Illusion of Words

Episode 4: Mockingbird

Syd’s in a casino, cheating with some manipulated dice. Dixon is also acting, and he points out his suspicion, which leads to Syd’s being ‘arrested’ by the casino manager. That was the break they needed, while Tom was fiddling with some codes somewhere in a garage. Syd shoots down the casino people in the room, and rush off to get some package using the codes.

As Syd drives towards home, at the dock she gets stopped by a guard, then the next moment, the whole car is lifted into the sky with a magnet crane thingy. Somebody asks for Mockingbird.

Then it’s 72 hours earlier.

At APO as usual, where everything is so bright and white… they are still trying to get Dean. Rachel is being sniffy and sort-of-weepy, recovering from the ‘truth shock’. Syd learns that Rachel’s codename is Mockingbird. (Alias people are avid bird-lovers, always using bird names as codenames).

Dean transfers some money from his account, which is just what Marshall needed to track them down, so Dixon and Tom go to some beach ‘on behalf’ of Dean for the money transfer. Unfortunately, security questions would be asked, so Syd had to drag Rachel back to Prague, into the remains of the former ‘Shed’.

Of course Rachel is all ‘I-can’t-do-this-cuz-I-keep-seeing-them-people’. And Syd is all ‘act-normal-just-like-me-cuz-I-do-it-everyday’. That made Rachel quite paranoid then, but they managed to get the hard drive.

Somewhere else, Dixon and Tom get asked questions by a lady. Rachel types in the questions and Syd gives them the answers through comms. Until the data gets corrupted, which is not good. Dixon and Tom buy time in an exciting moment, but Rachel remembers the correct answer and gives it just in the nick of time.

So Marshall gets some video thingy, where they find out that Dean’s archives are stored someplace, which is the casino Syd went to in the beginning. The previously watched scenes are hurried through, this time with the missing link - Rachel Gibson, who was the one who cracked the codes and gave Tom the codes and yeah, you get the point.

Rachel is in Syd’s cartrunk when the whole car was hoisted couple hundred feet into the air. Dean does not know Rachel is in the trunk, though. Dixon and Tom try to get the crane down, but Dean is controlling it from somewhere else. He releases them couple feet, like a theme park ride, as a warning.

So Dean thinks that Rachel’s in CIA custody. He wants Rachel to call, so Rachel calls, acting all scared. Unfortunately, some dumb ship chose that moment to make the sound which ships make at docks.

Dean, realizing that he’s been duped and Rachel’s in the car, screams, “RELEASE!” While Syd and Rachel manage to get out through the roof in time and hang there using some metal thingy.

All the while, sandwiched between these scenes, are the not-so-action scenes of Sloane’s ruling thing. The guy is against Sloane getting a pardon, so hopes seem really dim, until somebody under Dean comes and gives him a deal.

So at the ruling, the obviously corrupt guy says that he’s in favor. Which stuns Jack, and everyone else (except Syd and friends, who did not watch). As Sloane walks out alone, he passes the guy who gave him the deal. And the words ‘ALIAS’ come out.

Rating: 7/10

Alias might have sucked somewhat in the previous two eppys, but it’s picking up. Go, go, go!

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