They put together a team of eight mercenaries. They will steal
the Camp Williams blueprints from the FEMA building.
Lindsey pressures Lauren, who's unaware of Syd's torture, to
write a fair report of their treatment of Syd. He says he will
threaten Syd with the memory-retrieval surgery in order to
force her to decode a message found under her desk in Rome.
He promises it will only be a threat.
During her torture, Syd steals a paper clip. When Lauren suspects
torture, Lindsey blackmails her by threatening to nail Vaughn
for aiding Syd. Syd picks the lock with the clip, kills her
torturer and breaks free. Lauren sees the guards beat Syd.
Jack and Vaughn contact Brill, an old comrade, who joins them
for a fee of $3 million. Jack takes Vaughn to a storage facility
of guns and money.
At FEMA, Sloane, in a van, knocks out their phone system and
routes all calls to a fake number. Vaughn answers their request
for a technician and Jack goes in. Meanwhile Sloane and Vaughn
break into the building's sub-basement. Tapping into the phone
lines, Sloane poses as a director and calls away Jack's guard.
Vaughn pushes in a video snake and snaps images of the blueprints
that Jack holds up to the camera.
Jack is discovered and Sloane saves his life by taking a bullet
for him. Sloane's allergic to morphine so Jack extracts the
bullet without anaesthesia. Jack wonders why Sloane saved his
life. Sloane says he's a reformed man and that Jack and Syd
are all he has left — his absolution, considering his
crimes. Vaughn has Marshall access classified docs on NSC's
computer network. Marshall finds that all files pertaining
to Camp Williams have been removed. Lauren arrives, admits
that Vaughn was right and offers her help.
Lindsey tortures Campbell to force Syd to reveal the code. She
capitulates, says they are coordinates but doesn't know to
what. Campbell then reveals himself to be a fake. They knew
Syd's profile, which reveals her major weakness to be empathy.
Lindsey informs her that she will undergo the neuro-stimulation
surgery in one hour.
Jack, Vaughn and the team speed to the facility. Lauren, already
there, opens the main gate. Jack enters, finds Syd's cell empty — she's
on the operating table. The team finds her just in time and
a gun battle ensues. Lauren shoots and kills Campbell. They
take Syd to a chopper, where Sloane waits. Syd says she gave
Lindsey the wrong coordinates.
