| Original
Airdate: |
March
14th, 2004. |
Written
By:
|
Christopher
Hollier and R.P. Gaborno.
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| Directed
By: |
Jack
Bender.
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| Guest
Starring: |
Ricky
Gervais as Daniel Ryan, Griffin Dunne as Leonid Lisenker, David
S. Lee as Bomb Squad Officer, Ciaran Reilly as SWAT Team Guy,
Stana Katic as Flight Attendant, Nicholas Hosking as Newscaster,
Annette Strean as CIA Agent and Francois Giroday (Captain Verlot).
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| US
ABC Ratings: |
This
episode managed to score a Neilson rating of 4.8/7 - a slight improvement
from last week's episode. |
| Location
Ciphers: |
Belfast
and Rome. |
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References: |
None. |
| Episode
Notes: |
- This episode
marks the only episode written by Christopher
Hollier and R.P. Gaborno.
- "Facade" is
the nineth episode directed by Jack
Bender.
- Although
this is R.P. Gaborno's only written episode of the show, he
is responsible for the story "Countdown".
- The identity
of the man killed by 'Julia Thorne' in "Full
Disclosure" is finally revealed in this episode.
- At the
end of the episode, the parking garage actually served as the
entrance to SD-6 and the Rotunda access point.
- This episode
was filmed the day after Rickey Gervais won a golden globe
award.
- In the
bar scene at the beginning, both Rickey Gervais and Greg Grunberg
added their own lines.
- Series
creator J.J Abrams tried to get Rickey Gervais to appear on
the show but struggled to get in touch with
him.
Eventually,
he forwarded a copy of the Alias DVD's to his agent.
Gervais was blown away with the series and eventually contact
Abrams himself.
- Bravo,
the UK sky channel which premiered this episode, sent a team
to L.A. to film a special documentary about Rickey Gervais'
appearance
on the
series.
- The aeroplane
where Vaughn contacts Sark is actually the same one that was
used in the pilot episode of
Lost.
- In the
pilot episode of Alias, Jennifer Garner wears a red wig. She
wears the same wig in this
episode
only with
black
bits added
to it.
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| Music
Listing: |
Track: "All
My Life" – Rosie Thomas
Album: Only With Laughter Can You Win.
Played: At the end of the episode as Sydney
and Vaughn cuddle.
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