Alias: Season Two (DVD)
Published April 06, 2004
Sloane's replacement at SD-6 discovers that Jack and Sydney are double-agents, and that Sloane knew this, too. Since Jack is being tortured, Sydney spills the whole scenario to her long-time SD-6 partner Dixon to enlist his help in bringing the CIA down on SD-6, and rescues her father just in time.
So SD-6 is shut down, but Sydney can't reqtire just yet. Sloane is working independently, with Sark, still pursuing the secrets of Milo Rambaldi. Sydney's friends from SD-6 are being recruited into the CIA, though her partner Dixon refuses the job at first. Vaughn has broken up with his girlfriend and is now with Sydney. Will gets a job as a full-time CIA analyst and quits working for Francie at her restaurant. Their excitement for his new career quickly turns into romantic involvement.
Unfortunately, the real Francie is dead, and this woman is a look-alike imposter working for Sark and Sloane! The CIA soon discovers the genetic manipulation technology and knows that somebody has been doubled, but not who it is. In the meantime, Francie is hypnotizing Will to uncover information he can access as a CIA agent.
Irina has managed to earn enough confidence to be sent to meet Sloane and make a deal, but she betrays everyone to rejoin Sloane and turn over still more Rambaldi information, which Sloane claims he is amassing in order to let his wife live cancer-free forever. His wife gives him an ultimatum, and he agrees to give up his life of crime for her love, but then Dixon accidentally shoots and kills Sloane's wife, so Sloane kills' Dixon's wife for revenge and turns his operation over to Sark.
Sloane tracks down the monk who started him on the Ramabldi quest 30 years prior, who tells him that his wife's death was necessary, gives him a scroll to read, and tell him that his quest has now just begun. Sloane tries to recruit Jack to help him, but Jack refuses. Sloane says that within 24 hours, the ultimate Rambaldi artifact will be complete, but gives no details.
Francie (really Allison, one of the aforementioned sleeper agents programmed as a child) is identified as the second double, but nearly too late. She stabs Will and is later shot by Sydney, who collapses afterward.
Sydney wakes up in an alley in Hong Kong, confused. She has a scar on her stomach, and is greeted by Vaughn, who is wearing a wedding ring. He tells her that she was missing and presumed dead for two years.
And that is the end of Season Two, leaving more open questions than I can count.
(This article first appeared, wraith-like, at W6: Pork Chops For Your Brain.)
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I had a hard time watching the televised production of Annie because they cast Victor Garber as Daddy Warbucks. My kids kept wondering why I was laughing, but I was trying to imagine each line coming from Jack Bristow!
Alias is a fantastic show. Sadly, season 3 is on a channel called Bravo here in the UK. It used to be on Sky one. There's nothing wrong with bravo other than you forget the channel actually exists and so you forget to watch Alias sunday nights. I used to watch it like Clockwork. Now, I have watched just about 3 episodes from the current season. I await the DVD. Will have to buy American as the British release won't come out till I am with child, I'm guessing.
I should probably avoid summarizing Season Three to date until it's over then, eh?
Phillip, I beg you to summarise season three:) Please. I m not one of those worried that I will lose interest. I don't mind knowing what has happened before I watch it in programs such as Alias. The actual acting out of what you may summarise is what I look forward to. I visit TV tome everyday to get updates on my shows. I know exactly what will happen at the end of the O.C and we are just like 7 episodes in:)
There is a piece in this week's Eye about Alias and it centres about Spy Daddy. However, while, yes, there is an unwholesome relationship among the Bristows, what the article avoids is how the show portrays only evil mommys. Great Peggy Lipton (read with a Jamaican accent like Hermes), she did what what her daughter wouldn't do.
As for how the series will wrap up this season, I don't even what to attempt a guess, because it will be wrong.
Oh, if I can indulge in some taunting, Sandra, "Alias" airs two hours earlier in Canada, so we get to watch it, go WFT? and think about possible twists before it even starts airing in The States.
7pm Eastern? That is pretty early. I'm happy to watch it at 8pm Central, myself.
erm, I meant WTF, and the CTV site is here. And what do we see but Jack and Sydney.
Both CTV and Global (the two commercial national networks) license shows from all the nets in The States, but can't necessarily air them at the same time. Though recently, they've been more linked -- I think there were riots in Buffalo or something.
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One of the things which has made me giggle uncontrollably while watching "Alias" is the notation recently in the paper that Victor Garber starred as Jesus in the film version of "Godspell", so whenever I see him as Jack Bristow, I just start giggling.
And I think "Alias" exists in part to present "mommy issues" to balance the "daddy issues" in the Buffyverse.