Setting: Los Angeles - Warehouse.
Vaughn: The Triad? You've never mentioned them before.
Sydney: It's a loose coalition of loose crime entities they mainly deal with drugs and prostitution. But over the last couple of years they've made significant forte in weapons.
Vaughn: Okay, so why did they kill Haber?
Sydney: Because he was selling intel to SD-6.

Setting: Los Angeles - Warehouse
Vaughn: So that SD-6 can engineer the weapons for themselves?
Sydney: Which we won't let happen.
Vaughn: Okay, I'll confer with you father about your counter-mission.
Sydney: My father?
Vaughn: He didn't tell you? Based on your father's instincts the Madagascar incident Devlin gave him operational approval.
Sydney: Oh.
Vaughn: When you and I were approaching that building, ops were monitoring our progress via S.A.T. radar scan. Now at the last moment your father switch to infrared radar, which is how he saw the explosives. We don't have routine satellite over Madagascar. One had to be re-tasked. Now the closest was over the Indian Ocean. Yet your father specifically requested the one over the South Atlantic, which of one of the two had infrared capabilities.
Sydney: He wanted to account for every possibility.
Vaughn: Probably… Or it's possible that he already knew there would be explosives at that entrance.
Sydney: I don't see how. He never trusted my mother's motives but he… You think my father wired that entrance… to setup my mother? We were nearly killed.
Vaughn: I know.
Sydney: If there had been interference on our coms…
Vaughn: But you'd have to admit it wouldn't be the first time… Sydney: Meaning what?
Vaughn: Russek.
Sydney: Russek!
Vaughn: Your father setup Russek.
Sydney: I was prisoner. Sloane was about to have me executed.
Vaughn: I don't understand why you're denying this possibility.
Sydney: I understand that your authority has been superseded by my father and that maybe you feel irrelevant, but he saved our lives. Remember that. I will wait to hear from you.
Sydney leaves the warehouse.

Setting: Los Angeles - CIA Operation Center.
Craig: Hey, Daddy.
Vaughn: Hey, Craig. What are you doing in LA?
Craig: Madagascar customs picked up a U.S. national transporting explosives. They brought him to LA and I'm babysitting him to New York. Listen, I heard about Weiss. How is he doing?
Vaughn: It was rough. But they say he's going to be okay. Which is more than I can say about the nursing staff.
Craig: Wait till he gets home. He's going to be insufferable.
Vaughn: Listen I have to…
Craig: Yeah, yeah. Go, go. I'll be back next month. I wanna play some ball.
Vaughn: What? You think you're ready for this.
Craig: That's cute. That's cute.
Vaughn and Craig walk off in separate directions. After a moment, Vaughn races down the hall and catches up to Craig.
Vaughn: Craig. That guy with the explosives was it Semtex?
Craig: Yeah
Vaughn: Vintage Russian stuff?
Craig: Yeah, that's right. How did you know that?
Vaughn: And he's here in LA?
Craig: For the next two hours.
Vaughn: I have to talk to him.

Setting: Los Angeles - Exterior of the CIA Offices
Vaughn gets into the vehicle that is holding Manolo du Souza. He sits down across from Souza.
Vaughn: Manolo du Souza. I'm Agent Vaughn. Has anyone offered you a drink? I'm sure I can find you a soda.
Du Souza says nothing.
Vaughn: Okay. This is not a good time to be a terrorist Manolo. A couple of years ago you would have had some civil rights. Now we just throw you in a cell, no attorney, no due process. So who were you working for? Okay, it that case we'll just let the pictures tell the story. Satellite from four days ago show you rigging a plantation building in the jungle near Sumbava. Those photos are all we need to put you away for the rest of your life. So I'm gonna ask you one more time - do you want that soda?
Du Souza does not say anything. Vaughn gets up to leave. Souza grabs Vaughn's arm.
Du Souza: I was working for you. You son of a bitch. CIA.
Vaughn sits back down.
Vaughn: Through what office?
Du Souza: My contact was Jack Bristow. You tell that bastard, I'm not taking the fall for this.

Setting: Los Angeles - CIA Operation Center. Kerr: We had no idea that the sixteen next generation weapons would turn out to be children.
Sydney: They were trained to be sleeper agents?
Kerr: That appears to be the case. See the best spies have certain traits -- proficiency with numbers, three dimensional thinking, creative problem solving. these abilities are all in evidence as early as five years old. This is footage that we downloaded from the triad computer.
Footage of the children in the classroom.
Vaughn: Every first grader in the European Union takes a standardized test. A few years ago the Triad acquired the company doing the testing and added a series of questions designed to locate children with these traits. This year twenty-eight children were indicated. Their parents were sent letters inviting them to participate in a month long achievement program. Sixteen accepted.
Kerr: Six-year-olds acquire knowledge at an incredible rate, so the basic of marksmanship, linguistics, visual, verbal cue recognition, it can all be taught in a matter of weeks.
Sydney: Who is he?
Vaughn: We're still working on that.
Sydney: So what happens to they kids at the end of the month?
Vaughn: The Triad sends them home with the intent that when they are grown they will contact these kids and send them out to the field.
Kerr: There was a rumor that the KGB began developing a similar program back in the eighties, but we never confirmed it.
Sydney: Before they kids are sent home, their memories are reset?
Kerr: Yeah, that's right. They remember nothing expect that it was extremely satisfying.
The screen shows a child solving a puzzle.

Setting: Los Angeles - CIA Operation Center. Vaughn walks by an Agent sitting at his desk.
Agent: Hey, Vaughn, the guy with the semtex - du Souza. Are we suppose to be looking into that?
Vaughn: Excuse me?
Agent: I'm just wondering is that our case or were you pursing it independently?
Vaughn: I don't know what you're talking about.
The Agent grabs a price of paper off of his desk and hands it to Vaughn.
Agent: Daily situations reports that the guy was here yesterday on a transfer order. You're listened as visiting him.
Vaughn stares at Jack.
Agent: Vaughn.
Vaughn sees Sydney walks in.
Vaughn: No it's not our case.
Vaughn heads towards Sydney.
Jack. Hello, Sydney.
Sydney: Dad, hi.
Jack: Agent Vaughn contacted you?
Sydney: Yeah. (to Vaughn) Have we identified the man from Budapest with the children?
Vaughn: Yes. Valerie Kholokov.
Sydney: It's Kholokov.
Vaughn: You've heard of him?
Sydney: Yeah, he used to run KGB psych ops division -- mind control experiments, psychoactive drugs. I thought he was dead.
Vaughn: Well, so did we. But apparently after the KGB dissolved, he went over to the Triad. A facial recognition scanner at the airport in Buenos Aires identified him yesterday.
Sydney: What's he doing in Buenos Aires?
Jack: He has a house there. The project in Budapest is completed. A team is raiding that facility as we speak.
Vaughn: The children all have returned home. We have surveillance monitoring each of them. If the Triad makes contact with them, we'll intercede.
Sydney: We need to grab Kholokov. See how many other kids he's done this to. Who they are, where they are.
Vaughn: There's a team prepping now.
Sydney: Good. I want to go with them.
Jack: No. Sending you to Buenos Aires would be an unnecessary risk. Kholokmov has a private security detail, external and internal alarm systems.
Sydney: Dad. When I signed up with SD-6, I wanted to join. When I found out the truth… These kids… I know what's like to be used. I'm going to Buenos Aries.
Vaughn: Team leaves in twelve hours.
Sydney: Okay, anything else?
Jack: That's all.
Sydney: I'm going to pack.
Sydney leaves.
Vaughn: I saw du Souza. He told me that you hired him to rig those explosives.
Jack: Irina Derevko would eagerly destroy all of our lives.
Vaughn: I'm not a big fan either. It still doesn't justify what you did.
Jack: You do good work Agent Vaughn. But your consistent shortcoming, you should know this your naïve sense of morality. Evil must be eliminated but whatever means necessary.
Vaughn: I don't think Sydney would agree with that.
Jack: Sydney will never know what I have done.
Vaughn: You betrayed her trust. I won't. Now she should hear it from you. But if you don't tell her, I promise you I will.
Vaughn walks away.

Setting: Los Angeles - CIA Operation Center. Sydney walks in crying. Vaughn walks towards her and gives her a hug.


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