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Alias
Alias is an American "SpyFi" television series, created by J.J. Abrams. It first aired on September 30, 2001 and stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a CIA agent, usually seen wearing a colorful new disguise undercover on most episodes.
The series began its fifth season on September 29, 2005 and will conclude in May 2006 when it was announced by ABC that it would be Alias' final season. Alias temporarily moved to Wednesday starting December 7, 2005 and will return sometime this spring, although ABC's March schedule has no timeslot for the series. It also airs on Sundays at 4pm ET on CTV. Additionally, episodes from the series' first four seasons are shown on the Wednesday late night in the United States on TNT from 12am-5am ET, and on weekends on various broadcast television stations through distribution by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Alias is in the midst of a three-month broadcast hiatus in the United States, and will return sometime in the spring of 2006. ABC's spring schedule was too full for Alias' return, so it will resume at a time that is yet to be determined. It is currently being dubbed a "schedule orphan," but the show has resumed filming after its hiatus, so it is only a matter of time. Cast and characters
Season 1: Seven years before the start of the series, Sydney Bristow was an undergraduate student when she was approached with a job offer by someone claiming to work for SD-6, a black ops division of the Central Intelligence Agency; she accepted the offer and quickly became a field agent. In the pilot, she tells her fiancé Danny that she is a spy, however, he is murdered by SD-6. It is then that Sydney is told by her father Jack Bristow (another SD-6 agent) that SD-6 is not part of the CIA; instead, it is part of the Alliance of Twelve, an organization that is an enemy to the United States. Sydney decides to offer her services to the real CIA as a double agent. Her offer is soon accepted, and she begins the long and arduous task of destroying SD-6 from the inside. She quickly learns that her father is also a double agent for the CIA. A major subplot of the series is the search for and the recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Leonardo da Vinci-like inventor and Nostradamus-like prophet from the Renaissance period. Rambaldi's works include electronics and other devices that would not be invented by others for centuries. He also predicted that a woman who looks like Sydney will cause "utter devastation" to the world. This subplot pushes Alias into the genre of science fiction. Season 2: The second season began with the introduction of Irina Derevko, who would soon become a vital part of the series. Midway through the second season, the series underwent a "reboot" of sorts with Sydney successfully destroying SD-6 (after gathering valuable intelligence for tactical strikes from an airborne SD-6 server) and becoming a regular agent for the CIA, still in pursuit of former SD-6 leader Arvin Sloane, his associate Julian Sark, and the Rambaldi artifacts. In the course of the second half of the season, it was revealed that Francie Calfo, Sydney's best friend, was killed and replaced with a woman who was transfigured to look exactly like her. The 'Evil Francie' was then in a position to spy on Sydney and Will Tippin. The end of the season saw Will possibly killed and Sydney shot and left for dead. She then wakes up in Hong Kong and finds out that she's been missing for the last two years. Season 3: The third season takes place two years after the events of season 2 and is considered another "reboot" of sorts, with Sydney having been missing and presumed dead all this time. DNA evidence in a badly burned body confirmed her death to her family and friends. The truth; however, is that Sydney was kidnapped by a well-resourced terrorist organization called The Covenant, who tried to brainwash her into believing she was an assassin named Julia Thorne. Eventually Sydney voluntarily had her memories of the two years erased, to protect herself in a vain attempt to forget some of the deeds she was forced to undertake as Julia, and to ensure that one of Rambaldi's artifacts would never be found. When Sydney recovers after missing two years of her life, she begins investigating her missing absence while reintegrating into the CIA. There she deals with the facts that Arvin Sloane had become a world-renowned humanitarian after being pardoned, and that her lover Michael Vaughn had married NSC agent Lauren Reed. It is later discovered that Reed was a member of the Covenant and a constant lover with Julian Sark. The NSC plays a role as a government organization that holds massive unsupervised power, with a Guantanamo-like detention facility and considerable influence over the CIA, and driven by questionable motives. Season 4: Season 4 begins where season three ended with Sydney uncovering a shocking, classified document called "S.A.B. 47 Project". The document is later discovered to authorize Jack Bristow's execution of Sydney's mother, who had mysteriously placed a contract on Sydney's life. Season 4, like season 3 is considered another reboot of the series with Sydney joining a black ops division of the CIA, patterned after SD-6 and run by her one-time nemesis, Arvin Sloane. The new division is dubbed "APO": Authorized Personnel Only. Members of APO (all hand-picked by Sloane) include almost all of the recurring characters from previous seasons, including Jack Bristow, Michael Vaughn, Sydney's former partner (and third season CIA director) Marcus Dixon, the computer and technical genius, Marshall Flinkman, and Vaughn's best friend Eric Weiss (brought in after having to be rescued by Sydney and Vaughn, who he previously believed to have left the CIA). Sloane's daughter and Sydney's half-sister Nadia Santos also eventually returns to join APO. During the season, an imposter of Arvin Sloane, jokingly identified as "Arvin Clone", acquired the technology to implement Rambaldi's final endgame. Using OmniFam, the real Arvin Sloane had polluted the world's drinking water with a Rambaldi chemical that causes feelings of peace and tranquility. However, these feelings can be reversed with the "Circumference", a floating red orb created by Rambaldi. The third Derevko sister, Elena, had built a giant version of the Circumference, over Sevogda, a fictional Russian city, which drove the residents insane. The CIA authorizes a mission in which Sydney, Jack, Irina, Nadia, and Vaughn parachute in and successfully destroy the device and kill Elena. But Nadia is infected with the Rambaldi mixture and driven insane. She begins to battle with Sydney, until Sloane is forced to shoot his own daughter. Nadia is later put under sedation until they can cure the effects of the mixture. The season concludes with Sydney and Vaughn becoming engaged. On a trip to Santa Barbara, Vaughn confides in her something that he has kept from her since they first met: his name isn't really Michael Vaughn, that their initial meeting wasn't coincidental, and that his allegiance may not be to the CIA. Before he can divulge any more information; however, another car hits theirs and the season ends. Season 5: As season five begins, Vaughn is mysteriously abducted by a group posing as an emergency medical team responding to their automobile accident. After getting away, Sydney learns that Vaughn is under suspicion of being a double agent and that the crash may have been a cover for his extraction. Vaughn later escapes and explains to Sydney that his real name is Andre Michaux. He reveals that he is investigating a secret operation known as Prophet 5, which at one point involved his father. During a mission in recovering a Prophet 5 book, with the aid of Sydney, she recieves a phone call from her doctor with some untimely news - she's pregnant. Vaughn is later shot and (apparently) killed on orders of Gordon Dean, a rogue ex-CIA agent. Four months later, as Sydney continues to investigate Vaughn's murder, she works with Renée Rienne, an assassin and associate of his, in order to unearth the inner workings of Prophet 5, while at the same time trailing Gordon Dean and his criminal organization "The Shed," disguised as a black ops CIA division, very much like SD-6. The fifth season adds two new members to APO to cover Vaughn's death, Weiss moving to Washington, D.C. for a new job, and Nadia being in a coma. APO enlists the aid of Thomas Grace, a brash young agent with unorthodox methods who often butts heads with Sydney, and Rachel Gibson, a computer specialist who, like Sydney, was deceived into thinking she was working for the real CIA and briefly works as a mole, as did Sydney within SD-6. Dean discovers her and destroys "The Shed," killing all of its personnel except for Dean's murderous associate Kelly Peyton, and Rachel, who escapes. Rachel is in many ways a replacement for Sydney while Sydney attempts to balance her obligations to APO with the fact that she is pregnant, although she is able to use her pregnancy as the basis for successful disguises in several missions. Rachel aids Sydney and APO by attempting to track down Gordon Dean, all the while being tracked herself by Dean who is adamant about capturing or killing Rachel. Meanwhile, in an ongoing subplot, Arvin Sloane follows his own personal obsession—finding a cure for Nadia, who has been kept in a coma since the events in Russia during the finale of Season 4. Sloane is put in jail for his actions during Season 4; however, he is released after the sentencing committee is manipulated by Gordon Dean. In exchange for his freedom, Sloane is now working for Dean, becoming a mole within APO, provided he can regain the agency's trust. Unaware of Sloane's allegiance to Dean, Jack Bristow agrees to let Sloane rejoin APO and use its resources to seek a cure for his daughter. Although Sloane does aid Dean for a period of time, he defies Dean's requests when members of APO become targets of Dean's organization and after doctors inform Sloane that it's unlikely Nadia will ever recover. Sloan reveals his "agreement" with Dean to Jack and his APO colleagues, and sets up a sting in which Dean is captured. A mysterious man places Peyton in charge of Dean's organization and approaches Sloane with a cure for Nadia as a bargaining chip. After Nadia mysteriously recovers for a brief period but reverts back to her original condition, Sloane agrees to betray APO once again by relenting to their demands, the first of which is killing Gordon Dean while he is in APO custody. Later, as Sydney's due date approaches, she is kidnapped by Prophet Five and placed into a form of drug-induced hypnosis, making her relive key moments with Michael Vaughn. The purpose of this is to obtain a name Sydney saw on a huge SD-6 organizational flowchart that the CIA held during her first meeting with Vaughn (a scene from the show's second episode is recreated for this). Perhaps due to her "hard wiring" against brainwashing, Sydney is able to resist the hypnosis (with encouragement from the recreated Michael) and she gives Prophet Five a fake address. It is revealed that the mysterious voice directing the interrogation to retrieve information about an as-yet unexplained entity called "The Horizon" is Irina Derevko. Sydney escapes the interrogation room after stabbing Peyton (Peyton's condition is presently unknown), only to discover she has been stranded on a freighter out at sea. This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors, This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Alias (TV series)". |
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