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Sydney
says to CIA Agent Michael Vaughn, the L.A Kings are in town next
Week, and says they are playing the
New York Islanders, she suggests that they go. This episode was aired
January 20th 2002, the Kings actually played the Islanders one night
before this episode aired. |
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The pilot episode features multiple references
to the film Run Lola Run (1998).
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The
two-part episode, "The Box" where
rogue agents take over SD-6, has a plot similar to Die Hard (1988).
The van that the rogue agents pull up in has the name McTiernan written
on the side. John McTiernan was the director of Die Hard. |
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The
two children who say "Bad robot!" in
the Bad Robot logo are the children of series creator-executive producer
Jeffrey Abrams. |
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Vaughn's
mother's maiden name is "Delorme",
which is part of the last name of co-producer Tiffany Roquemore-Delorme.
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Jack's real name is Jonathan Donahue Bristow |
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SD
in SD-6 stands for Section Disparue - the section that has "disappeared".
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Vaughn's dog is named Donovan. |
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The
pilot episode premiered without commercial inturruption except
from a Nokia ad before and after the 1 hour and 9 minute episode. |
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In
season one, there is an episode titled "Mea Culpa". 'Mea Culpa'
is Latin for 'my fault'. |
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For
the Pilot episode, Jennifer Garner didnt use a wig - she actually
dyed her hair red because in the scene where her head is forced
under water, the red dye on the wig would come of and dye the
water red. |
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The
name of the ship where Will gets the envelope is the "Alba
Varden" - an in-joke reference to the same ship with the
same name in the movie Lethal Weapon II. |
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"The Man" May be
a refference to a short lived 1960s spy drama known as Amos Burke,
Secret Agent where in
Burke, a secret agent answered to one person known only as "The
Man". |
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The
season two episodes "The Enemy Walks In", "Phase
One", "Truth Takes Time" and "The Telling" did
not feature the normal opening title sequence, instead the credits
appeared on screen as the episode began. |
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Although
credited, Lena Olin (Irina Derevko) does not appear in the season
two episodes "The Indicator", "Phase
One",
"Double Agent" and "Firebomb". |
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Although
credited, David Anders (Julian Sark) does not appear in the season
two episodes "The
Enemy Walks In" and "Trust Me". |
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Series creator J.J Abrams wrote and peformed
the music for the opening sequence. |
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Although
credited, Melissa George (Lauren Reed) does not appear in the season
three episodes "The
Two" and "Remnants". |
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The
season one episode "Q & A" doesnt have a prologue sequence, probably
because it features a series of flashbacks explaining how Sydney
came to work for SD-6. |
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In
season three, "Repercussions" and "Concious" do
not feature the traditional opening sequence, instead the credits
appear
on the
screen as the episodes starts. |
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SD-6 headquarters is in sub-level six for the Credit Dauphine building. |
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"Masquerade" has no teaser sequence - after the prologue, there is
the usual "previously on Alias..." scenes and then the credits roll. |
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The
opening teaser sequences for season two are considerably longer than
those of season one. In many cases, the length of the teaser has
doubled. |
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Although
credited, David Anders (Sark) does not appear in the season three
episodes "The
Two" or "Concious". |
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In season
three, Ron Rifkin does not appear in "Full
Disclosure" despite being included in the credits. |
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"Full
Disclosure" features the return of the Department of
Special Research (DSR) which previously appeared in season one's "The
Prophecy" and "Q and A". |
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The Alias writers
seem to have an obsession with the number '47' as it appears several
time thought the series. In "The Coup",
McNiel's password is '4747', Rambaldi wrote his prophecy on 'Page 47',
in "Almost Thirty Years" the Rambaldi ball-device
is held in room 47. The trend followed into season two, where in "The
Indicator" Sydney
opened port 47 on the server for Dixon, during a mission in "The
Getaway" Dixon
disguises himself as a priest and raises 47 euros for charity, the
central Alliance
server is 'Server 47', Agent Lennox is held in room 47 in "Double
Agent" and in "A Free Agent", the back
security box is box 4747. In season three, as Sydney learns
of her missing time in "Concious" she
enters room 47. Also, in Alias: The Game, Caplan
gives you a password - 4747. |
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In "Remnants",
Dixon is only seen in the background and is out of focus. |
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In
season two's "Trust Me", Wendle Josepher guest stars as
a CIA Analyst named Vicki Crane, working for Director Kendall. She
previously worked with
Kevin Weissman
(Marshall)
on
the hit show Roswell ("Pilot Episode" and "Convention") where
they both played a couple of UFO hunters. |
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The
mountains seen in "Concious" are the same ones
which are the central focus of Roswell, containing 'The
Pod Chamber'. |
