Previously on Alias: Rachel had sex with Sark, and instead of charging her for it, he gave her a freebie AND saved Jack and his ex-girlfriend from some sadistic jackass in a beret. Berets are stupid.
We get an extended "previously" segment to start things off. Desantis is shown, as is Chubby the Bruce, and the whole thing wraps up with Gordo's final plea to Sydney (right before Sloane offed him) in which he tells her that "they" have plans for her. And with that, we segue neatly into tonight's episode.
Syd's staring at herself in a mirror while some Chinese-tinged violins wind their way through the soundtrack. The color of this scene is faded out, so we can be pretty sure this is either a flashback or a dream sequence. We know it's not a Spanish flashback because it's not sepia-toned. Syd fills a kettle with water and puts it on the stove. Just then, Vaughn enters as if it's the most normal thing in the world and he wasn't pumped full of a bajillion bullets earlier this season. He puts some groceries on the counter and Syd asks what took him so long and he says there was traffic on Venice. Syd then gets this look on her face that's like, "Wait, aren't you dead?" But it fades away when Vaughn comes over and kisses her hello.
She then weirdly asks if Vaughn can check and see if there's something in her eye. He says there isn't, and suggests that maybe the contacts she wore on the Ireland mission irritated her eye. I'm not sure what any of this means or what significance there is, if any, but I'm transcribing the lot because you never know WHAT is going to come back around to haunt us later in the season. Case in point, Vaughn asks Syd what she thinks about orecchiette. Syd says she's never heard of it. Yeah, she can speak eighteen languages, run in high heels, and knock a man twice her size to the ground in seconds flat, but she's never heard of a Puglian Italian pasta that's delicious with a butter sage sauce.
Syd comments that she can't believe Vaughn can cook. "There are a lot of things about me you don't know," he says, chopping up some broccoli. "You clean, too?" she snarks. "Maybe," he returns. They chatter back and forth for a second and then Vaughn asks her if she's going to take a bath. She says that maybe they're BOTH going to take a bath and all I can say is, that better be one gargantuan bathtub if BOTH she and Vaughn are going to take a bath. Syd alone could fill a Jacuzzi here. Girlfriend's ready to BLOW.
Suddenly, Vaughn cuts his finger and Syd mothers him and pulls him into the bedroom so she can bandage the wound. She kisses his finger, and he tells her she's going to make a great mom. She's not so sure. She goes to the sink and rinses her hands and says that her mom wasn't such a great role model, to which Vaughn replies that they should be thankful, then, since Syd is nothing like her mother. "You're not there yet, Sydney," says a man's voice from the ether. "Did you hear that?" Syd asks Vaughn. He didn't. Syd thinks it's the radio to Vaughn. "You need to go further back," continues the hissing voice. "Follow Vaughn." Vaughn turns off the radio and asks Syd if she wants a bottle of wine with the bath. Um, no, stupid; she's pregnant. But Syd says it'd be great, and Vaughn and his extremely hot pair of jeans walk off to get it for her.
Syd turns back to the mirror and suddenly she sees herself in the reflection and her head is in some sort of hypno chamber or something and she has a bunch of sensors stuck to her. Then we get a Syd POV shot where she blurrily looks around the room that she's actually in. She tries moving her hands, but she's strapped to whatever this machine is. "Who are you?" she asks some guy in a white coat who's manning several computers. He hushes her and tells her to sit still. "We almost have what we need," he says, filling a syringe with fluid. "We just need to go a little further." Syd asks what he's doing to her, and he says he's trying to help her relax. Syd asks why and what he wants from her. "I just need to find a vein," he says.
Before he can, a distorted voice from behind a two-way mirror breaks in over an intercom. "Stop," it says. "Are you sure this won't harm the baby?" The doctor, who's played by Michael Massee, says that he's sure and that if Disembodied Voice wants its answer, it's going to have to let Massee do his job. If you don't know who Michael Massee is, by the way, then you won't understand why, the minute I saw him onscreen, I knew he was a bad guy and working for the wrong side. Dude was "Funboy," y'all. He's a bad, bad seed. Also? Kind of hot in a wrong sort of way. What? I have funny taste in men. Syd asks who's behind the two-way mirror but Dr. Funboy doesn't answer her. "If you hurt my baby," Syd says as the doc sticks her in the vein with his relaxation serum, "I swear to you, I will kill you."
We switch to San Francisco, two days earlier. Yeah, the "XX days/hours earlier" device is my least favorite and the most overused on this show, but this is the final season, so I suppose I can let it pass, you know? Anyway, Peyton's hanging out at a noodle stand left over from the set of Blade Runner. She has her eye on a door in the distance, and the second some guy exits the door, Peyton leaves the noodle stand and runs after him. She tails him for a bit and finally lunges at him and blabbles some story at him about how she's supposed to meet friends in the Mission District but she can't find a cab because nobody here speaks English because apparently, in San Francisco's Chinatown, it's customary for NO ONE to be speak the language of the country in which they now live.
Peyton asks him what time it is and before he can tell her, she stabs him in the gut and steals his watch. She's a naughty little minx, isn't she? She puts the watch on her own wrist and enters the building the dead man just left. She heads down a hallway and accesses a secret panel that opens the red door at the end of the hall. Peyton enters the room behind the door and there's a guy across the way, sitting at a computer. He doesn't turn around, so he thinks Peyton is the agent she just killed. She accesses the dead guy's computer, does a search for "Agent Michael Vaughn," finds the server she's looking for, and slinks off to nab it. Meanwhile, the other agent is finally curious as to why his agent buddy is being so silent, so he heads off to follow Peyton.
She quickly locates the server with Vaughn's data on it and goes to work removing the outer panel so she can get at the data inside. Soon-To-Be-Dead Agent comes up just as Peyton's finished accessing the panel, but she's nowhere to be found. SDA notices something amiss at the server and he moves over to check it out, but Peyton comes up behind him and strangles him with a wire. She grabs the data she wants and makes tracks. Outside, Kelly gets on the phone and asks to speak to "The Technician." "This is he," says Desantis. "Were you able to retrieve Agent Vaughn's files?" Peyton says that she got the files and that she'll run the analysis and get back to him with the results. Desantis says he'll let their benefactors know the good news. Dead Agent #1 has been discovered by the noodle lady, and there's a ruckus starting up. "What's all that noise?" asks Desantis. "You know how it is," says Peyton. "Rough neighborhood." Heh. Especially for agents just trying to be nice to pretty young assassins.
And now is the time on Alias when we dance the hoochie coo. Git down. Whocka whocka. And all that sort of shit.
Hell-Lay. Our Lady of Perpetual Espionage Hospital. Syd and Jack are getting a tour of the maternity ward from Syd's OB/GYN. Syd mentions something about getting an epidural and the doctor says she can have one if she wants one. "Yeah," says Syd. "I'd like one. I'm not a big fan of pain." Heh. Jack asks if there's anything Syd needs to change about her lifestyle or work environment. "I'm sure her boss would be willing to lighten her workload if necessary," Jack says with a sideways glance at his daughter. Hee. The doc says something about it not being much longer now, and Syd says that her due date's three weeks away. The doc is like, honey? It's childbirth, not a tennis lesson. These kids don't always arrive on time, no? After telling Syd that if her water broke today, she'd deliver a healthy baby, the doctor exits, leaving Jack and Syd to awkwardly look at each other like, um, let's not bring the baby into the world just yet, huh?
They walk over to the Babies On Display area, and Syd gets a sad expression on her face when she sees a father looking down at his newborn. Jack sees this and decides that now is the perfect time for gift-giving. He hands Syd a little package wrapped clumsily in blue tissue paper. Aw. He wrapped it himself. The man's a stone-cold killer and a strategic mastermind, but gift wrapping? Not so good at that, huh, Jack? Syd opens it and inside is a silver rattle. It was once Sydney's. "It reminds me of a time when I could keep you safe," he says with a smile. Syd's touched, and she thanks him.
Marshall's Garage of Geekiness. Getty walks in, and Marshall says he was just doing some housecleaning and going through old aliases and safehouses and stuff, when he came across a mistake in Getty's file and called Langley. Unfortunately, Marshall doesn't have clearance to edit Getty's file, so he had to call Getty to rectify the mistake. Or something. I'm not really sure about what's going on here. Turns out that Marshall found an old marriage certificate from seven years ago and just wanted Getty to know that if it was to support an old alias, he should have it rescinded because, uh, you know, taxes. I guess. "It's not a mistake," says Getty. "I was married." Marshall's like, uh. Huh. Yeah. That…surprises the hell outta me, dude. Getty says that it was just for three years and it didn't work out. If by "didn't work out" you mean, "may have killed his wife and buried her in the back yard." What? You know Getty's got some major skeletons in the closet!
Getty's mildly pissed that Marshall got the goods on his background and says that, in the future, if Marshall has a question about his past, call HIM first before Langley. Then Marshall's computer suddenly beeps with a notice that an agency division has been breached. Getty runs off to get Jack and minutes later, everyone's gathered in the Conference Room of Endless Expositions, where Jack explains that four hours ago, the San Fran agency was breached and Peyton, incredibly stupid spy that she is, managed to get herself captured on camera. Dix asks what they took, and Jack dances around the point until finally Syd just goes, "They were Vaughn's files, weren't they?" Jack looks at her, surprised by her directness. "You were gonna have to say it sooner or later," says Syd, obviously at the stage of her pregnancy where she's totally incapable of bullshit. Heh.
Dix wonders aloud why Prophet Five would want Vaughn's files and Jack responds that they don't know, which puts them in a vulnerable position. Sloane pipes up that Vaughn's Prophet Five research was off the books, so there's very little chance that anything of importance would show up in his files. Jack says that he's tasked Getty and Marshall with disabling all of Vaughn's official protocols, and that he'd like Dixon to locate any of Vaughn's old contacts; Sloane should oversee Rachel in analyzing the remaining intel. Syd's all, and me? Whaddo I get to do? "Though I would prefer to keep you close by," says Jack, "I know that's not an option." Syd gives him this look that's like, "No shit." Hee. He tells her to go meet up with Élodie and see if she has any idea what they might be looking for. Everyone heads out, but Jack calls Syd back. "You should know," he says with a grimace, "when it comes to Vaughn, I take it quite personally." Aw. "I know, Dad," says Syd. "We're going to fix this," says her daddy. Aw, again. He loves his little girl so much, he's willing to get all vigilante on some poor bastard's ass!
Prophet Five's Warehouse Loft of Hanging Cables. Peyton's hounding a bunch of computer geeks about what's on the Vaughn Files. One of the geeks calls Peyton over and asks her to listen to something. It's Vaughn's voice, discussing the time he met with Sydney to discuss the full scope of SD-6's operations. "She knows where it is," says Peyton. She gets on the phone to Desantis. He's incredulous that Vaughn shared whatever this information is with Sydney. Peyton says he did, but that it was several years ago, so Sydney may not remember. "That's of no concern," drawls Desantis. "An associate of mine will be able to refresh her memory."
Desantis says he'll forward Peyton the contact protocol for Dr. Funboy and that he's going to ask for a lot of money. She's authorized to pay him half and then tell the good doctor to meet Desantis at the Athena facility. "Then you're suggesting that we abduct Sydney Bristow?" she asks. "We've been searching for more than 30 years," he says, "and this is the closest we've come to retrieving The Horizon. If Sydney Bristow can tell us where it is, we must act immediately." Yet another "The" name, huh? The Alliance. The Covenant. The Man. And now, The Horizon. Man. There are permanent grooves ground into the soil around the well the writers keep revisiting.
Madrid. Syd's sitting on a park bench, waiting for Élodie. She arrives and tells Syd she looks beautiful. Syd tells her about Prophet Five making an investigation into Vaughn's CIA files, and asks her if there was any documentation that Vaughn left behind. Élodie says there wasn't; it was all in their heads. Neither Syd nor Élodie can figure out what might be in Vaughn's files that Prophet Five wants. Suddenly, Syd sees two burly men walking directly toward them. Way to blend, HENCHMEN. Syd and Élodie get up to walk away from them and Élodie directs Syd to a police station on the corner. The two henchmen suddenly draw their weapons in public in a crowded park because THAT'S not a CRIME or anything. Élodie orders Syd to go and then turns and throws knives into the henchmen's chests. Syd runs off, but a big black van screeches up and some dude in a black mask tasers her and she drops and he shoves her into the van and it takes off.
Élodie pulls her gun and runs after the van as a second van squeals up. She shoots through the window of the van, killing the driver, and it crashes into a parked car. She then pulls out another gun and empties both barrels into the side of the van. When she opens the door, she sees her fake father, Desantis, crumpled on the floor with a bullet wound to the chest. "Where are they taking her?!" she shouts at him twice as he just gasps and grimaces at her.
Hypno Torture Room for Pregnant Spy Ladies. Dr. Funboy is explaining to the Disembodied Voice Behind the Mirror that he's just sedated Sydney with a propofol cocktail that should take effect in a few minutes. He's effectively forcing hypnosis on Syd so that they can access any part of her memory they want. He asks DVBM what it is he/she is looking for. DVBM isn't spilling; he/she wants proof that the technique works first. Dr. Funboy walks over to Syd and asks her name. She doesn't respond. So he zaps her with an electric pen or something. Yeah, that can't be good for the fetus. She gives him her name, and then he asks her to remember Michael Vaughn and he zaps her again with the Electric Pen of Honesty and it's kind of disturbing, actually, and all kinds of wrong.
Syd finally goes back in her memories and winds up at the night when Vaughn proposed and the Von Bristow Family Swingers flung themselves out of a plane in order to take down Clifford the Big Red Ball. Vaughn appears in a corner of the plane and strides toward her; Sydney is overjoyed to see him and almost seems to remember that he's actually dead, so none of this can really be happening. Vaughn repeats his proposal, word for word, and Syd holds up her hand with the engagement ring on it and says, "But Vaughn, we already did this." Vaughn's like, uh, what the? Syd wises up to the fact that none of this is real and that she's probably being held by Prophet Five and Dr. Funboy doesn't like that Sydney's totally resisting his Electric Stick of Honesty, so he sticks her again, some more, and Syd goes back to the beginning of the proposal, only this time, she's not wearing the ring. Back in the memory, Vaughn notices that Sydney's not wearing the ring, so he asks her again to marry him. Syd smiles and says yes and back in the real world, Syd's crying and Dr. Funboy thinks they've hit paydirt, so he asks DVBM what he/she is looking for.
Apple Store. Élodie calls Jack and tells him about Sydney's abduction. Jack fills in the troops and starts barking orders at everyone. As everyone starts scrambling, Jack mentions that Desantis was present at the abduction, which means that they may have wanted Sydney for some sort of medical procedure. "My god," says Sloane. "The baby." Jack says that Élodie has Desantis in custody, so he's going to meet up with her and cut off his ear because dammit! That's what he feels like doing! Dix asks if Jack wants company, but he wants Dix to stay behind and run operations until he returns. Also, cutting off ears is really solo work.
Sloane's the only Appleseed left behind after Dix runs off to secure a flight to Spain for Jack. He asks what he can do, and Jack asks if he's sure that he has no other means of contacting Prophet Five. Sloane says he doesn't; Gordo was his only resource. He is, of course, lying out his ass. Jack orders Sloane to use his underworld contacts to find out if anyone knows anything about Syd's capture. Sloane says he'll get right on it. Sloane then immediately runs away to some secret location so that he can phone Chubby the Bruce and plead with him for Sydney's life. Chubby's not available, though, and some rude German guy tells Sloane that the only woman whose life he can save is Nadia's and that perhaps he should pick his battles a little better in the future, no?
Élodie's Apartment of Soon-To-Be-Dead Daddies. Jack approaches and knocks on Élodie's door. She lets him in and asks if he has any info on Sydney. He doesn't. Desantis is strapped to a chair in another room, and Élodie says that if they don't get him to a hospital soon, he's going to die. He's not talking, but Élodie pulled a notebook from his jacket that has dates and addresses in it. Jack purses his lips and walks over to Desantis. "So this is how you do it," says Desantis. "Bring in a man in a suit to scare me into talking." Works for me. "You're right," snits Jack. "The suit shouldn't scare you. What should scare you is that I'm a very concerned father." And then he pulls out a very sharp blade. Hee. Desantis looks at it like, okay, the suit doesn't scare me, but THAT sure as hell does. Jack walks over and neatly slices off Desantis's right ear. Oh, ow. Élodie just has an expression on her face that's a cross between "Damn, this guy's a badass" and "Damn, I wish he was my luvah!"
Hypno Torture Room for Pregnant Spy Ladies. Dr. Funboy is continuing the regressive process, trying to get Sydney to attach to her memories of Vaughn and go back in time. He wants her to go back to the last time she was with Vaughn and live there in her memories with him. Too bad that the last time she was with Vaughn, he had a chest full of bullets and was about three minutes away from kicking the bucket. She goes back anyway and sits to his hospital bed. She gently wakes him and they start talking about baby names. "What about Oscar?" he asks. "What if we have a girl?" she asks. "I meant for a girl," he laughs. Hee. A doctor enters and asks Vaughn if he's comfortable. "No," snarks Vaughn. Heh. The doctor tells Sydney that, when Vaughn's ready, she can give him some of the water in the glass, but only one slow sip at a time.
Vaughn asks Syd for a sip of the water, but she doesn't want to give it to him because back in the real world, Syd gave him the water and then he crashed. "Shh, shh," says Vaughn. "They can hear us. Come closer." Syd leans down to him and Vaughn tells her that they're using him against her and the only way to defeat them is for him to go away. Syd doesn't want him to go away; she misses him and she doesn't want to lose him again. "We'll find each other," says Vaughn. And then we switch to an earlier memory from Season Three when Syd and Vaughn were captured in the Korean prison and Syd said to Vaughn, "We always find each other." Suddenly, the baby kicks and Vaughn asks what it feels like. She takes his hand and puts it on her belly and he doesn't feel anything and then his face lights up as he says, "That?" Good god, Michael Vartan is gorgeous. Also? Vartan and Garner are terrific actors here, because how damn awkward must that be for him to have his hand on his ex-girlfriend's pregnant belly? But their scenes together are totally natural and lovely.
Back in the Hypno Torture Room, Dr. Funboy is instructing Sydney to stay with Vaughn. Back in the dream, some Korean guards enter and start kicking the shit out of Vaughn. Vaughn fights back and frees himself. Then there's static on a walkie on the floor and Vaughn disappears. Through the walkie, Dr. Funboy again instructs Syd to stay with Vaughn. He hits her with the Electric Stick of Honesty one more time just for kicks and we head back to the memory, where Sydney hears Vaughn's voice come out of the walkie. She picks it up and tries to respond to him, but it keeps cutting out to static. "Don't let him leave you, Sydney," says Dr. Funboy. "Where. Is. Vaughn?" We head into the memory we started with at the beginning of the episode, with Sydney filling up the tea kettle with water and Vaughn coming in from the market. Dr. Funboy is pleased to note that Syd and Vaughn are back together again.
Élodie's Apartment of Soon-To-Be-Dead Daddies. Jack's demanding that Desantis tell him where Sydney is. "I'll tell you nothing," gasps Desantis. Jack indicates that Desantis will never survive his current blood loss, so he'd better speak up about Sydney's whereabouts. "Where she is, does not matter," says Desantis. "Your concern should be where she is going." Buh? Élodie, who's been going through Desantis's date book in the background, suddenly calls Jack over. "I've found a repeating address in the calendar," she says. "Kristina Korut, 37 E," says Jack, reading. "That's in Hungary." "He's had it marked three times in the last four months and once on this date, three weeks from now." Jack looks at the date in the book and he shoots a look at Desantis. "Jack, what is it?" asks Élodie. "That's Sydney's due date," he says. Uh-oh. "Gimme your gun," he says.
Jack stomps over to Desantis and pulls back his head, putting the gun to his chin. "What is going to happen at Kristina Korut, 37 E?!" he demands. "You'll never know," Desantis rather childishly responds. "That's for me to know and you to find out. Oh, and neener neener." Jack asks if Sydney's being held there, but Desantis says of course she isn't. Jack thinks he's lying. Desantis is past caring what Jack thinks. Jack wants to know what's at that address. Desantis says that Jack can't do anything to him now because he's quite prepared to die. Jack realizes that threatening Desantis with death won't do any good, so, finally, he pulls back and moves away. He passes Élodie in the door way and says, "See if he means it." Élodie doesn't even flinch. She moves toward Desantis with her gun pulled as Jack walks toward the front door and makes a call to Dixon to set up a transport to Hungary. He hangs up the phone as two gunshots ring out from the back room. Later, Desantis!
Hypno Torture Room for Pregnant Spy Ladies. Dr. Funboy wants Syd to think back to a time of comfort with Vaughn -- back to the first time she realized that Vaughn really cared for her. So, we head back to an evening at an amusement park. Syd and Vaughn are just hanging out. Syd's cell phone rings. She goes to answer it and it's Dr. Funboy. "Draw me a map," he says. "How far it reaches." Syd promptly throws her phone into the ocean. Heh. She tells Vaughn they're pushing her closer and he asks what they want. She doesn't know. Something about a map. Her cell phone rings again and she answers it. It's Dr. Funboy again and he repeats the thing about the map. Again, Syd flings her phone into the ocean. Vaughn laughs at her and her repeated phone flingings. Suddenly, Vaughn turns serious. "Listen to me," he says. "You have got to let me go." "I can't." "You've got to." "I can't stand it -- being here without you. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Like I don't know who I am anymore."
"Okay, stop it!" he says to her. "Do you remember the last time we were here? Your contact had just been killed in Morocco. Your world was collapsing all around you and I told you that even in the middle of all this darkness, you could not allow it to swallow you." "You gave me strength," she says, tears streaming down her cheeks. Vaughn's not buying it. "The truth is, you were the one who always kept the darkness from overtaking me," he says. "I know you can do this. I've seen you do this time and time again. I'm gonna go. And you are gonna take these guys down, okay?" He touches her face gently and then leaves. Dr. Funboy informs DVBM that Syd's fighting the process and then he sticks her again with the Electric Stick of Honesty.
She goes back to Vaughn again and again Vaughn is like, dude? Seriously. Let me go. Syd's like, uh, dude? I would LOVE to, but Crazy Doctor Man with the Snazzy Jazzy Electricity Stick won't LET ME. Vaughn's like, baby, I'm not here. None of this is real. Syd says she wants the world to forget about them and that she's tired of having this weight on her shoulders and she doesn't want to be the one who saves the world and she wants him all to herself on a deserted island where no one can bother of them. "I want out," she says. "I don't care if they win. I just want you to stay with me." "That's it," says Dr. Funboy, supremely pleased with himself. "We got her." "Excellent," says DVBM. "Now I want the map of SD-6."
We head to the Trailer of Potential Spy Romances, where Syd and Vaughn are meeting about Syd potentially working to bring down SD-6. Syd's crying and saying that she wants nothing more of this spy crap and that she just wants to live a normal life. Vaughn orders her to draw him a map of the SD-6 family tree and how far she thinks it goes. "Just do it!" he orders. Okaaaaay, Mr. Bossy Pants! Syd draws him a map and it's basically a circle with SD-6 in it and maybe seven or eight other names. Vaughn smugly gets up and pulls down a big rolled up tube of paper and flings it down on the desk in front of Syd. "This is what you're in the middle of," he says, showing her a complex map of a hundred or more names and locations. "This isn't about cutting off an arm of the monster," continues Vaughn. "This is about killing the monster."
Dr. Funboy tells Syd to focus on the map. Speaking as Vaughn, the doctor tells Syd to look at the upper right corner of the map. "What do you see?" he asks. Syd looks up at the right corner of the map and finds what the doctor is looking for. "X-23 Norte," she says. "Well done," says the doctor as Vaughn. "Well done." DVBM pipes in, "Thank you, doctor." He turns to look back at the mirror, and it's then that we see DVBM's reflection in the glass, and it's…IRINA DEREVKO. That's right. It's Irina. Lena Olin, baby! Lena Olin! "I'll let my associates know we've discovered the location of The Horizon," she purrs at Peyton, who's standing at her side. "I'll be back in a few days. Until then, keep her comfortable." She turns and nods at Peyton and then walks off. Damn. DAMN. I had NO idea she was coming back, and I'm totally spoiled. My jaw fell to the ground with this one. Sincerely.
Meanwhile, Syd's still stuck in La La Land with her dead fiancé. She's dressed all in white and so is Vaughn and they're on a digitally enhanced deserted island. Anyone else wonder if, for just a second, a big-ass polar bear was going to slam out of the jungle? Just me? Okay, then. Syd marvels at the beautiful silence on the island. She takes his hand and says that she wishes they could stay like this forever. "They're gonna figure it out, Syd," he says. "Sooner or later, they're gonna know you gave 'em the wrong name." Ha! Those Project Christmas kids; you can't hypnotize 'em for shit. Vaughn goes on to say that they're going to keep after her until they get what they want, and he can't be there because they'll just use him against her. "I have to go," he says. "I know," she says. "We'll find each other," he says. "We always find each other." They kiss for the last time, and back in real life, tears fall down Sydney's cheeks.
We catch up with Jack and Élodie, who are in Hungary outside the building from Desantis's address book. He says the unit is on the third floor, and Élodie says the lease expired sixteen years ago. "Nevertheless," says Jack, handing Élodie a gun. They get out to inspect the place, and we head back to Syd in the Hypno Torture Room. Peyton enters and removes Sydney's wrist straps. Stupid, stupid Peyton; don't you know you're never supposed to unshackle a Bristow unless they're dead and bleeding from a gaping head wound? That's the only way you know they won't rise up and kick your ass. Peyton turns her back on Sydney for just a moment (yet ANOTHER thing you never do around a Bristow), giving Syd time to open her eyes and grab a nearby hypno needle. When Peyton turns back to Sydney, Syd slams the needle into Peyton's chest and she drops like a ton of bricks.
Back in Hungary, Jack and Élodie slam through a door with their guns drawn.
Sydney's making her way out of the Hypno Torture Room. I think we're supposed to assume that Jack and Élodie and Sydney are all in the same building and Syd's about to be rescued. Jack and Élodie enter the unit. Syd stumbles down a hallway and I just noticed that a door at the end is a door you would see on a ship, so maybe the director isn't trying to make us think they're all in the same building, because Jack and Élodie are very definitely on dry land. Syd keeps running. Jack and Élodie keep running. Running running running. Finally, Jack and Élodie come around a corner in the unit and…come face to face with the most disturbing makeshift nursery outside of Rosemary's Baby. There's no devil infant or bassinette covered in black netting and red satin, but it's just as alarming, nonetheless. There are blank concrete walls and floors and assorted generic-looking baby furniture and it just looks wrong, wrong, wrong. "Good lord," whispers Jack. You said it. At that same moment, Syd opens up a door and exits outside where a helicopter is taking off. She walks forward, the camera pulls back, and we see that she's on a huge ship in the middle of the fucking ocean with no land anywhere in sight.