Alias season 2, episode 4
Original air date: October 20, 2002

Sydney's trapped under the ice in Siberia, until she sees one of Sark's dead operatives under the ice. She takes a breath off his scuba gear and uses his gun to shoot through the ice. Dixon then helps drag her out.

So, Sark has the music box, but it won't play. SD-6 has nothing, and the CIA has the tune. They're working on cracking it when SD-6 learns that Sark has captured Klaus Richter, another of Irina Derevko's agents who is the keeper of "the Bible." Sloane sends in agents to capture Richter for themselves, but Sark escapes. Jack interrogates Richter to find out where "the Bible" is located, but all Richter can tell him is that he's made a map to lead to "the Bible's" location.

The map is located inside FABSI headquarters in Moscow in the technical library, hidden inside a copy of War and Peace. Sydney gets instructions from her mother on the best way into the library, and her mission is to get the map for the CIA and give SD-6 a faked map. She retrieves the book, but Sark shows up just as she's about to grab it. He takes the book and offers Sydney a chance to come work for him. She declines, endangering her life, but trips an alarm by logging herself out of the library computer too quickly, which throws Sark off. He's captured by the guards who come pouring in, but he manages to take War and Peace with him.

The map has fallen out of the book, though, and Sydney's picked it up. She hides in an office on the 7th floor and calls Vaughn for help, because she's trapped. He goes to Derevko and enlists her help to get Sydney out of the building. Derevko tells him about a secret passageway in the office Sydney's hiding in, and Sydney's able to escape with the map.

Jack's increasingly disturbed by Sydney's relationship with her mother, however. Her next mission is to recover "the Bible" from a house in Madagascar. Sydney and Vaughn are outside the house when Jack interrupts their CIA feed: he warns them that the house is booby-trapped to explode if anyone enters it. He should know - he enlisted a friend who owed him a favor to wire the explosives, hoping to discredit Derevko. Sydney and Vaughn conclude that Derevko arranged to have the house wired to explode, so that "the Bible" and they would be destroyed. Assistant Director Kendall is also taken in by Jack's deception and orders Derevko moved to a military facility. Sydney's crushed by her mother's apparent betrayal and falls into Jack's arms, weeping and begging his forgiveness for her naivete.

Meanwhile, Sloane's asked Jack to look into the phone call he received from the B&B in Sonoma. Jack sends Dixon to Sonoma to find out who placed the call, but the hotel's not able to pinpoint which room made the call. They did give him a copy of the registry of guests, though, and as Sloane looks through the list of guests who were there that day a familiar name leaps out at him: Emily Sloane.

Will's finishing up his community service and attending mandatory AA meetings. A girl at one of the meetings approaches him and says that she doesn't believe he was a drug addict. She says she believes all the stuff he wrote about SD-6 and presses him to help her prove it. She's a conspiracy theorist, and she tells Will she thinks that SD-6 concocted the whole drug rap to discredit him, ruin his career, and shut him up. She begs him to help her prove his original SD-6 stories were true. He wavers for a second, but tells her that when Sydney's fiance died, he wanted to prove that there was some big cover-up, but the more he searched, the less he found. He tells her it became more important to him to find something to reassure Sydney than to admit the truth - there was no SD-6, and he made it all up. Turns out the girl was an SD-6 operative working for Sloane who had been ordered to test Will to see how much of a threat he is. She reports back to Sloane that she classifies him a "non-threat."