TEXT: (Washington, DC. White House. Inside, meeting with the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence. Many senators have gathered around a table. One senator in particular, Sen. Townsend, reads several pages and looks up.) TOWNSEND: Exactly who is this Sydney Bristow and why should this committee's time be spent on her? EVANS: She's a double agent, Senator. A CIA asset, working undercover as an operative of SD-6. (Sydney runs through a forest, constantly looking back over her shoulder.) (Meeting.) EVANS: Last week we came into possession of that drawing from a manuscript belonging to Milo Rambaldi. TOWNSEND: Rambaldi. Ms. Evans, we've been all over this. (Sydney runs. Dogs barking, men shouting behind her. Coming closer. She runs faster.) (Meeting.) EVANS: Look at the partially decoded text, Senator. It's written by Rambaldi in reference to that woman in the drawing. (Townsend reads it.) (Man shouting, dogs barking, Sydney running. She scrambles over a fallen tree as they shoot at her. She runs and runs. At the edge of the cliff, she yanks on a rope on her backpack and jumps off. A parachute inflates. Sydney floats above the Cristo Redentor.) (Meeting.) EVANS: Sir, I understand your reluctance to invest our resources in this matter but I strongly suggest-- (Townsend looks up from the text he was reading, his face serious.) TOWNSEND: Dr. Evans. What do you need? (Los Angeles. Sydney sits in a park, writing on a paper bag to Vaughn.) SYDNEY: (voice over) Vaughn, I'm back from Brazil. I did what SD-6 wanted - got surveillance photos of someone they think might be The Man. (She walks and throws the paper bag in a garbage can.) SYDNEY: (voice over) I
SUMMARY:
Sydney is tested by the Department of Special Research to discover her mysterious link to a chilling 500-year-old picture and prophecy foretold in the Rambaldi manuscript. A drawing of a woman who bears an eerie resemblance to her appears in a blank page of the manuscript thanks to the revealing substance in the vial that McKenas Cole had tried to steal from SD-6. Meanwhile, after uncovering the identity of the rogue group leader, "The Man," Sloane learns through fellow Alliance of Twelve member Edward Poole that a close friend may be working with the enemy.