TEXT: (Movie theater. The lights are dimmed and a black and white movie is playing. Jack enters.) ON SCREEN MAN: I want to report a murder. ON SCREEN MAN2: Sit down. Where was the murder committed? (Jack takes a seat directly behind a man.) ON SCREEN MAN: San Francisco, last night. ON SCREEN MAN2: Who was murdered? (Jack leans forward and starts whispering to the man sitting ahead of him.) JACK: I have five names, Alliance partners. ON SCREEN MAN: I was. JACK: I need their whereabouts and phone records for the dates listed. I've included dead drop instructions. Assume the usual protocols have been compromised. (Jack puts his hand on the man's shoulder with the list. No response. He shakes the man a little. He's dead, a gunshot in his head. Jack slowly takes the list back and puts it in his inside jacket pocket. He stands up but a man is suddenly right next to him, shoving a gun under Jack's jaw.) GUNMAN: Take it easy. (Jack hits the gun away from his face and they struggle. Jack puts his hand over the gunman's mouth and shoves the gun to the man's chest. A silenced gunshot goes off. The man falls in the seats. Jack starts to walk in the aisle but someone enters, looking right at Jack. He goes the other way but the man climbs over the seats and tackles Jack. He falls over. They stand. He punches Jack once but Jack blocks the next punch. He takes the man by the neck, bangs him into a seat and then punches him hard. In the stairwell, Jack runs down a flight of stairs, trying to escape. He enters the parking garage and hears a car approaching. He whips out his gun and aims it at the car which comes to a stop.) SYDNEY: Dad, get in! (He pauses. Then gets in the car. They drive off, tires squealing.) (In broad daylight, the middle of the day, Sydney pulls out into
SUMMARY:
While Alliance counterintelligence head Ariana Kane tracks Sydney in order to catch her fugitive father, Jack elicits Irina's help in finding Sloane's blackmailer. Meanwhile, Sydney and Vaughn risk exposing their covers to SD-6 when they share a romantic dinner together while on a case in France. Ariana Kane is portrayed by special guest star Faye Dunaway