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Maternal Instinct

Episode Number: 99    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Wednesday April 19, 2006    Prod Code: 511
When Irina appears at Sydney's house, she persuades Jack and Sydney to go with her to Vancouver to retrieve The Horizon. which is being safely secured in a bank. While they try to get the item Peyton also tries to get it and all the action brings on Sydney's labor.

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Writer: Breen Frazier
Director: Tucker Gates
Star: Balthazar Getty (Thomas Grace),  Carl Lumbly (Marcus R. Dixon),  Elodie Bouchez (Renée Rienne),  Jennifer Garner (Sydney Anne Bristow),  Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman),  Rachel Nichols (Rachel Gibson),  Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane),  Victor Garber (Jonathan 'Jack' Donahue Bristow)
Recurring Role: Amy Acker (Kelly Peyton),  Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn),  Lena Olin (Irina Derevko)
Guest Star: Robert Dolan (Agent Barker),  Ho-Kwan Tse (Nabin),  Keith Sellon-Wright (Dr. Ellis),  Chodak Gyatso (Lama),  J. Michael Flynn (Alex Moreau),  Ivo Nandi (Jean Bertrand),  James Handy (Devision Director Devlin),  John Aylward (Jeffrey Davenport)

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International Air Dates:
Australia: Sunday, August 26, 2007 on Network 7 (edit)

Quotes

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Marshall: I love secret conspiracies… you know, as long as I’m a co-conspirator. (edit)
(Sydney, Jack and Irina go on a mission into a bank)
Bank Manager: It’s so sweet how your daughter wants to please you
Jack: She’s our pride and joy.
Bank Manager: She’ll be a wonderful parent to her child.
Irina: Thank you.
Bank Manager: She has such lovely role models.
(The Bristow's all forcedly smile) (edit)
Jack: Here (hands Sydney a gun) Cover your mother, I’ll take care of Peyton and her men… be right back, what ever happens keep that pointed at your mother, if she even blinks-
Sydney: I’ll shoot her. (edit)
(Jack confronts Peyton and her men)
Peyton: This is really no place for you grandpa. (edit)
Irinia: You should know something Sydney. I've never wanted to have a child. The KGB demanded it. They knew it would insure your father allegiances to me. You were simply a mean to an end. And when the doctor put you in my arms, and I looked at you, so fragile. All I could think was I could have made a such terrible mistake, and at that moment I was sure of one thing : I couldn't be an agent and a mother. I'd either fail at one or both. And I chose to fail at being a mother. (edit)

Trivia

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Number 47: the cypher Sydney gives to her captors is LEO 47 NORTE. (edit)
Of all the unconvincing things to occur during the birth scene, the thing that struck me most was Irena catching, swaddling, and handing the baby to Sydney all in one very quick fluid motion. What happened to the umbilical cord? (edit)
When Jack and Irina break into the safety deposit box at Queens Bank in Vancouver to recover the Horizon, Jack uses a spray solvent to disable the locking mechanism of the box. He then carefully opens the door from the bottom and removes the drawer avoiding the sizzling and steaming area he sprayed. However, in the same scene seconds later, Jack closes the front door of the box revealing it looking completely unmarred and not harming Jack in any way when he touches it. (edit)
With both her parents present Sydney gives birth to a baby girl. (edit)
It's in this episode that Sydney realises it was Irina Derevko her mother who was holding her captive on the boat in the episode 'The Horizon'. (edit)

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Community Reviews (28)

 
10.0
Perfect
Maternal Instinct
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Sydney, Jack and Irina all go on another mission once again...but half a through a new member of the family is added! Alias at its best!
Continue » Posted Aug 28, 2007 2:57 am PST
9.4
Superb
Maternal Instinct
"Exciting"
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Continue » Posted Aug 20, 2007 1:23 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Maternal Instinct
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Another great family episode featuring the Bristows! There is nothing bad I can say about this episode. Very well done.
Continue » Posted Dec 5, 2006 3:35 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Maternal Instinct
"Exactly why I watch this series"
it's really great to have seen a Syd in action
Continue » Posted Sep 20, 2006 11:23 am PST

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Maternal Instinct
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Lena Olin is back! Wow have I missed her so. I sat though this episode with a huge smile on my face. I just loved every minute of it.
Continue » Posted Jun 24, 2006 12:40 pm PST
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Episode: Maternal Instinct
Season Number: 5
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