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While Vaughn's life hangs in the balance, Lauren butts heads with Sydney after learning the part she played in his stabbing. Meanwhile, Sydney further questions Sloane's allegiances after he is kidnapped by Kazari Bomani, a kingpin in The Covenant; Jack's cover is jeopardized when he meets with Simon to dig up information on Sydney's missing two years; and Marshall is sent on his second mission with Sydney, posing as a high-stakes, southern gambler. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Jesse Alexander

Director:: Ken Olin

Stars:: Carl Lumbly (Marcus R. Dixon); Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane); David Anders (Sark); Melissa George (Lauren Reed); Victor Garber (Jonathan 'Jack' Donahue Bristow); Michael Vartan (Michael C. Vaughn); Jennifer Garner (Sydney Anne Bristow); Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman); Greg Grunberg (Eric Weiss)

Guest Star:: Djimon Hounsou (Kazari Bomani); Clifton Collins Jr. (Javier Parez); Justin Theroux (Simon Walker); Virginia Pereira (Receptionist); Garret Sato (Yakuza Pit Boss (credited as Garret T. Sato))

Vaughn makes reference to Weiss being shot in "The Enemy Walks In." edit »
Number 47: Both Sydney and Lauren are paged with the number 47911 on their pagers. edit »
Ebola is a truly gruesome way to die with the body bleeding from many places. However, it does take quite a bit of time, usually 6-10 days for it to become fatal. And even the most deadly form of it (Ebola Zaire) has a 90% fatality rate, meaning 10% survive (not in good health). Even with engineering, and an artificial virus, there is no way that you could have the near-instant fatalities that are depicted. That is how chemical agents work, not biological. There would also be enormous amounts of blood around all the bodies, not to mention survivors. The HasMat team would also have been there for days before the first person died (but would not really have been able to save anyone... there is no treatment for Ebola).

And tailoring a virus to target (or omit) a single person would be a silly thing to do. Viruses by their very nature are highly prone to mutation (thus messing up your targeting), and you would most likely kill the people you were trying to protect. edit »
Goof:
During the car chase you can see Lauren in the car steering to the right to make a tight turn, but in the next shot out of the car you can see all vehicles making a left turn. edit »
When Sark hands off the money for the bio-weapons, the top bills flutter in the wind and you can see the plain white paper underneath them making up the rest of the stack, even though the payoff is supposed to be authentic. In other words, the prop department didn't bother to use real money for all the stacks. edit »

Djimon Hounsou was billed as Special Guest Star in this episode. edit »
Music from this episode includes:
"Psycho Slam" by Beamish
"Kenny Rogers Dub Plate" by Wyclef Jean & Kenny Rogers
"Ooh Child" by Lady Laistee f. Sweetness
"Ooh Child" by Beth Orton edit »
The standard opening titles weren't used for this episode. edit »

Weiss: Vaughn will back me up. This is a true story, I swear. Sophmore year, college. Her name was April First.
Vaughn: Birth name, by the way.
Weiss: Right. And for a month I was obsessed. I though this women had to have my children, okay? The problem was that she only dated guitar players. Literally.
Lauren: A girl should have her standards.
Vaughn: Since she worked at a coffeehouse, Eric decided to impress her on open-mike night.
Sydney: You play the guitar?
Weiss: No, no not even a little. But I thought that, you know, if I got up on that stage and the spotlight was in my face, that maybe God would imbue my hands with the power of Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Lauren: So what happened?
Weiss: Oh, disaster. Just embarrassment. I didn't play two notes that went together.
Lauren: And what about April First?
Weiss: Oh, we made out in my Gremlin. edit »
Marshall: If I were any more nervous, I'd need new underpants just about now. edit »
Simon: On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most degenerate displays of sexual theater known to man? Huh... Julia's like a 17! edit »

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The Bottom Line: "Adventurous"
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The Bottom Line: "Revealing"
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The Bottom Line: "Revealing"
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The Bottom Line: "Average"
Sydney: "The fact that Arvin Sloane holds all the cards in this scenario is giving me a migraine."
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