Airdate: Thursday.27.October.2005
Out of the Box

Renee Rienne steals a chemical from an army storage depot in Frankfurt
while Jack meets Sloane in a restaurant. Sloane asks to be reinstated in
APO so he can find a cure for Nadia, Jack says he's already made the
request but a senator is blocking the request.

In Marseilles, Rienne administers the chemical to a man who's been
cryogenically frozen. At the APO office, Dixon reports that the chemical is
Atropine ZX, an experimental substance used to resuscitate gravely injured
soldiers. The thief, who he's identified as Rienne by way of video footage,
had also stolen the frozen body from DSR. As Syd volunteers to speak to
her, Jack privately asks Tom to keep an eye on Renee.

Syd and Tom meet Renee in Marseilles and return to her loft, where the now
revived but disoriented man surprises them. He holds a knife to Renee's
throat. They realize that the man is Luc Goursaud, Renee's father, and calm
him down. Luc reveals that it was Aldo Desantis who had frozen him. Before
he can speak about Prophet Five, Luc has a seizure and slips into
unconsciousness.

Gordon Dean approaches Sloane and reveals the identity of Senator Lewis, who
is refusing his reinstatement. At Dean's suggestion, Sloane wins his
reinstatement by threatening the senator's child.

Jack gives Tom and Syd the name of a doctor they could bring Luc to.
Overhearing the name "Desantis," Rachel remembers that, while working for
Dean, she had stored files on Desantis in a San Francisco facility.
Mercenaries converge on Renee's loft and pump gas into the vents. Tom makes
his way out and plants a bomb in their van. In a flashback, Renee recalls
that her father had once worked for Desantis, but they had become enemies.

Meanwhile, Dixon and Rachel go to the San Francisco facility and ask to be
shown a storeroom, where they leave a case. Marshall's latest invention
crawls out of the case: a spider robot with a tomographic camera. Marshall
controls the device from a remote location, directing the spider to find
and scan Desantis' files. Later, they learn that the documents detailed the
manipulation of genetic and neural pathways. They also discover that the
brain scans of Luc Goursaud and the man in the cryogenic chamber were not
the same.

Tom returns to the loft and finds a beacon in Luc's cryogenic chamber. He
and Renee use the beacon to alert APO. Syd learns about the beacon through
Luc and discovers that he had guided the mercenaries to the loft. His cover
blown, Luc takes Syd hostage. When Renee and Tom return, they realize that
Luc is not Renee's father. Suddenly, the building is blown apart and a
helicopter picks up Luc.

Later, in a North Korea hospital, Gordon Dean meets man formerly known as
Luc, referring to him as "Doctor Desantis." Desantis reports that
the "woman" is now calling herself "Renee Rienne" and that she's working
with the CIA. Dean assures Desantis that keeping an eye on her won't be a
problem.

Sloane, his clearance granted, walks down the halls of the APO office.