TEXT: (Sydney jogs through the park one afternoon and, following the instructions given to her last week, drops a coin in a homeless Vietnam vet's cup.) HOMELESS VET: Freelancer requests covert entry. (Control room at the joint task force.) AGENT: That's a copy. We'll notify Agent Vaughn. (Sydney jogs along the street and glances up at the traffic camera. Back in the control room, the agent watches her and an alert reading "NO SURVEILLANCE DETECTED" flashes across the screen.) AGENT: No one's following her. Ident confirmed. Freelancer is approved quadrant four. Sig int reporting clear. No suspect signs. (At the ringing phone under the overpass, Sydney punches in the code and the door opens.) (Inside the task force building, Vaughn and Sydney talk to Kendall.) KENDALL: Agent Bristow, thank you for coming in. I know you weren't wild about talking with your mother last week but I hope we can agree that the information she gave us made it worth your discomfort. SYDNEY: I thought so. Until an hour ago. KENDALL: How is that? SYDNEY: I just came from a meeting with Sloane. The camera I took from Fordson's vault, the camera we tried to keep from SD-6, was an early prototype. The real camera is scheduled to be launched into orbit seventy-two hours from now. KENDALL: By whom? (Flashback: conference meeting with Sloane, Dixon, Sydney, Marshall, and Jack.) SLOANE: The Asiatic Space Agency. Founded after the fall of the iron curtain, the ASA consists mainly of displaced Russian scientists. Their latest client is an old friend of ours. (He clicks a button on the remote and a picture of Sark comes up on their screens.) SYDNEY: Sark. DIXON: What's his interest in launching a satellite? SLOANE: That's the question. MARSHALL: The satellite is equipped with a terahertz imaging camera
SUMMARY:
Sydney must outwit Sark in order to find a crucial piece of intel. Meanwhile, Jack faces Irina for the first time in almost 20 years. Will finally meets Vaughn and Sloane is haunted by his wife's death. Sloane, who drinks only water is seen drinking whiskey in his office. We are told that Emily's garden is dead but Sloane finds it in full bloom.