(S05E15) It's funny that after five years of elaborate disguises, wearing tight dresses and bright red wigs and bright blue wigs and faking Eastern European accents, the biggest and most difficult disguise that Sydney Bristow has had to don is ... herself. Or, more accurately, Syd pretending to be Anna Espinosa pretending to be Syd. Kudos to Jennifer Garner for giving a good performance as Anna. She could have just played herself (since she was herself), but she plays it just differently enough to make you believe it's Anna underneath.I love how Abrams and company are just going full steam ahead with Rambaldi. It's a lot like the earlier episodes. They really want to explain everything and end this the right way.
Syd/Anna has to join forces with Sark to obtain The Rose, which is in a prison in Rome. Vaughn and Dixon back up Syd/Anna (nice scene between Vaughn and Dixon, where Dixon gives her a picture of Isabelle). What is the Rose, besides a Bette Midler movie from the 70s? No one is sure. But Sark has an idea on how to get into the prison: blow up an OTB place and get arrested. Breaking the law on purpose to get arrested so they can find something inside? I think I saw that on an old Three Stooges short. I mean, what if there was more than one prison in the area and they went there instead?
Sark fakes an attack in jail and beats up some guards so he can control the locks in the jail to get Syd/Anna to out of solitary so she can find The Rose. Sydney finds it, only it's not an "it" it's a "him," a guy who looks like Colonal Sanders after a day at the spa, all nice and groomed. He has a rose tattooed on his arm, and gives Syd/Anna something. She doesn't understand, and he tells her that if she doesn't understand, she'll never stop the Rambaldi prophecy.
I like how, even though Sloane is evil and obsessed, he still cares for Sydney. When he finds out that "Anna" killed "Sydney," he says that she deserved better, and attempts to choke Anna (Sydney). Marshall makes the alarms go off in the prison to distract Sloane (amazing what Marshall can control from thousands of miles away and how quickly - change traffic lights, access computers in prisons). Sloane takes the final piece of the Rambaldi puzzle and escapes. Vaughn saves Syd from a guard and goes to meet his daughter.
Sloane calls Syd when he realizes it was her who he was choking. He calls her a survivor, and thanks her for giving him everything he needs to fulfill Rambaldi's prophecy.
By the way, the B plot in all this, and by B I mean BORING, has Rachel finding out that Thomas lied. She confronts him and Thomas tells her the whole story. They spend the episode trying to find a car of all things, and hotwire it to give to Korman, the guy who killed his wife. She was killed by mistake. It was supposed to be Thomas killed. Korman gets into the car and tells Thomas not to follow him, but Thomas planted a bomb in the car. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I wonder where the writers were going with this story. Was it supposed to connect to Prophet 5, or be a new standalone story if the show was picked up for a sixth season?
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5-17-2006 @ 9:46PM
Susan said...
The last scene (before Sloane called, of course) was ADORABLE.
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5-17-2006 @ 10:10PM
Stephen said...
Why did ABC put the Alias finale against the finale of 24?
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5-17-2006 @ 10:10PM
Libby said...
I LOVED this episode!!!! I'm so sad that Alias is ending next week, but I'm so excited to see how it ends! I loved the last scene where Vaughn finally meets his daughter. (My favorite part was where Vaughn commented on Isabelle's snoring.)
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5-17-2006 @ 10:35PM
Mayorjimmy said...
it's a shame no one will be watching the first hour of this show's finale. i mean come on, watch first hour of this or the LAST hour of 24? it isn't even an option.
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5-17-2006 @ 11:12PM
Ben said...
Mayorjimmy: 24 is a 2-hour episode next week too. People will watch both hours of 24 and no hours of Alias. I don't understand why ABC moved the finale to Monday against one of the most popular dramas on TV.
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5-17-2006 @ 11:36PM
JB said...
Just FYI, 24 Finale starts at 8. So I agree with Jimmy, no one will watch the first hour of the Alias finale. But I'll still buy both series on DVD.
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5-17-2006 @ 11:59PM
Ryan said...
Because they wanted to put Lost against American Idol. Plain and simple.
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5-18-2006 @ 12:09AM
MM said...
What, no one has a TiVo or VCR anymore? Like there's ONE Alias fan who wouldn't MAKE SURE they got a copy of this one. Oh, and ABC.com shows the episodes free online anyway, so...
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5-18-2006 @ 1:13AM
Sandra Stephens said...
Come onLike the last person said tivo. And just for everyone' knowledge never did watch 24, so even if I did Alias, the last episode would be watched. It is my favorite. I don't get what the appeal is for 24, but life would be boring if everyone had the same opinion.
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5-18-2006 @ 1:28AM
Josh said...
Alias was put on Monday because ABC doesn't care. What does ABC care if it loses in the ratings? It's the series finale of a show drawing six million viewers and change. No big bucks to be made. Ratings are not important to Alias, and ABC knows the loyal Alias fans will tune in somehow. That's all that matters.
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5-18-2006 @ 8:35AM
Tim in Augusta said...
And... if people miss the finale, that's even better for ABC because we'll just go out and buy the DVD, right? (yes, online viewing is an option, but not an ideal one, imo)
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5-18-2006 @ 10:24AM
Adrian said...
It's the second time we see an immortal and then this one says "this is the end of nature" my guess it's leading us to what i always thought the main secret was, the immortality.
For me , Sloane always knew what the goal was, he never doubted and I bet he met some other immortals previously and thats why his faith is so strong. Maybe David Carradine was an immortal too. We don't really know if those guys were old when they were transformed or it just slows down the aging of the body. I hope he returns for the finale, it'd be funny see him playing the pan flute eh?
Btw. Sark is the best evil guy in the series ever!!! such a great accent for his character , so good comments and funny while being the worst man on earth (after Sloane).
And that b-plot, yeah for a moment i didn't know if it was leading us somewhere with the Cardinal that i considered would be related to prophet 5 but when we saw the ending it just seemed totally useless.
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5-18-2006 @ 12:09PM
Exmarine said...
I think the right ending would be for Vaughn and Sydney get together and live in Dad's Villa forever more while Sark and Sloane get zapped by Rambaldi and sent to hell for eternity!
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5-18-2006 @ 12:25PM
sid said...
The only way Tom and Rachel's side plot can tie in is if the Cardinal is jack or sloane......
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5-18-2006 @ 1:16PM
Liza said...
i for one will be watching ALIAS, i don't watch 24. i love ALIAS, and i only stopped watching when they killed Vaughn. i think it's convenient they brought him back, put them together again, but that moment of them together with the baby was sweet.
I wonder if Sydney thought, awww Sloane really cares for me!
also, that man's makeup in the jail was so over the top, i was totally distracted. it was horrible.
also the story line with Rachel and Thomas was a big snooze. i read my book during those parts.
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