Setting: A "First Aid" trailer on campus, meeting place of Vaughn and Sydney.
Sydney: That was three years ago when I met him for the first time. Leonard Dreyfus. He helps bankroll SD-6 operations. This guy is very hands on, not just in his business, he is a real slime. He runs a division in Geneva. He'll get anything, anywhere and fast. Sloane relies on him. He's a big target.
Vaughn: OK good. Listen.
Sydney: Also, there's a crew just outside Memphis. They provide firearms, custom stuff, graphite, titanium, plastics.
Vaughn: Memphis?
Sydney: Memphis, Egypt. I know I just started working with you guys at the CIA but listen to me. If we're gonna bring down SD-6, we have to eliminate their source of arms, Anini Hassan. That was six months ago. I have friends from the Middle East. Hassan's not one of them.
Vaughn: I don't blame you. Listen.
Sydney: There's more. We need to go after a geneticist in Kuala Lumpur. He's involved in...
Vaughn: OK stop. You have to listen to me, OK?
Sydney: You said you wanted to talk about the plan. I'm giving you the plan.
Vaughn: It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the plan. Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6. Now nothing should change. When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag. [Takes out a bag] Bag. Then you'll call this number. Memorize it. After three tones, press the appropriate digit, one through six. Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location. Now we'll review your information, create a countermission, and we'll contact you posing as a wrong number: Joey's Pizza. Any questions so far?
Sydney: Yeah, can you show me what a bag looks like again? Now, you listen to me Mr. Vaughn. I appreciate what your job is here, even though I think you're a little young to be doing it, to establish a protocol between the CIA and their latest double agent. But I am not sitting here to pick up the ins and outs of Langly procedure. I am sitting here for one reason only and that is to destroy SD-6.
Vaughn: Hey!
Sydney: After which I'm out. I want no more of this spy crap, that's why I went to you in the first place. So listen to me and I will hand you in record time the people who will render SD-6 useless.
Vaughn: Record time?
Sydney: Two months, tops, and then I'm out. I walk.
Vaughn: Draw me a map. Draw me a map of SD-6 and all its allies. How far do you think it reaches?
Sydney: Do I look like I'm in Junior High?
Vaughn: Just draw me a SD-6 family tree! How far you think it goes. Just do it!
Sydney: I don't know what your problem is with me. Maybe it's that I'm a woman, or maybe you just don't like my attitude, or something, and I'm sorry about that. But I really don't feel like wasting time here. There's only one way we can immobilize SD-6, and that's my way. So forgive me for being forthright or female, but this is how it's gonna be.
Vaughn reaches up and pulls out an extensive map of SD-6.
Vaughn: Since I've been at the CIA I've only seen this map grow. This is what you're in the middle of, Sydney. If shutting down the Los Angeles cell was all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago. This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster. This is about killing the monster. And the work you have ahead of you. The work your father has been doing. It's complicated, it's political, and it is long term. Here, memorize this.
Sydney: I did.
Vaughn: OK. I guess we'll wait to hear from you. Hey, wait. [puts band-aid on her arm].
Sydney: Thanks.
Vaughn: You're welcome.

Setting: Convenience store, meeting place of Vaughn and Sydney.
Sydney: It's me.
Vaughn: How are you doing?
Sydney: How I'm doing? I'd say things have been better. I'm working with friends who have no idea who they're really working for.
Vaughn: I heard Sloane had you meet your father.
Sydney: Yes he did. So what's my countermission?
Vaughn: Navor's been on our short list for the past six months. In August, he attempted to purchase a nuke from Libya.
Sydney: You already knew about Moscow?
Vaughn: No we didn't. So thank you for that.
Sydney: Don't mention it. That was cold. So what's my move?
Vaughn: Carry out your assignment, get the documents. When you get back, make sure you're holding the stolen files. We'll execute two brush passes at the airport terminal. First one will take place at the gate. We'll intercept the materials and make a duplicate copy and then return them to you in a second pass to be executed at the airport curb.
Sydney: That's it?
Vaughn: That's it. Want a Slusho?
Sydney: No thank you.
Vaughn: They're delicious.
Sydney: No thanks. I said I was cold.
Vaughn: Good luck.

Setting: At the airport, after intercepting the disks from Sydney at the airport terminal.
Vaughn: OK, we got two three and a halfers here. We've got to move fast!
CIA Agent: Let's use the third and fourth copies. Take about ninety seconds.
Vaughn: They're moving into customs, we're talking seconds, not minutes!
CIA Agent: I hope they're not corrupted.
Vaughn: They're moving to the main terminal. How long is this going to take?
CIA Agent: Relax, we know these disks aren't normal, we're moving as fast as we can. Let me see that data as soon as it comes up. I'm not seeing it-- I'm not seeing it! Get me the other one! I'm not seeing it!

Setting:Vaughn's office.
Vaughn: [picks up phone] Yeah?
Sydney: I'm going to see Ivanov.
Vaughn: Who? Sydney! Sydney!
CIA Superior: We have a name and an address. We're not gonna sit on our hands here.
Vaughn: Sir, I know. I understand that but we cannot move on that information.
CIA Superior : We can and we will!
Vaughn: Then we are risking Sydney Bristow's placement in SD-6 and perhaps her life!
CIA Superior: That maybe the case and yes, we might lose a double in the process.
Vaughn: Sir, she's going to see him. She's on her way.
CIA Superior : We are talking about a nuclear weapon here. What do you expect me to do, wait until Bristow contacts us?
Vaughn: Read her file, sir. Have you read her file? Do it! Then you will learn what I have. She's an asset, she's doing our work.
CIA Superior: She was supposed to contact you, and
Vaughn: There was a good reason she couldn't: she's on her way to Virginia right now. If we send a team, we risk blowing her cover! We can't afford to do that. Read her file!
CIA Superior: I've read it! What do you want?
Vaughn: Five hours. Give her five hours.
CIA Superior: Five hours.
Vaughn: Thank you.
Agent Weiss: Oh, impressive.
Vaughn: Yeah.
Agent Weiss: Balls of Steel! That's what I'm going to call you from now on. Hey-- Have you met "Balls of Steel"?

Setting: Meeting Place of Vaughn and Sydney.
Vaughn: You called SD-6 instead of the CIA! That is unacceptable! You should have called me!
Sydney: You? What would you have done?
Vaughn: The CIA Sydney! You know it has access to nuclear scientists!
Sydney: Give me a break, I had two minutes!
Vaughn: And going to Virginia without contacting us?
Sydney: I did contact you!
Vaughn: You are over eager. You are being irresponsible.
Sydney: You know what? Yes SD-6 happens to have a nuclear weapon and yes that happens to be my fault. After I called Marshall, SD-6 knew I'd found the bomb. But you know what? We're going to track it and steal it back.
Vaughn: It's in Cairo.
Sydney: What?
Vaughn: When SD-6 picked up our nuke they put it on a plane bound for Egypt. And are you ready for this? They sold the thing to Anini Hasan.
Sydney: Hassan.
Vaughn: Yeah. Reflected on both our records, FYI. What?
Sydney: I told you I've been there, Hassan's. I can go back.
Vaughn: No, you can't do it.
Sydney: Why not?
Vaughn: Hassan knows you. If you're spotted it will get back to Sloane.
Sydney: Then we'll just have to make sure they never see me.

Setting: Vaughn's office.
Vaughn: Tell Weiss I'm in operations and if Alice calls, just
CIA Superior: I need you.
Vaughn: Yeah, I know. Just call me if there's anything. Let me just say this about Bristow
CIA Superior: Don't bother, don't apologize. You're not in any trouble, Virginia was my call.
Vaughn: She's intimately familiar with Hassan's base. She's going to get in, disable the weapon. We are all over it.
CIA Superior: Well, you don't have to be. That's what I'm here to tell you. You're being pulled off the Bristow case.
Vaughn: What? Why?
CIA Superior: Devlin wants a more senior officer. Aparently you were right. This girl is pretty important to us.
Vaughn: Yeah, I know.
CIA Superior: He wants you to oversee the office presentation at the DC nonproliferation meeting, which under the circumstances is pretty ironic.


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