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The Horizon

Episode Number: 97    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Wednesday December 14, 2005    Prod Code: E509
Sydney teams up with Vaughn after being kidnapped and being placed in a hypnotic state. What Sydney doesn't know is that the kidnapper is a very familiar face with an obscure interest in her unborn child.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: André Nemec, Josh Appelbaum
Director: Tucker Gates
Star: Jennifer Garner (Sydney Anne Bristow),  Elodie Bouchez (Renée Rienne),  Victor Garber (Jonathan 'Jack' Donahue Bristow),  Kevin Weisman (Marshall J. Flinkman),  Rachel Nichols (Rachel Gibson),  Carl Lumbly (Marcus R. Dixon),  Balthazar Getty (Thomas Grace),  Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane)
Recurring Role: Amy Acker (Kelly Peyton),  Lena Olin (Irina Derevko),  Michael Vartan (Michael C. Vaughn)
Guest Star: Patrick Bauchau (Aldo Desantis),  Michael Massee (Dr. Gonzalo Burris),  Kathe E. Mazur (Doctor Lynn (credited as Kathe Mazur))

Notes

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International Air Dates:
Australia: Sunday, August 12, 2007 on Network 7 (edit)
Neither Michael Vartan (Vaughn) nor Lena Olin (Irina) were credited at the start of the episode, probably to keep their appearances a surprise (despite the fact that Vaughn was in the opening scene). (edit)

Quotes

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(Sydney’s been hypnotized for interrogation, in her hypnosis she meets Vaughn)
Vaughn: What do you think about orichiette.
Sydney: I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it, wait a minute don’t tell me you cook.
Vaughn: There’s a lot of things about me you don’t know.
Sydney: Do you clean too?
Vaughn: I’ve been known to, why? You thinking of hiring me? (edit)
Sydney: (to her interrogator) If you hurt my baby, I swear I will kill you. (edit)
(Jack and Renée scout an abandoned building looking for Sydney)
Jack: Unit 3 is located on the third floor.
Renée: The lease expired 16 years ago.
Jack: (handing Renée a gun) Nevertheless. (edit)
Sydney: But do you know what I want? I want the world to forget about us. I'm tired, Vaughn. I'm tired of having this weight on my shoulder. I – I don't want to be the one who has to save the world. I want you back. I want you all to myself. I want to go away, just you and me and our baby; somewhere no one can bother us, on a deserted island. I want out. (edit)
Sydney: I'm not a big fan of pain. (edit)

Trivia

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This episode shows Sydney’s date of birth, when Sydney confronts Peyton, on board the ship she stumbles across a folder that reads: BRISTOW, S. DOB: 4/17/75. (edit)
While Sydney's under hypnosis she visits several locations, that were previously seen on the show

- Sydney and Vaughn about to jump into Sovogda, when Vaughn proposes to Sydney (Season 4, Episode 21, “Search and Rescue”)
- Sydney at Vaughn’s bedside where he dies (Season 5, Episode 1, “Prophet Five”)
- Sydney and Vaughn when they were captured in North Korea (Season 3, Episode 12 “Crossings”)
- Sydney and Vaughn at the pier, after Sydney’s SD-6 mission in Morocco goes bad (Season 1, Episode 4, “Broken Heart”)
- Sydney and Vaughn’s briefings in the mesh cage (Throughout Seasons 1 and 2)
- Sydney and Vaughn in the “LA County Blood Drive” van, where Vaughn shows her the whole SD-6 map (Season 1, Episode 2, “So it Begins”) (edit)

Allusions

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Sydney: I want to go away, just you and me and our baby; somewhere no one can bother us, on a deserted island.

This could be a possible allusion to JJ Abrams other show Lost about a group of plane-crash survivors on a deserted island. (edit)
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cavanagh15
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8.1
Great
The Horizon
"Unoriginal"
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Continue » Posted Aug 19, 2007 11:55 pm PST
8.9
Great
The Horizon
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Best episode so far in Season 5, well written, filmed and developed and with a great cliffhanger!
Continue » Posted Dec 5, 2006 2:43 pm PST

Awsumdave5
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10.0
Perfect
The Horizon
"Exciting"
This one had to be the best episode of Alias season 5 I have seen yet.
Continue » Posted Dec 2, 2006 9:47 am PST
9.0
Superb
The Horizon
"Revealing"
Vaughn’s not really alive (which those ABC promos fooled us into thinking), Irina's involved in Prophet 5, and Sydney's sailing away onto a boat into the middle of the ocean with evil Peyton! This episode was full of so many surprises.
Continue » Posted Jun 24, 2006 12:36 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
The Horizon
"Exactly why I watch this series"
One of the 'BEST EVER' episodes in Alias history. 'The Horizon' proves why Jennifer Garner is a golden globe winner and deserves an Emmy for this episode/series (not just a nom, she HAS to win). If she doesn't win, I will shoot myself.
Continue » Posted May 3, 2006 12:27 pm PST
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