In her new role as a double agent for the CIA, Sydney is intent upon destroying SD-6 within weeks. But Vaughn humbles Sydney, explaining that SD-6 encompasses over 200 groups and contacts, not just the LA bureau where she works.

Sydney's journalist friend, Will, does some digging and learns that Danny had a booked flight from LA to Singapore the night he was killed. Sydney must hide her shock.

Back at SD-6, Sloane orders Sydney to travel to Moscow and intercept a sale of stolen files pertaining to Soviet-American nuclear arsenals. Afterwards, she meets her father Jack. In private, Sydney asks him whether he knew of SD-6's plan to kill Danny. Jack admits he was the one who bought the plane ticket so he could send Danny to Singapore before SD-6 murdered him, but he was too late.

In Moscow, Sydney impersonates a hotel maid to gain access to the hotel room of the CRC representative holding the payoff money while Dixon meets the document sellers at a Moscow club. After a fight with the bodyguards, Sydney discovers the payoff money is false paper. Incognito in party attire, Sydney races to the club, and switches the two computer disks containing the stolen files with plastic cocktail coasters. Dixon and Sydney knock the agents out, and escape with the disks. At LAX, Vaughn makes a brush pass with Sydney, duplicating the stolen floppies for the CIA, and returning them so she can present them to SD-6.

The information Sloane later retrieves from the disks informs him that a nuclear device from the Cold War period is still buried somewhere in the US.

Sydney's mission leads her to a Virginia cemetery, where she finds a tombstone with the contact's name, Ivanov, on it. Digging up the grave, she finds the seventh nuclear device, rigged to the coffin lid. She calls a panicked Marshall who guides her through the process of disarming it with only a two minute warning.

Angry, Vaughn informs Sydney that SD-6 has sold the device to Ineni Hassan in Cairo, a known arms dealer. Since Sydney knows Hassan, she volunteers to make the trip and get the bomb back; making sure that SD-6 doesn't know that she's going there. Back at the CIA, Davenport tells Vaughn that he's being pulled off of the Bristow case because Devlin, the boss, wants a more senior officer assigned.

Meanwhile, Sydney and a male CIA operative go to Cairo. When Sydney finds the bomb, she quickly dismantles it and grabs its bright green plutonium core — only she's stopped by a gun-wielding Hassan.

From www.abc.com

Not as good as TBT but still enjoyable and ends with a cliffhanger (as so often happens in Alias)
Syd was annoying me a bit in the scene with Vaughn at the start. We are to assume that Jack has been a double agent for a while, if it was as easy to bring down SD-6 they would have done it by now. I liked how Vaughn just showed her the map, I would have totally lost my temper with her :lol:
We see the start of Will’s obsession with Danny’s murder and his relationship with his assistant.
The appearance of the blue rubber dress – my male flatmate’s favourite outfit of the season, wait until he sees Phase One :rollseyes:
Again I state that I love Weiss. “Your girlfriend’s name is Alice” and “Have you met balls of steel”
Um, nobody is meant to notice that Syd is digging up a grave in broad daylight, I know it looks like it’s in the country but still :blink:. And Vaughn and the CIA are being idiots, surely her contacting them about disarming the nuke may have blown her cover.
We learn that Jack was trying to save Danny, but was just minutes too late :(
And Vaughn gets taken off the case as Sydney’s handler (how many times does that happen :rollseyes:)

Ah, the famous paper bag episode ... :)

I love the Vaughn and Weiss double act :) Not sure about Michael Vartan`s suit, though - did the Costume Dept. hope he was going to grow into it ?! :huh: :lol:

"Can you show me what a paper bag looks like again" :lol:

Loved this one too. Learn a great deal more about the characters in this and the cliffhanger made me switch rightto the next episode!