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9.2 Superb
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Air Date

Sunday March 3, 2002

Production Code

E644

Episode Summary

Vaughn asks Sydney to use her friendship with Sloane's wife, Emily, to gain access to a mysterious Rambaldi book which happens to be under lock and key in a safe at Sloane's home. Meanwhile, Will is kidnapped and told to drop his investigation of SD-6 or risk the lives of his family and friends, including Sydney's.

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    8.8 Great

    Mysterious page 47 hide show

    So.. the leads are back on the book what Sydney got from Argentina and.. they need for her to get the page from there and do the switch.. and that in Sloane's house.. sounds crazy but she manages it.. and the end.. when CIA figures out what to do with that book.. even more crazy.. I am not even sure what it all means but.. Ok.. the best part for me in this episode was Will story what somehow hits the top - he is in position where he has to chose - his and his family and friend's life or the article.. and it looks like there is no choice.. and I have no idea what he should or can do.. he is in trouble.. and that dinner in Sloane's place.. the irony.. meeting those people who are behind it.. trying to kill him.

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    9 Superb

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    Volvieron los viajes relámpago alrededor del mundo, volvió Sidney con todo convencida de que lo está haciendo sirve para salvar al mundo de los malitos, volvió Rambaldi! Y todos despedazándose por tener la mayor parte de la colección de objetos maravillosos e increíbles. Para mí que este tipo (ya sé, no me van a dar el Premio Nobel de Inteligencia por lo que voy a decir) está vivito y coleando gracias a uno de sus super inventos, no? Ojalá la trama se siga desarrollando por este lado y por el otro que Will siga haciendo de las suyas. Que termine trabajando para la CIA! Por favoooor!!!

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    10 Perfect

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    Vaughn asks Sydney to use her friendship with Emily, Sloane's wife, in order to get more photos of the Rambaldi book. She, Jack, and Will go to dine at Sloane's house. There, Sydney gets the photos and the page. Will is kidnapped in order to warn him to stop doing what he's doing with SD-6 or they'll hurt his friends and family. He does stop. He also breaks up with Jenny. Vaughn finds out what the page of the Rambaldi page was: a picture of a woman who looks like Sydney.

    This episode was great! The ending was cool! It was scary when Sloane walked in on Sydney. This episode gets a 10 out of 10!

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    9.8 Superb

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    in this episode of Alias Sydney her father Jack and will go over to Sloane's house for dinner and Sydney must make the switch in the book that she got on her last mission meanwhile Will is Kidnapped and told to drop the invitation on SD-6 and all of his friends and family are threatened any a great episode that was very exiting not a dull moment at all at the dinner sense you can kind of fill the tension in the air because of what the viewer knows for other episodes my rating is going to be 9.8 end

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    9.6 Superb

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    Another amazing episode and this season is really starting to become one of my favorite devoloped television series season 1s of all time.Every episode seems to entertain me from beginning to end. Many shows seem to falter once the writing gets into the middle of the season because they want to use all the good ideas in the beginning to draw in people and then big twists at the end to keep those same people interested and coming back. I must say this show never seems to let up on the action and the adventure, every episode seems to be up there and it just seems to be getting better and better. SD 6 kidnapping Will make me think Jack is down deep with some secrets with that man in prison he doesn’t want coming up. Sydney getting somewhat caught in the study was kind of surprising. I thought she would have gotten out of there okay, but she got caught red handed. I guess he figured she had just finished talking on the phone, but I would have found that a little odd from the other end of the perspective. Either way – great shocking twist for an ending that has me confused and a handful of other mysteries that make me want to keep coming back for more. Fantastic episode.

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  • Number 47: When a black-hooded Jack Bristow and a few other hooded men kidnap Will and threaten his family and friends in order to make him stop researching SD-6, Jack lists Sydney's address as 4250 Cochran Street. 4 and (2+5)= 7 (and 0) is her house number. Also, 42+5=47. []
  • Number 47: According to Vaughn the page 47 is always significant in a Rambaldi manuscript. []
  • What Sydney says in Swedish is: "Excuse me, can you help me? My boat...I have no gasoline left. Can you loan me some gasoline? ...Thank you very much. []
More Trivia
  • This episode was nominated for the 2003 ASC Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series". []
  • Music from this episode includes:
    "No Such Thing" by John Mayer
    "Landslide" by The Smashing Pumpkins
    "Home" by Abra Moore
    "Feelin' The Same Way" by Norah Jones []
  • Will: Jenny listen, I think you're great. You're smart and you're beautiful and I think we had a lot of fun. But you and I, I just don't think that we...
    (Jenny stops the car)
    Jenny: Are you breaking up with me? I drive all the way out here with a broken radio by the way and you're going to break up with me! []
  • Francie: Dear aunt Stephanie, unfortunately, as my mom has informed you, the wedding is off, so I'm returning your kind gift of a coffeemaker because, as it turns out, the man to whom I was engaged is a deceitful sex-crazed two-faced jackass. All my love, Francie.
    Sydney: It's not too harsh. []
  • (While Sydney goes towards the boat in Tunisia, talking to Dixon who is on the beach)
    Sydney: So tell me the truth. Who do you like better Mary Ann or Ginger? []
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  • Sydney: So tell me the truth. Who do you like better Mary Ann or Ginger?

    The question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" is regarded to be a classic pop-psychological question when given to American men of a certain age as an insight into their characters, or at least their desires as regarding certain female stereotypes. The two woman are characters from Gilligan's Island. which ran on the CBS network from 1964 to 1967, and has run more or less continuously since in reruns. []
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