About Alias - Season 3 (page 2)  

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Meanwhile, Sydney, Jack, and Vaughn visit Dr. Brazzel, who has developed a non-invasive procedure to help those suffering from memory loss. The procedure uses a certain mix of drugs to achieve a dream state from which memories can be accessed. Syd undergoes the therapy; in her dreams she experiences a semi-random string of memories, which includes following the men who abducted her after her fight with Allison. They take her to Room 47, but Lauren guides her away before she can explore further. Later, out of the dream state, Syd tells Jack and Vaughn of her dream that she cut off Lazarey's hand. Syd also reveals that Lauren strangled her in the dream, but Brazzel says it's unclear if it was Lauren, or simply a representation of someone else. Under the therapy a second time, Sydney again finds Lauren who morphs into a double of Sydney. The double seems intent on stopping Syd, but Syd defeats her and hurries into Room 47 where she is shocked to see Will. She also sees a recurring name: St. Aidan. Before she can speak to Will, the others awaken her, fearing for her safety since she had started to flat-line.

The hand that Jack and Syd found proves to be Lazarey's and tests reveal that he was alive as recent as four months ago. So, Sydney did not kill him, and the video of his death was a fake.

Dr. Brazzel believes that Syd's memory of the missing time has been removed and that the precision of the extraction may indicate that she was a willing participant.

Jack advises Syd to contact Will, who has been in the witness protection program. Syd visits Will; thinking her a fake, he pulls a gun on her, but she is able to prove her identity. He reveals that St. Aidan was one of his contacts; he sets up a meeting, and Sydney recognizes the man to be Lazarey. Will mentions Julia, and Lazarey asks if they have found "it" and if "they" have been to Graz. Sark crashes the meeting and escapes with Lazarey. Hiding out in a hotel, Syd and Will catch up on old times, and they wind up sleeping together. The next morning, Syd pieces together where Julia might have hid the object in question: in a hotel's safe deposit box. However, Sark tortures his father - whom he remembers to be physically abusive - and discovers the object's location. He and Allison arrive first. Syd chases down Sark and retrieves the object, a small metal cube. Allison attacks Will, and they fight, but he ultimately stabs her. She slumps to the floor, seemingly dead. Will later reveals that her death didn't really give him closure. He starts to leave, but he vows to Syd that they'll see each other again.

Syd returns home, but during the bogus exchange with The Covenant, the assassin that Sloane hired kills Lindsey instead. The Rambaldi device is also missing; Sloane insists that Lindsey never gave them the device, but Sydney doesn't believe him.

Some time later, Syd is tranquilized at her apartment; she awakes on board a jet, where she is surprised to find Kendall, who confesses that he really works for the Department of Special Research. The cube she found has been stolen by The Covenant during transport. To explain how this affects Sydney, Kendall says that she called him nine months after her funeral, having escaped from The Covenant. She told him everything she had been through: she had been tortured as her captors tried to brainwash her into believing that she was Julia Thorne. She had even killed a prisoner of The Covenant to prove that the brainwashing had been successful. Syd is shocked to learn this, but Kendall explains that her Project Christmas training prevented her from being turned. Kendall said that he encouraged her to return to the Covenant as a double agent, posing as Julia. Syd had wanted to see Vaughn to let him know she was alive, but instead she observed him happy, with Lauren, and Syd knew that to keep him safe she must stay away.

Kendall continues the story by explaining that Syd returned to The Covenant, where she discovered Lazarey who was close to uncovering the artifact. The Covenant wanted her to kill him, but they worked out a deal - they faked his death (in the video that Jack found). Kendall explains that instead of delivering the cube to him as planned, Syd sent him a videotaped message. On the tape, a blonde Sydney explains that since so much has happened to her, she is having an experimental procedure done to erase her memory. She says that she has hidden the cube and with her memory extracted there will be no way to find it; she also asks Kendall to never tell her what she's been through, if she ever comes to him and asks about it. Kendall explains that Rambaldi's followers believe that he will return by way of a child, and The Covenant will use the DNA in the tissue from the cube to fertilize the egg of the Chosen One. Remembering her mysterious scar, Syd realizes in horror that they extracted her eggs. Syd also realizes that she had been tricked into finding the cube.

As Kendall predicted, elsewhere in the world, Sark observes a series of test tube fertilizations. Thanks to Marshall, The CIA locates the cube; Syd, Dixon, Vaughn and Weiss storm The Covenant's facility, where they find the fertilization equipment. Kendall wanted it brought back for analysis but Dixon allows Syd to torch it all. Vaughn and Weiss rescue Lazarey; as Sark flees, he makes a phone call ordering his father to be killed. As Lazarey is transported to a hospital, he asks Syd if she knows about The Passenger. Seconds later, he is shot. On a nearby rooftop, Lauren packs her rifle into a case and calls to report that the matter is taken care of before she hurries away.

Syd and Vaughn try to fight their feelings for each other. Jack urges Vaughn to push Sydney away, but they finally confess when they're imprisoned on a dangerous mission. However, when they return home, Vaughn hurries to embrace Lauren. Later, Syd tells Dr. Barnett that she feels Vaughn is her soulmate.

At Jack's suggestion, Sloane calls Dr. Barnett under the guise of needing help, but he tries to elicit information from her about Jack and Sydney. Dr. Barnett persists in trying to help him, and Sloane finally admits that he had an affair with Irina. Sloane says that he never tried to prove that Sydney was his daughter, but he likes to think that her strength comes from him.

Sark discovers that Lauren works for The Covenant, and he proposes that the work together to gain more power. She agrees. Their power play worked as the man in charge - MacKenas Cole - places them in charge of the North American cell. Along the way, they also begin a torrid affair.

At Dixon's request, Jack begins an investigation to find the person that is leaking information from the office. The source of a mysterious transmission turns out to be from OMNIFAM's IP address, and Sloane is arrested. However, a slip of the tongue clues Jack in to Lauren, and the evidence confirms his suspicions. Jack presents his findings to her father, Senator Reed, who defiantly says that his daughter is a patriot.

Vaughn tells Lauren that he wants to separate. Sark suggests that Lauren murder her father, so that Vaughn will return to her out of compassion, as he did with his former girlfriend, Alice. Lauren at first refuses, but finally she relents. She goes to see her father, who is now sadly convinced of her guilt. He offers to cover for her, and she appears torn over whether to proceed. However, her mother, Olivia comes in and shoots the man herself. They convincingly frame him as the mole, and Vaughn returns to Lauren.

Although Sloane is no longer suspected of being the mole, evidence found in Senator Reed's records show that Sloane provided him with Rambaldi artifacts. Dixon tells Sloane that his pardon has been revoked, and he will be executed in two weeks.

Sydney begins to suspect that Lauren truly is the mole, but Vaughn won't listen. He finally believes when he finds evidence in a hidden panel in her suitcase. Vaughn is furious, but Jack advises him to play along so they can use this knowledge to their advantage.

The CIA learns that The Covenant is searching for the person known as The Passenger. Sydney learns from the Rambaldi monk, Conrad, that The Passenger is her half-sister, the daughter of Irina and Sloane. Syd finds a Rambaldi device that will reveal the location of The Passenger, but only to her father. To this end, Jack fakes Sloane's execution to free him from CIA custody. Sloane explains that there is an elixir that will enable The Passenger to channel a message from Rambaldi; Sloane wants to protect his daughter from The Covenant, who would expose her to large doses of the elixir to obtain the message.

Vaughn learns that his father was a follower of Rambaldi: Bill Vaughn freed The Passenger from KGB custody, but he didn't trust the CIA either, so he hid the girl, and that is why Irina killed him.

Jack, Syd, and Sloane locate The Passenger in a prison in Chechnya, and Syd breaks in to free her. The young woman's name is Nadia Santos, and she fights almost as well as Sydney. Back at the safehouse, she recognizes Sloane, who says that he changed his evil ways for her. However, he causes a diversion and escapes with Nadia, who wakes strapped to a table. Sloane injects her with the elixir, and she begins to write in a trance-like state.

At one point, Nadia gets free and destroys Sloane's supply of the elixir before he knocks her out. Sloane tries to locate more of the formula, but Sark and Lauren arrive with it. At one point, Sloane insists that Nadia needs rest, but Lauren and Sark try to force him to increase the dosage. Before they can do so, the CIA storms the compound. Sloane, Sark, and Lauren escape, but the CIA obtains the Rambaldi message, which is an equation. Nadia tells Sydney that Sloane tried to protect her.

Olivia realizes that Vaughn is on to Lauren. Disguised as Sydney, Lauren sneaks into the CIA offices and obtains the Rambaldi equation; she also shoots Marshall who happened to be in her way. Lauren escapes, but Sark is captured in the parking garage. Vaughn takes off after questioning Sark, and Syd realizes that he is out for revenge against Lauren. Syd calls Vaughn, encouraging him not to do it. Vaughn catches Lauren, but someone stabs him in the back and frees her. With Vaughn in the hospital, Syd vows to Jack that she will kill Lauren herself.

Sloane approaches Nadia for help in finding the object revealed by the equation: the Sphere of Life. At first she doesn't trust him, but she finally admits that as she was coming out of the effects of the fluid, she altered the equation, so that the others are looking in the wrong place.

Syd finds Lauren at the site where The Covenant is (wrongly) digging. They fight, and Lauren taunts Syd that she still doesn't know the truth about her life. Lauren gets the upper hand, but Vaughn appears, having come to warn Syd that it was a trap. He shoots Lauren several times and she falls down a mineshaft.

Using clues that Lauren gave her, Sydney locates a certain bank box. In it, she finds top secret papers that tell of an "active project" that started on her birth date - with project manager Jack Bristow. Syd cries as she reads the documents. Jack suddenly appears, telling her she was never supposed to have found them.