tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027684932520122872024-03-21T23:10:59.994-06:00Romancing Alias - Sydney & VaughnMy own take on the relationship between Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn from Alias. Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-24656723775275181712017-01-12T10:25:00.000-07:002017-01-12T10:25:36.273-07:00One Small Moment - Vaughn's unconditional love<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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The latest casualty, my laptop; It wasn’t exactly easy trying to work, watch the episode on my phone, and typing up the episode breakdown. But it was kinda working. But now my laptop and everything I have ever written, every picture I’ve ever screenshot and saved could be lost because my fan is dead and my laptop refuses to turn on without it. We are working on it, but you know the story about needing money, well that’s this story too.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I am writing and posting this on my phone. I wasn’t going to post anything, because I feel like I’ve been telling you I’m working on it in multiple posts, but not posting anything real for three years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Admit it, I have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But today is a little different. I am actually going to talk about Sydney & Vaughn and a scene that they share in season 4. I watched a moment go through in a YouTube video, and I really started thinking about that moment. I went back and re-watched the scene, and I realized something huge about myself and about why I love Sydney & Vaughn so much. It’s all about Vaughn and his unconditional love for Sydney. Let me repeat that…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vaughn’s <b>UNCONDITIONAL</b> love and support for Sydney is what makes their love story the best love story. Don’t get me wrong, Sydney loves Vaughn, but it takes her a little more time to get to the unconditional part, especially in season 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People may argue, “Vaughn married Lauren less than two years after Sydney died. That’s not unconditional love.” But I will argue that point, and I will win. I’ve written way too much on why Vaughn did what he did. Go back and read the non-episode posts that were written during season 3. Vaughn had to survive; he had to find a way to move on. He created a new personality for himself that repressed the Vaughn that we love and adore, and Michael came out of it. Just trust me here; I know what I’m talking about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okay, sorry, rant over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The scene that I want to talk about is in APO Part 2; right near the beginning. Sydney is pissed; Jack had just stopped by to see if Sydney had told Nadia “what she knows”. We don’t know what she knows, but Jack is the primary target of her rage, Vaughn walks in (with what sounds like a key, but more later). Vaughn has no idea as to what “it” is, but he knows that the tension is, and has been strong for weeks now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jack has now left; Sydney has to stop cooking dinner, apologizes to Vaughn and walks away. We get a great look from Vaughn, you can see the worry in his face, but he has no idea what’s going on. I imagine that he’s tried to understand the reason for the tension for some time now. Remember, I strongly believe that after the end of season 3 Vaughn is a fan of Jack’s, they now have a similar history, although Vaughn doesn’t know how similar, but another similarity is about to be added, and he knows from experience that Sydney is much happier when she is on good terms with Jack. I don’t think that Vaughn immediately went to her. I think he took a few moments, did a few grown up things, turn off the oven and stove, etc, etc, and let Sydney have a few moments. He knows Sydney better than he knows himself at this point. So he knows that Sydney needs time sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So when he does go into the bedroom, and asks the same question that he has asked in various ways, Sydney has been waiting for him. Finally deciding to break down some of the walls she formed since waking up in Hong Kong, and the four months since Vaughn killed Lauren. I don’t think that Vaughn was expecting her to answer, but she did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She tells him, “It was Lauren that told me.” Anything that has to do with Lauren is still not on his list of topics he wants to cover, but he doesn’t judge, doesn’t jump in with a “you can’t believe her” statement, a simple “what?” is all he asks. She starts her story, and he doesn’t rush her, and she says all the things that would be on the top of my list of things to say when talking about the Ice Bitch. I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She tells him it was a safety deposit box in Wittenberg, he has this look that I love, but that could be my Michael Vartan thing though, but the look almost says, “A safety deposit box, in a foreign city, I understand why you had to check it out.” Like he knows her and her affinity for hiding things in safety deposit boxes and knows that she has to investigate one if brought to her attention. In season 5, at a safety deposit box, she gets sucked in again and it’s to her detriment there too. My point, he knows that she can’t resist that temptation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But seeing that he’s going to finally get to the real reason behind the tension, ignoring that the info came from Lauren, and all of the issues he’s going through with that, he still goes in and sits next to her and listens. Did I explain that well enough, he listened! Nothing else, he doesn’t touch her, nothing more than a sigh and a smile when she says out loud that the temptation was just too strong, like I knew it, but said nothing. Said nothing; just plain sat down near her and listened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That right there shows so much unconditional love towards Sydney. Not interrupting, no personal thoughts about how Lauren has ruined something else, even being out of her eye line allowing her to look away from him while telling the story. He doesn’t coax her; he is just there for her. Right here, even if it didn’t go any further, I would still love this scene. Just seeing how well he knows her, her needs and how much she needs Jack back in her life. He knows that she needs Jack, more than he needs to rage against all that is and was Lauren. I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here’s where it gets good though, (or more precisely, even better) Sydney tells him that the box contained files, and that she knew before she even knew, then asking him if that made sense. It is only when prompted that Vaughn speaks, and it’s said simply, not rushing her, “what was it?” Once again not mentioning Lauren or the fact that maybe it was planted by Lauren just to cause issues like the one here. But simple, helping her get where she needed to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sydney then says that the files were about Irina and all the horrible stuff that she had done. Nothing that was new information and Vaughn simply nods his head. Now to recap; Sydney, the woman Vaughn loves more than anything is taking to him about his dead wife, who was a traitor and betrayed everything he believed in and ruined everything else. The same woman, he had to kill to make sure that Sydney wouldn’t get shot by her, and he now can’t officially divorce because she is dead, so he burned their house down. Now add to that the only other person that could even come close in the contest of who he hates more, Irina Derevko. Sydney’s mother and the person who took his father from him when he was eight years old, I think that it’s fair to assume that Vaughn is just happy that Lauren and Irina (or Laura) never met in real life. (Even though, I’m pretty sure that Irina was watching Lauren very, very carefully.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She continues on with her story, all the while Vaughn is trying to process everything, especially since it deals with these three women. Then the story gets interesting, Jack had put in a request to terminate Irina. There is a moment where it looked like Vaughn wanted to jump from the rooftop, the woman who murdered his dad is dead, the two worst women ever created, as far as he’s concerned, are both dead. But instead, he’s seeing the ramifications that it is having on her. He’s seeing someone he loves, who had reunited with their parent who was also ripped from their life at a young age, albeit in a strange and far from ideal circumstance, being ripped away again. Only this time, by the one person that had finally become the ally that she really needed, but didn’t have growing up, her own father. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vaughn doesn’t see this as a personal gain, in this moment; he finally touches her shoulder to remind her that he was there. No pushes, no words, just a simple hand and then letting her go where she wanted, and needed. He simply listened and showed her once again, that no matter what happened, he would be there for her, in whatever way he could. But he wasn’t going to lose her again. She simply folded into his arms, him just holding her, and comforting her as she breaks down. He gives her a simple kiss on her arm as a reminder that he loves her. But that’s all. He listened, and in that moment loved her more than he has ever loved anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anyway, there it is. A way too lengthy breakdown of a one minute scene, accomplished with my thumbs on my phone. So any and all errors are blamed on that, and not my random thoughts crashing into each other and not making sense half the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But it’s my blog and I can ramble if I want to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope you enjoyed, and hopefully I will be back soon(ish).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So I’m back, at least I’m going to try and be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have noticed that the videos that I
wanted to update haven’t been updated, and you still can’t view them, I will
work on fixing those eventually, but it will take some time. I would rather
spend my time getting back into the analysis of each episode and the effect it
had on the Sydney/Vaughn relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Also I have mentioned it in other posts, but thank you for your patience
with me as I had to take a break from all responsibilities and hobbies while I
healed, and took care of myself and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I really appreciated your kind notes, as well as encouragement to keep
going on this blog. It really meant a lot to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for this blog going forward, I have given
myself a goal of posting a breakdown of an episode every week. I’m not sure if
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Alias has so many amazing story lines throughout the series,
but as I’ve mentioned in other posts, the one that always stands out to me is
the missing two years. I have so many theories about what happened during that
time, but that is for another post. But as I was going through this blog last night, I was trying to figure out
what my mind set was during each post, as well as watching some of the episodes
leading into season four to get me ready to post about Alias again. I ended up finding
a deleted scene from season 4 episode 2, it’s a scene that has Sydney and
Vaughn discussing their relationship and what Jack did. (I’ll post it in that
episodes recap.) But Sydney tells Vaughn that building their relationship back
up is going to take some time. Because they aren’t the same people anymore, and
that they need time to get to know each other again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen that deleted scene many times, in
fact I am the one who loaded it onto YouTube, but last night it stuck with me.
I’ve spent most of the last two years going from close to dead and barely
remembering anything when the chemo was at its worst, to rebuilding my life
back up. During that time, we built a new home, and I’ve been able to go back
to doing some of the things that I love doing that I haven’t been able to do.
Through all that I’ve discovered that I have become a different person as well.
I have done things that I swore I would never ever do. I only tell you this
because while I do still love and adore Sydney and Vaughn and all of the Alias
adventures I’m not sure if I can tell the story in the same way as I used to. I
hope that as I go back into the series, like I was in 2013, I will be able to
find that voice that my readers have come to enjoy, but it may take time and my
experiences may have me looking at some scenes in a new light. Thank you in
advance for your continued patience and support.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">****</span> The above portion was written over a month ago, I was
so excited to get back to doing this. I had/have the season four opener half
way written and I was/am really happy with the direction that it was going in.
I felt like I was kinda getting back into the groove. Then one night, I sat
down to start watching/thinking/analyzing/writing and Alias had disappeared
from Netflix. I was heartbroken. I have the DVD’s but with my work situation,
working off my DVD’s wasn’t something that I could really work with in the
conditions that I am working in. So I was trying to come up with some other
solution. Then tonight I was reading a <a href="http://tvline.com/2016/11/09/sad-tv-moments-buffy-alias-bones-photos/" target="_blank">TVLine article</a> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>
that piqued my interest with an excerpt about Bones. Then as a total bonus for me it
mentioned Alias in it, and I found out that Hulu is now streaming Alias. So a
solution has been found and I am going to be turning it on and getting back to
the episode breakdown. By the way, my daughter thought that I was completely
crazy when I found out, since I suddenly sat up strait and screamed “Yes!” when
I discovered it. By the way, I found it completely ironic that the article
mentioned watching APO part 1 in the Alias portion. <span style="color: #cc0000;">****</span></div>
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Come back soon to see the first episode breakdown of season
4. I know earlier I mentioned I will try for every week, but since the holidays
are approaching, and I am in the middle of my family’s birthday season, today
is the 2<sup>nd</sup> birthday out of 5 in a 50 times period with Christmas a
week later. So I’ll try and aim for the every week or so starting in January. I’m really excited to get going on this again, season four
is my least favorite season, but I am finding a lot of fun stuff that I want to
touch on, and some of my favorite Syd & Vaughn moments come from season
four. It’s going to be fun. Plus the Sydney & Vaughn relationship roller
coaster over the next two seasons is one you won’t want to miss. </div>
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Ten years ago tonight, Alias said it's final goodbyes. And it's days like to day that I wish I had watched Alias while it was on the air. If I had been a fan at that time, I most likely would be bawling my eyes out and wishing for more. But as a current fan, who is still in love with the show 3 years after my first viewing, am ready to celebrate the ten year anniversary of that final moment. Watching Sydney, Vaughn, Isabelle, Jack, and Dixon walk down to beach to watch the sun set, was the perfect ending. Sydney and Vaughn have finally found their happily ever after. I am so happy for them, with all the obstacles life threw their direction, that they were able to find some semblance of a normal life. Or as close to normal as was possible for them. </div>
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I will go over more in detail when I get to this episode, (yes I am still working on it) but in this episode Sydney had to watch, and ultimately leave, as Jack Bristow was bleeding out. As hard as it is to watch SpyDaddy injured to this extent, at least he went out in style, and making sure that Sloane would never be able to harm his family any longer. Back to my original train of thought, after having to leave her father behind, knowing that she most likely would never have a chance to see him again, Sydney has to go save the world, and the only way to succeed would be through her mother. I couldn't even imagine having to go through everything she had to in just this one episode. However, the cherry that tops this episode so perfectly is that we were
able to take a view into some of the vital moments in Sydney's life,
that led her to this place.<br />
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There are some truly great moments from this episode, and I can't wait until I get back in gear and work on this blog a little more faithfully.<br />
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<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-49941040206815952762015-09-01T12:17:00.001-06:002015-09-02T03:18:23.942-06:00Personal Battles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</xml><![endif]-->The last time that I posted anything to the blog was on June
4<sup>th</sup> of 2014, and I had mentioned that I was having some personal
issues come up, as well as falling into a new fandom. Looking back, I know that
I had some issues going on, but I didn’t know that the worst was still to
come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> So over a year later, I am finally back and this will be moving forward.</span><br>
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At that time I had been dealing with a repressed memory that
I had somehow managed to hide in my subconscious for 12 years. And I was having
a really hard time dealing with the memories that were horrible. Although I am
incredibly happy that I was able to suppress them, if I hadn’t I’m not sure if
I would have been mentally capable of getting married or having my three
beautiful girls. </div>
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<span style="color: red;">WARNING: This may cause triggers for some people… If you
want to skip this portion, scroll past the next two paragraphs. </span></div>
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What had happened was when I was in college; I had been
casually dating a guy from my theater classes. We had just finished watching a
movie, and since we had weird schedules, it was in the middle of the night. We
started making out, and he wanted to take things further. I was only 19 and
incredibly naïve about anything sex related, so I told him that I wasn’t
comfortable with taking the next step. It was at that point that I told him that
I better go home. Before I could fully stand up he grabbed me and pulled me
down onto his bed. He then pulled both of my arms above my head and held me
down. He told me, “I’m not going to have sex with you until you agree to have
sex, but I’m not going to let you go until you do either.” </div>
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I still don’t remember too much about that night,
thankfully, I do remember that I was trapped for two or more hours in that
position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never fully raped me,
although I remember getting really close to agreeing to have sex just so I
could get away. While no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actual </i>sex
happened he did violate me in other ways. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me months to fully recover from having
the trauma of these memories come back. I was diagnosed with PTSD and I still have issues sometimes, 20 months
later. I don’t think that I will ever get over it fully, and I have become
super over protective of my girls, but I have mostly recovered.</div>
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Now, as I mentioned above the last post was from June 4<sup>th</sup>,
2014. I had thought that my personal issues were getting better and that I
would be able to find the time to get back to this. I had missed dissecting Alias
and the weird joy that it bring to me. Unfortunately, 2014 had other plans for
me. I can officially say that 2014 was the worst year of my life, and I started
the year with meeting Michael Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had spent almost all of May in the hospital dealing with a severe kidney
infection that required two surgeries, one of them an emergency surgery at
1:00am. Plus they found that E-Coli had found its way into my blood stream. So
I was already dealing with a lot. On the plus side, the company that I work for
was offering a special leave at the time. It entailed me not working for two
years, but not losing seniority, but I also kept my insurance and flight
benefits. With all that was going on, my husband (who was only working part
time and going to school), and I decided that the leave needed to happen to
give me a chance to fully get better. I was approved on June 12<sup>th</sup>. I
was beyond elated, for the first time in 14 years I would have to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The elation didn’t last long unfortunately. June 16<sup>th</sup>
I was sitting in bed and working one of my last shifts before my leave
began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of a sudden pain shot through
my left breast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took every ounce of self-control
I had to not to start screaming select four letter words to my customer that I
had on the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never been
tasered, but it felt what I imagine it would feel like. The pain lasted for
months. When I first saw my doctor about it, she thought it might be an
infection, but when the pain continued she sent me to get a mammogram and an ultrasound.
I wasn’t able to get in for that appointment until July 9<sup>th</sup>. So I
had a few more weeks of constant extreme pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the mammogram and ultrasound, the radiologist came in and talked
to me. He said that from what he saw it could be an infection, but it was more
likely to be breast cancer. My heart dropped into my stomach, even though in
the back of my mind I had the nagging voice that it had to be cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to do a biopsy, so I told him I was
available anytime, and how soon could we get it scheduled. He told me that he
was calling my regular doctor to get the official request, but he wanted to do
it in the next few minutes. </div>
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The biopsy hurt like hell and you should have seen the bruises,
the mass was the size of a softball, looking back it’s still very surreal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to wait about two weeks for the
official diagnoses, because the pathologists couldn’t agree on what the problem
was, so they sent it to another pathologist who is considered the best in the world.
It was breast cancer, but they told me that I was incredibly lucky because even
though the mass was huge, all but one small section was in stage 0; the small
section was in stage 1. But they believed that they would be able to remove all
of it with surgery and chemotherapy wouldn’t be needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that point I met with a surgeon and a lot
of other tests were done over the next few weeks. My husband and I talked a lot
about my different options, and since I was only 31 at the time, and the
chances of it coming back was high, we made the decision to go with a double
mastectomy and hopefully avoid the cancer coming back. So we met with the plastic
surgeon and scheduled the surgery.</div>
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August 26<sup>th</sup>, six weeks after the biopsy, I went
in for surgery. We had joked that since it was our 12 ½ year anniversary, that
we were getting started with a new boob package as a gift. We were trying
everything we could to lighten the situation. When I woke up, I was in the worst
pain I had ever experienced. Although I don’t know what I expected, I knew that
removing both of my breasts wouldn’t be an easy experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other thing I found is that your arm
muscles are more connected to breast tissue than I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also woke up to a temporary medical
bracelet on my left arm. It said; DO NOT USE THIS LIMB. When I looked around
the room, there were signs strategically placed, stating not to use my left
arm. I looked over to my husband and asked him what was up with the signs and
he told me that the surgery was successful; however they ended up having to take
all the lymph nodes out of my left arm. The cancer had spread into the
lymphatic system. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my surgeon came
into the room, he told me that I would indeed have to see an oncologist, because
I had what is called the HER2+ gene. And that in younger women with breast
cancer, it causes the cancer to advance quickly. They removed all they could
and that they were still doing testing on my lymph nodes to figure out how
advanced it had become.</div>
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<i>The video above, I recently found and it was right up my ally. I really have had the best support system throughout all of this.</i></div>
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I met with my oncologist soon after. She told me that by the
time the surgery took place, the cancer had advanced into stage 3; also that
they would have to be very aggressive with the chemotherapy treatments. In
addition, we were told that if I hadn’t have caught it when I did, the cancer
would’ve advanced to the point that I would’ve been terminal by Halloween and
possibly dead by Christmas. I don’t think that I had ever felt so scared (and
lucky) in my life.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The next week was
full of all the things that had to be done before I started chemo. I had to
visit the dentist, since I wouldn’t be able to undergo any cleanings while on
chemo. I had to do a special heart scan to make sure that my heart wouldn’t
give out because of how harsh the chemo drugs would be on it. I also had to
have a port placed, since my veins were unlikely to hold up against the drugs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was to undergo six cycles of the really
harsh chemotherapy drugs, one treatment every three weeks. In addition they
were going to be giving me another chemotherapy type drug to fight the HER2+
gene. However I would need to have 17 cycles of that one, once again every
three weeks. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">October 2014 - 15 days after starting chemo all of my hair was gone</td></tr>
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A year later, I have gone through so much, more than I ever
thought that I would be able to endure. My hair is starting to grow back. I’m
finally starting to get some of my strength back. I’m finally starting to feel
up to doing the things that I loved doing before all of this stress happened.
Best of all I have my last treatment in two weeks, and I’m officially in
remission. (Also I met Michael Vartan again in January, but I’ll do a separate
post for that.)</div>
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Please know that I am not posting this to get pity comments,
(I’ve had way more pity than I would like over the last year) but to let you
know why I haven’t been able to post here. I had a lot of grand plans for how I
wanted this blog to work. It makes me so happy to see that people are coming to
the page and somewhat enjoy my dissecting what I see in Alias. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">As an FYI I have done a few re-watches during
the past year and I have a huge list of things that I missed or that I want to
include here sitting in my notepad on my phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, my daughter had stated that she had wanted to start watching
Alias, and I told her only if I watched it with her. Two things have come from
that; 1) it is almost as if I am getting the chance to watch Alias again for
the first time, 2) I haven’t been watching it looking for clues and things to
try and figure out what I should put up here, so I’ve noticed some things that
I completely missed in other viewings. It’s fun watching it through an 11 year
olds perspective.<br>
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That’s it for my personal crap. I have already started the
post for APO part 1. And I am so excited for it, even if it is my least
favorite season. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also I’ve been watching
season four and looking for it’s good points and it definitely has quite a few
of them; including some of my favorite scenes.</div>
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The last thing that I wanted to put out there is I know that
currently Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan have been in the news. A lot of
people are saying that Jennifer is turning to Michael in the turmoil of her
divorce and that he is in a good position to help her coming off of his own
divorce. I just want to remind everyone that all of the parties involved are
real people. We don’t know the exact circumstances of what is really going on.
I will say that I have never been a fan of Ben Affleck, but I think they
deserve their privacy, especially since children are involved. The other thing,
I’ve seen a lot of attacks on Lauren (Skarr) Vartan, once again we don’t know
what happened, so I don’t think that we should be judging. I will say that I
have interacted with her online a few times, and she has been nothing but
sweet, kind, and caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She even contacted me on
Instagram (even though she doesn’t follow me) in a private IG chat asking me if
everything was okay since she hadn’t seen me on there in a while. I let her know
what was going on, and we ended up chatting for close to an hour. I never
brought up Michael Vartan, and if I chat with her again I’m not going to. I am truly
saddened that these four people (plus three little ones) have to go through all
of this.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">I set up this blog as
a place to talk about how perfect Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn are for
each other. Even after entering more fandoms than I ever should be a part of, I
still believe that Sydney and Vaughn are the best couple out there. I did end
up making it more than just their love; I’ve included my own personal stuff,
and my crush on Michael Vartan has factored in. I’ve even expounded on more of
the episodes than I ever planned on doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I am going to put this out here; <span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Please do not use this forum to comment on how much you hate an
actual, in real life person, over things that we have no personal knowledge about
beyond what we read in a magazine! </u></b></span>However if you want to hate on
Sloane, Evil Francie, or Lauren Reed, go for it I will fully support those
hatred remarks. </div>
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Thanks for sticking around even in my absence. </div>
Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-31692866258979535722014-06-04T03:51:00.001-06:002014-06-04T03:51:08.004-06:00It's been a while I know...<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I'm on my phone and it's 3:30 am so this will be a very short post. When I posted my last post back in January I had a lot of good intentions. I wanted to fix the videos that disappeared from the earlier posts on the blog, as well as some other things. Unfortunately as it often happens life gets in the way. </span></div><div><br></div><div>I had some major personal issues come up, I may end up sharing them here at one point because it's a story I want to tell, but I'm not sure how or where to share it the best way for me to have it be therapeutic. I also found a new to me show. With what was going on in my life, finding this show was the best form of therapy I could've ever hoped for, without knowing it was a possibility. It's Veronica Mars. She became the hero that I needed in my life. Oddly enough I was able to get closer to overcoming my own obstacles by living vicariously through her. Plus the major relationship in the show actually rivals my love for Sydney & Vaughn. Syd and Vaughn will always be my number one choice when it comes to my favorite on screen couple, but Veronica Mars & Logan Echolls are a very close second. And I do mean very close. </div><div><br></div><div>While I have been wrapped up in a new fandom, I've come to a few conclusions, 1) I have to recant my statement in an earlier post about despising fan fiction. It turns out that I am actually a huge fan and I'm actually thinking of writing my own. If I do it would be all about the missing two years. You know how obsessed I am over those years. Ionly thought I hated fan fiction because I had only seen Sydney and Sark stories. But I end up reading a new fan fic every night from the Veronica Mars fandom and I'm now an addict. 2) I've thought about it a lot lately how I need to come back and work on this blog, but something hit me tonight and I realized how much I miss this blog and analyzing every move that Sydney and Vaughn make/made to become the perfect couple. </div><div><br></div><div>So it may not be incredibly soon, but I've decided to put this blog back on my list of priorities. I know it made me happy, and I need to get back to the things that I enjoy after dealing with all of my personal crap. </div><div><br></div><div>So hopeful I will be back soon to start right in on season four and see what the APO has in store for us. </div>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-51217926155485634542014-01-29T06:26:00.000-07:002014-01-29T06:26:39.899-07:00Before We Begin Season Four...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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As far as the blog is concerned, I am still working on it,
but due to some major personal issues that have come up in my life; I have even
less time than I had before, at least in some ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am working through them and trying to
get my life back in order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t be
posting any new episodes for a couple weeks however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although as I have been looking through some
of the older posts, I see that I had left a lot out, as well as the videos that
I posted at the beginning of the project, when I wasn’t posting clips that I downloaded
and then uploaded to YouTube and using someone else’s, have all been removed
from YouTube. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I plan on going back and
downloading the clips and properly uploading them onto YouTube at the correct
permissions status so they won’t be taken down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every few posts that I update, I will come back and do a new post with
the links to the episodes that I have fixed, as well as adding new video’s or
clips to the post.</div>
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While working on updating the blog to be more consistent and
have usable clips, I have also found myself a short project for myself on
Tumblr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">47 Days of Alias. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So every day (hopefully) I will answer the
question of the day for 47 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
find my Tumblr here; <a href="http://aliaspsy.tumblr.com/tagged/47-days-of-alias">http://aliaspsy.tumblr.com/tagged/47-days-of-alias</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel free to look around at the rest of
my Tumblr while you are there though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
challenge does cover all of Alias, and my thoughts there and not just Sydney
and Vaughn, although my first three days have all ended up correlating with
them somehow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below are the questions
for each day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The challenge was created
by another Tumblr user.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only made the
picture below.</div>
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Now getting ready for season four, you should know that it
was filmed in a different order from what it aired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember watching Alias my first time
around and being very confused by the jumping around in character
timelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially since this was
supposed to be the season of stand-alone episodes and making it easier to
understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I attributed the confusion
to the fact that I had watched the entire series in a little under a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then I ran across an article on season
four, I wish I could find it now, that stated that season four was aired in the
wrong order from what was written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
immediately took out my phone and took note of what they called the season four
true order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So on my second time through
I watched it in this order, and it made a lot more since to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance I had wondered why Sydney and
Vaughn were so comfortable with each other in Welcome to Liberty Village (E5)
especially with the admission of the planned marriage proposal and the impromptu
stop in Paris for dinner, and then have Sydney be so wary of Vaughn and wanting
to take it slow in Nocturne (6) before she was infected and then her admitting
her fears to Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">True Order </i>placed Nocturne as well as
others in front of Liberty Village made the their storyline flow so much
better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So below I have the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">True Order of Season Four.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I will be a little while before I jump
into APO part 1, I suggest watching in this order to see if it makes more sense
to you.</div>
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As I said this was going to be short, compared to my usual
posts, so I just wanted to thank you for being patient with me as I take this
Alias journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure how many
people actually read this blog on a regular basis, but I know that there are a
few of you and I thank each and every one of you for reading my long rants and
theories about how Sydney and Vaughn became the perfect couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel free to email me at any time if you have
any questions concerning Alias, or if you just want someone to talk about Alias
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also open to suggestions for
songs to be used in clip videos for YouTube which has become another new hobby
of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I only have clips for
Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So like I said email
me anytime; <a href="mailto:AliasPsy47@gmail.com">AliasPsy47@gmail.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is my most recent clip video that I made for Sydney and
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first time I heard the song
I knew that I had to make it into a clip video for Sydney and Vaughn, but for
some reason or another I couldn’t ever get it to work the way I wanted it
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I gave up on the scene that I
thought had to be included, the rest fell together nicely I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you enjoy it. See you soon. :)</div>
Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-29510131862222783682014-01-25T00:25:00.000-07:002014-01-25T00:25:25.553-07:00Meeting Michael Vartan<br />
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Here it is Friday evening, and I am still in shock over
how amazing my day was on Sunday (1/19/14)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
guess I should start at the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know that I posted pictures of what I believe to be Michael Vartan’s home in an
earlier post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that post I have been
to the LA area three other times, and every time I have to go past his
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I feel kinda like a
stalker every time I do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of
that, I refuse to stop, and will only go really slow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, his street has a dead end and so to get
back to a regular road, you have to pass his house again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have what I believe to be his phone
number, (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No I will not post the phone
number or the address</b>) I have it all saved in my phone under my contacts,
but it’s there only for fun, because honestly I think I would feel way to
stalkerish to ever actually call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus what do I say if I do call the number?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, over Christmas I was thinking how I
wanted to go back to LA, but had to convince myself that I really didn’t have a
good reason to go, and flying 1000 miles just isn’t logical just to pass his
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Vartan's driveway</td></tr>
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So I started to think of ways
that maybe I could fly someplace else where he would happen to be at the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about looking up the
Bates Motel filming schedule, but I know it films in Vancouver and I haven’t
updated my passport yet, so that was out, plus you have to pay to get those
schedules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I started thinking more
creatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know he loves hockey, and
I remembered watching an interview of him at a celebrity hockey match for
charity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the moment that I got home,
(yes, these are the things I think about while driving around running errands
with my kids,) I searched online for upcoming celebrity hockey matches<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The details of the event and what the charity supported</td></tr>
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This was definitely my way to get to be near Michael Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that this had to be it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy was I right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next hockey match was going to take place
in a couple weeks, and I didn’t even have to fly anywhere to be able to
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live near Salt Lake City, UT and
the hockey game would be taking place in Park City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I felt like a really big idiot when I
re-watched the interview of Michael at a charity hockey game and heard the
interviewer mention Park City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So not
only was he invited to play this year, he played last year and loved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I immediately bought my ticket (best $30 I
have ever spent) then I spent some time trying to figure out what friend would
be willing to come with me and watch me be a complete idiot and be the fan girl
that loses all ounces of being shy when I am around celebrities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally found a good friend to join me and
we were getting very excited to go.
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Saturday night my friend Jody and I made our official plans,
as well as making sure that our husbands were prepared to care for the kids
without calling and interrupting us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
we planned on getting there early and making sure that we had prime picture
taking positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I should note
that she came with me more for the chance to escape her own children and for
her husband to have to deal with their seven month old who isn’t the happiest
of babies all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She isn’t much
of a fan girl, in fact I am still trying to persuade her into watching
Alias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really need a friend that I
can talk with in person about Alias, it kind of drives me crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she was perfectly happy just being on a
girls day out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She offered her prime
spot to someone else so that they could take more pictures, she even held onto
my purse so it didn’t get in the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
still can’t believe that she didn’t want to get any autographs or her picture
with anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she has since admitted
that next year she might be a little more outgoing. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Lauren Vartan's Twitter; the night before the game she was making a cake and mentioning fun for the whole family had me a little freaked that he might be staying home with her.</td></tr>
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On the way to Park City I admitted that I was a little
afraid that there might be a possibility that he may not end up being there,
after all the event stated that he was invited to play, not confirmed to be
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had tried to get him to respond
to a tweet asking him if he would be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he is hardly ever on twitter and I never received a response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tweeted his wife Lauren a couple times
and she responds every time, but I try to not act like a completely crazy person
with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact the only times I will
tweet her is if it actually involves her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although I do wish that I was friends with her, she seems very cool and
down to earth. Plus I probably laugh more at her twitter comments than anyone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was actually her that had me
worried that Michael may not end up at the game, while she will rarely post
pictures of him on her twitter feed, she does post other things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday night she had tweeted about the cake
that she was making and her little family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It had me scared, but I told myself that I would be okay if he didn’t
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would’ve been okay, but I think
that I would have been really depressed. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first really good sign that Michael Vartan would in fact be at the game. His name, picture and what number he would be printed in the program.</td></tr>
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We arrived at the rink, and watched as they set everything
up, we even got to open the doors into the locker room for someone, I really
wanted to follow them in, but I didn’t shell out the $2000 to actually play
hockey, in fact this would be my first hockey game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was fun to walk around and see how
they were prepping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We picked up a copy
of the program and saw that he would in fact be playing. My fear quickly dissipated,
and I could breathe again. We watched as they set up the red carpet and all the
media showed up and took their places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were the first ones admitted in, so we ended up being at the front of
the gate right next to the camera men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only people allowed in front of the gate were the players and the
reporters doing the interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
basically we were in the perfect position, we could watch all the celebrities
do their interviews, and then they would have to pass right by us before going
into the locker room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We waited for a
about 20 minutes there before anything started happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was well worth the wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we were waiting I overheard the
conversation of the family that was standing near us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were wondering if their dad would have
to go down the red carpet or not since he was the ref.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure why I turned to look at them at
this point, but I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I saw the
name on a packet that the daughter was holding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I recognized the name as one of my co-workers, which I thought was a
little weird, but I thought what the heck, I’ll just ask them if it is
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes it was, a co-worker that I used
to work closely with before I changed positions in the company was going to be
the ref of the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for the next few
minutes, I thought of how I could use this to my advantage if I ended up seeing
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I saw that people were starting to get excited, and I
noticed that a bigger crowd was beginning to assemble at the entrance to the
arena where the red carpet began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
someone muttered the magic words for me, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Michael
Vartan will be the first one to go through the red carpet.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That got my attention fast and I immediately
turned to focus in on the entrance, and there he was, I couldn’t believe that I
was officially in the same room with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My picture taking frenzy began, I had a constant struggle in my head of
watch him in person, or take as many pictures to document the experience as I
could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to find a balance, but I
did get a lot of pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I wasn’t
taking his picture, my eyes were locked in on him, and I couldn’t contain my
grin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep searching for the interview
that he was doing at the time, but I can’t find it yet, as soon as I do I will
post it on here, but he definitely took notice of my attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t hear the interview going on, but I
could see every move that he made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was constantly scanning the crowd, and he saw me, he stopped talking for a
moment and gave me a huge smile, raised his eyebrows, and winked at me then
continued on with the interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
kind of amazed that I didn’t pass out right there. (Actually I’m not, I’ve
never passed out before, but if the day had ended there I would’ve been okay
with it.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorites from the red carpet. I mean just look at that grin</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Throughout my life I have actually met quite a few
celebrities when I really think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve met and talked with almost every cast member of Psych.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was on a cross country flight with Sharon
Stone sitting across the aisle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I talk
to some on the phone with my job occasionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus some other experiences as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I’ve always seen them as real people, and have found that when they
are treated as real people you get more face time with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I really do try and not fan girl too much
around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although sometimes it can
be really hard, Sunday really tested those abilities on me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
that I have mentioned it here before, but I have never really had a celebrity
crush until Michael Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate to
call it a crush though, because honestly I have no desire of dating him, I don’t
see him like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am happily married,
and I wouldn’t change that for the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the reasons that I became such a huge fan was because of his
demeanor in interviews that I had seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Granted, the only reason that I watched any interviews with him comes
back to Alias, and what a great job he did portraying Michal Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The interviews that I watched that took place
while he was filming Alias were fun to watch, however the interviews that he
did after meeting his wife are the ones that are my favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love seeing a man being so in love with
their significant other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it to be
an endearing quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way that in
almost every interview he brings up his wife and talks about her at some point,
you can see how happy she makes him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
also fun to see him wearing something that represents her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He often wears a shirt that would represent
where she is from and explain why he had it on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Add on that how humble he always appears, as well as not being annoyed
with the interview and almost always smiling during the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that he has somehow managed to find
that perfect balance of being a celebrity, and being able to have a life
outside of it as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a screenshot that I took from an Interview that he was doing for Columbiana. I actually took it for the arm tattoos that I love, but you can see that he is invested in the interview, and if I remember correctly he talks about Lauren in the interview.</td></tr>
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So while I was trying to contain the inner fan girl, I
continued to watch him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw what I had
seen in interviews, that he was really down to earth, that even when the
official camera turned away from him, he didn’t change his attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He talked to a few other people that he knew
and was consistently pleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he
arrived near me, I tried to sound normal, but I’m not sure if I managed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I called him name and asked if I could
get a picture with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiled at me and
said absolutely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came right up next
to me put his arm around me and asked if I wanted to do a selfie. When he said
this, a member of the media took out picture at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wish I knew who that was so I could
get a copy of that picture too. But I managed to say yep, and take the
picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was flabbergasted at the idea
that Michael Vartan had his arm around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was this for real?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I took
the picture, he even asked me if it turned out okay before he left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him it was fine, and he told us to
enjoy the game, waved goodbye and walked into the locker room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides what I had seen from afar, I
confirmed that he really is a good guy and very down to earth, who appreciates
his fans.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't mind me, but just look at his smile, as well as the placement of his arm around me. :)</td></tr>
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We stayed on the red carpet for a few more minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a couple of other people that we
thought would be fun to get a picture or two of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we stayed long enough so that we could get
a picture of David Boreanaz from Bones, as well as Isaiah Mustafa, otherwise
known as the Old Spice guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also did
spot Alan Thicke but based on the entourage with him, I didn’t think it was
worth the possibility of not having good seats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So since we had seen who we wanted to see we headed inside the hockey
rink.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Broeanaz from Bones & Isaiah Mustafa aka the Old Spice Guy</td></tr>
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Having never been to a Hockey game before I didn’t know
where the best seats would be, but I assumed that sitting in the front row
would be a good bet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we were looking
around for where we could get the closest when we noticed a single bench at the
center of the rink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked down to
the bench and looked below us to find more benches that we right next to the
ice with doors leading to the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
looked at this and thought that this had to be prime real estate, but also
wondered why no one was sitting there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But decided that we would sit there anyway, unless we heard something saying
it was a bad spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was then that I
looked below and saw my co-worker coming out of a door below us and into the
bench area right next to the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took
my opportunity of knowing someone who had connections to the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked him what went on in the area below
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He showed us that the door right
below us was where all the players would enter and exit the locker room
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The benches were reserved for the
media and family of players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided
that we had found the perfect spot.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ref on the left hand side of the picture is my co-worker - I know that the others are celebrities as well, but I honestly have no idea who they are. - Picture was taken by the Salt Lake Tribune</td></tr>
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He and I have always gotten along very well, so we did a
little chit chat, then he asked me if I there was anyone that I was really
looking forward to watch play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told
him that I was there for Michael Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He smiled and rolled his eyes at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He then wondered why I was there for an actor and not for the actual NHL
players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily it was a rhetorical question,
and he then went on to tell me that he was just talking to Michael a few
moments ago and that he’s just right behind the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then advised that even though the players
came out through that door, that they would be sitting across the arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also said that some players would
sometimes take pucks and throw them into the netting for the fans on the front
row.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought about moving, but
decided against it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then told me to
have fun and disappeared back into the locker room area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though we decided that we had found our
best spot, we decided we may want to look at the front row.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we moved, but then decided that it was too
crowded with little kids and as much as I would want that puck if it was
Michael Vartan tossing it over, I wouldn’t take it from a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we went back to the lonely bench.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only someone else had taken our seat next to
the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we went to the other side
of the bench, and noticed that there was another door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been sitting for only a minute or two
when my co-worker came back out, only this time he came out of the door that we
were sitting next to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked around and
saw me and asked why we switched seats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then quickly told us that we were probably better off anyway as this
was the door that they would be using, not the other one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had chosen well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then said that he got something for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then saw that he was carrying a
puck, he told me to be really careful, because the ink was still wet, because it
had just been signed especially for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He climbed up the benches and handed me a puck signed by Michael
Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thanked him profusely, and he
told me it wasn’t a big deal and to enjoy the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here I was, the game hadn’t even started and I
had already had Michael Vartan put his arm around me as we took a selfie,
talked to him for a small moment, and now he had signed a hockey puck just for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was amazed at my luck.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was paranoid about losing this during the entire game, I kept checking my purse to make sure it was still there and that nothing in my purse would ruin it.</td></tr>
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As they were getting ready to begin the game I saw the media
started to accumulate below us getting ready to take pictures of the players
coming out of the locker room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t
a great shot, but I was willing to take anything I could get, picture wise, and
so I planted myself with my camera so I could get video of Michael Vartan
coming out of the locker room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One guy
from the media was very friendly and started up a conversation with me as we
were waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked if there was
anyone in particular that I wanted a picture of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him, and he told me that I couldn’t
see it, but that Michael Vartan was literally just right behind the door, he
also told me that he would give me a heads up when it looked like they were
ready to come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was good on his
word and even though it wasn’t a great angle, I got the video of Michael Vartan
coming out of the locker room and getting on the ice.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see, I really didn't have the best angle, but it was a pretty good position to be in for all the coming and going from the locker room.</td></tr>
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I took a few pictures of him on the ice as well as some of
the others as well, but mostly of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
I turned on my video for a moment when I realized that they were starting to
warm up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I followed him with my camera
as he started up slow and then kicked it into full gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He really can skate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I however need to remember that the iPhone
needs to be turned horizontal for the video to actually look good, so sorry
about that. The video is only a sampling of what he was doing on the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I really enjoyed watching him and seeing
some of the little things that he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You know how much I love those little details in Alias, so it’s not
surprising that I would pick up on them here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But watched as he practiced handling the puck, as well as noticing how
much he really loves being out on the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You could see them preparing to start the game and the other players for
the most part had gone over to their bench.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he stayed out there, skating and helping retrieve all the pucks that
had been put on the ice for the warm up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wasn’t throwing them at the audience, but actually helping the refs
collect them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that moment, I had the
thought that he doesn’t think that he is too good for anything or that he is
above helping people in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
really liked seeing this side of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After they had finished announcing the players and doing
some official stuff, I watched as he skated over towards us and saw that he was
going to run back in to the locker room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I grabbed my camera again and got a few more shots of him up close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he returned only a moment later, I saw
why he left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the warm up, for some
reason he was wearing a jersey that had one of his numbers crossed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he came back, his jersey had the correct
number of 66 without a crossed out 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not sure why it happened, but it was nice to get that extra chance for more
pictures.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I may not have had the best angle for pictures, but I managed a few good ones.</td></tr>
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Once the game began, I actually was interested in the game
and I was trying to figure out what the rules were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never really caught on, but it was still
fun to attempt to figure it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I
did learn is that even though there were many players wearing essentially the
same outfit, I could easily pick him out at any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had noticed this earlier in the day, but
hadn’t thought anything of it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks much
skinnier in person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I said I hadn’t
thought much of it, until he was out on the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he was easy to spot as he was the skinniest
man on the ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually got very
caught up in the game and forgot to take pictures or video during the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know feel kinda like an idiot for
forgetting, but oh well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did notice
that he must be an offence player as he usually kept close to his team’s
goalie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although when needed he could
easily skate up towards the other side to help out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other thing that I noticed was that he
seemed to be paying close attention to not getting hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the most part he avoided fighting over
the puck with another player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he did start
to, it seemed like it was out of habit, but then remembered that he had to be
careful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure if this was the
case, but it was what it looked like from my standpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assumed that it was because he was still
filming Bates Motel and that he needed to still look like the gorgeous boyfriend,
so he was instructed to not get hurt or to mess up his face.<div class="MsoNormal">
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The players went back to the locker room for a little while
after the second quarter and I was able to get another picture or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I was waiting with my camera for
another awkward shot of him coming out of the locker area and back onto the
ice, the media guy from earlier struck up another conversation with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked if I had gotten any good shots yet,
I told him that they were okay, but I had gotten some really good ones earlier
on the red carpet, and I already had the hockey puck I was pretty happy so
far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then told me that if I wanted to
give him my cell number, he would text me all of the pictures of Michael Vartan
that he ended up getting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seemed nice
enough, so I went for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t going
to pass up on additional pictures, but I wasn’t too sure that he would actually
follow up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I figured that there was
no harm just giving him my number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got
a few more shots as they got back on the ice. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the grin on his face still, he is excited to be here, having the chance to play with players that he admires.</td></tr>
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This is where I really regret putting down my camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was actually engrossed in watching what
was going on, I didn’t think about what I good video it would make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time around as they warmed back up,
there was a different vibe among the players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were for the most part, just goofing off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once again Michael Vartan caught my
attention with the little details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
looked over to where he was, and saw that he had taken one of the players who
had purchased a spot to play with them, and was practicing passing the puck
along with showing some tricks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally
this wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but the other play was a little boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted the little boy was the son of David
Broeanaz, but nonetheless Michael was taking the time to spend one on one time
with this 11 year old boy out on the ice while the other players mostly sat on the
bench and chatted with one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing him interact with a child made my heart
melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean really how lucky is he
wife?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is madly in love with her and
loves talking about her, plus he’s good with kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It defiantly makes me wonder when they will
have one of their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few moments
later that had a miniature shootout, they had three players from each team try and
score a goal with just the goalie in their way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t believe that when they called Michael out for his turn I didn’t
grab the camera, but oh well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did
great, even going for a trick shot with the puck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the goalie caught it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone there was impressed and the guys who
were the MC’s tried to convince him as well as encouraging the audience to help
convince him to do it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
looked embarrassed and declined and got back on the bench. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure when this was taken, this was one of the shots taken my my friend from the media that asked for my phone number. It's kind of funny to think about all the people conspiring behind the scenes of the game to get good things for me in relation to Michael Vartan. I love the kindness of other people! - But just look at how happy he is just to be sitting on the bench and talking to a former NHL player.</td></tr>
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They finished the hockey game, his team lost though,
although by only one point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I officially
became a hockey fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least a fan of
games like this one was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the game
they took a group shot and I tried to get a few pictures of him there, but once
again I didn’t have the best angle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
I saw Michael leave the ice for the locker rooms, we decided that we didn’t
need to stick around any longer, that we would be better off waiting for
everyone to leave the arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again
I managed to get a prime location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus even
though she was in a hurry to get to another event, I was able to catch Andie
McDowell, for a signature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
manage a picture though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we were
waiting for Michael Vartan to come out, we saw David Boraenaz again and I was
able to get a few more pictures of him and his signature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was having them sign a shirt from the event
that the mascot of the LA Kings had thrown at me earlier before the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Then once again my heart jumped as I saw Michael Vartan coming
out of the locker room and ready to greet everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after seeing the rush that some of the
others players were in, seeing that most of them had waved at the fans, signed a
couple things, took one or two pictures and they were gone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>But luckily for me I am a fan of a very
gracious man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which like I mentioned
before is what made me a fan in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stopped multiple times before getting to the
end of the line where I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right ahead
of me where a bunch of little kids, and after watching them get turned down a
few times by other stars, it was great to see Michael actually full on interact
with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had two Hockey sticks and
he gave them to these kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even
went as far as to make sure that when he gave the second stick away that they
were in the same family so that they wouldn’t end up fighting over the
stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He signed everything they handed
him and he asked them questions the whole time being fully engaged with these
kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think that anything is
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Vartan greeting fans, having conversations with them. Giving his hockey stick to a set of brothers, telling them not to fight over it, or with it. The last one my friend took as he was walking over towards me.</td></tr>
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Once the kids were done, it was my turn again, he signed my
shirt and I asked if I could get a picture that wasn’t a selfie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He happily put his arm around me once more and
smiled for the camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to
tell him how much I loved his work, and that I thought his wife was
wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I mentioned his wife, he
lit up and wondered how I knew her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
said that I didn’t but that I had talked with her on twitter a few times and
thought that she seemed very nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
he told me that she is indeed wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I then asked if he was heading back up to Vancouver to finish up Bates
Motel, and he told me that no he lived in LA, and that they were finished
filming Bates Motel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I came so close to
blurting out that I knew he lived in LA and that I’ve past his house on
multiple occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I held my
tongue.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me that it was nice to
meet me and headed out the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By the end of the day, I was exhausted and my face hurt from smiling, but once again he was more than willing to put his arm around me once more and show off his heart melting smile.</td></tr>
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Once again I was amazed at what good luck I had had during
the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jody came around the gate as we
were in weird positions around the gate, and we fought through the crowd to get
outside and out to the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got
outside, we found that we were about to walk into a photo that someone was
taking of their group with Michael Vartan and she wondered out loud if he would
do another one with her in the photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was his first sign of being a little overwhelmed, I think because they
were bombarding him with Alias related questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing I have found after watching
interviews, he knows that he owes his fame to Alias, but he isn’t a fan of only
being recognized for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I stepped in
and offered to take their photo together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He never stopped smiling or being friendly to these fans, but he was grateful
to get off of the Alias topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
changed the topic saying that he can’t wait for the role where he gets to shave
his head and kill someone as the bad guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They brought up Bates Motel and he told them that he is literally the
only character in the show that didn’t get to do anything exciting like
killing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess we’ll see about that
when Bates Motel starts in March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
ended up walking towards the cars together and I mentioned that my husband and
I loved watching Demoted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiled and
thanked me and said that it was a fun one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jody and I stopped at the edge of the curb for me to look through my
purse and find my keys and put away some stuff before we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t notice that one last person had
stopped Michael before getting on to his van that would take him home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was the cutest old lady, and she only
wanted a picture of him against the mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I hadn’t just put my camera away, I would’ve taken one too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The funniest part of this was that behind us,
someone was heckling him; I’m guessing that they are buddies in some form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But while he was smiling politely without
even thinking he flipped his friend off, but just did it at waist level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then he realized his mistake, and quickly
checked with the nice old lady to see if she had taken his picture from the
waist and up, he seemed genuinely concerned that her picture would be ruined; and
wanted to make sure that in no way was he flipping her off, that it was aimed
at his friend over there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time I
really felt like we were stalking him, but it really wasn’t on purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried to keep our distance and let him get
into his van before going to our car, so we didn’t end up walking together again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he did end up noticing us and called over
to us and told us to have a good night and that it was nice to meet us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After this one day being near him, I found him to be the
ultimate gentleman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t imagine that
he is any different on a day to day basis, but I could be wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wish that he was more recognized in
Hollywood and given more roles that he wants, like the role of a killer who has
to shave his head, but not only that, but letting him show his comedic side,
and not just on movies that are destined to tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He really does have talent and I can’t
imagine that working with him would be hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have to say that I will treasure this experience, as well as buy
tickets for next year at the first possible chance.</div>
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We left the ice arena with the intention of heading down to
Sundance since we were literally 2 miles away from Park City Main Street, but
decided that we had had enough fun and we were far too tired for more
excitement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ended up heading back
into Salt Lake and grabbing some dinner before heading home to our kids and the
inevitable question from our girls who are best friends asking if they could
have a sleepover (we caved and allowed it, even though I was dead tired.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we had genuinely had a good day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Jody being an introvert and really not
being a fan of crowded situations even enjoyed the whole thing and is ready to
join me next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we were eating I
received a text from an unknown number and almost dismissed it until later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then Jody reminded me that I’m expecting
a text from an unknown number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I open it
up and there were four more glorious pictures of Michael Vartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I think that after the hellish week and a half that I had
had leading up to the hockey match, the stars aligned to make sure that I would
have a good day, and I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I
mentioned before, I am still in shock of meeting this man that I have somewhat
come to idolize on this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while
Michael Vaughn will still be my favorite character on Alias, I will definitely be
looking for more of Michael Vartan in him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because while I may not have a crush on the man in the traditional
terms, I still find him to be very attractive and seeing him in real life and
seeing how he treats others only made him better. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my favorite shots from the day rolled up into one picture.</td></tr>
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Once again thank you Michael Vartan for giving me the best
day I have had in a long time, and turning a really shitty week around for me.</div>
Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-56010292650565235622014-01-06T13:37:00.000-07:002014-01-06T13:37:11.317-07:00Happy Birthday Bradley Cooper & Will Tippin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is going to be a very short post, but I just realized that I missed Bradley Coopers birthday on Saturday. I think that it's safe to assume that it was also Will Tippin's birthday Saturday as well. Will was and is Sydney's best friend, and she misses him everyday, especially in season three when everything was so messed up for her. For Vaughn, Will represented what he wanted for so long, Sydney. But once he had Sydney he thought of Will as a friend, and since Sydney would do anything for Will, Vaughn would too. But you can't help but see the frustration and jealousy Vaughn had in Crossings when he found out that Sydney had slept with Will. Looking toward the future episodes with where I am in the series it's sad to think that I only have one more Will Tippin episode. He is probably the character I miss the most from seasons 1 & 2. <br />
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So Happy Belated Birthday Bradley Cooper and Will Tippin!<br />
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<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-78614596962997817732013-12-30T00:49:00.002-07:002013-12-30T13:24:27.007-07:00An Overview of Season Three, and Some Other Thoughts…<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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First off I want to congratulate myself, after realizing
that finishing the series by the end of the year wasn’t going to happen, I at
least wanted to finish season three by the end of it. So I am happy that I was
able to finally get through what I knew from the beginning would be the hardest
season for me to recap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mentioned it
during some of the season two recaps, but getting into the lives of these two
characters as much as I do in this blog, is incredibly emotionally
draining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with all the ups and downs
that Sydney and Vaughn had to endure during this season, it was very
draining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t thought about it
before now, but that may have added to why it took me four and a half months to
go through the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like a
lifetime ago that I was able to do a recap in a single night, let alone two to
four as I was doing in the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Looking towards season four, I expect that I will have some episodes
that will drain me, and believe it or not I enjoy those episodes the most, and
there will be some that I will be able to get out in a single night again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for now let’s look at how season three overall
affected the relationship.</div>
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Out of any season, this season took the biggest toll on
Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With its events, how could it not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The season begins with Sydney finding out
that the last two years of her life she doesn’t remember anything, and her life
that she does remember has been turned upside down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The love of her life is now married to
another woman, her father is in prison, her best friend who she thought died
shortly before she lost her memory is still alive but in witness protection,
and she is in a foreign country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see
her struggle with all of these factors and personally the fact that she isn’t
perfect and that she does break down is what makes me love her even more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Vaughn the season begins with him seeing
the one person that means more than anything else in his life back from the
dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that he is so relieved
to finally see her again and know that she is alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he knows that he also has to deliver the
bad news that she has been dead, and that he moved on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So all in all, the season opened to
absolutely horrific circumstances for Sydney and Vaughn personally and even
worse for their relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going from
being a perfect couple, almost engaged even, (yes, I still believe that Vaughn
was planning on proposing) to having it end without the permission of either of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention the fact that for
Sydney, she still feels like they were together the day before.</div>
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As the season progresses, they start to rebuild their
relationship that they had in the beginning, but unfortunately, it’s not that
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s made clear early on that they
are both still madly in love with each other, but Vaughn is stuck loving two
women, although in different ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starting
out as partners on missions again is very awkward for them in the beginning,
but when they aren’t thinking that they are stuck in an awkward position and are
focused on the mission; their subconscious actions show us that they still have
each other as priorities in their respective lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, being back with Sydney, Vaughn
will instinctively go to put his hand on the small of Sydney’s back, then
remembers that he doesn’t have that right anymore and pulls back. He pulls back
in the first few episodes, but towards the middle he doesn’t stop himself
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a little different with
Sydney, she’s always been more careful about showing her emotions at the wrong time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shows regret in blowing up at Vaughn, and
then shows her love to Vaughn by respecting his choice to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if she doesn’t like it, she tries as
hard as she can to be polite to Lauren and not interfere with their
relationship.</div>
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I do love the importance of their dreams though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is through their dreams that we can see
their true feelings and fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see
early on that Vaughn while in the hospital wants nothing more than to wake up
with Sydney by his side waiting for him to wake up and being there with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he wakes up in his dream he
looks around and looks upset until he sees Sydney asleep on a chair next to his
bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wakes her up and she comes
over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks where he is and she tells
him he is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">home. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above anything else in his life this makes
more sense than anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
there with Sydney by his side so he is home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Vaughn it doesn’t matter that Sydney stabbed him and was the one to
put him in the hospital, he knows that it was the only way that she could save
his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the dream Sydney begins to
cry and ask that he’s okay, and telling him that she was so afraid that she had
lost him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that her saying this
is echoing his feelings when she died along with what he wanted to say to her
when he went to Hong Kong to pick her up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had thought that he had lost her and was relieved beyond measure that
she was okay, even if he had to suffer through two years of pain and
grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the dream when she says this Vaughn
puts his hand up to her face and caresses it in his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it interesting that in his dream,
knowing how sick he could possibly be, he dreams of comforting Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she tells him that when she left him,
thinking that she may not see him again made her realize how much she misses
him, and he tells her that he misses her too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve said it before in the episode that this takes place, but they see each
other all the time at work and on missions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not that they miss each other, but they miss who they were able to
be with each other before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They miss the
connection that they used to have together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was even stated in the episode before this one, when Vaughn asks
Sydney about Julia, and he tells her that he knows that they aren’t where they
used to be, but even before they were a couple they never kept secrets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also misses being the person that he used
to be rather than the impersonation of someone happy that he’s been playing
since he decided to move on after her death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He ends up kissing her in the dream, so we know that he also wants to be
with her rather than Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after
the kiss, Sydney sits up and stabs him again and asks him how he could do this
to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn’s subconscious is
reminding him that he did move on too quickly, and that he should’ve waited for
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He feels like he deserves whatever
punishment he gets from Sydney now that he has other priorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see him wake up, and you can tell
that he is realizing all of these things and trying to process them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he looks over and sees that it is Lauren
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On the other side of things we look at the first part of
Sydney’s dream when she goes in for the memory recovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her first dream is being back to at the last
night that she remembers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she still
has all of these new memories with her as well of what did happen while she was
presumed dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wakes up in the
ambulance and Vaughn is there with her and he is excited to see her wake
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney remembering that Vaughn is
married is confused to see Vaughn with her and is trying to make sense of the
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her first instinct is not to
accept that the past few months were a bad dream and needs to make sure that
this moment is real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also has to ask
where she is, and the EMT answers her questions, letting her believe that she
really is back to that night when she fought Allison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her the basics of what happened
to Will as well as Francie not being Francie but really Allison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is getting anxious being in this situation;
she wants answers and doesn’t want to lie down as the EMT keeps insisting on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney asks Vaughn about the Covenant, and he
tells her that they are showing as a possible emerging threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also asks about Sloane being pardoned,
and this confuses Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in Sydney’s
dream she has to make sure that all of the things about her new life that upset
her at work aren’t real and wants that reassurance before she can move on to
checking on why Vaughn is with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
she has confirmed that aspect of her life isn’t as screwed up as she thought it
was she looks down and sees Vaughn holding on to her hand with both of his
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks at it for a moment and
then makes the statement that he’s not wearing a wedding ring, and he tells her
that he thought that they would go to Santa Barbara first and see how things
go. (This is her dream; she doesn’t know that he was planning on proposing
there.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the first statement that
she makes about him not being married, he plays it off as a joke, but then when
she sits up and asks him to confirm that he’s not married, still joking but
softer he tells her that she really must have hit her head hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then tells him that she thought that he
had given up on them, and she is almost in tears with that acknowledgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is big because while she did say it to
him in the first episode of the season, she has known that he really didn’t
give up on her, just had to move on to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we are all a little petty and it’s still in the back of her head as
being true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then he tells her what
she has wanted him to say since she turned up in Hong Kong, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd, when I walked into your apartment and
I saw you lying there, I thought, God, don’t let me miss a chance to tell her
how much I love her.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This statement
makes everything that is wrong in her life seem to melt away and she is
okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She kisses him and tells him that
she loves him too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as she comes away
from the kiss she sees that she is kissing Sloane and not Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then later when she wakes up and finds Vaughn
next to her bed and still believes it’s a dream and ends up kissing him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Telling him sorry, but I just can’t help it,
I miss you so much. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing how
conflicted Vaughn is with wanting to kiss her back, yet also wanting to be a
loyal husband is such a heartbreaking moment for both of them when they semi
acknowledge how much they both still want to be together.</div>
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The thing that I find interesting about both of their
individual dreams is that they initially dream about the one thing that they
want more than anything at the time, which is to be with each other once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But both of them end their ideal
moment with a horrifying ending, or you could even say they go from their best
dream to their worst nightmare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Vaughn it is the possibility that Sydney will never forgive him for moving on
when he thought that she was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
fears that now that Sydney is back in his life, he will lose her because of the
choices that he has made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fear ends
up driving him to have a fierce need to protect her against Lauren and other
obstacles in other episodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Sydney,
she is already living her worst nightmare and having to see Sloane guide her to
where she needs to go reminds her that the life that she wants with Vaughn isn’t
happening, as well as reminding her that she once again has to work with the man
that has taken so much from her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Wow, I really can’t shut up about some topics, I’m
sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I really do find that those
two moments are pivotal in what they each were feeling at the beginning of the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the season progressed their friendship did
begin to come back, although it was still strained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially after what happened in North Korea,
with Vaughn admitting that in his life only Sydney really matters, but then
after not being killed having to go back to Lauren took their already strained
relationship to a new level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very
clear that they wanted to be with each other, Vaughn just needed to figure out
how to break the news to Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Sydney, although she understood the circumstances, still had a hard time
coping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she still shows her love for
Vaughn where she can, including noticing that it was the anniversary of Vaughn’s
father’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This showed Vaughn once
again why Sydney is a better match for him than Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although by the time they figured out that Lauren
was Covenant, I think Sydney had reached a point where she wasn’t sure if she
could trust that Vaughn would come back to her after being hurt so many times
by his need to be a gentleman regarding the Lauren situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows that she still loves him and
considers him her soul mate, but she has to learn how to trust again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Vaughn he develops such a hatred of Lauren
that it envelops him completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
while they fought Lauren for each other in the final episode of the season, as
well as coming together for that fantastic kiss and if only for a moment going
back to the way things were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
relationship will never be the same, although it doesn’t mean the end for them
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both just have to work a
few things out before they can really be together again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is at this spot emotionally where they
will start out when we begin season four. </div>
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I’ve mentioned this many times, but as much as I hated
season three the first time I watched it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I couldn’t wait for Lauren to be dead and out of the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have truly learned to love this
season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching Vaughn protect Sydney
at all costs, including upsetting his wife by doing it, and watching them
struggle through what they both want verses what they can have, as well as what
their personal values dictate is appropriate to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn share some of the most
moving moments together as they get to know each other again and return to
their unspoken pact of always protecting each other and having each other’s
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus the added sexual tension that
is so abundant in this season makes it fantastic!</div>
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Plus I can’t forget about all the theories that I had while so
engrossed in this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still
believe that my theory about Home for Vaughn is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Vaughn home isn’t a place, it’s a state
of mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched very carefully to
make sure of this, but Vaughn only said I love you to Lauren one time, and that
was in the third episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also he never
even uttered the word home to her; he would always refer to where they lived as
the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His home is wherever Sydney
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This theory is only one among the
many other episode interruptions that I made for my random thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in case you missed them, here they are…</div>
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Home as Vaughn views it...</div>
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The Missing Two Years and How They Affected Sydney & Vaughn ... <a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-missing-two-years-how-they-affected.html">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-missing-two-years-how-they-affected.html</a></div>
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In an attempt to keep this post semi short, I know it’s
already longer than I had planned, instead of going over my favorite moments, I
thought that it may be easier to just put the clips of those moments all
together in one video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here are some
of my favorite season three moments… The first one I don't know if you can call it a favorite, but since I love to cry, I do call it a favorite moment, just because it breaks my heart every time.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Before I end this
post there are just a few things that I wanted to touch on, mostly just small
observations, or questions that came up during the season, as well as questions
that I have seen others post, that I will attempt to answer, even if it may not
be completely correct.</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><strike>Today</strike> Yesterday being Kevin Weisman’s birthday, I think it’s
proper to have a shout out to him, and since the writers generally matched up
the characters birthday with the actors, I think it’s safe to assume that it is
also Marshall’s birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Happy
Birthday Marshall & Kevin!<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></span></li>
<li>On the note of Marshall, I made a realization
the other day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you had already
made the observation, and I am slow on the uptake, but Carrie and Marshall have
their first non-work related conversation when Marshall sees Carrie crying and
asks her if she is okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was only
crying because the music she was listening to, Joni Mitchell made her cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it very cute that they named their
first child after that encounter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wonder if they were to have had a girl if they would’ve named her Joni.<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Q: What role in the Covenant does Katya Derevko
play?<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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<li>A: I honestly don’t have an answer to this
question, and when I try to answer it, I only seem to come up with more
questions, which I’ve listed below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
will watch her few episodes in season four very carefully looking for an
answer.<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I know
she doesn’t want harm done to Sydney if it can be avoided, but why does she
tries to kill her in the final episode of the season? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She appears to help the CIA on multiple occasions,
yet in the final episode she shows her true form as being Covenant, was she
placed so that she could act as a mole in certain circumstances guiding the CIA
where the Covenant wanted them to go? At one point claim that she was trying to
protect Irina’s child, when speaking of the passenger; does this mean that the
Passenger more important than the Chosen One for Rambaldi followers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also how does Lauren know that Katya is
Covenant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did Katya know where
Vaughn had taken Lauren to, when he was planning his torture session with her?<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Q: Knowing that the cliffhanger in season three
is Sydney finding out that Jack had requested to kill Irina because a hit had
been placed on Sydney’s life by Irina, since Lauren knew about it, when did
Jack actually kill Irina?<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<ul>
<li>A: I touched on this during the episode
breakdown for when I thought it must have happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in case you missed that one, I talked
about it in Legacy, 3;21, but I have to believe that it happened sometime between
Hourglass and Blood Ties.</li>
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<li>Q: Why did Sloane think at one point that Sydney was his? </li>
<ul>
<li>A: I have to say that the only logical answer to this is that Sloane and Irina had an affair on two separate occasions. The first time being around the time that Irina conceived Sydney, then the second time shortly before she disappeared in 1981 when Sydney was six years old.</li>
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<li>Q: How did Bill Vaughn rescue Nadia from the KGB if she was born in 1981 or 1982 when he supposedly died in 1979?</li>
<ul>
<li>A: He didn't. I will go into this aspect more during season four, but I strongly believe that Brill was working with the Covenant or at least Elena when he told Vaughn what he knew about the passenger. You can also see my post on the episode Legacy and I have gone into more depth on this. </li>
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<li>Q: How is Nadia a bio-weapon?</li>
<ul>
<li>A: Keep in mind that from the beginning all the sci-fi stuff never interested me. I have and always will be into this show for the characters. But here is what I think concerning this. Rambaldi is the one who referred to her as a bio-weapon. Maybe he didn't have the correct terminology for what she really is. I don't even know how to describe her. But essentially she is a conduit to a stored memory. That memory gives us the coordinates to the Sphere of Life. The Sphere of Life with the Horizon which is introduced in season five somehow work together to create eternal life.</li>
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That's all for now, I do have a small project that is also Alias related, but I want to work on before I begin season four. So it may be awhile before I am back, but I don't think it will take me too long. If by some weird chance you want to reach me, or ask what I think about a topic, you can post a comment on any post and I will quickly reply. You can also email me at AliasPsy47@gmail.com You can also see me on Tumblr (<a href="http://aliaspsy.tumblr.com/">http://aliaspsy.tumblr.com/</a>) and Pinterest (<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/bliss2262/alias-love/">http://www.pinterest.com/bliss2262/alias-love/</a>). Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09512044484794162411noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-602768493252012287.post-33702245417730704442013-12-26T21:25:00.001-07:002013-12-26T21:25:27.514-07:00S3 E22 – Resurrection<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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With this episode being the last of Season three, just by
seeing the previous season finale’s on this blog, you can expect me to not keep
it short, however I will do my best to only include the portions that
personally affect Sydney or Vaughn, as well as their relationship as a
whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As the episode opens we see Sydney entering the Rotunda
through various security checkpoints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
she goes through these check points we see her drop things in certain places
and adjust herself to go through them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Including what looks like adding contacts and spraying something in her
mouth immediately before checkpoints, one that require an eye scan, then
another with a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breath scan that is
actually checking DNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It becomes clear
that with her lack of smiling and communicating with those that say greet her
that something is off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially once
inside the Rotunda, with how many cell phones she has laid around as she goes
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then to only responding with a
slight smile when Marshall greets her; this is not Sydney!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sydney impersonator makes her way into
Marshall’s office and we soon find out that it is Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is talking with Sark who is set up
watching her in a parking garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall
walks in on Lauren and talks to her while she continues to download the needed
Intel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She never responds to his
ramblings, but she does pull out her gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Marshall is about to leave again, he finally questions what she is
doing and why she is doing it, her response was to shot him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she left his office, leaving him for
dead, Marshall managed to hit an alarm switch which alerting the building to an
intruder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately she had a backup
plan in place for this. All those cell phones as well as other random objects
dropped throughout her entrance are miniature bombs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark advises Lauren to keep her head down as
he begins setting off the charges.</div>
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After the first explosion hits, Vaughn sees Lauren disguised
as Sydney and yells out her name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can see that this is in extreme concern for her after seeing the charge send
others flying through the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But her
reaction took him by surprise when she didn’t stop when he yelled for her and
her obvious lack of concern for what was going on around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he didn’t immediately go after her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark then activates the cell phone that was
placed on his desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is far enough
away from it, that he is unscathed afterward, but barely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gets up and watches as she leaves the Rotunda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that something is wrong, he runs
after her with his gun drawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren is
only a few feet ahead of Vaughn as he chases her down a hallway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that he knows there is something
off with the situation, but still calls out, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd, wait!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this is
going on Weiss informs Jack that he found the signal of where the intruder was
broadcasting to, and gave him the address of where Sark was watching from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark also let Lauren know that Vaughn was
closing in on her; with that info she was able to hide, and surprise him by
hitting him with a large bar. Knocking him unconscious, even after he was
knocked out, she kicked him a few times as well before removing her mask and
showing herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the parking
garage, the CIA team apprehends Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren plays the victim once outside, getting a car to stop for her, unfortunately
for the Good Samaritan; she shoots him execution style and takes off in his
car. Vaughn has regained consciousness and made it to street level, but not in
time to see Lauren driving away.</div>
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Later on, the real Sydney is being held in a room, looking
irritated and wondering what she is doing there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is questioned about the security breach
at the Rotunda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man questioning her
(Foster) also shows her the video of her shooting Marshall, then explosions
going off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She immediately wants to know
if he is okay or if anyone was killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Back at the Rotunda, we see people trying to recover after
the bombs and attempt to clean up the Rotunda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn walks back in and looks around in concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passes by Jack and the next thing we see
id them off in a corner of the Rotunda speaking in private.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells Jack, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I used the key you gave me. I took the suitcase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m prepared to use it.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Vaughn had any doubts over what he was
feeling towards whether or not he should kill Lauren, her latest stunt of being
a double for Sydney solidified any of those doubts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she had learned anything about Vaughn during
her marriage and with Sydney returning, she should have learned, not to mess
with Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because that is one area
where Vaughn does not respond well, which is okay in my book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she doesn’t want to learn from her
mistakes it’s good with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing that
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advice, saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“When the agency
concludes, as they will, that Lauren was responsible, the pressure to capture
her will rise exponentially. The disposal project we discussed must be
anonymous. Once her status changes, that will be more difficult.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Jack is talking, Vaughn listens intently
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Before they can continue their conversation, Dixon
approaches them, and lets them know that Sark isn’t talking, and that he isn’t
asking for anything including a lawyer or even water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack thinks about this, then looks at Vaughn,
and tells Dixon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“May I suggest you have
Vaughn talk with him?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn isn’t
sure he likes this idea, but it does grow on him. Dixon tells Jack that he
isn’t sure it’s advisable with Vaughn and Sark’s personal history. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jack being the ultimate strategist tells
Dixon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sark undoubtedly will be more
afraid to face a man he so recently tortured. Given his pattern for caving out
of fear, I believe that Vaughn’s presence will more likely yield the results
we’re looking for.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Jack is
speaking Vaughn is considering this more and more, and he and Jack share a look
where it is almost like Jack is telling Vaughn now is your chance to take your
revenge on him, as well as find out where Lauren is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Jack finishes, Vaughn is looking at
Dixon for his permission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is now
looking forward to being in the same room with Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon nods his approval and Vaughn starts
walking off to interrogate Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon
turns and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“As the director, I
can’t sanction the beating of someone in our custody.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though he says this, it is clear that he
is saying that as a person I wholeheartedly think that it is fine for you to
take out some revenge after what Sark did to him (days or weeks) earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks back and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Understood. I’ll apprise you of any Intel
that comes from his interrogation.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is well aware of what Dixon meant rather
than what he said, and leaves to go work Sark over.</div>
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In the interrogation room, Sark watches as Vaughn enters and
tells the guards that they can leave as Vaughn rolls up his sleeves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is completely calm and collected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, if I was in Sark’s position, I
would be scared to death to see Vaughn enter through that door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sark doesn’t respond to him
entering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn casually walks over to
Sark and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Last time we were
together, our roles were reversed.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the smile that Vaughn has as he says
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get the impression that he
doesn’t necessarily want Sark to be forthcoming with information right
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still smiling from the situation,
Vaughn says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Funny how things happen.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that Sark finally speaks, and tells
Vaughn, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m afraid the irony is lost on
me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark is trying to get a rise
out of Vaughn, but Vaughn isn’t going to play into Sark’s attempts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn sighs and gets closer to Sark, then
smiles as he prepares for what is coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before beginning, Vaughn wants to taunt him a little as well, which I
think is fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells Sark, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You like the electric batons and the
injections. I’m not into accessories.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn smiles as he thinks about what type of
pain he is ready to inflict on Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sark then tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m more
than willing to cooperate, Mr. Vaughn. I will tell you everything you want. But
I will need something in return.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Sark can even finish that line of
thinking, Vaughn interrupts him and tells him that there will be no deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To which Sark declares that they are at an
impasse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then goes on to tell him that
it won’t take Lauren long to figure out the Rambaldi stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that Vaughn nods his head, stands up
strait, smirks at Sark, and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Well, better
get started then.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Vaughn being the
professional that he is doesn’t start beating him up, he does give Sark the
chance to answer his questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked
him where Lauren is, when Sark doesn’t respond, that is when Vaughn begins. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without hesitating, Vaughn walks up behind
Sark and immediately slams Sark's head into the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s Vaughn’s move, I don’t know exactly how
you would practice that move, but Vaughn has definitely perfected it, as we’ve
seen it happen to Sark many times over the years. </div>
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After the head butt to the table, Vaughn pulls back Sark’s
head and pushes his nose in to Sark’s face with his thumb and tells Sark that
he thinks he broke it. Then he steps back and asks him if he’s ready to
talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark is not happy, and you can see
the amount of damage that Vaughn inflicted, maybe when they switched scenes for
a moment he did the head bang a few more times, but he tells Vaughn yes, and
Vaughn sits on top of the table ready to listen. Sark continues telling Vaughn,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“When I first learned of your wife’s true
allegiance, I almost felt pity for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How embarrassing it must have been to learn that the woman you shared
your bed with was only using you as an unfortunate means to an end.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark looked up and smirked at Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn stays calm and simply tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I wouldn’t do this if I were you.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not paying any attention to Vaughn’s warning
continued with his train of thought saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But
then she wasn’t sharing your bed lately, was she? She was in mine. Or in my
car. Or an elevator. Or a garage. There was this one time…This is my favorite.
We were engaged in an alley, and she called you to tell you that she loved you.
That woman was deliciously filthy.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Vaughn saw that Sark was only going to
talk about his and Laurens extra-curricular activities, Vaughn took a key from
his pocket, stood up off the table, freed one of Sark's hands from the cuff and
twisted his arm and then pulled it behind his back and got Sark to shut up in a
hurry about Lauren and start gasping in pain instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn says to him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Feel that? Feels like a knife slicing through you, doesn’t it? Now
where is she?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When once again Sark
goes silent about where Lauren is, Vaughn takes that as his invitation to
inflict more pain and without any trouble pulls back on Sark's shoulder, and
you can hear the pop as it becomes dislocated. </div>
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While Vaughn is helping Sark <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">remember</i> where Lauren is, Sydney has been held in another part of
the Rotunda still being questioned by Foster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She tells him that he needs to focus on Lauren and gives him the reasons
why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then begins to question whether
Nadia and Lauren are connected somehow, and that she is also somehow
involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All because of what Rambaldi
has decided would be their fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this
newest line of questioning Sydney has had enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that if he wants to arrest her,
he better do it, if not they were done talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As she leaves he tells her that until DCI has his findings on the case,
she is reassigned as a desk clerk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Back in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interrogation</i>
Vaughn has hold of Sark's now dislocated arm and is still applying pressure to
it, making sure that Sark is in an incredible amount of pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While doing this, Vaughn tells Sark, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m not going to kill you. That would be
too easy. But I’ll leave you so disfigured that when you walk down the street,
people will pity you. Lauren is going to pay for the damage she’s done to the
people I care about, not for having an affair with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t give a rats ass who she’s sleeping
with. So for the last time, where is she?”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark doesn’t answer and we don’t
see what happens next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the last
we see of Sark and Vaughn together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it is for that last bit that Vaughn told Sark that I included this in the
breakdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well not the only
reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually really like the
scenes where Vaughn has the upper hand on Sark and is able to torture and
inflict pain on him so easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make
for great adversaries throughout the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although I believe that I have already gone into that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn has made it very clear now, that
he really doesn’t care about Lauren or what she does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However he is really pissed about what she did to
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said people that I care
about, but there is one person who matters to him and he is ready to make sure
that they get their just reward for what they did to her.</div>
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When Sydney gets back to the Rotunda after her own
interrogation, she looks around at the destruction that Lauren caused and she
is sickened by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sees Weiss and
asks him how Marshall is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss
tells her that Marshall is still in surgery, then goes on to tell her about all
of the other injuries and how many people were affected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all of this, even if she was still upset
with Vaughn, her next question is about where Vaughn is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is pretty clear that she also
wants to know how he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss tells
her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I haven’t seen him since he
finished interrogating Sark, but, uh, word it he worked him over pretty good.
Didn’t get any information out of him, but had to feel pretty good trying. I’m
sure he’ll be back soon. Probably needed to walk it off.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
Weiss is telling her this, you can see the look of concern cross her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think she knows that Vaughn got something,
they have dealt with Sark for long enough to know that he has flexible
loyalties when it comes to self-preservation and that Vaughn most likely did
get something.</div>
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So it comes to no surprise that the next thing we see is
Sydney talking to Vaughn on the phone, obviously concerned for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is off in a corner where she can’t be
overheard and she tells Vaughn, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Eric
said you took off. Need some company?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see that Vaughn is outside in a dark
location in the rain, and he is watching something in the distance. When he
answers her you can see that he is preoccupied with whatever he is watching,
and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No, I’m good.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then asks him where he is and you can see
that he doesn’t want her involved with what he is doing, he feels like he needs
to protect her from Lauren and that he needs to take care of this on his
own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And simply responds to her by
saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Doesn’t matter.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the Rotunda, Sydney smiles for a
moment then has a realization of what he might be doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What
does that mean?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when she
doesn’t get a response from him she goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She asks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn, what’s going
on?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see Vaughn again and it appears
that he is fighting himself with what he needs to do, but while he does this he
doesn’t answer Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see
Sydney sigh and get a look of fear cross over her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She takes a deep breath and realizes what is
going on and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sark talked, didn’t
he? And you know where Lauren is.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is still watching something across from
him and you can see that he doesn’t want to say much to Sydney about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still protecting her from anything that he
can, he simply says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m taking care of
it.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing this, Sydney is
visibly shaken and very concerned for Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Honestly it looks like she could cry thinking about what she knows he’s
planning. She tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I don’t know
what you’re thinking, but you cannot do this Michael. If you kill her, you will
be arrested and charged with her murder. And if you’re not, if you get away
with it, it’ll haunt you, Michael. God after everything we’ve been through,
I’ll lose you all over again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Sydney is pleading with Vaughn you can
see that he is thinking it over and considering what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can also tell how serious this is for her,
with how rarely she refers to him as Michael; he knows that she means it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also just by the sound of her voice she is
terrified, she may have been mad at him in the last episode, but she is trying
to get over it, and thinking of losing him whether to jail, or just his own
demons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows him well enough to
know that killing her isn’t something that he can easily live with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Vaughn has seen Lauren ruin too many
lives, including his and Sydney’s to let her get away with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he isn’t going to back down easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Sydney was pleading with him, he saw
Lauren’s car approach, and once Sydney is done speaking, he tells Sydney that he has to go
and he hangs up the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Their phone conversation leaves both of them wondering what
the next course of action really should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney wants to know how she can save her soul mate from changing who he
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn knows that he has to do
something to stop Lauren from continuing to destroy the lives of the people
that he cares most about, while taking Sydney’s words into consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because right now Vaughn knows two things for
sure; one, he wants to spend the rest of his life making the last year up to
Sydney and two, Lauren needs to pay for what she has done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he just needs to figure out how to make
the two balance out with each other.</div>
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After getting off the phone with Sydney Vaughn watches as
Lauren pulls into a parking spot and hurries into a nearby building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the look on his face, he is still ready to
kill Lauren, but we know better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though he is cautioned by Sydney’s pleading he still plans on exacting some
revenge on her and making the rest of her living life very difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do still find it amazing that with all the
rage that Vaughn has in him at this moment, he is still able to stay calm and
wait for her to get her Intel, even taking pictures of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making sure that while he is on an
unsanctioned mission of his own making, he is still going to pass along any
usable Intel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn finds out that the
Rambaldi equation is simply a location, which turns out to be in Palermo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Lauren gets her answer, Vaughn watches
her shot her source and walk away with the money she was paying him with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that Vaughn has her in his sights, she
is not going to get away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He lies in
wait in a hallway, just as she did earlier, and when she approaches he knock
her unconscious with a crow bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once he
does this he says very bitterly, yet its humorous to me, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hi, Honey.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After greeting
her, he does get in a few more blows with the crow bar before taking her
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Knowing that Vaughn isn’t in a place where he is ready to
give up on going after Lauren, Sydney goes to find out where Vaughn is
headed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She requests the tapes from
Sark’s interrogation only to find that it has been classified by Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney finds Jack and tells him that she
wants to see the tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No, you don’t, not if you want what’s best
for Vaughn.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney anxiously responds,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know what he’s going to do if we
don’t stop him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Jack simply looks
at her and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yes. He’ll get
closure.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then realizes that
Jack has been pushing Vaughn towards killing Lauren and Sydney is not
happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stares him down as she tells
him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You want him to kill Lauren.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she is not happy about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack remains his same cool and collected
person he always is and explains his reasoning to Sydney, saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If he doesn’t, it will eat at him like a
cancer. The only cure is to end it now. She destroyed Vaughn’s life.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is getting more upset with each word
and then finally tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn’s
life, not yours. This is about what Lauren did to Vaughn, not what mom did to
you. I don’t know what you’ve told him or how much of this you’ve orchestrated,
but in some twisted way, You’ve got Vaughn carrying your burden, trying to get
you closure by doing the one thing you never had the chance to do… Kill the
person who betrayed you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>When
Sydney finished speaking Jack looked at her and told her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I did have the chance. And I didn’t take it. And not a day went by
that I didn’t regret letting her go. Vaughn will feel the same way. He will end
up like me, and I love you too much to let that happen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Once Jack is done with what he has to say
to Sydney, he walks away leaving her to wonder what she should do and if her
father is right about Vaughn and Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Sydney and Jack are speaking we see Vaughn pull into a warehouse
and open up the truck containing Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He picks her up and carries her over his shoulder to his work area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also
it is interesting to note that even if Sydney and Vaughn aren’t really together
anymore or yet, or however you want to look at it, with as much as Jack doesn’t
necessarily approve of Vaughn and Sydney being together, he knows that they
will and he is already making sure that Vaughn will be okay mentally once they
are together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of wish that Vaughn
was able to hear some of these things that Jack has said to Sydney about
Vaughn, just so he knows that Jack does actually accept him as a good fit for
Sydney. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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In the warehouse that we saw Vaughn pulling into, Lauren is
now hanging from a pulley system by her hands, and is beginning to wake up.
Lauren seeing the position she is in, and seeing that Vaughn is in a position
to torture her, she makes an attempt to play the victim hoping that she can
appeal to the gentleman that she has manipulated so many times within
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Michael. Please, I need you to understand. When
the Covenant asked me to marry you, I knew eventually they wanted me to coax
you back into the CIA. But two years went by, and I hadn’t heard from them. By
then, I convinced myself I never would. I prayed I wouldn’t, because I’d fallen
in love with you.” </i>While Lauren was
pleading for her life Vaughn was quietly working away, basically ignoring her,
but Lauren telling him that she had fallen in love with him through him over
the edge, and he yelled at her to shut up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The last thing Vaughn wants is a reminder of how much she has ruined him
over the last year with her fake love; taking him away from Sydney when she
needed him the most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is angry; with
all that he has gone through we have never seen him this angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He usually has the ability to stay calm and
collected even when facing his worst nightmare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But now I think that if he wanted to be calm, he could, but he wants to
scare Lauren and he is doing a good job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After yelling at her to shut up, he walks over to her, gets right into
her face and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am going to
erase you. I’m going to remove any evidence you ever existed. You used me. You
used my grief. My work, who I am… You took that from me. I’m taking it back.” </i>I
love the way that Vaughn is able to be so scary, yet besides when yelling at
her to shut up, he didn’t yell again when telling her what he was going to do,
and why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calm and collected is much
scarier than yelling. After telling her this, he goes back to the table and
picks something up, he then goes on, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This
is hydrochloric acid. You’ll be unrecognizable.” </i>He
makes it clear that he has no intention of killing her, only inflicting a large
amount of pain on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows that
much he can live with as well as get a way with, and still be able to be with
Sydney.</div>
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For some reason I thought that I had included this portion
when I was posting about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn creating
a new person for after he lost Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you need a refresher, here is the link. <a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/09/vaughns-personal-battle-lauren-vs-sydney.html">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/09/vaughns-personal-battle-lauren-vs-sydney.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn telling Lauren that she took
advantage of who he was, his grief over losing Sydney, everything about him was
used as a ploy to gain advantages for the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Lauren telling him that she loves him,
only reminds him of what she took away from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turned him into a person he didn’t like,
someone that he had no desire to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also knowing that Lauren is Covenant and that the Covenant was responsible
for taking Sydney and faking her death, I think it’s reasonable to assume that
Vaughn blames Lauren for making him lose the one person he has really cared for
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With all of the stuff that Lauren did manage to get away
with over the course of this season you would expect her to be a little smarter
than she is in this scene, because after he tells her that, she makes an
attempt to change his mind but does it with the wrong topic, she says to him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Michael, I swear I was going to tell you
everything. You remember that night we went downtown and had dinner? Instead
you told me Sydney was back.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
Sydney’s name was mentioned Vaughn just about loses it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He yells at her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Don’t say her name!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
apparently Lauren is really stupid and enjoys antagonizing a man that is about
to kill her, by telling him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“She came
back and you didn’t need me anymore! I could see it in your eyes. Sydney came
back, and you…” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Lauren said
Sydney’s name again, Vaughn Immediately turned around and yelled right in her
face, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I said don’t say her name!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After yelling this at Lauren Vaughn points his
gun right at her face, but Lauren kept going saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney came back and I lost you!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considering all the shit she put him through
since Sydney returned, including trying on multiple occasion to kill him, she
has no right to say anything about losing him to Sydney, especially when he
wanted to be back with Sydney, but stayed with Lauren anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just looking into the situation form the
outside, I’m mad at her for making a statement like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only imagine the rage that Vaughn must
feel with her saying that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So seeing him
start firing gunshots right above her head is not surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus it got her to finally realize that her
playing the naïve little girl that loves him more than anything isn’t working
and she starts whimpering in fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Vaughn fired off his entire clip above her head, I think he knew that if he
didn’t empty the clip after seeing how mad he was getting with her comments, he
wouldn’t be able to exact his revenge in the way that he wanted to, that he
would end up killing her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after
emptying his clip, he yanks her head back by her hair so she is looking right
at him, he tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I hate you. But I
love Sydney more. That’s the only reason you’re not dying tonight.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love how he makes it abundantly clear that
yes, he does love Sydney more than he ever loved or even hated Lauren, and that
if it weren’t for Sydney he would kill her, but he is keeping her alive because
he wants to be there for Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately right after he says this, a knife is thrown into his back
and he staggers back a little, blood starts dripping from his mouth and he
collapses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t see who threw the
knife, but Lauren does know them and she looks at them and says, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thank God.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever threw the knife takes keys from
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The next thing we know is that Sydney waiting in a hospital
and immediately after we see Vaughn being wheeled in on a gurney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney immediately jumps out of her chair and
runs to Vaughn’s side, you can see that she is scared to death of losing him,
she yells, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Oh, My God, Vaughn!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the paramedics are telling the doctors
what happened as well as Vaughn’s vitals, Sydney listens to them as well as
running besides them, but is continuously yelling his name and hoping for a
response from him. Before they push him through the doors leading to surgery,
Sydney leans in close to him and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You
are going to be okay! Vaughn?”</i> She is left at the door to surgery visibly
shaken not knowing what to do next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
last moment reminds me of the moment in Counteragent after she takes Vaughn’s
blood and then he crashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has to
watch him being wheeled away there as well, not knowing what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily this time she doesn’t have to
immediately compose herself to talk to the girlfriend.</div>
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The next thing we see is Jack coming around the nurse’s
station and taking a seat next to a very somber Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I heard. Is he still in surgery?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney doesn’t answer him, but simply tells
him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You were right. Lauren has to pay.”
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love how Sydney and Vaughn are
constantly trying to protect each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The one thing that will motivate them more than anything else is someone
hurting the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn wanted revenge
on Lauren manly because of what she had done to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally when Sydney found out that Vaughn
was going to kill Lauren, she was upset about it, but after seeing what
happened to Vaughn she is just as mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now it’s Sydney’s turn to exact her revenge on Lauren fort all the pain
that she caused Vaughn over the last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Jack doesn’t see it like Sydney does, he tells Sydney, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn is going to be okay, and when he is,
he has to end it, not you.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
looks up at Jack and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If it’s
okay for Vaughn, it’s okay for me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stares jack down for a small moment
letting him know how serious she is before going on to tell him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I need your help. Expedited credentials,
transportation.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately Jack
is not on board with Sydney going and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“My advice was specific to her betrayal of him.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney isn’t going to stand down though, she
tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lauren betrayed all of us.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To which Jack quickly responds, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Not in the same way. She was his wife.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that statement, Sydney looks as though
she could lose it and shows some emotion to Jack, and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I don’t care about any of that now. I want
her to die. And that’s going to happen whether you help me or not.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is here when Jack realizes that
while he relates to the pain that Vaughn is going though more on a personal
level, he is finally seeing what this whole ordeal has done to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see the pain in his eyes that he gets
when he sees Sydney in pain and he finally agrees that she has a right to this
as well and nods his head in approval.</div>
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Since Vaughn didn’t get the pictures that he took of Lauren
and her contact back to the CIA, Sydney had to find a way to find out where she
was headed, so she took a play from Lauren book, but with better
equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She dressed as Lauren with a
voice modulator in place, and was placed in the cell next to Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She got the information needed from Sark
before revealing to him who she really was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What happened next is a great interaction between Sydney and Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark sees what he has done and trying to
recover says to Sydney, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This little
trick of yours means Vaughn failed. Tell me, is he dead?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that Sark and Lauren had a
relationship, Sydney milks her response for all it’s worth and tells Sark, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No, he’s not. But thanks to you, Lauren
won’t be so lucky.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also it must
have felt good for Sydney to see how much damage Vaughn was able to do to Sark.</div>
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After her encounter with Sark, Sydney goes home and finds
the Palermo location, Jack meets up with her and he gives her the documentation
that she asked for, as well as offering to go instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney simply told him that he can’t; making
it clear that she had to do this for Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack looked a little distracted, so Sydney asked him what he was
thinking, Jack brushed it off and told her that they would talk when she
returned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is that he was going
to tell her the truth about killing Irina, but he didn’t want to have Sydney
worrying about that on top of everything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although it probably would’ve been better if Jack had told her rather
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Sydney makes her way to Palermo and set herself up in a spot
where she can watch what is going on below and watch for Lauren, but also be
able to stay for a while until the right moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile back in LA Vaughn is just waking up
from surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wakes up and looks
around; you can tell that he is a little confused and also not happy to be back
in a hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss is there ready to
answer any questions and be there for Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once Vaughn is a little oriented to his surroundings, his first thought
is to ask where Sydney is, when he doesn’t see her, he starts to get up, and he
is really upset that Sydney is not there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He knows that if he’s in the hospital, Sydney is probably out to get
whoever put him there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss has to hold
him back and tell him to take it easy, and to sit back and relax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn isn’t going to relax, pleading
with Weiss he says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Tell me where she
is.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss looks down, not wanting
to upset his friend more, but knows he has to and finally says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“She went after Lauren.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing what he feared to be true, Vaughn
starts to get up again and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Oh no.
I have to get to her.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Weiss
gently pushes him back down on to the bed and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No, no, no, no. Mike, you got a punctured lung. You even breathe
wrong, that thing could collapse again.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing what may happen to him doesn’t seem to
faze Vaughn; his only concern is for Sydney. He has urgency in his voice when
he tells Weiss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I have to warn
her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luck is not on Vaughn’s side though, Weiss
tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No chance. There’s a guard
outside the door. Foster’s got the building locked down. He revoked your
clearance pending an investigation of your rogue op. You’re not going anywhere.”
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is just getting more agitated
with this, and tells Weiss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I have to
get to Syd. She’s walking into a trap.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This confuses Weiss and prompts him to say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What? What are you talking about?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Vaughn shakes his head and then tells Weiss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lauren didn’t stab me. Katya Derevko did.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Katya defiantly has her own agenda and has
had it since we first saw her back in Crossings.</div>
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I have to assume it is a few minutes later when we see
Vaughn flat line and Weiss rush out the door for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Vaughn is ready to grab the defibrillator
and shock the men coming to rescue him form the flat line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn takes off his oxygen and gets out of
bed and tells Weiss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Let’s go.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they had planned this together, although I
wonder if Weiss was included in all of Vaughn’s plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn gets dressed and comes out of the hospital
room with a gun pointed at Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other
guards that are placed within the hospital are yelling for Vaughn to freeze. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn just yells back at them that they
need to freeze. Playing along with the role he has been given, Weiss tells
Vaughn, to think about what he’s doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn just continues walking with Weiss still holding the gun to his
head, and yelling for the guards to put their guns in the trash. Weiss tells
the guards to follow Vaughn’s commands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn tells the guards to get in the elevator, then he pushes Weiss in
to, and by the look on Weiss’s face, he was not expecting that part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn takes the radio and shoves Weiss
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then shoots out the elevators
controls and lets the door shut, and runs off to the stairwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Vaughn knew that Weiss may end up
trying to stop him at some point, or he wanted to make sure that Weiss was safe
from any inquiry, either way he wasn’t going to let anything get in his way of
getting to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As agents are dispatched
to go assist the men in the elevator, Vaughn takes the fire hose and slides
down it to get to the bottom floor rather than taking the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he gets to the door and looks outside to
find more agents standing by, he gets on the radio and says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn’s going out the front. All units to
the main entrance now!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s one
way to get away from security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He watches
as the men disappear and then he runs off himself.</div>
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In Palermo, Sydney is still sitting and waiting for her
chance, the sun has gone down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then
see her from behind as a gun gets pointed at her head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She instinctively uses her training to takes
the gun from the assailant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
surprised to find that it is Katya, and they speak for a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katya pretends to have Sydney’s best
interests at heart when talking with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when Sydney hands back the gun and turns around, Katya fires a shot
at Sydney’s head, but Katya is surprised to find that she has an empty
clip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks Sydney how she knew; only
to have Sydney tell her that she didn’t know, but know she does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then shoots Katya with a tranq gun and
Katya falls to the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then starts
making her way down through the Covenant camp taking out guards one by one with
her tranq gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney watches as Lauren arrives
and prepares her real gun to take down Lauren with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney fires her gun, but the man Lauren was speaking
with got in the way and he was shot instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Know that Lauren knows that someone is there she pulls out her own
weapon and starts shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney ducks
down behind a rock and hides.</div>
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A little while later, Sydney is up and is back to sneaking
around the Covenant’s camp, hoping to find Lauren. Unfortunately Lauren finds
Sydney first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Lauren has a hold of Sydney
the fighting begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of them takes
turns having the upper hand on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now honestly I’m not interested in the specifics of another cat fight to
end the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren does say a few
things to about Sydney’s disappearance and Irina, but Sydney has no interest in
what she has to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once thing that Lauren
says doesn’t peak Sydney’s interest during the fight, but Sydney does remember
it, Lauren told her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“There’s a bank in Wittenberg.
A numbered vault. Proof…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>But before
she can go on, Sydney gets in a good hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They continue fighting and Lauren knocks Sydney down pretty good and
goes to grab her gun and points it right at Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before she does anything, she hears a voice;
Vaughn is there and is yelling at her to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Upon hearing his voice, Lauren picks Sydney up and holds her to gun
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turns and we see Vaughn standing
a little ways away pointing his gun at Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He yells at Lauren, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Let her go!”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lauren isn’t going to go down easily, she
yells back for him to put the gun down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that just upsets Vaughn and he yells, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Do it now!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren yells
back for him to put down the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
keeps his aim ready and simply nods his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grasping at straws Lauren says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If
you love her, you’ll put the gun down.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Showing Vaughn that she was the one that he
almost shot during Blowback; Vaughn wanting to make sure that Lauren is crystal
clear on who he loves and it being Sydney, does lower his gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you can tell that he doesn’t plan on
keeping it down, when it is down, Lauren makes the comment, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You really are a boy scout.” </i>Once she said that, his gun was immediately up
and she had a bullet in her shoulder, which was quickly followed with another
shot into her chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Sydney was
released she ran right for Vaughn and they quickly embraced.<br />
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Seeing Sydney and Vaughn finally be able to embrace the way
that they have wanted to for the last year, makes me smile from ear to ear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing them caress each other’s faces and
hold on to each other almost makes what they’ve gone through worth it, but not
really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney breaks away from Vaughn
by a few inches; just enough to be able to stroke the back of his head and see
his face at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks up
at him clearly concerned after last seeing him being taken into surgery and
asks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What are you doing? How did you
get here?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And without missing a
beat, he looks at her as if he never wants to let her go and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I came for you.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with that they go in to kiss each other
for the first time without having the fear of a firing squad or it being in a
dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can almost see them going
back in time to the car the night Sydney was abducted.</div>
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Before they can live their happily ever after, at least for
now, Lauren does manage to get back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She refuses to go down without a good fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as she is getting up, Vaughn sees her
behind Sydney, seeing Lauren trying to ruin this moment that he has with Sydney
upsets him again and he fires his weapon three more times and we see the blood
cascading down her body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she is
falling down she manages to get out the numbers, 1…0…6…2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After she gets out the numbers, she is right
above the hole that the Covenant had been digging, and Vaughn has had
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He fires his gun one last time
hitting her again in the chest, but forcing her to fall over in to the hole.
Sydney and Vaughn both watch her fall down relieved that she is gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After she falls and they know that Lauren is
gone, Vaughn asks Sydney, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What was that?”
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not caring about anything that Lauren
had information about, Sydney ignores it and tells Vaughn, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I don’t know. It doesn’t matter.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then go back into that kiss, transporting
them for a few minutes to a place where there is no Lauren and the last year
never existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will worry about
those problems later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But right now they
finally have each other the way they are meant to be.</div>
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As far as the relationship goes, season three ends here. After all that they have been through during the season, they will have some things to work through. They are happy now and that's good enough for me. We'll see how they work through their issues when we begin season four. But for now, I'm going to focus on the fact that here and now they are happy that Lauren is now out of the picture and they can begin to develop their relationship again, and hopefully make it back to where they were.<br />
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<li>Items that I find Noteworthy…</li>
<ul>
<li>Sloane broke into the CIA safe house to talk to
Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turns out that while Nadia was
under the influence of the Rambaldi fluid, she became lucid towards the end and
changed parts of the formula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
location from the Rambaldi location that the CIA have as well as the Covenant
is not in Palermo as they suspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
hesitant at first to escape from the CIA with Sloane, Nadia does eventually
escape and join him.</li>
<li>At the digging sight Sydney was determined not
to listen to anything that Lauren had to say, but curiosity got the best of her
and she went to Wittenberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there,
she broke into Vault 1062 and found a classified folder that had her as the
subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We never see more than her name
and birthdate, but we do see that the information inside clearly upsets
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moments after she arrived and
has read through the documents, Jack arrives and tells her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney, you were never supposed to have
found this.” </i>And the episode
ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t find out exactly what
happens until the 2<sup>nd</sup> episode is season four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it allows for Jack not to be Sydney’s
rock any longer and allow room for Vaughn to come back in and take his place in
her life where he belongs. Since the beginning Vaughn has been the one that Sydney has turned to when she couldn't handle all the ups and downs of her life. Besides their romantic relationship, I'm guessing that they both missed that aspect of their friendship the most, being able to be there for one another. It will be nice to see that back as well.</li>
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I feel so bad that I haven’t been keeping up with this blog
like I initially intended to when I started out with this project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then again I look back at my first few
posts and compare them to my more recent posts, and I’m not sure if I have kept
with the initial plan anyway with what I have been writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then again, the Sydney and Vaughn
relationship started out as something simple, but has evolved into something so
much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have to believe that I
have also evolved, I think for the better, but who really knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to my point, when I started this I
thought that I could easily watch each episode and simply write about what
helped, hurt, or furthered the relationship of the best TV couple ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it hasn’t been that easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that I have to give back story and
show how these other characters have played a part in shaping their relationship
to what it eventually becomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as the
series goes on and the relationships and circumstances become more complicated,
so has the ability to summarize it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
I can still honestly say that I still enjoy Alias now, as much if not more than
when I started this project.</div>
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I haven’t had the time to really sit down to go over the
final episode of season 3 and really dig down deep into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few reasons for that, one being as I said
at the beginning of season 3, it is my favorite season and I think it will be
hard to say to goodbye to analyzing the season that I find the most compelling,
even if Sydney and Vaughn aren’t really a couple in this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sexual tension is so fantastic in this
season it’s sad to say goodbye to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another reason is that I want to be able to do the episode the justice
that it deserves, and with my many distractions I haven’t had the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in an attempt to justify my
procrastination I thought I would let have a peek into the life that I am
currently trying to get through with some of my sanity still intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So have a peek and see what distractions
have been holding me back from really writing as much as I would like.</div>
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The most boring and yet most logical reason for
my lack of writing has been my work schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I used to work graveyards and have a good 6-7 hours a night of just
waiting for calls to drop in on my line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was in those hours of boredom that I found peace and exhilaration by
starting this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I work the swing
shift and my work load has more than tripled, and I am lucky to have 1-2 hours
throughout the night.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>As I have mentioned, but only in passing, I am a
mom and my kids and husband occasionally need my undivided attention. In
addition to normal things like homework, playdates, dates with my husband, my
little household of five has five birthdays between Halloween and
Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily we have reached the
point where we only have one left tomorrow, and then I will finally be able to
focus on Christmas itself, which in itself is another challenge.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKf93TpcNWZdPIIUCBaCFOvUa5FfQq3RnNHcdJ1pb8OfReN0wonYbikTZ0CHfrMZgdMDrYx49ZcjYzJt33Y7GYZjWa32OikoSHnChjxmG3RTxYJv_lsbLZoLVpzSe3c-aOurBLPvMBr476/s1600/DSC_0113-Edit-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKf93TpcNWZdPIIUCBaCFOvUa5FfQq3RnNHcdJ1pb8OfReN0wonYbikTZ0CHfrMZgdMDrYx49ZcjYzJt33Y7GYZjWa32OikoSHnChjxmG3RTxYJv_lsbLZoLVpzSe3c-aOurBLPvMBr476/s400/DSC_0113-Edit-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My little family</td></tr>
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</li>
<li>Since my husband has been the stay at home dad
and full time student for a few years, I have gotten used to having him
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he has now started working
full time and going to school full time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While having a second income has been fantastic, I have become
overwhelmed with overlapping schedules and having to work from home, while kids
are coming home and wanting some of that undivided attention. So while having
him working again has made things a lot better, it has made some things a
little more difficult. </li>
<li>I had thought that I was finally going to get a
good day to be able to write last week, when the night before my 11 year old
daughter broke her arm, while trying to get her glasses back from her
sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stuck her arm through the
ladder rungs of the bunk-bed, and then while trying to get the glasses went a
little too far off of the bed and proceeded to fall off, unfortunately leaving her
arm in the rungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fell and her arm
got stuck, so she broke both bones in the right arm, luckily no surgery was
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it made for a long night in the
ER, followed by a few days of attending to a little girl who can’t move without
being in pain.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</li>
<li>One of the more fun distractions that I have had
was back at the beginning of October when I went out to LA with my mom, on a
mission purely to do the Hollywood tourist stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an amazing trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love LA and wish that I could spend more
time there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just need to work on
convincing my husband that he likes big cities as much as I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But while we were there, we did the stars
homes tour, unfortunately it didn’t cover any of my favorites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel, took a
tour of the Dolby Theater and I dragged my mom around to all the Alias
locations that I wanted to get better pictures of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I know I mentioned doing a separate post for that trip, and I still plan on that, but until then here are some of the pictures.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5jnyvBVzE7b-6tiuqjgfLBAs4MsCvZEzbjfoVQFrKhU_F2sd24ggXhpNiCdxqDDlCIyGt_TAQZSl8uUprV3CtfKG6y0q5D7TXOoUAPXfmwpVv91A4NXGKmeA3oi0th1Ai-AC2imteY8a/s1600/Santa+Monica+Pier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5jnyvBVzE7b-6tiuqjgfLBAs4MsCvZEzbjfoVQFrKhU_F2sd24ggXhpNiCdxqDDlCIyGt_TAQZSl8uUprV3CtfKG6y0q5D7TXOoUAPXfmwpVv91A4NXGKmeA3oi0th1Ai-AC2imteY8a/s640/Santa+Monica+Pier.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mom was having a hard time on the pier, trying to walk on the boardwalk after knee surgery. So I didn't get to look around and find Sydney and Vaughn's exact spot, so I will have to go back. I thought that I had it, and I thought that I got it pretty close and my camera died. I walked a little further to find my mom since she stopped and sat down. I think she may have been sitting closer to where their spot was, but I couldn't get that picture...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know I went to Union Station during the last trip that I posted about, but I felt so rushed that trip that I had to go back. This time I took my time, watched the clip from Almost Thirty Years to see exactly which bench set they sat on. Then took some pictures and sat on those seats. Then walked the few yards to where they filmed the dance scene for Tuesday, sat down on the same bench and watched that scene before taking a few more pictures. It was really nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was getting the funniest looks from people when I went to take a picture of the tunnel, but I had to get as close as I could, right?</td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>I hate to say it, but I found a new show to
obsess about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Alias still holds on
to that number one spot, and I still love Psych, even if there hasn’t been much
new Psych stuff to gush about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
found a new couple to love and adore almost as much as I love Sydney and
Vaughn, but not quite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The show is New
Girl, and the couple is Nick and Jess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As much as it pains me to say, I have to admit that in my list of best
TV couple first kisses, in my mind, I think they may have Sydney and Vaughn
beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply because of how much tension
had been built up, but at the same time, how unexpected and incredibly sexy the
kiss was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I have had to watch that
series a couple of times to become closely acquainted to their characters as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I don’t think that I
will ever end up analyzing them like I do Sydney and Vaughn, they are still a
very fun couple to watch evolve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
be interesting to see where they end up going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span></span></span>I also took another very quick trip to LA again,
but this was so incredibly quick that it barely registered that I was in
LA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took one of my good friends and my
parents to see a taping of Jay Leno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I saw who the guests for the night were going to be, I was sorely
disappointed, but was happy to leave upon arriving that in addition to Matt
Lauer and Carrot Top, who didn’t thrill me, Betty White would be there as well.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li> Now with all of this other stuff going on I
still had to get my daily Alias fix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
felt as though since writing this I have been spending more and more time on
each episode and I was beginning to question myself with what happened, having
to go back and review what I had written or search other websites for the exact
details I was looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
actually made me a little sad. Which I do realize is a little sad in and of
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I decided that maybe it was
time to go back and re-watch the show without having to analyze everything, but
just take it all in and feel good about the show that has in many ways changed
my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So although it may seem weird,
I’ve been distracted by watching Alias again. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've just reached the middle of Season 2 after Sydney and Vaughn are finally together. :)</td></tr>
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<li> In addition to re-watching the series, I have
found a new friend, eBay, we have a love hate relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I originally went on the site to find myself
my own Rambaldi Box set of DVD’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
needed to see those special features that were only included in the Rambaldi
Box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will say they are wonderful, but
I think I need to leave that for a whole new post, (the things I learned from
the Rambaldi Box).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since then I have
found books that held essays by film professors and other type of professionals
that dove deep into subjects within Alias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have skimmed through most, reading the essay’s that appealed to me the
most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also found trading cards which
have been my latest addiction that makes my husband wonder what has happened to
my wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the weirdest thing is that
with how much I rant about not being interested in fan-fiction, I have now
purchased all of the Alias books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Prequel’s
as well as the APO series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the
books because they make for the best light reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can finish 0-5 of the books in one day
depending on the book and my schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although I really wish that the different authors would’ve read each
other’s books, since they are supposed to go in an order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think that before I go into these too
much I better just save it for another post.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my growing collection</td></tr>
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Wednesday, then maybe over the week I can work on the final episode of Season
3, and see the last of Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
downside to the end of the season is we start season four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong, some of my favorite
scenes in the series are from season four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But since season four started shooting almost immediately after the real
life break up of Michael Vartan and Jennifer Garner, you can see that while
they tried their best, they don’t seem to have the same chemistry that they
have in season three and prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
guess we will see what will happen when I am watching more in depth and looking
for what made them the best TV couple ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Michael Vaughn –November 27<sup>th</sup>, 1971 --- Born in Fleury, Normandy, France </div>
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Birth name – Andre Michaux</div>
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what drives and motivates him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if
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One thing about Vaughn is that he is fiercely loyal to those
that he loves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves Sydney more than
anything in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shows this
love towards her even while he is married to Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was willing to die to make sure that
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</span>While Vaughn is lethal, you would not want to end up on his crap list, just ask Sark, he is the type of man that you want loving you.
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As a reference point, I have been married for almost 12
years now, and I had never had a celebrity crush, I never saw a reason for
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doors at my friends who had their favorite celebrity that they obsessed
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I saw Alias and really
discovered Michael Vartan I finally understood what it is like, and I finally understand my friends with celebrity crushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My husband is fully aware, that I have a full blown crush on Michael
Vartan. Luckily we are secure enough in our marriage that we just laugh about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have even gone as far to search up and
down to see any movie he has ever been in, or any TV show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a few that I have yet to see, but I
have seen most of his work now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But if anyone out there knows how to view the ABC series Big Shots from 2007, please let me know, I have searched everywhere and can't find anything except a copy on eBay for over $100, I do admire his work, but not that much. </span>With watching some of his movies, as
much as I hate to admit it, he has been in some really bad movies, see the
Curve, One Hour Photo, or Sand for prime examples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also
after watching Jolene, I truly hated him because his character was so
believable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to find my favorite
Vaughn moments in Alias and watch those for a couple hours to get over what a
horrible person his character was. Proving him to be a fantastic actor, in any
role, not just the eye candy roles that I love to see him in. I often comment
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this blog alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am full on jealous of
Lauren Skaar Vartan, to say the least. If at any point I was near him, I would hope that I would keep my cool, but I could totally see myself pointing at him as Sydney did when introducing him to Francie.</div>
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One thing that really attracts me to Michael Vartan though
is how down to earth he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that
if I were to meet him in real life, he wouldn’t act like the stuck up all
important actor that he could act like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve met many actors that are like that, and for some reason I can’t
imagine him responding as some actors do around fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also watching him in interviews, I love
seeing him talk about his wife, Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can see how much he really does love her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is one thing that is very attractive on
any man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if it makes them
unattainable, seeing them show appropriate appreciation and affection towards
their significant other is amazingly attractive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlOmrs5oph-rf4xdSNZytT3pQfTyIdTJYhN0GKe4y8jRTWthGx6uYEH6VIleFLJvwcV73W1QbyXYCvlg6QfCDy9RiaYl3k6QW53lCgfDnfxBLsWSEi6mbLyuv8eMYUwelnXtEDpEEfnKV/s1600/the+vartans.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlOmrs5oph-rf4xdSNZytT3pQfTyIdTJYhN0GKe4y8jRTWthGx6uYEH6VIleFLJvwcV73W1QbyXYCvlg6QfCDy9RiaYl3k6QW53lCgfDnfxBLsWSEi6mbLyuv8eMYUwelnXtEDpEEfnKV/s320/the+vartans.png" width="230"></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I am somewhat of a stalker, although I hate to admit it, and
I try to pretend that I’m not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when I
saw what I thought to be his wife not 10 feet away from me in Hollywood, I
resisted approaching her, but I did respond to a tweet that she did, yes I
follow her on twitter and I know it’s pathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We tweeted with each other back and forth a little and based off of those
conversations and her tweets, he is a lucky man as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She seems like she is perfect for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I really am happy that he found someone
that makes him happy. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Nx5FEbM9FWKgClvlkKfM-ZLGcACL7BYopJGhDHdxble3t0csqZOTCC2bkgSa5ps2ml98IjYCseWFDUEdJIyJsp7bA66LQFG-VFn9RfQWHF7v4BchxJOb_wvlhaEbILfdfNt5FqMDcCae/s1600/Luaren+Vartan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Nx5FEbM9FWKgClvlkKfM-ZLGcACL7BYopJGhDHdxble3t0csqZOTCC2bkgSa5ps2ml98IjYCseWFDUEdJIyJsp7bA66LQFG-VFn9RfQWHF7v4BchxJOb_wvlhaEbILfdfNt5FqMDcCae/s320/Luaren+Vartan.png" width="320"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;">This is the selfie that she took of herself in Hollywood that confirmed that it was her that I saw a few feet away. I would post the picture that I took of her, but while tweeting with her, she shared her distaste of how she looked in my pic, and I told her I would take it down and not post it anywhere.</span></td></tr>
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Like I said, I wanted to keep this short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So with that I say Happy Birthday to the
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Michael Vartan!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Also as a quick side note, I don't know of another actor that ages so well. Personally as far as I am concerned, he just keeps getting better with age. Of course he looked amazing in Alias, but you have to admit, he got better looking as the series progressed. Then if you look at him now, he's even more attractive.</span></div>
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scene, but this episode is crucial to the deleted scene from the last episode, because
there are some aspects that really don’t make much sense in this episode
without that knowledge. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjRA_sJ0ek">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjRA_sJ0ek</a></div>
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Also you have to infer a few things about the aftermath of
the scene as well, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">for instance </span>I have to guess that
Sydney did tell Vaughn what Lauren did to him and he may have gone into detail
about what he may or may not have disclosed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t know, as that portion is never revealed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is evident that they have discussed
it, and it has affected both of them heavily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would have to say that Vaughn is probably more affected by the
revelation though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that a huge
part of the episode is trying to rescue Nadia and what her experience is, but
honestly, this portion somewhat bores me and I am going to try and stick to
just Sydney and Vaughn tonight.</div>
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The first interaction that Sydney and Vaughn have starts out
really nice actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is walking
through the Rotunda obviously looking for Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sees her before she sees him, and it’s
only there for a small moment, but that impish grin that he gets when he is
happy to see Sydney reappears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
really missed that smile; it brought me back to the days before SD-6 went down
when he would light up just with her appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he walks over to her and she finishes her
phone call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her first reaction to seeing
him is concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wonders what he is
doing there, since she had thought that he was supposed to stay in the hospital
for a few more days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he tells her
that he checked himself out early.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
wonders if they wanted to keep him for observation for a few days, but he tells
her that he is fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that
she really is concerned for his well-being, but I think that she sees something
else there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think she wonders if he
really is ready to be back and function at the level that he needs to with what
has happened to him not only physically, but mentally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can see the worry in her eyes and tries to
change the subject to what is really on his mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Look, whatever Lauren did to me, I want you to know that I take full
responsibility for what’s happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
messed up. And if you can’t get past that, I understand. But will you try?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that she doesn’t know and you
can see that even though she loves him, and still considers him her soul mate,
she has also become a little bitter against Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing her reply, Vaughn is a little
crestfallen, as you would expect after an admission like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he goes on to tell her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Will you at least think about it? Because
it’s all I can think about.” </i>As he asks her to think about it, he eyes look
up and see Dixon behind him, and she simply tells him that she will think about
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon talks to them for a moment
then leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn
share<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a glance, Vaughn looks at Sydney
hopefully, but she quickly adverts her eyes away from him and walks away
leaving Vaughn to follow her, but looking heartbroken.</div>
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This is a scene that plays into the deleted scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember seeing it for the first few times
and having no idea what they are talking about, and wondering why Sydney is so
upset with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just thought that
their last interaction didn’t go badly; in fact it went pretty well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They held hands, and Vaughn showed her how
even though he had almost been tortured to death, his main concern in the
hospital was about her and her involvement with the Passenger because of the
Prophecy. There is one website that I often look to when I am preparing myself
to start a new episode and their captions for scenes can give you a whole new
perspective on the episode, but the website is <a href="http://twoevilmonks.org./">TwoEvilMonks.org.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have gone through and have screen shots
for almost every scene with captions for every episode until season 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when I read the comment under this scene,
I had to laugh, and thought I would share. I have the screen shot from the
website below.</div>
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So I think overall everyone may have been a bit confused
over that scene initially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is
with this attitude that Sydney and Vaughn go into the episode with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn desperately wants to regain Sydney’s
approval as well as fix anything that Lauren may have done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is broken with how she feels towards
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wants to be with him and
knows that they finally have a chance now, but is clearly hesitant after how
many times Vaughn has gone back to Lauren this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wants to believe that it can work, but
she has been hurt too much and is just overall confused about her own feelings.</div>
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In the conference room a briefing is being held with Sydney,
Vaughn, Dixon, Jack and Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
discuss Sloane’s latest maneuvers and how they may be able to go to a facility
and place a tracker on the Rambaldi fluid that Sloane needs more of so he can
continue to get the Rambaldi end game from Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tells Sydney and Vaughn that they will
go on that mission together and see what they can get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After getting the instructions for the
mission, Vaughn wants to know where they stand in finding Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss tells Vaughn that FBI
counterintelligence is going over all of her info and is handling the
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn questions whether the CIA
field office are also involved,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well
as seeing if they can re-task<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some of
the Echelon satellites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn knows
that his job is to help Sydney find and rescue Nadia with Sydney, but he has a
high stake in finding out where Lauren is and wants to make sure that she is
brought to justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon reminds
Vaughn that they are doing all that they can, but the priority in their office
is Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not what Vaughn wants
to hear, but doesn’t protest, at least for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He only shakes his head frustrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack looks at Vaughn, and knows what he is going through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack doesn’t say anything, but you can see
that Jack is thinking of how he can help Vaughn, because his look is full of
concern.</div>
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When Sydney and Vaughn arrive at the facility where Sloane
had sent someone in to retrieve the fluid, they arrive to find that the guards
have already been taken out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and
Vaughn had been carrying tranquilizer guns, but upon realizing that Sloane had
beat them there, Vaughn puts away his tranq gun and picks up the rifle that the
guard was using.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They get into the
facility and find that all of the fluid has been taken, so they can’t place a
tracker on anything to track back to Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But they had a secondary protocol to get any data that they can from the
facility, since it was originally used by the Russians as a Rambaldi research
facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again Sydney and Vaughn
prove that while they may have personal issues that need to be resolved, as a
team in the field, they make perfect partners and are very effective together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Vaughn is working on uploading the
files to Marshall, Sydney comes up behind him and gets closer to him than she
would’ve been over the last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
if she is trying to be a little cold toward Vaughn and not let her true
feelings out, her subconscious is proving that hard to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the video they see that Nadia was held
there for a time and the Rambaldi was used on her there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney walks over to the room where Nadia was
tortured with the fluid when Marshall warns them that they triggered a silent
alarm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the Russian guards walk in
followed by Katya Derevko, only Sydney and Vaughn don’t know that she was the
one who saved them in North Korea. </div>
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As the scene reopens, Katya looks at Sydney and calls her by
name which shocks Sydney to say the least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn is also a little confused as she orders some of the guards to
secure the perimter then takes his tranq gun and proceeds to shoot some of her
own men with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then tells Sydney
and Vaughn to take their uniforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before she does this however, you can see Vaughn looking back and forth
between Katya, and Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the
looks he has, I can guess that he is trying to determine how to protect Sydney
and whether he could take out Katya if needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately this is only in the background so you can’t see it that
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once again I give props to
Michael Vartan and his fantastic acting skills when he only gets to work with
facial expressions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney finally asks
the question of who she is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katya tells
her that she is Sydney’s mother’s sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With hearing this Sydney realizes that it must be Katya, who Jack told
her helped them out of North Korea, so Sydney and Vaughn become much more
willing to trust her as she helps them get out of the facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While not much happens with the mission, concerning
the relationship aspect, we do see them going back to their instincts, as well
as seeing a few other things going for them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One that they can work together better than
any other partnership, two that Vaughn will always be looking for ways to
protect Sydney, and third that even though Sydney thinks she wants nothing to
do with him romantically, right now because of Lauren, she still craves being
close to Vaughn and subconsciously moves closer to him when her that guard is
let down.</div>
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The scene that immediately follows them getting out of the
compound, is one of the few favorites of mine that doesn’t involve Sydney or
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scene is between Nadia and
Sloane in Kyoto, and I won’t go into it too far, but I love how Nadia
essentially tells Sloane that she thinks him to be a terrible father and she
wishes that he wasn’t hers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
great Nadia moment; especially after hearing that knowing he had a daughter is
supposedly what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reformed</i> Sloane.</div>
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In general we know that both Sydney and Vaughn are
frustrated when finding that a mission didn’t produce the results that they
would have liked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This mission to the
facility that held the Rambaldi fluid is no different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes they were able to get a sample of the
fluid and gain access to the computer files that held video, but they didn’t
achieve their ultimate goal of tracking the liquid so it could lead them to
Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they are both frustrated, but Sydney seems
to take it with a grain of salt and can go about the next portion of the
mission as planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not being able
to track Sloane upsets Vaughn more than usual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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We’ve never really seen Vaughn get aggravated over a
mission, he has always been such a rock emotionally overall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have seen him get mad and protective over Sydney and even Lauren at one
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we are now seeing Vaughn’s
transformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s never been overly
vengeful; he even found a way to work with Irina knowing that she killed his
father, even if he never fully trusted her and always held his suspicions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the last three years have changed him, he
first had to bury Sydney and deal with the grief of losing her, then working
through the process of attempting to move on with Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was finally at a relatively good point of
functioning without Sydney when he gets the call that she is alive and is asked
to go get her, while having Sydney back definitely made him happy, it also put
him in a tough spot. He never stopped loving Sydney, but he did love Lauren as
well, just in a different way, and we’ve watched him struggle with that dilemma
throughout the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he has
learned that this woman, who he trusted, who he found a reprieve from his grief
with has betrayed him and was using him the whole time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn has almost reached his breaking
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows the politics of the
office and he knows that his teams’ assignment is to find and capture Sloane as
well as recover Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that in
Vaughn’s mind he has the thought that once they find Sloane and Nadia, they
will be able to go after Lauren, and while right now he hasn’t reached the
point of truly wanting her dead, he does want her to pay for what she did to
him, as well as what she has done to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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After getting away from the facility where the Rambaldi
fluid was kept; Sydney, Vaughn, and Katya go to a safe house in St. Petersburg.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing we see is Vaughn on the
phone with Weiss, telling him that Katya saw Lauren and Sark on the surveillance
feed where they took a canister of the Rambaldi fluid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This just frustrates Vaughn, knowing that
they must have just missed them, and not just being able to track the liquid
back to Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells Weiss that
they need to re-task the satellites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weiss replies, but Vaughn doesn’t want to hear what he is being told, he
quickly tells Weiss that he understands, but he wants them found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another moment passes where Weiss is talking,
and Weiss is not helping Vaughns frustration, Vaughn walks out the room almost
yelling; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That’s not good enough,
Weiss!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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frustrations her to Weiss, but until this episode I didn’t realize how much he
knew about Lauren here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how
I missed it, but this was the first time I heard him telling Weiss that Katya
saw Lauren and Sark on the surveillance feed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So this new knowledge of how close they were to finding Lauren only adds
another level to the rage that is building up in Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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While Vaughn is talking to Weiss Sydney is talking to Katya
about Nadia and trying to decide how much to tell Katya about what she
knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney asks why Nadia is so
important if she had already completed Rambaldi’s message that they saw in the
video tapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katya tells her that Nadia
was taken before she finished the message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn walks in at this point and tells Katya that it was his father
that took her away to protect her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katya
doesn’t like the implications that Vaughn is going towards, but Vaughns asks
her why she is so interested in finding her long lost niece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing that is important to note about
Vaughn here is that he is staying professional and is actually very calm when
he is in the room with Katya and Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is still has control over his rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Katya tells them that she understands their hesitations, but reminds
them what she has risked to help them as well as why she is now back on the
track looking for Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing
this information, and knowing that the knowledge of finding out that Sloane is
Nadia’s father was the driving force behind Katya’s search for Nadia, leads
Sydney to tell Nadia that Sloane does in fact have Nadia at the moment.</div>
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Upon returning to LA, Marshall has examined the sample of
the fluid that Sydney brought back and is telling the taskforce about the fluid
and what it can do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Marshall is
explaining it, the group is watching the video feed that they brought back with
Nadia as a child being injected by an unknown doctor and beginning to write out
the formula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While concerned about the
side effects that the fluid has, Sydney and Vaughn are also curious about the
doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They get the idea that if they
can find the doctor maybe he can lead them to Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Vaughn voicing how he wishes they could
see the doctors face, Sydney sees a reflection in a glass case, and asks
Marshall to zoom in on it and enhance it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After enhance the picture, both Sydney and Marshall have looks of horror
on their face, as they realize that it is Suit and Glasses man that tortured
both of them as well as Will.</div>
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Now knowing who the doctor is, they reassemble in the
conference room, they find out the doctors name, Suit and Glasses man is
actually Dr. Zhang Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the lead
researcher for the experiments on Nadia, and he has recently met with Sloane in
Zurich, they believe that it was to help Sloane procure the fluid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the initial information is given,
Vaughn once again asks what is happening in tracking Lauren and Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tells him that they don’t believe that
they have any connection to Dr. Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Which only upsets Vaughn again, he tries to stay calm, but is having a
hard time doing it. He goes on about the satellites and how they should’ve been
tasked to follow her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think he has
seen exactly how evil she is and that she is may be the key to everything that
they are looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because now that
he has separated himself from her and is starting to look at the whole picture
of their relationship, he can see where he was manipulated, and that she had an
endgame the whole time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a small
argument between Vaughn and Weiss about the satellites, Dixon interrupts them
and tells them that this is not the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn stops his arguments, but isn’t happy that he is being dismissed
again, and that they still won’t be going after Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From across the table Jack looks at Vaughn,
he doesn’t say anything, but you can tell that Jack can sympathize very well
with Vaughn in this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
breaks the tension in the room by asking where Dr. Lee is now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tells her that he is in a research
facility in Cuba, and that she and Vaughn will head there to question him about
the Rambaldi experiments and where to find Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After the briefing, Vaughn is quick to get out of there,
Jack quickly follows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the hallway,
Vaughn looks very determined to get out of the building and release some of his
pent up anger, but Jack stops him and asks him if he has a minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn turns around and temporarily stores
away his rage to talk to Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
doesn’t see the concern on Jack’s face, but it is there, Jack tells Vaughn; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I know why you checked yourself out of
medical services early. I know you’re under the impression you’re fine, that
all you need to do is hold yourself together and bury yourself in work.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not the conversation that Vaughn is in
the mood to have right now though, and he tells Jack to get to the point rather
impatiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jack goes on saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“My point is, your rage is seething under
the surface. I know because I’ve been there, and I promise you if you don’t
resolve this as quickly and expediently as you can it will spill over into
every aspect of your life, including your professional and personal
relationship with my daughter, and I do not want you endangering her.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching Vaughns face while Jack is talking I
am reminded of the speech that jack gave him just a few episode ago, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unveiled </i>S3 E19, he is polite, but he
wants to Jack a piece of his mind once he has to chance to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn sees a break and tell Jack; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am doing my job the best I can. Do you have
a better suggestion?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This last part
almost seemed like an afterthought to Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think that Vaughn is finally realizing that he is more like Jack than
he would like, but has reached the point where accepting advice from Jack on
the issue may actually be helpful to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I suggest you
focus your energy onto achieving closure on this matter.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Jack can go on, Vaughn interrupts him
saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No one wants Lauren in custody
more than I do.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Jack then tells
him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That’s not the kind of closure I’m
referring to.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack then reaches
into his jacket pocket and hands Vaughn a key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn asks him what it is, and Jack tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s the key to my storage facility, you’ve been there before. In it
you’ll find false identification, unmarked and untraceable weapons, contact
sheets, as well as disposal facilities capable of dealing with her remains.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
suggestion of Vaughn killing Lauren does not please Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells Jack; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That might be your way of dealing with things. It’s not mine.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks like he has to use every ounce of
energy he has to hold in his anger at this point, and Jack can see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when Vaughn tries to hand the key back to
Jack, Jack tells him to keep it and walks away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn watches Jack walk away and at first I think that the anger in his
eyes is at Jack, but then it starts to look more contemplative and makes me
think that Vaughn is starting to think that Jack may be right.</div>
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On a completely different note it is at this point that I
have to wonder if Jack has already used the equipment from his storage
facility, to kill Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that
the last time that Jack was speaking to Irina was two episodes ago in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hourglass</i> S3 E19, while Lauren was known
to be a traitor, but not taken in yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have to think that Jack found out about the hit on Sydney ordered by Irina
happened sometime between saving Sloane from his execution and when he, Sloane
and Sydney went on the journey to find Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is the only explanation I can think of for how Lauren could’ve
known where to tell Sydney to look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
her contacts at the Covenant, she would’ve known that Jack didn’t really kill
Irina, but a helix formed double of Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then still being active with the NSC she would’ve had access to find out
where the classified documents were being held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So there is my theory for the cliffhanger at the end of the season.</div>
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In Cuba, Sydney tricks the bodyguards into helping her and
distracts them long enough for Vaughn to be able to shoot them with the tranq
gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both run out of the water and
towards the house that is being used as a lab for Dr. Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assume that they change once they get in,
because Sydney is more covered up next time we see her and Vaughn isn’t wearing
a wetsuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also see Dr. Lee
experimenting with a substance that he drew out of a fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he takes the fluid from the fish and puts
it into a container filled with another substance you can hear it sizzle and
steam rises out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hears the
floor crack and he shouts back that he told them no disturbances and continues
on with his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney comes up behind
him and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m sure you can make
an exception for an old friend.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she proceeds to knock him out by hitting
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Once Dr. Lee has been knocked out, Sydney and Vaughn tie him
up in his wheelchair (courtesy of Will’s revenge telling him 1 in 5.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then wakes him up and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Remember me from Taipei? Red Hair. You liked
my teeth.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then starts talking
about the experiments that he conducted on Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we then see Vaughn and although he knows
that this doctor tortured Sydney (and her friends) at some point, seeing her
talking to him and hearing about the torture sparks something in him
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is said so I can’t really
confirm this, but by the look on his face, he becomes even madder than he has
been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So on top of his already mounting
rage, he is face to face with someone who has tortured Sydney and you can see
that he is done letting anyone hurt Sydney, and he is ready to hurt them as
much as they have hurt her, if not more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just that one look tells me that the transformation from being the cool
and collected CIA agent to the CIA agent that will do anything needed to get
the results he wants.</div>
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As Sydney is questioning Dr. Lee about what will be found
when they get to the site that the Rambaldi equation that Nadia is drawing out
when under the influence of the Rambaldi fluid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn has had enough since Dr. Lee isn’t sufficiently answering
Sydney’s questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked Dr. Lee
where Sloane is, and Dr. Lee tells him that he has no idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then decides to prove to the doctor
exactly how far he is willing to go to get the answers he wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes a dropper and extracts some of the
liquid that Dr. Lee was experimenting with and drops some on to Dr. Lee’s
paralyzed leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The liquid is some form
of acid and it has burned through his pants and is burning the skin
underneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks at him and tells
him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Now I know that you can’t feel
that, but you can see it, and you can imagine what it’s going to feel like when
I pour the rest of this on you.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney knows that this type of interrogation
is not Vaughn’s style and now realizes how full of rage Vaughn really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks at him concerned and says his name
to stop him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he doesn’t respond to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see the acid dripping down
and burning through the metal of the wheelchair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn continues to interrogate Dr. Lee in
this way with Dr. Lee insisting that he only met with Sloane for charity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney continues to plead with Vaughn to stop
telling him that he can’t do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
that remark Vaughn asks Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Why not?
He would.” </i>Then Vaughn continues to question him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn asks him a few more questions, none of
them receiving the answers he was looking for, and then finally tells the
doctor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Wrong answer.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then proceeds to pour the acid onto Dr.
Lee, presumably killing him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
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Watching this scene happen I am drawn back to the scene in
season two right after Dixon’s wife was killed and Dixon interrogates a man,
also trying to get information about Sloane has done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney sat back and had to watch that go down
as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There she had to try and stop
Dixon from completely killing the man as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s hard not to draw a parallel with these two scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both Sydney feels that both men should be
allowed to keep working even if their mental state may be fractured, due to
recent events concerning their wives and what Sloane has done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both men mean a great deal to her and it is
hard to watch as they suffer, but when they see an opportunity to seek revenge
on someone who isn’t completely responsible, she has to try and stop them from
turning into someone that they aren’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since much of Dixon’s recovery was done during the two years that Sydney
was missing, and he has mostly recovered from losing his wife by the time we
come back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will see the continued
pressure of Vaughn losing his wife as we end this season and go into the
next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In the plane on their way home from Cuba, Vaughn tells
Sydney that he just spoke with Dixon and that Jack and Katya may have found a
lead as to where to find Sloane from Toni Cummings and that they may have his
location by the time they get back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
Sydney has other things on her mind; you can see something been eating away at
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells Vaughn; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What you did to Dr. Lee was unacceptable.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that it’s hard for her to say
this to Vaughn, but she has to say it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After saying it she immediately looks away from him again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think that she wants to argue, but
she knows that it probably will, and with his current state, I think she is
afraid of what may happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is
upset with her comment, but stays fairly calm and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You wouldn’t say that if I had gotten
something out of him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>But this
comment doesn’t help his situation, she looks right at him now and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What he knew or didn’t know is beside the
point.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that Vaughn
doesn’t want to argue either, in his head he got revenge on someone that hurt
the person he loves most in the world, and he would do anything to get her back
and make her happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even with that,
he isn’t going to back down yet and responds by telling her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Exactly. The point is, we’re trying to find
your sister.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is getting
really upset and begins to almost shout, saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And if you had gotten the answer, it still wouldn’t have been okay.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn responds with a matching tone, but is
trying to get her to understand that he did it for her saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sloane has her. Wouldn’t you do anything to
get her back?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney still doesn’t
understand exactly why he did what he did and tells him that he knew they had
other options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing this frustrates
Vaughn, so he tells her what I believe to be his main motivation behind such a
brutal interrogation, in a tone similar to begging her tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney, the man tortured you, he tortured
Marshall, and he tortured your sister.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Personally
I think he left out Will, because he doesn’t want her thinking about Will when
he is finally able to start something with her again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing what Vaughn’s true reasoning
was, or at least what I believe it to be, she tells him her true concern as
well saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This isn’t about him. This
is about you, and what I saw scared me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then understands her pleading; he
realizes that his rage may have gone too far, and that he may have exacted his
revenge on the wrong person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks up
at Sydney and realizes that she is more concerned with him than anything else,
and even though he is upset, a little bit of hope enters into him again. He
then nods his head slightly, and finally responds; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ Yeah… Well… It scared me, too… “ </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks a Sydney for a moment longer, then
looks away for a moment or two before going on, much calmer than before,
confessing; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What I’m willing to do to
find her. When I was with Dr. Lee, all I could think about was, If we get to
Sloane, we’ll get to her.” </i>Taking into consideration the other things he
has said and done, I have to still believe that part of his thinking whether it
was consciously or not, was getting revenge on the man who hurt Sydney, even if
he has said otherwise in this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he does pause for a moment before going on to tell Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Now I want to find your sister, but I need
to find my wife. Lauren cannot be allowed to get away with what she’s done.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that Sydney is happy to learn the
truth behind his motivations, but shows Vaughn some tough love, and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Well, Lauren might, and you have to be
prepared to deal with that.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
not the response that Vaughn was looking for, but I think he knew it was
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both look at each other for
a few moments more, trying to understand each other, as well as trying to
figure out how they are going to get back to a happy place for the two of them.</div>
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With the information that was gather from Toni Cummings,
they go to Kyoto Japan to attempt a rescue of Nadia, bringing Cummings with
them to be able to gain access past whatever security system she put in place.
Right before arriving in Kyoto, Sydney leans in to Vaughn and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I need to know that you will stay on
mission…To protect Nadia, no matter what else happens.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she says this Vaughn looks
contemplative, but we never see him agree to it, after she is done speaking,
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Once they reach Sloane location, Sydney, Vaughn, and
Cummings all repel down from the helicopter, and surprise attack the guards.
Weiss and a bigger team with members unknown are following in a truck ready to
enter as soon as the security is down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cummings gains access to the compound and Sydney and Vaughn start to
invade the house as Weiss and his team begins the invasion of the
compound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As this is happening, Lauren
and Sark have forced Sloane to administer more fluid than Nadia’s brain can
handle into Nadia, which upsets Sloane and he has his men turn on them,
unfortunately Sark was faster and shot Sloane’s body guards before they could
get him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark has Sloane at gunpoint as
Sydney and Vaughn burst in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A firefight
that puts Sydney and Vaughn against Lauren and Sark ensues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon seeing Lauren, Vaughn is hell-bent on
capturing Lauren and making sure that she more than anyone pays for what has
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark and Lauren escapes from
the room where Nadia is being held, and Vaughn runs after them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney sees this and tries to stop him,
yelling for him to stop and that they need to secure Nadia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But without looking back, he yells back at her
telling her that he’s going after Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She yells his name again, but he doesn’t return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is not happy, but she continues on her
mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells Sloane that he needs
to back away; he simply tries to make her understand that he doesn’t want Nadia
harmed either, but she still keeps her gun trained on him as she approaches
Nadia, and frees her from the medical table she was on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane’s men enter and tell him that he needs
to leave and another firefight begins, this one putting Sydney against Sloane’s
bodyguards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After sometime it comes down
to Sydney doing hand to hand combat with both of his men. Sydney is able to
take down one of the men, but the other man was able to find his gun and he
traps Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before he can do much more
then tell Sydney to freeze, Nadia stands up with her own gun and shoots the man
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Outside Vaughn is chasing after Sark and Lauren and more gun
shots are passed, but no one is hit. Cummings sees Sark and Lauren escaping and
she begins shooting at them as well. But Lauren then gets out grenade launcher
and points it at Vaughn and Cummings, they immediately move out of the way and
one of their trucks is destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
gets up and watches in horror as she escapes from their clutches.</div>
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Vaughn returns to the room where Nadia is being held and
helps Sydney carry Nadia back to the helicopter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once inside they all get situated and Sydney
tells Nadia, thinking she will reassure her that she is safe and that she
promises that Sloane will never be able to hurt her again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nadia leans back and tells them that he saved
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this comment Vaughn looks at
her and Sydney for a quick second and then turns away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He won’t say it, but he then knows that Sark
and Lauren are the ones who really want to harm Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney just looks out the window and tries to
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Back at the Rotunda, Dixon is debriefing Sydney and Vaughn
when he tells them; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The only blemish on
a job well done is a debrief I received from the TAC team leader indicating
that an initial failure to secure Nadia provided Sloane an opportunity to
escape. Is there anything to that?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Dixon is talking, Vaughn looks properly
abashed, and turns to Sydney to watch her tell Dixon of his failure to do his
job, yet, hoping that she won’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
just looks up at Dixon, shakes her head and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No there isn’t.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Once
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The next thing we see is the two of them walking out of the
conference room, Sydney hot on Vaughn’s heels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She quickly shuts the door behind her and begins talking to Vaughn,
saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I won’t cover for you like that
again. You violated mission protocol, and you left me behind. Nadia saved my
life.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is not in the mood to
be lectured though, and he turns on her and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It was a judgment call. If it was the wrong one, I’m sorry. I would
never put your life in jeopardy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney
isn’t taking this answer, she tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You
saw a chance to get Lauren, and you took it no matter what. You didn’t have my
back.” </i>Vaughn is getting somewhat irritated with this conversation and
interrupts her and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We got
Nadia. That’s what counts.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney
can see his irritation and steps back for a moment, to gather her thought and
change her approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t really
want to fight with Vaughn, she knows that she can help him more than anyone,
and finally looks at him sympathetically and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>I<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> understand what you're
going through. What it feels like to be betrayed. You saw how my hatred of
Sloane consumed me. Vaughn; you saved me from that. From letting my anger turn
me into a different person. And now it is my turn to do that for you. But you
have to let me; you have to listen to me. You have to believe me when I tell
you that the person you are right now is not the person you want to be. I told
you that I didn't know if we could figure things out between us, I still don't.
But I do know that we can't even begin to try until you deal with this.</i>” He
looks at her and nods a small nod, knowing that she is right, but when he
doesn’t respond she walks away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
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The next time we see Vaughn, he has open the garage door to
the storage unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He enters and shuts
the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes a good look around
takes a sniper rifle from off of the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Puts it up like he is getting ready to fire, and shoots the unloaded gun
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I just want to take a moment here and discuss the ending for
a moment, I have been on a lot of different sites, and many people seem to have
a problem with Sydney’s speech that she gives to Vaughn at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They state that it is too contradictory in
her statements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her saying that she isn’t
sure if she can move on, but he has to deal with his stuff first, but at the
same time saying that she wants to help him get through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll admit that the first time hearing it, I
thought some of the same things, but then I really listened to it, and thought
about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She still wants to be friends,
and she isn’t going anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
going to be around, she is simply telling him, that I want to help you get
through your revenge and hatred, just like you helped me at the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first thought goes back to S1 E4 – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Broken Heart. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time she has an overwhelming amount of
hatred and betrayal from Sloane which is the obvious one, but also her father
and she feels like her world is crashing down around her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Vaughn gives the perfect speech to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Telling her how strong she is and
how he will be there for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/07/s1-e4-broken-heart.html">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/07/s1-e4-broken-heart.html</a>
When he told her those things they weren’t romantically involved in any way,
but he was telling her that as a friend he would help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now when I listen to what she tells him when
he is full of rage is that even if she isn’t sure if they will have a romantic
relationship or not, she is still there for him as his friend, and she will
help him through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at the same
time telling him that once he has worked through it, then she can consider that
type of relationship again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she
knows that he doesn’t want to be this person he is right now and that is no way
to re-kindle their relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I personally
think the speech that she gives him is fine.</div>
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I do have to go off on a small tangent / theory here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really has nothing to do with the
relationship, although it does affect it a little in season four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lined up a few things on a timeline
concerning Vaughn’s father Bill, Irina’s fake death when she was pregnant with Nadia,
and when Nadia was born as well as when she was taken from the facility in
Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we know that the date listed
for Bill Vaughn’s death is October 21<sup>st</sup>, 1979, which lines up with
other things that we know, Vaughn was 8 when his father died, Vaughn was born
in November of 1970.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it lines up
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem that I have is that
Bill Vaughn had anything to do with Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know that we like to think of Brill, friend of Jack’s who helped free
Sydney as a good guy who has retired from the CIA, who also knew Bill
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his knowledge of the
passenger was too convenient for me when I started to really think about
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brill called him when Lauren knew
that Vaughn knew about her situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sark’s people knew exactly where to find Vaughn after talking with
Brill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could Brill have been working for
Elena the whole time, planting this seed of curiosity into Vaughn’s head about
his father?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because how on earth could
Bill Vaughn have saved Nadia when she wasn’t even born until at least 1981,
which is after Laura Bristow, AKA Irina Derevko, “dies” in a car accident. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that Elena headed up the Covenant, she
could’ve sent in Brill to tell Vaughn about the whereabouts of the passenger
for him to “save” her, since Elena had been keeping tabs on both Nadia and
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then telling Sark where to find
Vaughn who would have the information he needed. She used Sark, Brill, and
Vaughn as players in her endgame, as well as throwing off any suspicion of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t come to this realization lightly, I
have examined the whole scenario over and over in my head, and this is the only
explanation that I can come up with, besides just throwing my hands up and
saying that the writers had no idea what they were doing with that storyline and
didn’t research characters. Brill may have known Vaughn’s father, but Brill
must’ve turned and is now working for the Covenant in some capacity, and fed
Vaughn the story that Bill Vaughn had saved Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone else actually did that.</div>
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<li>While Sydney and Vaughn are in Cuba questioning
Dr. Lee, Jack is tasked to work with Katya on looking through Sloane’s
financials. While looking through them they find a connection to Toni Cummings
who builds the high end security systems, who Sydney and Weiss arrested back in
episode <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After Six</i> S3 E13. Katya is
incredibly excited about the idea of being able to find Nadia and Sloane, but
her happiness seems suspicious to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like she really doesn’t care about finding them, but finding what they
have found. (Or Maybe I just know too much and know what to look for…)<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Jack met with Toni Cummings and arranged a deal
with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She helps them find Sloane and
she gets out of prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While still in
the prison Marshall works with Toni Cummings and she decides that she is very
impressed with him and offers him a job working for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love how Marshall reacts to this,
eventually telling her that he really enjoys working for the good guys.</li>
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This episode contains very little contact between Sydney and
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time that they share on
screen is less than 2 minutes in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I am hoping that I will be able to keep this semi short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In past episodes we see Sydney with the A
story line on her own most of the time, but usually Vaughn comes into the A
story line at some point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This episode
seems almost as if there are two A story lines, and they don’t come together
until the last few minutes of the episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And Sydney and Vaughn each have their own story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I said before this episode does change the
course of the relationship though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
still have feelings for each other and they still care for each other more than
anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But new information is
gained as well as a new character that will affect them and their relationship.</div>
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So with the storylines being so different, I am going to try
something a little different and write up the storylines separately rather than
in the order that they appear in the episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I will tell the Vaughn story then the Sydney storyline, ending with
them finding each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully this
will work out as I think it will.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Vaughn:</u></b></div>
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As the show opens we see Vaughn at the firing range, and
Dixon approaches him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is
complaining that his role of playing the loving husband was supposed to be over
by now, and with how much he wants to be with Sydney and the anger he feels
towards Lauren I believe that he has the right to be a little crabby about the
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Dixon explains to him
that with Sloane now dead, they have reached a dead end in searching for the
passenger, and that they can still use Lauren as an asset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Explaining that they can use her to feed
incorrect information to the Covenant, and keep them off of Jack and Sydney’s
investigation into the passenger, and they will take Lauren into custody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn understands, but is not happy about
it, so he takes out his frustrations with shooting a few more shots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if he has placed a picture of Lauren
on the target, if I were in his position, I think I would have.</div>
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After taking out his frustrations, Vaughn is surprised to
find Lauren at the Rotunda since she had told him that she would be working
from home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hates having to play the
part, but does a good job of going along with the loving husband alias, knowing
that he is ultimately doing it for Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While he is playing nice with Lauren, he receives a phone call from Brill.
(Brill is the man that Vaughn and Jack went to for help in getting Sydney out
of the NSC holding facility, who also knew Vaughn’s father.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brill tells Vaughn that he has some
information that Vaughn needs to know about his father and tells Vaughn where
to meet him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the conversation Vaughn
works to not disclose who he really is talking with as Lauren watches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he hangs up and Lauren asks about the
call, he tells her that it was just the dry cleaner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They play the happy married couple for a
moment longer and then Lauren goes to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once she is out of his immediate eye line, Vaughn’s fake smile
disappears and he looks to Weiss to go and follow her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately while following her Weiss ends
up losing her trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This part always
makes me wonder, if they are able to track all these horrible terrorists with
Marshall’s fun gadgets, why didn’t they stick something on Lauren, rather than
depending on visual monitoring from one agent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Upon arriving at the location where Brill requested Vaughn
to go, they get in an elevator and then stop the elevator to have their
meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brill then goes on to tell
Vaughn what he needs to know, saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I
told you that I worked with your father. But what I didn’t tell you is I was
with him on his final mission.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells him that he knows how his father
died, and by the look on Vaughn’s face it isn’t really a subject that he wants
to talk about right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Brill looks
at him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You don’t have a
clue. Yeah, he was working on something. An operation that wasn’t sanctioned by
the CIA.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>This does not make Vaughn
happy in the least, and he tells Brill that his father wouldn’t ever go against
the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brill then tells Vaughn that
Bill Vaughn was a follower of Rambaldi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This just makes Vaughn even more upset, and tells Brill that it’s
impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brill stays calm and tells
him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“He died protecting the little girl.
The followers knew she was the Passenger. He broke her out of KGB custody. But
he didn’t trust the CIA, either, so he took her someplace where she would be
safe with other followers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>None of
this makes any sense to Vaughn, (or to the overall viewers when we start
comparing timelines, but I won’t go into that) and he tells Brill that the man
he is describing is not his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
this point Brill is somewhat frustrated with Vaughn’s unwillingness to believe
him, so he gets a little more adamant and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Your father was the best man I’ve ever known. And he gave his life to
make sure that that little girl would be safe. Now if you don’t stop what’s
happening, his sacrifice will be for nothing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have to assume that
they continue to talk because of the information that Vaughn has at the end of
the episode, but we don’t know exactly what is said.</div>
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As I have mentioned before, when I am watching the episodes
for this rather than for my own entertainment, I have found that I notice more
little of the details and I think more about how the characters must be feeling
as some of these revelations come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And this is no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
looked at Vaughn’s face when Brill was telling him that that he was with his
father on his last mission, his face looked pained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is always pained by the topic of his
father’s death, but I think that it is affecting him more today than is
shown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking about his father’s death,
makes him think about Irina Derevko and ultimately Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in this moment I think his thoughts may
have gone deeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe he was thinking
of the last time he saw Irina, and the last time he saw Irina was only hours
before his last moments with Sydney before her alleged death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also noting that he was being debriefed about
Irina while Sydney was being taken, so he feels some guilt there, thinking that
he should have been with Sydney protecting her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also it was after that last encounter with Irina that led him to meeting
Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now more than ever possibly,
he realizes how much damage the Covenant has not only done to Sydney, but also
to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also in the coming episodes
where the mission is to find the Passenger, Nadia, I can see where he has mixed
feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His instinct has always been
to help Sydney in any way that he can, but finding the Passenger can’t be easy
on Vaughn as his father gave up his life with Vaughn for her safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I could easily see him having a bit of
resentment towards her and not having her on the top of his priorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is all just theory once again, as
well as a testament to Michael Vartan’s acting skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way that I can get this much of a theory
built up based off of a look on his face.</div>
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As they are ending their conversation, Brill tells Vaughn
that he knows what he needs to do and to just make sure that they don’t get to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn asks him why he came to him
and Brill tells him, because it’s what your father would’ve wanted me to do and
then Brill exits the elevator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is
left to think more about what he needs to do and possibly weigh that against
what he wants to do and the elevator closes, inside he gets out his phone to
call someone, I have to assume that it is Sydney, so she can know where to go
and what their plan should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
before he has a chance to say anything he exits the elevator and then is
attacked and knocked out.</div>
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The next time we see Vaughn, he is hanging by his arms in a
warehouse somewhere and we hear Sark speaking to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also see that Vaughn has been stripped
down so his chest is fully visible, which normally I get excited about seeing
that nicely chiseled chest, but since he is hanging and also covered in blood I
don’t take as much pleasure in seeing it. Besides the blood running down one
side of his body, seeing water raining down on him doesn’t bode well with me
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is coming to after being
knocked out and that Sark is now telling him that the Covenant has known for a
while that Vaughn’s father was a follower of Rambaldi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also that Brill eluded them, but Vaughn was
not as lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark tells Vaughn that
there are three things he needs to know. The first being about the device he
holds which can deliver up to 500,000 volts, which Sark tells him isn’t enough
to kill him, but just enough to make Vaughn wish that it would. The second item
being that Sark believes that Brill disclosed the location of the Passenger to
Vaughn, which means that Sark won’t stop the torture until Vaughn tells him
where she is. The third item being that Sark is going to enjoy the torture far
more than he should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After telling
Vaughn of the three things he should know, Sark begins the torture by jabbing
the highly charged baton into Vaughn’s side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Making Vaughn scream in pain, and shake vigorously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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On a quick side note, Weiss does return to the Rotunda and a
task force is put together to find not only Lauren but also Vaughn since they
believe he may have been compromised.</div>
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Sometime has passed before we see Vaughn again, only now he
is covered in more of his own blood and we can see where he has been
burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark remarks how impressed he is
at Vaughn’s ability to withstand the torture, but then turns up the machine to
a higher setting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming from Sark who
we have seen quickly bow to the pressure of torture; it’s not surprising that
Sark is impressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sark tells Vaughn
that he is done showing restrain and asks him again where the Passenger
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is in an extreme amount of
pain and it shows in how hard it is to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Vaughn has been trained to withstand torture and we know that he
will do anything to save Sydney, including dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is no surprise that in this moment of
excruciating pain, Vaughn actually provokes Sark and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Holding that thing, you almost look like
you’ve reached puberty.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sark does
not take the insult well and takes it out on Vaughn by holding the baton to
Vaughn’s chest for longer than the last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Vaughn is shaking and screaming, Lauren emerges and sees Sark
torturing Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that it is
in this moment that Vaughn sees Lauren with Sark for the first time. </div>
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When Sark is finished with Vaughn, at least for the time
being, Lauren approaches Vaughn to clean him up a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the last person Vaughn wants to accept
help from and he yells at her to not touch him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She tells him that Sark is going to give him the Inferno protocol and
that after all that he has been through, he wouldn’t survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks her why she cares, and she tells him
that not everything was a lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Sark’s
men are taking Vaughn out of the restraints that are holding him up and take
him to a cot, we see Lauren begging for Sark to wait, and not to do the Inferno
Protocol, that he needs time to recover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sark asks her why she has this sudden concern for her husband now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go on talking and he eventually slaps
her, and tells his men to take Lauren out of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then goes back to Vaughn and places and
mask over his head to start the protocol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We as watchers know (I hope) that this is all just show; they want to
play on Vaughn’s sympathetic side and have him believe that she isn’t the
callous bitch we know her to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The mask is removed from Vaughn’s face and someone is there
at his side assisting him to wake up. We find that it is Lauren, and Vaughn
actually fell for Lauren and Sark’s manipulation and isn’t overly upset that
Lauren is there with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked her
what is going on, she tells him that the protocol worked and that he somehow
survived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He allows her to help him out
of the bed, and he asks her if he told him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren tells Vaughn that he told Sark everything, but that he will be
back any second and that Vaughn needs to get out of there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks her why she is doing this, and she
tells him that for her their marriage was real, and that it was the only real
thing in her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She helps him dress
and tells him to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Vaughn
stumbles out of the warehouse and makes it to the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDOi_3U0-j7cUmbU-sHIow4yI18X77a0w9SZxt5cK5AwuBzTBUk5-lAvrFQHf9rwjCgtqUXTX8MdjJI6lrFN838hYB8jCPBya9k0VsOshtEMnKZSYoao5ye3-cIra6gY0QllVUVtNRyaa/s1600/blood+ties+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyDOi_3U0-j7cUmbU-sHIow4yI18X77a0w9SZxt5cK5AwuBzTBUk5-lAvrFQHf9rwjCgtqUXTX8MdjJI6lrFN838hYB8jCPBya9k0VsOshtEMnKZSYoao5ye3-cIra6gY0QllVUVtNRyaa/s640/blood+ties+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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Once out in the open Vaughn sees a car approach him and
tries to flag them down, but has no success, but a truck quickly follows and
does stop to help Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn gets in
and the driver is concerned with Vaughn’s appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn just tells him that he needs to get to
a phone, so the trucker quickly allows him to use his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn, takes the phone hesitantly, thinking
about making his call with a civilian near him, but decides that he will do it
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He calls into the CIA dispatch
and asks to speak to Dixon immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When speaking with Dixon, Vaughn tells him that the Covenant knows the
location of the Passenger and that Sark is moving on the lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon asks him how they got the Intel, and
Vaughn looks again to the driver, but dismisses his hesitations and tells Dixon
that they got it from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon then
tells him that they will put together a tactical team and beat them to it, and
asks where the Passenger is now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
becomes suspicious now, I’m not sure if it is from the way Dixon worded his
question or the truck drivers interest in Vaughn’s phone call, but Vaughn can
see that something is not right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
tells Dixon that he cut out and that there is bad reception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see that Dixon isn’t Dixon, but
Lauren typing the words that Dixon is saying into her laptop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has him ask Vaughn what is wrong, and in
reply he asks if Sydney is back from Hong Kong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With this statement, Lauren and Sark know that their rouse didn’t work,
and Vaughn realizes that the truck driver is Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn goes to attack the driver at the same
time that the driver goes in to attack Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But even in Vaughn’s condition, Vaughn is still able to overpower the
driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually knocking him out and
making the truck crash into some parked cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn quickly exits the truck as best he can after the crash, and as he
is jogging away from the truck, the truck explodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a car pulls up to him and Sark and
Lauren get out with their guns trained on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn finally realizes that Lauren played him once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She ends up knocking him out with a quick
kick in the head after telling him that he is smarter than she thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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It is in this moment I believe that Vaughn truly begins his
change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s never been overly cynical
or revenge driven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this latest
betrayal at Lauren’s hand brings out a side of Vaughn that we have never seen
before and his actions in the next episode are a result of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I will go into that more later.</div>
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Back at the Rotunda, luckily Marshall has found a lead, he
shows Dixon the footage that he found, Dixon instructs him to look at the
surveillance from every camera within a five mile radius of where Sark and
Lauren picked him up after the truck crashed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With Marshall being this close, you know that Vaughn will be found, it’s
just a question of the condition that he will be in.</div>
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Back at the warehouse, the game playing is over, they tried
to trick Vaughn into thinking that they had run the Inferno protocol on him,
when they really hadn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this time,
Lauren is more than happy to help with the set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the setup is complete and Vaughn is
fully emerged in the Inferno protocol, Sark begins his questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I find amazing is Vaughn’s strength even
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The questions that Sark asks that
would ultimately have no effect on Sydney or the Passenger, Vaughn answers, but
any question that would affect Sydney, or the Passenger, Vaughn is able to
still refrain from answering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Showing
that even under the worst conditions, even his subconscious is unwilling to
hurt Sydney in anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proving that
Vaughn will go to any extreme for her, including dying, which is good for
Lauren to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark instructs Lauren to increase the dosage,
Sark receive a phone call, after hanging up he tells Lauren that they are done
that they have the location of the Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren asks Sark about Vaughn to which Sark tells her to kill him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She hesitates for a small moment, before
turning the wheel on the medication up allowing the medication to kill him for
her and she walks away. </div>
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At the Rotunda, Marshall calls Dixon and Weiss into his
office and shows them the footage that he found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Marshall’s usual over talking, Weiss
finally gets the location of where Vaughn is now out of him and races off to
save his best friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is something
that we rarely get to see, but is nice to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weiss and Vaughn have been friends for a long time, and since the
downfall of the Alliance, Weiss and Vaughn haven’t worked together as partners
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But seeing Weiss show his own
strengths as an agent to find Vaughn shows another side to their friendship. Then
seeing the actual rescue of Vaughn and the fear on Weiss’s face as he finds
Vaughn shows how much he really cares for his friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s not part of the Sydney and Vaughn
relationship, per say, but in any relationship the closest friends of each side
of the couple do affect the couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
seeing how good of a friend is to Vaughn here as well as how much Sydney has
depended on him this year, shows that he would do anything for them.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Sydney:</u></b></div>
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We know that Sydney is not happy with Jack over him letting
Sloane die, knowing that Jack had the information that would exonerate
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have only watched the
episode, you can see her anger at Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I love how she was able to expound upon her true feelings about
Sloane’s death with Vaughn in the deleted scene that I posted in the last
episode recap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before anything is
said, you can tell that she is still not happy with Jack and hates being in his
presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the situation quickly
changes as jack explains that yes he did have the information to exonerate
Sloane, but as he was going to hand over the evidence to Bell, the guy from
Justice who came to oversee Sloane’s execution, when he quickly realized that
Bell was part of the Trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Bell
being part of the Trust jack knew that he couldn’t turn over the information
that he had to him. Sydney then sees Sloane and they begin their search for the
passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that I could go into a
lot more detail about the details of finding the Passenger, but I don’t find
them overly relevant right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this
storyline will be kept short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will say
that Sloane tells Sydney and Vaughn why the Passenger is so important, and why
everyone is searching for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rambaldi
told of a Passenger that would serve as a conduit to Rambaldi himself and that
when given an elixir she would be able to pass a message that would show
Rambaldi’s ultimate end game. </div>
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While on the search for the Passenger, Sydney and Jack do
share a nice moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it isn’t
relevant to the relationship, I am a sucker for a good Sydney and Jack moment.
They are in the van ready for surveillance and Jack tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney, there’s something you should know.
When I first learned of Sloane’s affair with your mother, I was forced to
consider the possibility that I wasn’t in fact your biological father. It’s not
the case. I had our medical files examined. Our relationship is clear. But I
wanted you to know during that brief time before I was reassured, my feelings
for you never changed.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney says
a simple Dad in return and then they share a smile before going back to their
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one of those moments that are
few and far between for Jack to open up to Sydney. </div>
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After a trip to Washington DC to see the Trust and retrieve
a Rambaldi artifact, they use the substance that was in the Hourglass to power
the new artifact and it prints out what appears to be brain waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain waves are from the Passenger, and
with the help form some contacts, they are able to find her using her brain
waves and the equipment that the DOD uses to search brainwaves from orbit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is in a women’s labor camp in
Chechnya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack reminds Sydney that
Sydney needs to make sure that her expectations for her new sister are not the
same as she had for her mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
reassures him that after meeting Irina, she won’t be making the same mistake
twice.</div>
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In Chechnya, Sydney has managed to break in to the women’s
labor camp and is searching for her sister, when she finds her she is in the
hospital infirmary in a catatonic state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Upon seeing her new found sister like this Sydney’s empathetic side
immediately comes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney sits down
next to her, and starts to release her from the restraints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she does this she introduces herself and
tells her that she is her sister, and that she is there to help her and she
will make her safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that
even though Sydney promised that she would not fall into the trap of believing
that her sister was innocent and trustworthy, she has already come to love this
sister of hers. </div>
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While escaping the prison with her sister, Sydney has to
fight with some guards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she is
fighting her way out, her sister suddenly begins helping Sydney fight off the
guards. After the guards are taken down, Sydney escapes with her sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stop for a moment to allow for resting,
with some questioning, Sydney realizes why the Passenger had so many
Aliases’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the same reason that
Sydney does herself, she is an agent from Argentina, and her name is Nadia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney shows that she has already fallen for
the idea of having a sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney also
tells Nadia that it wasn’t just her there to rescue her, but her father helped
and that he is waiting for her.</div>
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Later after escaping Jack, Sydney, Sloane and Nadia are at a
CIA safe house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nadia wakes up and sees
Sloane holding her; she tells him that she knows who he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her that the reason that he changed
his criminal behavior was to become worthy of her love and respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a nice moment between Sloane and Nadia
we hear an explosion, Sydney and Jack jump into action while Sloane stays
behind to cover Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear Sark
instructing others that the Passenger is to remain unharmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Jack take out some of Sark’s men,
but then have to retreat back into the room where Sloane and Nadia are, only to
find them gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Jack hide in
the rafters and watch Sark and Lauren search the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren finds a wall that opens up to an
escape tunnel, and tells Sark that Sloane set them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells Sydney that they are in a Chechen
safe house that Sloane suggested that they take refuge in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They deduct that Sloane knew about the escape
route and was the only other person that knew where they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane set them up again, he called the
Covenant to come and act as a distraction giving Sloane time to escape with
Nadia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was part of his ultimate end
game, I wonder if Lindsay had seen this far into the plan, or if Lindsay only
saw a part of the end game that we discover next season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sloane never truly reformed.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Sydney and Vaughn:</u></b></div>
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As far as a timeline given for how long Vaughn was held by
Sark and Lauren before Weiss was able to rescue him is fairly unknown, but we
can speculate that it was a good amount of time since we can infer that he was
taken around the same time that Sydney met with Jack and found that Sloane had
not been executed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So judging by what
Sydney was able to do, spend a good amount of time in Washington DC, as well as
rescuing Nadia from the labor camp in Chechnya, we have to guess that Vaughn
was held for at least two days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However
that is never fully confirmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we
do know is that he is in pretty bad shape after all of his torture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn’s stories finally come
together after Sydney has returned from Chechnya, so Vaughn has been in the
hospital for at least a day since we have to give time for Sark and Lauren to
make it to Chechnya and Sydney to make it back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the actual episode shown we see them for the first time as Sydney
first enters Vaughn’s room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However
there is a deleted scene that took place immediately before her entering. I
really wish that they had left this scene in place, because while they don’t
directly refer to it, the knowledge gained in that scene makes other comments
in the next episode make more sense in the long run. So before I continue with
the actual episode, I think that I need to go over the deleted scene first.</div>
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The beginning of the scene, at least for me doesn’t add much
to the plot and I can see why it was cut, it contains Dixon and Sydney
discussing Sloane and why Jack did what he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also that they are working with the DOD to try and find her brainwave
pattern again, but they aren’t having much luck; Sydney suspects that Sloane
has done something to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Dixon
reassures her that they will do all that they can to get her sister back to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This conversation takes place outside of Vaughn’s hospital room
and as much as Sydney now cares about the status of her newfound sister, she
didn’t come to the hospital to talk shop with Dixon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she first comes into the scene you could
see the immediate concern in her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
talked shop as much as she could, but now she can’t wait any longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She needs to check on Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She starts walking to his room to go greet
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before she can get too close, Dixon
stops her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd, before you go in there, there’s something
you need to know about Vaughn. The doctors ran tests to see if there were any
permanent affects from the Inferno protocol, there were none. But… they
discovered something else; signs of Psychological conditioning. We believe that
Lauren is responsible.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney has this mixed look of absolute concern
for Vaughn mixed with a look of revenge for Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can imagine that after hearing this, she
wants nothing more than to kill Lauren herself, but she first needs to check on
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks Dixon if Vaughn has
been told, and he tells her that he thought that it would be better if he
regained his strength before hearing the news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney nods in agreement and the deleted scene ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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So essentially Dixon just told Sydney that Vaughn has been
going thru similar conditioning that Allison Doren put Will through at the end
of Season two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the one thing
that we do know, or at least can infer from seeing Vaughn being tortured, he
has been somewhat conditioned by the CIA to withstand some brainwashing techniques,
but within his own subconscious he won’t disclose anything that would
ultimately affect Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only time
that she could’ve gained information that would’ve affected Sydney would’ve
taken place before she returned from the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once Vaughn knew she was alive his priorities, at least subconsciously at
first if not outwardly shown, were to protect Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I could also infer that Lauren may have
gained the knowledge that ultimately put Jack in prison from Vaughn when they
first started dating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can’t
believe that she would be able to get much info that would hurt Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But where Sydney was not involved, I can see
him divulging some of that information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But knowing that this conditioning took place lets us be able to
understand some upcoming statements that Vaughn says that originally had me
very confused. </div>
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In the episode itself, the scene opens with Sydney walking
into Vaughn’s hospital room immediately following this conversation with
Dixon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is at the forefront of her
mind when she approaches Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
tell that she is thinking about something, but knowing what Dixon just told her
gives us more insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She approaches
Vaughn’s bed and softly speaks his name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wakes up and you can see that he is in very bad shape overall, so
Sydney’s train of thought does change to his overall condition rather than what
Lauren did to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks up at
her and says her name, and you can tell that she is the only person on his
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reaches out his hand to her; she
looks down and then takes his hand in hers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With all of Vaughn bruises and scars, he shows nothing but concern in
his eyes and then asks her if she is alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Typical Vaughn, no matter what type of pain he is in, his first concern
is for Sydney and her wellbeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
somewhat reminds me of when Vaughn was dying from being contaminated by the
water from the red ball and he is lying in the hospital bed asking Sydney how
dangerous getting his cure will be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
matter what the situation has been, Vaughn always wants to protect Sydney, and it’s
killing him in situations like this that he can’t be with her to protect
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with his question, Sydney
looks a little surprised and looks him over before telling him that she is
fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the look that Sydney has, you
can tell that Vaughn is starting to alarm her, because she has nothing but
concern for him in her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then
asks her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Passenger… Did you find
her?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a look of wonder at this
question, but she tells him that yes, she found her, but that she is already
gone and missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that
Vaughn is actually scared for Sydney here, his breaths quicken and her tells
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You can’t go after her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney questions him, wondering what he
is talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes on to tell
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Your sister. You have to let her
go.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unsure of what is going on,
Sydney tells Vaughn that he is tired and that she should let him sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like Sydney may have attempted to
release his hand, but he held hers tight and pulled her closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again his concern for Sydney is showing
and it is his main concern above any type of pain that he may be in, he tells
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No. My father was killed because he
took her from the KGB. He hid her from your mother. That’s why she murdered
him. I met someone who told me the prophecy…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Vaughn is talking
Sydney can’t quite wrap her head around what he is telling her and she is very
confused, but he goes on and tells her the prophecy of The Passenger.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “The Passenger and the Chosen One shall
battle. Neither will survive.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and Sydney have never been big
believers of the Rambaldi stuff, but they have seen too much to not have a
little fear when it comes to the prophecies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn looks up at Sydney and goes on; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney… You can’t see her again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Vaughn says this,
Sydney looks down at him wondering what to do, but she can’t ignore the concern
that Vaughn has for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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The last thing we see is Nadia being held somewhere by
Sloane and she is chained to a chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sloane injects her with the green elixir that he made from the Rambaldi manuscripts,
so that she can become the conduit to Rambaldi’s end game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She goes into convulsions and Sloane places a
mask over her face to put her to sleep.</div>
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So overall, while Sydney and Vaughn have very little contact
in the episode, what happened to them will definitely affect their overall
relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney has gained a new
sister, who is prophesied to end up killing her, but Sydney having met her has
a hard time believing this, but she will always have it at the back of her mind
knowing what prophecies have come true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Vaughn, he was originally angry at Lauren for her betrayal in
marrying him as well as betraying the country, but after what she and Sark put
him through and falling for her last manipulation over him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He becomes very bitter and angry, plus he is
told about the psychological conditioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So he has two things on his mind, bringing Lauren to justice and making
her pay for what she has done not only to him but to Sydney as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because in his mind, he sees Lauren being
responsible for Sydney’s disappearance and all the agony that he and Sydney
went through during those two years, as well as the pain that he has had to
inflict on Sydney over the last year, trying to be a good husband. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his second concern and his main overall
concern although at times, it doesn’t show as his number one concern is gaining
Sydney’s trust and love back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants
nothing more than to be back with Sydney and for them to be happy together once
again.</div>
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If I have any readers out there that have wondered why there
hasn’t been a post in two weeks, I apologize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I went on vacation, I will have a post about that because I went back to
LA and took some more location shots, but I also changed shifts and I am no
longer working graveyards, so I don’t have as much time to work on this as I
would like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am going to attempt to
work on this while working; I will just have more interruptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am back to the project and excited to
get back to where Vaughn and Sydney learn how to be a couple again, and fall in
love all over again.</div>
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This portion while small, I feel I need to include, the
episode opens with Jack using instant messenger begins a chat with Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her that he needs Intel on The
Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she doesn’t reply, we
then see that she has terminated her account and the screen starts populating
with what looks like a virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the last time that we see any evidence of Jack and Irina corresponding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it’s not important to the relationship
today, it will become relevant over the next few episodes.</div>
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Another small moment that isn’t relationship related, but
Sark goes to Nepal and speaks with the monk that we saw Sloane speak with at
the end of season 2 episode 20 – Countdown. <a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/s2-e20-countdown_13.html" target="_blank">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/s2-e20-countdown_13.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/s2-e20-countdown_13.html" target="_blank"> </a> </span>Sark wants the manuscript regarding the
passenger, and the monk won’t give it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sark and the monk fight, and the monk calls Sark by his name which
shocks Sark for a moment wondering how the monk new his name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lauren’s mother then shots the monk with
a tranquilizer and then told Sark to grab the manuscript regarding the
Passenger and then to take the monk since he may be helpful if it is encrypted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, something that isn’t a big deal
now, but will play a part later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For the next few episodes, they will probably be longer
posts, as the season is coming to an end and they are tying up loose
strings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that I will be
including more scenes than usual, because most of the events will now lead to
the end result and will affect Sydney and Vaughn in one way or another.</div>
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Back in LA, Jack and Sydney are walking on to the roof of
some building, and Jack tells Sydney about his IM conversation with Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney speculates that Irina is either the
passenger herself, or she is protecting the Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they round a corner they see Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is a little cold towards him after her
last few encounters with him, which is understandable. Sydney looks at Vaughn
and asks; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What’s going on? Your message
said it was important.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and Jack
stop in front of Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney stands
with a really defensive pose. While Jack is open to hear what Vaughn has to
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn takes a moment then tells
them; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You were right.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is still being pretty cold to him and
asks him what she was right about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
then tells them; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lauren’s the mole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She works for the Covenant.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is at these words that Sydney looks away
and realizes that she no longer has to be cold to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s figured out what she needed him to
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack, knew this would happen in
time, and asks Vaughn if he has any proof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn nods to them and then becomes angry with himself and says; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I should have known.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is no longer cold and distant, and
ready to start working on a plan. She says that they need to talk to Dixon and
work out a way to handle this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is
still angry and he tells Sydney and Jack that he knows how to handle it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jack being the ultimate game strategist
tells him that he needs to act like nothing has changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks at him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Okay, what’s plan B? ‘Cause that’s not
going to happen.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack explains that
since the Covenant is ahead of them in the search for the passenger, using
Lauren could help them to catch up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack
goes on to tell Vaughn that she can’t detect that he feels any differently than
before in their relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as
telling Sydney and Vaughn that he will work with Dixon to secure the agency and
limit her access to classified documents and Intel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn interrupts him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Okay, stop! My wife betrayed me. She
betrayed all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t expect me
to pretend that never happened.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Jack
then tells him that he doesn’t have a choice, and when Vaughn questions him,
Jack tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Because you’re the one
who married her.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn isn’t
happy, and you can see that Sydney feels bad for Vaughn and doesn’t like that
he has to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they all know
that out of everyone, Jack knows from experience what to do in this
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they don’t protest.</div>
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Back inside the Rotunda, Vaughn is working at his desk and
Lauren approaches him, telling him that she missed him earlier that
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He plays along with Jacks
plan, but you can tell that this may be one of the hardest assignments he has
ever had to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he makes up an
excuse for why he wasn’t at home when she woke, and plays his role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows this role well; he has been playing
it all season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only this time he knows
he is ready to have the alias of Michael, that he created so he could move on
from being in love with Sydney, be done with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see that Sydney is watching their
interactions from across the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren then tells Vaughn that she actually liked it a little, that it
felt like they were getting back to their routine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her that he thinks that they
have as well, although you can see the sadness in his eyes as he sees what a
sham his marriage was, as well as what he gave up for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren asks Vaughn if he would reconsider
going to counseling, and Vaughn agrees that it may be a good idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The camera moves back to Sydney watching over
Vaughn with Jack beside her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
still watching Vaughn asks Jack; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“After
30 years, you still live with your wife’s betrayal. Will He?” </i>Jack takes a
moment and looks over at Vaughn, then tells Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Absolutely.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This small
interaction between the two of them is great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack has been Sydney’s rock this season, and it is in this moment that
Jack sees that Sydney will be with Vaughn again, Sydney knows this as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack realizes that as much as he
wants to protect Sydney, he may never be able to protect her from marrying a
man that is just like him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But more on
that topic next season. </div>
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Since Sark had kidnapped the monk that could help them with
the manuscript regarding the Passenger, Sark and company are transporting him
across the Thar Desert in India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
Sydney and Vaughn are sent to retrieve him and they will have to go old school
according to Marshall, which means they will somehow catch up to Sark’s Humvees
on horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney frees the monk, but as
he is jumping out of the Humvee Sark shoots him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells Sydney and Vaughn as she tries to
help him that the Passenger is now compromised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As he says this, Sydney removes her turban and he looks up and realizes
that he is speaking with the Chosen One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He tells her that the Passenger is her destiny, to which Sydney starts
questioning him about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with his
last breaths he tells her that the Passenger is her sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That only makes her turn to look to
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the man dies in her
arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though no one else was there
for her to look to, anytime that something doesn’t make sense, she always
turned to Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Vaughn is
essentially hers again and she can turn to someone again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did use Jack for this to an extent and in
the next scene she talks to Jack about it, and that is when Jack tells Sydney
about Irina’s affair with Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
she is happy to be able to have Vaughn be her sounding board again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could’ve seen their flight back to
LA.</div>
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The main characters from the Rotunda being; Dixon, Jack,
Weiss, Marshall, Sydney, and Vaughn, all collaborate on a plan that will entice
Lauren to gain access to a bogus code key that they have had made to read the
manuscript regarding the Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Project Black-hole does have the real one, and they will make Lauren
believe that they will have to real one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So that Lauren will try and gain access to it since her mother and Sark
stole the manuscript.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She falls for
their plan and gains access to a restricted area of the Rotunda, as they
predicted by using a fingerprint that she would steal from Marshall to go in as
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She makes a duplicate of the code
key from the scanner pen that she used to “examine the code key for the
NSC”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know that she will have to
take the code key to her handler, so they send Sydney and Vaughn to follow her
and identify her contact who should be able to lead them to the documents. Once
they know who they are dealing with, they will spec out a plan to recover the
documents.</div>
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Later in the day, Sydney and Vaughn are in a utility van
spying on Lauren waiting for her contact to arrive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they are watching her, Vaughn says to
Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know what I want?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney asks him what, and he tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A normal life.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he says this they both turn to look at each
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only last for a moment but,
they share a moment of wanting each other and knowing that that is what they
consider normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because nothing has
been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">normal</i> for either of them since
the night that Sydney disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
they quickly realize that while they both want the same thing, it’s going to
take some work to get there. </div>
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When Sydney and Vaughn see Lauren wave someone over, they
both immediately go into work mode, and while there is tension, they have
always been able to do their job regardless of what personal issues they may
currently have going on. They are both surprised to see that it is Lauren’s
mother Olivia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks to Sydney
and tells her that she is supposed to be in London right then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the sound isn’t the best because of the
fountain behind Lauren, they do find out that Olivia is part of the Covenant,
that Olivia killed Lauren’s father to protect Lauren, and that the documents
are at the Reed’s home in Richmond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren tells her mother that she will meet her there to help her get the
documents interpreted now that they have the key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they are saying this, Vaughn has this
almost horrified look on his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
knows that as part of playing this part of a loving husband, which he now
detests, he will be the only one who can easily gain access to the documents in
Richmond in the time frame that the Covenant is working on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is ever said out loud about this at
the time, but the look on his face and the pain you can see in his eyes as he
looks at Sydney, you can tell that he really hates having to play this part.</div>
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Knowing what part he has to play, Vaughn uses Lauren’s own
suggestion of counseling and they bring Dr. Barnett into the equation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see the usual conversations that couples
go through in marriage counseling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn tells Barnett that he feels that Lauren doesn’t trust him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren says that she is worried that once she
finishes mourning her father that he will leave her. Vaughn tells her that if
that were the case, why would he be there working on their problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He left it wide open for her to bring up
Sydney as he knew that she would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
tells him that their problem is that he thinks he is in love with Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn acts upset, he knows this is true; he
does love Sydney of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he has
to play his part, and he plays it well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He asks how he is supposed to respond to that, and Barnett tells him
that being honest is best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His response
is very good I think, it plays into the plan of getting him to Richmond and he
never lies about how he feels about Sydney, he just underplays his
feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells them; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sydney is very important to me. We have
history, obviously. We’re together a lot. We go away together a lot.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren is so annoyed with Vaughn with this and
I love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She acts upset that Sydney is
important to him, but she wants to be with Sark, but her look of boredom is
what makes me happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see her
becoming bored of having to play the loving wife as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Barnett, knowing what has to happen,
plays along with her role and asks if the two of them ever go away
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren acting upset, tells her
never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which we have already seen isn’t
the case, but I’ll forgive her slip up here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She wants to play the victim, because that has been what works for her
the best. Barnett suggests that maybe they should go away together and asks if
they have any trips planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
Lauren can respond, Vaughn immediately says that Lauren is going to see her
mother in Richmond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he says this she
is glaring at him, like she could kill him, but she tries to play it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stutters, but manages to get out that it
is only for a day, hoping that her trip won’t be interrupted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Barnett interrupts Lauren, telling her
that it would be a start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren looks
horrified, but nods in agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
her pleading for counseling to help their marriage, she can’t turn down the
counselor’s advice and still be believable as the loving wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it wasn’t already obvious to the viewers,
I actually love that Barnett walks into Dixon’s office to tell them that it
worked and that Vaughn is going to Richmond.</div>
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Once again, I have to say that while Vaughn hates playing
this part, he knows that it is his job so he will do it as best he can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn has never been a believer in the
Rambaldi mumbo jumbo; well at least he tries to ignore it as much as he can,
with what he has seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now knowing
that the Passenger is Sydney’s sister, he will do anything for Sydney, and if
Sydney wants to meet her sister and protect her, than he wants that as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he will play this part and
spend the day with Lauren and her mother and act like the doting husband he was
before Sydney returned.</div>
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While putting the overnight bags in the bedroom, Vaughn
wires the house with one of Marshall’s gizmos that will allow them to see any
electrical output form within the house, which will also find the safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over coms he tells them that it is in place,
and they tell him that they will call him when they have located the safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few minutes of catching up with
Lauren’s mother, Sydney calls Vaughn and he tells Lauren and Olivia that it is
Weiss; he apologizes and tells them that he needs to take the call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This moment is a parallel back to S1 E15 –
Page 47. <a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/07/s1-e15-page-47.html" target="_blank">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/07/s1-e15-page-47.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/07/s1-e15-page-47.html" target="_blank"> </a> </span>In that episode Sydney was still a double
agent, and worked her way into an invitation to Sloane’s home, while there she
had to get a hold of the Rambaldi documents from Sloane’s safe, and retrieve
page 47. While having dinner, Vaughn called her pretending to be Francie her
best friend, allowing her to walk away for a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Vaughn isn’t necessarily a double agent,
but he is playing two roles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also
worked his way into an invitation to this home, and has to break into a safe
there as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Sydney has called
posing as his best friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might be
alone in this, but I like it when the show parallel’s itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people may call it a lack of
imagination, but I think it is clever to have characters look into their past
to solve problems, or two remind themselves of who they are or were.</div>
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Once inside the house, knowing where the safe is, he
switches back to the coms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He breaks
into the safe and starts scanning the documents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he is scanning the documents, Sydney
warns him that someone else is coming towards him in the house, and we watch as
Lauren goes looking for Vaughn after her mother gets upset that she isn’t able
to work on the documents while he is in the way, and Lauren says she can handle
him, but her mother is skeptical, so Lauren goes to find him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she does walk in to the study, she isn’t
happy to find him in the study, but luckily Vaughn is a good agent and while he
knew he couldn’t get out of the room, he could find an excuse for being in the
room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was able to return the now
scanned documents and pull out the wedding album from his scam of a
wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Telling Lauren that he was just
looking through their wedding pictures, telling Lauren that he remembered that
her parents kept them in there, then going to a place he doesn’t want to go,
but knows to get out of being in a room he shouldn’t he asks her if she
remembers the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that the
worst part of this is knowing that Sydney is on the other end and can hear
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He puts down the pictures
and tells Lauren that he will go and get her sweater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lauren stops him and tells him that it
was the happiest day of her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having
to play along, he tells her that it was his too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While you can see that he doesn’t mean it,
and Sydney listening knows the truth, but you can still see the pain across her
face as she hears him say it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren
starts to initiate, I would say making love, but neither one of them would
consider it making love, so I guess I should just say that Lauren tries to
prove that she wants this marriage to last for her cover, so she goes for a
man’s usual week spot, sex, not knowing that having sex with Lauren is the last
thing that Vaughn wants, especially with Sydney being able to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they go through the motions, you can see
the absolute disgust on Vaughn’s face as he knows that he will have to follow
through with this to make sure she doesn’t think that she has been found out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it pains him to no end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other end, Sydney knows that Vaughn is
playing his part, and that it isn’t something that he wants to do, but she
understands it although she is also very jealous and pained by the experience
as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to save herself some pain
and Vaughn some embarrassment, she tells Marshall to turn off the coms.</div>
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This really is a great episode; it has so much in it, and is
able to parallel so many situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like
I mentioned before with breaking into the safes; making Vaughn a temporary
double agent, and him having to improvise, where usually this is Sydney’s
territory is great to see that trade off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also we get to see a lot of jealous Vaughn, when Sydney has to cozy up
to a terrorist, or their guard to get Intel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But this time to see Vaughn have to cozy up to his wife after finding
out that he has been used, seeing how dirty it makes him feel, as well as
getting to see Sydney having to hear it go down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have seen a lot of jealous Sydney this
season and before Sydney and Vaughn became a couple when Alice was in the
picture, but that was on the personal level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have never seen Sydney upset over what had to happen to get the job
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that parallel is a great one to
see. </div>
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When Vaughn returned from Richmond, a briefing was held to
discuss what the manuscript entailed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
spoke of a Rambaldi artifact called the Hourglass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who is based out of San Pedro now has
possession of it. But then Marshall tells them that they will need to move
quickly, because the manuscript also revealed that the Hourglass will only
reveal the location of the Passenger to one person, her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn speaks up noting that this is a
problem since Sloane, being the father, is due to be executed in six
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn exchange
glances as they realize the problem with the situation.</div>
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After finding out that the only way that Sydney will be able
to meet and possibly help her new found sister is by stopping Sloane’s
execution, she pleads with Jack to help exonerate Sloane. She tells him that
she knows the Trust exists and that Jack needs to help Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack asks her if she comprehends that her
sister may be a danger to her, she does realize this, but she tells him that
she may be a victim and that she could help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack actually says something funny here,
telling her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“With Irina Derevko and
Arvin Sloane as her parents, I don’t think so.”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack finally agrees to help Sloane and tells
her that when the head of Justice comes in to witness the execution, he will turn
over the evidence that he has on the Trust to then and that should exonerate
Sloane.</div>
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In San Pedro, Sydney and Vaughn are in a van prepping to go
in to get the Hourglass; they go over the basic operation information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a pause, Vaughn takes a deep breath and
looks at Sydney and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd, about
what happened in Richmond…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney
looks up, she looks like this isn’t what she is really wanting to discuss, but hides
it and looks at Vaughn and simply tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You were doing your job.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that statement, Vaughn nods and Sydney
looks away for a moment before saying more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But she then looks back up at him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And she is your wife.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is something that Vaughn does not want to be reminded about, especially not by
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at her for a moment and
then tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Not for long.” </i>Some
noises go off, so they both go back to work, and the conversation is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that in this instant, if Lauren
had been taken into custody and they didn’t end up having to play this charade
with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn could’ve had
an easier time getting back to a healthy place together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not saying that it would be perfect, and
that they wouldn’t have their share of trials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in this moment they love each other and if they weren’t so
patriotic, they could run off together and be happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But actions that take place, as well as new
information that is gained over the next few episodes, is what makes up many of
the struggles that they have to overcome at the beginning of next season.</div>
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Back at the Rotunda, Jack is introduced to the head of
Justice who will oversee Sloane’s execution, they speak for a few moments, but
notices something, and decides not to bring up the Trust with this man, and
puts the evidence that would clear Sloane back into his desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see Jack go and visit Sloane in his
cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They share a glass of wine, Jack
talks how Sloane once came to him and toasted the birth of Sydney with a bottle
of Sloane’s favorite champagne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack
then tells him that now he knows that Sloane has a daughter, he thought he
should return the honor, especially since the two girls share a mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane tries to reason with Jack telling him
that Irina betrayed both of them, seeking Intel from both of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack and Sloane argue about the logistics
over Irina’s status, and what it meant to each of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells Sloane that he knew that there
was a possibility that one day Sydney would be drawn into the spying world, but
he wondered why Sloane was the one who actually sought out Sydney. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He accuses Sloane of being jealous of what
Jack and Irina had, which was Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
goes on to tell Sloane; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You’re right,
I’m not going to help you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this is
the last conversation we will ever have, I want to make this perfectly clear.
What you have done to my daughter is nothing compared to what I will do when I
find yours.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>I know that this scene
really has very little, actually almost nothing, to do with the Sydney and
Vaughn relationship, so why did I include this part, or make it longer than
necessary? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main reason is that this
last toast of sorts will play a huge part in the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But seeing Jack have the upper hand and to be
able to give him the impression that he has done so many things to their
friendship over the years that can’t be repaired, is nice to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To see the love that Jack has for Sydney, and
to threaten to hurt Sloane’s daughter as much as Sloane has hurt Sydney just
for the revenge and to make Sloane suffer is a great moment for me personally;
especially, knowing the eventual love and respect that Jack gains for Nadia
later on in the series.</div>
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Back in San Pedro, Sydney and Vaughn gain access into the
club where the Hourglass in stored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
love seeing how well Sydney and Vaughn work together in the field, and this is
a perfect example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney walks up to
the front of the line acting like a spoiled girl who always gets her way and
attempts to get into the club based on her looks, but the bouncer doesn’t fall
for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as she is trying to talk the
bouncer into letting her in, Vaughn attempts to walk in without even talking to
the bouncer, which gets the bouncers attention off of Sydney for her to get
past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn dedication to his part
continuing the gag even after Sydney is well into the club is great to see, he
wants to make sure that she is all the way in before he will walk away from his
part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Over the next few minutes the scenes keep changing from
Sydney and Vaughn at the club retrieving the Hourglass and Sloane’s execution,
but I’m only going to cover the club and Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I will say that I do appreciate how
upset Dixon is to see that somehow Lauren gained clearance to watch Sloane’s
execution, especially at her words of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
had no intention of missing the execution of this traitor.” </i></div>
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At the club, Sydney has gained access to the area where the
Hourglass is being stored, but runs into a problem where the motion sensors are
on a random sweep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can hear the
concern in Vaughn’s voice as he says that that wasn’t included in the systematics that they were given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
remembers an old mission with Dixon and asks Marshall to grab him so that he
can help them get around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall
tells Sydney that he can’t get Dixon, because he is witnessing Sloane’s
execution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney becomes upset when she
realizes that the execution is going forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few moments pass, as we switch back to Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sydney tells Marshall and Vaughn that
they can’t wait any longer and that she is going in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see Vaughn for a small moment and you can
see a look of horror on his face as he realizes what may happen if Sydney goes
in without shutting down the security first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marshall tells her to stand down and that he almost has it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her that the security detail is
two dozen men strong; but Sydney ignores both of them, lets her coat fall off
as she pulls two guns out and is ready to start firing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without a reply from Sydney and knowing her
as he does, Vaughn immediately takes off his headset and goes in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Sydney enters we immediately see one of
the guards and she takes him out, and quickly follows with the other guards as
she sees them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She takes the Hourglass
in one hand and keeps shooting as needed with the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is back out of the room and has her coat
over the Hourglass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shoots another
guard and goes to shoot the guard at the top of the steps only to realize that
she is out of ammo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she stays in her
position and prepares to use her gun as a blunt force object for when the guard
comes down the steps for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she
is waiting we watch the guard slowly go down the steps, as well as watch Sloane
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Sydney hears gunfire and sees
the guard fall down next to her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
turns to look around the corner and up the steps to see Vaughn there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see the relief that they both feel,
but they don’t linger on it and they make their way out of the building. </div>
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After Sydney and Vaughn retrieve the Hourglass a lot of
things happen in a very short amount of time before the episode ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1<sup>st</sup>) Sydney meets Jack who is
escorting Sloane’s dead body in a hallway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack tries to talk to her, but she stops him and tells him that there is
nothing that he can say and walks off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2<sup>nd</sup>)
Upstairs Lauren makes a phone call to her mother, and tells her that Sloane is
dead, and that they can locate the passenger without his interference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But her mother tells her that the code key
Lauren retrieved from the CIA isn’t usable, and that she assumes that it was
deliberate on the part of the CIA, and that Vaughn played her and is likely to
try again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olivia continues to tell
Lauren that Vaughn playing Lauren will likely be his last mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren hangs up and looks around wondering
who else may know of her true affiliation. </div>
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We have now reached the part of the episode where they had
to choose something to cut for the sake of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wish that they would’ve found
something else, but they cut a fantastic Sydney and Vaughn scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily they did include it in the deleted
scenes and I have finally gotten new software so I can rip scenes easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here is the deleted scene, on the DVD the
scene was called, A Liberation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
including it in the breakdown because I believe that it should’ve been included
in the episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But looking at it from
the perspective that a director or editor may have, I can also see why they cut
it.</div>
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At Sydney’s house after her brief meeting with her father,
she hears the doorbell ring, she goes to answer the door and we find Vaughn at
her house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the scene had been
included it would’ve marked the first time that Vaughn has been to Sydney’s new
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn’t seen where she lived
before this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Possibly because he wanted
to remember the good times that the two of them shared in Sydney’s old
apartment, or he didn’t want to allow himself to think about Sydney sitting at
home alone in this new location and what made her move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney has him come in and he tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I was on my way home from work, and a, just
wanted to make sure you’re okay.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is nice to see him take a look around and
her new place as he is talking to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also have to point out his word usage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Around Sydney or anyone else for that matter, he hasn’t referred to his
house with Lauren as a home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I am
going into the Home thing with Vaughn again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he says he was on his way home from work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the week that he has had, he does not
want to go back to pretending to be with Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So his first thought is to go home, and for
Vaughn, home has always been wherever Sydney is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when he thinks of going home, because he
really, really wants to go home, he goes to see Sydney and to check on
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after saying that he came to
see if she was okay, he turns back to her after getting a glimpse of what he
wishes was his own home. </div>
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Sydney tells him that she is fine, but hesitates as she
looks at him closer, and corrects herself and tells him that she will be
fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love this scene because it is a
throwback to how they used to be able to talk to each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could get her to open up just by looking
at her and saying her name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he is
able to simply say “Syd” and she begins to open up again, just like she used
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This was going to be it… The end… Sloane’s death, it was going to be a
liberation…. But here it is… and… there’s no satisfaction in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no relief.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Partway through the speech, you can see
her begin to breakdown, and it is the type of breakdown that she would only
allow Vaughn to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she is speaking
Vaughn just watches patiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with
all of his own problems that he has to deal with right now, he is so concerned
with how Sydney is taking this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He knows how much she has wanted this moment from the day he met her,
but now that it has come and the circumstances around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows that it isn’t what is best for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s great to see how much he really does
love her by putting this moment of hers and her problems above his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he walks closer to her and rubs her
shoulders and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>It won’t
always be like this, it’ll get better.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this moment he is not only referring to how she feels about the
execution, but their own situation together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The camera goes back to Sydney, and Vaughn has now moved his hand from
caressing her arms, to now caressing her face. And she tells him that she
knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lets him continue to caress
her check for a moment and then smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And in that small instant everything in their world isn’t turned around and
messed up and they are happy.</div>
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But they both know that it can’t last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both take a breath taking them back to
reality and Sydney tells Vaughn that he needs to go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is trying to focus on what needs to be
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That he has to keep playing his
part as Lauren’s husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after
hearing Lauren’s last conversation, I feel like yelling at him to stay and for
them to run away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But of course what I
want and what really happens are two very different things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After she tells him that he needs to go home,
you can hear a crack in her voice and you can tell that she really doesn’t want
him to, but maybe she also thinks that he is already at the home that he should
be at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by the look that Vaughn gives
her, you can tell that as far as he is concerned, he is already home, and that
he just wants to stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he finally
nods his head, and reluctantly leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Sydney closes the door after he leaves, you can see her begin to cry
and it gets me right in the feels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I know I just talked a lot about a 2 minutes scene that
wasn’t even included in the episode, but I love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also considering that they really didn’t show
anything with the two of them after retrieving the Hourglass, I think that they
really should have included this scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From the moment that Sydney and Vaughn met, Sloane’s death has been a
huge motivator for Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has
wanted to kill him herself so many times, but was never able to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one time that she thought that she did
get rid of him to save Vaughn, it was all a rouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I think that Sydney needed this moment to
be able to tell Vaughn her feelings about Sloane’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because on some level, he is the only one
that she feels understands her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
reason that I think that they should’ve included this scene is that the next
time they see each other will be after they both go through life changing
moments, and this would’ve been their last moment before things really start to
change for both of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted
Vaughn’s is more traumatic than life changing, but his overall personality will
change forever after the next episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney’s moments alter her as well, but with her it is because of
gaining a sister and more knowledge; something that I will go into more with
the next episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The show ends with Jack going into the morgue and injecting
something into Sloane’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells
Sloane that he is surprised he didn’t get the reference of the bottle of
champagne used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently Jack and
Sloane have done this before, but together in Saigon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane is very confused to actually be alive,
and before he can fully grasp what is going on, Jack leans in and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But understand, this was not done out of
compassion. I orchestrated this because… and only because… I need you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>So in the end, Jack doesn’t let Sloane die,
because he wants Sydney to be able to find her sister, and Sloane is the only
one that will be able to help him do that.</div>
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<li>When Sydney visits Sloane to find out if she has
a sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find out that the event
that everyone was counting down to as an apocalyptic event in S2 E20 –
Countdown was that of Sloane finding out that he did have a daughter and that
the Il Dire machine with the mechanical heart turned out the DNA of the
Passenger and it did say peace, but apparently in Greek translates to Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane ran a DNA test and he confirmed that
he was the father of the Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also begs her to convince Jack to prove
that he was working with Senator Reed for an organization called the Trust.</li>
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Also, just in case you were wondering, and I know that you
really aren’t, but this one post has taken me five nights of working on this
within two weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really hope that
this will not be the case for the rest of these posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of my new schedule I can see that my
lack of free time will make the end of a season much harder and I anticipate
those taking a bit longer to do, but hopefully not this long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had many personal things come up and I was
sick in bed for a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So hopefully
I can get into a better routine with doing these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I won’t be able to finish the series by
the end of the year as I had originally anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think I am okay with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have come to find this blog therapeutic and
a place to come to and be able to write about these characters that I love so
much and find a bit of happiness, when I am having a bad day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as we approached the middle of the series,
I was becoming depressed that soon I wouldn’t have this escape, but I guess
that may be the silver lining to a new shift that makes the rest of my life a
living hell.</div>
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I am very well aware that I have gone off on a few too many
tangents lately, but this is what season three does to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really do love Season three, and maybe it
is because it is the season that makes you think more about character
motivations rather than Rambaldi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although Rambaldi is still a big mess in my mind, I do understand it more
and more each time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also realize that
my tangents or rants generally go more with how Vaughn is dealing with
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like I need to do this
because since the show is about Sydney and Vaughn is secondary to her, we see
scenes where Sydney is able to explain her frustrations to someone like Weiss,
Jack, and even to Will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we rarely
get to see Vaughn be able to express his frustrations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is able to talk to Weiss, and we do see
that at times, but once again the show is about Sydney, so they can only focus
so much venting from Vaughn to keep the story about Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as I mentioned in the last post, I felt
that we needed to go into Vaughn’s reasons for not wanting to believe that
Lauren was the mole and that she was working for the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also anything that I say here is nothing
but my opinion and what I infer from watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also a weird thing has happened to me as I have gotten deeper into this
blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have really gotten to know these
two characters, and I hope that after so long of watching patterns and finding
clues, you can predict what they may be feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess you can characterize some of my
tangents as fan fiction, since I don’t have a firm knowledge of what happened
in between scenes, but I don’t consider it as fan fiction, but more as filling
in the holes based off of clues given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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I think that overall Vaughn tries really hard to do the
right thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For him following the rules
isn’t always the right thing, sometimes we see that to do the right thing, you
have to break the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But overall
Vaughn wants to go home at the end of the day and feel proud of what he has
done and be proud of his actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So at
the beginning of the season when Sydney came back into his life, even though he
loved Sydney more than anything and wished that he could be with her, he knew
that it wouldn’t be right to leave Lauren for a past girlfriend that he thought
was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was something that we have
watched him struggle with over the last 18 episodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some episodes Vaughn struggled with this
ethical dilemma more than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as
Weiss said to him; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re a good guy,
you don’t want to hurt anybody, but you’re pretty much guaranteed you’re gonna
hurt everybody.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>What Weiss forgot
to mention was that in the process, he would also hurt himself trying to not
hurt either woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his good guy
mentality, Vaughn is very protective over the people that he cares about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that if Lauren had made a similar
suggestion that Sydney was the mole, he would’ve been just as upset or actually
even more upset than he was at Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As much as I dislike admitting this, once again, one of the main reasons
that he denies the possibility of Lauren being the mole is that he does love
her and feels he has to defend her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I have always said that Sydney is very capable of playing
dirty when she fights with anyone that she feels has betrayed her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until this season we haven’t seen Vaughn have
to fight too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is very good at
keeping his emotions in check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this
season we have seen him blowup at Lauren over how she treated Sydney when it
came to turning her in to the NSC over Lazarey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We saw him become incredibly angry with Jack when Jack put Lauren’s life
in danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has attempted to tell
himself and Sydney that he was happy with moving on, but overall, we don’t see
Vaughn say much that isn’t the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when Vaughn is already upset and contemplating the fact that Lauren
may not be the person that he thinks that she is, then to have Jack come in and
ask him to watch for signs of duplicity, we finally see Vaughn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>get upset and tell flat out lies to Jack,
saying; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You never respected me. Never
thought I was worthy of your daughter. So I'm not surprised you're so quick to
think Lauren is betraying me. But whether or not you or Sydney believe me, I
know the life I'm living, and I know the woman I am married to. Lauren is not
Irina, and I am definitely not you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I have to dissect this speech a little,
pointing out just how much Vaughn wants to get under Jack’s skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while it isn’t exactly right on topic,
this seems to be the most appropriate place to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>“You never respected me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- While Vaughn may believe this, especially
after the hatred Jack had towards him after finding him married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we have seen time and time again how much
Jack depends on Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition,
when it comes to Sydney, there is no one that Jack trusts more than Vaughn to
take care of Sydney.<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>“Never thought I was worthy of your daughter.” –
I will give this one to him, but only with a small margin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still believe that Jack had given Vaughn
his blessing to marry Sydney before she disappeared, but no father ever feels
that any man is worthy of his daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in Jack’s defense here, if Jack didn’t think Vaughn was good enough
for Sydney, there would have been no way that Jack would’ve allowed Vaughn to
be the one to spread her ashes.<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>“So I’m not surprised you’re so quick to think
that Lauren is betraying me.” – This statement actually puts less value on the
statement that he made about Jack not thinking he was worthy of Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anything to me it tells me that Vaughn
thinks that Jack wants him to leave Lauren so that he can go back and make
Sydney happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>“But whether or not you or Sydney believe me, I
know the life I’m living, and I know the woman I am married to” – Out of all
that he has said so far, this is the one that is the one that makes me doubt
everything that he has said to Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
already know that Vaughn believes that there is only one person in his life
that matters to him and that is Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So even if he doesn’t like what she is saying, he does trust her and
doesn’t think that she would do anything malicious to him, like making the
accusation without a good reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
Vaughn only knows the life that his alias of Michael is living, and he is
seriously questioning who is married to and why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>“Lauren is not Irina” (Laura) – I had to add the
parenthesis around Laura, because it was so clear to me when Vaughn’s wife was
named Lauren that it had to have something to do with Irina’s alias being Laura
Bristow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for Vaughn, to marry anyone
that is similar to Irina Derevko, the woman who killed his father truly scares
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it isn’t clear to Vaughn yet,
Lauren and Irina are so alike it’s laughable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Besides the name thing, they were both recruited to seduce a CIA agent
that would be central to the needs of the agency that they are working
for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the episode After Six, we find
out that Irina once had an affair with Sloane; in the same episode Lauren and
Sark begin sleeping together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if
Vaughn knew how many times Lauren has attempted to kill him and Sydney, he would
be devastated.<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>“And I am definitely not you!” – It is this that
Vaughn is the most afraid of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
seen Sydney be in too much pain over the years because of Jack, and that is the
last thing that he wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we have
already seen that they have the same goals, which is to ultimately protect
Sydney at all costs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack has also
admitted to Vaughn of them being similar and Vaughn didn’t mind it then, but
when it comes to the topic of betrayal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn does not want to be that similar.</li>
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As I mentioned above, Vaughn doesn’t want to turn out like
Jack, at least in the terms of how unhappy Jack is overall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I still believe that Vaughn respects Jack
and does think of him as a father figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But if Vaughn admits to Lauren being the mole, he has to consider what
ramifications having a traitor for a wife would do to him, and he has seen what
it has done to Jack and it really does scare him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t want to turn out as bitter and unemotional
as he sees Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But despite not wanting
to turn out to be like Jack, after speaking with him, Vaughn immediately starts
looking for these signs of duplicity that Jack had mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may not want to turn out like Jack, but he
certainly isn’t going to be led on for as long as Jack was. </div>
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The final main reason that I feel that Vaughn is hesitant to
admit that Lauren is the mole is Sydney herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever since her return he has struggled with
not being with her and being her number one person as he was before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if Lauren really is the mole, he would
always have it in the back of his mind, and sometimes at the forefront that he
has wasted the past few months yearning to be with Sydney, yet playing the good
husband all in vain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has wanted
nothing more than to be with Sydney, and now seeing that he was being duped,
and played he becomes very angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
over the next few episodes we will see Sydney and Vaughn come back together, we
also see a very different side of him, and that is due to Vaughn having to
reconcile these feelings of wanting revenge versus wanting to be with Sydney.</div>
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I know that I said that the next post would be about Vaughn
and why he was in such denial about Lauren being the mole, but I haven’t quite
finished that and I am on vacation currently and realized that today was the
anniversary of when Sydney and Vaughn met, so I felt like we needed to pay
tribute to that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this will be very
short, since I am completely beat and ready for bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2001 Sydney Bristow walked into the
CIA offices in Los Angeles and asked to speak to Director Devlin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After being told he was unavailable Sydney
told the receptionist to let him know that he had a walk in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that statement, Sydney was escorted into
the back offices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next time we see
her is after we watch an agent walk through the offices with some food and a
cup of coffee, and he brings it to Sydney who is furiously writing about SD-6 and
all she knows on a yellow tablet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That agent
was agent Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We later see Sydney
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That instinct was a personal one, and we had to wait until
almost the middle of season two to find out what it was, as well as the date
that they met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn’s father gave
him a watch before he was murdered and told Vaughn that he could set his heart
by that watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That watch worked
perfectly until October 1<sup>st</sup>, the day that he met Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His watch is the reason that he had an
instinct about her and was so ready to believe in her, protect her, and even
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Vaughn never had the watch fixed, not even after Sydney’s
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new wife that the watch had belonged to his father, not telling her about the connection
it holds with Sydney. So when Lauren had the watch fixed, Vaughn then realized,
more then, than any other time that year, that Lauren was not the right woman
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So with that brief summary, Happy Anniversary to Sydney and Vaughn!</div>
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Watching Sydney sit at her desk and just stare at Vaughn as
he stands casually chatting with Lauren and Marshall makes me want to cry for
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney can’t seem to focus; she
just keeps staring at Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after
the last episode, I can’t blame her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has tried so hard to keep her feelings in check so that she can keep working
with Vaughn and Lauren, but seeing Vaughn go back to her after her father died,
just makes her become more guarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
she is staring, Weiss approaches and she tries to concentrate on what needs to
happen, but she can’t stop herself from looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss notices this and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know, Syd, no one would blame you if
you hated him for going back to her.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Weiss says this they both watch as Vaughn
walks away with his hand on Lauren’s back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But from this statement, if it wasn’t obvious before, you can tell that
Weiss prefers Vaughn being with Sydney over Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney stands up to go to the briefing that
Weiss came over to tell her about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
then tells him that Vaughn isn’t the one that she hates, and asks how horrible
she sounds for saying it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss then
tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Well I’m mad at her, and I
don’t even think he’s that cute.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
love how Weiss has really become Sydney’s rock as far as friendship goes this
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney does stop and turns to
Weiss, not playing into his attempt at a joke to make her feel better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But it’s not just about them being together. My dad thinks Lauren’s
leaking information to the Covenant.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as expected, while Jack can’t prove
anything, he still suspects Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weiss questions Sydney about Lauren’s father confessing to the leaks
before he died, but Sydney tells him that his confessions answered all of the
concerns that her father had brought up about Lauren, but Sydney still doubts
that it was all Senator Reed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss then
coming in and attempting to be diplomatic about the situation says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Alright, let me just ask you a question. Do
you think she’s the mole, or do you just want her to be the mole?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then looks a little guilty and they
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In the briefing room, Sydney and Vaughn are sent on a
mission to Berlin to contact a hacker named Cypher to confirm if he made a worm
that the Covenant is using that is corrupting medical records throughout
medical facilities around the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
along with Marshall they leave the briefing room to get their equipment and
more info on their mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now not much
besides the usual gathering of Intel for the mission happens here, but I love
the look that they give each other as Marshall tells them that he also has a
name within the hacker community and that it’s Black Kitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a moment, their troubles are forgotten
while they share a knowing glance of Marshall’s uniqueness. </div>
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As Vaughn is packing to go to Berlin, Lauren is also
packing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is heading to Dover with
her mother to spread her father’s ashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn offers to go with her, but she tells him that she doesn’t need
someone else close to her letting down the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They talk for a moment how she feels that
everyone at the CIA looks at her as if she is a traitor as well; Vaughn tries
to console her by saying that they are just angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But her response is what gets me riled up
more than anything else in this episode I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You have no idea what it’s like to think you know someone, to love
them, and then figure out it was nothing but lies.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is playing him like a fiddle, using any
means necessary to make him feel sympathy for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But her speech taking place in the exact
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I’ve mentioned this before, but I love it when Sydney and
Vaughn go gothic, and they do gothic proper in this episode, although I think I
prefer the blue hair to the dreadlocks on Sydney; however Vaughn does look
better this time around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do find this
a little funny since in general I’m not a fan of the gothic look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, Sydney and Vaughn are in Berlin
looking for the hacker to confirm that he is the one who built the worm that
the Covenant is using to infiltrate medical facilities, which they assume has
something to do with The Passenger since the Passenger is a bio-weapon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They enter the club that the hacker is rumored
to be at and use Marshall’s glasses to find his PDA’s network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there is some tension between them as
it appears that they haven’t really discussed what happened any further than
Sydney hanging up on him when he called to apologize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As working partners, they are still very
comfortable and have a deep trust with each other when it comes to work. As
they sit down after identifying Cypher, there is a very small moment where they
aren’t sure where to place their hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It almost seemed as if their instinct was to hold hands since they are
playing a couple, but then they both decide against it at the last moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They meet with Cypher and begin talking with
him, he gets up to leave and we see that Lauren is in the club as well, not
actually in Dover burying her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren has a gun trained on Cypher to prevent him from disclosing any
pertinent information that he has on the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn stopped her from getting her first
shot off which only frustrates her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren
gets close enough to overhear the conversation that is going on, as well as get
a better shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right as Cypher is about
to disclose what he was really hired for and how his program was not designed
to ruin documents in medical facilities, Lauren finally takes her shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After Cypher is shot, Sydney leaves Vaughn to take care of
Cypher, while she goes after the shooter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cypher does hand over a USB drive with the actual code to Vaughn to prove
that he is not to blame for whatever the Covenant has in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren witnesses this exchange and becomes
even more worried, but it is her moment of hesitation here that allows Sydney
to see Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Sydney’s suspicions
are confirmed, she only has to prove it. </div>
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Later at a safe house in Berlin Vaughn and Sydney are
downloading the contents of Cyphers USB drive onto the CIA’s network so that Marshall
can analyze Cypher’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and
Sydney talk shop for a moment and after seeing Vaughn being upset about hearing
that Cypher is now dead, Sydney takes this moment to tell Vaughn that she
thinks that she thinks that she saw Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn questions what Sydney is telling him, as she tells him that she
thinks she saw Lauren in the club after the shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I don’t think that Vaughn is really
questioning what Sydney is saying, but wants to deny the possibility. Personally
I think that Vaughn has had his own doubts about Lauren’s activities, but hasn’t
wanted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to validate his thoughts out loud
and having Sydney now question them is hard for him, so he questions her, and
they have fight about it (more in the next section.) In the middle of the fight
Vaughn does calm down to tell her;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “Look,
I know things haven’t worked out for us the way we’d hoped…”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Also more in the next section) Which only
starts more fighting, only to be interrupted by a knock on the door which stops
all disagreements at once and we watch as they become proficient partners once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To both of their surprise,
especially Vaughn’s as he just defended Lauren not being at the club since she
was in England and not in Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
Vaughn greets her, it’s hard to not notice the suspicion growing as he welcomes
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this unwelcome visitor, Sydney
now has no doubts about seeing Lauren in the club or her affiliation with the
Covenant.</div>
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I know I’ve taken a lot of side trips off of the main
storyline of the episodes lately, but as I said in the beginning, this blog isn’t
really for storyline, but how they develop into the perfect couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is in this scene that I am once again reminded
of how well the two of them fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is a very tense and personal moment for them, one that could easily be played
dirty, especially in the condition that Sydney is currently in; one moment believing
that she was going to have Vaughn back and having it taken away incredibly
quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m not saying that no
yelling was involved, because there was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn was very defensive of Lauren, and Sydney wanted to get her point
across as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they fight as people
who really do love and respect each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Sydney this is huge, she is positive that Lauren is the mole, but
she also wants to make sure that her relationship with Vaughn stays intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do see Vaughn’s true feelings come out in
his statement to her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Look, I know
things haven’t worked out for us the way we’d hoped…”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may be defending Lauren at the moment, but
he admits to Sydney that this isn’t the situation that he wants to be in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does want to be with Sydney, but right now
he has to be a support to Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
much as Vaughn doesn’t want to admit that Lauren may be part of the Covenant,
he is starting to see that he may have to open his eyes to the possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has multiple reasons for not wanting to
believe this, and I think that those reasons may have to be covered in another
post, one that I can hopefully keep short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But you also have to realize that he has already admitted to Sydney that
she is the only person that really matters to him, and so even if he is opposed
to the idea that Lauren might be Covenant, because Sydney believes it, that is
when he has to start considering it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even if he doesn’t admit it to Sydney, he knows that Sydney loves him
enough not to say something like that just to get back at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if they aren’t technically a couple
right now, their relationship is one that is sacred to both of them and they
won’t ruin it with being petty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
seeing Lauren appear definitely has Vaughn on high alert and considering what
Sydney has told him.</div>
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After some seemingly awkward comforting from Vaughn towards Lauren,
and Sydney checking up on how long Lauren has been away from London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn are back to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are uploading the file so they can send
it to Marshall; meanwhile Lauren is setting up her new ring to start blinking; obviously
a gadget from the Covenant to destroy the files.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren walks back into the room where Sydney
and Vaughn are working and sets down a cup of coffee for Vaughn, while having
her ring touch the USB, which didn’t go unnoticed by Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lauren trying to attempt being civil to
Sydney offers her a cup as well, keeps up her appearances, but quickly leaves
the room.</div>
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Once Sydney and Vaughn get back to LA, they meet with Marshall
to learn that the memory on Cypher’s flash drive was wiped clean, and that it
was probably exposed to a high magnetic field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney looks at Vaughn and you can see that she is thinking of only one
way that it could’ve happened, looks back at Marshall and asks how it is
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall tells her that he
believes that it was done intentionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can see Sydney resisting saying anything to Vaughn at this point,
hoping that he is understanding what this means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn asks Marshall if Cypher could’ve
corrupted the data before giving it to them, pulling at straws for any
possibility that doesn’t involve Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately for Vaughn, Marshall doesn’t believe that was the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney does want to know if they lost
everything, but luckily Marshall was able to save most of the data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also to find out what the worm was
initially made for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that it was
destroying data was only a side effect; its real purpose was to look for
something that Marshall is still working on figuring out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he did make it so the data would be
rerouted to the CIA and stop destroying data in the meantime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that while Vaughn isn’t saying
much, he definitely has some lingering questions in his mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After hearing what happened to Cypher’s data, Sydney is
struggling with what is going on, so she turns to Jack for advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She explains her theory to him which makes
sense to him, so he asks her what Vaughn thinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that he won’t even entertain the
possibility that Lauren could be the mole, and that it’s like he can’t hear
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney really does know Vaughn well,
Vaughn can hear it, he just doesn’t want to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack knowing what their relationship is like and how hard it is on both
of them, tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Perhaps he can’t
hear it from you.”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack knows that
while Vaughn and he aren’t necessarily buddies, Jack does know that Vaughn at
least respects him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also Jack respects
Vaughn and has a unique perspective on what Vaughn may be going through, so
Jack decides to approach Vaughn himself.</div>
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Also being frustrated with the information that Marshall gave
to them, Vaughn is trying to work things out on his own, but he is taking out
his frustration on the firing range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
isn’t happy when he turns to find Jack there watching him, but he also isn’t
surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that Jack was there, Vaughn
slowly took off his ear and eye protection, and places his gun down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mentally preparing himself for whatever Jack
has to tell him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then turns and looks
right at Jack and asks him if Sydney spoke to him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack looks at him and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“All I ask is that you hear me out.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn, knowing what is coming, isn’t looking
forward to hearing what Jack is about to say, but nods at Jack giving him
approval to go on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Jack is
speaking to Vaughn, I feel that Jack really is looking out for Vaughn and is in
no way looking to make things harder for him. Jack told him; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My marriage with Irina, in spite of
everything, was a happy time for me; it was easy being with her. There were
times, moments, when I become curious, how would she occupy her morning, what
were her plans while I was out of town. Usually she told me, but occasionally
she'd stop what she was doing, walk over and offer me a kiss; A spontaneous
gesture. But on one occasion it struck me, this impulsive kiss, what if it was
an evasion; camouflaging the truth in an expression of love. Of course I
dismissed my concern immediately, merely my professional paranoia. After all
she was my wife I don't regret having married her. I have Sydney because of our
time together. What I do regret is that once I saw signs of her duplicity, once
I sensed her betrayal, I chose to ignore it. All I'm asking is that you be
responsive to the signs if and when they present themselves”.</i> While Jack is
talking, Vaughn listens patiently, he can see that Jack isn’t being his usual
abrasive self and is coming to him on a personal level so he does respect Jack
and even nods in agreement at one point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn is still at a point where he has
fallen back into his Michael character and feels that he needs to defend his
wife. I will go into this more in the next post as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he replies to Jack, not yelling, but very
fiercely saying; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You never respected me.
Never thought I was worthy of your daughter. So I'm not surprised you're so
quick to think Lauren is betraying me. But whether or not you or Sydney believe
me, I know the life I'm living, and I know the woman I am married to. Lauren is
not Irina, and I am definitely not you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i>After saying this to Jack, Vaughn picks up his things and walks off,
leaving Jack looking after him concerned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mentioned, this is not Vaughn
talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the character that
Vaughn created so that he could move past Sydney, and has had to alter as
Sydney came back into his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as I
said I will go further into this on the next post.</div>
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As it turns out Marshall was able to find what the Covenant
was looking for, they were looking for the DNA of a single person, a female,
but the person that they are looking for happens to have ten different identities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once realizing this, Sydney and Marshall leave
Marshall’s office to go tell Dixon, as they leave they pass Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who is quick to take an opportunity to go
take a look around Marshall’s office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Weiss takes notice that Lauren is going in there as Marshall is
leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn being a little shaken
after his discussion with Jack is definitely thinking about the possibilities
even if he denied the possibility to Jack, so when he gets back to the Rotunda,
he looks for Lauren and when he can’t find her asks Weiss if he has seen her and
then directs Vaughn to Marshall’s office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile Lauren is quickly trying to download what Marshall found
before being found out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she finishes
up and is leaving she runs right into Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After finding her there alone he does become a little suspicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She makes up an excuse for being there, but
he doesn’t quite buy it.</div>
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Like I mentioned, when talking to Jack, Vaughn is acting
like he is 100% on Lauren’s side, being the good husband that he is supposed to
be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Vaughn is and has always
been a good agent, and even if he doesn’t like it, he will investigate a
lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when he sees Lauren he tells
her that he has some free time and asks her to lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that she has to run some errands,
so he offers to go with her, but he is once again rejected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she tells him that she will meet him for
lunch in an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he watches her walk
away, he starts to become suspicious again, just as he was when he saw her in
Berlin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is no surprise that he
ends up spending some time tailing her while she is on her errands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He watches her as she takes a phone call that
makes her act even more suspicious, so he calls and has Weiss tap into her
call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately they are only able
to catch the end of it and never hear Sark as the person she is talking to, or
that they are talking about the Passenger and Bomani.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they did get the end of her call which
has her telling Sark; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“After all that we’ve
been through, how could you do this? I thought I could rely on you, especially
now. I’ll never forgive you for this.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing this Weiss asks what is going
on, but Vaughn can’t tell him, because he also has no idea what just
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it does make both of them
more suspicious of Lauren, Sydney has now talked to both of them and they both
trust Sydney’s instincts, Vaughn is just trying not to face them.</div>
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When Vaughn meets up with Lauren, he talks Jack’s advice and
asks her about her errands, but she evades his questions, and after being pushed
she guesses that she may have been followed so she comes up with a lie that
would make her actions seem reasonable, and makes Vaughn feel ashamed for
thinking ill of her again, although he still isn’t one hundred percent
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Back at the Rotunda, Dixon confirms to Sydney that the DNA
did lead to ten different aliases for the same woman, and that she was always
seen by the same doctor, who has a practice in Milan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives her the file and lets her know that
Vaughn is on her way in, and they will leave later that night. Unfortunately Lauren
arrives a few moments before they do at the doctor’s home in Milan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Sydney and Vaughn walk in they see that someone
has already beaten them there and that the doctor is also a follower of
Rambaldi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They separate to look for
whoever beat them there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn goes
upstairs to where the doctor and Lauren are and Sydney stays on the ground
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Sydney fights it out with
the doctor’s security team that came in after he pushed the button for his
panic room; Vaughn finds the panic room where Lauren and the doctor are locked
inside and works on breaking in. In the panic room, Lauren sees how close she
is to being discovered as she sees in the monitors that Vaughn is just outside
the door and Sydney is downstairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
she becomes even more violent with the doctor than she was before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Vaughn gets the door open he sees that the
doctor has been tortured, and that he just missed the torturer by a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we can see by how close Lauren is cutting
it, that she will be discovered soon luckily.</div>
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When Vaughn enters into the panic room the doctor starts
talking about how he has spent years protecting the passenger, and now he has
betrayed her, as Vaughn works on untying his wife’s work. Vaughn tries to get
the doctor to reveal the name of the name of the Passenger, who he has been
protecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then walks in and
tells Vaughn that the guards were from the order of Rambaldi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then looks at the doctor and he looks
terrified, and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You’re the one…
The one from the Prophecy.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
looks to Vaughn, but as she does this the doctor takes Sydney’s gun from her,
cocks the gun and aims it at Sydney and tells Sydney that she will not hurt
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells him to drop it, but
seeing that the doctor has no intention of dropping the gun, Vaughn immediately
goes to his number one instinct of protecting Sydney, and shoots the doctor
before he can harm Sydney in anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing is said after Vaughn shoots the doctor, but you can see that
Sydney is grateful.</div>
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winding down at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is still a little suspicious and once
again wanting to be with Sydney now that he has once again seen how vulnerable
she is as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as Lauren is walking
around the room, you can see in Vaughn’s eyes that he is wondering if Jack
could be right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he swallows hard, as
he usually does before going into a subject that he fears may not turn out well
for him, and asks; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“So, what did you do
while I was gone?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Lauren turns
around and looks at him, and Vaughn is not smiling at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She saunters over to him and kisses him, he
closes his eyes for only a moment and opens his eyes while she is still kissing
him and it is apparent that Sydney and Jack were right and he can’t deny it any
longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He now has to find the proof. She
comes out of the kiss and tells him that she missed him, and that she is going
to run a bath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smiles briefly to not
make his suspicions obvious, but you can tell how upset he is.</div>
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After Lauren leaves the room, Vaughn begins his search.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks through her purse, through her
drawers, and finally pulls down a suitcase she recently used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While looking in the suitcase he finds a
hidden compartment, he opens that up to find the red wig from the club, along with
a gun and another passport; realizing that Sydney was correct that she did see Lauren
in the club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren is the mole; she did
frame her father to get him back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Overall Vaughn is devastated.</div>
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<li>Sydney wonders if when Sloane initially used the
Rambaldi machine and powered it with the mechanical heart, the same day that
she disappeared, if he was given more than the word peace, but was also given
the DNA to The Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that is
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would endanger Sydney.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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agency called the Trust, a committee that Senator Reed asked Sloane to advise
them about Rambaldi. Jack does find out that Sloane was telling the truth about
the Trust, but he is also warned to tread lightly as the Trust is not actually
very trustworthy.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Dixon tells Jack that he received the notes from
Dr. Barnett with her sessions with Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dixon goes on to tell Jack that Sloane admitted to having an affair with
Irina while Jack and Irina were married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So Jack goes to Sloane and tells him that he wasn’t able to find any
evidence of The Trust.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Sloane tells Jack that if he dies, he won’t be
able to help the CIA find The Passenger before the Covenant does, and Jack has
no idea how much that will affect both him and Sydney.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Sydney and Jack talk about The Passenger not
being a weapon, but a person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane had
confessed that after reading the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peace</i>
from the Rambaldi machine, he looked up all variations of the word, including
the Greek form “Eirene” which is the derivation of the name Irina. Jack
believes that the Passenger is Sydney’s mother Irina.</li>
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Last night as I started to write about the way Vaughn told Lauren
that he no longer wanted to be with her, I started typing and found that I had
way more to say than I wanted to put in a breakdown of an episode concerning
Sydney and Vaughn’s journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So as I
mentioned in the last post, I want to do a post that specifically talks about
how Vaughn handled being in the company of both women that he thought that he
loved. – I will add pictures throughout the post, but they won’t necessarily
accompany the paragraph above or below it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am just going to try and show the different versions of Vaughn
throughout the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I decided
that I needed a good clip video with a good song to reflect what type of
emotion that Vaughn must have gone through during this time, and I couldn’t
find one that worked well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I made my
own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the song isn’t perfect for
their situation, not many songwriters write about dead girlfriends not actually
being dead and complicating their new marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I did the best I could with what I had to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to capture what Vaughn must have
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I do hate to admit it, but Vaughn
did love Lauren, but not in the way that he loved Sydney. </span>I think that Vaughn knew that he wouldn’t be
able to love like that again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
also knew that he had to move on with his life, which in truth is never
easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you look at what we have
learned about what Vaughn went through, after Sydney died, we realize a few
things about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After spreading Sydney’s
ashes at sea, he left the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did
not want to be in a place surrounded by people and places that reminded him
constantly of Sydney. Vaughn even confessed to Sydney what he felt when he lost
her; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was so in love with you, it nearly killed me.”</span></i>
He also left the country for six months, to try and escape his misery that he
was in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But finally he convinced himself
that he needed to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the back
of his mind, I think he knew that he while he did have feelings for Lauren as
he began dating her, but he could never love her like he loved Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may be one reason that he ended up
marrying her so quickly after losing Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wanted a distraction from the misery and depression he had when
thinking of Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back on his
own words to Sydney; <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After you died, I used to talk to you. Like
you were still around… Literally out loud… Whole conversations about… About
nothing… The weather…Should I get a new car? Should I have another drink? And
one day, you started answering. I mean I could hear you in my head like you
were right next to me Sydney. And although rationally I knew I was a guy who
stayed up nights drinking, talking to his dead girlfriend, still I couldn’t
stop” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He needed something and someone to help him
get over his lose and to help him get back on his feet.</span> </div>
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As I thought about this last
night, I also thought about the CIA sending him to go pick her up in Hong Kong
when she woke up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn wasn’t with the
CIA at the time, and knowing that he was now married; wouldn’t it have been
better to have sent Weiss or Marshall to go pick her up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or even Dixon going to pick her up would have
saved a lot of heartache for both Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after hearing that she wasn’t dead and
that she had just woken up in Hong Kong with no memory, did Vaughn actually
volunteer to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he want to see the
evidence of her actually being alive and well for himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that even though he had moved on,
he wanted to feel that connection and happiness again that he once had with
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Now as you read that he wanted to
feel the connection and happiness that he had with Sydney, I feel that I should
share my theory about what Vaughn may have done in an attempt to try and get
over Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it may seem out there,
but for me, it makes perfect sense. But first I need to talk a little bit about
who Vaughn is in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn has
always known who he wanted to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
always wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be the good company CIA
man, who would do anything for his country and for those he loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looked up to his father more than anyone
else, even though he only knew him for a short amount of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only difference is that Vaughn is willing
to break the rules a little more often and question authority as to what the
right thing to do really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had even
told Sydney that if his father had questioned his orders on his last operation,
maybe he would’ve survived. Which is why Vaughn is willing to break some of the
rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also could be a reason that
while when he first met Jack, he wasn’t a huge fan, but after getting to know
him, I can see that Vaughn saw Jack as the man that his father wanted to be in
his Journals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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So knowing this about Vaughn it
couldn’t have been easy to leave the CIA after Sydney’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was just too much around him that
reminded him of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have mentioned
this before but I think that he may have started to help Jack look for who was
responsible for killing Sydney, but maybe it was too much for him and that is
when he left the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With not very
much to go on, I do have to infer quite a bit here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But seeing the way that Vaughn behaves around
Sydney verses how he behaves around Lauren I think I may have figured it
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn created his own Alias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An alias that he made up using parts of
himself that he could share and then tucked away the parts of him that he wasn’t
willing to divulge, especially the parts where anyone would refer to him as
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became Michael, an alias that
was easy enough to pull off, as it is his first name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Vaughn that we know and love disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We never see Lauren call him Vaughn it is
always Michael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally I like to
think that when Lauren questioned changing her last name after they married, he
may have even encouraged her to keep Reed for professional reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when it came time to move on and attempt
to get over Sydney, he did it by creating this new person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became just Michael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael was a man who wanted to have a happy
life with a wife and to pretend that all of these bad things that he had seen
really hadn’t happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael didn’t
have the love of his life pass away, so he didn’t talk about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span id="goog_202390131"></span><span id="goog_202390132"></span> </div>
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The thing about being in an alias
for too long is, that sometimes it’s hard to keep up the façade of trying to be
someone that you’re not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that
Vaughn was trained at the CIA on how to keep up an alias, but by the time he
got the call from Kendall or Dixon requesting him to go to Hong Kong, he easily
could have said no if he was happy playing this new character or alias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he wasn’t happy and besides wanting proof
that Sydney was alive, I believe that he also wanted to feel alive again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to go back to being that person who
was happy most of the time and not pretending to be happy. He could be himself
once again, he could be Vaughn. When he first sees her, he is desperate to be
with her, he wants so much to be able to be Vaughn again, and you can see him
struggle between the two people that he know has inside of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The part that I find humorous looking back on
it, Sydney even tells him that he is not Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although she thinks that it is due to project
Helix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in truth when he had to tell
her that he got married, he was being Michael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he desperately wants to be Vaughn for her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see it as he holds her in the alley
after shooting her with the tranquilizer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even at the end of the first
episode of the season, when Sydney yelled at him, he was still Vaughn, the one
who would do anything for Sydney, even let her rant and rave at him, because in
truth, he wished he had waited a little longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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After being able to be himself for
a few days, even if it consisted of Sydney yelling at him, he still enjoyed
being the person that enjoyed life in general and didn’t have to constantly
remind himself of how he is supposed to act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But getting back into the routine he had before Sydney came back
automatically put him back into the character or alias of Michael. He told
Sydney after she returned; <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The other day, you said that I gave up on us
because I didn’t have faith, that somehow you didn’t mean enough to me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney had stopped him to apologize and he had
asked her to let him finish, but since the next sentence didn’t go along the
same thread, I tend to think that he left out some of what he was going to say,
and went in another direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to
believe that he would’ve told her that he never stopped loving her, but he had
to move on with his life to be able to survive it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creating the alias was all he could do to be
able to continue living, even if his life became a lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the only reason that he told her; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t regret moving on with my life.”</i></span> </div>
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But you can see as the season progressed, we saw him let
down his guard of being Michael, and became Vaughn more and more often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see it in his smile and the way he
will look at Lauren versus how he will look at Sydney. Also while he knew he
had to play this character of Michael, Vaughn was still inside begging to come
out every moment that he was Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
see him constantly struggle between the two people when he is with them both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early examples of this is when even while on
missions with Sydney, early in the season, he attempts to keep up with his
Michael character, but can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw the
jealousy overcome him while Sydney was playing her part with Simon, as well as
his constant need to protect her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
fifth episode of the season it was revealed how much he misses her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key word being misses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his dream, she told him how much she
misses him and he admits that he misses her too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they are together all the time on
missions and at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So how can they
miss each other?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is telling
Michael in the form of a dream that he wants to come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That he misses the person that he was able to
be while with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He misses being
Vaughn rather than Michael, and being with her as well as being called Vaughn
again constantly makes it harder and harder for him to keep up this alias that
he has created for himself.</div>
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Just to give another example of what Vaughn is like, back in
the first season, he and Alice break up when he begins to see that he has
feelings for Sydney and that she may also have feelings for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then in the second season after seeing
Sydney with Will and seeing that Sydney now has another person that she can
confide in about the secrets in her life, he decided that he needed a
distraction in his life. He began to doubt himself and the feeling that he
thought Sydney had for him, as well as thinking that he couldn’t just wait
forever for Sydney to be in a position for them to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while he still had feelings for Sydney he
went back to someone he knew had feeling for him still and that he was
comfortable with, and began dating Alice again. </div>
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So going off of this information and seeing how hard it has
been with him to fight these two personalities that are inside him, then adding
to an already difficult situation for Vaughn, Lauren went and fixed the watch
that he had kept not only as a memento of his father, but also of his father’s
advice about being able to set his heart by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The watch stopped when he met Sydney; so still following his father’s
advice, seeing Lauren having it fixed helped him to make that final decision to
leave her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had to guess at their
personal lives at home, Michael would say very little to Lauren about his
relationship to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were
Vaughn’s memories and he wouldn’t have wanted them to be altered by Lauren’s
opinions on them. </div>
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I know I talked about the words Vaughn used when he broke it
off with Lauren a little in the last post, but I think that I need to go back
to them here again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This isn’t working for me. I’m not happy…. I
don’t know. I guess for a while, I thought I could be again. … But I don’t
think that’s going to happen….”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In
that one line he was able to break down his feeling for her that he has felt
over the last year or so that they have been together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her that he’s not happy, and that he
thought he could be again, but he doesn’t think that it’s going to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I get from that isn’t that he wants to
be with Sydney again, although he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But more that he wants to be the person he was before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spending all this time with Sydney again and
not even having it be romantic time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
spending time with her and with Weiss on missions, he becomes Vaughn
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s happy, and he can almost
take himself back to the place that he was at before he and Sydney became a
couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence he is telling her
that she doesn’t make him happy, and that she is making him a person that he
doesn’t want to be. That he has been in the alias of Michael for too long, and
that he wants to go back to being Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It seems as if I missed a reference to the word home, when I
made that original post, and I won’t go too far into that subject, you can go
back here. - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/home-as-vaughn-views-it.html">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/home-as-vaughn-views-it.html</a>
- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But throughout the season we have only
seen Vaughn talk about where he lives with Lauren as the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren has said that she will see him at
home, but when she did, he didn’t acknowledge it, and changed the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as Sydney and Vaughn were flying back to
LA after Bomani took the keys to the Rambaldi box, Vaughn asks Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“When we get home… You want to get a cup of
coffee?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that even Sydney
noticed his word usage here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn’t spoken
of LA as home to her since they were dating, so I think that it is in that word
usage that she realizes that it is real and agrees to go out with him. </div>
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I know that I have written a lot on this topic, and probably
too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once a theory reaches my
head, I need to get it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So at the
end of the episode Vaughn sees what Lauren is going through and feels obligated
to be there for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not knowing that
she orchestrated it just for that response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although he is hesitant to immediately comfort her, he eventually
does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you can see that even though
he feels that he needs to play the part of the nice, good, loyal husband and
not make Lauren have to suffer through a divorce and the loss of a parent at
the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also doesn’t want to
betray Sydney again, but he can’t find a way out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But lying in bed with Lauren is the last
place that he wants to be that night, you can tell that he wanted to tell
Sydney so much more during the phone call, but Sydney wasn’t in a position to
hear it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney doesn’t like it, but at
least she does understand the choice that Vaughn had to make and she will
forgive him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s amazing what she is
capable of forgiving when it is someone that she loves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t say too much, but I have said that
this is not a spoiler free blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
next episode, when Sydney tries to tell Vaughn that she thinks that she may
have seen Lauren in the club where the asset they were trying to get Intel from
was shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn dismisses the
accusation and even gets upset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it
is his wording that makes me believe that even though he is officially back
with Lauren, he doesn’t plan on it being for long, even if she wasn’t found out
as being the mole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in his anger at
Sydney’s accusation, he remains calm, and they once again show us that they
know how to flight as adults, and not pull dirty tricks to make the other feel
even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the actual fighting
part is over, Vaughn calms down and tells her looking very distressed; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Look, I know things haven’t worked out for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>us </u></b>the way <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we’d </u></b>hoped…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Sydney
then interrupts him and they argue for a moment longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this sentence tells me that even though
he is trying to defend his wife here, he’s having a hard time because the last
thing he actually wants to do right then is defend her to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right here we see him trying to be both
Michael and Vaughn, and it is getting harder and harder for him each day.</div>
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I should probably give you fair warning that I have a
love/hate relationship with this episode before we begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For multiple reasons as well, the first being
the obvious of how it affects the Sydney and Vaughn relationship, which I will
into later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second reason is that
since it is the first episode where The Passenger becomes a huge topic and how
closely Sydney is intertwined with The Passenger it makes for summarizing the
episode without talking about the current case a little hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while I do look forward to going over the
fantastic Sydney and Vaughn part of this, I also know that I will end up
writing more than I should so that I can give them the full justice that they
deserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since what everyone is doing
around them this episode, will eventually trickle down to affecting their
outcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The final reason, is that while
the love the overall writing of the episode, down to the point that one line
gives me goose bumps thinking of how great it is written, it is clear that
someone missed watching a good chunk of the last season and it makes it hard
for me to believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I will go over
that more when we get to that point. </div>
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The episode begins with Vaughn talking about his marriage
woes on a jog with Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells Weiss
how Lauren’s parents have been together for years and are still happy and love
spending time together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But on Vaughn’s
one day off in a month, he spent the day at the hockey rink, playing hockey
with High School kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss finds a
bench to take a breather, and Vaughn thinks for a moment, swallows hard and
goes to sit next to Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t
speak immediately, but then asks Weiss; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If
I need it, can I crash on your couch?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn is admitting to not wanting to be with Lauren anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss, tells him yeah, and makes a joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although not being completely unfeeling, he
does tell Vaughn that he’s sorry, implying that the whole situation sucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since they are guys, that is the end of the
conversation, but they were interrupted anyway by Vaughn’s phone ringing.</div>
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The phone call that Vaughn received leads him to telling
Sydney some information about the box that she took to exchange with the
Covenant, which had her mother’s name on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn has a led on the box, not where the box is, but a map to the key
that will open it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney tells Vaughn
that the DSR had it for two years and wasn’t able to find information on it, we
then see that Lauren is also there and she makes the comment that the Covenant probably
won’t be able to get into the box without the keys either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her that, that is why they have
to get it first, and that he is getting the Intel from an asset in Mexico
City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon then appears and tells him
that a plane is waiting at the airfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney being very keen on finding more information as to why her
mother’s name is on it tells Vaughn and Dixon that she wants to go with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren speaks up and asks if that
is really a good idea, telling her that Sloane was clear that whatever is in
the box poses a threat to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
tells Lauren her reasons for wanting to go, and that Sloane could be
lying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Sydney and Vaughn take a quick
trip to Mexico.</div>
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Once in Mexico City Sydney and Vaughn meet with Vaughn’s
contact, who tells them the legend of the Rambaldi box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also tells them that the Rambaldi box is
of particular interest to (evil) people because it was “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rumored to contain the strain of a plague-like bioweapon capable of
killing millions.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this
statement, Vaughn looks at Sydney, concerned for her safety now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if they don’t want to believe in all of
the Rambaldi myths, it is hard not to with all that they have seen and
experienced together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Vaughn knowing
Sydney’s apparent place among Rambaldi followers and hearing that the contents
of the box could harm Sydney, he is very concerned for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The map, is hidden within the etchings of a
crystal, the downside is that Bomani has the crystal now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney asks what he knows about the
bioweapon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her, that he only
knows that the Covenant refers to it as The Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last Sydney had heard that name was when
Lazarey was in the ambulance and he asked her if she knew about The
Passenger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because he wasn’t breathing
well, she told him they would talk about it at the hospital, but Lauren ruined
that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is something that makes
her think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before they leave they find
out that Bomani is using Omnifam vehicles, Sloane founded and ran Omnifam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when they returned Sydney went to visit
Sloane and found out that the vehicle does have GPS and he will give her the
codes.</div>
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After spending the day in Mexico City with Sydney, Vaughn
and Lauren are going to have a nice dinner together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at least that is what Lauren thinks,
Vaughn has another idea, he just wanted to be in public I assume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As their dinner begins, Vaughn is perusing
the menu, knowing what will happen at the end of dinner and is being awfully
quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Lauren attempting
conversation, or rather her own Intel gathering, asks him how his trip
went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He simply tells her that it was
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously not the answer she was
looking for, she continues asking what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love Vaughn’s response, he can see her
wanting details, but either he suspects something that he isn’t admitting to,
or he doesn’t want to talk to Lauren about anything that involves Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m okay with either answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know, we… Uh… We got what we needed to get, and we’re just waiting
to see how it pans out.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Lauren is
not getting her way tonight, first a quiet husband, and then no answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she tries another attempt that fails her
even more than she could’ve imagined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She places a box in front of him, but since his mind is on what to order
so he can get the night over with, she has to pull down his menu and tell him
that she got him something while he was gone and that he should open it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks so proud of herself too, it’s
almost painful, I almost feel sorry for her, but not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He opens it up and sees that it is his
father’s watch, but it is working now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can tell just by the way that he is looking at the watch that he
could kill her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she is apologizing
for forgetting the anniversary of his father’s death, and why she got it
fixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just stares at the watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He won’t even look at her he is so
upset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is taking every ounce of
restraint he has not to explode. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
in that moment, before he says anything, that you can tell that while Lauren
knew about his relationship with Sydney and how distraught he was over losing her,
he never shared many personal things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was pretty sure that he hadn’t explained the watch and its importance to him,
besides that his father gave it him, to Lauren when we saw the episode with him
staring at his watch in the dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
after watching his reaction more closely this time, seeing how upset he is,
tells me that he has kept anything Sydney related close to his heart so that
she wouldn’t be a part of those memories. It could also be why he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">found</i> his watch in that same
episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe he put it somewhere where
it wouldn’t be a constant reminder of Sydney.</div>
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Anyway, when Lauren finishes talking, Vaughn finally looks
up at her and shakes his head at her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This isn’t working.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After ruining one of his best memories of
Sydney and his father’s advice in one swoop, he is no longer waiting until
after dinner. Of course Lauren doesn’t get it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She doesn’t even notice how upset he is, she assumes that he is talking
about the newly fixed watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn
is quick to tell her, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Not the watch, us.
This isn’t working for me. I’m not happy…. I don’t know. I guess for a while, I
thought I could be again. … But I don’t think that’s going to happen…. I think
we should separate.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren asks if
it is about Sydney, and he tells her that it isn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pretends to be all upset and surprised,
asking if Sydney gave him an ultimatum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He tells her that it is about them and their problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To which she tells him that she is their
problem, and that if he’s going to destroy her life, he can at least be honest
about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t respond to this and
she walks away to call Sark and tell him that they have a problem.</div>
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So I just want to talk about this for one minute (or two or
three.) We all know that Sydney is the main reason that Vaughn wants to
separate. But if you listen to the speech that he gives Lauren, we hear more
than just the fact that he no longer wants to be with Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We find out that he isn’t happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That even when he met her, dated her, and
even married her, it was in an attempt to find the happiness he had once had
with Sydney again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So back at the
beginning of the season, when he told Sydney that he didn’t regret moving on
with his life, he knew from the moment that he saw Sydney, and that his trip to
Hong Kong wasn’t going to be in vain, that he wanted more than anything to be
with her again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has tried to be a
good husband and to be loyal to Lauren, but you can see through the season that
when he is with her, he isn’t the same person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now I could go on and on about this subject, I really could (I just
deleted 2 paragraphs) and so I decided that I actually need to devote an entire
post to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So once I finish with this
episode, the next post will be about Vaughn and my opinion of what life was
really like for him with Lauren. Just as an example, I will have more in the next episode, but this is from S3 E3; Reunion, the first episode that all three of them are in the same room together. But look at the way that Vaughn smiles back at Lauren versus the way he smiles back at Sydney. The smile itself isn't too different, but if you look at the whole face you can see the big differences. He has a polite smile for Lauren, while for Sydney it appears as if his entire face smiles, and his eyes twinkle when looking at her.</div>
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Back to the current story though, I don’t usually talk about
Lauren and Sark, but unfortunately this episode does call for a little since it
directly affects Vaughn. I will attempt to keep this short though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Lauren leaves Vaughn, after not putting
up much of a fight, she goes straight to Sark to tell him of the night’s
events. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark wonders if she has been
made, she tells him that if he knew she was Covenant he would arrest her and
not break up with her. (She doesn’t know Jack well, does she?) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that note, Sark makes the comment of how
Vaughn must have grown tired with her and due to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren tells him that her access goes past
her husband, insinuating that she can still be a mole within the CIA and not be
married to Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sark tells her
that she needs to keep him close, since he is central to the CIA finding The
Passenger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not happy about, but knowing
that he is partially right, Lauren wants to know what he proposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The last time Sydney Bristow induced your husband to stray from a
committed relationship, he was dating Alice Williams. When her father died,
Vaughn recommitted.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of
the conversation it is decided that Lauren, against her wishes will have to
kill her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now this is the scene that really bugs me with the writers
and keeping tabs on the storyline, as well as deleting a scene in the future
that helps make sense of a few things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
will come back to this scene when I go over that deleted scene in S3 E20; Blood
Ties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But back in Season two, I can’t
guarantee that he went back to Alice as soon as S2 E3; Cipher when he watches
Sydney and Will interacting, but I am pretty sure that it was soon after
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we first hear that Alice and
Vaughn are back together from Alice herself in S2 E7; Counteragent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Alice’s father doesn’t die until S2 E10;
The Abduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Vaughn and Sydney go
on their first date in Nice, two episodes later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Vaughn didn’t recommit when Alice’s father
died, he maybe held in a little longer because he felt bad, but that would be
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also only with Alice so that
he wasn’t alone, if you want my opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was dating her again as a distraction until he could be with Sydney.</div>
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Back at the Rotunda, Jack is doing some checking up on
Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After her goodbye to Vaughn that
he overheard, and seeing how adamant Sloane is about keeping his end of the
plea agreement, Jack is convinced that Lauren is the mole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus as I have said before, he does feel a
connection with Vaughn and after what Jack went through with Laura/Irina, he
wants to save Vaughn from the heartbreak of living with it as long as he did
himself.</div>
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Seeing as Lauren’s father is on the committee that is in
charge of finding the mole within the CIA, Jack does pay him the courtesy of at
least bringing it to his attention that his own daughter is the mole before
arresting her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Senator Reed does
not believe what Jack is saying and fights with him over it, Jack simply tells
him that they are preliminary results, but over 50% of her activity matches
with known times that the Covenant had throated their plans and that after
reviewing the files, if the senator has any questions to give him a call.</div>
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The next briefing at the Rotunda is missing Lauren now
though, until they know for sure, Jack is definitely going to make sure that
she is not involved with anything regarding The Passenger knowing how it could
affect Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the briefing,
Dixon explains where they believe the map that Bomani took is being held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Explaining that Sydney will go in with an
alias and that Vaughn and Weiss will go in as back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hearing this, Vaughn is once again
excited to go on a mission with Sydney and Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He feels somewhat liberated, for the first
time in months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can enjoy a mission
with his two favorite people, without feeling guilty about Lauren.</div>
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While on the mission, once Sydney does her thing to gain
access to the floor that they need to get to, Vaughn is gets ready to leave the
van to go and meet her. They are able to get up the second floor where the
crystal map is being stored, but once they reach it, Weiss lets them know that
they have triggered a silent alarm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
it is no surprise when a gun fight ensues between Sark / Bomani and
Sydney/Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although none of the keys
players actually get shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn once
again, looking to protect Sydney tells her to go to the door while he provides
cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They get out into the party area
and Vaughn sees a guard before Sydney does, but all it takes it for him to yell
Syd in a certain tone, and Sydney knows exactly what he is telling her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she was able to duck and get her gun
ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are being shot at and Sydney
is shooting back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Vaughn reaches
her, he tells her to take his gun, so she begins shooting with both guns while
Vaughn gathers the curtains that are strung across the room for
decoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The complete trust that they
have in one another is something that always gets me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her that they are going to go over
the side of the balcony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
hesitation Sydney is perfectly fine with trusting Vaughn to keep hold of her as
the go over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also Vaughn trusts that as
he guides them over, Sydney will provide any needed cover to get them
over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus seeing them enfolded around
each other as they go over isn’t too bad either. </div>
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On the plane ride back to the Rotunda, Sydney and Weiss talk
about how the Covenant may have already found out how to read the crystal, so
they need to figure out a way to get to where it leads before them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss excuses himself to make a call to make
sure base is ready to read the crystal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While they are talking, Vaughn is staying relatively quiet and looks
pensive, as well as watching Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once Weiss leaves, Vaughn removes his earpiece and prepares himself for
what he is about to tell Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
takes a deep breath and then turns to Sydney and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lauren and I are separating.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t necessarily smile as he says this,
but you can see the happiness in his eyes as he looks at Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see the relief that he has as he
tells the news to the one person that matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney looks at him, speechless and almost afraid, for her this is a
dream come true, but she is still afraid that it’s too good to be true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without a response, Vaughn goes on to tell
her that when they get home, he’ll be on Weiss’s couch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks so relieved to be able to finally
tell her this, and is just waiting for a reply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney does finally reply, asking; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Are
you sure that’s what you really want?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is still thinking of his words to her,
telling her that he doesn’t regret moving on with his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as the disappointment she felt when
he went into her arms after arriving back from North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continues to look at her, and tells her
that it is what he wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even after
he says it, she is still a little hesitant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has been burned a few too many times recently, and doesn’t want to
get her hopes up.</div>
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When Sydney and Vaughn return to the Rotunda with the
crystal that holds the map, it turns out that it wasn’t the only Crystal
map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane had already acquired two of
them and had given them to the CIA as part of his pardon agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Marshall tells them that with all his
research, he wasn’t able to determine where the map led them to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they go to Sloane for assistance, he tells
them that they were only looking for where the map would match up on land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Earth doesn’t only consist of land; they
need to broaden their search.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go
back to Marshall and they find where they need to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is inside of an underwater rock formation
off the coast of Okinawa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney looks
to Vaughn as Dixon explains the logistics of the mission, and he smiles and
nods to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again they are happy
to be able to go on a mission together without the Lauren barrier between them.</div>
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After sending Sydney and Vaughn on their way, Dixon runs
into Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells him that he just
received a call from Lauren’s father and that he wants to meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tells him that they owed him the
courtesy of informing him in advance, but as soon as the conversation is over
he wants Lauren taken into custody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
only big problem with this is why when they first suspected her they didn’t
start tracking her movements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t that
what they usually do with the bad guys?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To me it seems like it would be pretty easy to begin listening to all of
her phone calls and putting a tracker on her car.</div>
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Before Jack reaches the senator though, Lauren gets there
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father expresses his
disappointment in her, but then gives her an idea of how to get out of being
the mole and places the blame on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren goes to kill him, but then can’t go through with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She backs up and wonders what she is
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother comes into the room
and wonders what she is doing and tells Lauren to give her the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Lauren’s mother does the unthinkable,
she shoots the Senator and tells Lauren that Sark thought that she might back
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Lauren and her mother both work
for the Covenant, only Lauren didn’t know about it.</div>
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Next thing we see is Jack at the Reed’s home and Lauren’s
mother is giving him a story about how the Senator told her that he worked for
the Covenant and that since he asked Lauren to do something’s, Lauren would
also be implicated, and then he killed himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack seems skeptical, but doesn’t say anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Lauren’s fake remorse, and then her quick
smile when no one is looking is what makes me the most made I think.</div>
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Over the Sea of Japan, Sydney and Vaughn are dropped off by
helicopter to dive into the underwater caves to retrieve the keys that will
open the Rambaldi Box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they are about
to enter, Marshall tells them, as well as Dixon that they will be out of radio
contact until they come out of the cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once in the cave, they talk about how the followers of Rambaldi have
kept the cave fortified over the years, to keep Rambaldi’s secrets safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn simply tells her that they will have
to work harder next time and smiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back
at the Rotunda Marshall and Dixon see that an unexpected signal has shown up in
the area that Sydney and Vaughn are in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It turns out to be a helicopter with four men inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tries to warn Sydney and Vaughn, but Marshall
reminds him that they are out of radio signal and won’t be able to hear him.</div>
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Back in the cave, as Sydney and Vaughn are removing the separate
keys and storing them, Vaughn turns to Sydney and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know what? These never have to see the
surface.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney asks him what he
means and he replies by telling her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If
what’s in the Rambaldi box is a danger to you, and these keys are the only way
to open it, maybe they should be destroyed.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn knows that their mission is to recover
the keys and to bring them back to the CIA, but he loves Sydney so much and
will do anything to protect her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
looks at him seeing the concern in his eyes and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Thank you for saying that.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>And
it looks like they could share a really nice moment right after that, but
before anymore can be said, Bomani enters the cave and tells them to put down
their weapons. </div>
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Bomani tells Sydney that she reminds him of her mother, and
that she would be proud that he got the keys from Sydney, because The Passenger
is Irina’s legacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bomani then instructs
Sydney to bring him the satchel containing the keys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn does not like the idea of Sydney
getting any closer to Bomani than necessary, so it’s not surprising to see him
looking for a way to distract his men, so that Sydney has a good chance of
making it, as well as not giving up the keys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A gun fight begins and Sydney and Bomani begin fighting as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn was able to take out the other men on
Bomani’s team, but Bomani was able to escape and take the satchel with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney tells Vaughn that Bomani has the keys
so they begin looking for a way out since the oxygen tanks have been shot out,
as well as other items for them to get out being cut up and ruined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They end up using one of the broken tanks that
is still full, but won’t work in assisting them to breathe as they get out of
the cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they can use it as a
propulsion device.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Sydney climbs on
to Vaughns back and he tells her to hold on tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They force to tank to release the compressed
air and they manage to get out of the cave and into the open water where they
can swim to the top. </div>
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As they make their way back home, both a little depressed
that Bomani was able to get away with the keys, they are on the cargo plane baffled
that somehow Bomani was able to just disappear because none of the satellite
feeds picked up where he went. They share a moment of silent frustration with
the situation, and then Sydney takes a deep breath and says his name tentatively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at her, and sees the look on her
face, and he knows that this new topic will be personal and his face softens
from the frustration and focuses all his energy on her. Sydney looks around,
looking for her words, and then finally tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am sad for you… For you and Lauren… That you have to go through
this. But I’m also hopeful…. That’s what scares me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is silent while she says this, and you
can tell that part of him is also sad that he has to go through this, but when
she tells him that she is also hopeful, his eyes perk up because in the back of
his mind, he does wonder if he has let her down too many times, and if she will
take him back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hearing this comforts
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both share a small smile, then
Vaughn tells her that he understands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is another moment where they just look into each other’s eyes and ponder what
will happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then looks down, and
prepares to say something, but Sydney thinking that his looking away is a sign
that being hopeful could still be a bad thing, looks away and down
herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Vaughn looks up and tells
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“When we get home…” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With those few words Sydney looks back at him
hopeful again, yet still afraid, Vaughn goes on to say; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You want to get a cup of coffee?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he says this, you can see him start to
smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It excites him to think that he
is finally able and free to ask Sydney out on a date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney looks at him for moments, and then nods
her head and tells him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yeah.” </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was so excited to see them have a moment of happiness together. He's so excited to ask her out again, and she is so happy that she can say yes, but of course it can't last.</span></div>
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At the Rotunda, Dixon meets with Lauren for a moment, offers
his condolences and refuses her fake resignation saying that it wasn’t her
fault that she followed her father’s instructions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she goes to leave, she tells him to
excuse her because she would like to go find her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t even consider the fact that he
just told her that he doesn’t want to be with her and that he’s not happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She just assumes that since Vaughn is such a
nice guy, he won’t refuse her now that she is grieving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack had come into the room part way through their
meeting and asks if the forensics checked out, and Dixon tells him that yes,
the official cause of death was suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack doesn’t seem convinced and Dixon sees that, so he asks if he
accepts it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells Dixon that right
now, he has no reason not to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he is
still suspicious of Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He isn’t
going to back down either.</div>
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Upon the return of Sydney and Vaughn to the Rotunda, while
they seem happy with coming in together and a hopeful future, they look ahead
and see a crowd of their friends gathered around Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn wonders what is going on, but not
enough to walk over and see for himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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cause Vaughn to go back to Lauren and you can see the fear in her eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss comes over and tells them what
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn takes a moment to speak
with Lauren and then finally gives in and gives her a hug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss stays with Sydney, knowing that Vaughn
is once again going to break her heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney watches as he gives in to Lauren and hugs her anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney isn’t completely heartless; she does
feel bad for Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the timing
seems too good to be true for her, and for Sydney the look Lauren gives her
when she is in Vaughn’s arms confirms Sydney’s suspicion that Lauren is getting
her way, which only makes her less empathetic. </div>
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Later that night as Vaughn lies in bed, he is unable to
sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t want to be with Lauren,
even if she is hurting, but he feels obligated to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants to be with Sydney, and he can’t stop
thinking about how much he must have hurt her again that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is literally being torn apart by what he
feels he needs to do and what he wants to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn looks over and checks to make sure that Lauren is asleep and then
picks up his phone and calls Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
apologizes to her about how he was pulled away from her earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney, while not happy about it, is still
polite and asks how Lauren is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn tells Sydney that Lauren is having a hard time having to deal
with her father’s death and betrayal at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney thinks on this for a moment and then
asks the question that she is terrified to find out the answer to, she asks
him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Are you at Eric’s?”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pauses before answering, but then tells
her no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her faces immediately starts to
breakdown at this, and is trying not cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I see… Well I…. I
guess we won’t be getting that cup of coffee.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is taking everything she has not to cry
over the phone to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we go back
to see Vaughn, and he is heartbroken as well, he knows how much pain he is
putting Sydney through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Struggling to
keep his own composure, he tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No,
we’re not…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that she can’t hold back the tears any
longer, crying as she tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Okay, I’m
going to go.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see the screen turn
back to him as he says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd…” </i>But
she has already hung up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulls down
the phone from his face, but can’t bear to hang it up quite yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks towards the bed with resentment and
sadness. Then we see Sydney fully break down in tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn eventually goes back to bed, but you
can see how conflicted he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He really
wishes that he could change things right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As he lies back down though, the camera then turns to look at Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see her open her eyes and we can see that
she was awake for the whole conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has this evil maniacal look on her face as she sees how well the plan
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This right here is why I love and hate this episode so
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are so close to finally being
happy again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn even talks of once
they get home, getting the cup of coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was a reference that I had missed in my post about home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn is finally able to think about
what life will be like being back with Sydney and Lauren’s manipulations end up
ruining it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just feel so bad for
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean I feel bad for Sydney
too, but Vaughn is the one who is being taken advantage of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren doesn’t even want to be with him, but
she is only putting him through this so she can have better access to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can easily understand why he becomes so obsessed
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So there are very times that I feel that an episode is
rather useless, but in the case of this particular episode, to put it kindly,
let’s just say that it isn’t one of my favorites. Especially when you look at
the one before it and the one after it, this episode is pure filler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Sydney and Vaughn barely have a scene
together, unless you count the conference room, and the episode does nothing
for the overall relationship, at least not that we see during this episode,
this post should be fairly small.</div>
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We do see a small scene where Vaughn is trying to be a good
and supportive husband, but you can see by his reactions that he is putting up
a front and that he really isn’t happy with being with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes all of his energy to be the loving,
involved husband that he wants to be and she is shutting him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is good news for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that after his experience last
week with Sydney, even though they weren’t together for a portion of time, they
still depended on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having Lauren
back in the Rotunda this week isn’t that great of news to Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is just playing his par to see if he can
make it work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I do find it interesting that in the conference room, while
going over the latest threat, that Sydney and Vaughn are seated next to each other,
and that Lauren is across the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Granted this isn’t out of the ordinary, but when Lauren is supposedly
have a tough time with her father being there, I do like that Vaughn still sits
next to his work partner. </div>
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There is one section of the storyline that doesn’t
necessarily affect Sydney and Vaughn right now, but it definitely will soon, so
I will go into some detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Vaughn
caught Sark on the plane last week, Lauren managed to leak enough information out
to other Covenant members to make it so Sark could escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He made his escape while his plane was still
in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After finding only dead
guards and pilots, Sydney and Weiss brought back the flight recorders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall analyzed them and found that Sark
made a personal call before his escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the end of the call he said; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Not
if I see you first, Love.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having that
be an unusual goodbye, Jack takes notice of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing is said, but knowing Jack he is thinking of who Sark would be
romantically involved with that is also working for the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In an attempt to rescue his children, whom Sark kidnapped,
Dixon joins Weiss, Sydney and Vaughn on a tactical mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Dixon and Sydney are paired up
together and Weiss become Vaughn’s partner again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while they are on a mission together,
there isn’t much that moves the relationship closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and Weiss do see a explosive device
and let the others know, soon after Sydney and Dixon see one as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The location that they believed Dixon’s
children to be at was a ruse and they had been sent into a trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On their way out of the building, all four
are exiting together; you do see that Sydney was the first one out, closely
followed by Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So once again you
see his need to protect her, he even tries to cover her from the blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is the extent of them working
together here. As well as the last time we see them together in the episode.</div>
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Another item to note is that when Lauren was looking up Sark’s
flight data, she logged in under Dr. Barnett’s login, and having it trace back
to Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Sloane is arrested, the
CIA assuming that he was the leak from the CIA. This is something that I
honestly don’t understand since he doesn’t really get operational information
from the Rotunda anyway, out of everyone, why set up Sloane?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it because they can easily believe that Sloane
would go back to his evil ways, an easy scape goat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you know that while Sloane has been taken
into custody, Jack is still looking for the real leak, because he knows that
all the things that the Covenant has found out about, Sloane didn’t have access
to all of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jack hasn’t given up.</div>
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After giving false demands in a briefing Dixon tells Sydney
what the Covenant really is demanding and she agrees to help him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two of them go and steal a Rambaldi
artifact from the DSR, but when Jack finds out what they have done, he is concerned
because Sloane has told him the Covenant is looking for a box, one that Sloane believes
will put Sydney’s life at risk if in the Covenant’s hands, so Jack is hesitant
to let them make the exchange with Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney tells Jack that she chose this life, and Dixon’s 13 year old
daughter didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jack agrees to go
with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney does tell Jack that
the Rambaldi box had an engraving on it, Irina’s name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Lauren’s father sees that Dixon visited
project black hole, he puts Dixon on a watch list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren hears this and knowing that it is her
job to keep Sark from being found, she uses Vaughn and tells him that they need
to help Dixon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Vaughn and Lauren ask Marshall
for his help, and they manage to divert the GPS signal so that a tactical unit
isn’t sent to the exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now overall
not a big deal to the overall relationship of Sydney and Vaughn, but once again
here we see the problems with Vaughn's relationship with Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see how easily Lauren is able to
manipulate help with a situation, by saying that it is to help someone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it is true that a tactical
unit not being able to find Dixon make the exchange is helpful to Dixon, as
well as Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren is more concerned
that Sark is not captured again and that the Covenant gains the artifact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Vaughn and Lauren are in Marshall’s
office, you can see a glint of annoyance with Lauren over the way she acts, or
says something that just isn’t sitting right with Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you can see his defenses breaking down on
attempting to be the good husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
knows what he really wants and really is thinking of when will be a good time
to end the marriage.</div>
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As the episode is wrapping up, Lauren approaches Vaughn’s
desk and tells him that she is going home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like the fact that he immediately changes the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Home</i>
is not with Lauren, it may have been for a short while, but his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Home</i> is being with Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as they are talking Jack approaches them
and tells them that it has come to his attention that Lauren’s father’s
attempts to recover lot 45 were thwarted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren becomes very concerned, but Vaughn just looks up at Jack and
smiles, knowing Jack as he does, Vaughn knows where Jack’s concerns are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells him that the senator is probably
getting ready to inquire further, but Vaughn doubts he’ll be able to find any
concrete evidence of wrongdoing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack
smiles back at Vaughn, and tells him that whoever intervened to save Dixon’s
daughter, as well as Sydney’s has his deepest thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that Jack and Vaughn are sharing
a moment here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack really does like and
respect Vaughn even though Vaughn may believe otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As Jack walks away, Vaughn just looks up at Lauren, and
tells her that he will see her later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She goes down to kiss, him although he doesn’t move in for a kiss at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After they kiss Lauren tells
Vaughn; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Not if I see you first, Love.”</i>
Jack is still within earshot of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack then becomes very aware, and you can see him putting together different
clues in his mind and with that unusual goodbye, he knows that Lauren is the
mole and that she is working with Sark. <br />
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So once again not a great episode for Sydney and Vaughn,
however Vaughn is clearly seeing that Lauren and he do not fit well
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main reason for this
episode, at least in my mind was for Jack to be clued into the fact that Lauren
is the mole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The secondary pieces of the
episode, we needed to meet Lauren’s father to get ready for the next storyline,
and Sloane had to be set up as the scapegoat. </div>
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So right to begin with, I should tell you that I will watch
the entire episodes for three parts not including the fact that Lauren isn’t in
a single frame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is when Vaughn
tells Sydney that he thinks it might be easier if they just sic her father on
the bomber before trying to trick him first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn is very well aware that Jack is close to being the scariest weapon
the CIA has.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second part is when Sydney
tells Ryan that the Covenant didn’t take the man she loves, but he’s on the
plane right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney opening up to a
total stranger about her love for Vaughn is nice to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third and main reason, is too see how far
jack and Sydney go to save Vaughn, and then to see how emotionally drained
Sydney is afterwards and to see the breakdown happen just in time for Vaughn to
be there to make everything okay in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The final hug in this episode does go down as a favorite moment from the
series. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But alas, let’s get started.</div>
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The first part of the episode that has anything to do with
Sydney and Vaughn’s relationship is when Weiss and Vaughn are both at their
desks and engaging in small talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
find out that Lauren is out of town and will be for the few days, so that means
no Lauren in the episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss then
asks how Vaughn’s marriage is, albeit with a little sarcasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he doesn’t realize that Sydney has just
walked up to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney hears the
question and doesn’t know whether she should walk away or not; creating an
awkward situation, but Vaughn and Sydney work through it with changing the
subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Sydney has walked away,
Vaughn glares at Weiss until Weiss says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What,
I can’t ask my buddy…” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
interrupts him with telling him, although not convincingly, that his marriage
is fantastic, and then walks away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss
is left alone and says aloud; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yeah, I
can tell…”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love seeing Weiss bait
Vaughn like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that Weiss
really doesn’t like what Lauren’s new attitude is doing to his closest friends
being Vaughn and Sydney.</div>
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So the team decides that they will pose as the covenant and
fake shooting a CIA officer (Weiss) that is taking Daniel Ryan, the bad guy of
the week a bomb maker, into custody, making Ryan gain their trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the team gets back to LA, Sydney and
Vaughn go to see the fake room they will be placing Ryan in, which will pose as
a Russian hotel room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall the scene
between them is a little boring, but they are comfortable enough to be able to
disagree over the best way to handle the situation, and be friendly about
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also this is when Vaughn tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I still think it would be easier to sic
your father on him.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are mostly
past the awkward stage again, they know that they love each other, but Vaughn
is trying to make up his mind, and Sydney knows this. But I like how he’s
comfortable enough with Sydney again, that he can make a joke about her father.
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So really not much is happening overall with the relationship,
so far, but I do love that Vaughn ends up posing as Sark to make him believe
that he is working with the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Vaughn meets Ryan and introduces himself as Sark, Ryan looks him up
and down and finally says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“They said you
was a pretty boy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is just my own little fun moment of the
episode.</div>
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Once the deal is made with Ryan, they work out a way to get
the real Sark to get on the plane where Ryan has set up an exchange, less
chance of surveillance 35,000 feet in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn is assigned to go on the flight as well and be the
surveillance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exchange was supposed to
take place 20 minutes after takeoff, and Vaughn becomes concerned and calls
Sydney letting her know that the exchange hasn’t taken place yet, and he is
starting to think that it isn’t going to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney then goes to Ryan to find out what is going on, only to find that
there was no meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All they know is
that Ryan set something up and he wanted Sark on that plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the team at the Rotunda is reviewing
Ryan’s information, Jack tells Vaughn that since they have the opportunity given
to them, Vaughn is to apprehend Sark in the air and a team will meet him in
Paris to have him extradited. </div>
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In the air, Vaughn lets the flight attendant know that he
will need to apprehend a suspect on the plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney meanwhile gets in touch with Sloane to find out what he knows about
Ryan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sloane tells her that Ryan became
a mercenary after his brother, Christopher Ryan was killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes on to tell her that it is believed
that Christopher Ryan was killed by the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then wonders why Daniel Ryan would
still want to work with the Covenant.</div>
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At the Rotunda, Weiss is looking over the information that they
have on Christopher Ryan, and pulls up a picture of him, Sydney take s a deep
breath in as she realized that she was the one who killed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the unimportant man that the Covenant
had used to test to see if the brainwashing was a success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She explains what she had learned from Kendall
about killing someone for the Covenant as part of a test to Jack and Weiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack sees what Ryan’s plan is now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted Sark on that plane because Sark is
a high ranking member of the Covenant, and killing him along with 200 innocent
people would be a very public act of revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney then becomes horrified as it hits her that Vaughn would be one of
those innocent victims going down with Sark. </div>
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While Vaughn is securing Sark in the bathroom as a temporary
cell, Sark asks Vaughn if it bothers him, Vaughn doesn’t know what Sark is
talking about, so Sark tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A bomb
maker arranges for a meeting on a plane and then doesn’t show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know about you, but that concerns
me.” </i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Vaughn leaves Sark without
replying, tells another flight attendant to lock up the bathroom from the outside,
and answers his phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is on the
other end and tells Vaughn that they may have a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I know that they aren’t together, so what
is it doing to help their relationship?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two factors are coming into play here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first is Vaughn has learned over the years, even though she was
missing for a couple of them, Sydney is very determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she sets her mind to something, she will
get it done, no matter what it takes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
also knows that he is one thing that she will go above and beyond for; she has
proved that time and time again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
determination for reaching her goal goes beyond its normal limits, and she will
do anything to save him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So besides the
fact that he loves her, he trusts her more than anyone to be able to come up
with a solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we see how much Vaughn
depends on Sydney here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second is
what I mentioned that Vaughn knows about Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will do anything to save Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though she isn’t with him right now, she
believes that he is her soul mate and she loves him more than anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has risked her own life many times to
save his, and she would do it a hundred more times if necessary. </div>
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So In addition to those two things adding to the intensity
of their relationship now, we also see them connecting more cohesively as
partners again as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they were
taking down SD-6, and they realized how much they meant to each other and the
tension between them was high, they recognized that even though it was hard to
concentrate during briefings without wanting to kiss each other, they knew that
they would bring down SD-6 faster working together because they did so well as
a team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are reaching that point
again here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They work great as a team,
and as hard as it is to work together, with all of the emotions that they both
have for the other, but can’t act upon, they continue to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Working together, Sydney and Vaughn work out how a bomb
could’ve gotten onto the plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
tells the pilots and instructs them that they need to land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the bomb is located, Vaughn sees how
complex it is, and tells Sydney that he will need Marshall’s help on this
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Rotunda, the group discusses
how even though they lied to Ryan and he lied to them, they all share disgust
for the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now they need him
to realize that they are not the Covenant and let him know that they are CIA
and get him to shut off the bomb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Vaughn and Marshall realize that the bomb is set to go off
when they reach a certain altitude so the emergency landing has become out of
the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney goes into Ryan’s
room without her disguise and explains the situation and that they know that
the bomb in the plane is in revenge for the Covenant killing his brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she is talking the delusions that were
placed around Ryan to convince him he was in Moscow are now disappearing as
well as Weiss showing up with Leonid, who tells Ryan that he defected from the
Covenant two months earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So with
that statement we find out that Sydney and Vaughn have been working together
with building tension knowing that they really only love each other for two
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Ryan is taken to the Rotunda when he doesn’t believe that
they are really CIA, once there, he begins to believe it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he refuses to tell them how to deactivate
the bomb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he is taken to the
conference room and handcuffed to the table there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney goes in and makes an attempt at one of
her speeches that eventually lead to someone talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For reference to one of those speeches see<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">. <a href="http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/s3-e4-missing-link.html">http://romancingalias.blogspot.com/2013/08/s3-e4-missing-link.html</a> </span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>She is very polite, even helping him take a
drink of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that she
understands that she is angry at the covenant for taking his brother’s life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laughs at her choice of words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lets
him rant on about word choice and then tells him; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Covenant held me captive for almost two years, they did things to
me that I will never get over….All to convince me I was someone else. A... An
operative they created named Julia Thorne.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this statement, Ryan slightly looks up with
a glint of knowledge in his eye, but doesn’t show it to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she goes on;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “You need to know that I understand what it is like having the
Covenant take away people you love. They are evil, evil people. The thing is, I
was luckier than you. The man I love, the Covenant didn't murder him, he's on
that plane.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did take out some of her speech, but seeing
her so vulnerable bearing her secrets, secrets about her past that she only
just learned herself and doesn’t share unless she has to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She opens up to Ryan hoping that he will save
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real trigger though is
seeing her next to tears, begging this terrorist to save Vaughn’s life, because
there isn’t much else that she can do for Vaughn right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Telling her secrets wasn’t something that she
wanted to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw that even though
Sydney found out what happened to her, she hadn’t told Jack the whole
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding out what happened, isn’t
something that she openly shares, but opening up to Ryan, was risking all she
had to attempt to save Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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On the plane, Marshall thinks up a way for Vaughn to
deactivate the bomb, so they can land, but it requires them to deactivate the
motion sensor, which is what the bomb squad did during Ryan’s first
demonstration that ended up setting off the bomb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall attempts explaining to Vaughn what
he needs to look for, but Vaughn doesn’t understand the technical language that
Marshall is speaking in, so out of ideas, Marshall tells him that he needs to
find someone who can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the next
thing we see is Vaughn ushering Sark into the belly of the plane and telling Marshall
that he has Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark works with Marshall
to get the bombs Motion sensor cut so they can move it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and Sark then have to work together to
find something to secure the bomb in to trick it into thinking that it is
staying at altitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is clearly not
something that Vaughn is comfortable with, but he does know how much Sark
enjoys his own life, so he doesn’t immediately escort Sark back to his bathroom
cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately Sark does find a
knife while they search and takes it for later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Back at the Rotunda, Sydney gathers everyone and tells them
that Ryan needs a phone, Dixon want to know why and is told that he needs to
call the bomb. We see Vaughn and Sark putting the bomb into the cooler and
Vaughn gets a call from Sydney letting him know that they may have a way
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She relays the information that
Ryan is giving her about how to know that the bomb is no longer activated. Once
Ryan finishes his instructions to Dixon to dial into the phone Sydney says into
the phone; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn what’s going on?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that she is on pins and needles
emotionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She needs to hear from
Vaughn that the bomb has been shut off so she can finally relax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He initially tells her nothing has changed, and
then he looks down to see a five minutes countdown begin. Vaughn looks
terrified and actually looks to Sark hoping he can assist to get out of this
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then looks at the phone knowing
who will be the only one who can fix this and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Syd, he screwed us.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
all it takes for Sydney to become furious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We don’t see too much of her initial reaction, but we see enough to know
that she is ready to kill Ryan. I could be reading more into this than I
should, but as I watched this, the way Vaughn worded it, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he screwed us.</i> It could imply a meaning of literally being the two
of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That the chance of them being
able to one day be together again, is now screwed over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That because of Ryan any future rekindling of
a relationship is over.</div>
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We also see that the bomb in Marshall’s office that they
recovered last week has also been activated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marshall comes into the room and lets them know what has happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ryan then takes the opportunity to tell
Sydney that his former handler informed him the day before she dies that his
brother had been murdered by the Covenant, and that it was a test of loyalty
for a woman named Julia Thorne. You killed my brother. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Sydney’s confession, he knows he can take
out part of the Covenant, the woman who actually killed his brother, and the man
she loves all at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ryan is even willing
to face death himself for the cause.</div>
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So now Sydney is feeling even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her divulging her secrets has not only gotten
Vaughn closer to dying, but now the rest of her friends, essentially everyone
she knows has their lives at risk as well because of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, she holds herself together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much as it hurts Sydney knows that
breaking down does no good for anyone, she has to stay together until she can
make things better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she is alone and
the situation is fixed is when she will allow for a breakdown.</div>
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So Vaughn was right, they should have just had Jack work on
Ryan from the beginning, because in the end, Jack’s alternative methods are all
it takes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is trying to work with Marshall,
but is feeling fairly useless, and she watches her dad start to strangle Ryan
from a monitor so she rushes off to see what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack tells Ryan as he is strangling him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In seven seconds, you will begin to see
spots. You’ll think it’s a white light, but I’m here to tell you… The last
words I want you to hear <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>ever</u></b>!
There is no white light, not for people like you.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney walks in as Jack gently lays a
motionless, essentially dead Ryan on the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney wants to know what he has done, but he simply tells her to get
the defibrillator, he placed it right outside the door and to hurry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack prepares Ryan to be shocked back to
life, and tells Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“He thinks he was
prepared to die, we’ll see about that.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jack shoots him with adrenaline and then shocks him twice, bringing him
back to life grasping for air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack is
ready to catch him, being oddly gentle with him, but tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You give us the code that disarms both
bombs, or we do that all over again. Both bombs!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ryan simply nods to Jack, seeing what Vaughn
knew was there the whole time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack is
not to be messed with on a good day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
you threaten what Jack holds dearest to his heart, Sydney, or mess with what is
dearest to her heart, Vaughn and you will be in the worst shape of your life,
if you have one afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’ve said this before, but Jack really does care about
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may make it seem that he only
cares for Sydney’s sake, but they have been through too much together,
especially seeing as Vaughn is as willing as Jack is to risk everything for
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack has already seen
similarities between himself and Vaughn, but soon Jack will be the first to
realize exactly how a like they are, and while it doesn’t necessarily bring
them closer together, it does bond them in another way that doesn’t include
Sydney this time.</div>
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Sydney runs back to Marshall with the new codes that Ryan
has provided for them, gives them to Marshall and then gets on to talk with Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it may not be the best conversation, if
it is going to be their last, she will be there for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that they got the code; he
tells her that they only have ten seconds left, and they wait as Marshall types.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Sydney asks him if it worked, and a big
smile crosses his face and he tells her yeah it worked. It is a small moment
for each of them, but the knowledge that they will both survive and that they
will see each other again makes them happy, if only for a second. </div>
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Before Vaughn can celebrate too much, he immediately grabs
for his handcuffs to finish his job of arresting Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he wasn’t fast enough and Sark ends up
stabbing Vaughn in the shoulder. And the two of them begin to brawl on the
floor of the plane. Now you know how much I love badass Vaughn, especially when
he is beating on Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn really
does love to beat up on him with all the pain he has helped to cause in Sydney’s
life, Vaughn really does hate Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus
he doesn’t even know that they are sharing the same woman as well. (Ewww)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This scene is a great badass Vaughn scene,
even with a newly injured shoulder, Vaughn forgets about his pain and is quickly
able to get the upper hand on Sark. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is able to physically force Sark to
drop the knife and once that is done, before Sark has a chance to regain his
footing to go back at it, Vaughn with the handcuffs still in his hands, uses
the handcuffs to help deliver a painful blow across Sark’s face. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark is knocked unconscious, allowing Vaughn
to handcuff him without any struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At the Rotunda, after all the reports are finished, and they
are finally able to call it a day, Dixon fills Jack and Sydney in on what
happened when Vaughn and Sark landed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney wants to know if Vaughn is overseeing the extradition process with
Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon tells her, no that he has
already boarded a plane back to the US and they expect him soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that news, Sydney can take a sigh of
relief, Jack even shows his relief at having Vaughn be okay, if only for a moment.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three of them then watch with satisfaction
as Ryan is escorted down the hallway to be processed.</div>
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When Sydney is leaving the building she reaches the parking
garage, walks to her car, and you can see some of the stress of the day coming
off of her as she relaxes her posture as she walks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when she reaches the car, the emotional roller
coaster of almost losing Vaughn and feeling like she was at fault for it overcomes
her and since she is alone and doesn’t have to help save anyone or anything she
can finally break down and have her moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She just stands next to her car, and begins to cry. Hearing a car
approach, she attempts to pull herself back together and wipes her eyes. She
turns to see who is going to see her as an emotional wreck and she sees the
best thing she could imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn is
there, and he is completely focused on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For him, she is the one who saved his life and the only person that he
wants to see right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sees her
crying and walks with purpose to her, knowing that he wants nothing more in the
world than to make her pain go away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
just looks at him, says his name, and walks with open arms towards him as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both envelope each other in
their arms and without saying another word, they say all that is needed to be
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They just stand there and hold on
to each other with all their might.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
see Vaughn caressing her shoulders and attempting to hold her even tighter than
he already is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that moment, nothing
can take them away from being with one another.</div>
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I will say that without a doubt, the hug shown in this
episode is my all-time favorite Sydney and Vaughn moment, I know that there are
a lot of moments that are up there, but this one tops them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact I would have to say that this hug is
best hug any couple I have ever seen on TV has had. This is for a couple of
reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One the intensity of their love
in this moment is undeniable to anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are balanced out, both of them being comforted and being able to comfort the
other as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told you that I knew in
season two when Vaughn had decided that until he could actually be with Sydney
he was going to move on, well I believe that it is in this moment that the
question that has been plaguing him for the last two months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever since returning from North Korea, he has
wondered if he could love two women and who his heart belongs to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows that he loves Sydney, but he wasn’t
sure about whether he could leave Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is being with Sydney here that Vaughn now knows that he isn’t
supposed to with Lauren any longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney is his soul mate and he wants to spend the rest of his life
proving his love to her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just has to
wait for the right opportunity to break the news to Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the final thing that makes this moment
so perfect, the music, it fits so perfectly with that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire song is wonderful, but that
statement as the screen goes black, just sets the scene so perfectly; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m tired of being on my own; I’ve been
waiting for you to come.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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As the episode opens, without anything being said, I know
that Vaughn is definitely thinking about the choices that he has to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is sitting on a chair in the dark, next to
Lauren’s side of the bed, and is holding his father’s watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that the watch is heavily connected
to his father and to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
addition, during the previously on Alias, it even showed the scene where Vaughn
tells Sydney that his father told him that he could set his heart by this watch
and that it stopped on Oct 1<sup>st</sup>, the day that they met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So right off with him sitting in the dark
next to Lauren, but staring at the watch, you know he is trying to figure out
which way his heart will go.<br />
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As Vaughn is sitting in the dark, Lauren’s cell phone begins
to vibrate and Lauren wakes up and turns on the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asks him what he’s doing, but then
immediately tells him that she sometimes hates her job, and then looks like she
is about to go back to sleep, only to remember that she has to appear that she
cares about Vaughn and asks him what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at the watch some more and tells
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know how doctors always make
you wait? When you go in for an appointment. My dad hated that. He used to say
he always kept his appointments, and everyone else should do the same.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren asks him if he is okay, but not really
like she cares about the answer. He sees this and tells her yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then keeps looking and touching the watch and
then tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I just… I was looking
for my house keys, and I found this.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he indicates to the watch, and he smiles as
he looks at the watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren being completely
oblivious to the actual issue that he is talking about, wonders why he was
looking for his house keys, and just by the look that he gives her, you can
tell that he is disappointed with her. He doesn’t reply right away, but finally
tells her that he couldn’t sleep and that he thought he would go for a jog. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wonders what time it is, and with that
statement, his thoughts on the watch change and you can see the change in the way
his eyes and smile light up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shakes
his head, and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I don’t know. It’s
broken.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He barely looks at her,
and then goes back to the watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
see that his thoughts are now on what his father told him about how he could
set his heart by the watch and it breaking the day he met Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren has finally woken up to the fact that
something is up, and asks him if he is sure he’s alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn not wanting to state the obvious
tells her that he’s fine, and sets down the watch, although he looked at the
watch for a few moments before responding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He then gets up, gives a quick kiss and tells her that he will see her later.
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Although a small scene, this is one thing that Vaughn will
look to when making some important decisions soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is starting to realize that his
relationship isn’t as good with Lauren as he once thought it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t connect with each other the way he
connected with Sydney. Lauren doesn’t see the relevance to the watch and him
talking about his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
remembering his father, and really missing him right now, and she should’ve
realized that he needed support right then, but she missed it and then asking
for the time, only made him miss the relationship that he had with Sydney as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one scene, she showed him that
she doesn’t remember how important his dad was to him, and she reminded him of
how good he had it with Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things
are not looking good for Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
that it’s also important to note, how casual they are when he leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially considering that they have to
still be in their first year to year and a half at most of marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t tell each other I love you, a
simple kiss and a see you later are all that happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know with my marriage, we didn’t become
that casual until around year six, if that, and that was with three kids, after
eleven years, we still say I love you when the other leaves, even for a short
amount of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it really shows how
the relationship is dying quickly.</div>
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At the Rotunda, Sydney and Vaughn are being sent on a
mission to Vancouver to open up a link so Marshall can hack into a server there,
to find where a bomb will be shipped from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They each look at each other, once again wondering if they can maintain friendship
while doing this job. During the briefing Lauren keeps giving Sydney dirty
looks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that Sydney has had
enough though, and knowing Sydney this season, she isn’t going to put up with
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we see that once the briefing is
over, Sydney goes after Lauren telling her that they need to talk, but Lauren just
keeps on walking and the scene switches to Vaughn and Weiss talking. So we will
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Going over to Weiss and Vaughn, Weiss asks Vaughn how he is
doing, and Vaughn tells him that he is fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weiss then stops him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Hey,
guess what? It’s me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come on, how are
you doing?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Vaughn then tells Weiss;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m hanging in there.”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss then nods towards Lauren, and asks; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How was Lauren about it?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks over to Lauren, who is now talking
with Sydney, and he only makes eye contact with Sydney, takes a deep breath and
tells Weiss; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“She didn’t remember.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this statement, Vaughn looks
disappointed, but tries to hide it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
Weiss asks him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And you didn’t say
anything?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn thinks for a
moment and then tells him, trying to be nonchalant about it, but failing; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Nah… I mean, she’s got a lot on her mind.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss doesn’t buy it, and tells him
sarcastically; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yeah, that’s probably it.”
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then walks off, and we see
Weiss staring at Lauren and giving her an evil look, and then we watch as
Sydney walks away from Lauren and Lauren gives Weiss and even eviler look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So obviously they are trying to string us
along with what the real problem is, but something is obviously going on with
Vaughn, Weiss remembers, and is made that Lauren didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a case where Weiss is starting to
dislike Lauren more and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe he
saw more in her reaction to the North Korea situation then we were led on to
believe.<br />
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While Sydney and Vaughn are in Vancouver, nothing unusual
happens as they begin their mission, but once they start the upload to Marshall,
they realize a virus has been put on the system and they figure that the mole
has leaked the information and has beaten them there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They quickly disconnect and go to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They leave the room, to find that the man
that showed them to their vault is holding a gun at them, saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Please don’t do this!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn are standing with their
hands up, and he begins to shoot, but misses them so they run back into their
vault and get their own weapons ready, only to walk out and find the man dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They hear a door shut, and then start running
after the shooter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They end up following
them out to a parking structure and then begin a car chase in the parking
structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they get away when they
reach the street level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So overall not
much happens, but it is nice to see that Sydney and Vaughn are working together
without any negative friction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you
can see that it is still hard to work together as just friends for both of
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Back in LA, Sydney and Vaughn meet with Marshall, to go over
what can be recovered and find out that it will take around six hours to get
the information that they need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Marshall
is on one of his rants, Vaughn and Sydney do share a fun smile as they watch Marshall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they quickly look away from each other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall leaves to get more coffee and while
he is gone, Vaughn wonders to the other side of the room and is clearly having
a hard time as he puts his hand to his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney sees this and wonders if something is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her that he’s fine, but he
guesses that he is getting old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney
laughs with him, then smiles and asks; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Do
you expect me to believe that?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already it’s obvious that Sydney is still more
in tune with Vaughn that Lauren has ever been, and he tries to play down whatever
is bothering him by saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’ve just had
a lot on my mind lately, that’s all. It’ll pass.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While saying this he begins to move closer to
Sydney again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the look on his face,
you can tell that he is somewhat happy that Sydney recognizes when he is trying
to pass himself off as being fine when he isn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also deep down, if he was to choose who he
opens up with about what is wrong, it would be Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has always understood him when others
didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then see her face and see how
concerned she really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is seeing
what a difference there is between these two women once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then asks him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yesterday was the day, wasn’t it?”</i> That little statement makes
Vaughn look up at Sydney again, and begin to see her once again with new eyes
or his old ones back in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before he can
reply though, she goes on to say; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
anniversary of your father’s death.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn sighs and almost smiles, and looks at
her like she is the best thing on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He asks her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How could you
remember that?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks at him
and smiles sadly, shakes her head at him and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I remember what missing him does to you.”</i> He smiles at her and
looks like he is about to say something, but is interrupted by the ring of his
cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at the phone and tells
her sorry and walks away, but he doesn’t answer until he is at the door and
almost completely away from Sydney.<br />
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takes his call in the hallway, it is Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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does, Vaughn watches her walk away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
he watches Sydney his phone call is wrapping up with Lauren and she tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I love you.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as she says it he can’t take his eyes off
of Sydney, he then looks at the phone and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Uh… You too.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hangs up
the phone and then goes back to watching Sydney, and you can see that Vaughn is
pretty sure what direction his heart is going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it is important to note that he didn’t say I love you back to her,
he said what would placate her and made sure that if Sydney was listening, it
wouldn’t sound like a love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last
time we saw Vaughn admit his love to Lauren was back in the third episode of
the season, the first time we saw them together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we haven’t seen it since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have heard him say that it isn’t a loveless
marriage, or yelling at Jack about hurting someone he loves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we don’t ever see him admit it to her
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Later on we see that Marshall has retrieved the location of
the bomb and the ship that is carrying it, will dock in Lisbon, in 14 hours, so
Sydney and Vaughn are sent to Lisbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once they get on the ship and have an idea of where they need to go they
are about to enter through a door to go below deck and Vaughn hears something
that makes him turn, two other people are on board and are following them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Vaughn turns to see what made the sound,
he is shot multiple times in the chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney then gets off a few shots and the others hide behind a corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney then drags Vaughn through the door and
closes it behind her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is ignoring
Dixon over the coms; she is only concerned with Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once they are safe, she gets down on his
level and look scared to death and tries talk to Vaughn, asking if he is okay.</div>
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So this is the part of the episode that I had to go back and
make sure that my Netflix connection hadn’t gone all weird on me, but it showed
that it was the middle of the episode an not the beginning again so I kept watching
and it turns out that we were just seeing everything happen from Vaughn’s
perspective, but now we are going to see some of the same scenes play out from
Laurens perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I won’t be
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We do see that Lauren does finally turn around for Sydney,
which we saw had happened, but we get to see their conversation this time.
After Sydney tells her that they need to talk, Lauren turns on Sydney and says;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Everything I needed to say, I’ve already
said.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney looks at her sternly
and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Then here’s my turn. The Implication
that somehow I’ve set out to undermine your marriage is wrong and unfair. I’ve
done nothing but respect the relationship that you and Vaughn have.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren just gives her dirty looks through this,
and Lauren looks at Vaughn for a moment and Sydney follows, only to see that Vaughn
is looking back. Lauren then smiles condescendingly and says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You were saying?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sydney holds her ground and goes on to
tell Lauren; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vaughn and I have a history,
a complicated one. I can’t deny that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I won’t apologize for it either. If your marriage is in trouble, if
you and Vaughn are having problems, I suggest you leave me out of it, and take
it up with your husband.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And once
again we see Weiss watching her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
Weiss is catching on to the fact that she isn’t as nice and naïve as she wants
everyone to believe she is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– Now I
could be wrong on this, but from here on out Sydney and Lauren have very little
interaction together and the times that they do is after Sydney suspects that
she is the mole.</div>
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We do see that it is Sark and Lauren that Vaughn and Sydney
end up chasing after in Vancouver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
thing I did find interesting was Sark makes the remark of another black mark
going on her husband’s record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he
asks her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How does it feel to systematically
ruin a man from the inside out?”</i> To which Lauren tells him that it wouldn’t
be the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sentiment makes
me wonder what else she is doing to Vaughn, besides the obvious reasons and
what we see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you keep this statement
in your head, a comment that he makes to Sydney along with a deleted scene
begins to make sense.</div>
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So I have made it back to where the stories line up, and the
two other on the ship are none other than Sark and a Raccoon eyed Lauren. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark is the one who shot Vaughn though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see Sydney over Vaughn again and she is
scared, even though she knows that he was hit in his vest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She unzips his jacket and exposes the Kevlar vest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tells her that he is fine, but Sydney
still has to help him to stand and he puts his arm around her and she puts his
arm around him as he gets his breath back and attempts to walk but can’t do
very much to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once he gets
going, they release each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
knows that they have to get the bomb, and says as much. </div>
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Although it’s not an exact parallel, it does take us back to
the episode where Sark shoots Vaughn in the staircase and Sydney shoots the gun
out of Sark’s hand and runs down and helps Vaughn up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney has the same emotions running through
her, only she isn’t allowed to kiss Vaughn better like she did last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is interesting to look at it though, the
last time it had happened, Sark had shot him when Irina was his accomplice in
the current heist, and it was an emotional connection that Sydney was not used
to, with it being the first episode after her mother had escaped and Sydney
realized that all the good moments that they recently shared were a
fabrication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The emotional connection
this time is with Vaughn and Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just don’t see how Vaughn deals with the realization until after he figures out
what Lauren is.</div>
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They separate, Sydney going to the engine room, where we
just saw Sark head to, and Vaughn tells her that he will cover her form above,
which is where we saw Lauren head off to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney has found the bomb and Lauren has spotted her from above and is
aiming her gun at Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn
catches her and instructs her to freeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He just doesn’t know that it is Lauren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn has his gun pointed at Lauren’s head and is inches away from it
as he instructs her to drops her gun and then to turn around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then instructs her to take off the face
multiple times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which Lauren is a little
hesitant to do for obvious reasons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right when Lauren is about to give in, we hear
Sark yell up at him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Put the gun down,
Agent Vaughn!” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn looks down and
sees that Sark is now holding Sydney in a similar position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go back and forth about each other
dropping their guns, Sydney even tells Vaughn not to drop his gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark then yells up at Vaughn indicating to
Sydney saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If you love her, you will
put the gun down now.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then
looks at Lauren, even though he doesn’t know it is Lauren, and as he is about
to put the gun down, Sydney yells up to him not to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you can see in his eyes, as can Lauren that
he knows that he will do anything to prove his love for Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then drops his gun down towards where
Sydney and Sark are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren takes this
opportunity to punch him across the face. Sydney get Sark, but not enough to
knock him down and Lauren immediately grabs her gun and starts shooting at
Sydney so Sark can run off with the bomb.</div>
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After getting themselves back together, Sydney ends up
running after Lauren and Vaughn goes after Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney loses Lauren but Vaughn is hot on Sark’s
feet. Catching Sark, and ordering him to give him the bomb, before he shoots
him, although I think it’s time that Vaughn got off a few shots on Sark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark then activates the bomb and throws it to
Vaughn and runs off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then has to
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After they both return Lauren and Vaughn both acting the
happy couple for one another once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lauren gets a call from Sark and he mentions how much it killed her
seeing him drop the gun for Sydney, and she plays it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while Vaughn is getting more and more
annoyed with her “work” calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she
hangs up, she can see that he may ask about the call, so to preempt this, she
gives him a bigger kiss than we have seen them share in a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks what the kiss was for and she simply
tells him that she missed him. Making sure that they topic was diverted.</div>
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Overall a pretty good Sydney and Vaughn episode, also I love
seeing Vaughn realize that he isn’t supposed to be with Lauren. But seeing Vaughn
being vulnerable and him seeing the difference in support that he has from the
two people that he claims to love, and claim to love him as well makes him
question that love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is seeing that no
matter what position Sydney holds in his life, she will always care about him,
and he sees that Lauren is very different.</div>
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</span></span></span>Items I found Noteworthy…<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
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</span></span></span>Jack is given the assignment of leading the
investigation on finding out of there is a mole in the Rotunda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren gets out of being questioned that day
pretty quickly.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>Just as a fun fact, if the first day in this episode
was the anniversary of Vaughn father’s death, then it means that it is October
21<sup>st</sup> since we have seen the date listed on the CIA report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the episode aired in March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if it is October 21<sup>st</sup> during
that time, that means that only a couple weeks earlier was the anniversary of
when Sydney and Vaughn met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to
wonder if it lined up with their trip to North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the day they met, has stuck out to
Vaughn since the watch did stop on that date, so he would be more vulnerable
towards Sydney during that time. – Just a thought…<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>We find out what Sloane’s secret which is that
Sloane had an affair with Irina Derevko, and he thinks that Sydney may be his
daughter.</div>
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As the episode opens we see Sydney and Vaughn on a mission
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much is said, or happens
within the mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it does show
that even if they aren’t going to be together, they are going to have fun doing
their spy thing together and being friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I liked seeing them get ready to bass jump off the side of the
mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Back in LA, we find out that it may not be as good as they
made it look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After being told that once
their new target, Cummings, is found they will go in and pose as clients and
that they should be ready to go once they have the info.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both share an awkward glance, which didn’t
go unnoticed by Jack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can tell that
the experience in North Korea is going to make it difficult for them to figure
out a way to work together as just friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Later on we see that Sydney is meeting with Dr. Barnett, who
we haven’t seen since Dixon’s wife died back at the end of season two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney tells her, that in theory, now that
she knows what happened to her over the last two years, she should be able to
move on with her life, but when she looks towards the future, all she sees is
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After being asked about North
Korea, Sydney admits to her and Vaughn kissing and tells Barnett that what
happened there makes it difficult to deal with being his partner, also admitting
that she’s having a hard time dealing with having to go on another operation
with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barnett asks Sydney how she
would feel if Vaughn left his wife for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She initially tells her that she doesn’t know, but goes on to say that
she doesn’t think that he would get a divorce because of her, but he would get
a divorce because Vaughn and Lauren don’t belong together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barnett hears this, and asks Sydney if Vaughn
belongs with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is silent for a
few moments, and then asks Barnett; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Have
you ever felt that someone’s your soul mate?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that statement, I wanted to cry for
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is she supposed to move on,
knowing that if she hadn’t died, she would still be with Vaughn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that even though he is married, he
only really loves her, at least if Vaughn was telling her the truth in the
Korean cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must be unbearable to
have to watch Vaughn be with Lauren, and not with her.</div>
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I think that had Francie or Will been around, Sydney would
have had that conversation with them, but right now, she only has her father to
confide in, and she doesn’t talk about that part of her life with Jack, so she
needed to talk to someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I find it
interesting that immediately following her statement about someone being your soul
mate, we see Vaughn with Weiss and a similar conversation starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and Weiss are at a bar playing pool,
and Weiss tells Vaughn; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You know what?
You’re a good guy, you don’t want to hurt anybody, but you’re pretty much
guaranteed you’re gonna hurt everybody.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn has no idea what Weiss is talking
about, and asks him about it, but Weiss says he’s not sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To which Vaughn tells him that it’s helpful
advice, but Vaughn can see where Weiss’s thoughts are going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss then tells him;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “What do you want me to say? If you think I’m gonna tell you to stay
in a loveless marriage…” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn
interrupts him saying that it isn’t a loveless marriage. But Weiss retorts back
with a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Whatever… And if you’re waiting
for me to tell you to leave your wife for another woman, you can forget about
that, too.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn contemplates this
for a moment before asking; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Do you think
you can be in love with two people at the same time?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss looks at him and gives him a quick no; which
is obviously of no help to Vaughn and his current situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Weiss not being able to keep a serious
conversation up for a long time goes on to say that he did have the same intense
feeling for Sporty and Posh Spice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
looks at him, and then asks him who didn’t.</div>
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So this is where Lauren and Sark begin to work together, I
would think that if you are still reading this, you have seen Alias and you are
familiar with all of their goings on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am not a Lauren fan, as you well know by now, and I am not a Sark fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only like seeing Sark when I get to see
Vaughn beat him up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is entertaining
to me. I realize that Sark and Lauren end up talking about Sydney and/or
Vaughn, but unless it truly pertains to how Vaughn and Sydney’s relationship
will move forward, I am going to attempt to not include it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now back to the episode…</div>
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Sydney is at her apartment and has made herself a TV dinner,
with a beer in her hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s amazing
how they demonstrate her utter aloneness here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She looks a little disappointed by her dinner, but doesn’t look
depressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the scene in general
shows how alone she is, with the single beer, and the single portion inside the
TV dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she surprised, yet happy
when her dad shows up with takeout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
talk business and he explains her cover when she meets with Cummings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Jack attempts to be casual when he tells
her that he expects that Vaughn will be going with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks up, and tells him that she figures
that he will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then goes on to tell
her that its well within reason to ask Dixon to send someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney protests this, telling him that if she
is sent on a mission, she is going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack
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The next time we see Sydney and Vaughn together, Dixon is
telling them as well as Jack that someone is killing high ranking members of
the Covenant. So Sydney and Vaughn will be leaving for Chamonix within 30
minutes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall walks in and asks if
they are moving up the timetable to go back to Chamonix, he is told yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marshall tell them that while the equipment
needed to get through the lethal response areas is ready for them, he hasn’t
been able to access the security system so they don’t activate the alarm
systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since he figures it can be done
remotely he tells Dixon that another person would be needed to set up the remote
uplink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon then tells Jack that he
will join Sydney and Vaughn in Chamonix. </div>
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On the plane, Sydney and Vaughn are going over the equipment
and making sure that everything is ready to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once they are done with that, they give each other tentative glances,
but immediately look away and an awkward silence takes its place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then tells Sydney that he knows why
she requested Weiss for the last mission and that he understands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney looks at him for a moment, and then
tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Every day I wish I could go
back in time. But I can’t… And as much as I… As much as I still have feelings
for you, I won’t be the other woman, not ever.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that saying this to him, hurts
her, but she is very determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
looks at her and tells her that he knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before they can say anything else though Jack comes in and they talk
more about the mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is something
that I have gone over before, but seeing them admit it to each other, and seeing
how hurt yet determined it makes both of them is still heartbreaking.</div>
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One thing that I have to note, is where Vaughn calls Lauren from
the plane, she is off killing the cell leaders with Sark the only thing that he
tells her is that he will be out of town for a few days, he’s not telling her
about his missions anymore. Also when she tells him to be safe and calls him
love, he doesn’t reply knowing that Sydney is nearby, only hangs up on her, seeing
that the conversation is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t
help but wonder if he is questioning if Weiss was correct when he called the
marriage a loveless marriage. </div>
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Once in Chamonix, Sydney and Vaughn are very focused on
their mission, as they should be since they are going to be going through what
is referred to as the kill zones in a lethal response security system, and
there are three zones and have to do it in under five minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make it through the first zone without a
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second zone, which is
electrified, is electrified more than anticipated, and they have to repel down
the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn gets down safely and
then steadies the rope for Sydney to go down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately while Sydney is going down, the pipe breaks and Sydney gets
a little jolted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn becomes very concerned
at this point, but doesn’t cross any boundaries, however in the next zone,
which is an acid shower, after he shoots the showers with sealant, he takes
Sydney by the hand and they go down the hallway hand in hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think as they do this, they don’t even
notice that they are doing it and they don’t ever acknowledge it either. They retrieve
the object that they were after, but their five minutes are up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They barely make it back into the kill zones,
the sealant isn’t holding up to well by this point and as they make their way
through, they are constantly touching to other to make sure they are safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make it past just as they sealant breaks
and the guards are sprayed down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they
make their way out of the tunnel to where they began, Sydney is out and is waiting
for and only watching for Vaughn when two guards come up behinds them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily Jack is behind them and shoots them
before they can shoot Vaughn or Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So overall, not much happens during the mission, but we do see that their
instincts to protect the other are still there and even though they have agreed
that nothing more will happen unless Vaughn is no longer married, they still
hold hands to help the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The episode ends with Sark and Lauren being made co-leaders
of the North American cell of the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Lauren is told that this new position doesn’t absolve her of her
duties working overtime as an agent for the NSC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also suggested that she rein in her husband’s
extra-curricular <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sextiviites” </i>and is
given an envelope containing unseen pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After seeing the pictures, once Lauren gets back to the Rotunda and sees
Sydney, she approaches her very coldly and tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I see what’s going on between you and Michael, so let me be
clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay the hell away from my
husband.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Lauren walks away from
Sydney. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only imagine that someone with in the
Covenant has ties to the Korean prison that Sydney and Vaughn were held in, because
they have been pretty damn good any other time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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So overall, this episode really doesn’t move the
relationship forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact in a way
it sort of stops it for a small amount of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The two of them acknowledging that there will not be, or ever will be an
affair makes it very clear that Vaughn has to make some choices, and he will have
to choose which woman he loves more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also this episode focuses so much on the other story lines that I don’t
find relevant that they don’t make much time for Sydney and Vaughn.</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Items I found Noteworthy…<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Carrie goes into Labor while Sydney and Vaughn
are going thru the Lethal response kill zones and she decides that she doesn’t
want to have the baby until she and Marshall are married, so Weiss ends up
marrying them after getting certified online.<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li>Sloane is holding on to a secret that will
affect both Jack and Sydney.</li>
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</ul>
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I can imagine that on that Sunday evening as Alias fans from
around the US sat down to watch Alias on January 18<sup>th</sup>, 2004, that
all fans of the Sydney and Vaughn relationship began to cheer as the beginning
of the episode started after seeing the previously on Alias, only to immediately
stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a way to begin an
episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What kind of a mess were they
trying to put me in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so excited to
see Sydney and Vaughn immersed in such a genuine kiss, but to have guards
interrupt them and take them to a firing squad to die, not cool. I was an
emotional mess right from the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that final glance at each other as if telling each other goodbye and
affirming to each other that they will find each other again is so perfect, yet
so agonizing at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching
them turn from each other to face their fate and then both closing their eyes
at the same moment and preparing to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At least they shared one last kiss.</div>
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Now you and I both know that there is no way that a TV show
would ever kill off the two most popular characters at the same time. OK this
is before Game of Thrones, but still in the Alias world, no one ever really
dies, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So not surprising that as
they prepare for death we get to see Los Angeles, 72 hours earlier. We come
into a briefing where Dixon is explaining that a Covenant member who is high up
in the hierarchy wants to defect and in exchange will turn over everything that
he knows about the Covenant to the CIA, at this Lauren seemed a bit
apprehensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so nice to have her
be the bad guy for real, and not just because she married Vaughn. But Dixon is
sending Sydney and Vaughn to North Korea to intercept him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still trying to follow Jack’s advice, you can
see the worry on Vaughn’s face of having to do a mission alone with Sydney.
Vaughn does see that Lauren seems upset, so he does smile at her from across
the table and she gives him a tentative look back.</div>
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As everyone is leaving the briefing room, Lauren stops
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren asks if she has any plans
for the following Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren tells
her that it is Michael’s hockey night and she was wondering if she would like
to go to dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn hears this and
is not overly happy about it, and is a little confused as well, but doesn’t say
anything. Sydney tells her that it would be nice, and agrees to go, while still
a little confused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren then tells
her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“See you next Tuesday.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now normally I wouldn’t have included this
scene, it never really made much of an impact on me, except that Vaughn didn’t
like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then I was reading up on
some essays that some really smart people wrote about Alias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears that the term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“See you next Tuesday” </i>doesn’t mean what I thought it means, as in
I will see you the next time Tuesday comes around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that was pretty common knowledge,
but apparently I went to the wrong high school and didn’t have a bunch of catty
mean girls around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not going into
detail about what it really means, but I got the idea that only Lauren knew
what she was doing, she apparently went to a high school that dealt with these
types of terms. I haven’t seen the movie Mean Girls in a really long time, but
I would guess that maybe they said it once or twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here is the link to the urban dictionary
if you want to look it up. <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=See-you-next-Tuesday"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=See-you-next-Tuesday#</span></a></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t plan on saying much about Lauren when she is not
with Vaughn in future episodes, but I think that this episode calls for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after being very passive aggressive
towards Sydney after the briefing, Lauren gets in a taxi and meets with her
handler from the Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her
that they will have someone go to North Korea as well and intercept the
defector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he also asks what airfield
agents Vaughn and Bristow will be taking off from so he can have them
eliminated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren tells him that it
wasn’t mentioned, but she will get it for him.</span></span></div>
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Back at the Rotunda, as Lauren is about to open the file
about North Korea that Vaughn was given at the briefing, Vaughn approaches her
and asks what she is doing asking Sydney to dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that he asks her to give Sydney
a chance so she is going to try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then
tells her that he doesn’t want to start socializing with Sydney and that they
see each other enough as it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lauren
tells him that they can talk about on the way to his plane, but he tells her
that Dover is five minutes from their house and he will drive himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then tells him that for the last few
months it’s been awkward and uncomfortable, but if they got to know each other
they could be civil towards each other, and that she actually likes
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn decides that he isn’t
going to put up a fight over it. Lauren kisses him goodbye and then makes a
call and says Dover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next thing we see
is someone shooting something at the pilots of the plane that Vaughn and Sydney
are getting into, as well as Lauren’s handler telling Sark that he is going to
North Korea.</div>
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On the plane we see two pilots getting very sick, and then
Sydney reviewing the file and Vaughn reading a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney tries to make conversation but Vaughn
is still trying and struggling to keep up with Jack’s advice about not being
friendly or kind. So Sydney puts down the file and finally gets upset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn sees this and you can almost see him
prepare for what’s coming and how he will have to behave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that there situation isn’t
going to work, and he questions what she means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She asks him what she has done to him, and he tells her that he doesn’t
have a problem with her. She asks if she has offended him in some way, and
before he can answer she says by doing what coming back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn has this horrible look on his face,
it’s hard to describe, but you can see this tough exterior throughout his face,
but his eyes are saying something completely different. (Once again a testament
to what a fantastic actor Michael Vartan is) His eyes look like every word he
is saying pains him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney goes on
saying that she disrupted the perfect little life he had going on before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn asks her what she is talking about,
that he is just sitting here reading a book and that he hasn’t said
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then takes his words and
tells him exactly, you haven’t said anything in weeks and that they are supposed
to be working together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her
that if she doesn’t want to work together that they can make a switch, and then
asks if that is what she wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
doesn’t answer his question, but tells him that she has done everything she can
to try and make their situation work, considering how ridiculous it is with the
three of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then tells her that he
has been walking around with a fake smile on his face pretending that
everything is fine, just like it used to be, but that it isn’t working for him
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack told him to be cruel, and
he is doing a pretty good job, even if he hates to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know that he means none of what he is
saying, but thinks that he has to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sydney then tells him that this is it, meaning that they are on their last
mission together, and goes on to say that when they get back, one of them has
to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn doesn’t reply, he just
stares almost dumbfounded at her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not one who is big on swearing, but the only way to describe the look on his
face at that moment is with the phrase; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh
shit, what did I just do?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Vaughn not responding to her, Sydney stands up and as
she does so, the plane goes into a nose dive, and she falls right on top of
Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both immediately go into
their agent mode forgetting about their fight and working together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make their way to the cockpit and find
both pilots are dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn drags them
out of the cockpit and Sydney takes over flying the plane and Vaughn assists
her as soon as the pilots are out of the way. As Vaughn sits down he realizes
that they are in North Korean airspace and that they have to abort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before they have a chance to do anything
though, Sydney sees a missile heading straight for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They turn the plane just in time to avoid it,
but it turns back, and another missile heads their way, they have to turn off
the engines to have to the missiles go after each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically some unrealistic stuff goes on, but
we see them work together to an extent to have a good crash landing, at least
that is what I assume since they don’t show the actual landing, just Sydney
saying Vaughn’s name a few times and looking to him to take care of the
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while we see Lauren
looking partially regretful over essentially sending her husband to his death.</div>
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Well it looks like Vaughn did pretty good landing the plane
without an engine, or wheels, but it didn’t nose dive, which is the important
part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney had no luck getting through
to anyone over their coms, but they are all down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn tried to get to their artillery, but
the cargo door is jammed, so it looks like they are stranded in enemy territory
without weapons or any type of communications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They have to depend on each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will make Vaughn’s attempt at being cruel and unfriendly to Sydney
very hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once they determined about
where they are in comparison to where they need to be, Sydney stops her mission
because she sees that Vaughn is hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She and Vaughn share motivations, which is always making sure the other
is alright and safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So her immediate
concern over him is not surprising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
tells her that he is fine, even though it looks really nasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They talk more about the mission and then
hear trucks approaching and determine that it is military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They immediately go back into the plane to
get everything that they can out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Sydney is getting everything organized, Vaughn douses the plane
with gas and they run off. Once they reach a safe distance, and the North
Korean Military reach the plane, Vaughn lights a flare and throws it towards
the plane, once it lands the plane erupts into a fire ball and the men go
flying through the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the flare was
going down though, you could see both Sydney and Vaughn instinctively trying to
cover the other, which meant they were both exposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But their need to protect each other is still
so predominant.</div>
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After the fireball, they immediately start running getting
as far from the plane as they can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
a while, Sydney tells him that she thinks they are clear and they stop to catch
their breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn turns and looks
around, and tells her at least for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now that their lives aren’t in immediate danger, Sydney wants to see
Vaughn’s wound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulls up his coat for
her to see and it really is pretty nasty, Sydney sighs, obviously wishing she
had more to work with, but goes ahead and starts to wrap it with a
bandage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she finishes, she is very
deliberate to make the snap bandage snap onto the wound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn winces, as it snaps and she tells him
that was for being a jerk on the plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This season Sydney isn’t afraid to hurt someone if they have wronged her
in any way, and is unapologetic about as well, but after exacting her own form
of revenge, she seems to move past it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn knows he was being a jerk; he was trying to be a jerk, so he only
tells her thanks and realizes that she is going to move past it. She talks
about how much time they have left and how they need transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn is staring at her as if he wants
to say something, but when Sydney asks him what, he simply tells her
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reminds me of back when he
was her handler and wanted to tell her how he felt, but wasn’t able to.</div>
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Back in LA, Jack had contacted Irina, and she found someone
who could help Jack locate Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The woman that could help meets Jack at Sydney’s apartment and tells him
not who she is, but that Sydney and Vaughn are alive and that she will do
everything in her power to guarantee the safe return of Sydney and Vaughn, but
in return Jack will have to kill Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The writers like having to make their good characters kill Sloane when
Vaughn’s life is in danger don’t they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the Rotunda, Weiss find Lauren and is excited to give her the news
that Vaughn and Sydney are alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
Weiss was too relieved to notice her reaction, but you can tell that she is not
happy about the news, and she doesn’t ask if they are okay, but instead asks
him where they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She hugs him to try
and compose herself for the right reaction, and then only tells him
thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She later makes a call to her
handler telling him that they are still alive and how angry she is since she
risked her standing in the CIA for an operation that failed.</div>
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Back in North Korea, Sydney and Vaughn are still walking,
but it is now daylight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney tried the
coms again, but still has no signal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They see that a jeep has been abandoned at the bottom of the hill they
are on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s in fairly good condition,
but they do have to work on it a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But them working together usually bring out the best in them, so they start
talking again. Vaughn starts to tell her his explanation for his actions on the
plane, she looks at him and tells him that it’s okay and even smiles at him.
But he goes on anyway, he tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s
the only thing I could ever count on… The way it felt to be with you. How… How
easy it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s all gone now. How
are we supposed to get along and be friends? You’re right, it’s ridiculous.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney looks down and takes a deep breath, it
seems like she doesn’t know what to say, but tells him that she slept with
Will. The way she said it though, it was almost like she was she was asking him
if it was alright with him, or admitting to an affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn immediately looks at her again and
asks; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells him that while she and Will were in
Warsaw, they got drunk and slept together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn looks down, shakes his head, and has to compose himself, realizing
that his fear of sending her off alone to see Will came to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s upset, and can’t hide it from her, even
though he is married, he still sees Sydney as the love of his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How am I supposed to react to that?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing Vaughn’s jealousy takes Sydney a little
by surprise here, but she shakes her head, and smiles at him saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“However you want to.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn goes back to working on the car, then
vents his frustrations out to Sydney; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bad
enough being a fugitive in North Korea. Now I have to find out you slept with
Will?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney smiles at him assuming
that this is a joke, but in truth Vaughn actually does compare the two situations
in the same light. Sydney then goes on, thinking that she is going to make the
situation better between them tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I
want you to know that I’m moving on. Not with Will. Just... Generally. If it
helps.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then looks straight at her, this news
doesn’t make him happy, but since he is married, he knows that he has no right
to Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn does however want a
change in topic, so looking at the car, he tells her that it should be ready,
which it was and they drive off.</div>
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This is a big scene for Vaughn, he knows that Sydney still
loves him, and he still loves her, but he doesn’t want to have to see her with
anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think it is in this
moment where he finally gets an idea of what it must be like for Sydney to see
him with Lauren and to hear him talk about Lauren. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve already seen some differences in how he
behaves with Lauren, but we will see him try to avoid awkward moments where
Sydney has to watch or hear interactions. At least if I can remember properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been since I started this blog since I
have watched some of those episodes.</div>
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Since they were able to find transportation, Sydney and
Vaughn arrives to meet the Covenant defector right on time, they are about to
get out, when Sydney spots Sark approaching the defector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They watch the situation and eventually
decide that they have to intervene, but without being seen by Sark first,
considering once they are seen Sark would kill the defector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watch Sark pretend to be a CIA agent from
Portland American accent included, which was fun to see since David Anders who
plays Sark is actually American and is from Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The defector begins to tell him how the
Covenant must be stopped and that the things they are planning keep him up at night.
Right as Sark pulls out his gun under the table and tells the defector that he
will sleep soundly tonight, Sydney rushes up and places a knife right up
against a place that no man ever wants to be cut. Sydney tells Sark to stay
calm and Vaughn tells the defector that Sark is not CIA, but Covenant. The
defector begins to get up saying that it was a bad idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney notices the military police gets
Vaughn to see, Sark tells them back in his British accent that they are looking
for fugitives from a downed airplane. We then find out that Lauren didn’t have
all the details. Sydney and Vaughn know the defectors name and once Vaughn says
it, he knows they are the real deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn tells Sark; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Look, let’s make this easy for each other.
Leonid and I are going to walk calmly out of here. Sydney is going to keep the
knife exactly where it is until it is clear. Once we are, she will follow us.
If you stick to that plan, you might still have children one day.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark then replies saying that if they follow
through on their threat, it will only tip off the police, and that everyone has
something to lose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leonid then realizes
this is true and realizes that he is the exception and gets up to leave, Sark
then goes to shoot him, but Sydney is able to divert his shot before he can
aim, and a commotion begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sark
manages to escape while the other three are all captured.</div>
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Sydney, Vaughn, and Leonid are all sitting in a Korean
prison cell, with their hands and feet chained up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Officers enter the cell and one physically
forces Vaughn up, and you can see how sick this is making Sydney and how much
she wants to go after them, but can’t. She and Leonid do standup however. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main officer speaks Korean to Vaughn and gets
right in his face, when Vaughn doesn’t say anything he places his gun at
Vaughns head and continues to shout, we see Vaughn shaking in nervousness, but
stays quite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The officer then assaults Vaughn
with the butt of the gun knocking him to the ground, which makes Sydney go
toward Vaughn automatically, but she is stopped by the officer aiming the gun
at her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the officer shouts at her,
Sydney watches Vaughn and can’t take her eyes off of him, we see Vaughn sit up,
and he watches as the officer questions Sydney, knowing what her fate, is he
worries for her as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
officer stops for a response from her, we see her bravery in these type of
positions come out, much like the pilot, she responds, but only in a way that
will make them more upset. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She replies
in Korean; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sorry I only speak English.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This earns her the same assault that Vaughn
received. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, she does manage to
get closer to where Vaughn is in the process, which is what I think her
intention was. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The officer then moves on
to Leonid, but once the officer is done speaking, he is quick to say CIA in English,
even repeating it and flat out telling the officer that Sydney and Vaughn are CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn and Sydney then glare at him, knowing
that they risked their lives to come get him and now he is giving them the
death sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Sydney and Vaughn are not pleased with Leonid, but look
towards each other as he is escorted out by another officer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lead officer then says some instructions
to the others and two come after Sydney and Vaughn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They begin assaulting the two them with the
butts of their rifles repeatedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as
they begin, Sydney can only watch in horror as the one officer goes after
Vaughn, barely looking at who will do it to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the officers are done, Sydney says
Vaughn’s name, there is such vulnerability in her voice as she says it, but it
seems to be a request for him, as well as to make sure he is okay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He works himself up from the ground; he seemed
to have been beaten a little worse than Sydney was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Sydney, come here…. Come here, Sydney.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though they are both badly beaten, they
are concerned for the other more than themselves; both of them wanting to
comfort each other; as well as to be comforted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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as he folds himself around her. </div>
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So as it turns out, the woman that came to help Jack, is
Irina’s sister Katya, and it would appear that all the Derevko women, are a
force to be reckoned with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She does inform
Jack when he questioned her as to why he was to kill Sloane, that killing
Sloane is a preventative measure, but why he has to do it, is her own business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jack sets up a meeting with Sloane and while
he is there, Katya calls Sloane with a message telling him to back off Irina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her that he’s not sure how he should
take that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Were they setting up the Sloane
Clone idea here?) But she tells him that no matter how protected he thinks that
he is, he’s really not, not even from his friends, including the one that he’s
about to see, also that his continuing life is a favor from her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then calls Jack to tell him not to kill
Sloane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jack is stuck having to
explain why he is there.</div>
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In the Korean cell, Sydney is trying to pick the handcuff
locks with her fingernails, but isn’t succeeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn says as the scene opens; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We’re not going to make it out of here.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes Sydney look over to him with
concern, but then goes back to trying to escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn then takes a few deep breaths before
saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“There’s something I need you to
know.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes Sydney stop and
she doesn’t even dare look at him, while she says his name. But he is looking
right at her with those loving eyes of his. But he doesn’t stop he goes on to
say; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In my life, there is only one
person.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney knows what he is
about to say, shakes her head and tries to stop him by saying; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Don’t do this.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn is going to tell her the truth, thinking
that she has to know how he really feels, seeing as it will be the last thing
that he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells her; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Look at me.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because not only does he want to make sure
that she knows, but he wants to see that love right back from her that he knows
she will show if she were only to look at him. She shakes her head and finally
looks at him and says his name, almost begging him to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is still holding out some hope for
survival, and she doesn’t want to hear the words come from him that will break
her heart if they do survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he is determined
and tells her;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “The only reason I pushed
you away… The only reason that I didn’t know how to be around you…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>She begs him again while he was talking,
saying please in-between his words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
they hear the guards coming, and she tells him as well and looks towards the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn sits up and gets closer to Sydney, and
she takes his hands, he says her name about to go on, but she stops him and
says; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I know, Vaughn. I know.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing her say this and seeing her face as she
says it, he knows that she knows that he loves her, and that is enough for
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then leans into him, putting
her lips to his check and tells him; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We’ll
find each other… We always find each other.”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lingers her head on his head for a moment
before kissing his check, he then turns his head for a real kiss, and they kiss
with genuine love and affection until the door opens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once that happens, Sydney holds on to Vaughn until
they are both pulled from their positions by officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the final moments before being taken, you
can see fear in Sydney’s face for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think it is more towards the fear of
knowing that after a few very long agonizing months of not being with Vaughn,
she finally gets her moment and she won’t get another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As Sydney and Vaughn are taken form the cell to their death,
they pass by the cell where Leonid is being kept and stare him down, Sydney and
Vaughn both look at him in disgust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are taken outside and place against a wall that is covered in blood and
gunshots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the guards leave them, they
watch the firing squad prepare to fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vaughn looks to Sydney; you can tell that if these are his last moments,
he wants Sydney to be the last thing he sees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When he looks at her, he finds that she is already looking at him, feeling
the same way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the short few moments
that they have they don’t say a word, but with them, they never have had
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney and Vaughn have always been
able to express their love with just their facial expressions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing the final countdown, Sydney nods at
Vaughn, and in that single nod you can see all the love she has for him, and
she lets him know that she knows that he loves her to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they turn with as much bravery as they
can to face their death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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They finally close their eyes and you can see them prepare
for death as the shots begin, only to reopen them quickly once they realize
they are not being shot at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They see
that one guard began shooting before the rest, and shot the guards
instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells them who he is and that
he is there to help them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They look to
each other confused, yet relieved that they aren’t dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now equipped with weapons they go back into
the prison to finish their mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Leonid is confused to see them and wonders what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney doesn’t answer him, but walks into
his cell, hands over her weapon, Leonid starts apologizing, and Sydney just frees
him from his shackles and then punches him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Next we see them, they are back in LA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bruised up, but looking much better,
escorting Leonid into the Rotunda to be debriefed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weiss reaches them first and is relieved to
see them, but takes Leonid off their hands so they can greet everyone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dixon then makes his way over, and
Marshall surprises both of them with a big bear hug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During Marshall’s hug, Vaughn spots Lauren and
he realizes that he still loves her as well and has to go to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney watches this and her fears of Vaughn
telling her what he did in North Korea are realized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tried so hard to stop him from telling
her that he loved her, because she feared that when they survived and got back,
he would have to return to Lauren, and watching it happen just breaks her heart
all over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sees Jack, though
and she runs for him, and they embrace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As we will see in the coming episodes this episode will
create a series of events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Vaughn
can’t deny his affection for Sydney any longer, and this will only make it
harder for Sydney to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tension
between them will only grow more and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Vaughn still respects Jack, he knows he can’t follow his advice
any longer and Jack knows that this mission will have changed everything between
Vaughn and Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one thing though,
the only reason they acted the way that they did, and were willing to make
these confessions to each other was because they thought that they were going
to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of them respect the rules
of marriage, and now that they are safe, they become even more aware of those
rules and what they allow for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaughn
will never have an affair, even if he doesn’t love his wife anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney will not be a mistress, but she will patiently
wait it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also see that Weiss,
starts rooting for the Vaughn and Sydney relationship again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will be the one that reminds Vaughn that
he isn’t with the right person, even though it isn’t always in the nicest ways.</div>
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