Airdate: Sunday.30.March.2003

Dixon apologizes to Sydney for taking the shot that killed Emily and says
he has requested reassignment. In hiding, a vengeful Sloane, no longer
interested in the Rambaldi quest, tells Irina that he wants to know who
murdered his wife.

At the CIA, a restless Sydney suggests to Elsa Caplan that she be
hypnotized, for lack of any other leads. Elsa angrily refuses and is upset
that Syd thinks she isn't doing enough to find her husband Neil.
Meanwhile, Irina gives Neil an encrypted database of DNA taken from 10
million people, with the expectation that he can find one specific person.

Working at home, Syd significantly gives Vaughn a drawer in her bureau.
While poring over records, Syd notices 3 calls to Caplan's house at odd
hours and traces them to Gregory Ivanov, a reporter working for an
organization known to give cover to Russian SVR agents. After Ivanov is
put under surveillance, she discovers that he has just received a fax that
says "endgame." Later Elsa admits that Ivanov was her handler and that she
married Caplan in order to monitor him. She also implanted in his arm a
cyanide pill, and the meaning of the fax is that the pill has been
activated and will kill her husband in 42 hours. She tells Syd that she
really does love Caplan.

According to Elsa, the pill has a tracking chip that's activated by a code
that she knows. If they can get a locating device from a blackmarket
contact in Moscow who deals in SVR contraband, they can enter the code and
find Caplan. Jack doesn't trust Elsa, given her similarities to Irina, and
refuses to act on the information even though it could lead them to
Sloane. Syd secretly tells Elsa that she'll get the device herself. Elsa
gives her the code.

Caplan attacks Irina in an attempt to escape. Sloane shoots him in the leg
and threatens to waste him, but Irina says Caplan is still needed. Later,
Sloane contacts Francie with a request.

Dixon confers with his wife Diane about his reassignment. He wants to do it
for the sake of their marriage. She pledges her love and loyalty to him.

Jack has Syd trailed. She notices the agents and pulls into a drugstore
where a group of Sigma Gamma sorority girls shop and chat. As Syd phones
Vaughn and relays a coded message, she buys random items — wrapping paper,
tape, a wig. She ducks into a back room and, using the purchased goods,
disguises herself as a one of the girls, and joins them on the way out.
Vaughn, meanwhile, decodes Syd's message. She's going to Russia.

Jack confronts and threatens Vaughn. He intercepted the message and refuses
to send Sydney backup. In Moscow, Syd, disguised as a cowgirl enters an
ersatz honky-tonk bar and meets the blackmarket dealer. Before he'll
listen to her, she must prove her worth by riding the mechanical bull for
8 seconds, which she does. She then pays fifty thousand dollars for the
locating device. Syd calls Vaughn and tells him to meet her in Saria, Spain.

Francie, who has altered Will's phone, calls him at the CIA and asks him to
pull up a recipe on a Web site. As he does it, she somehow uses him to
hack into CIA computers and downloads the surveillance tape of Emily's
death. Sloane then identifies Dixon as Emily's killer.

Vaughn and Syd arrive at an office building in Saria and overpower the
guards. They find Caplan, who says Sark is in the area. He also tells Syd
that he's an NSA agent and he knows that his wife is a Russian operative.
Sark eludes Vaughn as Syd extracts the suicide pill.

Back at the CIA, Caplan and Elsa reunite. Convinced of their love, Jack has
granted Elsa defector status. Syd says the data Caplan has decrypted gives
them leads on Sloane. Unswayed, Jack says that Syd will be transferred if
she disobeys him again. Marshall finds that the satellite footage from
Tuscany has been downloaded from the CIA computers — and that it was an inside job.

At dinner with his wife Diane, Syd, and Vaughn, Dixon announces that he has
rescinded his transfer. The group leaves the restaurant and Diane gets
into her car to pickup the kids, saying she'll meet Dixon at home. As she
drives off, the car explodes. Francie leaves the scene.