Airdate: Sunday.29.April.2003

At Diane's funeral, Vaughn observes a grieving Dixon secretly pop pills.
Later, he tells Sydney that Dixon is self-medicating and should take time
off before going back to work.

Sark suggests that Sloane go to Panama City. Sloane seems distracted and
declines, but gives him a number to call to get what he needs while Irina
lays low in Cypress. Sloane admits that killing Diane was a mistake. He's
going on leave, he says, and hands Sark the reins.

At the CIA, Marshall gives a presentation on Rambaldi for the benefit of
NSA task force leader Frederick Brendan and Rambaldi expert Kerry Bowman.
In his 15th century drawings, Marshall explains, Rambaldi drew a DNA
profile of Panamanian named Proteo Di Regno. His DNA is the code key to
decrypt page 94 of the Rambaldi manuscript, which foretells certain
apocalyptic events. One of them is to happen in 48 hours and may involve
Di Regno. Syd and Dixon are dispatched to find him and bring him back.

But Syd and Dixon arrive in Panama City too late. Not only is Di Regno
dead, his heart has been ripped out. They find that he has a Rambaldi
tattoo. Syd also finds a latex glove, which yields a fingerprint of an
assassin named Emilio Vargas.

Back home, Vaughn requests that Dixon be taken out of the field. When Jack
refuses, Vaughn does an end-around and calls Dr. Barnett. Marshall,
meanwhile, makes a love connection when he offers a Kleenex to Bowman,
who's been moved to tears by a Joni Mitchell song. They discuss Rambaldi
and find they share common interests. She asks him out for sushi. Va-va-voom.

Dixon and Syd find Vargas and defeat him in a swordfight. Dixon exhibits
exceptional brutality during the interrogation, but he gets info about Di
Regno and Sloane. Later, Dixon is called in to see Barnett at Vaughn's
prompting. Dixon says he used necessary force and that he needs to be
involved in the hunt for Sloane. She's not so sure, however. When Dixon
confronts Syd later, she denies reporting him. Dixon reveals he's been
taking Vicoden and that he must take a drug test . Sydney is furious at
Vaughn, but he stands by his actions.

Sloane appears in the Himalayas, trekking to a monastery on a remote
mountaintop. He finds the monk who sent him on the Rambaldi quest 30 years ago and vents his anger. The monk responds without fear.

Vaughn later apologizes to Syd; Dixon's drug test is negative. Syd tells
Dixon he passed the test, but Dixon reveals he switched the results and
begs her not to tell Barnett. He's lost without Diane, he says. Syd covers
for him when Barnett calls her in. Meanwhile, Dixon contemplates suicide
on a bridge.

The CIA tracks the heart to a truck delivering to a ship docked in
Cartegena. When Dixon and Syd are sent on the mission, Dixon promises that
he can handle the stress. At the dock, Syd and Dixon find the truck, but
the heart has been moved. Dixon brutally beats a dockworker who he thinks
is hiding info. He reveals a bomb and threatens to blow them all up unless
he gets answers. Neither Syd nor Vaughn can do anything for fear of
setting the bomb off. As the timer winds down, the man tells Dixon that
the heart is on the boat. The timer goes to zero, but Dixon was bluffing —
he had cut the timer cord. It's 10 minutes to midnight, the prophecy has
been thwarted … or has it?

The monk knows that Emily died; it was necessary, he says. He presents
Sloane with a scroll. Sloane learns that his journey has just begun.

The CIA team opens the box and finds the "heart." Dixon apologizes to Syd
for putting her in a tough position. He says that he came to terms Diane's
death while on the bridge. Vaughn and Syd relax in a park. Vaughn says
Dixon admitted he switched the tests, and for that he'll get leniency. Syd
reveals she knew what Dixon had done and apologizes. They walk off, arm in arm.