Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Message-ID: Supersedes: Expires: 2 Jun 2004 12:58:04 GMT References: Newsgroups: alt.tv.alias,alt.answers,news.answers Followup-To: poster Subject: [alt.tv.alias] Episode Guide - Season 2 From: SiKing Organization: Joey's Pizza Summary: Episode guide for the TV show Alias; season 2. Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU X-No-Archive: yes X-Last-Updated: 2003/08/23 Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU Date: 04 May 2004 13:01:55 GMT Lines: 333 NNTP-Posting-Host: penguin-lust.mit.edu X-Trace: 1083675715 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 566 18.181.0.29 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.tv.alias:14173 alt.answers:72766 news.answers:270947 Archive-Name: tv/alias/episode-guides/season2 Posting-Frequency: once every 15 days Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form not content. This document is posted by the faq-server at MIT.edu approximately = twice per month=20 to the Usenet groups , , and=20 . 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When posting about = a particular=20 episode you can use either the actual episode name or the code SSxEE, = where SS is=20 the season number and EE is the episode number. Please do NOT identify = the episodes=20 by the airdate! The dates listed below are the US dates; almost all = other countries=20 are at least several weeks behind this schedule. You can find significantly more information about each episode and the = show itself=20 at and = . ------------------------------ Subject: Season 2 Episode 1: "The Enemy Walks In" Original Airdate: September 29, 2002 "The Man" is revealed to actually be "The Mom," Irina Derevko, = Sydney's Russian- agent mother, who has long been presumed dead. Their first face-off = leaves Sydney=20 with a gun shot wound, and Irina on the run. Meanwhile, Jack goes to = extremes to=20 keep Will alive after his SD-6 expos=E9 hits the stands; and a CIA = mission to smoke=20 out one of Khasinau's cronies leads to a gruesome finding about Vaughn. Season two premiere. Episode 2: "Trust Me" Original Airdate: October 6, 2002 After surrendering to the CIA, the spy once known as Laura Bristow = is now behind=20 bars - and refusing to talk to anyone but Sydney. She wants nothing to = do with her=20 mother, until a mission goes awry and a disk containing vital photos = falls into the=20 wrong hands. Irina says she wants to help Sydney retrieve it, and = during a tense=20 visit she explains why: "Defeating Arvin Sloane. SD-6. The Alliance. = These are=20 things we both want." Sloane runs into a very familiar face while = tracking one of=20 Irina's associates. Episode 3: "Cipher" Original Airdate: October 13, 2002 Jack takes action to abort Sydney's continued work with Irina, who = holds the key=20 to cracking Sark's plans for a Russian satellite armed with heavy-duty = abilities.=20 Meanwhile, Will comes face-to-face with Vaughn, who needs him to = revisit his ordeal=20 in Taipei; and Sloane gets the suspicion that his late wife may still = be alive. Episode 4: "Dead Drop" Original Airdate: October 20, 2002 The past refuses to die. For Sloane, it's the ghost of his late wife = that has=20 him on edge. Rattled by a rash of eerie events - and the guilt of = having poisoned=20 Emily himself - the SD-6 head sends Dixon off to investigate. But = Sloane may not=20 want to know what Dixon learns, particularly about a recent visitor to = Emily's=20 favorite haunt. Meanwhile, Will's fateful article on SD-6 resurfaces = after a=20 recovering junkie tempts him with her own conspiracy theory; and Vaughn = finally=20 meets his father's killer when he is forced to work with Irina to save = Sydney from=20 Sark's ambush in Russia. Episode 5: "The Indicator" Original Airdate: November 3, 2002 The hunt for a cache of high-tech weapons leads Sydney to a massive = secret about=20 the Bristows; Vaughn is horrified to realize what Jack is capable of = when it comes=20 to Irina; and Will steps up to lend Francie a hand at her eatery's = grand opening. Episode 6: "Salvation" Original Airdate: November 10, 2002 Jack makes the ultimate sacrifice to win back Sydney, who's torn = between=20 reporting his recent sins and allowing Irina to pay dearly for her past = crimes.=20 Vaughn learns an awful truth about the contents of Khasinau's "red = ball". Sloane=20 digs up a shocker about his wife's burial site. Will scores a = top-secret assignment=20 that could blow the lid off of Project Christmas. Episode 7: "The Counteragent" Original Airdate: November 17, 2002 Vaughn develops additional signs of infection from exposure to the = Red Ball.=20 Will finds inconsistencies in the standardized test. Sydney then = explains "Project=20 Christmas". Sydney, having learned that Vaughn is sick, travels to a = former Soviet=20 training base for nuclear submarine personnel in Estonia to get the = antidote; she=20 gets caught and must sell out Sloane in order to save herself and = Vaughn. Sloane=20 confesses to Jack that he's insecure about his standing within the = Alliance. Episode 8: "Passage, Part 1" Original Airdate: December 1, 2002 Jack, Sydney and Irina go under cover as a loving family to seize = nuclear=20 warheads from an unfriendly nation. Episode 9: "Passage, Conclusion" Original Airdate: December 8, 2002 Sydney and Jack learn where Irina's loyalties lie when she meets up = with Gerard=20 Cuvee; Sloane informs the Alliance that Emily may still be alive. Episode 10: "The Abduction" Original Airdate: December 15, 2002. Ariana Kane, the head of counterintelligence for Alliance, meets = with Jack in=20 her investigation of the disappearance of Emily. Irina makes things = worse for her=20 ex by telling him an unsettling truth about their KGB-orchestrated = marriage. Things=20 go horribly wrong for Marshal on his first field mission. Episode 11: "A Higher Echelon" Original Airdate: January 5, 2003 Sydney and Dixon team up to find Marshall before he's beaten into = giving his=20 captors what they are after. Kane links Jack to a murder, which raises = Sloane's=20 suspicions and lowers Vaughn's opinion of him. Irina proves her loyalty = to the CIA=20 by providing the exact info SD-6 is looking for. Episode 12: "The Getaway" Original Airdate: January 12, 2003 Sydney and Vaughn's risky rendezvous, while on a mission in France, = threatens to=20 expose their CIA covers to SD-6. Jack enlists Irina in his efforts to = outwit Kane,=20 who is now concentrating on both Bristows suspicious activity. Episode 13: "Phase One" Original Airdate: January 26, 2003 Geiger takes over SD-6 after Sloane goes missing. Geiger, unlike = Sloane, has no=20 love for the Bristows, and is outright suspicious of them. However, = Geiger may have=20 bigger fish to fry, after the CIA receives priceless intel on the = Alliance.=20 Meanwhile, Francie's life takes a startling romantic turn. Episode 14: "Double Agent" Original Airdate: February 2, 2003 Sydney rescues CIA Agent Lennox, who then falls under suspicion after = investigation=20 into his partner's grim end while searching for a gene-splicing machine = that allows=20 users to alter their appearance. It's up to Sydney to sort out whether = Lennox is=20 the real deal or a fake. Episode 15: "A Free Agent" Original Airdate: February 9, 2003 Mathematician Neil Caplan is kidnapped to help Sloane with Rambaldi = artifacts.=20 As Sydney graduates she must make a decision about her future with the = agency.=20 Dixon reveals the truth of his occupation to his wife. Sydney and = Vaughn race to=20 rescue Caplan's family and stop Sloane's latest heist. Episode 16: "Firebomb" Original Airdate: February 23, 2003 Vaughn discovers a bug at Sydney's apartment. Caplan completes the = Rambaldi=20 device. Sloane offers a partnership to Ahmad Kabir, a Pashtun warlord. = Francie=20 questions why she and Sydney don't talk anymore. Sloane demonstrates = the Rambaldi=20 device's power to assure his new partnership. Sydney enters Kabir's = compound to=20 disable the weapon but things go wrong. Episode 17: "A Dark Turn" Original Airdate: March 2, 2003 Sloane is attempting to obtain another Rambaldi manuscript which may = give the=20 CIA a chance to capture him but it requires Irina go on another = mission. Meanwhile,=20 CIA counter-intelligence has good reason to question Vaughn's = loyalties. Episode 18: "Truth Takes Time" Original Airdate: March 16, 2003 Sydney faces off with her mother and gets a chance to return the = shooting favor.=20 Emily Sloane is faced with the decision whether to side with her = husband or betray=20 him ... for the last time. Episode 19: "Endgame" Original Airdate: March 30, 2003 A brilliant mathematician is forced into Sloane and Irina's service. = For weeks,=20 Sydney and the CIA have been searching for the abducted genius with no = luck. Their=20 big break comes when his wife reveals a shocker that strikes a nerve in = Jack and=20 sends Sydney to Russia against her father's orders. Back in the States, = a grieving=20 Sloane deploys the evil Francie to uncover the person responsible for = Emily's=20 death. Sloane orders a hit and Dixon's wife is killed. Episode 20: "Countdown" Original Airdate: April 27, 2003 A Rambaldi artifact prophesizes that an apocalyptic event will soon = take place.=20 Dixon's grief leads Vaughn and the agency psychologist Dr. Barnett to = question his=20 intentions, as his thirst for revenge on Sloane intensifies. Meanwhile = Sloane=20 receives a life-changing revelation from a mysterious monk in Nepal. = Sydney and=20 Dixon hunt for a killer who stole the heart from his victim. Marshall = falls for a=20 new co-worker. Episode 21: "Second Double" Original Airdate: May 4, 2003 Sydney begins to question Will's identity when he's arrested for = espionage,=20 under suspicion of being a double. Meanwhile Sark and Irina plot to = recover the=20 Rambaldi heart, and Sloane makes Jack a business proposal. Part one of a two-hour season finale. Episode 22: "The Telling" Original Airdate: May 4, 2003 Sydney finally confronts her mother, who reveals her true = motivation. Meanwhile,=20 Sloane begins to execute his new grand plan. Will figures out who is = behind his=20 set-up. Marshall finds love. Sydney disappears? Season two finale. <0> ------------------------------ Subject: Copyrights The show Alias is copyrighted by Touchstone Television, a part of the = ABC=20 Entertainment Television Group, which is owned by the Walt Disney = Company. This=20 document is for information purposes only and not intended to infringe = on any=20 copyrights. This article is provided as is without any express or implied = warranties. While=20 every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information = contained in=20 this article, the author / maintainer / contributors assume no = responsibility for=20 errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use or misuse of = the=20 information contained herein. 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