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“I See Dead People” begins with two of them, Nadia and Rene. As Sydney delivers the eulogy at Nadia's funeral, the autopsy is performed on Rene's body, during which a data chip is removed. At Nadia's funeral, Sydney comments on Sloane, asking “How could I have trusted him again?” She says, “I showed him compassion. I won't make that mistake again.”
Back with Prophet 5, Sloane is working on deciphering page 47. Peyton asks him about his progress and Sloane responds that it takes time—more if she keeps interrupting. However, he reaffirms his commitment to the completion of Rambaldi's works.
Marshall is examining the chip removed from Rene. He says that the code is incomplete and examines the markings on it, exclaiming, “Whoa!” They have news for Sydney.
Sydney is at home, trying to calm Isabelle, when the doorbell rings. It's Jack. He tells her that the name Andre Micheau, Vaughn's original name, was engraved on the chip. They will make a dead drop to Vaughn in Nepal. Jack has told those in APO that the agent in Nepal is simply someone who worked with Rene. Sydney insists on going on the mission personally.
Back with Prophet 5, Peyton asks Sloane to brief an agent before she leaves. As a woman who looks like Sydney enters, Peyton introduces Anna Espinosa.
In LA, Tom decodes a classified ad: “Contact made await response.” Rachel stops by Tom's desk, concerned that she didn't suspect Sloane. Tom reassures her. After Rachel leaves, Tom places his own classified ad.
Sloane preps Brispinosa for her mission, telling her about Sydney's daughter, Isabelle. Anna comments that Sydney's attachments are her vulnerability, but Sloane considers them her strength as well. He tells her, “Unlike you, I know my place in the big picture.” A vision of Nadia appears to Sloane, pointing out, “The truth is, you're no different than she is. You're dispensable too.”
Brispinosa arrives in Nepal and is met by a contact who tells her how anxious Vaughn is to see her. Anna, surprised, covers and quickly knocks out the contact, replacing him with an accomplice, who meets Sydney.
Back at APO, Marshall notices a clicking on the phone and becomes suspicious. He runs to see Jack, grabs his pen, and writes out a message. They meet in the garage. Marshall explains that Sloane somehow put the phone system in passive surveillance mode. Prophet 5 has heard everything they've said for the past 24 hours!
Sydney receives the urgent call from her father that she's been compromised. She orders Anna's accomplice to go around the approaching truck. The truck carries gunmen, who jump out. Sydney grabs the wheel, shooting, and their truck crashes. Brispinosa drops by the crash to pick up the chip. She comments that if she'd known that Rene were carrying valuable information, she would have cut it out herself. Then she drops a lit lighter on the gas leaking from the truck.
Brispinosa joins Vaughn and plays house, pretending to catch up on lost time. Meanwhile, Sydney crawls away from the burning hulk, barely escaping an explosion.
Back with Prophet 5, Sloane sends Peyton to fetch a Pinara manuscript. The vision of Nadia reappears, asking “How long do you think you can deceive them?” and “Why would Rambaldi choose you?” Finally, she tells Sloane that “I'm here because you want me here.”
Back in Nepal, Vaughn admits that he can't believe Rene's dead; she was the one who provided him so many leads to Prophet 5. He asks who killed her and Brispinosa tells him that Anna Espinosa did it. He asks how long the chip had been implanted and Anna replies about 30 years, since she was a kid. Vaughn has a flash of insight—there was a bike crash he didn't remember. He reveals a scar on his chest. As Anna prepares to cut the chip out of him, Vaughn says that he trusts her. Meanwhile, Sydney makes her way to the truck conveniently left behind by the gunmen she picked off. She calls her father and reveals that she's been doubled. Brispinosa and Vaughn reveal the second chip, bearing Rene's name, and snap them together.
In Zurich, Peyton picks up the Pinara manuscript at a book store. The owner places a call, saying “Someone is trying to contact you.”
Brispinosa and Vaughn look at the data from the chip: it's a German emergency evacuation plan, revealing the location of a bunker under a park in Hamburg. Vaughn insists that they go together. As Sydney arrives, their chopper is just leaving.
At APO, Jack breaks the news of Vaughn's survival—Marshall claims he knew it all along. He cautions that the news must stay between them.
In Hamburg, they decide that they must break into the bunker below ground, since it is all concrete above ground. Vaughn suggests the diamond store, using the same ruse they used in Cartagena. Brispinosa says she'll follow his lead.
Back with Prophet 5, Peyton arrives with the manuscript. Sloane admits that he's not as over losing a child as he thought he was. “I need to make peace with the past,” he says.
In Hamburg, Brispinosa feigns a fainting spell while trying on a ring and Vaughn pulls a gun. They demand access to the basement. As Vaughn goes downstairs, Anna knocks out the proprietor and calls for extraction. In the basement, Vaughn breaks through. He finds a key access pad, which he breaks into to get into the bunker. There he finds bulletin boards covered with pictures linked by string and piles of file folders. Brispinosa arrives, pulling her gun and saying, “I've got it from here.” She fires, but there are no bullets. Vaughn shows her the cartridge, telling her that there was no mission in Cartagena—plus, “You're a terrible kisser.” [Ahem, sorry to break the flow, but master spy Anna Espinosa can't kiss like Sydney Bristow, yet Flo Shmo disposo-spy can somehow manage to kiss like the legendary Irina Derevko? What universe did you say we're in? OK, let's continue ...] A scuffle ensues and just as Brispinosa is about to plug Vaughn, Sydney puts a bullet through her head.
Sloane, meanwhile, lights candles for Nadia, coincidentally leaving a dead drop for his associate . . . Sark.
In Hamburg, Sydney and Vaughn marvel over the Prophet 5 treasure trove. Anna's phone rings, and Sydney answers, pretending to be Anna. She reports to Peyton that Sydney is dead and that she has the chip that they found in Rene. She tells Vaughn to contact Jack, that she'll be going undercover as Anna.
Comments . . .
Nadia appears as Sloane's visible conscience (such as it is) to torment him as he puts Peyton off and plots his escape. Does this externalization mean that Sloane is attempting to separate his conscience from himself? Or is it that Nadia has represented a motivation that, conscience-like, has moved him toward a better path? She also puts a voice to his fears, that Rambaldi really didn't choose him, that was just his delusion, and that Prophet 5 will dispose of him once he has reached the end of his usefulness. However, Sloane has already made contingency plans. He isn't going to rely on Prophet 5's beneficence. No doubt he had laid any number of signaling devices out in the environment and in this case the manuscript proved ideal. The book store proprietor called Sark for a nearby dead drop in a church. How convenient.
Sydney, once again, kicks herself for trusting Sloane. And yet, she was more than willing to let him go to any lengths—even work against APO interests, if it meant helping Nadia (note how blasé she was about his possible continuing ties to Prophet 5 last week—at least until Nadia died).
Vaughn took a chance that Brispinosa, whom he already didn't trust, wouldn't take him out along with the chip. I guess that he counted on the chance that she would keep him around as insurance in case she needed additional information about the data on the chips. But considering that he didn't know much about the chips and Prophet 5 . . . and those things were implanted 30 years ago when they were kids . . . If I were Anna, I would have disposed of him right then and there when I had him at my mercy. But, hey, I'm not her.
On to the bunker and the Prophet 5 info trove. It's 30 years old! You'd think it would be mostly useful for historical purposes, as quickly as things change in this business. I mean, the Alliance, the Covenant, the Trust, Elena's cabal, all have come and gone over the course of the 5 preceding years. Of course, then, Rambaldi is still supposedly relevant after 500 years, so what do I know? But, never mind, there's probably names in there, and maybe it says what the heck the Horizon is! (And you thought I forgot about that.)
At last we hear a little more from the Cardinal front, as Tom receives word via classified ad that contact has been made. He places another ad. Is he working for Jack or for others? Is he working for others and does Jack suspect? At this glacial pace, perhaps we'll meet the Cardinal next season. Oh, wait, there won't be a next season!
Well, our fallen comrades look a little deader now, so I'll discuss the subject a little. Even though death in Alias is anything but certain and, for all I know, Nadia and Rene will both appear alive and rosy in the finale, I'll note that they killed off a character who was in a coma all season and another one who was new this season and mostly peripheral. Nadia, moreover, wasn't one of the more popular characters, more popular in retrospect than she was during her heyday—sadly, most young, active female supporters are accused by some fans of “trying to take Sydney's place.” I guess we can now add Anna Espinosa to the list now—a recurring character, even if a popular one. (RIP, Anna!) In the past, they killed Francie, whose storyline was going nowhere and whose ending had a strong emotional wallop; and Lauren, a character who was reviled by many if not most fans and had reached a natural dramatic conclusion (that is, if no one revives her from her cryogenic sleep—hey, if Vaughn can survive a riddling with bullets!). Before I feel that Alias is taking a risk on this series or feel shocked by a death, it would have to take out an “important” character or a beloved character—and it would have to have happened earlier on for me to feel that the series was “taking a risk” or “delivering a shock.” I think that by doing this, Alias might be trying to say, “now we are getting serious.” That's fine, but the thing is, things haven't really been serious on Alias and it's not telling me it's really committed now. Not as committed as, say, if it took out Marshall. Or Jack. Now, how would that make Sydney feel? Or us? I'm not saying deaths are necessary, I'm just trying to put it into perspective. The current string of deaths make it feel more like the series is coming to a close and they're closing out some of the character's stories with it.
Additional comments, May 15, 2006: Ah yes, something I forgot to add--and very important too! With the death of Sydney's duplicate, what happens to the page 47 prophecy? Now it is once again on Sydney's (or, perhaps, Irina's) shoulders to bring about the "fury." Well, perhaps Irina, now thinking Sydney dead, will be pretty furious, no?
Aw, and she said she didn't love Sydney . . .
Quibbles . . .
OK, this is what I was complaining about last year. And, yes, this is a quibble mostly about last year, but now they're telling me that Vaughn is more perceptive than Jack? Please. The guy who initially had no clue what motivated Sydney is more perceptive than Jack, who is able to see reasonably clearly even when it's about people he loves and even when it hurts. It's true that I believe that Vaughn ought to be able to tell Sydney from Anna by kissing her—I mean, it's silly that he wouldn't be able to. That's why I can't ever believe that I-can't-help-loving-my-evil-ex Jack can forget anything about Irina especially her kiss! Maybe they're trying to say they're getting it right this time. But why!—Ack!—remind me that they were so stupid by duplicating the situation?! Whatever. Trying . . . to forget . . . end of last season . . .
Wasn't everyone looking forward to a Bristow-on-Brispinosa knock-down-drag-out? How very disappointing! No, it was Brispinosa-Vaughn, with the usual Vaughn-in-peril results, too. Sydney to the rescue with a disappointingly abrupt take-out. Sigh. Will there be a Great Battle(tm) before the end of the series? Ooooh, Sark-Syd . . . that's probably too much to hope for, with Ms Garner a new mom and all. There are stunt doubles, you know, producers!
Um, they never took an x-ray of Vaughn that turned up the chip? Nothing with electro-magnetic fields? You'd think there'd be problems if he ever had an MRI. Not to mention that we didn't see the scar in previous (ag) shirtless scenes. Also, if Prophet 5 thought these kids were a problem, why did they wait until now to start worrying about offing them (as in Vaughn's case)? Did they not know who they were with the changed names and all? Wouldn't it have been easier to do it when they were kids instead of trained agents? Oh, yes, already griped about the doddering old age of the info that Vaughn uncovered.
Random thoughts . . .
“Those phones, they are a miracle.” Too bad, huh?
Vaughn is bested again—this time he has the excuse of having been wounded and out of play, though!
Sark is on the show! So we get to see him for, what, two seconds? Come on!!!! Have a heart.
Discuss . . .
Do you agree that Nadia is serving as an externalization of Sloane's conscience, or do you think it's more that he wants to have it both ways--have her and Rambaldi--and having her to give a voice to his conscience and fears is the price? Explain. Do you think that Sloane is right to be making escape plans?
Why did Sydney allow herself to trust Sloane again? Do you think she “won't make [the] mistake [of showing him compassion] again”? Why or why not?
Put yourself in Anna's shoes. Would you have killed Vaughn, then dug the chip out? Why or why not?
Tom is holding his own council with regard to the Cardinal. Do you think he is “with us” or “against us”? Either way you answer, do you think Jack is aware of what he's doing? (No spoilers, please.)
How does the death of Anna Espinosa/Sydney's double affect your interpretation of Rambaldi's page 47 prophecy?
In general, how do you feel about character deaths on a series? How do you think they should be handled? Should there be any at all? Should it “mean anything”? Do you think the penchant on Alias for “returning characters from the dead” has hurt or helped Alias? Explain.
Next:
Sydney beat her nemesis Anna in a final decision! Putting off Disneyland, she immediately goes undercover. Sloane: He wants to be the one who kills her? Who? Anna? Now, wouldn't that be ironic?
Changes:
2006/05/15: Additional comment about the page 47 prophecy and a question related to it.
Back with Prophet 5, Sloane is working on deciphering page 47. Peyton asks him about his progress and Sloane responds that it takes time—more if she keeps interrupting. However, he reaffirms his commitment to the completion of Rambaldi's works.
Marshall is examining the chip removed from Rene. He says that the code is incomplete and examines the markings on it, exclaiming, “Whoa!” They have news for Sydney.
Sydney is at home, trying to calm Isabelle, when the doorbell rings. It's Jack. He tells her that the name Andre Micheau, Vaughn's original name, was engraved on the chip. They will make a dead drop to Vaughn in Nepal. Jack has told those in APO that the agent in Nepal is simply someone who worked with Rene. Sydney insists on going on the mission personally.
Back with Prophet 5, Peyton asks Sloane to brief an agent before she leaves. As a woman who looks like Sydney enters, Peyton introduces Anna Espinosa.
In LA, Tom decodes a classified ad: “Contact made await response.” Rachel stops by Tom's desk, concerned that she didn't suspect Sloane. Tom reassures her. After Rachel leaves, Tom places his own classified ad.
Sloane preps Brispinosa for her mission, telling her about Sydney's daughter, Isabelle. Anna comments that Sydney's attachments are her vulnerability, but Sloane considers them her strength as well. He tells her, “Unlike you, I know my place in the big picture.” A vision of Nadia appears to Sloane, pointing out, “The truth is, you're no different than she is. You're dispensable too.”
Brispinosa arrives in Nepal and is met by a contact who tells her how anxious Vaughn is to see her. Anna, surprised, covers and quickly knocks out the contact, replacing him with an accomplice, who meets Sydney.
Back at APO, Marshall notices a clicking on the phone and becomes suspicious. He runs to see Jack, grabs his pen, and writes out a message. They meet in the garage. Marshall explains that Sloane somehow put the phone system in passive surveillance mode. Prophet 5 has heard everything they've said for the past 24 hours!
Sydney receives the urgent call from her father that she's been compromised. She orders Anna's accomplice to go around the approaching truck. The truck carries gunmen, who jump out. Sydney grabs the wheel, shooting, and their truck crashes. Brispinosa drops by the crash to pick up the chip. She comments that if she'd known that Rene were carrying valuable information, she would have cut it out herself. Then she drops a lit lighter on the gas leaking from the truck.
Brispinosa joins Vaughn and plays house, pretending to catch up on lost time. Meanwhile, Sydney crawls away from the burning hulk, barely escaping an explosion.
Back with Prophet 5, Sloane sends Peyton to fetch a Pinara manuscript. The vision of Nadia reappears, asking “How long do you think you can deceive them?” and “Why would Rambaldi choose you?” Finally, she tells Sloane that “I'm here because you want me here.”
Back in Nepal, Vaughn admits that he can't believe Rene's dead; she was the one who provided him so many leads to Prophet 5. He asks who killed her and Brispinosa tells him that Anna Espinosa did it. He asks how long the chip had been implanted and Anna replies about 30 years, since she was a kid. Vaughn has a flash of insight—there was a bike crash he didn't remember. He reveals a scar on his chest. As Anna prepares to cut the chip out of him, Vaughn says that he trusts her. Meanwhile, Sydney makes her way to the truck conveniently left behind by the gunmen she picked off. She calls her father and reveals that she's been doubled. Brispinosa and Vaughn reveal the second chip, bearing Rene's name, and snap them together.
In Zurich, Peyton picks up the Pinara manuscript at a book store. The owner places a call, saying “Someone is trying to contact you.”
Brispinosa and Vaughn look at the data from the chip: it's a German emergency evacuation plan, revealing the location of a bunker under a park in Hamburg. Vaughn insists that they go together. As Sydney arrives, their chopper is just leaving.
At APO, Jack breaks the news of Vaughn's survival—Marshall claims he knew it all along. He cautions that the news must stay between them.
In Hamburg, they decide that they must break into the bunker below ground, since it is all concrete above ground. Vaughn suggests the diamond store, using the same ruse they used in Cartagena. Brispinosa says she'll follow his lead.
Back with Prophet 5, Peyton arrives with the manuscript. Sloane admits that he's not as over losing a child as he thought he was. “I need to make peace with the past,” he says.
In Hamburg, Brispinosa feigns a fainting spell while trying on a ring and Vaughn pulls a gun. They demand access to the basement. As Vaughn goes downstairs, Anna knocks out the proprietor and calls for extraction. In the basement, Vaughn breaks through. He finds a key access pad, which he breaks into to get into the bunker. There he finds bulletin boards covered with pictures linked by string and piles of file folders. Brispinosa arrives, pulling her gun and saying, “I've got it from here.” She fires, but there are no bullets. Vaughn shows her the cartridge, telling her that there was no mission in Cartagena—plus, “You're a terrible kisser.” [Ahem, sorry to break the flow, but master spy Anna Espinosa can't kiss like Sydney Bristow, yet Flo Shmo disposo-spy can somehow manage to kiss like the legendary Irina Derevko? What universe did you say we're in? OK, let's continue ...] A scuffle ensues and just as Brispinosa is about to plug Vaughn, Sydney puts a bullet through her head.
Sloane, meanwhile, lights candles for Nadia, coincidentally leaving a dead drop for his associate . . . Sark.
In Hamburg, Sydney and Vaughn marvel over the Prophet 5 treasure trove. Anna's phone rings, and Sydney answers, pretending to be Anna. She reports to Peyton that Sydney is dead and that she has the chip that they found in Rene. She tells Vaughn to contact Jack, that she'll be going undercover as Anna.
Comments . . .
Nadia appears as Sloane's visible conscience (such as it is) to torment him as he puts Peyton off and plots his escape. Does this externalization mean that Sloane is attempting to separate his conscience from himself? Or is it that Nadia has represented a motivation that, conscience-like, has moved him toward a better path? She also puts a voice to his fears, that Rambaldi really didn't choose him, that was just his delusion, and that Prophet 5 will dispose of him once he has reached the end of his usefulness. However, Sloane has already made contingency plans. He isn't going to rely on Prophet 5's beneficence. No doubt he had laid any number of signaling devices out in the environment and in this case the manuscript proved ideal. The book store proprietor called Sark for a nearby dead drop in a church. How convenient.
Sydney, once again, kicks herself for trusting Sloane. And yet, she was more than willing to let him go to any lengths—even work against APO interests, if it meant helping Nadia (note how blasé she was about his possible continuing ties to Prophet 5 last week—at least until Nadia died).
Vaughn took a chance that Brispinosa, whom he already didn't trust, wouldn't take him out along with the chip. I guess that he counted on the chance that she would keep him around as insurance in case she needed additional information about the data on the chips. But considering that he didn't know much about the chips and Prophet 5 . . . and those things were implanted 30 years ago when they were kids . . . If I were Anna, I would have disposed of him right then and there when I had him at my mercy. But, hey, I'm not her.
On to the bunker and the Prophet 5 info trove. It's 30 years old! You'd think it would be mostly useful for historical purposes, as quickly as things change in this business. I mean, the Alliance, the Covenant, the Trust, Elena's cabal, all have come and gone over the course of the 5 preceding years. Of course, then, Rambaldi is still supposedly relevant after 500 years, so what do I know? But, never mind, there's probably names in there, and maybe it says what the heck the Horizon is! (And you thought I forgot about that.)
At last we hear a little more from the Cardinal front, as Tom receives word via classified ad that contact has been made. He places another ad. Is he working for Jack or for others? Is he working for others and does Jack suspect? At this glacial pace, perhaps we'll meet the Cardinal next season. Oh, wait, there won't be a next season!
Well, our fallen comrades look a little deader now, so I'll discuss the subject a little. Even though death in Alias is anything but certain and, for all I know, Nadia and Rene will both appear alive and rosy in the finale, I'll note that they killed off a character who was in a coma all season and another one who was new this season and mostly peripheral. Nadia, moreover, wasn't one of the more popular characters, more popular in retrospect than she was during her heyday—sadly, most young, active female supporters are accused by some fans of “trying to take Sydney's place.” I guess we can now add Anna Espinosa to the list now—a recurring character, even if a popular one. (RIP, Anna!) In the past, they killed Francie, whose storyline was going nowhere and whose ending had a strong emotional wallop; and Lauren, a character who was reviled by many if not most fans and had reached a natural dramatic conclusion (that is, if no one revives her from her cryogenic sleep—hey, if Vaughn can survive a riddling with bullets!). Before I feel that Alias is taking a risk on this series or feel shocked by a death, it would have to take out an “important” character or a beloved character—and it would have to have happened earlier on for me to feel that the series was “taking a risk” or “delivering a shock.” I think that by doing this, Alias might be trying to say, “now we are getting serious.” That's fine, but the thing is, things haven't really been serious on Alias and it's not telling me it's really committed now. Not as committed as, say, if it took out Marshall. Or Jack. Now, how would that make Sydney feel? Or us? I'm not saying deaths are necessary, I'm just trying to put it into perspective. The current string of deaths make it feel more like the series is coming to a close and they're closing out some of the character's stories with it.
Additional comments, May 15, 2006: Ah yes, something I forgot to add--and very important too! With the death of Sydney's duplicate, what happens to the page 47 prophecy? Now it is once again on Sydney's (or, perhaps, Irina's) shoulders to bring about the "fury." Well, perhaps Irina, now thinking Sydney dead, will be pretty furious, no?
Aw, and she said she didn't love Sydney . . .
Quibbles . . .
OK, this is what I was complaining about last year. And, yes, this is a quibble mostly about last year, but now they're telling me that Vaughn is more perceptive than Jack? Please. The guy who initially had no clue what motivated Sydney is more perceptive than Jack, who is able to see reasonably clearly even when it's about people he loves and even when it hurts. It's true that I believe that Vaughn ought to be able to tell Sydney from Anna by kissing her—I mean, it's silly that he wouldn't be able to. That's why I can't ever believe that I-can't-help-loving-my-evil-ex Jack can forget anything about Irina especially her kiss! Maybe they're trying to say they're getting it right this time. But why!—Ack!—remind me that they were so stupid by duplicating the situation?! Whatever. Trying . . . to forget . . . end of last season . . .
Wasn't everyone looking forward to a Bristow-on-Brispinosa knock-down-drag-out? How very disappointing! No, it was Brispinosa-Vaughn, with the usual Vaughn-in-peril results, too. Sydney to the rescue with a disappointingly abrupt take-out. Sigh. Will there be a Great Battle(tm) before the end of the series? Ooooh, Sark-Syd . . . that's probably too much to hope for, with Ms Garner a new mom and all. There are stunt doubles, you know, producers!
Um, they never took an x-ray of Vaughn that turned up the chip? Nothing with electro-magnetic fields? You'd think there'd be problems if he ever had an MRI. Not to mention that we didn't see the scar in previous (ag) shirtless scenes. Also, if Prophet 5 thought these kids were a problem, why did they wait until now to start worrying about offing them (as in Vaughn's case)? Did they not know who they were with the changed names and all? Wouldn't it have been easier to do it when they were kids instead of trained agents? Oh, yes, already griped about the doddering old age of the info that Vaughn uncovered.
Random thoughts . . .
“Those phones, they are a miracle.” Too bad, huh?
Vaughn is bested again—this time he has the excuse of having been wounded and out of play, though!
Sark is on the show! So we get to see him for, what, two seconds? Come on!!!! Have a heart.
Discuss . . .
Do you agree that Nadia is serving as an externalization of Sloane's conscience, or do you think it's more that he wants to have it both ways--have her and Rambaldi--and having her to give a voice to his conscience and fears is the price? Explain. Do you think that Sloane is right to be making escape plans?
Why did Sydney allow herself to trust Sloane again? Do you think she “won't make [the] mistake [of showing him compassion] again”? Why or why not?
Put yourself in Anna's shoes. Would you have killed Vaughn, then dug the chip out? Why or why not?
Tom is holding his own council with regard to the Cardinal. Do you think he is “with us” or “against us”? Either way you answer, do you think Jack is aware of what he's doing? (No spoilers, please.)
How does the death of Anna Espinosa/Sydney's double affect your interpretation of Rambaldi's page 47 prophecy?
In general, how do you feel about character deaths on a series? How do you think they should be handled? Should there be any at all? Should it “mean anything”? Do you think the penchant on Alias for “returning characters from the dead” has hurt or helped Alias? Explain.
Next:
Sydney beat her nemesis Anna in a final decision! Putting off Disneyland, she immediately goes undercover. Sloane: He wants to be the one who kills her? Who? Anna? Now, wouldn't that be ironic?
Changes:
2006/05/15: Additional comment about the page 47 prophecy and a question related to it.