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TV Review: Alias Series Finale - "Reprisal" and "All the Time in the World"

Written by Chris Beaumont
Published May 24, 2006

It's over, after five seasons the spy-drama brainchild of JJ Abrams has come to an end. The series closed out its run with a pair of episodes that did a decent job of wrapping things up, but didn't feel quite as epic as I had hoped.

The first episode, "Reprisal," starts with the APO team attempting to get definitive looks at the top members of Prophet Five. The team spreads out and obtains the photographic proof they need, to go along with the rest of the documentation they already have. The plan is to arrest all of the leaders, Sloane included, simultaneously. They don't want the members to be able to warn anyone else before the deed goes down.

Meanwhile, Sloane is working with Sark and Peyton. Sloane is trying to solidify their position with Prophet Five; he realizes that once they turn over the amulet they had obtained their desirability will disappear in the eyes of their employers. So, he decides to continue the work on his own.

That night, Marshal is enjoying an evening with his family, when he is abruptly abducted in the night. Across town, Tom pays a visit to Rachel; realizing that he does not know yet why he's there, he slips away. After the visit, she too is abducted. Marshall and Rachel find Sloane to be their captors. Peyton is doing her evil best to convince Marshal to assist in finding the location required for the amulet. She goes about ripping out his fingernails, one by one, until Sloane has another idea. Sloane tracks down and confronts Sydney, who he forces to convince him to help. She does.

Marshal and Rachel work together to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for APO to follow. At this point, Marshal's wife, a former CIA techie, is onboard helping to track her husband. They find the location they are looking for is in central Italy. Shortly after the discovery, one of Sloane's thugs comes in to take care of their guests, but Rachel had already freed herself and Marshal, and they escape only to meet Dixon and a team in the hallway.

Vaughn and Sydney track Sloane to the cave in Italy, where Sydney confronts him. Peyton, heads off to meet the Prophet Five leadership, and proceeds to assassinate every last one of them. And, back at the APO office, it is discovered that bombs are planted around the subways around the base.

Tom finds the blast point, a large bomb in an empty subway car. Unfortunately, he cannot disarm it, but is able to slow it down enough to get the base evacuated. He has time to get out, but decides not to, instead he says goodbye to Rachel, putting an end to the teased potential romance between the two. Too bad they didn't really have much chemistry.

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Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science fiction, horror, and metal music. His writings can be found at Draven99's Musings and Draven99's Media Center.
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TV Review: Alias Series Finale - "Reprisal" and "All the Time in the World"
Published: May 24, 2006
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#1 — May 24, 2006 @ 05:55AM — -E [URL]

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#2 — May 24, 2006 @ 11:17AM — mike

I thought the episode was fantastic. Truly the best finale I can remember. I am so devestated this show is done.

#3 — May 25, 2006 @ 08:43AM — Progged [URL]

While I, too, miss the intrigue of the first season (the whole double agent spin), I have enjoyed all 5 seasons of Alias (some more than others, of course).

While I am sad the show is over, I am glad they ended the way they did. Everyone had the chance to confront who they needed to. Jack and Sloane (Jack has always been the best bad-ass dad ever), Vaughn and Sark, and Irina and Sydney.

I think they wrapped it up nicely. It was a satisfying end to the only show that my wife and I made a point of watching every week.

#4 — May 27, 2006 @ 13:07PM — Lindsay

I completely agree with everything you said about the finale and wanted to thank you for saying it. Great review!

#5 — May 28, 2006 @ 15:13PM — Eva

I love that they wrapped everything up in terms of the characters but yet I feel like the last pieces of the Rambaldi puzzles don't quite fit. I guess it doesn't really matter since the Rambaldi thing has always been so confusing but more answers would have been nice. I really like the ending. I always imagined the ending would be something like that beach scene.

#6 — May 28, 2006 @ 15:24PM — reggie von woic [URL]

Back where i come from we're still in season 1, so when came to America i was far too behind to watch. I managed to watch seasons 2, 3 and a bit of 4 though.

Vaughn, Sark and Irina were still alive?!?! And Sloane is actually a bad guy?!? Damn!
I probably shoudn't have read this post.

Ya.

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