SYDNEY BRISTOW
The Nemesis – Episode 6
“All I Want To Do Is Kill Her”

This was a powerful episode, especially with the re-appearance of Allison Doren. I think we will not refer to her as Francie. That person was killed last season. So many things happen in the episode that we are kept on the edge of our seats.

The episode opens with Sydney running on the beach. When she stops to get a drink of water, Sloane approaches her. He tells her that the Covenant is about to make a move. She reminds him that Lauren is his handler and that this information goes to her first. Sloane ruminates about old times: He misses L.A., he misses Emily, his friendship with her father, and the confidence and trust he had with her. She tells him that he will never have her confidence and trust nor will he have the friendship of her father. “EVER.”

Vaughn and Weiss are at an ice rink. Vaughn is hitting pucks at Weiss who is dressed as a goalie. Vaughn is angry and frustrated. He has been told not to tell Lauren anything about Sydney’s killing Lazeray and it is eating away at him. Weiss wickedly says, “Don’t poop where your sleep.” This of course brings hysterical responses from shippers. It is a funny line. Vaughn fell in love with Lauren after Sydney’s death. Now Sydney has returned from the grave. He is struggling with his emotions and when Dixon shut him down from talking to Lauren, he just wants to hit something. He scorches a puck toward Weiss’ most vulnerable spot, who experiences a sharp blow to the groin. Ouch.

Sark, contacted by the Covenant, is told he has a job and a new partner. Sark complains that he always worked alone before. The Covenant man stops the car and lets him out. From another car, Allison appears much to the astonishment and pleasure of Sark. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Allison says after kissing him.

At a briefing in Los Angeles, Sydney and Lauren are sitting on either side of Jack while Vaughn and Weiss are across the room. Dixon is explaining the mission: they are to locate a scientist named Lang who has developed a skeleton key to the Russian strategic nuclear missile program. He has also gone undercover and had plastic surgery done. Sydney and Vaughn are to go to Milan to a club where Lang is going to meet a man who has new papers for him. Dixon has Lauren and Sydney stay behind. He is changing their assignment. Sydney is to be Sloane’s handler from now on. The reason, Dixon then tells Sydney, is that she is now more personally involved with all the players. Allison Doren is alive. Sydney is stunned.

Meanwhile Allison and Sark are in bed and she tells him about what happened that night: the knifing of Will and the brutal fight between herself and Sydney. She says she was taken by the Covenant. She woke up three weeks later in a hospital operated by the Covenant in Marseilles. It took her six months to recover.

Sark relates that he was freed by the Covenant in return for the gold his father, who was murdered, left him. Allison wants to know who killed him. Sark says he does not know, but he is looking. Then he stares at the scars on her shoulder and says that Bristow should pay. “She will,” Allison says quietly.

Lauren meets with her boss on a bench near the Griffith Observatory. Lauren tells Lindsey that she has been replaced. He approves saying it will give her more time to find Lazeray’s killer. She will be going to Russia to meet a contact who will give her information that might lead to the discovery of the killer. She is not to tell her husband anything about the assignment. Oh well, now they both have a secret to keep from each other. Later, while packing, Michael and Lauren (dressed in fetching underwear) discuss their assignments without saying much. Lauren tells Michael that they have to go away after this is over (I think when each gets back from their missions). Vaughn suggests the desert.

In Moscow, Lauren speaks with the contact who tells her he is doing this simply because he and Adrian Lazeray were childhood friends. The government is not moving fast enough and he thinks there is a mole loyal to the Covenant. He hands her a tape of several phone calls. He does not know who is on the tape, but maybe it will tell them something. She wants to know where she can contact him. He says, “You can’t. We never had this conversation.”

Now in Milan, Vaughn and Sydney get ready to enter the club where Lang is to meet his contact. She is wearing a dress, which I thought was not a good choice. This dress hung from her like a sack. Vaughn places the camera-pendant around her neck (just like he did many times while they were dating, I suppose.) The camera will record fractures and any facial reconstruction.

She looks pensive and he asks what she is thinking. She is thinking about Allison.
“All I want to do is kill her.” She states flatly.

Inside the club, Sydney moves about photographing men who might be Lang. She is there about two minutes when Vaughn spots a possibility. When she photographs him, he says that the man is Lang. Suddenly Sydney sees a laser red light running across Lang. She runs thru the crowd knocking him to the ground. The bullet kills the man who brought the papers to him. She warns him to stay put and pulls out her gun, firing at Allison. She tells Vaughn where the shots came from and that it is Allison. As he hurries to find her, Sydney sees Lang scramble to his feet and run. Allison sprays the room with bullets, but Sydney fires back, driving the other woman away. Meanwhile Lang dashes off to escape. Shouldn’t have, but did, so he ends up dead with a tooth missing. When Sydney finds him, Allison hits her from behind. Oh, oh, did Sydney forget her training?

Back in Los Angeles, Sydney is curious as to why Allison did not shoot her. No one has an answer. At the briefing, the group learns that Lang had an electronic “passkey” buried in the tooth. Dixon orders Sydney to see Sloane to find out where Allison and Sark are going to find the device.

Meanwhile Lauren is with a technician (not Marshall) and wants him to find out who is on the tape that might match their files. Once identified, a voice print analysis will tell them who it was.

Sydney goes to Zurich to see Sloane. She tells him she is his handler now. She will give him the assignments from now on and he will follow her orders. She gives him the assignment. He is to get the location of the device from them. He tells her he is sorry she had to see Allison. Then says…”I can only imagine what seeing her means to you.” Sydney ignores him. She tells him he will be wearing a wire.

“If they discover it’s a set-up…,” says Sloane
“Then I get to hear them kill you” responds Sydney coldly.

Shades of ‘A Dark Turn’ when Irina said the same thing to Jack. Of course, we know what happened after that.

In Los Angeles, the NSC technician tells Lauren he cannot get anything because some of the calls are encrypted. However, he was able to trace one call back to 24 Trenton Place in London. The phone line belonged to KMG Microtech. Lauren makes a trip to London. (Jet lagged by this time) She calls Lindsey to tell him the office was leased for four years. A Julia Thorne signed the lease and Lauren thinks she killed Lazeray.

In Prague, Sloane greets Sark and Allison. He is wired and Sydney is listening to everything. He tells Sark that the CIA has compromised his mission and that they should leave earlier. Sark reveals the destination, Sophia, Bulgaria. Sydney tells Sloane to ask Allison where she, Sydney, was the past two years. Allison does not know. Sloane then asks why she didn’t kill Sydney. “…Because the Covenant doesn’t want her killed. They want to retrieve something from her memory.” Sydney stares at Weiss who is with her and wants to know, but she has no idea. Humm!

At the Los Angeles office, Sydney and Vaughn will go to Sophia to find Allison. Jack goes off to op tech and Dixon tells Sydney he wants her to kill the bitch. She was the one who killed Diane and Sydney’s best friend. The CIA wants her dead or alive and it is obvious he wants her dead. Sydney has no problem with this order.

At Op Tech Vaughn has to wait for the PDA Marshall has engineered to pursue the chip Allison stole from Lang. As he waits, Marshall asks Vaughn to judge his proposal to Carrie. He is a riot and does a nice rock-jam number on the drums. One of the funniest lines from this scene is when Marshall tells Vaughn: “You’ve got the looks and I’ve got the brains”. Vaughn tells him that he thinks Carrie will say yes in spite of the rock-jam. I hope she will.

Vaughn and Sydney enter an old, abandoned hotel. Following the PDA signal, they end up in a room with the tooth. Allison got the device and left the tooth behind. They split up to search for her separately in different directions. Sydney finds Allison and fires at her as she disappears through a door. Now she is in the downstairs lobby and is suddenly knocked to the ground by Allison who holds a gun on her. Allison describes shooting Francie indicating it was just a job. She thanks Sydney for finding the Rambaldi manuscript. There was a formula in it and it was used to help heal her wounds. It saved her life. She starts to pull the trigger when Sydney trips her and they have a brief fight, ending when Sydney takes aim and shoots Allison. Vaughn enters on the run, stops and pulls the Lang device out of Allison’s pocket.

Minutes later, she is on the phone to Dixon. She tells him she got the device and that she shot Allison, but there was a weak pulse. The Bulgarian police, summoned by Vaughn, were the ones who had Allison put into a civilian ambulance and taken to the hospital. Vaughn learns the ambulance never arrived and that it has been twenty minutes since it left. Sydney insists they follow the ambulance’s path. In a driving rain, they find it. Every man is dead and Allison is gone.

Vaughn doesn’t understand. If she had back up, they would have been with her in the hotel.

“She did this, Vaughn. She did this!” says Sydney.

Comments for the reader:

What or who and where did Sydney see something or someone? Why would that be so important? Why didn’t Allison take Sydney back to the Covenant instead of leaving her? I mean, if they want to know, why not grab her. I believe there is a lot more to this item than we know. Do you have any ideas?

Is there something going on with Rambaldi’s formula? Maybe Syd had better check with Marshall. The CIA must have a copy.

As Vaughn put the necklace around Sydney’s neck, it reminded me of Jack putting the C-4 necklace around Irina’s neck in Passage 1. Your reaction? Was there a difference in the similar acts? What do you think?

Allison said she had been awake all night thinking about her encounter with Sydney. Now how did she know Sydney would come after her? Do you think Sloane told her? Did she guess Sloane was setting her up? On the other hand, do you have any other idea?

Do you think it was ethical of Dixon to order Sydney to kill Allison?

Will Sark find out it was Sydney who killed dear old Dad?

I hope you enjoyed the episode. I did, but it certainly opened up some more questions about what happened to Sydney.
B)

a jumbled response becasue I have a houseful of kids ( home daycare)

I think it was unethcial of Dixon but it is nice to see soem of his personaluity this season as he has been cold and untouched since eps 1

similarities in necklace but who is the betrayor and the betrayee? and in what context?

I think lauren and sydney will experenicen some interesting tests that will reosnate through all characters in some shape or form.

for me the marshll scene was funny but did not fit with the whole eppy

brenda

this was great to read since I missed this episode *grumbles angrily at the VCR*

And yet another great demonstration of an excellent column. I must say I didn't particularly enjoy the episode itself but reading it is always good, since you get to find out little things you missed(which lenafan obviously never does,lol). anyways hope to read the next column next week and thank you for the pm,as always.

First off, sorry for the delay in response...I've had a hellofa week. :wacko: Our paychecks got stolen from my job, so late money=late buying supplies needed for photo class= late project=lower grade :angry:
Got a parking ticket, cars acting weird, and hurt my blasted shoulder (again!) so goin' to see the ortho surgeon on Friday...wish me luck :innocent:
Now...that eppy!!! :wub:
WOW!! What a fight scene with Allison! :reallyexcited: But I think that she would have killed Sydney if the Covenent didn't want her so badly...and I think the reason why they didn't take Syd then was because they're waiting for Sydney to remember whatever it is that she has in her memory... :huh:
The whole Dixon thing was like what Brenda wood said, I enjoyed seeing the good ol' Dixon back...but it was on the unethical side....he is the Director now...
The whole DNA thing in the Rambaldi page...yeah...doesn't the CIA have that?? Get Marshall on it and make it snappy!! I think it has something to do with Sydney's scar. :)
Oooh...and that necklace scene :rolleyes: .....yeah..I got that whole Jack/Irina moment but I thought it was just Vaughn's longing to be near her like that again....and she felt it too, making it all awkward cause HE was the one to betray her!!
So, that is all....see ya next time!! :blush01: Thanx for the PM!! :D
Colly E. :bunny:

I think that's a good idea...she only looks like Francie.

I felt bad for Weiss..without my Wilbert, I think Weiss is my new fav. I'm a 'W' gal I guess. :wub:

Well, she was supposed to be dead, according to him!!! :lol: Bad pun JJ ^_^

Can't blame Syd here! After shooting somebody three times, I'd also be amazed if they were alive!!!

And we saw flashbacks of Wilbert!!! YAY!!! :wub:

And it's the same secret! Except Vaughn knows the whole story :)

Way to bug the shippers! :lol: But I have to agree!

I'm confused? I thought it was a fetching dress, and totally dug it with the wig! Hot stuff!

Excuse me? Thru? Bad!!! T-h-r-o-u-g-h. :P

Why don't people understand that when a woman with a gun tells you to stay put, you should just do it.

Yay!!! Kill the Sloane!!! Kill the Sloane!!! *jumps up and down*

Very good Lauren! You're getting very close :)

Yay for Dixon!!! He has some emotion!!!

I think that she is opposed to marriage though...*gasps* What if Carrie is the mole! Just a random thought I had in that split second...

I think that Vaughn still loves Syd, and given even half a chance, he would be thinking with his little head, not his big one. Besides, he looked a little too happy while standing behind her, if you know what I mean ;) I think that Jack, on the other hand, was hoping to some degree that he would get to blow Irina up. Oh well...it wasn't to be for either man.

Ethics went out the window when they joined the CIA. Screw that! I say good for Dixon! If I was Syd or Dixon I'd certainly want the bitch dead! I'm glad Dixon was thinking of Sydney, but now that Francie is useless to Syd, why not kill her?

Would JJ have it any other way???

I hope some of these questions get answered soon! I'm going crazy here!!!

Another great column LF! Great work, and I can't wait for next weeks!