TEXT: Opens in the middle of an action sequence. Dixon is jumping out of a vehicle with gun drawn. DIXON: Drop your weapon! His team is in a tunnel. Three persons dressed in black are trying to escape. As the front two run, the third turns and fires upon Dixon's team. Dixon hides behind a piece of contruction equipment. DIXON: I need some pressure fire! Another officer comes up behind Dixon and fires, drawing fire. Dixon then takes out the man that was shooting. Dixon gives chase to the other two fugitives. Dixon pulls open a door and enters an access tunnel. The two fugitives continue to run, but then the one in the back trips and falls. Dixon peeks his head around the corner, and the fugitive lying on the ground fires and automatic at Dixon, who ducks back around the corner. He jumps back out and shoots the fugitive, but the other fugitive fires on Dixon, hitting him three times in the chest. Dixon slides down the wall, and we hear his breathing is labored. From his point of view, we have a fuzzy picture of the third fugitive walking toward us. The man begins to lift his facemask when Dixon's eyes close and he loses consciousness. Cutting to the fugitive's face as he lifts the ski mask, we see that the shooter was a very concerned Vaughn. Cut to heliocopter flyover of a building in LA in daytime. LOS ANGELES 48 HOURS EARLIER Cut to Sydney walking into Sloane's office. SYDNEY: You wanted to see me? SLOANE: Has Vaughn contacted you yet? SYDNEY: I'd have mentioned it, don't you think? SLOANE: Sydney, we pulled Vaughn's phone records, and they indicate that he sent you an SM message...to your cell. I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that it got lost in transmission and that you never received it. SYDNEY (hard): If you're looking to catch me in a lie...yes, I got the message. When
SUMMARY:
Vaughn makes an agreement with the mysterious man he met in the episode "Nightingale", to intercept a CIA shipment of a Rambaldi manual in exchange for information on his father, Bill Vaughn. In the process, Vaughn is forced to shoot Dixon to ensure the success of the mission. Meanwhile, Nadia informs Sydney that she's been secretly seeing Katya Derevko. When Sydney confronts Katya, she learns that Irina did not put a contract on Sydney's life at all. Sydney tracks down a message from her mother that has been hidden inside a music box. The message is the number to a bank account under the name of Arvin Sloane. Marshall dupes Jack into signing some papers, which Marshall uses to test Jack for mutations due to his radiation exposure. The test returns positive and Marshall confronts Jack informing him of the effects this may have to people who care about him, such as Sydney if she found out, unless he goes to a doctor. Vaughn, after the success of the mission, learns that his father has actually been dead all this time and that everything, including the journal was forged supposedly by Sloane. Later, Jack reports to Arvin Sloane that Vaughn has returned with the Nightingale coil and that the CIA was still in possession of the Rambaldi artifact. It was also mentioned that Dixon was merely shot in his vest and would eventually recover. During the final moments of the show, a second man referred to as "Mister Sloane", and bearing a distinct resemblance is revealed in Santiago.