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Sydney, wearing a long black wig
and black clothes, runs down a hall. Panting. She's being chased
by two men.)
MAN 1: Arretez!
MAN 2: Arretez!
(They shout at her in French. Sydney flies behind a corner,
flings open a door and runs down a flight of stairs. The men are
right on her tail. She runs down a hall, gunshots fly. She dives
in an elevator as bullets riddle the insides. The doors close.
She hits floor twenty-eight. Men shout in French. Inside the
elevator, Sydney slaps a device on the wall of the elevator that
makes the video of her in the control room scramble. She stares
at the video camera in the upper corner of the elevator for a
minute, climbs up to the ceiling of the elevator and pops out. On
top of the elevator, Sydney takes out a metal object, clamps it
on the cable next to the elevator, jumps across and slides down
as the elevator goes up. The elevator dings at floor
twenty-eight, with the two men waiting for her to come out...
only to find the elevator empty.)
(In the basement, Sydney runs. She runs into a guard, beats him.
Outside, a stretch limo screeches to a halt. Door opens, Sydney
jumps in. As the limo pulls away, we see the Eiffel Tower in the
background. Inside the limo, Sydney pants and gives a small box
to a large man smoking a cigar across from her.)
(Cut to inside a van. Sydney and Vaughn sit at a table. He takes
notes.)
SYDNEY: That was three years ago when I met him for the first
time. Leonard Dreyfus -- he helps bankroll SD-6 operations. This
guy is very hands-on. Not just in his business. He's a real
slime. He runs a division in Geneva. Go-to guy for transport.
He'll get anything, anywhere, fast. Sloane relies on him. He's a
big target.
VAUGHN: Okay, good, listen--
SYDNEY: Also, there's a crew just outside Memphis. They provide
firearms. Custom stuff -- graphite, titanium, plastics.
VAUGHN: Memphis?
SYDNEY: Memphis, Egypt.
(Cut to Memphis, flashback. Inside a warehouse, Sydney and Dixon
sit in front of a desk while two men stand behind it.)
SYDNEY: (voice over) I know I just started working with you guys
at the C.I.A., but listen to me. If we're gonna bring down SD-6,
we have to eliminate their source of arms -- Ineni Hassan.
HASSAN: Three of her majesty's favorites.
(He gives a large gun to Dixon; he admires it.)
HASSAN: (gestures to other man to get other gun) And now, the new
design, as I promised. I named it "Abenni." That's my
son's name. It holds twelve rounds and it's semi-automatic.
(He tries loading it; looks to man.)
HASSAN: What the hell is this?
(They begin to speak in Arabic, then shouting. Sydney tries
speaking to them in Arabic to calm them down. Dixon looks
nervous. Hassan pulls a gun on the guy.)
DIXON: NO!
(Too late. Hassan shoots his worker a few times in the chest.
Sydney turns her head so she won't see. Hassan turns to them; his
cheek splattered with the man's blood.)
HASSAN: That was -- uh, sorry. I'm sorry you had to see that.
SYDNEY: (voice over) That was six months ago. I have friends from
the Middle East. Hassan's not one of them.
(In the van.)
VAUGHN: I don't blame you. Listen--
SYDNEY: There's more. We need to go after a geneticist in Kuala
Lumpur. He's involved in--
VAUGHN: Okay, stop. You have to listen to me, okay?
SYDNEY: You said you wanted to talk about the plan. I'm giving
you the plan.
VAUGHN: It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the
plan. Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6. Now, nothing should
change. When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission
on a paper bag. (picks one up, showing her) Bag. Then you'll call
this number. (gives her card) Memorize it. After three tones,
press the appropriate digit -- one through six. Each corresponds
to a trash can in a specific location. Now we'll review your
information, create a counter-mission, and we'll contact you
posing as a wrong number. Joey's Pizza. Any questions, so far?
SYDNEY: Yeah. Can you show me what a bag looks like again?
(Vaughn rolls his eyes.)
SYDNEY: Now, you listen to me, Mr. Vaughn. I appreciate what your
job is here, even though I think you're a little young to be
doing it, to establish a protocol between the C.I.A. and their
latest double agent. But I'm not sitting here to pick up the ins
and outs of Langley procedure. I am sitting here for one reason
only, and that is to destroy SD-6!
VAUGHN: Hey!--
SYDNEY: After which I am out! I want no more of this spy crap,
that's why I went to you in the first place. So, listen to me and
I will hand you, in record time, the people who will render SD-6
useless.
VAUGHN: Record time.
SYDNEY: Two months. Tops. And then I am out. I walk.
(Pause. Vaughn takes a pad of paper and gives it to her.)
VAUGHN: Draw me a map. Draw me a
map of SD-6 and all it's allies. How far you think it reaches.
SYDNEY: Do I look like I'm in Junior High?
VAUGHN: (raising voice) Just draw me a SD-6 family tree!
SYDNEY: Braces on my teeth...
VAUGHN: (overlapping; shouting) How far you think it goes!
SYDNEY: ...Headgear? Do you see a retainer?!
VAUGHN: Just DO IT!!
(She stares at him and takes the pen and paper. Within ten
seconds, she has a simple map with about a dozen names.)
SYDNEY: I don't know what your problem is with me. Maybe it's
that I'm a woman, or maybe you just don't like my attitude, or
something, and I'm sorry about that. But I really dont feel
like wasting time here. Three's only one way we can immobilize
SD-6, and that's MY way. So, forgive me for being forthright
or... female, but this is how it's gonna be.
(He nods slowly, stands and gets a map. He spreads it out in
front of them. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand, names are affiliated
with SD-6 on the map. Sydney looks amazed at how deep this goes
and how little she knew.)
VAUGHN: Since I've been at the C.I.A., I've only seen this map
grow. This is what you're in the middle of, Sydney. If shutting
down the Los Angeles cell was all we were after, we would have
raided that office three years ago. This is not about cutting off
an arm of the monster. This is about killing the monster. And the
work you have ahead of you -- the work your father has been doing
-- it's complicated, it's political, and it is long term.
(Sydney's shocked.)
VAUGHN: (shows card) Here, memorize this.
SYDNEY: I did.
VAUGHN: Okay. I guess we'll wait to hear from you.
(She stands, gets ready to leave.)
VAUGHN: Hey, wait.
(He gets a bright yellow sticker from the above counter and
sticks it on the inside of Sydney's arm. She puts on her book
bag; he smiles.)
SYDNEY: Thanks.
VAUGHN: You're welcome.
(Sydney leaves the van. Outside, we see that the van has
"L.A. County Blood Donor Drive" on it. It's parked at
the university. A guy walks past Sydney, who still looks
stunned.)
GUY: Hey, see you in class.
SYDNEY: For sure.
(She starts walking to her class.)
(Francie and Charlie -- Francie's boyfriend -- are helping Sydney
move into her new house. Francie unwraps a plate.)
FRANCIE: Oh, look. This one's chipped.
SYDNEY: Oh, that's okay. Those were my mom's.
FRANCIE: Oh.
CHARLIE: (entering, carrying a box)
Okay, these are heavy.
SYDNEY: Oh. (laughs) Put that down right... right here.
CHARLIE: No problem.
SYDNEY: Thank you.
CHARLIE: Como si. (to Francie) I need a massage later.
FRANCIE: Okay, good to know.
(Will enters with a bag of food.)
SYDNEY: Hey, finally.
WILL: I know, I'm sorry. Lintback called; I had to rewrite a
whole piece in the parking lot. (to Charlie) They didn't have any
horseradish.
CHARLIE: No, that's cool.
SYDNEY: That's annoying.
WILL: Yeah, no kidding. There's a woman in Marina Del Ray who's
eating newspapers.
FRANCIE: She's eating it?
WILL: She's pregnant and apparently it's a condition some women
get before they-- (motions to stomach)
SYDNEY: Eating newspaper's a condition?
WILL: Yeah, yeah. This is what I write about. This is how I make
a living. And Lintback says my writing's too judgmental and I'm
like, "Well, who cares? She's not gonna read it anyway,
she's gonna swallow it."
(They chuckle.)
FRANCIE: Hey, what are you doing on Thursday?
WILL: Probably rewriting this piece again.
SYDNEY: Charlie got an offer.
WILL: Hey, that's great! Where?
CHARLIE: Leming Letterman. That's corporate law. Downtown office.
WILL: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard of that.
FRANCIE: We're doing a dinner thing on Thursday and you are
required.
WILL: Totally, totally there. Congratulations!
(They shake hands. Will pauses and follows Sydney into her
bedroom with a sandwich and drink in his hand. She hangs up some
clothes.)
SYDNEY: Hey.
WILL: Do you want your-your food?
SYDNEY: Yeah, I just want to get the closets done first so I feel
like I live here.
WILL: Well, here.
(He takes some clothes from a box and helps her hang some up.)
SYDNEY: Thanks.
(Pause.)
WILL: Syd, I'm sorry. I can't take it.
SYDNEY: Will, please. Let's not do this again.
WILL: C'mon, you know me. You know I can't let this go!
SYDNEY: Will, come on!
WILL: You took Amy's passport!
SYDNEY: I know!
WILL: You took her credit card!
SYDNEY: I know what happened!
WILL: You disappeared!
SYDNEY: I know!
WILL: Syd, I can't--
(Her pager goes off. Sydney looks at it.)
SYDNEY: It's the bank.
WILL: What was going on with Danny? Because he must've been in
some kind of trouble--
SYDNEY: I need you to do something.
WILL: You need me to shut up, I know!
SYDNEY: I need you to accept what I've already told you.
WILL: You haven't told me anything, you're being so vague!
SYDNEY: I lost my mind a little. I started imagining things.
WILL: Whatever the hell you're talking about, maybe you're not
imagining it. Syd, this is what I do. I might be able to find
something that the police overlooked!
SYDNEY: Stop it! Please. I'm trying to move on here. I need your
help to do that. Okay?
(Credit Dauphine. Sydney gets off the elevator, enters the white
room. It lights up red. She enters the room, but it's different
now. All these people she sees every day, and now she's lying.
Marshall comes up to her.)
MARSHALL: Oh, hey, Miss Bristow.
SYDNEY: Hey, Marshall.
MARSHALL: Hey, listen, I don't normally get overly personal. I
don't like to cross that line. You probably don't know this about
me, but I'm really not much of a social person. I don't like--I
like myself, I mean, I enjoy myself, I just don't feel that kind
of pressure when I'm by my--you ever feel that?
SYDNEY: You can say anything you want to me.
MARSHALL: Okay. I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry
about your fiancé, and it's nice to have you back.
SYDNEY: Thanks.
(He smiles and walks away.)
(Meeting. Dixon, Sloane, Marshall and Sydney sit in the board
room.)
SLOANE: Let's start with what we know. We've received two pieces
of intel. The first is this internal memo from G.R.A.
headquarters. It seems that certain files were reported missing
last week from the seventh floor of The Aquarium.
DIXON: Seventh floor? That's foreign intelligence.
SLOANE: And we acquired the second piece. Abul Hassein Navour.
Military attaché from Sudan whom you'll fondly remember from
last year. He's on his way to Moscow to meet these two gentlemen.
Kazimits Shcherbakov and Luri Karpachev. Both ID'd as members of
the Russian mafia. We think these are the men who stole the
documents because the codes identified that these lost documents
pertained to the Soviet-American nuclear arsenal during the Cold
War.
SYDNEY: Navour's buying twenty year old intel records. Why?
SLOANE: That's the part we don't know. So, you are leaving
tomorrow morning.
(He gives black envelopes to Dixon and Sydney.)
SLOANE: Your job is to prevent the transaction and retrieve the
stolen files. Marshall, tell us what you got.
MARSHALL: (stands) Okay. Who here has trouble falling asleep at
night, hmm? (raises hand) No one else does? Okay. Well, anyway,
myself, on occasion, I find it difficult to nod off -- mind
racing, ideas, et cetera. So, this kind of pertains to the whole
sleeping thing. Now, I created this just for Navour.
(He puts on really big, black gloves and takes out a blue dot
from a container with the help of a pair of pincers.)
MARSHALL: Now, you just take this kind of little round thing
here. Pretty cool. You just touch it, just with your finger, your
hand, you know, just barely touch it and you're knocked out
completely. It's like freebasing Thorazine. Boom. Now, you only
get two times on this thing. It only works twice, so you don't
want to use it three times 'cause...
DIXON: Do we need to use those gloves?
MARSHALL: Oh, no, we can make a nice ring, or-or perhaps an
attractive cuff-cuff link. The reason why I'm wearing the gloves,
I accidentally touched this the other day and I fell and knocked
my head on the desk and was out cold for twenty minutes. You guys
should see this.
(He turns to show a Band-Aid that is on his neck. Sydney and
Dixon try not to laugh. Sydney, smiling, makes eye contact with
Sloane who is staring at her intently.)
MARSHALL: That's not, um, I'm trying to be kind of Pavlovian
about these puppies. No pun intended.
(Outside the board room, Dixon and Sydney walk to their desks.)
DIXON: They keep coming back, don't they?
SYDNEY: Who? You mean Navour?
DIXON: How is that man still able to walk after our apparel?
SYDNEY: If it weren't him, it'd be someone else.
DIXON: Then let it be someone else. We kill ourselves to do the
right thing, meanwhile the bad people keep coming back.
(Sydney stares at him.)
SLOANE: Sydney, do you have a minute?
SYDNEY: Yes, of course.
DIXON: I'll be in Tech Ops. (leaves)
SLOANE: I know it's gonna take you some time to adjust to being
back. I just want to make sure you're all right.
SYDNEY: I'm fine. Thanks.
SLOANE: Good. I need to show you something.
(Sloane opens an office door; Sydney looks surprised.)
SLOANE: I'll leave you two alone. (leaves)
MR. BRISTOW: It's all right, the room's clean. No one's
listening. Hello, Sydney.
SYDNEY: What is this?
MR. BRISTOW: I'm here to tell you what you already know. That I
work for SD-6, or so they think. I asked Sloane to do this.
SYDNEY: Why?
MR. BRISTOW: Because it'll facilitate what we're doing if they
know that you know. It wouldn't hurt if you acted surprised when
you left the office.
SYDNEY: Since I've known the truth about you, I've asked myself
questions. Thousands of questions. But this one I have to ask you
now. When Danny was killed... Dad... did you know? Did you know
that's what they were going to do?
MR. BRISTOW: Yes.
(She slaps him.)
SYDNEY: Don't you ever speak to me again.
(She leaves.)
(In a mall food court, Sydney writes on a paper bag.)
SYDNEY: (voice over) Abul Hassein Navour is attempting to
purchase files stolen from the Russian government. Sloane is
sending us to Moscow to prevent Navour from getting the files.
(Cut to a phone booth. Sydney presses a button and hangs up.)
SYDNEY: (V.O.) Dixon will impersonate Navour. My job is to break
into Navour's hotel room and take the money for the buy. So,
what's next?
(Sydney walks by a garbage bag and throws the crumpled up bag in
the can.)
(In Sydney's new place, she unpacks a box and stacks books on a
shelf. She takes out a framed picture and smiles. The phone
rings. She puts the picture on the shelf -- it's of her and
Danny, both are smiling.)
SYDNEY: Hello?
VOICE: Joey's Pizza?
SYDNEY: I'm sorry. You've got the wrong number.
(Convenience store. Sydney enters, wrapping her cardigan sweater
tighter around her body. Vaughn stands nearby, looking at cereal.
She goes behind him and opens the cooler door, looking at a
bottle of V8 Splash.)
SYDNEY: It's me.
VAUGHN: How you doing?
SYDNEY: How I'm doing? I'd say things have been better. I'm
working with friends who have no idea who they're really working
for.
VAUGHN: I heard Sloane had you meet your father.
SYDNEY: Yes, he did. So, what's my counter-mission?
VAUGHN: Navour's been on our short list for the past six months.
In August, he attempted to purchase a nuke from Libya.
SYDNEY: You already knew about Moscow?
VAUGHN: No, we didn't. So, thank you for that.
(Sydney closes the cooler door and moves beside him in the cereal
aisle.)
SYDNEY: Don't mention it. (shivers) That was cold. So, what's my
move?
VAUGHN: Carry out your assignment. Get the documents. When you
get back, make sure YOU are holding the stolen files. We'll
execute two brush passes at the airport terminal.
(He gets a slushie.)
VAUGHN: First, one will take place at the gate. We'll intercept
the materials and make a duplicate copy and then return them to
you in a second pass to be executed at the airport curb.
SYDNEY: That's it?
VAUGHN: That's it. Want a Slusho?
SYDNEY: No, thank you.
VAUGHN: They're delicious.
SYDNEY: No, thanks. I said I was cold.
VAUGHN: (looks at her) Good luck.
(Newspaper office. Will is at his desk, on the phone.)
WILL: I can imagine, that must've been devastating. Did he say
anything to you after he drove over your cat?
(A pretty girl, Janie, stands at his desk and smiles. He looks at
her in recognition.)
WILL: Uh huh. Did he ever make any threats to you, or your cat?
Sure. No, I--okay. You have my number at the paper. All right.
Bye-bye. (hangs up) A man ran over his cat.
JANIE: I understand.
WILL: We're in a world where people drive over people's cats.
JANIE: You didn't answer my question.
WILL: Which-which one?
JANIE: What are you doing for dinner?
WILL: Janie, you're nineteen years old.
JANIE: I'm twenty. You know I turned twenty--
WILL: We're not having this conversation. I'm ancient compared to
you. Look. Look at me. Look how red my eyes are.
JANIE: (smiles) You don't look too bad.
WILL: Do me a favor. Can you pull me that file on Daniel Hecht?
JANIE: What, that murder? Your friend?
WILL: Yeah. Do you mind?
JANIE: No, no.
WILL: Thanks.
(She starts to walk away, turns.)
JANIE: You don't take me seriously, do you?
WILL: No, I don't.
JANIE: Hmm.
(Moscow. In a hotel lobby, Sydney walks in wearing a long blonde
wig that's braided. She wears glasses and speaks to Dixon who
stands near the counter via an earpiece.)
SYDNEY: Dixon, do you copy?
DIXON: Wow. That's loud.
SYDNEY: (walking to elevator) You told Marshall you wanted it
louder. I was there.
DIXON: Okay. My headache and I are 1017.
SYDNEY: (in elevator) Break a leg.
DIXON: You, too.
(Upstairs, the elevator dings and Sydney gets off. She wears a
maid's uniform and carries towels.)
(At a bar, Dixon -- impersonating Navour -- looks around.)
SYDNEY: I'm on fifteen.
DIXON: Get the cash quickly.
(Upstairs, outside the hotel room.)
SYDNEY: That is the plan.
(She knocks. A man inside speaks Russian, she speaks Russian
back. He opens the door and lets her in.)
(At the bar, Dixon walks around and sees two Russians. They wave
at him.)
DIXON: Shcherbakov and Karpachev just showed up.
(Upstairs, in the hotel room. Men speak Russian.)
DIXON: Stand by on the call.
(Sydney makes the bed. The men leave. She goes to the suitcase,
removes the case on her ring to show the blue sleeping dot. She
turns the ring so it's on the inside of her hand. She goes to the
bodyguard who is sitting down and shakes his hand, speaking
Russian. He knocks out immediately.)
SYDNEY: Wow. Bodyguard's out. Navour's in the shower, I'm going
in for the money.
(Downstairs at the bar. The men wave at Dixon.)
DIXON: Move fast. They spotted me.
(Upstairs, Sydney takes off her glasses and uses the arms as a
lock picking device. She starts on the suitcase.)
(Downstairs at the bar.)
Karpachev: Are you my Sundanese friend?
DIXON: Uh, Mr. Shcherbakov? (shakes hand)
Karpachev: Karpachev. I am the handsome one.
(They chuckle.)
Shcherbakov: No protection with you?
DIXON: Why, should I not feel safe here?
Karpachev: Here, here you feel very
safe, yes.
(They get a table.)
(Upstairs, Sydney picks the lock. An elevator dings. A man gets
off and walks to Sydney's room.)
(At the club.)
Karpachev: I know the guy who owns this club. (gestures to
Shcherbakov) He thinks I brag too much. It's true, I do... I brag
too much.
(They chuckle. Dixon takes a drink.)
(The man from the hallway speaks Russian; Sydney keeps picking
the lock.)
(At the bar.)
Karpachev: That's the problem with Sudan. There's no place for
fun.
DIXON: It's a nice change, being out of the Sudan.
Shcherbakov: I thought you said you travel often.
DIXON: Yes. Not often enough. (laughs)
Shcherbakov: So, I can see you don't have the money with you, is
that correct?
DIXON: No, not at the moment. But the money's very close.
(The man from the hallway walks in, sees Sydney at the briefcase.
He shouts in Russian, pulls a gun. She throws the suitcase at
him, the money empties across the floor. She punches and kicks
him. He throws her across the room, twice, the second time she
lands on top of a dresser. On her back, she kicks him hard.
Pushes him. Kicks him. Elbows him in the head. Navour comes out
of the shower, she puts him to sleep while speaking Russian with
her ring. She turns and sees the money -- all blank sheets spread
out on the floor.)
SYDNEY: (to Dixon) I got bad news. This wasn't a buy. This was a
hold-up. They were going to steal the files. There's no money
here.
(Bar.)
DIXON: Fantastic!
Shcherbakov: What?
DIXON: ...Vodka. (downs it)
(In the hotel room, she takes out her braid and rips off the maid
uniform. Underneath, is a light blue latex dress. She goes to a
mirror and applies dark red lipstick.)
SYDNEY: Dixon, don't panic. I'll be there in two minutes.
(In his office, Vaughn twirls a half dollar coin between his
fingers, looking worried and impatient. Agent Weiss walks in.
Vaughn sighs.)
WEISS: Any word from her yet?
VAUGHN: No. I don't expect to hear anything 'til she gets back.
(Beat.)
WEISS: Your girlfriend's name is Alice, right?
VAUGHN: Would you shut up?
WEISS: I'm just checking to see--
VAUGHN: (good-naturedly) Get out of my office!
(At the bar, Sydney enters wearing her blue dress.)
SYDNEY: I'm in the bar. I can see you.
(The Russians give Dixon an envelope.)
SYDNEY: Are those the files? If they are, cough.
(He coughs.)
SYDNEY: Are they documents? Are they on disk?
(He coughs.)
SYDNEY: How many?
(He puts two fingers up against his cheek, pretending to think.)
SYDNEY: Get ready to make the switch.
(She walks to a table and takes some playing cards. She smiles at
a man sitting there, takes his drink from him. She starts to walk
over to the table.)
Karpachev: Just like a drug deal. Would you like to taste the
coke?
(Sydney walks over, holding the drink.)
DIXON: How do I know you haven't made copies?
Shcherbakov: Those disks are encrypted.
(Sydney pretends to fall and spills her drink. The Russians
stand, she makes the switch. She apologizes to the men in Russian
and walks away with the disk.)
Shcherbakov: Okay, enough! Now
where's the money?
DIXON: You'll stay here. I'll go get it. (gets up)
Karpachev: Sounds good.
(Dixon stands, Shcherbakov stands and points a gun at his
stomach.)
Shcherbakov: At first, I thought maybe Navour sent you. But now I
don't even think that.
(Sydney, walking away, looks over her shoulder to see the gun
stuck in Dixon's chest. She walks over to help. She kicks the
chair that Karpachev's sitting on, he falls. Dixon beats
Shcherbakov up, elbowing him on the back. She beats up the other
guy. Kicks him several times.)
(Los Angeles. At the gate, Sydney walks with Dixon behind her.
Vaughn, posing as a janitor, walks by Sydney. She drops the disk
into his tray of cleaning supplies. Continuing on, he goes into a
room filled with C.I.A. agents, strips off the uniform and gives
the disk to an agent sitting at a computer.)
VAUGHN: Okay! We got two three-and-a-halfers here. We gotta move
fast!
AGENT: Let's use the third and fourth copies. Take about ninety
seconds.
VAUGHN: They're moving into customs, we're talking seconds, not
minutes!
AGENT: I hope they're not corrupted.
(Sydney and Dixon walk through customs. She looks around
nervously.)
(In the C.I.A. room.)
VAUGHN: They're moving to the main terminal! How long is this
gonna take?!
AGENT: Relax! We know these disks aren't normal, we're moving as
fast as we can!
(Outside, Dixon and Sydney get to a black car waiting for them at
the curb. She looks around for Vaughn. The driver puts their bags
in the trunk.)
(C.I.A. room, mass hysteria. People talk over reach other.)
AGENT: Let me see that data as soon as it comes up! I'm not
seeing it! I'm not seeing it!
(At the curb. Sydney looks for Vaughn.)
(In the room.)
AGENT: Get me the other one! I'm not seeing it!
(At the curb, Vaughn comes out. She stares at him. He walks
quickly to her, almost jogging. Drops the disk in her bag as
Dixon moves to let her in the car.)
(Sydney's new home. She rushes in, moves to her bedroom, opens a
drawer and takes out her engagement ring from Danny. She puts it
on her finger and sighs. Later, Sydney sits in a bathtub, staring
at the ring. She's on the verge of tears.)
(Restaurant. Francie, Charlie, Will and another girl -- possibly
Will's date? -- sit together at a table.)
FRANCIE: So, he says to me, "Hey, honey? I asked for butter,
like, an hour ago." And I'm sitting there thinking,
"Uh, no, you asked the other black girl for butter, you rich
entitled son of a bitch."
GIRL: Some people go out to eat -- and this is just my theory --
in order to abuse waiters.
FRANCIE: No question.
GIRL: Creepy, isn't it? There are some bad people in this world.
(Sydney enters carrying a bottle of wine. She puts it in front of
Charlie.)
SYDNEY: Hello!
FRANCIE: Hey.
SYDNEY: Sorry I'm late. This is for the offer, and for helping me
move.
CHARLIE: Thank you. Wow. Look at this.
FRANCIE: Well, now we'll have something to drink when you guys
come over.
WILL: (to Sydney) Hey, can I talk to you for a second?
SYDNEY: Sure. I'll be right back.
(Will gets up and they leave for privacy.)
(Near the bar...)
SYDNEY: What's going on?
WILL: We've known each other for three years. Just confirm that.
SYDNEY: Yes. Three years.
WILL: But it feels like a lot longer than that, right? I mean, we
know each other pretty well.
SYDNEY: Yeah, we do.
WILL: And you know I would never do anything to hurt you and you
know I'm a curious guy.
SYDNEY: Will, what did you do?
WILL: You never gave me any information on Danny--
SYDNEY: Oh, God, Will...
WILL: So, I looked around a bit and I found out one piece of
information which you might not know but maybe you do.
SYDNEY: What?
WILL: The night Danny was killed, did you know he was booked on a
flight from L.A.X. to Singapore?
(Sydney furrows her bow, confused, then recovers.)
SYDNEY: Yeah. I know that.
WILL: You did? You knew that?
SYDNEY: Danny had a conference. A medical conference. He wanted
me to fly out and meet him afterwards. Have a week in Bali.
(starts to fake cry) I spend all day, every day, trying not to
see him the way I found him. And I know you mean well, and I love
you for that, but please, please, let this go. Please.
(Will has tears in his eyes.)
WILL: Syd, I'm sorry--
SYDNEY: It's okay.
WILL: I get it. I won't bring it up again.
SYDNEY: Okay. I just need a minute.
WILL: (crying) Syd, I feel horrible.
SYDNEY: I'm okay. I swear to God. I'm okay. I'll be right there,
okay?
WILL: (sniffles) Okay.
(He leaves her. Sydney recovers and stares ahead, having no idea
about the ticket.)
(Sloane's office at SD-6.)
SLOANE: Doomsday Six. That's the name of the operation. It seems
that during the Cold War, six fully armed nuclear weapons were
smuggled into and buried within the United States. December '89
that information was disclosed to the U.S. government. Needless
to say, the bombs were quickly recovered and disarmed.
SYDNEY: And that was the information on those disks.
SLOANE: No. They realized a seventh nuke buried still right now
somewhere in the United States.
SYDNEY: Where?
SLOANE: We don't know yet. Those disks were encoded with a
sectional encryption. Analysis is still working on it. This is
what we got so far.
SYDNEY: (reads) "Milovich Ivanov. Buckingham,
Virginia." Who's he?
SLOANE: We assume he's the man Navour was looking for. We have no
file on him.
SYDNEY: You think he's babysitting the nuke.
SLOANE: Yes. I do. I want you to go to that address, report back
on Ivanov any aliases, where he lives, where he works, the type
of coffee he drinks. The whole deal.
SYDNEY: Thanks.
(She leaves.)
(Vaughn's office. The phone rings.)
VAUGHN: Yeah?
SYDNEY: I'm going
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VAUGHN: Who?
(She hangs up.)
VAUGHN: Sydney! Sydney!
(Later, Vaughn and his boss walk to Vaughn's office.)
BOSS: We have a name, and an address. We are not gonna sit on our
hands here!
VAUGHN: Sir, I know, I understand that but we cannot move on that
information!
BOSS: We can and we will!
VAUGHN: Then we are risking Sydney Bristow's placement in SD-6
and perhaps her life!
BOSS: That maybe the case and yes, we might lose a double in the
process--
VAUGHN: Sir, she's going to see him! She's on her way!
BOSS: We are talking about a nuclear weapon here. What do you
expect me to do? Wait until Bristow contacts us?
VAUGHN: Read her file, sir! Have you read her file?
BOSS: Bristow's--
VAUGHN: Do it! Then you will learn what I have! She's an asset!
She's doing our work!
BOSS: She was supposed to contact you, and--
VAUGHN: There was a good reason she couldn't! She is on her way
to Virginia right now. If we send a team, we risk blowing her
cover! We cannot afford to do that! Read her file!
BOSS: I've read it! What do you want?
VAUGHN: Five hours. Give her five hours.
BOSS: Five hours.
VAUGHN: Thank you.
(Boss leaves. Weiss, from the adjoining office, comes in, having
overheard everything.)
WEISS: Whooo. Impressive.
VAUGHN: (scoffs) Yeah.
WEISS: Balls of steel!
(Vaughn laughs.)
WEISS: No, that's what I'm gonna call you from now on. (to agent
walking by) Hey. Have you met Balls of Steel?
(Virginia. Sydney drives up in a car. She looks at the address --
1936 Lake Road. She verifies it in her notepad. The address is a
cemetery. Curious, she walks around in between the tombstones and
notices a grave that has dead grass on it. She inches closer.
Milovich Ivanov 1927-1974.)
(Shed. Sydney kicks down the door and grabs a shovel. Hours
later, Sydney's digging the grave. She hits something and brushes
away the ground on a coffin. She opens the lid. The nuclear bomb,
wired to the lid, activates and starts ticking. She has two
minutes left.)
(Later, Sydney is on her cell phone talking to Marshall.)
SYDNEY: We've got a red wire, a yellow, a blue, a blue-white!
There's a white wire, a yellow-red, and orange-red. A black, a
white-black, an orange, a purple, a purple-white, a green, a
green-white, red-white, green, blue, a light blue--
MARSHALL: Okay! Okay! Cut the blue-white wire!
SYDNEY: Okay, cutting the blue-white wire!
MARSHALL: Oh, hold the phone! (fumbles with sheets)
SYDNEY: DON'T TELL ME TO HOLD THE PHONE! I'M SITTING ON A TICKING
NUCLEAR BOMB!
MARSHALL: Are there two timer panels, or one?
SYDNEY: Just--I only see one!
MARSHALL: All right! Try the blue wire!
SYDNEY: "TRY IT"?!
MARSHALL: No, cut it! Cut it!
SYDNEY: Okay!
(She does. The timer stops at eleven seconds left. She cries out,
sighs and drops the phone.)
MARSHALL: Hello?
(Inside the van.)
VAUGHN: You called SD-6 instead of the C.I.A.! That is
unacceptable! You should've called me!
SYDNEY: YOU! What would you have done?
VAUGHN: The C.I.A., Sydney! You know it has access to nuclear
sciences!
SYDNEY: Give me a break, I had two minutes!
VAUGHN: And going to Virginia without contacting us?!
SYDNEY: I DID contact you!
VAUGHN: You are over-eager, you are being irresponsible!
SYDNEY: You know what? Yes, SD-6 happens to have a nuclear weapon
and yes, that happens to be my fault. After I called Marshall,
SD-6 knew I'd found the bomb, but you know what? We're going to
track it and steal it back!
VAUGHN: It's in Cairo.
SYDNEY: What?
VAUGHN: When SD-6 picked up our nuke, they put it on a plane
bound for Egypt. And are you ready for this? They sold the thing
to Ineni Hassan.
(They sit down.)
SYDNEY: Hassan...
VAUGHN: Yeah. Reflected on both our records, FYI.
(She looks at him.)
VAUGHN: What?
SYDNEY: I told you I've been there. Hassan's. I can go back.
VAUGHN: No. Can't do it.
SYDNEY: Why not?!
VAUGHN: Hassan knows you. If you're spotted, it'll get back to
Sloane.
SYDNEY: Then we'll just have to make sure they never see me.
(Middle of nowhere. Sydney's father drives up.)
SYDNEY: Thanks for meeting me here. I'm sorry about hitting you.
MR. BRISTOW: You're going to Cairo. Devlin told me.
SYDNEY: Yeah, that's why I had them call you. I need your help.
SD-6 can't know that's where I'm going.
MR. BRISTOW: I'll take care of it.
SYDNEY: Dad... it was you, wasn't it? Who bought the ticket to
Singapore?
MR. BRISTOW: You were in Taipei. I had arranged a flight for you
as well, from Singapore. You cold have gone anywhere. I went to
Danny's apartment except it was too late. Just minutes too late.
SYDNEY: Thank you. I have to go, obviously. (smiles)
(Sydney drives off.)
(Vaughn's office. He talks to a secretary.)
VAUGHN: Tell Weiss I'm in operations and if Alice calls, just--
(Boss stands in the doorway.)
BOSS: I need you.
VAUGHN: Yeah, I know. (to secretary) Just call me if there's
anything. (to Boss) Let me just say this, about Bristow--
BOSS: Don't bother. Don't apologize. You're not in any trouble.
Virginia was my call.
VAUGHN: She's intimately familiar with Hassan's base, she's going
to get in, disable the weapon. We are all over it.
BOSS: Well, you don't have to be. That's what I'm here to tell
you. You're being pulled off the Bristow case.
VAUGHN: What? Why?
BOSS: Devlin wants a more senior officer. Apparently you were
right; this girl is pretty important to us.
VAUGHN: Yeah, I know...
BOSS: He wants you to oversee the office presentation at the
D.C.I. non-proliferation meeting, which under the circumstances
is pretty ironic.
(Sloane's office. Telephone rings.)
SLOANE: Yeah. Yeah. Send him in.
(He walks to the door.)
MR. BRISTOW: You hear from Sydney?
SLOANE: Yeah. What's wrong with her?
MR. BRISTOW: She went up north. I think she just needed to get
away.
SLOANE: Is she okay?
MR. BRISTOW: She will be. I think it's hard for her, that's all.
Accepting the news about what I do.
(Pause.)
SLOANE: Are you all right?
MR. BRISTOW: Yeah, of course. Why?
SLOANE: I don't know. You seem a little...
MR. BRISTOW: What?
SLOANE: Nothing, nothing.
MR. BRISTOW: I'll see you tomorrow.
SLOANE: Yeah, okay.
(He closes the door.)
(Cairo. Sydney peers down the hall, wearing a black burnoose. She
talks to the C.I.A. operative over an earpiece.)
SYDNEY: I'm in.
(Sydney takes down a guard in the hallway. Throws him to the
ground. Another one comes out of a room. She elbows him in the
stomach with the gun, throws him back in the room and tosses the
gun in there. She enters a bigger storage room and eyes a
rectangular box.)
SYDNEY: I think I found it.
OPERATIVE: Copy.
(She opens the lid. It's a nuke.)
SYDNEY: Yeah, I found it.
OPERATIVE: Copy. Commence disabling.
(Sydney unzips a package of tools and a diagram; unscrews timer
panel.)
SYDNEY: I've got it open. I'm going in for the core.
OPERATIVE: Copy. Radio silence until task complete.
SYDNEY: (unscrewing it) Listen, I know we just met on the flight
over, but do you have to talk like such a robotron?
OPERATIVE: Radio silence requested.
SYDNEY: I guess you do.
(She opens the casing and takes out a gold ball -- the core. A
gun is pointed at her head. Her eyes glance to the right... it's
Hassan.)