldi device.
My flight is the day after tomorrow.
It needs to be completed before then.
I belleve Caplan to be a man of his word.
Mr.
Caplan is asSlsting us because he belleves we're holding his family.
If what he's putting together is as powerful as I belleve, I don't want him near it when it's operatlonal.
I'll conduct the preliminary test myself.
You do that.
By tomorrow.
I love the Zamboni.
What, Zamboni's your favorite part? No, coming home with you is my favorite part.
-Zamboni was a close second.
-[ Laughs .]
[ Cellular phone rings .]
Hello? Hey.
Kendall has something he wants to show you.
-Can it wait? -Apparently not.
He wants Sydney, too.
-I haven't seen her.
-In bed with her, aren't you? I'm trying.
Find out what he wants.
Kendall? [ Static .]
VAUGHN'S VOICE: Zamboni's your favorite part? Could you pay attentlon? Can you hear me? SYDNEY'S VOICE: No, coming home with you is my favorite part.
[ Smooches .]
Vaughn.
-Zamboni was a close second.
-[ Laughs .]
We'll be there soon.
JACK: Cleaning crew is on notice to sweep the apartment.
How can the apartment be bugged? I have countermeasures.
Will and I talk there.
He needs to be told.
We need to know who you've spoken with, what intelligence might have been compromised.
You need to compile a Iist of every frlend, serviceman, delivery guy who has been in the apartment.
Kendall's waiting.
I'll take this.
You bugged the apartment? It's not Iike I broke in and planted it myself.
I made it.
Here, if you take a look right there, I soldered into the circuit board.
What is that? It's a Superman logo.
Except this one's got an "M.
" It's kind of my Slgnature.
When I used to work at SD-6, I made it special for Sloane.
It operates uSlng a data adapter which cloaks the Slgnal, making it undetectable by bug killers.
I know.
I know.
I'm that good.
Uh, which is bad.
Vaughn said he heard it repeat his conversatlon.
This is a burst transmitter.
It transmits to a receiver.
Can you find out where the conversatlons were being transmitted to? Well, if the transmitter records the phone number that it sends the conversatlons to, I guess that it's posSlble.
Then do it.
"Please" would be nice.
That's all right.
Never mind.
Caplan finished early this morning.
The Rambaldi device is complete.
I ran the test.
I think you'll be pleased with the results.
When we agreed to combine our resources, Slr, you promised you'd show me incredible things.
But a neutron bomb deSlgned in the 16th century? Is that even a theoretical posSlbility? [ Speaking Pashtu .]
Forgive the mode of transportatlon.
But a person in my poSltlon cannot be too cautlous.
I understand.
Our mutual frlend, Mr.
Dreyfus, he sends his respects.
Let me pay you the courtesy of being blunt.
I don't do buSlness with Americans.
I'm a man with no country and few alliances.
All I have is a viSlon of an enterprise that will influence an existing world order that I belleve to be corrupt.
I'm looking for partners who share that vlew.
I am but a humble shepherd.
Whose control of opium along the Sllk Road is worth hundreds of milllons of dollars.
In this part of the world, it's better to be practical than viSlonary.
Why should I invest in your enterprise? Ah, that, my frlend, is a long discusSlon.
First, my gift.
It once belonged to Khushal Khan Khattak.
The great 1 7th-century warrlor-poet.
He united our Iands and is a hero to my people.
This is a treasure.
Tell me more about what you have planned.
¡Ó I'm on a high, on a high ¡Ó Hey.
So, how's it going? I'm good.
No, I mean about Will.
Is this gonna turn into a thing? What's going on? Have you slept with him? -No, not yet.
-Will hasn't said a thing.
He can't even look at me anymore, he's so freaked out.
¡Ó So I run or I fight ¡Ó ¡Ó And I crawl or I scream ¡Ó ¡Ó And I bleed ¡Ó You know, Sydney, you've been acting sort of weird Iately.
Really? And I thought you'd been acting weird.
I thought maybe it was because of Will.
You don't talk to me anymore.
¡Ó I'm on a high ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing more to it ¡Ó I'm sorry, Francle.
I just get so caught up in work.
Don't forget.
We used to be really good frlends.
You can talk to me.
[ Telephone rings .]
Hello? -Get in here now.
-Okay.
Who was that? Someone from the bank.
There's a problem with a cllent.
I have to go in.
See you.
[ Water running .]
-SARK: Hello? -They found the bugs.
How should I proceed? They'll be looking for our L.
A.
asset.
Give them someone.
I'll take care of it.
-Send a copy to Kendall.
-Vaughn, is it Sloane? Did Marshall get a locatlon? It's on an encrypted feed.
It was untraceable.
But we got a lead on Sloane another way.
An asset outSlde Kandahar reported someone matching Sloane's descriptlon in the company of men loyal to Ahmad Kabir, the warlord who played footSle with the Taliban.
When they ran, so did he, except we don't know exactly where.
We belleve Kabir's men took Sloane somewhere in the Helmand Valley.
Last year, Sloane asSlgned an agent to infiltrate Kabir's operatlon and intercept informatlon regarding a shipment of Sovlet misSlles.
Sloane stole misSlles from Kabir.
Now they're meeting.
What am I misSlng? Kabir has no idea who Sloane is.
The agent he asSlgned got out undetected.
Who was the agent? Marcus Dixon.
None of the records we acquired from SD-6 detailed that misSlon.
Everything that Jack knows, now you know.
The only person who can help us is Dixon.
Who has made it clear that he has no interest.
You're gonna have to change his mind.
I want a full brlefing on Kabir.
I don't think you appreciate Dixon's sense of betrayal.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but yesterday you were standing here complaining that we're not doing enough.
If you do nothing and we lose him, you'll have only yourself to blame.
DIANE: Marcus doesn't want to see you.
And for what it's worth, neither do I.
I know, Diane.
I do.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't important.
What good are your promises? Right.
Hello, Sydney.
Hi.
I need some informatlon.
-I can't help you.
-Five minutes.
-All I need is a locatlon.
-He said no.
It can mean the end of Sloane.
Sloane's with Ahmad Kabir.
I need to know where Kabir operates.
They need to be stopped.
Not by my husband, they don't.
The agency might try to compel you to tell.
If they do, I'll tell them what I'm telling you.
We've made a deciSlon as a family to move on.
-Do you own a suit? -A suit? Yeah.
Uh, one.
-Put it on.
-Why? What's going on? You've been doing analySls a short time, but your brlefs are good.
One of them on Ahmad Kabir.
The director wants a presentatlon.
Wait, wait.
Like, in person? -Talking points.
-I'm a writer.
-It's not a request.
-I don't talk.
It's part of your job.
Do you know Sammy's Red Hots? Sure, yeah.
Santa Monica and 1 7th.
Be there in one hour.
Order the special.
No pickles.
-I Iike pickles.
-You'll be led out.
A van will be waiting.
I'm gonna be talking to the director.
-Is that a big deal? -Yeah.
Oh, God.
It's from the 16th century.
It is a carving of an arhat.
A worthy one.
In Buddhist traditlon, an arhat is the destroyer of the enemy.
How is it you know so much? I'm a collector.
This plece is very special.
You want a partner.
Someone to invest in an incredibly ambitlous global enterprise which is at best a risky propoSltlon.
What you offer in exchange, to be my to be my arhat.
I need some assurance that you can deliver on that promise.
Oh, naturally.
That's why I'm fully prepared to give you a demonstratlon.
I leave it to you to choose the target.
VAUGHN: No suit, huh? It's been a while Slnce I trled it on.
Or worked out.
Which makes me overwhelmed and fat.
Professors Joyce and Fleming.
They flew in from the Kennedy school.
I'll go tell the others we're ready.
The Kennedy school? Where is that? Harvard.
That's right.
Our objective today is Slmple.
To identify persons who can give us the exact locatlon of Ahmad Kabir's Helmand Valley operatlon.
Despite the American-backed government, the geopolitical reality of Afghanistan is that it's defined by ethnic rivalrles.
The Slmplest way to find a Pashtun Iike Kabir is to first find an enemy willing to sell him out.
Sharif Rabani is on record as accuSlng Kabir's Pashtun supporters of engaging in ethnic cleanSlng.
I'm sure we'll get him to lead us to him.
Then why hasn't he? Yeah, they hate each other, but they probably hate us more.
Slnce 9/1 1, haven't we paid guys Iike this milllons and gotten almost nothing in return? Are you prepared to make an alternate recommendatlon? Yes, actually, I am.
All I have are these photographs.
Sydney.
This woman's name is AIia Gizabi.
She's marrled to an administrator with the Vatican embassy in Mexico City.
AIia Gizabi used to be AIia Kabir.
She's Kabir's ex-wife.
Slnce the Taliban got booted, a woman can have her marriage annulled if she was forced into that marriage, according to court records.
-You found court records? -They're on the Net.
There's nothing geopolitically correct about my analySls.
But I figure this woman would pay us to mess with her ex.
She hates him so much that she sent their son into hiding with her relatives.
I'll get you that Web address.
You should check it out.
Okay, I'll alert our statlon chlef in Mexico City.
Vaughn and Bristow, you will leave in one hour.
We need to protect this woman.
No one can know the CIA's contacted her.
You'll go under an alias.
SLOANE: Kabir has chosen his target.
His ex-wife.
We're uSlng the device on AIia Gizabi? You'll be brlefed en route to Mexico City.
You leave at once.
[ Beeping .]
[ Cellular phone rings, beeps .]
Gizabi's in the administrative wing adjacent to the church.
According to Caplan's calculatlons we need 20 milllon watts to reach that sectlon of the building.
That should give us coverage of the entire embassy.
But, Slr.
If Caplan's off by even a microtesla, this could go very wrong.
Do it.
That's easy for you to say, Slr.
You're 8,000 miles away.
I'll wait to hear from you.
I'm approaching the steps.
Senora.
I'm in.
Gizabi works on the first floor.
Can I help you? I'm not here to hurt you.
I work for American intelligence.
I need some informatlon about your ex-husband.
I know you're worrled about retributlon for leaving him.
I've come in secret.
No one knows I'm here.
No one will know you've talked with me.
I'm searching for a man.
A horrible, dangerous man.
He is with your ex-husband at his reSldence.
I need to know exactly where that is.
WEISS: Vaughn? Can you hear me? Vaughn? -What is it? -We had an Echelon intercept.
Key words.
"Terrorist.
" "Weapons of mass destructlon.
" You ready for this? "Rambaldi.
" -Did you get coordinates? -Yeah.
Yours.
We don't know when it's happening.
Get out now.
I cannot help you.
VAUGHN: We have to get out now.
There's gonna be an attack.
Car bomb, suicide bomb.
I don't know.
I'm alerting the embassy.
They're gonna evacuate.
There's a door at the end of the corridor.
Meet me there.
You have to come for your own safety.
I told you.
I won't help.
-We picked up a hot spot.
-Where? It's directly behind you.
It's huge.
What? What is it? Some kind of a fire.
No, Iisten to me.
It's this inferno, and it's right behind you.
There's nothing.
Is he seeing people, buildings, what? No, wait, wait.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It disappeared.
It's gone.
Gone? I don't know.
It disappeared.
Let's go back.
I'll tell you where to find my husband.
WOMAN ON TV: 62 people are dead in what officials are calling the worst act of terrorism in Mexico City in a decade.
Some people describe it as an act of God.
Local officials are still investigating the matter.
SARK: The victims were incinerated beyond recognitlon.
Absent poSltive identificatlon, a Iist of presumed dead was published.
Your ex is on the Iist.
What is this? A small token of appreciatlon.
No.
No, this is too much.
I cannot accept this.
I saw you admire it.
And deservedly so.
You have destroyed my enemy.
You are in every way my arhat.
I will have $40 milllon wired tomorrow to the account of your chooSlng.
KENDALL: Surveillance places Sark at the scene in Mexico City.
Subsequent to the attack, intel tracked him as far as Kabul.
We can assume Sloane dispatched Sark to carry out his misSlon.
Now that it's complete, Sark has returned to his master.
Thanks to Miss Gizabi, we now know where that is.
The plan is for you to lead a unit into the Helmand.
You'll parachute into the compound, steal the weapon, and Slgnal for backup.
You know how people are describing it.
They're calling it a Doomsday Device.
Saying it's the first Slgn of the coming Armageddon.
Like the Devil himself rose up to attack that church.
Um, excuse me, if I may offer a sclentific explanatlon, I think it might help the, uh [ Clears throat .]
Hi, everybody, it's good to That's a nice Okay.
Right.
What we're dealing with is a high-energy pulse weapon.
Thanks to an intercept, we were able to retask a KH-12 satellite over the area.
This was what we found.
Okay, the blue dots.
Those are the people in the church before.
This is what the infrared picked up after.
The body temperature of everyone increased by over 2,000 degrees.
They Iiterally melted from the inSlde out.
Nothing else in the church was affected.
That's because it works Iike a microwave.
It excites water and fat molecules, which don't exist in inorganic materials.
It converts them into atomic motlon, or heat.
You said everyone was affected.
Even people taking cover? There's no defense.
It goes through concrete, steel, everything.
-There's no shleld? -No.
Sorry.
Oh, I should, uh, probably also tell you that, um, this energy knocks out computer circuitry, which means it could take down planes.
What concerns me is that Sloane knows this is a provocatlon that demands a swift response.
Yet he exercised it on the ex-wife of a petty warlord.
Why? I got the inventory from the cleaners.
They found audlo and video transmitters.
Video? Yeah, in the TV in your bedroom.
We're investigating everyone you've Iisted.
So far they're all clean.
-[ Cellular phone rings .]
-FRANCle: Hello? -SYDNEY: Hey, it's me.
-Hey.
I know we had plans for tonight, but I have to work.
What you have to do is quit that job of yours.
-Fran, I'm sorry.
-It's okay.
The truth is, I wasn't gonna be able to make it anyway.
-You don't want to kill me? -Of course not.
Can we talk about this Iater? I'm in the middle of something.
Yeah.
I'll call you Iater.
Bye.
You remember "Predator," when Schwarzenegger was being chased by that crab who could only see in thermal? -No.
-You never saw that? It was a great movle.
It was one of his better movles, because "Twins" Anyway, Kabir's security cameras work the same way.
They read heat.
Which is kind of a problem 'cause, well, you're incredibly hot.
See? Now, the solutlon I have devised is you parachute onto the roof, rip off your tactical gear, then you slip on this baby.
It's part of a cold suit.
It will bring your body back down to room temperature.
-Put these bables on.
-As long as I'm covered the security cameras can't see me.
You'll be the InviSlble Woman.
See? I'm in the eastern stairs.
Go right at the bottom.
Kabir keeps weapons and ammunitlons in a room at the end of the hall.
There's no door.
-What? -Work's been done.
Maybe this place was bombed in the war and had to be reconfigured.
Meaning intel's worthless.
There has to be another way in.
I've been made.
Sydney's been compromised.
Order the tac unit in after her.
Did she defuse the weapon? If he's got the weapon, he'll use it.
-Issue the order.
-There's no defense against it.
Tac unit wouldn't stand a chance.
We can't leave her.
Unless we can find another way in, that's all we can do.
I don't think we've been introduced.
My name's Michael Vaughn.
I work with Sydney.
I'm out.
Sydney's in trouble.
Respect my deciSlon.
I can't.
Not when your deciSlon may cost Sydney her Iife.
You wouldn't tell Sydney how you infiltrated Kabir's, so she found an alternate way in uSlng what turned out to be faulty intel.
She was captured.
Unless we find another access point, no one will be sent in to get her out.
-It's not that Slmple.
-It is.
You will help save Sydney's Iife or you won't.
Please leave.
I can't do that.
Not until I get your answer.
KABIR: Admit you are CIA.
Submit to a videotape acknowledging you are here in vlolatlon of internatlonal Iaw.
Condemn the Great Satan, and maybe I will spare your Iife.
SLOANE: Sydney, tell him what he wants to hear or this will not end well.
You know, in many ways I will always conSlder you my proudest accomplishment.
Please, Sydney.
Unfortunately, I can't do anything about this.
Bye, Sydney.
Have you reconSldered? Admitting you are CIA? Perhaps you need a Iittle incentive.
Enough.
My houseguests have left.
It would seem there's nothing more to discuss.
The cartilage that lets the kneecap slide around does not regenerate, which you should know in advance of this.
[ Gunshot .]
You okay? I don't understand.
How did you find a way in? Let's go.
Let's go.
We got the device.
-Sloane? -No.
DIXON: This way.
Good work.
I was Iucky.
You got the weapon.
You've saved countless Iives.
Yeah.
I didn't get Sloane.
Or figure out what the hell he's doing with Kabir.
We found these on the plumber you gave us.
He was murdered.
He's either responSlble for the bugs or he was set up.
At the moment, it's a dead end.
I'm glad you're home.
¡Ó Take your eyes off me ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing here to see ¡Ó ¡Ó Trying to keep my head together ¡Ó ¡Ó As we make our vow ¡Ó -Hi.
-Hi.
¡Ó Let us remember how ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing good that lasts forever ¡Ó I know I say this to you a lot.
Thank you.
I can't judge you for not telling me about SD-6.
If I had been in your poSltlon, I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.
¡Ó Time out on the running boards ¡Ó ¡Ó We're running through a world that lost its meaning ¡Ó What's going on with Diane? I don't know.
¡Ó Feel the touch of grlef ¡Ó ¡Ó You stand in disbellef ¡Ó ¡Ó Can steal the Earth from right beneath you ¡Ó ¡Ó And falling in so far ¡Ó ¡Ó They know just where you are ¡Ó ¡Ó Yeah, but there ain't no way to reach you ¡Ó Kings are in town on Friday night.
You could watch the Zamboni.
¡Ó Trying to find a way to love ¡Ó ¡Ó This running ain't no kind of freedom ¡Ó What we saw.
At the church.
Every time we think we've seen the worst SARK: You talk of power and control.
But when we create a powerful weapon, you leave it in the hands of a complete stranger.
Tell me, how was what happened good for us? Hand me the top page of the manuscript.
The system's database won't find a match.
Well, then, let's begin.
You've cleared their system.
SYDNEY: We're United States agents.
Lock down your vault.
You're being robbed.
Sloane! SLOANE: Hold your fire! We've rigged the lower level with enough C-4 to level the entire city block.
So I suggest that you both lower your guns.
You, my dear, you'll be driving me out of here.
[ Slrens wailing, helicopter blades whirring .]
VAUGHN ON RADlo: Stand down.
[ Speaking German .]
Let Bristow leave with the suspect.
He's holding the detonator.
We have a clear shot.
No.
One move and his operative will detonate the exploSlve.
He's got the area under surveillance.
That means let Sloane go.
Don't tail him until we get this stuff defused.
[ Speaking German .]
There's a current running through here.
If we clip the wires, we'll break the circuit.
There's a fail-safe.
The only way is to disrupt the electronics.
We need the water cannon.
The detonator operates on a frequency.
Wouldn't it be faster to find that and jam it? But accesSlng the frequency might trigger an exploSlon.
There's got to be a way to block it.
Not unless you have some way to encase a detonator in concrete.
This is Agent Vaughn.
Get me the bank manager now.
I told you not to come after me.
I warned you that I will kill you if you interfere.
If you knew what I have in here, what my plans are This is bigger than SD-6, than the CIA than you being deceived by me, than me being betrayed by you.
If things were different The safe.
It's a Frledlin Model 42-C.
Okay, Frledlin.
Frledlin.
Frledlin Number 9.
Frledlin.
Okay.
Got it.
High-denSlty concrete surrounded by heavy-gauge steel.
-Will it block the Slgnal? -Depends on the detonator.
-How big's the antenna? -Inch and a half.
Means it's transmitting at the speed of Iight times one-fourth.
-Marshall! -Three gigahertz.
You should have enough so the Slgnal can't get through.
-Should have or have? -Have.
Tell Kendall to start tracking Sydney.
She'll be in a Focus.
-You know what model? -ZX5.
-What color? -BIue.
Why? Just curlous.
Thinking about getting one.
Lower it, get some big tires, rims.
Gold rims.
Andhello? [ Beeping .]
Syd? We shlelded the detonator.
The bomb cannot be triggered.
A team will intercept your car in five minutes.
Change of plans.
E.
T.
A.
-- five minutes.
The CIA has a hit Iist.
are allowed to kill.
You're one of them.
Which means when I kill you, I won't even be breaking the Iaw.
You jump, you dle.
[ Gunfire .]
Officials with Amcorp are hiding behind Swiss banking Iaws to avoid telling us what Sloane stole.
For the moment, his trail's cold.
In other words, we don't have a plan.
It's true, isn't it? We've got nothing.
May I remind you that Sloane was Iast in your custody? I was in his custody.
He was holding hostages.
You had the optlon to take him out.
You chose not to.
I chose not to incinerate 300 people.
You think I made the wrong choice? VAUGHN: We should stick to what we know.
Sloane is holding Caplan for the purpose of building a weapon.
Presumably what he took from Amcorp is helping him.
We don't know, because we lost Sloane.
Because he had something we didn't.
Satellite surveillance.
If we'd followed him, we would have caught him.
Our satellites were tasked elsewhere.
We didn't take advantage of the Sltuatlon.
No.
We prloritized.
What's the point of strategizing -- -We're doing everything we can! -We're not! Not even close.
I need a progress report.
Caplan says he's a day away.
We took the magnetometer from Amcorp to expedite the constructlon of the Rambaldi device.
My flight is the day after tomorrow.
It needs to be completed before then.
I belleve Caplan to be a man of his word.
Mr.
Caplan is asSlsting us because he belleves we're holding his family.
If what he's putting together is as powerful as I belleve, I don't want him near it when it's operatlonal.
I'll conduct the preliminary test myself.
You do that.
By tomorrow.
I love the Zamboni.
What, Zamboni's your favorite part? No, coming home with you is my favorite part.
-Zamboni was a close second.
-[ Laughs .]
[ Cellular phone rings .]
Hello? Hey.
Kendall has something he wants to show you.
-Can it wait? -Apparently not.
He wants Sydney, too.
-I haven't seen her.
-In bed with her, aren't you? I'm trying.
Find out what he wants.
Kendall? [ Static .]
VAUGHN'S VOICE: Zamboni's your favorite part? Could you pay attentlon? Can you hear me? SYDNEY'S VOICE: No, coming home with you is my favorite part.
[ Smooches .]
Vaughn.
-Zamboni was a close second.
-[ Laughs .]
We'll be there soon.
JACK: Cleaning crew is on notice to sweep the apartment.
How can the apartment be bugged? I have countermeasures.
Will and I talk there.
He needs to be told.
We need to know who you've spoken with, what intelligence might have been compromised.
You need to compile a Iist of every frlend, serviceman, delivery guy who has been in the apartment.
Kendall's waiting.
I'll take this.
You bugged the apartment? It's not Iike I broke in and planted it myself.
I made it.
Here, if you take a look right there, I soldered into the circuit board.
What is that? It's a Superman logo.
Except this one's got an "M.
" It's kind of my Slgnature.
When I used to work at SD-6, I made it special for Sloane.
It operates uSlng a data adapter which cloaks the Slgnal, making it undetectable by bug killers.
I know.
I know.
I'm that good.
Uh, which is bad.
Vaughn said he heard it repeat his conversatlon.
This is a burst transmitter.
It transmits to a receiver.
Can you find out where the conversatlons were being transmitted to? Well, if the transmitter records the phone number that it sends the conversatlons to, I guess that it's posSlble.
Then do it.
"Please" would be nice.
That's all right.
Never mind.
Caplan finished early this morning.
The Rambaldi device is complete.
I ran the test.
I think you'll be pleased with the results.
When we agreed to combine our resources, Slr, you promised you'd show me incredible things.
But a neutron bomb deSlgned in the 16th century? Is that even a theoretical posSlbility? [ Speaking Pashtu .]
Forgive the mode of transportatlon.
But a person in my poSltlon cannot be too cautlous.
I understand.
Our mutual frlend, Mr.
Dreyfus, he sends his respects.
Let me pay you the courtesy of being blunt.
I don't do buSlness with Americans.
I'm a man with no country and few alliances.
All I have is a viSlon of an enterprise that will influence an existing world order that I belleve to be corrupt.
I'm looking for partners who share that vlew.
I am but a humble shepherd.
Whose control of opium along the Sllk Road is worth hundreds of milllons of dollars.
In this part of the world, it's better to be practical than viSlonary.
Why should I invest in your enterprise? Ah, that, my frlend, is a long discusSlon.
First, my gift.
It once belonged to Khushal Khan Khattak.
The great 1 7th-century warrlor-poet.
He united our Iands and is a hero to my people.
This is a treasure.
Tell me more about what you have planned.
¡Ó I'm on a high, on a high ¡Ó Hey.
So, how's it going? I'm good.
No, I mean about Will.
Is this gonna turn into a thing? What's going on? Have you slept with him? -No, not yet.
-Will hasn't said a thing.
He can't even look at me anymore, he's so freaked out.
¡Ó So I run or I fight ¡Ó ¡Ó And I crawl or I scream ¡Ó ¡Ó And I bleed ¡Ó You know, Sydney, you've been acting sort of weird Iately.
Really? And I thought you'd been acting weird.
I thought maybe it was because of Will.
You don't talk to me anymore.
¡Ó I'm on a high ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing more to it ¡Ó I'm sorry, Francle.
I just get so caught up in work.
Don't forget.
We used to be really good frlends.
You can talk to me.
[ Telephone rings .]
Hello? -Get in here now.
-Okay.
Who was that? Someone from the bank.
There's a problem with a cllent.
I have to go in.
See you.
[ Water running .]
-SARK: Hello? -They found the bugs.
How should I proceed? They'll be looking for our L.
A.
asset.
Give them someone.
I'll take care of it.
-Send a copy to Kendall.
-Vaughn, is it Sloane? Did Marshall get a locatlon? It's on an encrypted feed.
It was untraceable.
But we got a lead on Sloane another way.
An asset outSlde Kandahar reported someone matching Sloane's descriptlon in the company of men loyal to Ahmad Kabir, the warlord who played footSle with the Taliban.
When they ran, so did he, except we don't know exactly where.
We belleve Kabir's men took Sloane somewhere in the Helmand Valley.
Last year, Sloane asSlgned an agent to infiltrate Kabir's operatlon and intercept informatlon regarding a shipment of Sovlet misSlles.
Sloane stole misSlles from Kabir.
Now they're meeting.
What am I misSlng? Kabir has no idea who Sloane is.
The agent he asSlgned got out undetected.
Who was the agent? Marcus Dixon.
None of the records we acquired from SD-6 detailed that misSlon.
Everything that Jack knows, now you know.
The only person who can help us is Dixon.
Who has made it clear that he has no interest.
You're gonna have to change his mind.
I want a full brlefing on Kabir.
I don't think you appreciate Dixon's sense of betrayal.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but yesterday you were standing here complaining that we're not doing enough.
If you do nothing and we lose him, you'll have only yourself to blame.
DIANE: Marcus doesn't want to see you.
And for what it's worth, neither do I.
I know, Diane.
I do.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't important.
What good are your promises? Right.
Hello, Sydney.
Hi.
I need some informatlon.
-I can't help you.
-Five minutes.
-All I need is a locatlon.
-He said no.
It can mean the end of Sloane.
Sloane's with Ahmad Kabir.
I need to know where Kabir operates.
They need to be stopped.
Not by my husband, they don't.
The agency might try to compel you to tell.
If they do, I'll tell them what I'm telling you.
We've made a deciSlon as a family to move on.
-Do you own a suit? -A suit? Yeah.
Uh, one.
-Put it on.
-Why? What's going on? You've been doing analySls a short time, but your brlefs are good.
One of them on Ahmad Kabir.
The director wants a presentatlon.
Wait, wait.
Like, in person? -Talking points.
-I'm a writer.
-It's not a request.
-I don't talk.
It's part of your job.
Do you know Sammy's Red Hots? Sure, yeah.
Santa Monica and 1 7th.
Be there in one hour.
Order the special.
No pickles.
-I Iike pickles.
-You'll be led out.
A van will be waiting.
I'm gonna be talking to the director.
-Is that a big deal? -Yeah.
Oh, God.
It's from the 16th century.
It is a carving of an arhat.
A worthy one.
In Buddhist traditlon, an arhat is the destroyer of the enemy.
How is it you know so much? I'm a collector.
This plece is very special.
You want a partner.
Someone to invest in an incredibly ambitlous global enterprise which is at best a risky propoSltlon.
What you offer in exchange, to be my to be my arhat.
I need some assurance that you can deliver on that promise.
Oh, naturally.
That's why I'm fully prepared to give you a demonstratlon.
I leave it to you to choose the target.
VAUGHN: No suit, huh? It's been a while Slnce I trled it on.
Or worked out.
Which makes me overwhelmed and fat.
Professors Joyce and Fleming.
They flew in from the Kennedy school.
I'll go tell the others we're ready.
The Kennedy school? Where is that? Harvard.
That's right.
Our objective today is Slmple.
To identify persons who can give us the exact locatlon of Ahmad Kabir's Helmand Valley operatlon.
Despite the American-backed government, the geopolitical reality of Afghanistan is that it's defined by ethnic rivalrles.
The Slmplest way to find a Pashtun Iike Kabir is to first find an enemy willing to sell him out.
Sharif Rabani is on record as accuSlng Kabir's Pashtun supporters of engaging in ethnic cleanSlng.
I'm sure we'll get him to lead us to him.
Then why hasn't he? Yeah, they hate each other, but they probably hate us more.
Slnce 9/1 1, haven't we paid guys Iike this milllons and gotten almost nothing in return? Are you prepared to make an alternate recommendatlon? Yes, actually, I am.
All I have are these photographs.
Sydney.
This woman's name is AIia Gizabi.
She's marrled to an administrator with the Vatican embassy in Mexico City.
AIia Gizabi used to be AIia Kabir.
She's Kabir's ex-wife.
Slnce the Taliban got booted, a woman can have her marriage annulled if she was forced into that marriage, according to court records.
-You found court records? -They're on the Net.
There's nothing geopolitically correct about my analySls.
But I figure this woman would pay us to mess with her ex.
She hates him so much that she sent their son into hiding with her relatives.
I'll get you that Web address.
You should check it out.
Okay, I'll alert our statlon chlef in Mexico City.
Vaughn and Bristow, you will leave in one hour.
We need to protect this woman.
No one can know the CIA's contacted her.
You'll go under an alias.
SLOANE: Kabir has chosen his target.
His ex-wife.
We're uSlng the device on AIia Gizabi? You'll be brlefed en route to Mexico City.
You leave at once.
[ Beeping .]
[ Cellular phone rings, beeps .]
Gizabi's in the administrative wing adjacent to the church.
According to Caplan's calculatlons we need 20 milllon watts to reach that sectlon of the building.
That should give us coverage of the entire embassy.
But, Slr.
If Caplan's off by even a microtesla, this could go very wrong.
Do it.
That's easy for you to say, Slr.
You're 8,000 miles away.
I'll wait to hear from you.
I'm approaching the steps.
Senora.
I'm in.
Gizabi works on the first floor.
Can I help you? I'm not here to hurt you.
I work for American intelligence.
I need some informatlon about your ex-husband.
I know you're worrled about retributlon for leaving him.
I've come in secret.
No one knows I'm here.
No one will know you've talked with me.
I'm searching for a man.
A horrible, dangerous man.
He is with your ex-husband at his reSldence.
I need to know exactly where that is.
WEISS: Vaughn? Can you hear me? Vaughn? -What is it? -We had an Echelon intercept.
Key words.
"Terrorist.
" "Weapons of mass destructlon.
" You ready for this? "Rambaldi.
" -Did you get coordinates? -Yeah.
Yours.
We don't know when it's happening.
Get out now.
I cannot help you.
VAUGHN: We have to get out now.
There's gonna be an attack.
Car bomb, suicide bomb.
I don't know.
I'm alerting the embassy.
They're gonna evacuate.
There's a door at the end of the corridor.
Meet me there.
You have to come for your own safety.
I told you.
I won't help.
-We picked up a hot spot.
-Where? It's directly behind you.
It's huge.
What? What is it? Some kind of a fire.
No, Iisten to me.
It's this inferno, and it's right behind you.
There's nothing.
Is he seeing people, buildings, what? No, wait, wait.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It disappeared.
It's gone.
Gone? I don't know.
It disappeared.
Let's go back.
I'll tell you where to find my husband.
WOMAN ON TV: 62 people are dead in what officials are calling the worst act of terrorism in Mexico City in a decade.
Some people describe it as an act of God.
Local officials are still investigating the matter.
SARK: The victims were incinerated beyond recognitlon.
Absent poSltive identificatlon, a Iist of presumed dead was published.
Your ex is on the Iist.
What is this? A small token of appreciatlon.
No.
No, this is too much.
I cannot accept this.
I saw you admire it.
And deservedly so.
You have destroyed my enemy.
You are in every way my arhat.
I will have $40 milllon wired tomorrow to the account of your chooSlng.
KENDALL: Surveillance places Sark at the scene in Mexico City.
Subsequent to the attack, intel tracked him as far as Kabul.
We can assume Sloane dispatched Sark to carry out his misSlon.
Now that it's complete, Sark has returned to his master.
Thanks to Miss Gizabi, we now know where that is.
The plan is for you to lead a unit into the Helmand.
You'll parachute into the compound, steal the weapon, and Slgnal for backup.
You know how people are describing it.
They're calling it a Doomsday Device.
Saying it's the first Slgn of the coming Armageddon.
Like the Devil himself rose up to attack that church.
Um, excuse me, if I may offer a sclentific explanatlon, I think it might help the, uh [ Clears throat .]
Hi, everybody, it's good to That's a nice Okay.
Right.
What we're dealing with is a high-energy pulse weapon.
Thanks to an intercept, we were able to retask a KH-12 satellite over the area.
This was what we found.
Okay, the blue dots.
Those are the people in the church before.
This is what the infrared picked up after.
The body temperature of everyone increased by over 2,000 degrees.
They Iiterally melted from the inSlde out.
Nothing else in the church was affected.
That's because it works Iike a microwave.
It excites water and fat molecules, which don't exist in inorganic materials.
It converts them into atomic motlon, or heat.
You said everyone was affected.
Even people taking cover? There's no defense.
It goes through concrete, steel, everything.
-There's no shleld? -No.
Sorry.
Oh, I should, uh, probably also tell you that, um, this energy knocks out computer circuitry, which means it could take down planes.
What concerns me is that Sloane knows this is a provocatlon that demands a swift response.
Yet he exercised it on the ex-wife of a petty warlord.
Why? I got the inventory from the cleaners.
They found audlo and video transmitters.
Video? Yeah, in the TV in your bedroom.
We're investigating everyone you've Iisted.
So far they're all clean.
-[ Cellular phone rings .]
-FRANCle: Hello? -SYDNEY: Hey, it's me.
-Hey.
I know we had plans for tonight, but I have to work.
What you have to do is quit that job of yours.
-Fran, I'm sorry.
-It's okay.
The truth is, I wasn't gonna be able to make it anyway.
-You don't want to kill me? -Of course not.
Can we talk about this Iater? I'm in the middle of something.
Yeah.
I'll call you Iater.
Bye.
You remember "Predator," when Schwarzenegger was being chased by that crab who could only see in thermal? -No.
-You never saw that? It was a great movle.
It was one of his better movles, because "Twins" Anyway, Kabir's security cameras work the same way.
They read heat.
Which is kind of a problem 'cause, well, you're incredibly hot.
See? Now, the solutlon I have devised is you parachute onto the roof, rip off your tactical gear, then you slip on this baby.
It's part of a cold suit.
It will bring your body back down to room temperature.
-Put these bables on.
-As long as I'm covered the security cameras can't see me.
You'll be the InviSlble Woman.
See? I'm in the eastern stairs.
Go right at the bottom.
Kabir keeps weapons and ammunitlons in a room at the end of the hall.
There's no door.
-What? -Work's been done.
Maybe this place was bombed in the war and had to be reconfigured.
Meaning intel's worthless.
There has to be another way in.
I've been made.
Sydney's been compromised.
Order the tac unit in after her.
Did she defuse the weapon? If he's got the weapon, he'll use it.
-Issue the order.
-There's no defense against it.
Tac unit wouldn't stand a chance.
We can't leave her.
Unless we can find another way in, that's all we can do.
I don't think we've been introduced.
My name's Michael Vaughn.
I work with Sydney.
I'm out.
Sydney's in trouble.
Respect my deciSlon.
I can't.
Not when your deciSlon may cost Sydney her Iife.
You wouldn't tell Sydney how you infiltrated Kabir's, so she found an alternate way in uSlng what turned out to be faulty intel.
She was captured.
Unless we find another access point, no one will be sent in to get her out.
-It's not that Slmple.
-It is.
You will help save Sydney's Iife or you won't.
Please leave.
I can't do that.
Not until I get your answer.
KABIR: Admit you are CIA.
Submit to a videotape acknowledging you are here in vlolatlon of internatlonal Iaw.
Condemn the Great Satan, and maybe I will spare your Iife.
SLOANE: Sydney, tell him what he wants to hear or this will not end well.
You know, in many ways I will always conSlder you my proudest accomplishment.
Please, Sydney.
Unfortunately, I can't do anything about this.
Bye, Sydney.
Have you reconSldered? Admitting you are CIA? Perhaps you need a Iittle incentive.
Enough.
My houseguests have left.
It would seem there's nothing more to discuss.
The cartilage that lets the kneecap slide around does not regenerate, which you should know in advance of this.
[ Gunshot .]
You okay? I don't understand.
How did you find a way in? Let's go.
Let's go.
We got the device.
-Sloane? -No.
DIXON: This way.
Good work.
I was Iucky.
You got the weapon.
You've saved countless Iives.
Yeah.
I didn't get Sloane.
Or figure out what the hell he's doing with Kabir.
We found these on the plumber you gave us.
He was murdered.
He's either responSlble for the bugs or he was set up.
At the moment, it's a dead end.
I'm glad you're home.
¡Ó Take your eyes off me ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing here to see ¡Ó ¡Ó Trying to keep my head together ¡Ó ¡Ó As we make our vow ¡Ó -Hi.
-Hi.
¡Ó Let us remember how ¡Ó ¡Ó There's nothing good that lasts forever ¡Ó I know I say this to you a lot.
Thank you.
I can't judge you for not telling me about SD-6.
If I had been in your poSltlon, I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.
¡Ó Time out on the running boards ¡Ó ¡Ó We're running through a world that lost its meaning ¡Ó What's going on with Diane? I don't know.
¡Ó Feel the touch of grlef ¡Ó ¡Ó You stand in disbellef ¡Ó ¡Ó Can steal the Earth from right beneath you ¡Ó ¡Ó And falling in so far ¡Ó ¡Ó They know just where you are ¡Ó ¡Ó Yeah, but there ain't no way to reach you ¡Ó Kings are in town on Friday night.
You could watch the Zamboni.
¡Ó Trying to find a way to love ¡Ó ¡Ó This running ain't no kind of freedom ¡Ó What we saw.
At the church.
Every time we think we've seen the worst SARK: You talk of power and control.
But when we create a powerful weapon, you leave it in the hands of a complete stranger.
Tell me, how was what happened good for us? Hand me the top page of the manuscript.