About Alias - Season 3 (page 1)  

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Picking up where the previous season ended, Vaughn has met Sydney in a Hong Kong safehouse; he tells her that there was a fire in her apartment the night she fought Francie's double. Will survived the fire, but remains found there matched Syd's DNA, so they thought she was dead. After Sydney's "death," Vaughn left the CIA to become a teacher. However, the Agency asked him to come, thinking it best if a familiar face "reintroduced" her to everything. In disbelief, Syd attacks Vaughn - thinking him a fake - and flees, but he shoots her with a tranquilizer dart.

She wakes in a naval hospital: Dixon is there. He tells her that it was Vaughn who met her in Hong Kong, and that Vaughn told her the truth. Dixon is now the head of their division at the CIA. Weiss arrives to speak to Dixon, and though they step out of the room, Sydney watches them through the glass in the door. When Dixon returns, he reveals that Jack has been imprisoned by the National Security Council (NSC), and he is not allowed to have visitors. Later, as Weiss sits with Syd at the hospital, she declares that she thinks she remembers where she was.

Syd returns to the CIA and observes that there are many new faces. She is thrilled to see Marshall, and to learn that Carrie is pregnant - with Marshall's child. Marshall says that they're not married *yet* but Carrie insists that they're not even engaged. They later get married - in a very informal ceremony - not long before Carrie gives birth to their son, Mitchell.

Syd is introduced to Robert Lindsey, the NSC liaison. Dixon questions the memories that Syd seems to have, and the group believes that she was held by a powerful new terrorist group called The Covenant. The Covenant's latest attack earned them a valuable computer chip, and Dixon shows Syd a picture of one of The Covenant's outposts, asking if the place looks familiar. Sydney says that it does, and Lindsey wants her to go on the mission with the team to retrieve the chip. Sydney says that she will go, but only if she can see her father.

Lindsey agrees, and Syd visits Jack in prison. Jack explains that he became obsessed with finding those responsible for her death, so he worked with the one person he knew he could trust: Irina. Since Irina was number six on the CIA's most wanted list, when Lindsey found out, he had Jack thrown in prison to make an example of him. Using an anti-eavesdrop device she obtained from Marshall, Syd confesses that she doesn't remember anything: she had been reading lips during Dixon's conversation and she saw an opportunity to bargain to get to see Jack. Jack encourages her to continue with the mission and regain her clearance.

On the mission, the team is ambushed, but Syd saves Weiss. She confesses that she lied about remembering, but she declares that she will find the chip and use it to free her father. Weiss encourages her to go see Sloane, who now runs a World Health Organization in Zurich called OMNIFAM, as well as being a consultant for the CIA.

Syd visits Sloane, but she still doesn't trust him. He speaks of redemption, saying that the Rambaldi device after it was assembled revealed one word: peace. That resulted in Sloane having an epiphany and changing his evil ways; he started by providing info that the CIA used to dismantle several terrorist cells. Sydney says that she knows him too well and doesn't believe it.

Sloane helps Syd identify one of The Covenant's men that she saw during the raid, which in turn helps her track down the chip. She marches into Lindsey's office, threatening to destroy the chip if her father isn't released. Lindsey reluctantly agrees.

Syd sees Vaughn at the CIA building. He says that he came to see how she is, but she is furious at him for giving up hope after all the madness they've seen. She says that she wouldn't have given up if the situation was reversed, but she adds coldly that now she sees what a waste that would have been.

Jack returns to work at the CIA, and takes Syd aside. While she was missing, he found evidence that she was alive: video footage in which a blonde Syd greets Andrian Lazarey, a Russian diplomat, but slits his throat when the man turns his back. Seeing that, Syd says that she doesn't trust herself, but Jack advises her not to tell the CIA about the murder.

Vaughn returns to work at the CIA. He tells Syd that he loved her so much that losing her almost destroyed him, but he doesn't regret moving on with his life.

The Covenant's next move is to kidnap two CIA agents. One is murdered and The Covenant wants to trade the other for Sark, who is still imprisoned by the CIA. Lindsey agrees to the exchange, but thanks to his attempt to attack The Covenant, they escape with both Sark and the hostage. Later, Jack discovers that The Covenant used Sark to withdraw $800 million in gold bullion from a bank; the gold belonged to Lazarey and after his death, it went to his son: Sark. Following a lead, Syd finds the missing CIA agent and shoots the man who was torturing him. As the torturer dies, he remembers that Syd had vowed to kill him, adding that she was his favorite because she never broke.

Lindsey leaves for Washington and Syd meets the new NSC contact, Lauren Reed - who is also Vaughn's wife. Jack soon learns that Lauren has been put in charge of investigating Lazarey's murder.

Sydney finds another mysterious clue to her past when a mission to thwart a Covenant plan puts her in touch with the mercenary Simon Walker; to her surprise, Simon recognizes her as Julia Thorne and kisses her passionately. Sydney continues with her plan to join his crew, but unfortunately Simon's men catch Vaughn in the CIA van. Simon is going to shoot Vaughn, but Syd plays the part of betrayed Julia and stabs Vaughn. As soon as possible, she calls Jack, who sends a team to locate Vaughn. Syd returns to LA and finds Vaughn in serious condition in the hospital, but Sydney insists on confessing to Lauren that she was the one who stabbed Vaughn.

Not much later, as the two travel to Zurich to question Sloane, Lauren threatens to have Sydney transferred. Before the women can get to Sloane, he is taken captive by Sark and Bomani, a powerful arms dealer that The Covenant freed from prison. Not much later, Sloane is released, and he confesses that The Covenant wants him to work with them. He proposes that he act as a double agent and report on The Covenant's activities to the CIA. Sydney is very skeptical but Marshall's lie-detector tests seem to verify Sloane's sincerity. Lauren says that the NSC proposes they accept Sloane's offer of becoming a double agent. Dixon assigns Sydney to be Sloane's handler.

After hearing Simon call Sydney Julia, Vaughn becomes suspicious of Sydney's activities during her missing years. She refuses to tell him anything, and he tries to question Jack with the same result. In a surprise move, Jack shows Dixon the video of Lazarey's murder. Dixon is displeased that Jack and Syd hid it from him, but he wants to keep it from the NSC for the moment. He forbids Vaughn from telling Lauren about it, and Vaughn feels guilty for hiding information that is critical to her investigation.

Sark, working with The Covenant, gets a new partner: Allison Doren, aka "Francie's evil double." He is stunned to learn that she's alive. She explains that she woke up three weeks after the fight with Sydney, in a hospital that was run by The Covenant. It took her six months to fully recover, and she started working with them.

The CIA is also aware that Allison is alive. Dixon shares that news with Sydney, and the two women soon cross paths as they hunt the same target. Allison knocks Syd out, but leaves her unharmed; Syd wonders why, and Allison says later in a meeting with Sloane and Sark that The Covenant wants to retrieve something from Sydney's memory. Not much later, Syd and Allison cross paths again. As they fight, Allison says that the Rambaldi journal that Syd found contain a formula for a medicine that healed her wounds. Syd is able to shoot Allison again, and although severely wounded, she recovers well enough to escape from the ambulance en route to a hospital.

Suffering from nightmares, Syd becomes more desperate to know what happened to her. She questions a CIA psychiatrist about a surgical procedure to recover lost memories, but he warns against it saying that it would likely result in brain damage.

Sloane gives Sydney a letter that he received the day she appeared in Hong Kong: addressed to Sydney in her own handwriting, it contains a key and a piece of paper with numbers on it. Jack discovers that the key is to an apartment in Rome.

Wanting revenge against Sydney for killing his father, Sark approaches Lauren in the CIA garage and gives her pictures from the video footage which prove that Sydney is Lazarey's killer. Lauren is later shocked again to learn that Vaughn and the others have known for weeks. Fearing that Lindsey would subject Sydney to dangerous surgical procedures to discover her memories, Vaughn tries to convince Lauren not to report Sydney, but he realizes that she already did. He helps Sydney flee the country, vowing that he won't lose her twice. She travels to the apartment in Rome where she recognizes a statue from her dreams. Unfortunately, the Italian police catch her by surprise and declare her under arrest by order of the NSC.

Sydney is taken by the NSC for interrogation, and Vaughn and Jack form a plan to extract her. Despite Lindsey's assurance to Lauren that Syd is being treated fairly, she is tortured, but she refuses to crack. However, when Lindsey's men torture a fellow prisoner, Syd quickly confesses that the numbers from her Roman apartment are for coordinates. She then learns that the fellow prisoner was a plant; Sydney's profile revealed that her major weakness is empathy. With the help of Sloane and Lauren, Jack and Vaughn free Sydney from the NSC's custody.

The group decides to frame The Covenant for Sydney's extraction. As they decide what to offer to trade her for, Sloane suggests that the Rambaldi device would be a logical choice. This arouses Syd's suspicions, but Jack declares that when they get the device, they will destroy it. Sydney reveals that she gave Lindsey the wrong location for the coordinates: searching at the correct location, she and Jack find a box containing a severed hand bearing a Rambaldi tattoo.

Lauren returns to Lindsey to tell him of the Covenant's "demand." Lindsey is skeptical but he agrees to the exchange. However, he meets with Sloane, saying that he knows what Sloane's endgame is. Lindsey says that he wants Sloane to make sure that Sydney doesn't live through the exchange.