Scene: The storage facility/warehouse in Los Angeles. Vaughn is briefing Sydney.
Vaughn: The CIA has a new lead on Khasinau. Apparently, K-Directorate is looking for revenge, too. We received intel last night that they've hired a fairly prestigious freelance assassin to find Khasinau and dismember him. "The Snowman" is his code name. Are you familiar with him?
Sydney: The Snowman?
Vaughn: He's been on the CIA's most wanted list for the last twelve years -- presumed dead since '97. But it seems we're not so lucky. I'm looking for contacts. I'm thinking that maybe we can find Khasinau by following The Snowman. I just want to make sure that you get to Khasinau first. I know how important this is to you.
Sydney: Thank you.
[Vaughn nods. Sydney turns and begins to walk away to leave. Vaughn nervously wipes forehead.]
Vaughn: Hey, um, [voice cracks] so the, uh, the operation went all right in Arkhangelsk with Noah?
Sydney: [Thoughtful pause and then a smile.] Yeah.
Vaughn: Good.
[Sydney offers a small goodbye wave and leaves. Vaughn silently stares after her, his face a mixture of heartbroken emotions.]

Scene: CIA office. Vaughn approaches Weiss, who is sitting at his desk. Vaughn tosses his house keys to Weiss.
Vaughn: Hey.
Weiss: Hey.
Vaughn: I need you to feed Donovan.
Weiss: Who?
Vaughn: What do you mean "who?" My dog, Donovan. Come here.
[The two agents walk into Vaughn's office.]
Weiss: Oh, right. Hey, wait. Which key is to the front--where are you going?
Vaughn: That's the top lock, that's the bottom lock. I'm going to Bogota. Give him a can of the dog food that's on the floor of the cupboard and half a can of the dry stuff.
Weiss: What's in Bogota?
Vaughn: [ignoring Weiss] But only a half of a can. There's a bag of the dry stuff next to the canned stuff.
Weiss: Right. What the hell is in Bogota?
Vaughn: I just got off the phone with the Interpol liason officer. Eight years ago, a guy named Kishell was attacked by The Snowman. Punctured heart, collapsed lung, he lost an eye--
Weiss: Okay, I got it. It was bad.
Vaughn: This guy, Kishell, used to work with The Snowman.
Weiss: Really?
Vaughn: Who we know is after Khasinau.
Weiss: Right. So, if we get Kishell, we get to The Snowman, we can get Khasinau.
Vaughn: Exactly. Half a can only. I don't want to come back to a fat dog.
Weiss: Alright.

Scene: Bogota. Vaughn is at the home of Kishell. Kichell is serving him tea. Kishell stands in the shadows of his dimly lit home to hide severe facial scars.
Kishell: I never actually met The Snowman. He always contacted me by telephone. His name - The Snowman - it comes from his method. He prefers an icepick. But he uses knives, too. I helped arrange travel across difficult borders. It was my specialty. One operation, he was ambushed, attacked. He fought off and killed eight men that night. He thought it was me, thought I tipped someone off. That was when he came after me. He came to this house. He attacked me while I slept. Killing is his job. He likes his job.
Vaughn: Mr. Kishell, I appreciate you talking to me. I know this must be very difficult.
Kishell: I know difficult. Talk is easy.
Vaughn: I know the CIA has spoken to you before, years ago, but we recently learned that an organization has hired The Snowman for a job. Now, I've read the transcripts. Last time you said you had no leads. I was hoping maybe that this time you had some.
Kishell: You have come too far to go home with nothing.
[Kishell rises and moves towards a bookcase along the wall.]
Kishell: For years I was afraid to do anything, to seek revenge. But enough time has passed, Mr. Vaughn.
[The bookcase moves to reveal a fake wall which opens into a brightly lit room with file cabinets. Kishell goes into the room and retrieve a file folder.]
Kishell: I have no more fear. Yes, I have some leads.
Vaughn: And you'd be willing to share them?
Kishell: I will contact them myself, see if I can find out where The Snowman is, what his plans are.
Vaughn: I'd appreciate that.
Kishell: You must promise me one thing. That when you find him, he will suffer, too.
[Vaughn does not respond, but he casts a worried look at Kishell.]

Scene: Sydney is walking down a street and a voice over begins.
Sydney: Sloane accepted the mission I proposed. Noah and I are going to Cape Town. Calder's done some business at a financial office there.
[Sydney throws the paper bag into a garbage can. The voice over continues.]
Sydney: We're going to break into that office, get their records and hopefully find out where Calder is. What's my counter mission?
[Now the scene changes to Sydney and Vaughn inside a warehouse. Vaughn is upset.]
Vaughn: There shouldn't be a counter mission! When you realized that Calder was really KGB, you should've come to me!
Sydney: [indignant] Did you just think that this was an accident, that I just wasn't thinking?
Vaughn: [equally indignant] I don't know what the hell you were thinking!
Sydney: I was thinking about the thirty-six hours the FBI kept me in chains! If I turned over the Calder information to you, you would be required, unless you want to break Federal law, to forward it to the FBI and we both know what they would do.
Vaughn: Classify it.
Sydney: Omega seventeen. We wouldn't be allowed anywhere near that investigation.
[Brief period of silence.]
Vaughn: I was supposed to give you this. [He hands her what looks like a tube of lipstick.] Tell you to write down what information you recover from Calder, stick it in the waterproof chamber, activate the beacon, and throw it in the trash can. And we'll retrieve it. But I'm guessing you're not going to use it.
Sydney: Vaughn, I promise you Khasinau will not walk and I won't let SD-6 get to him first. But I refuse to let the FBI get in my way again.

Scene: Again at the storage facility/warehouse. Sydney is sitting in a chair with her back to a rather fervently pacing Vaughn.
Vaughn: Devlin knows you're going to Australia. You understand he'll be expecting a full report.
Sydney: [distractedly] Yeah.
Vaughn: Syd, I know how important it is for you to find your mother and I'll help you however I can.
Sydney: Thanks. [impatiently] Any word on The Snowman?
Vaughn: That guy I met in Bogota, I'm waiting for him to call me back.
[Vaughn stops pacing and walks over to face Sydney.]
Vaughn: You want to tell me what's going on?
[Sydney does not respond. He pulls out a chair and sits down.]
Vaughn: Sydney, you can talk to me.
[Sydney nods silently.]
Vaughn: Off the record.
Sydney: [smiles half heartedly] I'm all right. [Sydney looks down.]

Scene: Sydney and Dixon are in Australia and at Calder's house. Sydney sneaks through the bushes outside Calder's home. Meanwhile, at the CIA office, Vaughn received a phone call.]
Vaughn: This is Vaughn.
Kishell: Mr. Vaughn, I have spoken to my friends. I have some information for you.

Scene: Back to Sydney at Calder's home. She nears the entry and reports to Dixon that she's unsettled -- she doesn't see any guards. She steps inside the house and sees one of the guards lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She bends down to feel his pulse. Meanwhile, back at the CIA office Vaughn is in a panic.
[Vaughn walks across the office to Weiss.]
Vaughn: Weiss!
Weiss: Yeah?
Vaughn: The Snowman. He's been spotted in Mackay. Sydney's there, too. He's going after Calder to get to Khasinau. Can you think of a way to contact Sydney, put out a warning?
Weiss: [surprised] We don't have her on comm?
Vaughn: [sheepishly] No.
Cut to end of episode. Sydney and The Snowman fight. She kills the Snowman, then a spark of recognition hits her. She pulls off the ski mask, sees that its Noah, and cries. Dixon barges in calling to her, then stops when he sees Noah lying dead on the floor and Sydney cradling his head, crying.


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