Airdate: Thursday.8.December.2005
Bob

In Siberia, Lukas Basarov plants a bomb in a train car. It explodes and
incinerates only the people, leaving the rest of the car intact. Upon
learning of the explosion, Marshall tells the APO team that it was a
Micropulse bomb.

Meanwhile, Sydney dines with a lady at a Yorkshire garden party. When she
spots Elizabeth Powell, the wife of the French ambassador, she hands her a
napkin with a message from Jack. Elizabeth meets Jack in the library and he
asks her about the attempts of French intelligence agency MI-6 to acquire a
Micropulse bomb. Elizabeth assures him that MI-6 isn't involved but Jack
asks her to look for a mole in the organization. He says this might lead to
info about Prophet Five.

Back at APO, Jack tells the team that his contact had identified Basarov as
the engineer of the Micropulse, and that MI-6 is trying to acquire it off
the books. Basarov, he says, is attending a conference in Brazil and
expects to receive a transmission about the sale rendezvous through his
laptop. He assigns Rachel to intercept this intel. Before leaving, Syd
reminds a stressed Rachel to have fun.

Disguised as a British scientist, Rachel checks in a hotel in Sao Paulo and
ends up in an elevator with Sark, who's posing as an American. They make a
connection, and realize that they're across the hall from each other. Once
in their respective hotel rooms, they start planting cameras for
surveillance in Basarov's room.

At the conference, Rachel asks for Basarov's autograph, which she scans to
produce a fingerprint copy. Later, when Basarov steps into the shower,
Rachel breaks into his room and tries to access his laptop using the copied
fingerprint. Rachel takes to the window ledge when someone enters. He can't
see that it's Sark bugging the laptop. When he leaves, Rachel puts her own
bug in the laptop.

Sark hits on Rachel in a bar and they go back up to his room. Rachel finds
an airline ticket indicating the Bahamas as Sark's next destination. Just
then, Rachel's phone vibrates, signaling the receipt of crucial intel. She
quickly leaves and sends the transmission to Marshall for decryption.

Back at the APO office, Rachel confides to Sydney about meeting a guy. Jack
says that Basarov is meeting the MI-6 double agent in Spain. Later, Jack
and Elizabeth stake out the sale in Malaga. A terrorist organization led by
Benjamin Masari ambushes Basarov's group. Jack and Elizabeth are abducted.

Sydney and Sloane watch the video footage and conclude that Sark intercepted
the transmission at the hotel. Rachel, angry at herself, says they can
catch him in the Bahamas.

Upon landing, Sark sees Rachel with Sydney. Sydney tells him that Masari has
Jack and asks him to help in Jack's rescue. Later, while Jack and Elizabeth
are being brutally interrogated by their captors, Masari gets a phone call
from Sark. Sark makes a deal with him to buy Jack and Elizabeth.

At the office, Dixon advises Syd not to go on the mission in her pregnant
condition. Meanwhile, Sark continues to flirt with Rachel, but Rachel
rejects him.

Dixon disguises himself as a local truck driver and Rachel and Tom hide
under the truck, When Sark enters Masari's Tunisia office, Masari points a
gun at him. A doublecross! Dixon shoots the guards and breaks into the
facility. He and Tom look for Jack, while Rachel tries to locate the
weapon. She finds it, only that Sark is handcuffed to it. Marshall and Syd
remotely guide Rachel through its disarmament.

As Jack says goodbye to an injured Elizabeth, Dixon asks Sark where they
could wire his payment. Sark says this was a freebie and walks away,
leaving Rachel interested. Later, Sydney talks to Jack over the phone and
they make plans for breakfast. Before they hang up, Syd tells her father
that she loves him.