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Alias Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Truth Be Told
Sun, Sep 30, 200166 mins
Sydney Bristow discovers that her job as an agent for SD-6, a top-secret division of the CIA, is not what she thought it was. Sydney's father, Jack, also tells her the truth about his work and she, enraged, seeks help from real CIA and is hired as their double agent under the command of Agent Vaughn.
Episode 2
So It Begins
Sun, Oct 7, 200146 mins
On her first mission as a double agent, Sydney is sent to Moscow to retrieve some stolen files about nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, Will continues to grow obsessed with Danny's death and starts his own investigation even though Sydney asked him not to.
Episode 3
Parity
Sun, Oct 14, 200145 mins
Sydney is sent to Madrid to retrieve a 500-year-old sketch that contains a set of numbers and meets up with her deadly nemesis, K-Directorate agent, Anna Espinosa. Meanwhile, Will digs deeper into the cause of Danny's death and finds some odd information.
Episode 4
A Broken Heart
Sun, Oct 21, 200145 mins
After a joint box opening with nemesis Anna and fighting her for a piece found in a church in Spain, Sydney must go on another mission in Morrocco to spy on an industrialist. However, a mingle with a bodyguard who injured her in the past aborts the mission, but she faces two heartbreaks: her colleague is killed by the said bodyguard, and back home her father cancels a dinner date with her. However, Michael finds a clue about Sydney's former fiancé and Francie discovers Charlie cheating on her...
Episode 5
Doppelgänger
Sun, Oct 28, 200145 mins
Sydney's cover in SD-6 is put in danger after smuggling a wrong biotech engineer into SD-6 from her mission in Berlin. Meanwhile, Will's investigation into Danny's murder leads him to a woman named Kate Jones, who may have information about the killing. Sydney's starts to doubt where her father's true allegiances lie.
Episode 6
Reckoning
Sun, Nov 18, 200144 mins
As Sydney tries to adjust herself after the death of five CIA agents during the last mission in Badenweiler, she and Dixon are sent to London to snatch a FTL decoder so SD-6 can use by a cell sample from someone's DNA to create a code on identity cards. Sydney then goes to Romania to try to talk to the father of a murdered agent, not realizing the horror that awaits her. Jack gets transfered to the SD-6 offices to take a major role in the ops mission. Meanwhile, Will continues to investigate the mysterious Kate Jones, whose real name is Eloise Kurtz, who refuses to tell Will of her association with Danny. Francine continues to deal with her boyfriend Charlie who finally clears the air over his mystery woman, that he plays in a band with her.
Episode 7
Color Blind
Sun, Nov 25, 200145 mins
Trapped in the asylum in Romania that is run by the Russian spy group K-Directorate, the captive Sydney makes contact with Mark Shephard to get the information from him so K-Directorate agent Kreshnik can use. But Sydney manages to escape with Shephard, only to learn that he was the assassin that was sent to kill Danny. Back in Los Angeles, Will continues to grow obsessed with Danny's murder when Eloise Kurtz is also founded murdered. Jack has a major argument with Vaughn over Sydney's well being and her precarious predicament. On Thanksgiving Day, Francine's boyfriend proposes marriage and she accepts.
Episode 8
Time Will Tell
Sun, Dec 2, 200145 mins
Sydney must undergo an extensive lie detector test to prove her loyalty to SD-6 while at the same time she is trying to find connection between a 500 year old Rambaldi sketch and a machine. In the meantime, Will gets deeper into the secrets while investigating Danny's death.
Episode 9
Mea Culpa
Sun, Dec 9, 200145 mins
Sydney's life and cover as a double agent is placed in mortal danger when Sloane starts assuming that she is the mole. Dixon's life is at stake after the mission that went wrong. Meanwhile, Will realizes that his investigation of Kate Jones may be more dangerous than he thinks after he gets a call from the person "on the other side" of her pin.
Episode 10
Spirit
Sun, Dec 16, 200160 mins
After she manages to escape a certain death at SD-6 and still manages to maintain her cover as double agent, Sydney is sent on a private island to find new identity of Ineni Hassan, an ex weapon smuggler and previous head of weapons resources of SD-6.
Episode 11
The Confession
Sun, Jan 6, 200260 mins
Sydney is sent to Greece to retrieve information about new weapons that are being produced by a young tycoon. Meanwhile, Vaughn plans to report Jack for his apparent involvement in murders of many CIA agents and by doing so, he crushes Sydney's newly found admiration for her father.
Episode 12
The Box: Part 1
Sun, Jan 20, 200245 mins
When former SD-6 agent McKenas Cole with his crew of bandits take over SD-6, Sydney has to forget her previous plan about quitting the agency and has to focus on her mission with Jack to save their colleagues. In the meantime, as he was about to quit his work on a story, Will Tippin gets an unexpected push to continue from the third party.
Episode 13
The Box: Part 2
Sun, Feb 10, 200245 mins
Vaughn disobeys the CIA in order to infiltrate SD-6 when he receives a desperate plea for help from Dixon. At SD-6, Cole continues his vendetta against Sloane and his search for device in possession of SD-6. Elsewhere, Will continues his work on story.
Episode 14
The Coup
Sun, Feb 24, 200245 mins
After SD-6 finds out that another terrorist organization was attacked at the same time as them. Furthermore, Sydney and Dixon are sent to Las Vegas, and later Moscow, to try to find something that will bring SD-6 closer to the identity of The Man.
Episode 15
Page 47
Sun, Mar 3, 200246 mins
Vaughn presents Sydney with a moral dilemma that includes Sloane's ill wife, Emily, in order to fulfill the mission whose outcome is an unpleasant surprise to everyone. SD-6 goes after Will when he comes too close. Meanwhile, Francie is dealing with her broken heart.
Episode 16
The Prophecy
Sun, Mar 10, 200245 mins
Department of Special Research gained interest in Sydney's role involving the page 47 and they began their own investigation regarding it. To save herself, Sydney needs to steal 500 year old Rambaldi codes from Vatican to decipher Rambaldi's prophecy. Meanwhile. Sloane gets suspicious that one of the Alliance's members switched sides and is now working with The Man.
Episode 17
Q & A
Sun, Mar 17, 200245 mins
Sydney is being questioned by DSR regarding her life as double agent for CIA. Fearing that DSR and FBI might fully take advantage of directive 81A (hold her in custody without trial for the rest of her life) and therefore destroy here cover at SD-6, Jack, Vaughn and Weiss join forces to prove her innocent. While attempting to escape, Sydney realizes the shocking truth about her mother.
Episode 18
Masquerade
Sun, Apr 7, 200260 mins
After she managed to prove her innocence to FBI, Sydney is sent to Vienna to retrieve data from SD-6 spy in Russian Embassy. There she runs into Noah Hicks, her ex who broke her heart and left her without a word few years earlier. Meanwhile, Sloane promises Sydney to help her find her mother and Jack is losing his mind because of it.
Episode 19
Snowman
Sun, Apr 14, 200244 mins
As Sydney and Noah go to Cape Town to get some data on "The Man" , Sloane begins to question where Noah's true allegiances lie when his team finds some suspicious bank activities of his. While Sydney is getting closer to the truth about her mother, Will and Francie confront her about the airline ticket they found in her coat.
Episode 20
The Solution
Sun, Apr 21, 200244 mins
Francie is having a rat problem in her house and gives an inspiring speech about catching them which gives Sydney idea how to catch Khasinau. She and Vaughn set up fake transaction for a Rambaldi artifact with Sark, but their job is compromised when Sloane sends SD-6 agents to steal the presumed second vial.
Episode 21
Rendezvous
Sun, May 5, 200245 mins
While Sloane is desperate to buy few more days for his wife, Will, with a help of Jack, sets up a meeting with his contact "Deepthroat" in Paris. As the luck would have it, Sydney and Dixon will be there at the same time trying to steal a very important document from Khasinau aka "The Man" and his right hand, Mr. Sark, who was just recently in the custody of the SD-6.
Episode 22
Almost Thirty Years
Sun, May 12, 200260 mins
Sloane must take a difficult decision in order to get to the Alliance's council. After being captured by Sark, Tippin is tortured by a Taiwanese would-be dentist to extract secrets. Sydney, who has to beware her colleague Dixon, assist her father trying to save Tippin. However, after losing Vaughn when the lab exploded, she is in for a surprise...
