“Unveiled”

Alias season 3, episode 18
Original air date: April 11, 2004

Sloane admits that he put something powerful into the box that the Covenant now has, and that now that Bomani and Sark have the keys, they'll be able to open the box and use El Dire. This is the machine that Sloane used to learn of Rambaldi's message of Peace earlier. El Dire will tell them something else, though, this time about the Passenger. Sloane wants to trade all of this information for a stay of execution, but Dixon refuses. Sloane then agrees to talk to Jack about the Passenger.

Sydney admits to Weiss that she still thinks that Lauren is the mole, but she has no proof. She gets her proof, at least in her own mind, when she and Vaughn go to Berlin to meet with a hacker. The hacker has launched a cyber-attack on universities and hospitals that is downloading data and sending it to the Covenant. The CIA needs to learn what the Covenant is looking for and why. When Vaughn and Sydney meet with the hacker in a club in Berlin, he's shot by someone that Sydney is convinced is Lauren in disguise. Sydney tries to pursue her, but she disappears. Vaughn doesn't believe Sydney when she tells him this.

The hacker gave Vaughn the disk with his files before he died. Lauren has to attempt to corrupt the files before they get back to the CIA, or else Marshall will be able to stop the virus and defeat the Covenant. Lauren is able to wipe the disk out with a magnetic field in her ring while they're still at the safehouse in Berlin. Jack also tries to talk to Vaughn about the possibility that Lauren is the mole, but Vaughn refuses to listen to him as well.

Marshall Bomani questions Lauren's effectiveness and urges Sark to take her out. Lauren, in the meantime, has gone into Marshall's computer to download what he's learned from the hacker's corrupted data: the Covenant is cross-referencing genetic data, and they've found 10 matches. Marshall and Sydney brief Dixon that they're looking for a woman who uses multiple identities. When Lauren meets with Sark to deliver the data about the identities, though, she becomes suspicious of him, and she runs. She doesn't realize that Vaughn has been following her, since some of what Jack said about her has begun to ring true. Vaughn doesn't see anything suspicious, but he asks Weiss to tap her phone. When Lauren arrives to meet Vaughn for lunch, she chalks her aberrant behavior up to an upsetting conversation with her mother. Vaughn seems to accept that as the phone call he overheard, since Sark didn't speak during the part he was listening to.

Through further analysis of the identity of the woman the Covenant is tracking, the CIA discovers that she was always treated by the same doctor in Milan. Sydney and Vaughn go to confront him, but unfortunately, the Covenant has also learned this, and Lauren has already killed him by the time they get there. She narrowly escapes running into Vaughn and Sydney, though, who at least get a little bit of information from the doctor before he expires. He's shocked to see Sydney and recognizes her from the Prophecy. He swears that Sydney won't hurt "her," and he says that he's spent years trying to protect "her," but he doesn't give them a name. Vaughn has to kill him before he can shoot Sydney, since he has a gun.

Lauren meets Bomani to turn over all the information she's gathered, and she asks him if that removes any doubt he had about her usefulness. He says that it has, but he pulls out a gun to kill her anyway. Sark beats him to it, though, and kills Bomani before he can kill Lauren. Sark assures Lauren that he had come to get the data from her in person in L.A. because he wanted to warn her, not kill her.

When Sloane meets with Jack, he reveals that Senator Reed had recruited him to work for "The Trust," which was an organization within the government that was interested in Rambaldi artifacts. Sloane asks Jack to track down some evidence of the Trust to prove that Sloane wasn't violating his parole. Jack uses some contacts to verify Sloane's story, but unfortunately for Sloane, Jack also learns from Dixon — who has read Dr. Barnett's notes of her sessions with Sloane — that Sloane had an affair with Irina while Jack was married to her. Jack tells Sloane that he was unable to find any proof of the existence of the Trust and leaves him to be executed. However, Jack reveals to Sydney something that he did learn from Sloane: Sloane traced the origin of "Irina" when he saw it on the box and discovered that it has a Greek origin meaning "Peace." Jack believes that Irina may be the Passenger.

Finally, Vaughn begins searching his bedroom while Lauren is in the bathroom. He finds a suitcase containing a wig, just like the ones the cocktail waitresses in Berlin were wearing, and a gun.