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| Cipher |
| Episode 3: Cipher [In Dr. Barnett�s office] Barnett: We weren�t scheduled to meet until Wednesday. Is everything all right? Jack: I�m here to talk about Sydney. Barnett: Good. What�s on your mind? Jack: I want your help in devising a strategy to persuade Sydney not to interact with her mother. Barnett: Why? Jack: Because Irina Derevko is an opportunistic sociopath who�ll use whatever inroads she can make with my daughter to get what she wants. Barnett: But have you considered that the more you keep her from her mother, the more you�ll spark her interest? Jack: (irritated) Of course I have. Which is why I�m hoping to develop a strategy with the necessary subtlety. Barnett: (laughs) Well, I�m sorry, but I am not in the habit of helping a father manipulate his daughter, no matter how good his intentions may be. Jack: I see. (nods) And is your opinion here based on what�s best for Sydney or what�s best for the agency? Because the fact is, that if Sydney doesn�t talk to Laura, the CIA learns nothing. Barnett: So...you still think of her as �Laura,� even though that was her alias. Jack: (looks shaken) [Jack and Sydney are speaking outdoors, beside their cars] Jack: I read Vaughn�s debrief; I know you saw your mother. You okay? Sydney: Seeing her again...I�m realizing that there are these...these gaps in my memory from around the time she left. Dad, do you remember a Thanksgiving play I was in that year in school? Cuz I sorta do, I mean I have an impression of it, but I can�t remember...was I a pilgrim? Or an Indian? (sees Jack thinking) What? Jack: You were neither. You were a turkey. You were the only turkey spared to celebrate the harvest. Sydney: (smiles) I know you think it�s dangerous for me to see mom, but she�s a means to an end. I don�t take anything she says at face value. Jack: She won�t expect you to. Sydney, I - (stops, reconsiders what he was going to say) I trust your judgment. You�re doing fine. [SD-6 conference room, after a debriefing. Everyone is getting up to leave, Sloane speaks to Jack] Sloane: Jack, would you stay a moment please? (Arvin waits for everyone to clear out before speaking again) I want to ask you for a favor, Jack. I think I may have...underestimated the effect that Emily�s death would have on me. Jack: You�re entitled to your grief. Sloane: Not when it undermines my authority here, my standing within the Alliance. (they both sit) I need you to monitor me, Jack. I need you to pull me aside...if you think that I�m letting my cards show. Jack: (nods) Of course. Sloane: The day before she...the day before she passed, Emily reserved us a suite at our favorite bed & breakfast in Sonoma. Even in her last moments, she was planning our future. (both men look away from each other) I�m not a spiritual man, but I feel, lately, her presence everywhere around me. Jack: Trauma can bring about feelings of metaphysical familiarity, �waking dreams,� as it were. On the other hand, who�s to say she�s not with you? [Cut to: Sydney is talking to Irina, Jack is watching on the monitor. He sees Syd tell her mother that she was a turkey in the school play. Irina seems genuinely touched and says thank you.] [Irina's cell, she is doing push-ups, when she hears the gates opening and footsteps approaching. An annoyed look comes over her face. She hesitates, then turns to see Jack. They lock eyes for several moments, the first time in over 20 years. She goes to the glass to meet him] Irina: I�ve had a picture of your face in my mind for 20 years. I remember a loving husband, a generous man, a patriot. I may have been under orders to fabricate a life with you, but there were times when the illusion of our marriage was as powerful for me as it was for you, especially when Sydney was born. Looking at you now, I see that illusion is finally gone. Jack: (swallows) I want to make something very clear to you. There are people here who believe you can repay the debt you owe this country through your continued cooperation. I am not one of them. And if Sydney in any way becomes victim to your endgame, I will kill you. She�s spent most of her life believing you were dead. She�ll get used to it again, no matter what bond you try to forge with her. (turns to leave) Irina: You haven�t told her what you did to her after I disappeared, have you? (Jack walks out) |
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| Thanks to SpyDadFan for this transcript. |