IRINA DEREVKO
The Getaway – Episode 12
“When I Was Your Wife”

In this episode, there are a lot of people “getting away” in various forms. Sydney and Vaughn take a major step toward their obvious attraction to one another with the result they were not anticipating but should have. Jack makes his getaway from Ariana Kane with Irina’s help. In addition, Sloane makes his getaway to the Philippines to meet Emily. Oops, we thought she was dead.

Our story begins with Jack, who is on the run, in a movie theatre, which is playing a very good murder mystery, a film noir, “D.O.A.” starring Edward O’Brien as a man who has been poisoned and is reporting his own murder to the police. I thought this was an excellent choice for the background. Jack is meeting someone he trusts will help him discover whom the real thief of a hundred million in bearer bonds and the killer of Emily. Unfortunately for Jack, the man is dead. Jack disposes of two men who are there to either take him back to Ariana Kane or kill him.

He runs out of the theatre to find Sydney, who yells, “Get in.” It’s déjà vu again. It seems to me the same scene was played before but vice versa: Jack drives up to Sydney and yells, “Get in!” Anyway, they escape back to CIA headquarters where Jack has to stay until he can find a way to learn who engineered the murder and robbery. Sydney says she’ll stay with him, but he tells her to get back to SD-6. Kane must not suspect her.

Sydney and Dixon are sent to France to get a quantum gyroscope missile guidance system. Her counter mission is to switch the real one with one the CIA will duplicate, but not quite. While talking to Vaughn, she learns the CIA has been helping Jack and has been working on it for two weeks. Big, big argument follows since Sydney didn’t know anything about Jack’s trouble until she rescued him.

“This is about me being too old to be coddled!”
“Your life is complicated, Sydney! Forgive me for trying to make it easier!” Snaps Vaughn.
“I don’t need you for that!” She stalks out. (Ooh we are getting testy.)


Meanwhile Jack has received a communication from Sloane over a secure server in which he tells Jack he had to inform Kane about his visit. There was a device, he says, implanted by the Alliance that tracks his whereabouts as well as his vital signs and records his messages. He goes on to say that the blackmailer, killer, thief may have been stirred by revenge for his killing of Jean Briault the past year.

Jack goes to see Irina who is meditating. She reads it and asks if he plans to go into the witness protection plan. Jack wouldn’t go because it would leave Sydney exposed and he wouldn’t take her with him because she’d spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder.

“Then if you’re not hear to say goodbye, why did you bring this to me?” Irina asks.
“I need someone to brainstorm with.”
“Surely the CIA has teams who specialize in this matters – forensics, profilers”
“Yes. They do.” He stares at her.
Understanding, she says, “Have information resources pull everything they have on Briault.”

I enjoyed this scene. There was a kind of family feel to it. One could imagine the two of them at the dinner table talking about a problem and then brainstorming together. Both Jack and Irina are highly intelligent people; both are well schooled in the gathering of intelligence data. Is Jack beginning to trust her? Their daughter would have been an excellent addition here too. However, she’s elsewhere.

In Paris, Sydney is in the airport ready to get object of her assignment. With Dixon’s help, she makes any self-respecting pick pocket look like an amateur. She returns to the CIA office where Vaughn at Weiss’s prodding asks her out to dinner at a restaurant called Rousseau’s. Succumbing to her “desire,” Sydney agrees. Unfortunately, it was not a wise choice for either of them. They are spotted leaving the airport and Vaughn “is not Dixon.”

They are followed to the restaurant where one of the men starts hunting for Vaughn in his DMV files. (They had taken his picture.) Before having dinner, Sydney indicates that she thinks wine would “help the situation.”

At the same time, at CIA, Irina pours a glass of water (not wine), as she and Jack, who has moved inside her cell with the information on Briault. They are pouring over records of his charge accounts, his travels, and any information that the CIA has been able to provide the pair. Irina homes in on Briault’s travels to Peru. Jack notes that Briault always declared that he was bringing in seventy thousand dollars on each of the six occasions he was there.

“When I was your wife,” Irina says quietly.
Jack stops and looks at her.
“I would meet my case officer in his hotel room. I suggest you find out where Briault stayed and pull the hotel footage.”

He turns slowly and leaves her. The look on her face suggests there is still feeling for him; that it took courage (?) for her to even bring back that memory to them both. Did she feel the same pain he might have felt when he heard the words?

Meanwhile in Paris, the Alliance’s men have pinpointed Vaughn as a CIA agent. They go in after them. Weiss warns Vaughn in the nick of time, but the two are captured as they run out. Sydney is handcuffed with hands behind her back. As Vaughn is about to drop onto his knees as ordered, when they both hear one of the men trying to get in touch with Kane in L. A. Vaughn pulls a knife strapped to his ankle and kills the man behind him. He uses him as a shield, grabs the gun and kills the other one holding the cell phone. He quickly frees Sydney and she, in turn, gets to the cell phone and turns it off.

“We were so stupid!” Says Sydney. Oh well better late than never.

Back at CIA headquarters, Jack is checking the hotel footage. Arian Kane is identified. Jack chastised himself for not seeing the connection. He decides to go back to SD-6, risking his life, in order to find out if Kane had actually been the blackmailer. However, he only has time to email Sloane about what he found out. Trying to leave, he is caught and put into the torture room. Mc Cullough is administering sodium pentothal to make him tell Ariana about Sydney and himself.

Jack stands in front of Irina telling her what happened: Sloane came in and stopped Kane. He had her taken away and Jack freed. He had seen the email Jack sent to him about the hundred million which she had deposited in a bank, had converted, and then transferred out. Irina wants to know if they recovered the cash and Jack says no. He thanks her for everything.

“There’s one thing that strikes me odd.”
“Yes. Me too.”
“You said Sloane requested Kane to investigate.”
“The one person who had an apparent motive for blackmail.”
“Someone easy to frame.” Irina says.
“Interesting theory.” Jack answers.
“Or not.”

Sydney meets Vaughn and gives him the real gyroscope. Then at home she confesses to Francie that the guy at the bank wasn’t going to work out. Too many problems. Sloane meanwhile meets with an electronic inventor/genius. He gives him a suitcase of money. The genius has made him a wedding band that negates the tracker that the Alliance inserted. Convinced, Sloane kills him.

Later, in the Philippines, Arvin Sloane slowly crosses a beach heading for a wooden house. He knocks. The door opens.

“We did it.” He smiles happily.
Emily who is supposed to be dead, “Are you sure? Are you sure it worked?”
“Yes, my love, we are free.”

What? Emily cut off her own finger? This was some sort of master plan to get Arvin some extra dough and keep the Alliance from knowing? Terrific show with so many interchanges between our boy/girl couples.

That was funny! Like your little comment as 'she stalks out'. :lol:

Nothing to add to this one really, I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head!