If attached
to a weapons system, this device could facilitate the targeting
of an individual based only on a DNA sample or a biometric
scan. It is the next generation's sniper. Sloane tells Sydney
that the assassin worked for Sasha Korjev, a vicious arms dealer
involved in developing the new targeting
weapon. Sydney's mission is to retrieve the Biometric device
in Salzburg, Austria. Sloane gives Dixon the task of locating
Korjev but Jack volunteers to do it himself.
Weiss suggests that Vaughn is mistaken in believing that his
father, Bill Vaughn, is still alive. Vaughn swears it was his
father's handwriting in the diary. Weiss hands Vaughn a paper
with the name Frank Murdoch, an ex-Special Forces man in San
Diego whose shop is mentioned in Bill's journal.
Jack later admits
to Sloane that the CIA wants Korjev assassinated and he can
get closer to him than Dixon can. Jack adds Korjev
should've been eliminated years ago, when he "had the chance."
In an Austrian club, Sydney befriends Sam, an American busboy,
and uses his I.D. to get into the basement. She finds a status
report revealing that the Biometric device has been moved and
is scheduled to leave the country in the morning. The report
also states that the device had been installed on a weapon.
A guard shoots at Sydney. She decks him and overhears on his
walkie-talkie that the weapon is stored at the Delongpre shipping
yard - and that the guards are now after Sam. After Marshall
confirms that Sam is a civilian, Syd escapes with him. She leaves
him with her Austrian contact so he can be put in a protection
program.
In San Diego, Vaughn visits Frank, who shows a photo taken with
Bill in 1982. He says that Bill was ruthless enough to shoot
him in the back, then smoke a cigarette over his bloody body
before walking away. Vaughn later lies to Weiss, saying he never
found Frank.
Sydney's contact in Salzburg arrives with a stranger to pick
up Sam, and she senses something's not quite right. Realizing
his betrayal, she pounds them senseless and reluctantly explains
her mission to Sam including. She asks for his help to get to
the shipping yard.
In Angola, Jack meets Korjev, who wistfully remembers Jack as
a mentor. Later, Korjev speaks of Jack's betrayal. Jack says
he was the one betrayed and garrots him.
At the shipping yard, Syd discovers that the weapon has been
attached to an assault chopper. She tells Sam to wait in the
van. Syd defeats the guards in combat and attempts to retrieve
the weaponized mini-copter -- but the system activates and locks
on to her. As it fires, she runs through a maze of narrow aisles
and crates.
While Sam waits, he's wounded by a Korjev henchman. Syd tackles
the gunman but the chopper locks on to her again. Sydney quickly
uses the gunman as a human shield. The chopper, hovering closer,
senses the corpse and, believing its mission is accomplished,
settles on the landing pad.
Sydney arrives in the APO office in time to see Jack preparing
to leave. As Jack mentions that he is planning to have dinner
before heading home, Sydney asks if she could join him and they
leave together.