movieking

So that is what Jack did to Sidney when she was younger! A pretty good episode, but it didn't further enough of the main storylines for me, such as Sidney's mother (who was absent from this show). Interesting twist about Sloane's wife though. And it was a great ending with Sidney confronting her father about being trained as a 6 year old.

B.A.

I thought it was a really good episode and the twists involving Sloan's 'dead' wife and Jack Bristow were good, too. At least this is one of the few shows that stays interesting from week to week.

Rogue588

I wasn't sure if someone was going to start a new thread or keep posting in the pseudo-new Alias thread from last Sunday.

Anyways...I caught this last week and thought it was truly angst filled. How did Sloane's wife know she was going to be poisoned? Did she even know? Did Syd arrange it? And if she did, how come we haven't seen anything about it? For a while there I thought Sloane might've faked it. But if he did, why's he setting off all these flags about his wife "stalking" him? [If it IS her at all]

Also...did Syd's mom brainwash her into believing that her Dad sent her to Assassin Summer Camp or did he really do it? [Jack could be hiding another secret...]

BTW...is next week's ep new?

Colonel Mustard

Grrrr!

Is Alias on ABC Family this year? My tape cut out during the scene with the shrink at the end.

If not, I'll just download it, I guess. I don't see it on the ABC Family website.

freedexter

ABC Family, as far as I know, is not currently airing repeats of Alias.

I expected that last part, but I didn't expect that in this episode. I would have probably saved that for next week, or well, this week, if the episode aired when it was supposed to.

Sark was absent this week, and Francie and Will were there, but for no real reason. Too bad.

Next week's previews show that it is a new episode. Hopefully the Emily storyline isn't ignored, from the previews, it looks like it's centered around Vaguhn, Syd, and Jack. Who knows, we might actually see Sark next week. Or even Syd's mom!

mookiemeister

Good twist with Sloane's wife. Last week, I thought someone at SD-6 was doing this. Now I'm not so sure. May be his wife is still alive after all.

Interesting stuff with Sydney's past. No wonder she pick up spy stuff so quickly. She was already trained for it when she was a kid.

kevin75

i am just wondering if they will continue to write jack going darker and darker in his attempt to protect syd. i like the protective father angle but i am not sure that i like the 'obsessive'-protective father angle.

Patman

I think somebody that wanted the seat is messing with Sloane's head. I think Emily is still dead.

What was with the extra extra awkward pause during Marshall's demo of the lip gloss camera launcher?

The scene with Syd and Jack at the end was no more tortured than at the beginning of the series last season. It's come full circle once again for them and the secrets from the past.

Will Jack's deception be revealed to anyone else besides Syd and Vaughn? Jack will have to deal with the bomb setup guy as well (probably just make him disappear...).

Static Cling

I noticed that, too, and rewound to check it out again. I think it was Marshall kinda checking himself out in the camera.

Professor Frink

This may not be the absolute best show on TV, but it sure is the most consistent! Other shows can be better sometimes, but they also falter. Alias is great every single friggin' week!

movieking

It was Marshall checking himself out in the camera. I used to like the Marshall scenes, but since they are overly redundant, they show really only exist to show off the newest spyware. Ok, we get it, Marshall is a nerd, he gets flustered, Sidney smiles at him, etc. Show me the lipbalm!

cliffzig

I missed this episode somehow! The whole rerun/World Series thing threw me off! Does anyone have this on tape or on TiVo? I would be glad to send a tape if someone is willing to record this for me.

That's Alias: Ep. 2-5: The Indicator

OR, if there's a place to download it, I could do that as well. I don't know if it's ok to talk about that here. Anyway, anyone who can help me, please email me. Thank you.

bandit

so has anybody checked out the IP address

Professor Frink

Oh man, I forgot about that! Actually there were two IP addresses. But I'm sure they don't go anywhere.

But I'll check anyway.

_tony_

nah, the ip addresses are ip's that would only be given out to computers on a local area network like the ones in an office or home network. they're different then the ones that are visible over the internet like those of websites and internet providers.

bandit

I just thought it was interesting how they were mentioned, matter-of-fact - like, they wanted someone to check them out, because you know someone would.

alyxstarr

Actually, I believe the fake IP address is the one that was used in the Alias online game recently (is anyone here playing it?), and the real one is registered to Disney.

immortal_zeus

Pretty decent episode. I like where they're going with Sloane's wife's story. Very intriguing.

I could've sworn that it's been hinted before that Syd was trained when she was younger. Or maybe I'm just making that up in my head.

fujishig

Cool episode... just watched the tape last night.

I like that bit at the end of Marshall's spiel, where he mentions that he couldn't fit another camera in because he needed room for the lip gloss, and then says that of course he'll replace it for Sydney (since he already used it). Though it does get redundant at times, I still like what little they show of him.

I'm assuming that if you read this far down the thread, you're aware of spoilers, but...


Spoiler's coming:





Did Sydney find out at the end about her dad being behind the bombs from Vaugn, or did she surmise that from what she found out about her past?

I wonder if Vaugn or Sydney will tell the CIA. How could they punish Jack, though, since he's deep in SD-6? They need to have some way of saving Sydney's mom from the death sentence, though.

Does anyone else think that Sydney's somehow been programmed, beyond the abilities she has now? I don't mean superhuman powers, but somehow brainwashed, like the children who were "triggered" to become assasins later in life? Perhaps by her mom, who was stealing the secrets of this technique from Jack?

And I just thought of this now, but: didn't the Rivaldi (sp?) prophecy reveal that Sydney's mom would destroy the world? Isn't that why they had Sydney in lockdown last season? Why would they let her enjoy any amount of freedom whatsoever, especially contacting her daughter? Is she not considered a bigger threat than SD6? I mean, last season, based on an assumption they were going to pull Sydney out of SD6, jeapordising their whole campaign against them, because they thought that she was the woman in the prophecy.