Airdate: Wednesday.16.February.2005
Dente

In Irkutsk, Vaughn learns from a contact that Russia has produced a
breakthrough explosive called Black Thorine. The contact suspects his
superior stole it and sold it, and gives Vaughn the man's bank account
number. Soldiers arrive and shoot the man, Vaughn escapes with Syd's
assistance.

Syd arrives home to find Sloane visiting Nadia. Despite Nadia's objection,
Syd kicks him out, saying he can't be trusted. She only took the APO job
to watch him. Nadia realizes Syd hasn't reconciled the past.

At APO, Sloane says that money was deposited into the account by Boris
Tambor, an oil magnate who moonlights as an arms dealer. He's currently in
Monte Carlo. Jack says he sits at a high stakes poker table every night at
9. Their mission is to get into his suite, find out where he keeps the
black Thorine and how he plans to move it.

Syd confides to Dixon that she may not be able to work with Sloane. Dixon
says he dreams of his dead wife Diane every night; she tells him to do the
right thing. That's how he makes peace with Sloane -- he doesn't ignore
the past, but he makes the right decision today.

As they shoot targets at a firing range, Syd tells Nadia that she needed to
know her mother and so understands Nadia's desire to know Sloane.

In Monte Carlo, Syd inserts a micro camera into the suite and gets a visual
on Tambor, who's watching a soccer match - not going to the gaming table.
Nadia and Syd notice perfume, a purse, magazines. They realize he's got a
girlfriend. Deducing that the woman is bored, pissed off because she's
being ignored and sitting in the bar, they see their opening.

Dressed up to party, Nadia and Syd identify the girlfriend through her
perfume. They befriend the woman; she takes them up to the room and past
security. Syd clones his PDA hard drive while Nadia chats up Tambor.

In LA, Sloane is angry at them for taking risks. Syd gets indignant at what
he deems "unacceptable." Everywhere she looks, she says, she's reminded of
Francie and Danny. Marshall has broken the hard drive's encryption and
finds out that Tambor will sell the vial on his yacht, Argento, which is
sailing in Turkish waters in the Black Sea. It's stored in a safe within a
safe in a cabin below deck. Marshall gives Syd a device that will allow
her to read the safe's combination through his clothes.

Jack lobbies for Sloane to allow Syd and Nadia to work together again. They
swim to the yacht and sneak on board. Syd uses the combination reader
while Tambor makes the deal. Sloane recognizes the buyer as Leo Orissa,
the head of a Russian crime syndicate. Nadia opens the safe - revealing
eight canisters of Black Thorine.

Orissa ambushes Tambor, whose girlfriend turns on him. Tambor is killed as
Syd and Nadia escape to the water. Sloane tells Syd he has to trust him
and advises her to go back on board. Confronting Orissa, Syd says she
works for Arvin Sloane, which sends fear into the man. Syd catalogues
Sloane's depravity. Orissa offers up the location of the lab. Meanwhile,
Nadia disposes of Orissa's thugs. The lab, Orissa says, is in the Ukraine.
Tambor's girlfriend shoots Orissa and fights Syd. With an assist from
Nadia, Syd kills her.

Nadia tells syd she's always been alone. Now she's glad to work on a team.
Sloane assumes Syd wants a transfer. Syd says she will never forgive
him. "I'll see you tomorrow," she says.