Q & A - Recap

Sydney, wearing a shorthaired wig, is driving a car while fleeing from a squad of police cars. The chase ends on a pier. She is completely surrounded by the cop cars and has nowhere else to go. Suddenly, she slams her foot down on the gas pedal and drives her car into the water…

It is a day earlier; Sydney is chained to a chair. This is moments after the FBI has taken her into custody. FBI Special Officer Kendall is questioning her with a team of interrogators. The CIA is nowhere to be found, and will not be helping her in this one. Kendall is looking it Sydney’s background and wants to start at the beginning – the very beginning.

She tells him how SD-6 recruited her and she was trained at Credit Dauphine. She talks about the stages of her training. Sydney is also forced to relive the murder of her fiancé, Daniel Hecht. It is a very painful moment for Sydney and she is visibly upset.

Next, she explains how she learned the truth about SD-6 from her father, Jack Bristow. She then went to the CIA to become a double agent so she could bring SD-6 down. She confirms that her father is in the same situation as her and that Arvin Sloane recruited her and gave her a life of espionage. It is unclear what the FBI wants to believe more – Sydney’s truth or “The Prophecy”.

Jack tells Vaughn that Sydney’s cover in SD-6 will be blown if she remains in the custody of the FBI. Vaughn has developed a plan. According to Rambaldi, the woman in the Prophecy will never have seen Mount Subasio in Italy. Vaughn wants to break her out of custody and take her to Mount Subasio to prove her innocence. Vaughn and Jack agree that she must do this and if they are successful, their action would defy The Prophecy.

Vaughn, while talking to another CIA agent, learns that Haladki eats lunch everyday at the FBI offices. Vaughn finds out that Haladki used to be FBI. He goes to Haladki to ask where the FBI would be holding Sydney but he gets no help.

Sydney is now answering questions about her mother. She was a deceitful woman who worked for the KGB as a spy. While the FBI was pursuing her, her car went off the road and she disappeared with her car into the river.

Sydney explains how life as a double agent works. SD-6 gives her a mission and then she meets with Vaughn. He gives her a CIA counter mission. She talks about the explosion at the plant in Badenweiler to show how contradictory this life can be.

Jack holds Haladki at gunpoint in a parking garage and demands to know where the FBI is holding Sydney. Haladki, on the verge of tears, reveals her location. Jack, Vaughn and Weiss break Sydney out of FBI custody and tell her their plan to defy Rambaldi’s writing. Sydney, at first, is angry because he escape makes her a fugitive. Nonetheless, she agrees to travel to Mount Subasio.

When Haladki learns of Sydney’s escape, he knows that Vaughn and Jack did it. He looks into it and finds that four CIA unmarked cars were taken out. He reports the license plates to the FBI.

Wearing a short wig as a disguise, Sydney drives off to the airport. Suddenly police cruisers appear everywhere and give chase. Sydney desperately tries to lose them to no avail. Ironically, Will and Francie are watching this police chase on television. They make jokes and have no idea that their best friend is the one being chased.

Sydney is cornered by the police on a pier. She drives her car into the water. While underwater, she gets an idea. She swims out the window and goes to the back of the car. She breathes oxygen from the tires and stays submerged for over 10 minutes so that the police will think she is dead. This gives her enough time to get away.

Before getting on the plane to Italy, Sydney meets with her father. She tells Jack how she escaped. She asks him “If I could do that, couldn’t Mom have done the same?”...


THE PROPHECY:

“This woman here depicted will possess unseen marks. Signs that she will be the one to bring forth my works. Bind them with fury. A burning anger, unless prevented. At vulgar cost, this woman will render the greatest power unto utter desolation. This woman, without pretense, will have had her effect, never having seen the beauty of my sky behind Mount Subasio. Perhaps a single glance would have quelled her fire.”


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