Season 5: Part II

So a few days ago I posted my ideas for the fifth and final season of "Alias," taking into account the recent Vaughn cliffhanger, Mia Maestro's status as a recurring player, Jennifer Garner's assumed pregnancy and the unlikelihood of having Lena Olin and Isabella Rossellini on hand for more than a few episodes.

I'll repost the outline for the first 11 episodes here, and then do a second post with the next 11. Remember, this isn't elegantly written. Just the nice and easy plotpoints.

Episode 5x01
-Sydney wakes up in the hospital. She's told no one was in the car with her. It seems "Vaughn" has gone missing.
-Nadia has been taken to the DSR’s Project Black Hole Medical facility in Nevada.
-Sloane has resigned from APO and opted to leave intelligence.
-Sydney tries to get Sloane to return. They need his contacts and expertise to find "Vaughn," to figure out what he was up to. But Sloane will not return. He's hurt too many people.
-In the end, "Vaughn" revealed to be under Sloane’s care at a Sacramento hospital. “I’m sorry it had to be this way,” Sloane says to him.

5x02 (Guest Stars - Bradley Cooper (cameo))
-Irina, via an intel packet (Lena Olin wouldn't appear), provides Jack and Sydney with cryptic but crucial intelligence that may help them uncover Vaughn’s secrets. A military experiment gone wrong in the late '80s. Jack and Syd investigate.
-Sloane helps Vaughn recover. Tells him he shouldn’t have told Sydney. Could ruin everything. Secrets are power. But Sloane doesn’t want Sydney to lose two fiancés to the truth.
-Jack and Sydney's investigation ultimately reveals that Bill Vaughn’s son, the real Michael Vaughn was murdered at age 21. Perhaps by "Vaughn"
-Sydney is overwhelmed. She needs a shoulder to cry on. The last shot is of her, visiting Will in Wisconsin.

5x03 (Guest stars - Angela Bassett)
-Jack & Sydney take what they have to Chase. Begin a full investigation into "Vaughn's" activities. They team up with A.D. Carl Raines, Vaughn's former mentor and now a CIA big whig.
-It's revealed that although Vaughn and Sloane are some how connected in his past, it doesn't appear that Sloane crashed the car. Sloane tasks Vaughn to find out who's responsible. Someone who wouldn't want his former allegiance to Sloane noticed.
-Using DNA tech, Syd discover "Vaugh's" true ID - Andrew Davis
-By episode's end they realize Vaughn is connected to Sloane.

5x04
- Sydney and Jack confront Sloane and he reveals:
• His endgame was always Rambaldi. His joining the Alliance was always a means to an end. But he knew he needed their power and Sydney to carry out his works.
• So he recruited Andrew Davis into the CIA to assist Sloane in his ultimate take down of the Alliance. He planted him as the late Bill Vaughn’s son. Simultaneously, he recruited Sydney into SD-6 to one day help him bring them down. He used the Irina-Bill connection as a means to form a bond between Syd and Vaughn.
• Vaughn reported all of Syd and Jack’s dealings to him.
- Someone else involved, an old associate of Sloane’s who doesn’t want to be revealed. He crashed the cars, not on behalf of Sloane.
- They all must work together to find this last guy.
- Vaughn says that he did lie to Sydney, but was abandoned by Sloane after the fall of SD-6. His obsession for Rambaldi consumed him and he cut off all ties. Vaughn never knew that Sloane was working with Irina or that he had killed Francie. It was a clean break from then on out. He had fallen in love with Sydney and had seen how badly Sloane had hurt her. He also realized, that Sloane was insane, had betrayed them both, and wanted to help her bring Sloane to justice, in essence, to atone for his own sins.
- When Syd disappeared, he left intelligence all together.
- Together, they figure out that A.D. Raines crashed the cars in order to protect his secret allegiance. He too had worked with Sloane and was the person who put Syd in Vaughn's care when she came to become a double agent.
-Though Sydney understands the truth now, her feelings for Vaughn are fractured. He lied to her all those years. The man she fell in love with was a lie.

5x05
-Lots of tension between Sydney and Andrew, but they still have feelings for each other.
-At episode's end, Jack has Vaughn arrested for his crimes. Though Sloane was pardoned for his past crimes, Vaughn was not.

5x06 (Guest Stars - Angela Bassett, Devlin)
-Chase puts Vaughn before a military tribunal.
-Syd listens to the testimony
-Flashbacks to Vaughn's early days, working for Sloane and betraying Sydney.
-Vaughn is sentenced to life in prison.

5x07 (Guest Stars - Gina Torres)
-Vaughn sees and talks with Anna Espinosa in a top secret military prison.
-A mission involving the Knights of Rambaldi arises. APO needs Anna's help
-Sydney and Anna team up, but by episode's end, Anna betrays Sydney and abducts her. No one knows where she is.

5x08 (Guest Stars - Isabella Rossellini; Mia Maestro (cameo))
-Jack believes "Vaughn" may some how be responsible for Sydney's disappearance
-Intel ultimately indicates that Katya Derevko may be of help.
-Sloane fears that Nadia may be at risk since Sydney's gone. He asks Jack to have her moved. But this gives Jack another idea.
-Jack and Katya team up to find Sydney, using a catatonic Nadia as bait. If Anna was after Sydney, perhaps she wants Nadia too. But Sloane insists on helping. He wants to keep his eye on Nadia.
-In the end, Jack is trumped though, and both Katya and Nadia are extracted...by Irina.
(Irina is only shown using old footage, so that they don't have to pay Lena for an episode.)

5x09 (Guest Stars - Lena Olin, Isabella Rossellini, Gina Torres)
-Irina comes to Jack and Sloane. Since Sydney has been abducted, she fears that Nadia would become a target. Someone out there, believes there's more to Rambaldi than's been let on. Irina truly believe that the prophecy had been fulfilled in "Before the Flood." But someone is not willing to give up.
-If the Prophecy has truly not been fulfilled, then that means Nadia and Sydney are still destined to fight, and Irina believes that Nadia may be the best hope for finding Sydney. Therefore, it is essential to find a cure for her condition.
-Jack says this is risky. One of the daughters is destined to be killed. By using Nadia, they could be playing with fire.
-They realize Anna is looking for the cure to Nadia's condition, and could lead to Sydney.
-Realizing Vaughn communicated with Anna in prison, they vet him for intel. he says that he'll only help if he can get out of jail on a provisional basis to help find Sydney. Once she's found, he'll go back to finish his sentence.

5x10
-Jack, "Vaughn," Sloane and APO team up to find Sydney
-Before long they realize that they're going up against Sark. It seems that he's back in the Rambaldi game, and has Sydney.
-Sark returns to "regular status" for the final 12 episodes of the season.

5x11
-APO continues to hunt down Sydney.
-They are unsuccessful.
-But in the last moments we find Sydney, chained to some ancient looking apparatus. Sark is in the room as expected, but there is someone else. Sark's partner in this latest play...Sloane.

Then viewers prepare for the five-week, holiday hiatus.
 
SEASON 5 - PART II

Episode 5x12 (Guest Stars - Gina Torres)
-There's been a six month gap between episodes 11 and 12
-Vaughn is still working with APO on a provisional basis to locate Sydney
-Anna Espinosa returns to the mix and may be a clue to Sydney's disappearance

Episode 5x13
-APO and Sark come to an impasse and it's time to negotiate. Both Sloane and Sark realize that Jack and Irina are trying to cure Nadia. Through Anna, Sark and Sloane have discovered the cure for her illness. They're willing to trade the cure for access to DSR documents.
-Ultimately, Jack figures out that Sloane is working with Sark and has Sydney.
-He agrees to the terms of the trade and sends out a communique to Irina - "We have what you've been looking for."

5x14 (Guest Stars - Lena Olin, Mia Maestro)
-Nadia is resurrected thanks to the formula from Sloane and Sark
-Together, Irina, Jack, Vaughn and Nadia hunt down Sydney, and manage to find her.
-Vaughn breaks into the room where Sydney is being held. But when he finds her, in a jail cell, she's 8 months pregnant.

5x14 (Guest Stars - Terry O'Quinn, Mia Maestro)
-Jack and Vaughn escort Sydney back to APO.
-Immediately she's taken into custody by the DSR
-Kendall comes back into the mix and performs several tests on the newly pregnant Sydney. She did not conceive this child by any natural means, she's been gone for too long for the child to be "Vaughn's." From what Sydney describes, it seems like Sloane and Sark impregnated her with a Rambaldi device.
-Test results reveal, miraculously that the child is both Sydney and "Vaughn's," even though Vaughn did not contribute to the conception.
-Kendall reveals that the child of the Chosen One is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the Rambaldi endgame. Exactly what the child's significance is remains unclear. Is it a savior? A perfect being? A conduit to God or Rambaldi? It is unknown. All we know is that the child appears to have 47 chromosomes (one more than the typical 46) and that it's DNA matches a code written in a Rambaldi manuscript. In fact, THE RAMBALDI MANUSCRIPT.
-Kendall explains the complicated Rambaldi history to Sydney. Rambaldi, as the world knows it, is a hoax of sorts, a stratagem devised by the DSR, CIA and NSA. Rambaldi was a real man indeed. After WWII, the US government had exclusive access to Hitler's research into the occult. In Hitler's files they found a diary containing Rambaldi's ultimate end - the child of the Chosen One.
-The DSR kept this manuscript hidden safely, but decided that they could use the world's obsession with Rambaldi to the United State's advantage. They began leaking dummy intel, fake manuscripts or only manuscripts that revealed certain details. They perpetuated the Rambaldi scavenger hunt that Sloane, Elena, Irina and many others went on.
-Kendall and the DSR anticipated Elena's actions. They knew that, by leaking the right Rambaldi intel they could convince groups like the Alliance, the Covenant and Elena to build these doomsday devices. The Rambaldi device in Before the Flood was only a small part of Rambaldi's whole design. But that small part had massive destructive properties. In essence, by convincing the Sloane's and the Elena's of the world that it was the whole picture, they were assuring that these people would lead to the demise of the United States' enemies. The DSR essentially used Elena as a patsy to eliminate Russia, America's top enemy. They had tried to manipulate the Alliance similarly, but Sloane took them down. Essentially, the Rambaldi puzzle was a weapon the US used to have terrorists like the Covenant take down their enemies and do their own dirty work.
-While the world believed that Rambaldi's endgame focused around the flood, the DSR knew the truth. That it had to do with the child of the Chosen One.
-Sydney asks who developed this ingenious but dangerous strategy. Not surprisingly, it was Jack Bristow.
-Sydney is hurt that Jack would put her at risk by toying with Sloane and Elena's notion of Rambaldi.
-Kendall points to the legend of Rambaldi's 100 Segments, referenced by Sloane early in season I. The Device that impregnated Sydney was in fact the 100 Segments. The formation of two Rambaldi devices - one of absolute good (The Telling which gave the message "Peace") and one of absolute evil (the Circumference/Mueller device that brought on an Apocalypse). Each device was made of 47 pieces and brought about a balance. The remaining six segments were people destined to bring the endgame together: Sloane, Sydney (the Chosen One), Nadia (the Passenger), Danny & Emily (the martyrs, for if they had not died, then Sydney and Sloane would not have embarked on their necessary journeys), and Vaughn, the so-called "complement."
-What Kendall and Jack don't understand is how Sloane learned of Rambaldi's true endgame. The DSR had the only existing copy of his grand design
-Nadia realizes that through her own Rambaldi writings, Sloane was able to reconstruct the device.
-Vaughn is forced to return to prison.

5x16 (Guest Stars - Lena Olin)
-The DSR plans to quarantine Sydney and the child. According to the prophecy, her child could be a weapon of mass destruction and must be studied.
-Jack and Irina conspire to extract Sydney before she goes to the Project Black Hole facility.
-Sydney goes home to retrieve some personal effects. Once she enters the apartment, it blows up and Sydney appears to be dead to the world.

5x17 (Guest Stars - Lena Olin, Mia Maestro)
-Vaughn is released from prison for Sydney's funeral, but will not buy that she's truly dead. He's been down this road before.
-Sydney's funeral takes place as she's delivering the child, with Nadia and Irina's help.
-She names the child Daniel Jonathan Bristow
-After she has the child, Irina and Nadia sedate Sydney and take the child for themselves.

5x18 (Guest Stars - Isabella Rossellini)
-Sydney returns to the CIA, looking for help in finding her child. She realizes though, if she finds
him, she'll need to turn him over.
-Word of the Chosen One's child's birth has spread though, and the CIA, Sloane/Sark and the Order of Rambaldi are in pursuit of Irina and Nadia.
-Katya attempts to throw everyone off course, and Sloane murders her in his pursuit of intel.

5x19 (Guest Stars - Lena Olin, Mia Maestro)
-Since Nadia is the conduit to Rambaldi, Irina believes that only she knows Daniel's true destiny. Though she loves Sydney, she feels that she cannot protect the child as she can, and is dying to know his true significance.
-Sloane ultimately catches wind to Nadia's involvement and tries to convince her to come over to his side.
-Nadia has the child, but must essentially choose to side with either her mother or her father. She is seduced by Sloane, and ultimately takes the child to him.

Only three episodes left in the series. Let me know what you think...
 
intresting speculations
i like them except vaughn truely being evil i hope its one in another fic where he was in witness protection(though HIGHLY doubtful we can all have hopes and dreams lol) and elenas dead so far-well nvm cause no 1s ever really dead here lol well hope to hear the last 3 soon!
 
whow, that was great! :woot:
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>could you apply for writing the skripts for the next season :smiley: </span>

that would be amazing
suzy
 
well what do i think...
- the pregnancy - i guess sydneys pregnancy is not my favoutit storyline, but concidering the real life cirumstances i guess this is the best conclusion and it fits perfectly in the storyline - as you proofed :smiley:
- jack knowing about the child - that means he put sydney in danger and agreed with this unnatural pregnancy. he never did this before. that just doesn´t fit to me. on the other hand it would fit in the never ending story of betrayal :smiley:
- sark is back - cool!!
-slone is bad in the end - man and i just believed he might truely be good.

just my first thoughts
 
In my "world," Jack new that Sydney's pregnancy was foretold by Rambaldi and that it seemed to be the key to everything. But he did not know that Sloane had abducted her and assembled the device and impregnated her.

By devising the Rambaldi hoax strategy, he was hoping to distract the Rambaldi obsessed so that they would never try to impregnate Sydney.

But Sydney is mad at Jack - one for not being straight with her about Rambaldi and her importance. Also, she's mad because Jack risked a lot by putting the doomsday devices in Elena's hands. Because the world eventually learned of Sydney as the CHosen One, Sydney says that these crazies might have come after Syd and done even worse things to her.
 
I must admit, from the perspective of a professional writer, having the season be completely arc one episode to the next would just be too much, despite the fact we all love arc on Alias.

However, I think you have some terrific ideas. I think the use of Sydney and Irina, going by realistic casting problems, is fitting. And I love the whole use of the 100 Segments. You've really thought the Rambaldi stuff, through.

Not so sure about 'Vaughn', though. Isn't his real name a little...bland?... :blink:
 
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