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
After the commercials, the inquisition of Sydney continues. Kendall asks Sydney what she knows about her mother. Sydney says she thought Mom was a loving, wonderful person, but she was very wrong. Previously on Alias: Sydney uncovered some secret messages in Cyrillic in some books her father owned. She suspected that her father was a collaborator with the KGB. However, it turned out that the orders within those codes weren't for Jack; they were for Sydney's mom, who was a traitor working for the Russians. Kendall repeats this fifteen times, just for clarity. So he's recapping the recap that Sydney just recapped from an episode that we've already recapped. And I'm recapping that. Swell. He asks how Spy Momsky died. Mom was driving, trying to escape an FBI agent. There was an accident and the car went into a river. After Mom was gone, Spy Daddy hired a nanny to care for Sydney.
Kendall changes the subject to ask Syd how the double agent system works. Sydney offers up an example. Previously on Alias: SD-6 gives Sydney a mission. Sloane outlines the details, and Marshall handles the tech. We get a fun montage of Marshall showing off a phone with sensors in it, some very powerful drug, super-spy photo sunglasses, and a purse that hides a parabolic microphone. The purse works as a disguise, because the thing is so HIDEOUS that you can't look directly at it. There should be a law against gluing seashells to handbags. After she gets her mission from Sloane, Syd contacts the CIA to see what they want her to do. She meets with Vaughn to get her counter-mission, along with a healthy dose of sexual tension. Kendall asks for an example of a mission. Previously on Alias: Sydney and Dixon went to Moscow to get some computer discs. The CIA wanted copies. Dixon was disguised as an African national. Sydney was disguised as a cheap whore. Dixon got the discs from some men, and under the guise of a spilled drink, he secretly passed them along to Sydney. When Sydney got back to Los Angeles, she secretly slipped them to Vaughn when he passed by her dressed as a maintenance worker. He made copies, then secretly returned the originals to Sydney as she and Dixon were leaving the airport. They had to do all of this without Dixon noticing, lest she blow her SD-6 cover.
Kendall asks about Dixon, and Sydney confirms that Dixon doesn't know that SD-6 is evil and not affiliated with the CIA. Kendall asks if there have ever been any problems with Dixon because of the secret. Previously on Alias: Sydney and Dixon were sent to retrieve some vaccines from a plant in Berlin, and then destroy the empty building. Sydney ran in to grab the vials as Dixon set up the explosives. Dixon didn't know that there was a CIA team lurking in the building, and Sydney had a rendezvous with them to pass along some of the vaccines. She ran off to disarm the bomb so that the CIA men didn't get killed. She ran back and detached the detonator, then returned to Dixon's side away from the building. He pressed the button, but nothing happened, just as Sydney planned. However, because Dixon is actually competent, he had a back-up detonator for just this eventuality. The building -- and the CIA agents within -- went boom. Oopsie. Sydney made her rancid-milk face. Back at the unibunal, Sydney asks for a break. She looks rather haggard.