(In the cafeteria at the institution, Sydney walks in line and gets a goopy mess on her tray. (Sydney is leaving. AGENT: He's with K-Directorate. An SD-6 commando team stormed the ship last night as it was passing through the Panama Canal. And she was definitely lying about having an affair with him. And this is, like, true genius. Bentley Calder, the agent that was investigating her father, died in the same car accident as her mother.) CHARLIE: I want to be a singer. DIXON: It is almost Keeferesque. Every man is a peice of the continent. FRANCIE: This is going to be a disaster. FRANCIE: When he's not -- if he's not good -- he's going to be so devastated. Have a little faith in me...
(In a meeting with Sydney, Marshall, Sloane, Dixon and Mr. Bristow. His subconscious is programmed to react to a simple phrase. It's of her mother. KATE/ELOISE: They gave me two thousand dollars cash to say that I was having an affair with Danny Hecht. Kind of. Martin tears himself away from the orderlies, and tries to get at Sydney again. SLOANE: Shephard checked himself in a mental institution in Bucharest, southern Romania. SYDNEY: That I know everything -- about Calder, his spying for the KGB, the accident. She has nowhere to go. She tries opening the door but the door is locked. Suddenly, Dixon takes him and kicks him. The computers power down. There's a worm! WILL: Eloise Kurtz is living proof that someone's covering up Danny's murder. WILL: The woman pretending to be Kate Jones. WILL: Will Tippin. What matters, what is important, is taking down SD-6. agents that were suspected of spying for Russia.
Plan: A: Laura Bristow; Q: Who was Sydney's mother? A: 20 years earlier; Q: When did Sydney's mother die? A: a car accident; Q: What was Sydney's mother's cause of death? A: FBI; Q: Who was Sydney's father trying to escape from? A: KGB; Q: Who does Sydney suspect her father was a double agent for? A: Bucharest; Q: Where is Sydney sent to go undercover? A: information; Q: What does Sydney need to get from Shepard? A: Will Tippin; Q: Who discovers the true identity of Kate Jones? A: Eloise Kurtz; Q: Who is the true identity of Kate Jones? A: Francie; Q: Who is relieved to learn that Charlie is not having an affair? A: a singer songwriter; Q: What is Charlie trying to be? A: the piano player; Q: Who is the woman Charlie is rehearsing with? A: Marshall Flinkman; Q: Who finds the computer worm planted in the SD-6 mainframe? A: CIA; Q: What organization planted the worm in the SD-6 mainframe? A: Sloane; Q: Who congratulates Marshall for finding the worm? A: a special security test; Q: What does Sloane tell Marshall the worm was part of? A: suspicions; Q: Sloane now has what about someone in SD-6? A: a mole; Q: What does Sloane suspect is in SD-6? A: Sydney's cover; Q: What is blown when an agent from the K-Directorate is revealed to be in charge of the asylum? A: things; Q: What does the K-Directorate want to know from Shepard? Summary: Sydney becomes convinced that her father was responsible for the death of her mother, Laura Bristow, 20 years earlier, as she discovers both were involved in a car accident while her father was trying to escape from FBI. She also suspects he might have been a double agent for the KGB. Amidst all this confusion, Sydney is made to go undercover in a mental institution in Bucharest to get information from Shepard, a man who has been unconsciously programmed to be a deadly assassin. In the meantime Will Tippin discovers the true identity of Kate Jones (Eloise Kurtz), the woman who claimed to have had an affair with Danny. Francie is relieved to learn that Charlie is not having an affair with another woman but trying to be a singer songwriter and that the woman is the piano player he is rehearsing with. Marshall Flinkman, the chief technician at SD-6, finds the computer worm planted in the SD-6 mainframe by the CIA and tells Sloane, who congratulates him and tells him it was part of a special security test he's passed. Sloane now has suspicions that someone in SD-6 is a mole and this sets him on his path of finding who it is. Sydney's cover at the asylum is blown when it is revealed that an agent from the K-Directorate is in charge there who also wants to know things from Shepard.