Alias

As AC/DC's "Back in Black" plays, Sydney struts down a hallway, clad in sexy black lingerie, complete with a riding crop. A fat dude, who's shoveling his face with shrimp, gives her the once over and tells her, in French, to put on "the red one." Instead of punching him in the face, Syd complies. Shrimp Dude declares the red lingerie better. Syd saunters to a window and gazes out. The camera pulls back to show that Syd's actually on a plane.



Syd and Shrimp Dude make their way to the bed and start making out. Syd brings the festivities to a halt by pulling a garrote from her bracelet and wrapping it around Shrimp Dude's neck. "What was wrong with the black one?" She spits. Shrimp Dude flails about as Syd demands he tell her how to access Server 47. Once he does, she knocks him out. She runs to a computer terminal built into the wall. She types away then says, "We're transmitting." She changes her clothes, grabs a gun and looks for a parachute. She's interrupted by a Bad Guy who puts a gun to her head, orders her to kneel and to drop her gun. Syd tosses her gun behind him and when he looks back at it she proceeds to kick his ass. Shrimp Dude then shows up and starts shooting as the screen goes black...



And it's now 24 hours before the shenanigans aboard the plane. Syd heads into CIA Headquarters and runs into Vaughn. They make moony eyes at each other before heading to Kendall's briefing, which includes Spy Daddy (Jack) and Weiss. Kendall informs them that Sloane's gone missing and has been replaced by Geiger (as played by Rutger Hauer). Kendall tells Syd and Spy Daddy to find out what's going on.



SD-6. Syd arrives and spies Geiger getting comfy in Sloane's office. She skips on over and intoduces herself. Geiger brings up Danny and asks Syd a bunch of questions which she stiffly answers. Geiger's a tad suspicious that Syd would continue working for the very people responsible for her fiance's death. Syd hems and haws her way out of that and skedaddles.



Sark shows up and tries to chat up Syd, but she's not having any of it. He does capture her interest, however, when he says Geiger believes Sloane's a traitor and he's hacked into Sloane's files on Server 47 (ding, ding!). Syd says there are only 46 servers, but Sark's positive Geiger said 47.



Syd reports this to Spy Daddy and says she thinks Server 47 is a central Alliance computer which "links all the SD cells." If they can find this server, they might just be able to bring down the Alliance. Yee-haw!



CIA HQ. Vaughn's busy telling Syd what they found out about Server 47: it's in a 747, it's protected by Shrimp Dude and the plane only lands in order to refuel. But...the Alliance provides Shrimp Dude with hookers twice a week to keep him happy. So all Syd's gotta do is take the place of the current whore. Nice. Weiss gives her earrings which will relay video to a CIA plane.



And...we're back where we started. Syd's strutting, Shrimp Dude's ogling, blah blah. Weiss and Vaughn are watching this via the feed through Syd's magic earrings. Now we discover Vaughn told Syd to throw the gun in order to distract Bad Guy. Fight, fight! Shrimp Dude shooting. Syd dodging bullets. Shrimp Dude stupidly shooting out a window, causing the cabin to lose pressure. Shrimp Dude flies out to his death. Syd manages to snag a parachute and out she goes.



Back in L.A., Will and Francie make out.



Also back in L.A., Kendall's debriefing the team. He reminds them of the C-4 beneath SD-6 and hypothe that the other cells also have failsafes. If they move on them with faulty intel, many civilians could die. Syd's ticked 'cuz she had to make out with Shrimp Dude in order to acquire said intel. Spy Daddy points out that the cells change their security code every week. If the code listed in the documents Syd acquired match the current SD-6 code, then the intel's good. Got that? Spy Daddy says he'll get the code.



SD-6. Geiger's checking out Sloane's out-going e-mail. He notices that Sloane typed something, then erased it. He plays it back and it reads: "Jack and Sydney Bristow are double agents." Uh-oh!



Spy Daddy arrives at SD-6 and gets to code retrievin' but is interrupted by a sinister-looking Geiger.



Spy Daddy calls Syd, tells her to come in and to "take the surface streets." That's code for "I'm screwed, Honey. Stay away!" Syd understandably freaks.



Geiger sets up Spy Daddy in one of SD-6's numerous torture chambers. The two verbally spar then Geiger shocks poor Spy Daddy.



Syd contacts Will and tells him to get Francie and get out of town. Now!



In order to save her dad, Syd needs the SD-6 code. She contacts Dixon and they meet. She spills the beans, all about how SD-6 is really evil, they're just pawns and oh yeah! She's a double agent. Sorry! Dixon's pissed. Syd begs for his help and tells him about the code. If she's right Dixon will be able to find out by hacking into the system. She gives him instructions on how to do so and asks him to retrieve the code. He's still hella pissed, but agrees to check it out.



Dixon does as Syd asks and when he discovers the Alliance Secure Network his face crumbles. He shoots Syd an e-mail which contains the current code. It's a match.



The Good Guys spring into action. They need to coordinate their efforts with the attacks on the other cells so no one will be tipped off. The takedown of the Alliance commences.



Spy Daddy's still being tortured.



The Good Guys bust into SD-6. Bullets fly. Fighting ensues. Dixon pulls a stunned Marshall to the floor.



Syd hustles down a hall to her father's torture chamber and shoots Geiger dead. She gets Spy Daddy medical attention then tries to talk to Dixon, but he's spitting fire. Syd looks like she's gonna cry.



Apparently all the attacks were successful and the Alliance? Is done! Yay!



Syd and Vaughn survey the damage then melt into the Best Kiss Ever In The History Of Television.



Sark phones Sloane and congratulations him on a job well done. Seems Sloane masterminded the takedown of the Alliance. Sneaky! And evil! Sloane tells Sark it's not over yet and orders him to check in with their asset. So Sark phones Francie (Francie!) to confirm she's "in position." She confirms. The camera pulls away from Evil Francie and pans across the room to reveal a blood trail and a very dead Francie!



Dun dun dun!