There're Only Five More To Go.

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There's Only One Sydney Bristow



Sloane is brought, blindfolded, to Minsk to meet The Prophet 5 Consortium of Twelve, but I'll just call them The Twelve. Joseph leads Sloane to a door and tells him The Twelve are waiting inside for him. Sloane figures out that Joseph isn't allowed in the room. He's just an errand boy and Sloane takes the opportunity to lord it over him by handing Joseph his coat for safekeeping. The Twelve tell Sloane he needs to do one more task for them and they will give him the cure for Nadia. He needs to draw Sydney back to work. He makes them promise that Sydney will not be hurt.

Peyton visits Anna Espinosa in prison (Hi Anna!) and tells her they'll help Anna get out of prison if they help them do something. Anna'd rather kick Peyton's skinny ass. Until Peyton tells her that helping them will give her the opportunity to hurt Sydney Bristow.

Back at The Twelve's HQ, Sloane's not so sure he will be able to convince Sydney to return to work. They tell him not to worry, she will have an incentive to do so.

At Sydney's house, she's in the baby's room when she hears a loud crashing noise from another part of the house. She goes out to check and finds a flustered SpyDaddy in the kitchen picking up a bunch of knives from the floor. "I dropped these while putting them in a cupboard. Sydney, you can't leave sharp-edged weapons where a child can reach them, especially not a Bristow woman." Ha! Um, Dad, she's only 4 weeks old. Sydney asks whether there's been any new intel on her mother's location and Jack says no, and tells her that she should enjoy her maternity leave. If they need her, they'll let her know.

Well, they're gonna need her soon because Anna just came calling at Will's (Hi Will!) Witness Protection house. She pretends to be an FBI agent and tells Will that Sydney's in trouble. Will lets her in. Bad idea Will.

Sydney has to cut her maternity leave short when she finds out that Will's been kidnapped and SpyDaddy has hired some babysitters for her: two agents trained in infant care, complete with a briefcase full of baby supplies. Agent Rance hilariously tells her that they want to start off by babyproofing the house with cameras, listening devices and explosives sensors - you know, the usual stuff. By the way, her name is Isabelle and she's cute as a button.

The doctor with the pointy electrical stick from the container ship is back and this time he injects something into the base of Will's skull.

The gang at APO intercepts a communication between Anna and some Russian guy - she's going to hand over Will for some cash. In Russia somewhere. So they all head to Moscow for a classic Alias mission in a nightclub. Sydney finds Will in a room, tied to a chair, in a scene I found reminiscent of one of the best scenes this show has had, from the season 1 episode "Rendezvous".



Remember, it was when Will first found out that she was a spy? Sydney walked into a room where Will was tied to a chair, kicked the crap out of the guy guarding him and scared the hell out of Will. All while wearing a red wig. This time Sydney has to fight Anna. Anna pulls a knife and cuts her. There must have been some kind of nanobots or something on the knife that got into her blood because next we see Dr. Pointy Stick watching a computer screen as biological data is being uploaded from Sydney's body. Her mission accomplished, Anna breaks a window and escapes.

On the flight back home, Sydney and Will catch up on old times. They have such great chemistry. Will tells Syd that he is going to be married soon and Syd tells him that she has a baby girl with Vaughn and she has to lie to him and tell him that Vaughn is dead. Back at Sydney's house, Will and Syd are cooing over the baby when Agent Rance's explosives sensors go berserk and the source is somehow Will. Will is examined by an APO doctor and they discover he has a bomb in his head! They can't remove it and in order to defuse it they need to get close to the detonator. Guess who has the detonator?

Anna has called and informed them that she'll give them the detonator in exchange for Rambaldi's Page 47 (the one with the prophecy about Sydney). There's a great little throwback of a scene with Sloane conducting a review of Rambaldi in the conference room. Ah, the good old days. After hearing everything, including the prophecy about Sydney bringing "utter destruction upon the greatest power in the world", Rachel hilariously asks, "And you guys believe this stuff?" They decide it's worth giving Anna the artifact to save Will's life.

Cut to a train speeding through the Lisbon countryside. Syd and Will are undercover as a French couple. Syd meets Anna in the dining car and her watch is some kind of gizmo that links to the detonator and starts downloading the codes necessary to defuse Will's head bomb. Anna and Syd head to another car for some privacy and Syd hands over the case with Page 47. But Anna doesn't want to hand over the detonator. She starts to leave and Syd jumps her. They fight and Anna hits the detonator and Will sees a counter pop up on his computer screen - he's got about 40 seconds before his head blows up. As Sydney and Anna fight, Will freaks, holding his head and yelling, "My head is beeping!" Sydney pushes the stop button just as it reaches 2 seconds, but Anna grabs the briefcase, exits the car and closes and locks the door. She pushes a button and a red liquid chemical begins to spray from the fire sprinklers, soaking and overcoming Sydney. Somehow, this liquid is absorbing Sydney's DNA and as it's collected in a tank under the train car it is downloaded to a computer back at Dr. Pointy Stick's office.

Will is able to get in to Sydney and open the side door for some air, but Anna's back and she's picked up the detonator. She pushes the button and chucks it out the door. Will's head starts beeping again! Sydney grabs Will and they both jump out of the train car and off of a very high bridge into a river, where Sydney finds the detonator and stops it just in time. Completely off the scale impossible but I don't care - I'm just glad Will's head didn't explode.

Will and Sydney are taking Isabelle for a walk in a very nice scene where he tells her that she is not responsible for the bad things that happen to the people in her life. He tells her that he and everyone else who loves her is thankful every day because they know that's she's out there fighting the bad guys and making the world a safer place. Aw. He tells her, "There's only one Sydney Bristow."

Not so fast, Will. It seems that Prophet 5 and Dr. Pointy Stick are putting all that DNA they stole to good use by genetically altering Anna Espinosa, turning her into a Sydney Bristow clone.

Who else thinks that now we can have the Rambaldi prophecy come true and protect Sydney at the same time? Nadia will be cured and she will fight and kill Anna-as-Syd? Works for me.

There's another new episode next Wednesday at 8:00!