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My name is Sydney Bristow.
Seven years ago,
I was recruited
by a secret branch of the CIA
called SD-6.
I was sworn to secrecy,
but I couldn't keep it
from my fianc�,
and when the head of SD-6
found out,
he had him killed.
That's when I learned
the truth.
SD-6 is not part of the CIA.
I'd been working
for the very people
I thought
I was fighting against.
So I went to the only place
that could help me
take them down.
Now I'm a double agent
for the CIA,
where my handler
is a man named Michael Vaughn.
Only one other person knows
the truth about what I do.
Another double agent
inside SD-6.
Someone I hardly know.
My father.
Didn't Syd say
she went to Seattle?
So?
Why is there a return ticket
from Italy in her pocket?
I came here to pass along
an order from Devlin.
You're going to see a counselor
for trauma evaluation.
Khasinau has converted
$250 million worth of assets
into cash.
We need to know what
he's spending that money on.
You're leaving for Vienna
tonight.
Noah?
Oh, my God.
Do me a favor, Syd.
Tread carefully here.
Until he's debriefed,
I wouldn't get too friendly.
It's ancient history.
It was five years ago.
You were the last person that
I ever wanted to see again.
Ever.
And you were the only person
that I ever wanted to see again.
They found us.
We got to go.
- Skyhook, this is White Rabbit.
- Copy, White Rabbit.
Change of plan.
Tell me you can get us out
Affirmative.
Skyhook, we are being pursued!
We're not gonna make it
to the meeting point!
We've locked onto your signal.
Prepare for extraction.
Skyhook, wilco.
Have you in sight.
Turning final approach
from the south.
Syd, we got a hostile, 6:00.
Reverse course 1-8-0 degrees
for recovery in 10
Noah, hold on.
- Drive for me.
- 8
I'm pulling the cord.
Hold on!
The CIA has a new lead
on Khasinau.
Apparently, K-Directorate
is looking for revenge, too.
We received intel last night.
They've hired a fairly
prestigious freelance assassin
to find Khasinau
and dismember him.
"The Snowman" is his code name.
The Snowman.
He's been on the CIA's
most-wanted list for 12 years,
presumed dead since '97,
but it seems we're not so lucky.
I'm looking for contacts.
I'm thinking that
maybe we can find Khasinau
by following The Snowman.
I just want to make sure
that you get to Khasinau first.
I know how important
this is to you.
Thank you.
Hey, so, the operation
went all right
in Arkhangelsk with Noah?
Good.
Are you sure
she's coming back tonight?
That's what she said.
She's at the airport
in San Francisco
waiting for a plane.
Are we gonna strategize this?
Strategize how?
I want to be gentle because
we're accusing Sydney of lying.
What if she wants us
to ask her?
She wanted you to find
the ticket
because it's some cry for help.
Well, maybe.
- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
So, how was San Francisco?
Two days of due diligence.
If I never see another
financial statement,
it'll be fine with me.
I'm just gonna crash,
if you don't mind.
No, of course not.
Hi.
Hi.
I can't believe
you didn't say anything.
That's why I wanted
to strategize.
Syd, you think I'm kidding?
I'm not kidding.
I want you to go away with me.
My point is, what happened
the other night.
It was just too soon.
Russia's got a hell of
a bootleg software industry.
I figured out a way of skimming
money off the Russian mob.
What are you talking about?
I got a lot of money hidden
in offshore accounts.
Syd, I'm getting out.
I'm sick of lying to everyone.
I'm at the point where the idea
of just walking away from people
that are supposed to be
my good friends
is a relief.
And you tell me you've never
felt that way.
I'm just saying that I've got
someone helping me out.
I want you to come with me.
I can't tell you where,
but I can tell you
we won't need locks on the doors
and you will learn how to surf.
You know I can't do that.
Why?
For about a million reasons.
There might be 50 reasons,
and I'd like the opportunity
to refute all of them.
One of the biggest reasons
is my mother.
Khasinau was her superior.
My mother was a spy for the KGB,
and those files that we
recovered may help me find her.
I'm not going anywhere
until I know where she is.
What if I wait?
Will you ever do it?
Sir, as you requested, we
followed up on Agent Noah Hicks.
Is Hicks in the building?
Yes, sir.
He arrived 12 minutes ago.
Tell McCullough
I need to see him.
Don't let Hicks leave.
Dad?
Sydney.
Last time we spoke, you said
you were gonna talk to someone.
I did. Thank you.
I took care of it.
Marshall said he unlocked
Khasinau's computer core.
I wouldn't have allowed
your last operation.
Those computers
are primarily used
for theoretical analyses,
war games.
Of the recovered files,
none bear relevance
to Khasinau's operation,
his plans,
or his cache
of Rambaldi artifacts,
nor do they give any hint
to his whereabouts.
But when I was there,
I saw that there were
some files on Mom.
Yes, I know.
Also recovered on the core
were some equally unhelpful
archival files.
In the case of your mother,
video footage.
Was she in the video?
Yes.
They showed her alive
after the accident?
Yes.
I have no interest
in watching the video.
Analysis is reviewing it.
There's nothing to help
in the hunt for Khasinau,
so the risk
was all for nothing.
Hey, Dixon.
I keep trying to think
of some opening line.
Something to start off with.
To talk to you.
Noah, I'll be straight with you.
I don't trust you.
Which wouldn't be a problem,
except I'm an intelligence
officer,
and if you stick around,
my life is going to be in
your hands, and yours in mine.
And in that scenario,
the only person truly safe
will be you.
Mr. Hicks, would you come
with us, please?
Is there a problem?
Mr. Sloane asked
for you to come with us.
That's never a good thing.
Excuse me.
And on March 16th of this year,
you opened an account
with Bank Africana.
Yes, sir.
Explain.
Well, it was exactly
like the account
we were just talking about.
It was opened up under an alias
as part of an S VR operation.
Mr. McCullough,
I was working undercover,
and I was required to do
a whole bunch of things
which probably seem suspicious
when viewed from the outside.
$47 million was transferred,
then withdrawn within 24 hours.
Yes.
To an untraceable account.
Who was the recipient
of that money?
I don't know.
You don't seem real thrilled
with these responses.
Have you ever conducted business
with the G.L. Bank of Austria?
Yes.
Please provide details.
This man is hiding something.
I'm curious to know what it is.
Would you like me
to have a word with him?
My Russian or American name?
Why not both?
Irina Derevko and Laura Bristow.
When were you recruited
for special duties?
In 1970, I was recruited
to the KGB by you,
Alexander Khasinau.
Describe the objective
of your operation.
Phase one.
I was to pose as an American,
a student of Literature.
Phase two.
I was to make the acquaintance
of a particular officer
in the Central Intelligence
Agency
to insinuate myself
into his life,
to become his confidant,
earn his trust.
Please state the officer
by name.
Officer
Jonathan Donahue Bristow.
Phase three?
Phase three.
I was to begin to acquire
details of the CIA operation
to which Bristow was assigned.
Project Christmas.
You have no reason to believe
that anyone else
was suspicious of you?
Nyet.
- I need you to feed Donovan.
- Who?
What do you mean, who?
My dog.
Which key is to the front?
Where are you going?
That's the top lock,
that's the bottom lock.
I'm going to Bogot�.
Give him a can of the dog food
that's on the cupboard floor
and half a can
of the dried stuff.
There's a bag of the dried stuff
next to the canned stuff.
What the hell's in Bogot�?
Eight years ago,
a guy named Kishell
Collapsed lung, he lost an eye.
It was bad, yeah.
Kishell used to work
with Snowman,
who we know is after Khasinau.
So we get Kishell,
we can get Khasinau.
Exactly.
Half a can only.
I don't want to come back
to a fat dog.
There were two men
in Mom's video.
One was Khasinau.
The other one.
I recognized him.
I knew I'd seen his face
before.
It was the FBI agent who died
in the accident with Mom.
Calder's real name is
Igor Sergei Valenko,
the man who was pursuing Mom.
The FBI spy hunter.
Dad, he was KGB.
It wasn't just Mom's death
they faked.
It was Calder's, too.
If we can get to Calder,
maybe we can find Khasinau.
You're assuming Calder
and Khasinau still have ties.
We know that Khasinau liquidated
$200 million in assets.
On that memo were initials.
I.S.V.
Also, six months ago, a man
matching Calder's description
was caught on an SD-4 camera
entering a financial office
in Cape Town,
a known money-laundering
operation.
I'm gonna suggest to Sloane
that we get to Cape Town,
seize their records,
and find Calder.
Noah spent years in
South Africa. He'll be an asset.
SD-6 has run
an additional profile on Noah.
There were anomalies,
including recent bank activity
which suggests he may have
ties to K-Directorate.
Noah's been taken into custody.
What? No.
I know what that's about.
It has nothing to do
with another agency.
Sydney, you have no perspective
on who that man is.
You're as lost now
as I was years ago.
- You don't know him.
- You don't know him.
That's the lesson in all this.
Noah Hicks is not a perfect man,
but he is also not a traitor.
He's a loyal officer
who believes
that he's working for the CIA
and has no idea that SD-6
would kill him if they thought
he was a double agent.
Please.
Dad, talk to Sloane.
I never actually met
The Snowman.
He always contacted me
by telephone.
His name. The Snowman.
It comes from his method.
He prefers an ice pick.
But he uses knives, too.
I helped arrange travel
across difficult borders.
It was my specialty.
One operation,
he was ambushed, attacked.
He fought off and killed
eight men that night.
He thought it was me.
Thought I tipped someone off.
That was when he came after me.
He came to this house.
He attacked me while I slept.
Killing is his job.
He likes his job.
Mr. Kishell, I appreciate
you talking to me.
I know this must be
very difficult.
I know difficult.
Talk is easy.
I know the CIA has spoken
to you before, years ago,
but we recently learned
that an organization
has hired The Snowman
for a job.
Now, I read the transcripts.
Last time, you said
you had no leads.
I was hoping maybe this time,
you might have some.
You have come too far
to go home with nothing.
For years, I was afraid
to do anything,
to seek revenge.
But enough time has passed,
Mr. Vaughn.
I have no more fear.
Yes, I have some leads.
And you'd be willing
to share them?
I will contact them myself.
See if I can find out
where The Snowman is,
what his plans are.
I'd appreciate that.
You must promise me one thing.
That when you find him
he will suffer, too.
Oh, come on, sweetheart,
you're in pain.
He can get you a stronger m
Yeah, just promise me
that you'll call me
after you talk to him, okay?
Good.
Me too.
Bye.
I need a minute.
This is about Noah Hicks.
There's something
he's not telling us.
I think
he might have been turned.
If you have Hicks killed,
you'd be throwing away an asset.
How so?
You want Khasinau.
You're closer than you think.
Were you aware that Calder, FBI,
was working with the KGB
since 1973?
Sydney's designed an operation
that will lead us to Calder,
at which point we'll be
one step away from Khasinau.
And she wants
Mr. Hicks involved.
This is becoming familiar, Jack.
Your coming to me,
requesting special consideration
for the men in Sydney's life.
Tippin didn't turn out
to be a problem, did he?
Sydney wasn't intimate
with Tippin.
She is with Hicks.
I'm not sure that's my business,
and I know it isn't yours.
� Looking out the door �
� I see the rain fall upon
the funeral mourners �
� Parading in a wake
of sad relations �
� As their shoes
fill up with water �
� And maybe I'm too young �
� To keep good love
from going wrong �
� But tonight �
� You're on my mind �
� So you never know �
� Too young to hold on �
� And too old
to just break free and run �
� Sometimes a man
gets carried away �
� When he feels like
he should be having his fun �
� And much too blind to see �
Sloane accepted
the mission I proposed.
Noah and I
are going to Cape Town.
Calder's done some business
at a financial office there.
We're gonna break into
that office, get the records,
and hopefully find out
where Calder is.
What's my countermission?
When you realized Calder was
KGB, you should have come to me.
Did you think that
this was just an accident?
I was thinking about
the 36 hours
the FBI kept me in chains.
If I turned over
the Calder information,
you would be required
to forward it to the FBI,
and we both know
what they would do.
- Classify it.
- Omega 17.
We wouldn't be allowed
near that investigation.
I'm supposed to give you this
tell you to write down
whatever information
you recover from Calder.
Stick it in the chamber,
activate the beacon,
and throw it in a trash can.
But I'm guessing
you're not gonna use it.
Vaughn, I promise you
Khasinau will not walk,
and I won't let SD-6
get to him first.
But I refuse to let the FBI
get in my way again.
Nice shot.
Thanks.
Easy to shoot tranks.
No anxiety
you're killing somebody.
The floor is alarmed
with highly sensitive
motion detectors.
So we stay off the floor.
Of course,
but it also has audio sensors
that can detect any sound
above. 05 DBs.
In other words
This right here.
.05 DBs is closer to
the sound of a cockroach
rubbing its legs together.
Okay, so what do we do?
Well, active noise control.
It emits an out-of-phase
audio signal
that cancels out any sound
within a 200-foot radius.
Check it out.
That is really loud, right?
All right, and
� Ready, steady, go �
� Strictly the mother �
The server case is alarmed.
Don't let anything touch it.
You're gonna want to get a modem
within 3 inches of the server.
Mr. Hicks,
you'll hack into the server
and then download all the data
into your laptop.
Am I boring you?
You have no reason to believe
that anyone else
became suspicious of you?
Nyet.
Of course
I would have told you.
How did you acquire your intel?
Every night for 10 years,
I went through his briefcase.
I eavesdropped on all
of his private conversations.
I planted listening devices
on his clothing.
He was blinded by his emotions.
He knew nothing.
I can tell you one thing.
Jack Bristow was a fool.
Dr. Barnett.
Mr. Bristow.
Yes. I was
I was wondering if you might
have some time this afternoon.
I'll make some time.
I didn't pick that play.
The computer picked it.
You didn't.
No, but I don't
- Reset it!
- Touchdown!
- You cheated.
- Score.
- Dude!
- Score.
Hey, guys.
What's going on?
Why are you looking at me
like that?
Did you guys break something?
No.
I found this in the pocket
of your jacket
I borrowed last week.
You said you were in Seattle.
You can tell us if it's
none of our business, but
We just care about you,
that's all.
This is serious.
Okay, I've signed a dozen
non-disclosure agreements,
so this is between us.
Of course.
Six months ago,
my job at the bank changed.
We have a handful of clients,
most of them are international,
who don't want their business to
go through the postal service.
They don't want a paper trail.
So, I fly to them
as the bank's representative.
I'm so sorry I had to keep
this from you guys.
I just had no choice.
Is that legal?
Oh, yeah, it's totally legit.
It's just secret.
Francie thought you were
having an affair.
I just said if you were
having an affair,
I would know about it.
Well, this is all there is.
So I'm gonna go change,
and then I'm gonna kick
your *** in that game.
Oh, bring it on.
Seriously.
I am so bored playing
with Francie, it's rid
� If I scream �
� Would you come
and wake me from this dream? �
� I know
there's something better �
� To be saved �
� I need someone
to take my breath away �
Hey, Marshall.
Hey, Miss Bristow.
Anything yet?
Any word on where Calder is?
Mr. Sloane didn't tell you?
There was no data recovered
from Noah's laptop.
That server room must have had
active countermeasures,
so, basically, when you ran out,
your laptop got pulsed
and erased everything.
Hi.
You heard about the computers.
Yes.
Syd, if your mom is out there,
you will find her.
It's gonna happen.
I just feel like
I'm at a dead end.
How's the arm?
Well, it feels great.
The lidocaine hasn't worn off.
New personal record.
Hello, Sydney.
I was disappointed
when I heard Marshall's news,
but I'm confident we'll
pick up Calder's trail.
Noah, flight to Baku
leaves at 6:00.
In two weeks, you'll enter
into a doctoral program
on Petrol Geoscience
at Khazar University.
Inside this folder,
there's information
on dead-drop procedure.
See I.D. Services
for your passport
and travel visas.
Good luck, Noah.
Noah just got home
from a 5-year assignment.
He's been home for two weeks.
Do you think it's wise
to send him under again so soon?
I volunteered.
Thank you.
You're not
going to Baku, are you?
No.
Tuvalu. It's an island
in the South Pacific.
I talked to my contact.
He says now's my window.
I'm leaving tonight.
And we could go together.
Sometimes all I want to do
is disappear.
Just let all of this go
and just start over again.
But I have my personal
reasons for staying.
Syd, this life is not worth it,
and you know it.
There's too many secrets.
There's too much lying
to everybody.
I know. I know.
Then come with me.
Here's what we're gonna do.
I booked you on a flight
for tomorrow night.
Syd, you come with me
for one week to Tuvalu,
and let me prove to you
that it can work.
Noah
If it's about your mother,
you and I can find your mother.
We don't need the CIA
for that.
It'll be our last mission.
And after that,
we'll just start completely new.
Can you imagine that?
Be on that plane.
You give me one week.
Just one week.
One week.
Mr. Sloane! Mr. Sloane!
I know I've been impressed
with myself,
but this time I am freaking out.
I used a signal-lost
recovery procedure
to examine
the low-level data sector.
I created a raw image
Marshall!
What did you do?
I found Valenko.
I mean, Calder.
It's the same guy, right?
Well, I found him.
Marshall has reconstructed
the data that you downloaded
from Cape Town.
The information directed us
to Mackay, Australia,
and Bentley Calder's
private residence.
This one is straightforward.
A daylight *** operation.
You lead a recovery team,
grab Calder, bring him here.
The plane leaves in two hours.
Dixon, could you
give us a minute?
Sydney, I told you I'd get you
closer to your mother.
I'm always here for you.
You know that.
Thanks.
� Will you be
my favorite regret? �
� Could I be
your sweetest mistake? �
Hey, it's me.
I am 35,000 feet
over the Pacific,
and you just missed
the most beautiful sunset
that I've ever seen in my life.
Hi.
You're coming, right?
Tell me that you are coming
to meet me.
Noah.
Come on.
If things were different
Any word on Calder?
No.
It was great to see you again.
Syd, whatever
you're about to say,
it's not goodbye.
All right.
I'll see you.
I'll see you, too.
� We'll look until we find �
� Something neither
will forget �
Okay, I believe
this isn't goodbye.
Joey's Pizza?
Wrong number.
Devlin knows
you're going to Australia.
You understand he'll be
expecting a full report?
I know how important it is
for you to find your mother,
and I'll help you.
Thanks.
Any word on The Snowman?
That guy I met in Bogot�.
I'm waiting for him
to call me back.
You want to tell me
what's going on?
Sydney, you can talk to me.
Off the record.
I'm all right.
Wait until I open the main gate.
"B" team will secure
the perimeter
in case Calder
tries to take off.
This is Vaughn.
Mr. Vaughn,
I have spoken to my friends.
I have some information for you.
- Dixon.
- Are you at the junction box?
No, not yet. This is weird.
I don't see any guards.
Weiss.
The Snowman's been
spotted in Mackay.
He's going after Calder
to get to Khasinau.
Can you think of a way
to contact Sydney?
- We don't have her on comm?
- No.
Dixon? Dixon?
I just saw three guards.
They're dead.
Dixon?
Oh, no! Calder!
No.
I tried to keep you from this.
I want you to know that.
Sydney!