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Nightingale

Episode Number: 80    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Wednesday April 6, 2005    Prod Code: 413
Sydney and Vaughn risk their lives trying to find out the truth about Vaughn's father. Finally, we find out why Jack and Sloane seem to be conspiring together against Sydney and Vaughn.

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Writer: Breen Frazier
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Star: Greg Grunberg (Eric Weiss),  Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman),  Jennifer Garner (Sydney Anne Bristow),  Carl Lumbly (Marcus R. Dixon),  Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane),  Michael Vartan (Michael C. Vaughn),  Victor Garber (Jonathan 'Jack' Donahue Bristow),  Mia Maestro (Nadia Santos)
Guest Star: Andrew Kirsanov (Christof Goedde),  Gunter Simon (Klaus),  Elya Baskin (Dr. Josef Vlachko),  Robin Sachs (Hans Dietrich),  Marat Oyvetsky (Prisoner),  Zena Leigh (Beer Maid),  Michael Kenneth Williams (Roberts)

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Music from this episode includes:
"Trouble" by Ray LaMontagne (edit)
This episode averaged 9.74 million viewers. (edit)

Quotes

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(Vaughn’s having second thoughts about the search for his father)
Sydney: We don’t know your father’s dead.
Vaughn: Yeah! At this point I do.
Sydney: After all the progress you’ve made, how can you just-
Vaughn: How can I just what!? What have I got? Some journal with his handwriting, that shouldn’t even exist? And a word, one word: “Nightingale”. What the hell does that even mean? Some random woman mentioned it to me, I would have been better off if I’d asked for the goose that lays golden eggs.
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Sloane: Well I have to hand it to you Jack, I never thought you’d be capable of exploiting your own daughter, I certainly couldn’t do that. (edit)
Vaughn: We come clean with APO like your father wanted, we draw up a mission that’ll get us Nightingale, then we run a counter-mission.
Sydney: Like the old days. (edit)
Vaughn: Are you out of your mind?
Man: (snorts) I'm not the one that injected myself with an unknown substance. (pause) So, now that we've established your desperation...it's a matter of how far you're willing to go. (edit)
Jack: The more you co-operate the less pain you endure. (edit)

Trivia

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There is no "Sherwood Library" at UCLA. (And the building they showed as the library is not on UCLA campus). (edit)
Goof:
Jack says he has ordered a bottle of Pinot Noir. The wine bottle at the table is a Bordeaux-shaped bottle, not a Burgundy-shaped bottle that Pinot Noir wines use. (edit)

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Continue » Posted Aug 17, 2007 6:04 pm PST
9.5
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Nightingale
"Revealing"
This is a very Alias like episode, it contains all the great elements that the fans love the show for. To name just a few, there are scientists experimenting with super weapons, action and fight scenes, foreign languages, people playing each other...
Continue » Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:42 am PST
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Nightingale
"Character development"
Jack: "Yes, I imagine this must be quite upsetting for you, Arvin, my not anticipating that Sydney and Vaughn's deceit could be greater than your own."
Continue » Posted Sep 25, 2005 10:09 am PST

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9.4
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Nightingale
"Revealing"
An excellent episode with pivotal shifts in character relationships especially Sydney/Jack and Sydney/Vaughn. Excellent "minor" scenes with Nadia and Weiss and sets up what may became a very entertaining story/season arc.
Continue » Posted Jul 17, 2005 5:54 am PST
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Episode: Nightingale
Season Number: 4
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