Airdate: Thursday.20.October.2005
Mockingbird

Wearing a glitzy outfit, Sydney emerges from a sleek car in Monte Carlo and
hands her key to Tom, dressed as the valet. She goes inside the casino and
starts attracting attention with her boisterous behavior and consecutive
wins. Meanwhile, Tom drives the car to the basement and picks the lock of a
maintenance station.

With a big crowd, Dixon accuses Sydney of cheating. After the casino guards
bring her in the office, Syd shoots them with a tranquilizer and goes to
the office vault. With a laser cutter and the key code that Tom relayed
through her earpiece, Sydney retrieves a laptop and drives away.

As she passes by a shipyard, she is stopped by a policeman and is boxed in
by another vehicle. Suddenly, a shipping crane with a large magnet grabs
her entire car and Syd is lifted hundreds of feet off the ground. She gets
a phone call from Gordon Dean saying he wants Mockingbird back.

In the APO office 72 hours earlier, Rachel shares her guilt with Sydney on
getting her coworkers killed. When Sydney urges her to rest and points out
that it is Gordon Dean's fault, Rachel insisted on finishing her report on
Dean. Syd then asks Rachel what "Mockingbird" is as written in some of her
reports, and Rachel replies that it's her call sign.

At an industrial office, Gordon Dean tasks a man named Keach with an
assignment. After, Peyton approaches Dean and mentions that they need money
for an account transfer so they can rebuild their offices. Dean types in
his password.

Waiting in the APO office, Marshall announces that he has been monitoring
Dean's accounts based on Rachel's intel, and recently, Dean had liquidated
all his finances and stored them all in one account. Rachel shares that the
account is Dean's fail safe account in Cayman Islands, and that since she
built it, she had made it a trap-door account. The only way to access it is
to be at the bank and go through Dean's protocol questions. The answers are
in Dean's servers in the Prague office -which has been destroyed.

Later, Syd asks Rachel to go with her to Prague. Using Marshall's recovery
software, they can reconstruct protocols and help Dixon and Tom with
getting into Dean's account before traces of Dean disappear once again.
Rachel adamantly refuses.

In a Federal Building, Sloane sits in front of Boyd Harkin, Special
Prosecutor to Sloane's case. Unsympathetic and determined to punish Sloane,
he lists Sloane's criminal activities, and expresses his disbelief on the
pardon agreements that Sloane had gotten in the past. Sloane admits to his
wrongdoings and promises that he is reformed. Later, Sloane is approached
in his cell by Keach. Keach says that he has benefactors who can help
Sloane. He considers this offer.

With their Czech Intelligence Badges, Sydney and Rachel enter Dean's Prague
office and heads to the servers. In spite of Rachel's anxiety and difficult
flashbacks, they find the hard drive amidst the debris and was able to plug
it into the laptop. Rachel starts hacking.

Dixon and Tom sit at a beach in Cayman Islands and were approached by the
bank's emissary, Pierpont, earlier than expected. After Dixon alerts Sydney
of the sudden change, they go into a cabana where Dixon and Tom is seated.
With the guards' pistols aimed at Dixon and Tom, Pierpont starts asking
them a series of questions. As Dixon subtly relays the questions through
his earpiece, Syd and Rachel supply answers from Prague with the data they
are slowly recovering. Despite a setback, Dixon was able to withdraw all of
Dean's finances.

At this moment, Dean and Peyton realize that they have been cleaned out. As
they conclude that Rachel is the only person who could have done this, they
make plans to get her back.

At the APO office, Dixon reports that because of the recent events, Echelon
was able to intercept a call revealing a location where Dean stores one of
his operation archives. With the blueprints in front of them, they realize
that they need to retrieve the archive from an electromagnetic deposit box
system. When Dixon mentions that the mainframe resets passwords daily,
Rachel blurts out that she can get around it by decrypting the building's
network. With determination to destroy Gordon Dean, she volunteers for this
next assignment.

At Monte Carlo, after Sydney heads to the casino and Tom brings the car to
the basement, he pops the trunk and Rachel goes with him to the maintenance
station. Rachel decrypts the algorithm and passes the code to Tom who
relayed it to Sydney. She goes back in the trunk and Sydney drives off.

With her entire car hanging from the crane, Syd speaks to Dean on the phone
who is demanding that Mockingbird be delivered in 30 minutes. As Dixon
attempts to rescue them, a camera captures their presence and the car
plummets 20 feet. Talking Rachel through this predicament, Syd asks Rachel
to call Dean to confirm that she is on her way. As Dean listens, he hears a
foghorn in the background, revealing Rachel's actual location. In a flash,
Syd tells Rachel to kick the trunk, and grabbing Rachel by her arm, Syd
uses her laser cutter to attach herself to the magnet -a split second
before the car crashes to the ground.

At the hearing, Sloane stands in front of Harkin, awaiting his sentence.
Sloane surprisingly gets pardoned and is released from the federal
penitentiary. Jack looks at him suspiciously.

On the plane ride home, Sydney tells Rachel that they can't release her
until Dean is brought in -and everyone involved. Rachel sits back and
realizes that her life is never going to be safe.