Sydney has traveled to Mt. Subasio and scales the mountain, thereby proving that she is not the subject of the Rambaldi prophecy.

Upon her return to the States, her father explains that the CIA is searching for her mother. Jack also confirms that, after Laura's car crash, a special commission concluded that she had escaped alive and that Sloane, who was on this committee, had been hiding the truth.

Sydney is determined to find her mother, and asks Sloane a leave of absence. He agrees, but to her surprise the following day, assigns her onto a mission to retrieve material about Alexander Khasinau. He explains that Khasinau was Laura Bristow's superior at the KGB. Dixon and Sloane are to fly to Vienna and rendezvous with an agent stationed at the Russian embassy. The agent, Wexler, has a microchip with information about Khasinau's organization.

Wearing a mask, Sydney attends a masquerade ball at the embassy. A mased man whispers to her that Wexler is dead and that they are both now in jeopardy. In private, the masks are dropped. The man is Noah Hicks, an SD-6 agent whom she dated five years ago. They find Wexler's corpse in a basement and cut the microchip out of the body and escape. Sydney asks Noah why he left without saying good-bye. It becomes clear that their separation was the result of a misunderstanding, before Hicks had to be transferred out of the States.

I wasn't really that keen on Noah until I read the Alias prequel novels, now I wish they had stayed together.

Haven`t read any of the books - is there one which you`d particularly recommend ? :)

I haven't got a favourite as I read them more or less one after another so they all blended into one but do I recommend them, even though they are obviously aimed at teenagers(it just meant I was able to read them quicker!).

Shall have a peek at them on Amazon. :)

I quite liked Noah, I'm sure I've seen the actor before but I've looked at his IMDb profile and I haven't seen anything else he has been in except Alias :ermm:.

He looks really familiar to me too, but he's not been in anything I've seen either. Strange. :ponder:

My friend swears blind that she has seen Bradley Cooper in something else as well, she can even describe a scene he was in, but she hasn't seen anything else he has listed on IMDb either. Weird :shrug: