Alias - Alias 1x19 - "Snowman" Episode Re-Discussion

Andie · 08-20-2008, 11:22 PM

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In the safehouse in the Arkhangelsk forest, Sydney sleeps against Noah's body...their bliss interrupted when Khasinau's soldiers storm the house. Escaping through a secret crawlspace below the floorboards, they get away on a motorcycle -- seconds before the cabin is riddled with bullets.

Meanwhile, Vaughn confirms that K-Directorate has hired a known assassin -- a.k.a. "The Snowman," for his favored use of an ice-pick as a weapon -- to take out Khasinau. He suggests that by following the hit man, they can find Khasinau.

When Sydney returns to SD-6, Noah makes her an interesting proposition. While working undercover, he opened some secret bank accounts and now wants to run away, leaving the spy world behind...and he wants her to come with him. She refuses, insisting that she must find her mother first. But Sloane has uncovered Noah's questionable banking practices and wonders if the agent is still loyal.

Jack is visibly upset; he tells his daughter that the information on the data-core is useless for tracking down Khasinau. However, it does contain video files of Laura Bristow...video recorded after her car crash, and supposed death.

Sydney watches the grainy video, and learns the unpleasant truth about her mother. Laura Bristow -- using her real name "Irina Derevko" -- answers questions from Khasinau and another man. Derevko states how she came to America for the purpose of seducing Jack Bristow. During their years of marriage, she had gone through his briefcase and monitored his conversations, reporting everything back to the KGB.

The other man on the tape, Igor Valenko, looks familiar, so Sydney investigates. She discovers that this man once worked undercover at the FBI under an alias..."Calder." She concludes that he was the agent who was, allegedly, chasing Laura Bristow before her fateful crash, and that he also must have faked his own death.

Sydney uncovers that Valenko currently does business with a bank in Cape Town, South Africa, and she speculates that he might still be connected to Khasinau. Using her input, Jack outlines a mission to Sloane -- to send Noah and Sydney to Cape Town to recover bank records to create a trail. Sloane is reluctant -- he no longer trusts Noah, and expresses concerns about Jack defending yet another male figure in Sydney's life -- but ultimately, he agrees.

Following a separate path to Khasinau, Vaughn travels to Bogota to meet with a man who once worked with The Snowman. This agent -- scarred and disfigured from an encounter with the assassin -- had formerly declined to help the CIA, but time has changed his mind, and he now offers to help.

With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Jack finally summons the courage to watch the recovered video of his wife. Although he already knows the truth, he is crushed to see her treachery in such light.

Using Marshall's ingenious op-tech, Noah and Sydney break into the South African warehouse and successfully hack into the computer using a wireless modem. They download all the files onto a laptop, but a sophisticated security system thwarts their mission...When they return home, they learn that the hard drive's memory was wiped as they escaped.

One evening, Will and Francie finally confront Sydney about the mysterious, unexplained plane ticket to Italy. Under pressure, she confides that the bank has been doing business with extremely private and sensitive clients as of late...and this is why she must keep secrets from her own friends.

Just when Sydney is beginning to trust Noah again, she is surprised to learn that he has accepted another deep cover assignment. Before he departs, he again pleads with her to run away with him. She finds the offer quite attractive... ultimately, she must decline, once again.

After further tinkering, Marshall is finally able to recover low-level sector information from the reformatted drive. According to the records, Valenko is in Mackay, Australia. Dixon and Sydney are immediately dispatched to capture him, hoping that this will bring them one step closer to Khasinau.

Vaughn receives a call from the source in Bogota. The Snowman has been spotted in Mackay, Australia, and he desperately wants to alert Sydney, to warn her, but he has no way to contact her.

When Sydney enters Valenko's mansion, she finds no bodyguards...and a trail of dead bodies. She stumbles into the kitchen and finds The Snowman standing over a fresh corpse -- and she fights the assassin in a brutal bout of hand-to-hand combat. During the melee, she impales The Snowman onto his own ice-pick, and he lies bleeding on the floor. She pulls back the mask and discovers his true identity... Noah... who mumbles a sad good-bye to her as he dies.

Source: ABC

**Yellow Mustang Girl** · 08-21-2008, 02:21 PM

Oh, this was a good episode

I liked seeing/learning Sydney had a past... I mean, had dated other guys, etc

I sorta suspected something bad coming.....

Fortyseven · 08-23-2008, 08:49 AM

I liked this one... Syd/Noah weren't my favorite couple but I'm a sucker for bittersweet endings, and this one was classic Alias

**Yellow Mustang Girl** · 08-23-2008, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Fortyseven (View Post)

I liked this one... Syd/Noah weren't my favorite couple but I'm a sucker for bittersweet endings, and this one was classic Alias

Yes, it was.... And I agree... I wasn't a shipper of these two, but I liked getting to see more to Syd's character...her past and all

**Violent Delights** · 09-26-2009, 07:30 AM

for Monday

Fading Letters · 10-09-2009, 04:52 AM

Anyone up for it this weekend?

**Yellow Mustang Girl** · 02-16-2011, 11:47 AM

Are we wanting to watch this episode on Sunday?

**Big Head want Dolly** · 02-16-2011, 12:14 PM

Yes, we want

**Yellow Mustang Girl** · 02-18-2011, 04:38 PM

I just realized I may not be here for this rewatch..... I have a disc golf game at that time.

**Big Head want Dolly** · 02-19-2011, 02:44 AM

Aww - have fun then, Carol!

I'll be here for the rewatch

**Yellow Mustang Girl** · 02-19-2011, 05:01 PM

Enjoy it you two

**Big Head want Dolly** · 02-20-2011, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Fade to Black (View Post)

I guess I'll have to watch then

Well, I could always watch and talk to myself - not that that's weird or anything

**Violent Delights** · 02-20-2011, 07:24 AM

I'll stay

What time would you like to watch?

**Big Head want Dolly** · 02-20-2011, 08:39 AM

9 is fine

Or do you prefer a different time?

**Big Head want Dolly** · 02-20-2011, 12:58 PM

3 minutes

and

is terribly slow

ETA: Hello?

I take it

isn't really working for you either, huh?

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