ALIAS Love Story: Section Five

Curtis: Just tell us what we want to know. I'm tired of playing these games!
Michael: Quitter.


This one will be a work in progress since its still going on...obviously!

Prophet Five (5.01) - Seriously? Seriously? My name isn't Michael Vaughn? Seriously? I'll have to recap, not review...if I don't it'll go on for a year. Vaughn and Sydney survive the car crash and Vaughn is kidnapped by Prophet Five...which we don't really know anything about yet, other than its super bad. And he's suspected of working for them, but he's actually been investigating them with an assassin named Renee Riene, who's a huge badass by the way. Oh yeah, and his real name used to be Andre Michaux. Major problem with the fact that he looks like Shady McShadester now, but he didn't back when he was investigated by counterintelligence in season two. Then they kill him. Or we're supposed to think. I highly doubt it. Why? That's right, the now notorious "I Almost Died" series. I'm convinced this is not the first part in the new series sans the "almost", just the latest installment in the old one. What makes me thing that? Well, a number of things. First, I couldn't go on watching Alias under any other assumption, second, no one ever really dies on Alias, three, CLOSED CASKET (plus no tears ever from Sydney), and finally, he's back filming until the finale. Yeah, even all my reasons didn't have me totally convinced until that last one was confirmed, but who cares, he's alive....I think.

Important developments include Sydney's pregnancy, Nadia is still in a coma while Sloane is still in jail, and our first important info about Prophet Five...that they have an asset that was able to pose as a US government official. Not good.

Four months after Vaughn's funeral, Sydney tracks down Renee.

Renee: How did you find me?
Sydney: I know everything.
Renee: Then you should have walked away.

...1... (5.02) - Weiss leaves APO for a position in Washington, and Jack hires Thomas Grace to replace him. I'm not trying to get invested in a character who all of a sudden shows up out of nowhere and has no ties to anyone, same with Rachel. I just can't get into either one of those characters. They way they introduced Renee is different...she's obviously had history with Vaughn for years so I care about her. Sydney works with her for the first time, and the man who killed Vaughn dies.

Sydney: I mean, you're #8 on the CIA's Most Wanted List, I get it.
Renee: #8?
Sydney: Yes.
Renee: I'm slipping...I used to be #6.

The Shed (5.03) - Rachel Gibson, former employee of Prophet Five, joins APO because she was in the same situation as Sydney at SD-6. And we meet Kelly Peyton, superbitch.

Mockingbird (5.04) - Sloane is approached by a Prophet Five operative on the CIA inside with an offer to help Nadia and release from him prison in exchange for advancing Prophet Five agenda inside APO. He accepts. At this point the viewers, as well as Sloane are quite aware that Prophet Five has infiltrated government intelligence...APO does not know.

Solo (5.06) - I've already said this to some degree when I talked about The Two being difficult to watch, but Prophet Five wasn't especially painful for me...it was almost surreal to the point where I wouldn't accept Vaughn's death so, like Sydney, I was emotionless. The last scene of Solo, however, gutwrenching. When Sydney holds that mission tape to her belly and we hear Vaughn's voice from beyond the "grave"...I lost it.

Fait Accompli (5.07) - Sloane confesses his double agency to Jack and Sydney and they set a trap to catch Gordon Dean. Prophet Five awakens Nadia for a brief moment in order to draw Sloane in again, so Sloane kills Dean before APO can get any critical information out of him...even though I'm sure Sloane's not thrilled about the idea of working for someone else...you know he got a wee bit of pleasure out of killing the man who'd been barking orders at him for the past few months.

APO finally learns that Prophet Five is embedded in global government and intelligence networks...but they still don't know about the CIA infiltration. At this point, I'd like to say two things...1) that it's completely out of Jack's character not to put 2 and 2 together and realize that if their in other governments, they're probably in theirs, and that would be a logical explanation for while Sloane was suddenly pardoned. And 2) that this Prophet Five thing is way more interesting a set up than The Alliance ever was and I'm extremely disappointed that we only get a year to explore it.

Bob (5.08) - Mr. Julian Sark returns with his authentic, not nearly as sexy, American accent. He's a freelancer now, and he ends up doing APO a favor, so he's kind of good now.

The Horizon (5.09) - Michael! Michael! Michael! He's in a dream, but so damn sexy... I don't quite understand this episode yet...because now we know for sure he's really alive, thanks to the promos. Its really all dependent on if Sydney knows he's alive or not. I'm inclined to think she does, because she didn't cry in the hospital or at the funeral, but if she really does know, then she did a hell of a job pretending that he was dead. How did she have the wherewithall in that hypnotic state to pretend like she was suffering so much? And my whole theories since December about his pulse have hinged on this:
Sydney: I gave you this and then you crashed...Vaughn, I can't.
Michael: You said it yourself, their using me against you. The only way to defeat them, I need to go away.
Sydney: I don't care. I don't want to say goodbye to you again.
Michael: I know, I know, its okay. I need to go away. We'll find each other.
So that exchange is what convinced he was alive...mainly the 'I need to go away' part, but also Sydney said 'say goodbye', not lose or anything else...and that's sort of weird terminology.


Tom: My mother always said, 'if a man's worth shootin' once, he's worth shootin' twice.
Jack: I'm sorry I never met her...she sounds like my kinda woman.