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Not sure if you've heard who shows up on tonight's show, so why don't we immediately go to the second page and start the review, shall we?

[MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW]

That was a rather odd opening, eh? It's like nothing ever happened! Vaughn comes home with a bag of groceries, Syd is getting water for tea, and everything seems cool. Until we hear the creepy voices coming from the radio and then see the reality - Syd in a contraption, with electrodes on her temples, about to get an injection from "someone" who wants answers. Who is the person behind the mirror, the one who is disguising his voice? The plot thickens!

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Kelly kills an agent and gains access to a facility that is storing...Michael Vaughn's files! She steals the server with his files on it (aftering killing another agent), calls Dr. DeSantis (the older guy from the box who pretended to be Renees' long lost dad a few episodes ago) to tell him. He says their "benefactors" will be pleased.

Syd is three weeks away from giving birth, but she could give birth any day.

Marshall is looking through some files and finds out that Thomas Grace used to be married for three years. Not sure we're they are going with that little plot point, if anywhere.

Jack gives out this week's assignment: to find the missing Vaughn files (and files of other dead agents) and find out why Kelly and Prophet 5 wants them. Kelly and her cohorts listen to one of Vaughn's reports and finds out that Syd probably knows were "Horizon" is. They've been searching for it for 30 years. Hmmm...

We see how Syd was kidnapped. Renee tries to save her. She doesn't, but shoots DeSantis and the driver of the van.

Later, a clever scene: we see Syd and Vaughn on the plane, when Vaughn proposed to Syd, right before they jumped into Russia to destroy the giant red ball in the sky. This was a good scene. At first I thought, "oh, this is part of Michael Vartan returning, a flashback?" But it's not a flashback, it's a reenactment; at first it looks like it's going to go exactly as it did before, but then Syd tells Vaughn he has already proposed, she already knows about Prophet 5. Ha!

APO finds out that Syd has been kidnapped. Sloane calls his mysterious bosses and pleads for them to help him rescue her. But they refuse. 

Renee has DeSantis tied in a chair. Jack comes in and threatens to torture him. Or should I say "starts torturing him," cutting off vital body parts. ("The suit shouldn't scare you...what you scare you is that I'm a very concerned father.") Jack and Renee find out that they have something planned for Syd in 3 weeks...her due date! [Insert ominous music here]

The mysterious voice tells the man fiddling with Syd's mind that he wants Syd to draw him a map of SD-6. Syd flashes back to a time when she and Vaughn looked a map over. She looks at the map and tells doc and the mysterious voice the info they need. And then we see...[Major Spoiler Follows!]

HOLY CRAP! The mysterious voice isn't a man at all...it's Irina! Lena Olin is back! And she's working with Kelly?! Whaaaaa?

Um...gulp. Anyway, Jack and Renee find a nursery in a home in Hungary. Looks like it was set up for Syd's baby! Meanwhile, Syd stabs Kelly with a needle and escapes...but she's on a large ship in the middle of nowhere.

Good episode, even if I still find it odd that they brought Michael Vartan back for just a hallucination/memory plot? (I still refuse to believe Vaughn is dead - I think they're planning something big here - did you notice the doctor touching the cup in the hospital scene? How he told Syd that he has to drink the "water" slowly? Heh.). Some really clever scenes, some good mystery involving the baby and the bigger Alias picture, and it's just really good to see Vartan back in any capacity. Plus that out of the blue, jaw-dropping revelation at the end!

Now we have to wait 2 or 3 months for the next episode? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!