A nerve agent has been released inside APO. A phone rings. At the nightclub, Marshall walks around cautiously while communicating to Sydney who is still in the van. Everyone looks sad and concerned, knowing Sydney's buried alive and they're all helpless. For how long? Get to work. Get visuals of the other members of Third Faction and... track that against where they've been and where they're- where they're going. HAVANA
Music plays in the background and Marshall is at the counter in a store, constructing his locator with various parts, including a cell phone. He clears the dirt away enough so that he can pull off the lid. He smiles nervously as we go to...
BE®LIN
Night time in Berlin and Sydney is going over the mission and the gadgets with Marshall in a van. JACK: What's a spork? MARSHALL: I've never been to Berlin. MARSHALL: So? Marshall is on his way. Marshall tosses her the cell phone and she gets a shot off into the guy's stomach and he collapses to the ground. SLOANE: Sydney, is that you? SYDNEY: Lockdown? SYDNEY: Marshall, you have a gun, use it. SYDNEY: Tell him Alex wasn't the only one betraying him. Scene cuts to DIXON opening the locker, then back to the dance floor. She gasps when she finds the body of the man who was shot by Ulrich laying beside her. Sydney and Marshall are in the back of a car. Sydney, Marshall, APO is in lockdown for at least another 24 hours, your mission is not over. That you had to cut out a man's eyes to save the world. The hard drive Dixon brought in exploded after it was connected to APO's network. The hard drive is encrypted, we need Ulrich in the basement to shut down a network firewall. The man seems to lighten up a bit and walks out to get the radio, talking in Spanish as he exits the room. The shot moves up and we see it is SYDNEY, with a ridiculous wig that looks like a cat got on top of her head. Turn around. VAUGHN: Sydney, the hard drive has been rigged. VAUGHN: The hard drive is connected to network firewall. We now see that there are two cars, Sydney pulls at the door handle but it's locked and then one of the cars hits Sydney's side of the car and she falls back from beside the window. We're going to find you. What's he doing, is he okay?
Plan: A: The episode; Q: What begins in Havana? A: The information; Q: What does Sydney get from the informant? A: Sydney's taxi driver; Q: Who is shot and captured? A: the informant's boss; Q: Who captures Sydney? A: the head; Q: What part of the informant's body was shot? A: a coffin; Q: What was Sydney buried in? A: Third Faction; Q: What group booby-trapped the hard drive? A: releases cyclosarin; Q: What does the hard drive release? A: the hard drive; Q: What was recovered from the locker? A: APO; Q: What organization goes into lockdown mode? A: lockdown mode; Q: What mode does APO go into after the release of the nerve agent? A: thirty-six hours; Q: How long does APO go into lockdown mode? A: Marshall; Q: Who is the only person not affected by the lockdown? A: a transceiver; Q: What did Marshall use to locate Sydney's cell phone? A: Berlin; Q: Where is the man who gave them the phony hard drive located? A: the phony hard drive; Q: What was the hard drive that Sydney and Marshall were given? A: a remote scanner; Q: What does Marshall use to scan the man's eyes? A: Jack; Q: Who instructs Marshall on how to remove the man's eyes? A: the man's eyes; Q: What does Jack tell Marshall to remove from the man? A: a firewall; Q: What does Marshall have to deactivate in the basement? A: an NSA employee; Q: What is Marshall's wife's occupation? A: NSA; Q: What agency does Marshall's wife work for? Summary: The episode begins in Havana. Sydney rendezvous an informant by dancing with him. The information he gives is relayed to Dixon and leads to the recovery of a hard drive from a locker. Later, Sydney's taxi driver is shot and she is captured by the informant's boss. The informant is shot in the head and Sydney is subsequently buried alive in a coffin, in the middle of a graveyard. The hard drive turns out to have been booby-trapped by Third Faction. When inspected it detonates and releases cyclosarin. The biological nerve agent infects Dixon as he attempted to aid the technician who was inspecting the hard drive. Due to the release of the nerve agent, APO goes into lockdown mode for thirty-six hours. Marshall, late for work, arrives at the parking lot only to be informed that they're in lockdown mode and that Sydney is trapped in a coffin somewhere in Cuba. Sydney is able to communicate with her cell phone that she still had. Because Marshall is the only one not affected by the lockdown, he is sent to Havana to find the graveyard where Sydney is buried; using a transceiver he rigged to locate her cell phone and retasking a thermal imaging satellite, Marshall finds Sydney unconscious, but alive. Marshall and Sydney's mission is extended to Berlin where the man who gave them the phony hard drive is located. Since the man knows what Sydney looks like, Marshall is sent in to get a copy of the data using a remote scanner. Marshall accidentally shoots and kills him. Over the phone, Jack instructs Marshall on how to remove the man's eyes (using a spork) so that he can access a security station in the basement and deactivate a firewall. After doing so, Sydney and Marshall rendezvous and finally obtain a real copy of the hard drive, which they deliver to APO. In the middle of it all, Marshall must sing his baby to sleep by phone with a song about the Lanthanide series. Though his wife is an NSA employee, he can never tell her where he has been.