Tuesday
Sloane and Syd watch over the injured
Nadia, At an upscale nightclub in Havana, Cuba, Sydney invites a man to dance.
It's her informant, and he tells her that the Third Faction is planning a
large-scale attack on a civilian target. He also tells Sydney where a hard drive
containing more information could be found, which Dixon soon retrieves. They're
being watched, however.
As Syd travels to the airport, Vaughn, over the phone, promises her a slow
dance. Suddenly, attackers shoot Syd's driver and the car crashes.
Dixon arrives at APO with the hard drive. Since Marshall is late, another agent
is tasked with the decryption. When the drive is plugged in it sprays a toxin in
the office, causing Dixon to go into a seizure. He's given an antidote and the
office is locked down.
As Marshall arrives in the parking lot, he phones Sloane to tell him that the
firewall networks are still secure. Sloane asks Marshall to stay on the line as
they contact Sydney.
The ringing phone wakes Syd. To her horror, she realizes she's been buried alive,
the dead informant beside her. Jack advises her to stay calm -- but that help
won't be coming for the next 36 hours while the office is locked down. Marshall
volunteers to go to Cuba and track Sydney's cell phone with a Radio Frequency
locator.
While Dixon recuperates, Sloane tells the rest of the team that the Third
Faction has enough toxin to infect an entire city. Despite their predicament,
they must still discover the target city and prevent the Cyclosarin bomb from
detonating.
Marshall arrives in Havana and creates his makeshift RF Locator. Sydney takes a
photo of the dead informant and sends it through her phone to APO. Using the
picture, the team links the dead man to Ulrich Kottor, a significant figure in
the Third Faction, and the man who kidnapped Syd.
Syd's phone dies as Marshall arrives at the cemetery. Marshall realizes there
are too many fresh graves for him to search. He asks Vaughn to direct a
satellite over his position and change the view to thermal, figuring it will
pick up Syd's body heat.
Marshall digs frantically, finally opening the coffin and finding Sydney
unconscious. He performs CPR. After a few tense moments, she opens her eyes. An
exhausted Marshall drops to the ground.
In the office, Sloane reports that they have acquired information about Ulrich.
Since an attack is imminent, Sydney needs to get to Ulrich, find his hard drive
and upload the contents to APO so they can stop the detonation. Sydney responds
by saying that Ulrich knows her from Havana, and that they need to send someone
else in: Marshall.
Syd advises Marshall on the spy game. Marshall, assuming an intimidating pose as
Jack Bristow, walks inside Ulrich's private room and commands his attention. He
tells Ulrich that one of his men is betraying him. As his "cigarette
case" scans Ulrich's laptop, Vaughn reports from APO that they still can't
access the data, and that Marshall must go to the basement with Ulrich in order
to force him to shut down the network firewall. As Marshall tries to subtly
assemble the gun he brought, he accidentally shoots and kills Ulrich. He calls
Syd for help.
From the APO office, Jack instructs Marshall to dig out one of Ulrich's eyes.
Sydney arrives and, using the eye, they bypass the retinal scan in the basement
security system. Marshall then starts downloading from the hard drive and
transmits intel to APO while Syd covers him. Later, Sloane reports that the
Ministry of Security confirmed the seizure of the Cyclosarin bomb in downtown
Hong Kong.
Sydney drops Marshall off at his house and he invites her in for dinner. A
grateful Sydney refuses, saying that she needs to go the train station. At the
station, Vaughn arrives. They slow dance in the middle of the train station,
blissfully unaware of the bustling world around them.