"No Hard Feelings"

Sydney must stay undercover and partner with Sark to track down Rambaldi's final clue before Prophet Five finds it. Meanwhile, Vaughn sees daughter Isabelle for the first time, and Rachel discovers Tom's secret.

The final stretch .

Granted, there'll be one more ep (well, two if you want to be technical), but i'm sure everyone'll be watching CSI: Miami or the Apprentice.

I dont know how they plan to wrap this up in a way that will satisfy me. This season has been great.

Not too long now... Im glad that the show is ending on a pretty good note, but I agree with Chris in that I dont know what they can do to end it that will make me really happy.

<Tear running down my face> The end is near.... God this is a great show, i dont want to see it end, but am hoping it done right

on a side note, does anyone know how much JJ Abrams is still involved with this show,and specifically these last couple episodes?

I don't think much at all. I thought he said he really wanted to direct the finale, but was stuck doing MI3 crap and couldn't get away. Maybe he had a say in how things would wrap up, but I'm not sure.

Not to my knowledge. Although, as far as I'm concerned, he pretty much gave the show up for adoption a couple of seasons ago. I don't think he wrote or directed any episodes after season 2's finale. Still, I think these last few episodes have been quite excellent; they've been vintage Alias.

Who do the what now? Not in my world! ALIAS or DEATH until the final mission is completed!!!!

Oh Julian - here we go again!

The Cardinal subplot was lame.

Im curious as to how the Rambaldli stuff will end.

Always wondered where Peter Cushing went, now I know. (sarcasm)

Tom's subplot wasn't all that interesting, but Rachel has a strange idea of "date night".

Marshall telling Vaughn he cried at his funeral

If Rachel wasn't on the screen during the Tom story I would have changed the channel during his scenes.

Loved Rachel's fierceness when she pleaded with Marshall not to spill to Uncle Jack for 24 hours.

Wow. A secret amulet. So what does this thing have to do with that big Red ball that was floating in the sky?

"Apparently, i'm...funny."

I'm going to miss Jack.

Well, I agree with everyone about Tom's subplot. I realize it doesn't make sense, but perhaps they had to figure a way to [dave chappelle]wrap that shit up[/dave chappelle] before the finale?

I've tried to forget the big floating red ball and the crazy zombie/vampire things from last year. I'm really hoping the finale next week doesn't head into that territory...

Jesus, Alias is gonna be up against the season finale of 24? What the fuck were they thinking? Guess it'll be torrent for me.

^Hehe, Ive got a two tuner DVR, but that doesnt help considering the Game 2 of the Hurricanes and Sabres is on opposite both, and I refuse to watch either finale in sub-HD. As far as what they are thinking, ABC doesnt care, they are just giving the show a decent sendoff but thats it.

Didn't someone pay the guy to take out Tom? I'm sure that has to be explained in the final episode somehow, seeing as how they just introduced this plot within the last few episodes. I'm not sure I see them introducing something if they have no intentions of addressing it, especially when there are so few episodes left. Basically, I'm not so sure we've seen the last of it.

Excellent episode, though, and that phonecall from Sloane at the end was chilling. Me thinks Sydney is gonna send him to a world of pain.

Yeah, that really does suck the big one, doesn't it? My 2 favorite shows airing finales I REALLY want to see, at the same freakin' time! On top of that, my DVR will be occupied with recording both at the same time, so I won't be able to record the finale of Medium, which also sucks. Damn it!

A solid episode...the Sloane/Syd stuff was great. Loved seeing her eyes simmer with hate, and then likewise his when he thought she was Anna. The phone call at the end was great and I liked all the Vaughn/Baby/Sydney stuff... I can't wait for the finale, thank god for time shifting though...going up against the 24 finale is just plain stupid.

MATT

Was anyone else waiting for Dixon to snap and kill Vaughn during that scene where Dixon arrived at the secret bunker? It just had this feeling of tenseness, and I fully expected Dixon to pull a gun or knife and waste Vaughn. I was ready to yell "Dixon's the mole?!? Horseshit!!"

Then he pulls out a baby photo.

It's too bad they couldn't air Alias for an hour on Monday (the 10 p.m. slot), and then comeback with the series finale on Wednesday (8 p.m. slot), and then run the 2-hour Lost season finale in the 9 p.m. slot). That would have made "24" viewers and "Alias" viewers very happy since there would be no scheduling conflict, then.

Yeah, I noticed that, too, but I chalked it up to Vaughn's mentioning of "car bombings". That's when Dixon gave the weird look. Since his wife was killed by a car bomb, it made some sense that his facial expressions were a little "off".

Isn't the season finale of 24 Monday at 8pm-10pm?

Yes, but what I proposed would alleviate any scheduling conflict between the 2 finales. Moving the 2nd to last hour of Alias to Monday at 10 p.m. gets it out of the way of "24"'s 2-hour finale from 8-10 p.m., and then Alias would run its 1 hour finale on Wednesday at 8 p.m., and then Lost has the rest of the night to wrap up its season.

I wouldn't worry about it, it's not like the same people like both Alias and 24.