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#118183 - 11/24/03 10:53 PM
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Don't forget that Syd is on tape apparently murdering Lauren's father. That has to work into the mix somehow.
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#118184 - 11/24/03 10:56 PM
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Who? That Lazaray(?) man that she killed on the tape they were trying to cover up is Lauren's dad?
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#118187 - 11/24/03 11:36 PM
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Jennifer Garner is too much of a distraction for me to watch the show... There should be some fines for being that hot!!! 
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#118189 - 01/12/04 04:58 PM
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I watched!! I, too, thought it was a great episode. I just knew that Lauren played into it somehow!! My dad was convinced that Syd's mom had something to do with the disappearance, but my mom and I were right on the money with Lauren.
The previews for next week look like it'll be another good episode.
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#118190 - 01/12/04 05:07 PM
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What a great story to explain the missing 2 years! I had missed the last several episodes but am sure glad I saw this one! Can't wait to see what happens next week. It's looks like all kinds of sparks will be flying! 
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#118191 - 01/12/04 06:18 PM
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I wasn't all that surprised about Lauren. So ... the implication, then, is that the Covenant sent her in to cozy up to Vaughn, right? Did the Covenant suspect all along that the brain-washing hadn't really been effective with Syd? They must have known that the first thing Syd would do (as herself) would be to contact Vaughn. Great episode!
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#118192 - 01/12/04 08:24 PM
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#118194 - 01/12/04 09:18 PM
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Could someone please fill me in with all the important stuff!!!!! 
I'll try to summarize briefly, but it'll be tough!
Basically, the missing two year span of Syd's life was explained by Kendall (the former CIA chief, prior to Dixon -he apparently left the CIA to work on his pet "Secret Research" project).
Anyway, the Covenant:
- put some of Syd's DNA into the teeth of the badly burned corpse left in her apartment fire;
- injected her with a neuro-toxin that caused total paralysis, so that she could be controlled while watching Vaughn spread her ashes in the sea (from a tinted-window van parked by the shore);
- proceeded with a 6 month process to brainwash her into believing she was Julia Thorne.
However...
- Daddy included some sort of "brainwash failsafe" in her initial kiddie CIA training when she was a little tyke, so the bad brainwashing didn't really work, she just made the Covenant believe that it did;
- Syd slyly contacted Kendall (9 months after her abduction) to say "I'm alive, let's meet", to which he did meet her and told her not to come back, but to work undercover as Julia, since her former life was down the toilet anyway;
- She didn't want to, but after clandestinely spying on Vaughn and the new little lady, agreed.
- The Covenant wanted her to bump off Lazaray, but she instead warned him the day before of the entire plot, thereby forming a co-conspiracy with him and the CIA (which explains his "death" - it was all staged to throw off the Covenant), whereby Syd and Lazaray would search together for the Rumbaldi "cube" - some of his DNA preserved in a cube.
- They did indeed find it in the desert, in a very Indiana Jones-ish sequence which ended with Lazaray's hand being wacked off...
- But instead of turning the cube over to the CIA, Syd instead sent a self-recorded DVD telling Kendall that the cube would only be stolen from the CIA - so she wasn't turning it over. SHE was instead going to hide it herself and then go have some mad scientist erase her memory of those two years, and oh, by the way, don't ever tell me any of this, please.
Whew! That explains the two years, but that wasn't all of the episode...
The Covenant had managed to recover the cube and planned to extract its DNA to fertilize SYDNEY'S eggs (remember her abdominal scar?!), to thereby conceive Rumbaldi-incarnate.... bwahahaha!
A CIA team including Syd and Dixon (who, by the way, knew the 2-year history but was ordered to keep mum, an ironic twist that made him empathize to Syd's similar situation at SD6) shot their way into the secret spot where the fertilization was to occur, and Syd literally blew away her chances of being a natural mother by smoking the place with a flame thrower. Lazaray was also rescued from the place.
- Enroute to the hospital, Lazaray mumbled something to Syd about the "passenger", to which she promised to talk to him in recovery.
- She'll never get that chance, as an assassin put a few bullets in 'im as he was being taken from the ambulance.
- The camera panned as the assassin picked up the shells and packed up the rifle, to reveal none other than.............. Lauren!!!!!
I tried to make this brief, really I did - it was just a very, very involved episode that revealed a whole lot!
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#118195 - 01/13/04 05:16 PM
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It's also possible that Lauren was the one who capped Lindsey, the NSA guy who had Syd incarcerated so he could sift her brain for memories. It appeared that Sloane's hired gun had done the deed, but some alert viewers have Zaprudered their tapes and they claim that the editing really suggests that the Sloane shooter didn't even get a chance (and may have been there to kill Syd instead of Lindsey and had to abort due to the Lindsey hit) and that the shot clearly came from a grassy knoll equivalent.
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#118196 - 01/13/04 06:19 PM
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Awesome job RebekahL!!!! Thanks so much for the narritive!
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#118198 - 03/09/04 12:19 AM
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I watched it!! Lauren is sleeping with Sark.
Syd and Vaughan were on a mission in Lisbon (I think). They were trying to get some plasma bomb off of this ship and Sark and Lauren beat them to the location. Of course, all Syd and Vaughan know is that "someone" is already there. Someone shoots Vaughan in the chest while he and Syd are in pursuit of this bomb, but he is wearing a bullet proof vest so he isn't injured. Then, Vaughan sends Syd to find the bomb while he chases after one of the people that shot at him. He comes up behind the perpetrator and has a gun pointed at the head of the person and he yells at him/her to "take off the mask". The viewing audience knows it's Lauren under the mask. But, then Sark shows up and points a gun at Syd's head and says to Vaughan, "If you really love her, you'll drop your gun." So, Vaughan drops the gun, Lauren gets away, and Vaughan still has yet to find out that Lauren is working for the Covenant.
Oh, and Arvin Sloan reveals to a therapist that he is Syd's father, not Jack Bristow.
I'm interested to find out how Vaughan will figure out that his wife is one of the bad guys!
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#118199 - 03/16/04 06:59 PM
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I missed the first half of the show Sunday night...did I miss anything important?
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#118201 - 03/22/04 05:37 PM
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I was able to watch the entire episode last night... missed most of the previous two. At the end of the episode, when Lauren said something like "Love you.." to Vaughan, it triggered a reaction in Jack. Does anyone know what this means? It gave me goose bumps even though I didn't know what was going on!
I missed the show too but that probably triggered something in Jack because he was married to a "bad girl" for so long without knowing it, just like Vaughan. Does that make sense?
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#118202 - 03/22/04 05:50 PM
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I think her comment is going to link to some intercepted messages they had received. What she said that caused Jack to pause was when Vaughn said to her, I'll see you later, she said "Not if I see you first". I've missed parts of some shows too so I don't remember hearing this, but maybe someone else remembers this phrase from a previous message . . .
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#118203 - 03/22/04 06:26 PM
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Jack's reaction: Okay, at the beginning of last night's episode, the CIA was able to recover part of a phone conversation that Sark had been involved in while on the plane that he parachuted from (or however it was that he escaped while killing all on board). At the end of the conversation, Sark says "I'll see you later" and whoever it is on the other end says "Not if I see you first". Jack hears the recorded conversation and then when he hears Lauren say that to Vaughan........BINGO! Light goes off in Jack's head and the viewing audience sees his reaction.
I can't wait until Vaughan finally figures out that his wife is working for the convenant!!
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#118204 - 03/22/04 08:37 PM
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I stumbled upon the official Alias website, and am actually pretty impressed by it. It offers a summary of all the episodes (starting with season 1!), and appears to be a good way to get an Alias fix when you've missed the real deal..... Alias website
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#118205 - 03/30/04 10:24 PM
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So, Lauren's mom kills the Senator, because Lauren just couldn't kill her daddy (the Senator). So Sark remains in control, for now.....
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#118206 - 04/12/04 12:32 PM
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Did anyone notice that during the first meeting of the show Syd didn't have any bangs then the next scene with her and Vaugne walking out of the meeting room, she had a full set of bangs.  Oops! Anyway, next week should be good!
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#118207 - 04/12/04 02:24 PM
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I thought they were just "slicked" over to the side. I hate the bangs, they're nasty!
Will the wig be enough to convince Vaughn that Lauren is with the Covenant?
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You better set your VCR next week!! 
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