Her torturer, Oleg Madrczyk, had injected Syd's DNA into the
teeth of a corpse, causing a false identification. She was taken
to St. Petersburg, where she was called Julia Thorne and brainwashed.
She killed a Covenant prisoner to prove her readiness.
Syd is shocked at this tale, but Kendall says her Project Christmas
training prevented her from being turned. She killed that man,
who was doomed anyway, to protect herself and deceive The Covenant.
She then contacted Kendall, who advised her to continue as Julia
Thorne in order to gather info. Syd recalls the pain when she
observes Vaughn with Lauren but stays away for safety's sake.
Julia/Syd then partnered
with Simon Walker to search for the Cube. She discovered Lazarey,
an expert close to uncovering the
artefact. Although The Covenant wanted Julia/Syd to kill Lazarey
once he found the Cube, Kendall orders her to cut a deal with
him and work together — so she fakes his death at her hands.
Back in the jet, Kendall says he believes Syd is Rambaldi's Chosen
One and that The Covenant wanted both her and the Cube to fulfil
the prophecy.
Julia and Lazarey find and retrieve the Cube in a cave in Namibia's
Fish River Gorge. She has to amputate Lazarey's hand when a closing
vault door crushes it. She never delivered the Cube to Kendall,
however. He instead got a disc that showed Syd revealing that
she was hiding the Cube and having her memory erased so it could
never be found. She tells Kendall never to tell her what she's
been through.
In the jet, Kendall
says Rambaldi's second coming is by way of a child. The Covenant
will use the DNA in the Cube to fertilise
the egg of the Chosen One. Syd looks at her scar — The
Covenant extracted her eggs!
Kendall says he respected
her wishes, but four months after Hong Kong she went straight
for the Cube. Why, he wonders. She
remembers the package Sloane gave to her — the code and
the key to the Rome apartment, which led her to Lazarey and the
Cube. It was all a trick. Syd calls Marshall, who had secretly
put a tracking device on the Cube. Meanwhile, Sark observes a
series of test tube fertilisations.
At the CIA, Dixon
admits he knew the truth and was ordered not to say anything — a
reversal of their SD-6 days. Syd, Dixon, Vaughn and Weiss parachute
into Patagonia and storm to The Covenant's
facility. Although Sark escapes, they find the fertilisation
equipment. Kendall wanted it brought back back for analysis but
Dixon allows Syd to torch it all. Vaughn and Weiss rescue Lazarey.
Later, Sark makes
a phone call, ordering his father to be killed. As Lazarey
is transported to a hospital, he asks Syd if she knows
about the "passenger." He's then assassinated by a
sniper. Lauren packs up her gun and flees the scene.
