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The Descent

Episode Number: 86    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Wednesday May 18, 2005    Prod Code: 420
After a tactical group infiltrates the DSR and steals Rambaldi artifacts, CIA director Hayden Chase discovers that the alarms at the DSR were disabled from Nadia's computer, allowing the raid to happen, and shows up at the apartment to question her. Soon Sloane and Jack arrive and suspect that Sophia, who had access to the computer while she was living with Syd and Nadia, is Elena Derevko. They follow her trail to a dead Rambaldi follower, a stunning betrayal, and a presumed dead family member...

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Star: Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman),  Mia Maestro (Nadia Santos),  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)
Recurring Role: Lena Olin (Irina Derevko),  Sonia Braga (Elena Derevko),  Angela Bassett (Hayden Chase),  Isabella Rossellini (Katya Derevko)
Guest Star: Jeff Yagher (Greyson Wells),  Jared Poe (Young Agent),  Braeden Marcott (Salesman),  Nick Jameson (Lazlo Drake),  Jodi Fung (Nurse),  Andrew Divoff (Lucien Nisard),  Jeremy Brandt (Lead CIA Agent)

Notes

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Sonia Braga and Angela Bassett were billed as Special Guest Star in this episode. (edit)
Music from this episode includes:
"The Girl's Attractive" by Diamond Nights
"No One" by Aly & AJ (edit)
Greg Grunberg does not appear in this episode. (edit)
This is the second time this season staff writer Jeffery Bell wrote and directed the same episode. His previous double effort was "Ice." (edit)

Quotes

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Sydney: Don't. Touch. The fur. Alright, you may touch the fur... Once. (edit)
Vaughn: I’m sorry, maybe it’s only me, but what do you mean when you say “Rambaldi’s end-game”? What is it? Is it a scenario? A weapon?
Sloane: In Elena’s hands most likely an apocalypse. (edit)
Nadia: (about Elena’s treachery) I just feel stupid, I trusted her.
Marshall: Hey I don’t blame you, I mean she was like family. Don’t put this on yourself, hell I trusted Sloane for 6 years, before I found out he was evil. (edit)
Katya: Irina spent the last years of her life tracking Elena, she was determined to stop our sister from enacting her end-game, and she would have done it too, but you had to go put a bullet in her head.
Jack: I was set up, Elena put a hit out on Sydney, framed Irina for it.
Katya: Oh! I see so you executed my sister on a misunderstanding… oh then all is forgiven. (edit)
Katya: Is that look on your face supposed to be intimidating? You forget, Jack- I’ve seen your tender side.
Jack: I need everything you know on Elena’s operations- right now.
Katya: What makes you think I know anything?
Jack: Call it an instinct.
Katya: Do you intend to torture me?
Jack: If I have to.
Katya: While I know that would be enjoyable for both of us, I should warn you, I have quite a bit of stamina. But you already know that about me. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof:
When Sloane and Sydney are standing in front of the TV looking at their own image from a camera nearby, Sydney raises the remote control to switch to another channel. However the Sydney in the picture does not move her hand. (edit)
Yanking the glass shard out of Sloane's chest the way Nadia did is an extraordinarily bad idea. The proper field procedure is to apply pressure to the wound around the glass shard. Nadia, as a field-trained agent, would have known this. (edit)

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9.8
Superb
The Descent
"Cleverly plotted"
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billiedoux
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10.0
Perfect
The Descent
"Pivotal"
Yelena: "I'd heard you reformed." Sloane: "I suppose I've been born again."
Continue » Posted Sep 25, 2005 10:17 am PST
8.8
Great
The Descent
"Exciting"
More Alive Than Dead
Continue » Posted Sep 5, 2005 3:44 pm PST
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