Airdate: Sunday.18.APRIL.2004
HOURGLASS

In a Nepal monastery, Sark, looking for info on The Passenger, threatens the
Rambaldi monk known as Conrad. The wise man kicks the crap out of him.
Olivia Reed appears and tranquilizes Conrad. Sark then takes a manuscript
regarding The Passenger, called The Restoration.

During an online chat with Irina, Jack asks her about The Passenger. The
account is suddenly terminated. Vaughn admits to Syd and Jack that Lauren
is the mole. Jack says he should play along. So when Lauren asks Vaughn to
come to counseling, he agrees.

Dixon receives intel that The Covenant has kidnapped Conrad. In the Thar
desert, Syd and Vaughn intercept the convoy on horseback. Syd jumps into
the truck, beats a guard and grabs Conrad while Vaughn trails them. As they
climb out toward Vaughn, Sark shoots Conrad. With his dying breath he says
to Sydney, "The Passenger is your sister."

In LA , Jack reveals to Syd that Sloane had an affair with Irina. Syd
confronts Sloane at his prison cell. He says he never knew he had a
daughter with Irina until he reached the Nepal monastery. The Di Regno
heart and Il Dire gave him the woman's DNA and the word "peace," which
translates to Irina in Greek. Using Omnifam, he gained access to DNA
databases but never found her. Now, he wants to protect her from The
Covenant. He asks Syd to convince Jack not to hide evidence which would
exonerate him. Jack later says he's hiding nothing.

Only the CIA's Project Black Hole has the codekey that can read The
Restoration. Jack sets a trap - He leaks to Lauren that Marshall has The
Restoration and will begin decoding it with the codekey. She copies his
thumb print, using it to access the Image Processing lab to duplicate the
codekey, which, in fact, is a fake.

Syd and Vaughn are shocked to find Lauren passing the fake to her mother
Olivia. They overhear Olivia say The Restoration is at home in Richmond.
During a counseling session, Dr. Barnett slyly suggests that Vaughn take a
trip with Lauren to Richmond. Once there, Vaughn hides a sensor that
Marshall uses to find a hidden safe. Syd phones him and directs him to it
while Lauren and Olivia are outside. He scans and transmits the documents
with a watch. Vaughn finishes just before Lauren enters. Syd disconnects
her comm as they fool around.

The documents reveal a Rambaldi artifact known as the Hourglass, which was
auctioned to Masa Raidon, a yakuza keeping the arkwork in a building in
Little Tokyo. The manuscript says The Hourglass will reveal the location of
The Passenger only to her father. Sloane will be executed in 6 hours. The
Justice Dept won't stay the execution.

Syd bluffs Jack into agreeing to turn over his info on The Trust and
exonerating Sloane. Jack then talks with Sloane, bringing champagne to his
cell to celebrate the knowledge of a daughter. Jack accuses him of trying
to take Syd away from him. He refuses to help Sloane and threatens The
Passenger.

Syd treads delicately in the Yakuza stronghold but when Marshall tells her
Dixon is at the execution, she kicks in to high gear. As Sloane enters his
execution chamber, Syd, double guns blazing, mows down the guards and grabs
The Hourglass. Sloane slowly dies as he receives a combination of lethal
injections.

Syd later turns her back on her father. Lauren, informing Olivia of Sloane's
death, admits that Vaughn played her. Jack, meanwhile, revives Sloane. He
had given him an antidote in the bottle of champagne. Jack orchestrated, he
tells Sloane, it because he needs him.