TEXT: (Continuing from last week. Sydney bangs on the ice but it has frozen over. Under water, she looks around and sees the dead marksman who was shooting at Cooper and Novak under the ice. One of them must've shot him and killed him during the gunfire. Sydney swims over and takes his breathing apparatus. She takes a swig. He's still holding onto his rifle. Sydney takes it from him, swims closer to the top, and shoots at the ice. Panting and shivering, she reaches the ice on the side of the water but can't lift herself up. She sinks back into the water until Dixon reaches in and pulls her out. They fall back onto the ice, hugging each other.) DIXON: Sydney. SYDNEY: (shivering) Hi. (Sydney sits in front of Sloane's desk with a cup of coffee.) SLOANE: The music box that you were sent to retrieve. Mr. Sark got away with it. SYDNEY: Yes. But after five hundred years buried in the Siberian ice, the music box was corroded. It practically fell apart in my hands. SLOANE: That's odd. SYDNEY: What's that? SLOANE: Milo Rambaldi. He's done this before, many times. Hiding information inside works of art. The clock, sculpture. Hmm. This time he chose to bury one of his most important innovations -- the formula for zero-point energy -- inside a music box. SYDNEY: You're talking about an inventor who lived five hundred years ago. Anything regarding Milo Rambaldi seems odd to me. SLOANE: Well, what's unusual isn't how he hid the information, Sydney, it's where. Why would Milo Rambaldi go to the unimaginable length of having catacombs built in Siberia only to leave his music box exposed to corrosive elements? (Flashback: Sydney spraying something on the music box to make it dissolve and rust.) SYDNEY: Another Rambaldi mystery. (S
SUMMARY:
Sydney's dealings with her mother lead Jack to take drastic measures to ensure his daughter's safety. Meanwhile Will is confronted by a mysterious woman about resurrecting his story on SD-6.