Sloane meets with the Prophet Five leaders in Minsk. In return for Nadia's full recovery, they force him to make Sydney go on a mission. He agrees on the condition that Sydney will not be hurt.

Peyton, who survived Jack's assault in Vancouver, springs Anna Espinosa in return for Anna's help. Later, Anna poses as a witness protection agent to gain entry into Will Tippin's home and tasers him.

At APO, Sloane and Jack show Sydney a video surveillance clip of Will's abduction, and mention that Anna had internal assistance from Prophet Five.

 

Although Sloane "urges" her to stay on leave, she's determined to save Will.

In a hidden location, Peyton's accomplice Burris injects a bomb into Will's neck. Meanwhile, Sloane tells Sydney that Echelon has intercepted a call between Yerik Semanko and Anna regarding an exchange at a Moscow club run by the Russian mafia. Sydney leaves her baby with babysitting agents.

In Moscow, Dixon, Rachel and Tom enter the club with Marshall's help. Sydney accesses the club through the roof. Once in the club, the team dons eyeglasses that broadcast x-ray images to Marshall, enabling him to spot guns and money. Later, Rachel flirts with Semanko while Sydney skilfully plants a bug on his collar. As he goes into the VIP room and meets Anna, the APO team overhears that Will is in Room 147.

Syd heads toward Will and confronts Anna. Peyton watches the fight through video surveillance. Anna knifes Syd's arm - and the camera scans Syd, capturing data. Will helps Syd chase off Anna.

In the APO office, Sydney tells Jack that she hated telling Will that Vaughn was dead. Jack reminds her that Vaughn's safety depends on hiding him. When Will visits Syd, an alarm notifies the babysitters. Later, they discover the bomb in Will's head. Suddenly, Syd gets a call from Anna.

Anna asks Syd to hand her Page 47 of the Rambaldi manuscript in exchange for the bomb's deactivation. When Syd notes that handing over the page will not guarantee Will's safety, Marshall suggests that he can build a device that can track the bomb frequency and reverse engineer the activation. The only catch is Will has to be close to the detonator.

On a train In Lisbon, Will asks Sydney to be the best man at his wedding. They then tap into the train's security system and find Anna. To bring Will close to the detonator, Syd meets with Anna for the trade. Syd gives her Page 47, but Anna begins the countdown and Will's head beeps. Syd steals the detonator and stops the countdown. Anna escapes and locks Syd in the car. Suddenly, Syd is showered with red liquid. Anna calls Peyton and confirms that Sydney's DNA is being collected.

Will knocks out Anna and frees Syd. Anna recovers, activates another detonator and throws it off the train and into a lake. Syd and Will dive into the lake. Syd finds the detonator in time to deactivate it and once again save Will's life.

Sloane meets with Peyton and she assures him that Sydney wasn't hurt in any of their experiments. In exchange, she hands Sloane a chemical compound that could save Nadia. Meanwhile, Will and Sydney walk through a park where Syd apologises for the chaos she's brought him. Will assures her that it is not her fault that evil people that exist, and that he sleeps better knowing that there is only one Sydney who can keep the world safe.

In Moscow, Anna enters a tank filled with red liquid. She emerges with Sydney's face.

 

 
Written By: Drew Goddard.
Directed By: Robert M. Williams Jr.
Guest Starring: Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin, Gina Torres as Anna Espinosa, Angus Macfadyen as Joseph Ehrmann, Shaun Duke as First Man, Robert Symonds as Second Man, Leland Crooke as Third Man, Roman Varshavsky as Well-Tailored Russian, Michael Massee as Dr Burris, Sterling K. Brown as Agent Rance, Anderson Goncalves as train attendant and Matthew Gottlieb as Military Warden.
Additional Notes:

The photo of Thomas Grace which was used in the episode is actually a promotional shot of actor Balthazar Getty for his addition to the Alias cast.
This episode marks Drew Goddard's fourth written episode and also
Robert M. Williams Jr's first directed episode of Alias.
It is revealed in this episode that both Sydney and Jack know Vaughn is alive and in hiding.

US Air Date: April 26th, 2006 on ABC.
UK Air Date: Not yet shown - to be shown on Bravo.
47 References:

1: Room 147.
2: Page 47 resurfaces.

Location Ciphers: Minsk, Moscow and Lisbon.
Source Material:

> "There Is Only One Sydney Bristow" Surveillance

> "There Is Only One Sydney Bristow" Deciphered: An Original Review

> Season 5 Mission Log

> Discuss This Mission On Echelon

 

"Rapture Riders" – The Doors & Blondie
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"Faster Kill Pussycat" – Paul Oakenfold
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"Salty Moron" – Soul of Man
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A bit of a drop from last week's double instalment of the series, "There Is Only One Sydney Bristow" managed to snag a Neilson rating of 4.3/7 in the United States. Alias did manage to beat UPN's America's Top Model and also One Tree Hill on The WB placing ABC fourth for the night. (What are Neilson ratings?).

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