Spy Factory (fansite for The Bristows) + Deep Cover (Jack Bristow fansite)

Spy Factory

Welcome to Spy Factory, a fan dedication to the Bristow family from the TV series Alias. Welcome also to Deep Cover, a fan website and the approved fanlisting for Jack Bristow from Alias. To find out more about how this combined-site thing works visit the site FAQ.

Our content includes:

The story of Jack and Sydney Bristow
A profile of Jack
A profile of Sydney
Memorable Bristow quotes
Some fan artwork
Links, credits and more

Meet the Bristows

Sydney Bristow was born April 17, 1975. For the first six years of her life she lived with both of her parents, Jack and Laura Bristow, although Jack's work with the CIA kept him away from home much of the time. The Bristows lived in rural Maryland until, at the age of two, Jack was transferred to Los Angeles. In 1981, Laura, who was actually an undercover KGB agent named Irina Derevko, faked her death to avoid being apprehended by the FBI. Afterwards Jack was taken into custody for some time, because it was believed that he also was part of a larger conspiracy.

When Jack was finally cleared, he began drinking heavily and became more of an absentee father, leaving Sydney to be raised by nannies. In her later childhood, Sydney began exhibiting unusually high intelligence and problem solving abilities.

When Sydney was 19 years old and a freshman in college, a man approached her, saying that he worked with US intelligence and that they wanted to interview her. She declined at first but then decided to join them. They had Sydney work as an office assistant on the twentieth floor of Credit Dauphine, a corporate bank in downtown Los Angeles. She assumed that the bank was somehow affiliated with the CIA. When she told her father about her job after about a month, he ordered her to quit because - as a double agent within SD-6 - he knew the bank was a front. Unaware of this truth, Sydney angrily refused to quit and this disagreement led to the beginning of a several year estrangement in their relationship.

Eventually Sydney was told that she was ready for a transition. During the eight months of training, Sydney first heard the term SD-6. At this time, she believed that SD-6 was a black ops (that is, secret, or "disavow any knowledge of") division of the CIA, funded by the CIA's black budget. These operations are highly classified, even hidden from congressional oversight. SD-6 used this pretense to explain their inconsistencies with CIA protocol.

Sydney's transition ended when the bosses revealed the SD-6 headquarters, which was in the Credit Dauphine building. She was told that the objective of SD-6 was, "the retrieval and study of intelligence, both military and industrial, throughout the world that is critical to the superiority and survival of the United States of America." Sydney advanced quickly, and within the first year, she was assigned to reconnaissance missions.

Seven years after joining, upon being engaged to be married to Danny Hecht, Sydney confessed that she didn't really work at a bank, but that she was a secret agent. However, her conversations were secretly monitored by SD-6, and they considered this a threat to the organization's security. Sydney's boss, Arvin Sloane, had Danny killed. Shortly thereafter, Sydney learned the truth about her employer from her mostly estranged father, who - to Sydney's great surprise - also worked for SD-6 in the highest levels: SD-6 was not part of the CIA, but a branch of an international organized crime group involved in the trade of intelligence and weapons that was an enemy of the United States.

Sydney then went to the real CIA with her knowledge of SD-6, and was recruited by the CIA into working as a double agent to bring down SD-6. Her handler, Agent Michael Vaughn, was the man who gave her missions from the CIA. She soon learned her own father was a double agent for the CIA as well.

Read Jack and Sydney's story, broken down by season.