Alias
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a young, athletic, college graduate who was recruited her freshman year as a Secret Agent for SD-6, a top-secret branch of the C.I.A. After a few years, Sydney stupidly confides her lifestyle to her fiancé, so the evil head of SD-6, Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), has him killed. Sydney learns that SD-6 is part of a rogue international agency called the Alliance of 12, out to rule the world. She becomes a double agent, working with the real C.I.A. to bring down SD-6 with the assistance of her handler, Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her estranged father Jack Bristow (Victor Garber), also a double agent. Along the way, Sydney fights various rival agents, rival terrorist groups, and traitors all the while keeping her cloak-and-dagger lifestyle a secret from her friends (season one).
- Metascore75
- 2001-2006
- 5 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a young, athletic, college graduate who was recruited her freshman year as a Secret Agent for SD-6, a top-secret branch of the C.I.A. After a few years, Sydney stupidly confides her lifestyle to her fiancé, so the evil head of SD-6, Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin), has him killed. Sydney learns that SD-6 is part of a rogue international agency called the Alliance of 12, out to rule the world. She becomes a double agent, working with the real C.I.A. to bring down SD-6 with the assistance of her handler, Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her estranged father Jack Bristow (Victor Garber), also a double agent. Along the way, Sydney fights various rival agents, rival terrorist groups, and traitors all the while keeping her cloak-and-dagger lifestyle a secret from her friends (season one).
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
The Enemy Walks In
Sun, Sep 29, 2002 43 mins
Sydney finds herself face-to-face with her long-lost mother, Irina Derevko, whose intentions for her daughter are made chillingly clear. However, Sydney manages to escape and rejoin Jack and Will in their escape from Taiwan. Will's life is forever changed when he learns the truth about SD-6 and Sydney's life as a double agent.
Episode 2
Trust Me
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 43 mins
After turning herself in to the CIA, Irina won't communicate with anyone - except her daughter. Sydney refuses to cooperate, until a mission goes awry and crucial information falls into the wrong hands. Now, against Jack's wishes, Sydney must face Irina and find out what She knows.
Episode 3
Cipher
Sun, Oct 13, 2002 43 mins
Sydney must travel to Sri Lanka to outwit Sark in order to find a crucial piece of Intel from a computer disk that she recovers from Rabal. Meanwhile, Jack faces Sydney's mother for the first time in almost 20 years in her prison cell to discuss Sydney's well being.
Episode 4
Dead Drop
Sun, Oct 20, 2002 43 mins
Past demons revisit all the characters as Sloane becomes confused and desperate over clues that his wife may not be dead. At the same time, Will meets a woman who claims to know the truth about SD-6. And Jack tries to convince Sydney that Irina is setting the stage to betray them and will go to any lengths to prove it.
Episode 5
The Indicator
Sun, Oct 27, 2002 43 mins
Jack's decision to sabotage Sydney's last mission while pinning it on Irina not only brings him closer to his daughter - it sends his ex-wife to death row. But his foolproof plan begins to unravel when Vaughn begins to put the pieces together - and Sydney makes a startling discovery about her childhood.
Episode 6
Salvation
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 43 mins
Sydney's fury at Jack's present betrayal and past sins leads her father to a desperate act to prove his love for her. Meanwhile, Vaughn - after enlisting Will in a seemingly benign CIA request - learns that a mission He and Sydney engaged in could have disastrous consequences for their health.
Episode 7
The Counteragent
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 43 mins
As Vaughn's life hangs in the balance, Sydney has no choice but to turn to Sark for help in securing an antidote for the virus. But when Sark demands she help him to kill Arvin Sloane in exchange for his assistance, Sydney faces a decision that could expose her as a double agent.
Episode 8
Passage: Part 1
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 42 mins
Sark's alliance with SD-6 suddenly puts Sydney at risk of being exposed as a double agent. She has no choice but to cooperate with his plan, until his alliance with Sloane sends several nuclear weapons into the wrong hands. Now, only Irina holds the key to unraveling Sark's agenda - and She refuses to cooperate.
Episode 9
Passage: Part 2
Sun, Dec 8, 2002 43 mins
Still trapped in hostile territory in Pakistan, Sydney, Jack, and Irina continue their search for the missing nuclear warheads held by PRF's leader Gerard Cuvee. After several misadventures, they arrive at Cuvee's stronghold, only to be betrayed by Irina.
Episode 10
The Abduction
Sun, Dec 15, 2002 44 mins
Backed into a corner, Sark cuts a desperate deal Sloane using Sydney to recover a state-of-the-art surveillance system. But when the plan goes awry, SD-6 sends Marshall with Sydney on her next mission... giving the CIA no choice but to extract the op-tech specialist.
Episode 11
A Higher Echelon
Sun, Jan 5, 2003 44 mins
When Sydney learns that Marshall has been kidnapped, she struggles against a heartless Sloane to bring Marshall back whom is being tortured by the same Taiwanese torturer Dr. Lee "Suit and Glasses" to uncover the code for the top secret ECHELON security system whom tries to stall for time.
Episode 12
The Getaway
Sun, Jan 12, 2003 43 mins
Sydney and Vaughn reach a crossroads as they try to turn a professional relationship into a personal one during a mission to recover an experimental gyroscope. Meanwhile, Jack struggles to outwit the persistent SD-6 security expert, Ariana Kane, as she tightens the noose of suspicion around him of being Sloan's blackmailer.
Episode 13
Phase One
Sun, Jan 26, 2003 60 mins
The entire world of 'ALIAS' is turned upside down. Sloane disappears mysteriously and Anthony Geiger becomes the new head of SD-6. As the Bristows struggle to keep their secrets safe and stay one step ahead of Geiger, Will and Francie make a startling discovery of their own while Francie prepares to open her new restaurant.
Episode 14
Double Agent
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 60 mins
When a young CIA agent dies, suspicion immediately falls on her parter and lover, agent Jim Lennox. Yet even Sydney judgment is thrown when Vaughn and Jack discover that Lennox was pursing a technology that allows people to change their appearance.
Episode 15
A Free Agent
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 43 mins
Sydney finally has the opportunity to leave the CIA for good, but a startling phone call from Sloane, combined with the kidnapping of a brilliant mathematician, brings her back into the fray.
Episode 16
Firebomb
Sun, Feb 23, 2003 44 mins
When Sloane gets his hands on a terrifying Rimbaldi weapon that causes internal spontaneous combustion, Sydney must turn to a betrayed and hurt Dixon for help. But when her ex-partner refuses any assistance, She has no choice but to carry out the mission herself.
Episode 17
A Dark Turn
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 44 mins
When Sydney learns that Vaughn is under investigation for being a double agent, Jack and Irina forge an unlikely partnership in their attempt to get their daughter out of the CIA for good. Kendall learns that Sark and Sloane are attempting to get their hands on a Rambaldi manuscript detailing the works of the human heart.
Episode 18
Truth Takes Time
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 42 mins
Following her betrayal, the CIA try desperately to track down Irina Derevko. Their trail on Derevko leads them to Stuttgart and closer to Sark and Sloane, even as Sloane contemplates giving up his quest to complete Rambaldi's work in order to stay with his wife, Emily.
Episode 19
Endgame
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 43 mins
When the CIA intercepts a secret message, Sydney discovers that the life of Neil Caplan, the mathematician still held captive by Sloane and Irina, may be in danger from the most unlikely source: his wife Elsa whom Jack has arrested, forcing Sydney to try to clear Elsa's name by going on her own mission to Moscow and Spain to try to rescue Neil Caplan.
Episode 20
Countdown
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 41 mins
Dixon struggles to deal with the death of his wife but returns to work after only four days, hellbent on tracking down Arvin Sloane. Vaughn questions his ability to cope in the field, but Dixon insists on doing his job, leading Vaughn to consider Dixon a liability and danger to Sydney in the field. The CIA deciphers a page in the Rambaldi book that contains a doomsday prediction in three days time, which sets off the Agency on a desperate hunt to track down a Rambaldi device before it has the chance to fulfill the prophecy.
Episode 21
Second Double
Sun, May 4, 2003 44 mins
Sydney finds herself racing to clear Will's name when the Francie impostor frames him for the CIA intelligent leak by making him appear to be the other double of the Helix project. But Sark makes matters worse when he sends a team to extract Will, to make it look that he's guilty.
Episode 22
The Telling
Sun, May 4, 2003 42 mins
Sydney must confront her mother, who tells a clue about "some Rambaldi artifacts" in Zurich, but it was a trap to capture Jack. As Sloane keeps Jack hostage, Vaughn and Sydney go to Stockholm to capture Sark, who reveals the hideout in Mexico City.
