Setting: Restaurant, meeting place of Jack and Vaughn
Vaughn: Mr. Bristow, I'm sorry about the
Jack: Who are you?
Vaughn: I'm CIA operations officer Vaughn. I'm Sydney's handler. I cleared this meeting with Devlin. Kretchmar walked me through your SOP. We're safe.
Jack: Are Sydney and I switching handlers, or is this a special occasion?
Vaughn: No. We have a problem.
Jack: Fisher hasn't made contact. I know.
Vaughn: No we believe K-Directorate had an agent waiting in the hospital.
Jack: SD-6 doesn't have confirmation of that.
Vaughn: CIA does. We have an extraction team waiting on the ready line out of Serbia. I want to pull Sydney out of there. I was hoping that maybe we could coordinate this together.
Jack: Mr. Vaughn, you're young and you're eager, and I understand that. But one thing you're not, and this is something only time can provide, really, is wise.
Vaughn: You don't think this is the right move.
Jack: Listen carefully, Mr. Vaughn. Even with a minimal extraction team, you can't guarantee containment. And if Sloane finds out, Sydney's dead anyway.
Vaughn: Retire her early. Pull her out of service.
Jack: And in the process expose her operations at SD-6.
Vaughn: Sydney's life is worth the risk.
Jack: Not to Sydney! Taking them down is what gets her up in the morning. Or did you think it was those meetings she has with YOU?
Vaughn: Hey, what is your problem with me?
Jack: You pulled my file last week. That's my problem Mr. Vaughn. Now, did curiousity get the better of you, or were you trying to impress my daughter?
Vaughn: She thinks you were KGB. But, I'm sure you already knew that. So, what I'm wondering is, what were you doing checking up on me checking up on you?
Jack: This meeting is over.

Setting: Warehouse, meeting place of Sydney and Vaughn
Sydney: I told SD-6 Shepard was dead. I was going to lie to you about it too, but the truth is, I can't stand lying to anyone else.
Vaughn: Well I appreciate that. I'll be honest with you, there are people at the agency who will want him found.
Sydney: He's as much a victim of SD-6 as I am. Shepard buried Parkashov's body in a Louisana marshland. Sloane sent out a forensics team to get a DNA sample. They should be able to use it to decode the FTL message by tonight.
Vaughn: We were worried.
Sydney: Yeah, I know. The CIA hates to lose one of its assets.
Vaughn: No, I mean... I was worried... for you. In fact, I... I contacted your father. Just so you know, he... he knows I pulled his file and he suspects you've seen it.
Sydney:: It's ok.
Vaughn: It's me. Looks like our SD-6 computer virus is turning out to be a goldmine.
Sydney: Good, maybe we can get head of them for once.
Vaughn: Why don't you go home and get some rest? Happy Thanksgiving.
Sydney: Oh God.

Setting: Warehouse, meeting place of Sydney and Vaughn
Vaughn: Whatever the Rambaldi artifact turns out to be, the CIA wants photographs of it. You'll do it in your hotel room and we'll plant a sub-mini camera in the bible. There's one more thing... one of our Romanian assets spotted Ana Espinosa leaving the psychiatric hospital after you escaped. Be careful, she's on this. How was your Thanksgiving?
Sydney: Good, my friend got engaged.
Vaughn: What's her name?
Sydney: Francie. How was yours?
Vaughn: Typical, spent it with my mom.
Sydney: What about... is it Alice?
Vaughn: We broke up.


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