In
the briefing room, Jack heads a meeting and lets Sloane speak.
By "using" Rachel
Gibson's debriefing, Sloane recommends that they find Janos Vak,
a Hungarian who specialises in weapon targeting software. Since Vak
is currently working on a software program that can intercept and
redirect missiles, and Dean has been trying to locate him in the
past, Sloane suggested that Vak can be used to bait Dean. Jack also
shows them a photo of an Algerian arms dealer who had a meeting with
Vak and who can give them a lead. Syd suggests that Renee Rienne
can help with penetrating the Algerian underworld.
After Renee infiltrates a warehouse in Marseilles and acquires intel
on Vak, Sydney presents this information to the team. She says that
Vak met with a Chinese official named General Liem Song, who is having
an engagement party at a Chinese Consulate in India. Dixon adds that
Song keeps an encrypted copy of his contacts in a safe in his room
and this should lead them to Vak.
With
Marshall and Rachel waiting in a van, Syd attends the engagement
party with Tom. Realising that General Song is not leaving his room,
Dixon creates a scene by proposing to the bride-to-be. With the busy
guards, Syd slips into General Song's room, tranq's him and starts
to bypass the safe.
When Marshall says that there is too much shield in the building,
Rachel volunteers to set a relay antenna near the garden to boost
the signal. After Rachel plants the relay device and Syd was able
to get the contents in General Song's safe, Rachel is caught by a
guard. With surging panic, she turns and runs away. Tom helps her
and knocks the guard out.
Sloane meets with Gordon Dean, who is furious that APO acquired
significant intel from the consulate. He demands that the decrypted
data be given to him later that day.
At
the APO office, Dixon tells Sydney that they have located Janos
Vak
at an oil platform facility in the middle of
the South China
Sea, and adds that Jack is sending Rachel to this mission. As Syd
expresses her opposition in this decision, Dixon adds that the government
has suspended all shore leave except for a "female companion" every
other weekend for Vak. Nervous and embarrassed from the last mission,
Rachel listens to Dixon and Sydney's advice and prepares for her
first mission alone.
Sloane meets with Dean and gives him details on the next mission.
Dean then meets with Peyton and assigns her to get the software herself
and advises her to kill Rachel if they cross paths.
Dressed
as a prostitute, Rachel arrives at the oil facility. A few minutes
after entering Vak's room, she drops her lipstick that was
supposed to be Vak's tranquiliser. With Syd's guidance, Rachel improvises
and seduces Vak. After tying him to the bed, Rachel downloads the
program from Vak's computer.
Peyton arrives at the facility and upon realising that the original
software had been destroyed, she runs after Rachel, who is making
her way to the heli-deck for extraction. She confronts Rachel who
in turn expressed her anger about Peyton's betrayal. When Peyton
urges her to hand the data over at gun point, Rachel starts rummaging
through her bag and finds the hair brush equipped with an ice pick
that Marshall built. She jams it into Peyton's shoulder and they
exchange blows. Just then, the Chinese guards start shooting at them.
Dixon arrives in time and picks Rachel up with the helicopter as
Peyton jumps to the sea.
In another meeting, Sloane refused to give Vak's software to Dean,
saying that Dean had tried to kill an APO agent. In response, Dean
pointed out that he decides how to run their operations. As Sloane
stood his ground, Dean mentions Nadia and uses her to convince Sloane.
Inside
her apartment, Sydney sits in a rocking chair that she bought from
a toy store, where, for a brief moment, she wistfully watched
a father take care of his child. She then plays an old mission tape
that Marshall handed to her before she left. With the sound of Vaughn's
voice playing, she holds the tape close to her belly.
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