The best episodes of Alias
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- 01
Jack, Sydney, Vaughn and Irina parachute into Sovogda, trying to dismantle a giant red ball turning people into zombies.
- 02
Sloane takes Marshall and Rachel hostage in order to discover a crucial clue to Rambaldi's ultimate endgame, as Sydney, Vaughn and APO race to stop him.
- 03
Sydney tells Jack to activate the transmitter that she put on Vaughn. Sydney breaks into Simon Walker's room only to find bio-weapon gone and sold to Sark.
- 04
Now in Lindsey's custody, Sydney is imprisoned and tortured at Camp Williams, a secret NSC detention facility.
- 05
Authorized Personnel Only (Part 2)
What Sydney found out in Wittenburg may endanger her relationship with Jack.
- 06
While Nadia is in a coma, Sark is taken into APO to help them infiltrate Cadmus Revolutionary Front and retrieve the bomb.
- 07
Dixon enlists Sydney's to help him prove Sloane is double-crossing the CIA and using APO to steal the Blackwell Index, a master blackmail list.
- 08
Sydney must protect the life of a civilian she unintentionally put in danger.
- 09
Jack agrees to Sydney's request for clearence on files relating to Vaughn's father.
- 10
A giant version of the Circumference/Mueller device is found floating over a city in Russia, making the citizens insane. Sydney, Nadia and Jack search for Irina.
- 11
Sydney must stay undercover and partner with Sark to track down Rambaldi's final clue before Prophet Five finds it. Meanwhile, Vaughn sees daughter Isabelle for the first time, and Rachel discovers Tom's secret.
- 12
A team steals four vials of Ebola from a French epidemiology lab. Lauren and Sydney question Laszlo Bogdan, a team member who was infected and captured.
- 13
Sloane tells Sydney that intel about the Covenant's next move is encoded in an image of the Vatican on a website.
- 14
Sydney wakes from a nightmare in which she sees an angel-like figure, then pulls tubes from her mysterious scar. Shaken, she asks a CIA psychiatrist about the memory-retrieval process.
- 15
Hiding out in a warehouse, the team devises a plan to frame The Covenant for Sydney's extraction.
- 16
Sydney tells Jack about a dream involving Will. Jack advises her to contact Will, who is in the witness protection program.
- 17
Kendall tells Sydney the truth about her two missing years.
- 18
In a North Korean jail, Sydney passionately kisses Vaughn before they are led, in chains, to a firing line.
- 19
At the CIA, the team discusses info gleaned from Lisenker, a Covenant defector.
- 20
Daniel Ryan, a freelance bomb maker whose bombs are impossible to diffuse, destroys a bank in Belfast as a calling card to The Covenant.
- 21
Senator Reed, Lauren's father, arrives to oversee Sark's interrogation. He tells Jack that they must learn the identity of Sark's partner in The Covenant.
- 22
Vaughn and Sydney travel to mexico city searching for the key to open the Rambaldi box.
- 23
Sark takes a manuscript regarding The Passenger, called The Restoration.
- 24
Sloane reveals that he found a Rambaldi text that contained a formula for an elixir that would allow The Passenger to channel a message from Rambaldi.
- 25
Sloane takes the notes that an entranced Nadia has written and pins them to a board, where they form some kind of diagram.
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