The Descent
A tactical group infiltrates the DSR and
steals the Rambaldi artifacts. Meanwhile, Sophia says goodbye to Nadia and
Sydney, telling them that the Lisbon police confirmed that it is safe for her to
go back home.
In the APO office, Vaughn plans to propose to Sydney and asks for Jack's
blessing. As Jack begins to express his disapproval, a team of CIA agents arrive
in the office with a search warrant.
Director Chase looks for Nadia in Syd's apartment. When Nadia confirms that she
is the only one who has access to her laptop, Chase accuses her of overwriting
the DSR security system by deactivating the alarms. Just then, an agent finds
the bugged necklace that Sophia gave to Nadia.
Jack and Sloane arrive at the apartment. They then realize that Sophia must be
the reason why several missions have been compromised. Jack postulates that
Sophia is Elena Derevko, who unfortunately, had found them first. He points out
that the string of orchestrated events -- Bill Vaughn's journal and Sloane's
clone -- were her handiwork. Sloane adds that they can't let her assemble the
Rambaldi artifacts. Later, Sloane tells Nadia that Elena will go to Lazlo Drake
with the Rambaldi pieces.
Nadia flashes back to a year earlier in China, where she and Sloane met Drake.
Sloane explains that Drake discovered a manuscript - a template describing how
Rambaldi's artifacts should be assembled, bringing forth the final prophecy.
Drake is taken with Nadia, but he refuses to share information since Sloane is
still missing one artifact: the Sphere of Life. He says that Nadia is the only
one who can retrieve the Sphere.
They then go to an underground cave in Sienna, where Sloane asks Nadia to obtain
the Sphere in a box perched on a podium that is surrounded by stained glass
floors. Nadia carefully walks on the creaking glass and opens the box. As she
touches the Sphere, she sees a vision of destruction and refuses to bring the
Sphere to her father. Sloane calls her a coward and attempts to walk across the
glass floor by himself. The floor shatters and he falls through, impaling him.
Nadia nurses him back to health.
In the present, Sloane tells the team about Drake and adds that in Elena's hands,
Rambaldi's endgame is apocalypse. They attempt to locate Drake, who has been in
hiding with the aid of Grayson Wells - a billionaire who financed Drake's
earlier Rambaldi research. Sloane tasks the team to approach Wells, and says he
will talk to Drake himself.
At Cannes, Sydney poses as a spoiled heiress in a jewelry store and brushes past
Wells. She pretends to purchase a bracelet and charms Wells into putting it on
her wrist. As Wells sees a Rambaldi mark on Sydney's hand similar to his, he
offers to buy the bracelet for her. Later, Wells now tied to a chair, Sydney
phones Sloane with the location.
Syd meets Sloane in Mexico. When she expresses her suspicions, Sloane tells her
that he would never do anything to hurt Nadia. They approach a trailer; Drake
lies dead inside. Syd finds a surveillance video recorded from a hidden camera,
revealing Elena chatting with Drake. Before Sydney can listen to their
conversation, Sloane stabs her with a tranquilizer and heads out to Elena's
office.
Jack arrives in Katya's jail cell and demands to know Elena's operations. In
response, Katya asks for a full pardon and immediate release. When Jack says he'll
do everything he can, Katya reveals that Elena has been acquiring artifacts for
several years through her front -- The Covenant. Katya says she can help him
find her, but it is only Irina who can stop Elena from acting on her end game.
Jack, if you recall, murdered Irina.
Finding out that Elena is in an industrial facility in Prague, Syd, Nadia and
Dixon prepare to infiltrate. Dixon arrives at a loading dock and watches the
guards put a prisoner in the van. Sloane emerges from the shadows and points a
gun at Dixon. He asks for Dixon's trust and tells him to get out of there.
Suddenly, Dixon is shot from behind by Elena and Sloane looks at Dixon
regretfully before leaving.
At the hospital, Syd and Jack observe as Director Chase cares for Dixon. Jack
admits that he lost sight of the one thing he knew to be true -- that Sydney's
mother, Irina, would never hurt Sydney.
Jack crosses paths with Vaughn in an elevator. He says that if Vaughn honestly
believes that he can make Sydney happy, then Vaughn has his blessing.
Dixon regains consciousness and talks to Nadia and Sydney. He tells them that he
saw a shackled prisoner at the loading dock: Irina Derevko.