Alias season 2, episode 6
Original air date: November 11, 2002

Sydney's mother's trial is about to start, and Vaughn tells Sydney that he'll have the trial coverage on closed-circuit TV for her. But, instead of opening arguments, the Senator running the hearing says that a plea agreement has been reached: Derevko has pled guilty to all 86 counts of espionage, and her death sentence will be carried out in three days. She violated her immunity agreement by putting Vaughn and Sydney danger in Madagascar.

Sydney's furious when she learns this, and she drafts a letter to Deputy Director Devlin, revealing that, in fact, her father set up the bomb in Madagascar, not Derevko. Jack intercepts the letter, though, and hands it back to Sydney during their SD-6 mission. The mission is to infiltrate a hospital in Geneva that's a front for Sark/Derevko's experimentation with biological weapons. They pose as a father receiving a kidney transplanted from his daughter and steal a blood sample from Patient 0 as well as download the data to disk. Both SD-6 and the CIA get a copy of each.

Will is getting really short on money, so he's put his car up for sale and asked Vaughn for a job. Vaughn replies, "This is going to drive you crazy, but we can't hire you because you have a criminal record." He agrees to hire Will off the books, though, to do some research for him: he's discovered that the questions from the KGB child experiment questionnaire are incredibly similar to standard US intelligence tests given to first-graders in the 80s. Will's research involves tracking down US intelligence tests to see if any of the KGB questions actually appeared or not, to prove whether the Soviets were recruiting sleeper agents from within the US.

After the CIA analyzes the blood samples, Sydney and Vaughn are put under quarantine and blood samples are taken from them. It seems that the Rambaldi device they destroyed in Taipei may have been a vehicle for distributing the bioweapon that Derevko was developing, and they both may have been exposed to the virus. They both come out clean, but Sydney asks what the first symptoms would be, the symptoms that would have meant they were infected. The answer is hemorrhaging from the fingernails.

Jack and Sloane are on their way downtown for a Commerce department meeting when Sloane is sure he sees Emily across the street. He follows her all the way into a church, but can't find a trace of her. He explains to Jack his fears that she may be alive, and reveals that if the Alliance finds out, they'll have to conclude that Sloane's been lying to them all along and that SD-6 is a rogue agency. Jack tells him there's one way to know for sure if Emily's really dead; Sloane proceeds to dig up her grave, and when he unearths the coffin, he finds it empty.

Sydney approaches Deputy Director Devlin in person to tell him about her father's betrayal. Devlin nods, because Jack turned himself in only an hour earlier. He then has his own Senate hearing, and he's sentenced to prison for betraying the agency and endangering agents. Sydney's frustrated that her efforts to reinstate her mother's immunity agreement have been thwarted, and that her father's going to jail, so she kidnaps the Senator responsible and lies to him, saying that another Senator is working with the Alliance. He agrees to release Jack from prison and reinstate Derevko's immunity agreement and have her transferred back into CIA custody.

Vaughn, in the last scene, is shaving when he notices blood seeping out from beneath his fingernails.