Episode Report Card Shack: C+ | 173 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Déjà Vu To A Kill
By Shack | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2002.03.17
Kendall asks Sydney whether she thought that response was a little extreme for a government agency. Yeah, just because they're considering imprisoning her for life without the benefit of a trial due to a prophecy written in a book five hundred years ago, there's no reason to think that they would do something drastic like murder somebody. Sydney is indignant at the suggestion that she knew what SD-6 was all along. Really, if she did, would she have told her fiancé about it? Kendall wants to know how Sydney found out what SD-6 really was. Previously on Alias: Sydney tried to cut her ties with SD-6, but they came after her and tried to kill her. She beat up some gunmen in a parking garage and was rescued by her (Spy) Daddy, and that's when she discovered that he was working for SD-6 as well. He explained to her that SD-6 is actually a branch of the Alliance, an organization created by a bunch of spies who had gone freelance and were evil information brokers, an enemy of the United States, freedom, and cute little puppies.
Back at the CIA offices, Agent Anxious approaches Sean about something he had said earlier about the Weasel. He wants to make sure that Sean said the Weasel used to eat lunch at the Webster Rotunda. Sean's sure. Vaughn explains that you can't be there unless you're a ranking FBI official. They both look shocked. These people are intelligence experts? Agent Affronted chases down the Weasel in the bathroom to harangue him about this detail. The Weasel points out that his past history with the FBI is in his résumé and is hardly a big secret. I think it shows how utterly unlikable Haladki is that his co-workers in the CIA can't even be bothered to find out about his life or history. Anyway, because of Weasel's past, Vaughn is just certain that the Weasel MUST know where Sydney is and what's going on. Weasel defends his anti-Sydney position by explaining that, so far, all forty-seven of Rambaldi's predictions have come true. In fact, the Weasel won $3,500 at the track last weekend from prediction number twelve. Weasel worries that Rambaldi could be right about Sydney, and won't give up any info.
Back at the unibunal, Kendall asks Sydney what SD-6 told her its mission was. She says the company line is some folderol about finding and researching information vital to the safety of the United States. He asks what the acronym SD-6 stands for. Oh God, it's French. Regina, where are you? I rewound many times, but couldn't make out the words. I took Spanish in high school. The acronym stands for two French words that mean "the section that doesn't exist," coined by Alain Cristophe, one of the founders of the Alliance. She explains the Alliance to Kendall: it's made up of twelve people (well, eleven now, thanks to Uncle Arvin) who head a private company. They trade intelligence, secrets, technology, or whatever spy stuff is requested to the highest bidder. It's a form of organized crime, she says. Kendall asks for an example. She describes three large-scale "accidents" in India, Japan, and Germany where many people were killed. She says they weren't actually accidents at all. They were caused by SD-6 in order to get revenge, or to help allies, or to distract authorities so local SD groups could infiltrate places to get information. They're bad, evil people. They park in handicapped spaces. They sneak into public restrooms and pee all over the toilet seats. They drop fluffy kittens into French fryers. They're really bad. After what they did to Danny, Sydney wanted revenge.