TEXT: A man in his late 30's sitting in a SUV is surveilling a docking area. He watches through binoculars, casing how many men (three armed men) there are, protection, etc. and is reporting his findings in Russian through an earpiece (no translation). A truck pulls into the docking station. As the men go to unload the truck, the man in the SUV drives up and hits one of the men with the SUV. He shoots the truck driver and other two guards. He grabs a normal looking suitcase from the back of the SUV and then opens up the back of the truck. He types in the access code to a safe in the back and then removes a plexiglass suitcase that has some sort of electronic gadget inside and safely stores it inside the empty suitcase he brought. He gets into the SUV and drives away. Cut to same SUV pulling into a driveway in a surburban subcomplex. As he gets out of the SUV a woman walks up to him with a smile. WOMAN: Honey, you're late. I was getting worried. MAN: I'm sorry, beautiful... I got hung up at work. They kiss and put their arms around each other's back to amble into the house. Cut to establishing nighttime LA shot via helicopter. NADIA (voiceover): It doesn't make any sense. Cut to Weiss, Nadia, Vaughn, and Sydney sitting around Syd's dining table having dinner. WEISS: What is so hard to understand? You take a ball, right? You roll it, you knock over some pins and everybody cheers for you... VAUGHN: Or in your case, everyone laughs. Everyone laughs. NADIA: How is that fun? SYDNEY (in mock shock): How could she even ask such a thing? (giggles) WEISS: You know what? I think I know what your problem is... You've never had a true. bowling. experience. NADIA (pretending to be insulted): We have bowling in Argentina, you know. WEISS: Yes, but you don't have, like, glow in the dark pins; you don'
SUMMARY:
Posing as Russian nationals, Vaughn and Sydney are brought to a "village" located in Russia that resembles a typical American town. It was once used to train KGB agents in how to blend into American society, but is now being used by a terrorist cell to train operatives in preparation for bringing down America's economy using an electromagnetic pulse weapon. Marshall discovers information in a book Irina Derevko used to contact her handlers. For some reason, some Russian group is trying to find Derevko. This episode strongly resembles an episode of Danger Man titled "Colony Three" in which John Drake infiltrates a Russian facility that simulates a British town. It also resembles an episode of Mission: Impossible titled "The Carriers" where the team headed by Dan Briggs poses as foreign agents being trained as U.S. citizens in a simulated Illinois town so that they will unknowingly carry a plague to America.