Setting: Warehouse, meeting place of Jack and Vaughn
Vaughn: Have you ever had unauthorized contact with members of any intelligence agency besides SD-6?
Sydney: No.
Vaughn: OK, you have to stay under thirty. This test measures the blood flow to the emotional part of your brain. Now if you want to divert the blood, you have to engage the reasoning center
Sydney: I'm trying.
Vaughn: You're reacting emotionally.
Sydney: It's not like there's a switch you can flick.
Vaughn: You just have to split your focus.
Sydney: Maybe that's the problem. Maybe I've split my focus already. CIA, SD-6, school, friends
Vaughn: Sydney you can do this. You have to. Have you ever had unauthorized contact with members of any intelligence agency besides SD-6?
Sydney: No.
Vaughn: Better. Are you romantically interested in anyone? Could be a question.
Sydney: No, I'm not.
Vaughn: Interesting.
Sydney: Wait. Ask me that again.
Vaughn: No, I don't have to. We have our answer right here. That's very good though. Moving on.
Sydney: Hey. If this were for real I'd be dead by now, wouldn't I?
Vaughn: Hey, we're just getting started here, OK?

Setting: Warehouse, meeting place of Jack and Vaughn
Vaughn: Have you ever leaked information about SD-6 to any other intelligence agencies?
Sydney: No.
Vaughn: Are you a double agent?
Sydney: No, but my father is.
Vaughn: I'm sure he'd be thrilled if you gave Dreyer that answer.
Sydney: Not now for the CIA. Twenty years ago for the KGB. My mother was a teacher. My father used to buy her books.
Vaughn: Sydney
Sydney: First editions, one a month. Shipped from a book store they discovered on a trip to Prague.
Vaughn: Sydney, but we really need to
Sydney: Listen to me! Look, I thought it was the sweetest thing. Romantic. A side of him that died when she did. But last night I discovered codes hidden inside those books. It's obviously how the KGB was sending him messages.
Vaughn: What kind of codes?
Sydney: One time codes. Blocks of cipher text written in sets of five letters.
Vaughn: Staple of the KGB.
Sydney: Yes.
Vaughn: Alright we'll deal with that. And I want to see those books. But right now you still have Dreyer's test coming up and your life still depends on how well you do.

Setting: First aid van, meeting place of Jack and Vaughn
Vaughn: This is a still camera with a digital signal uplinked to a geo-synchronous satellite. So whatever is in Argentina we won't have to wait for the pictures.
Sydney: Is there a transmission window?
Vaughn: No, it's geosynchronous orbit. Just point and click.
Sydney: Yeah.
Vaughn: You seem a little distracted. What? Is it the test?
Sydney: I'm not sure I passed. And they're still watching me. It took me twenty minutes to shake the guy they had tailing me.
Vaughn: Well, they wouldn't be sending you on a mission if you failed.
Sydney: They know the results yet.
Vaughn: Look, I know how much you want to do this. Take down SD-6. But your life is more important. So if you really think you failed the test we have a plan in place to take you out. A protection program.
Sydney: No, I can't do it. Live in hiding. Not a chance.
Vaughn: Good luck in Argentina.


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