As she passes
by a shipyard, she is stopped by a policeman and is boxed in
by another vehicle. Suddenly, a shipping crane with a large magnet
grabs her entire car and Syd is lifted hundreds of feet off the
ground. She gets
a phone call from Gordon Dean saying he wants Mockingbird back.
In the APO office 72 hours earlier, Rachel shares
her guilt with Sydney on getting her coworkers killed. When
Sydney urges
her to rest and points out that it is Gordon Dean's fault, Rachel
insisted on finishing her report on Dean. Syd then asks Rachel
what "Mockingbird" is as written in some of her reports,
and Rachel replies that it's her call sign.
At an industrial office, Gordon Dean tasks a man named Keach
with an assignment. After, Peyton approaches Dean and mentions
that they need money for an account transfer so they can rebuild
their offices. Dean types in his password.
Waiting in the APO office, Marshall announces that he has been
monitoring Dean's accounts based on Rachel's intel, and recently,
Dean had liquidated all his finances and stored them all in one
account. Rachel shares that the account is Dean's fail safe account
in Cayman Islands, and that since she built it, she had made
it a trap-door account. The only way to access it is to be at
the bank and go through Dean's protocol questions. The answers
are in Dean's servers in the Prague office -which has been destroyed.
Later, Syd asks Rachel to go with her to Prague. Using Marshall's
recovery software, they can reconstruct protocols and help Dixon
and Tom with getting into Dean's account before traces of Dean
disappear once again. Rachel adamantly refuses.
In a Federal Building, Sloane sits in front of Boyd Harkin,
Special Prosecutor to Sloane's case. Unsympathetic and determined
to punish Sloane, he lists Sloane's criminal activities, and
expresses his disbelief on the pardon agreements that Sloane
had gotten in the past. Sloane admits to his wrongdoings and
promises that he is reformed. Later, Sloane is approached in
his cell by Keach. Keach says that he has benefactors who can
help Sloane. He considers this offer.
With their Czech Intelligence Badges, Sydney and Rachel enter
Dean's Prague office and heads to the servers. In spite of Rachel's
anxiety and difficult flashbacks, they find the hard drive amidst
the debris and was able to plug it into the laptop. Rachel starts
hacking.
Dixon and Tom sit at a beach in Cayman Islands and were approached
by the bank's emissary, Pierpont, earlier than expected. After
Dixon alerts Sydney of the sudden change, they go into a cabana
where Dixon and Tom is seated. With the guards' pistols aimed
at Dixon and Tom, Pierpont starts asking them a series of questions.
As Dixon subtly relays the questions through his earpiece, Syd
and Rachel supply answers from Prague with the data they are
slowly recovering. Despite a setback, Dixon was able to withdraw
all of Dean's finances.
At this moment, Dean and Peyton realise that they have been
cleaned out. As they conclude that Rachel is the only person
who could have done this, they make plans to get her back.
At the APO office, Dixon reports that because of the recent
events, Echelon was able to intercept a call revealing a location
where Dean stores one of his operation archives. With the blueprints
in front of them, they realise that they need to retrieve the
archive from an electromagnetic deposit box system. When Dixon
mentions that the mainframe resets passwords daily, Rachel blurts
out that she can get around it by decrypting the building's network.
With determination to destroy Gordon Dean, she volunteers for
this next assignment.
At Monte Carlo, after Sydney heads to the casino and Tom brings
the car to the basement, he pops the trunk and Rachel goes with
him to the maintenance station. Rachel decrypts the algorithm
and passes the code to Tom who relayed it to Sydney. She goes
back in the trunk and Sydney drives off.
With her entire car hanging from the crane, Syd speaks to Dean
on the phone who is demanding that Mockingbird be delivered in
30 minutes. As Dixon attempts to rescue them, a camera captures
their presence and the car plummets 20 feet. Talking Rachel through
this predicament, Syd asks Rachel to call Dean to confirm that
she is on her way. As Dean listens, he hears a foghorn in the
background, revealing Rachel's actual location. In a flash, Syd
tells Rachel to kick the trunk, and grabbing Rachel by her arm,
Syd uses her laser cutter to attach herself to the magnet -a
split second before the car crashes to the ground.
At the hearing, Sloane stands in front of Harkin, awaiting his
sentence. Sloane surprisingly gets pardoned and is released from
the federal penitentiary. Jack looks at him suspiciously.
On the plane ride home, Sydney tells Rachel that they can't
release her until Dean is brought in -and everyone involved.
Rachel sits back and realises that her life is never going to
be safe. Meanwhile, Sloane steps out of prison and walks into
the light.