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| The Box Part One |
| Episode 12: The Box Part One (Jack runs after Sydney in the hallway) JACK: Sydney! Wait! You can�t lose control over this. SYD: You know what, Dad? This is not the best time to start lecturing me. JACK: I know how this feels. SYD: Not exactly. You�ve had a lot longer to make sense of this than I have. JACK: There was a time when this was news to me, too. Your mother was sent to the United States to steal secrets from a ranking officer of the CIA. How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. But it was just a set-up. SYD: Even her wanting to have a family? Was that just part of the plan, too? (she leaves) (SD-6 parking lot) JACK: Sydney! Sydney! (jogs up to her) This is suicide! SYD: I don�t think it is. JACK: What exactly is your exit strategy? Politely asking Sloane to let you out of SD-6? SYD: Based on Sloane�s behavior toward me, protecting me at Donatti Park, asking Rusik to get me to talk- JACK: Sloane answer to people. People who don�t know you or care about you. If he lets you go, those people will hill him and you. (They go into the elevator) Those people Sloane works for, the Alliance, if they believe you�ve abandoned them, they will kill anyone they think you have talked to. Your roommate, Francie. That reporter friend. Anyone. SYD: I felt this way before I found out about my mother. This life has to stop. (Elevator stops and lights go out. Then they come back on and Jack tries to call security on the phone.) JACK: Dead. But a blackout wouldn�t shut down security. (Later, in the elevator.) SYD: Still can�t get a signal. JACK: Whoever�s doing that could be jamming the frequencies. (Elevator starts moving) Emergency lockdown procedures. (He pushes a button) The elevator is returning to sub level six. The doors will automatically open. (Sydney and Jack climb on top of the elevator, and as the doors open and guards check the elevator down below, the don�t see Sydney and Jack.) GUY: Elevator secure. (Jack and Sydney climb down from the elevator shaft and out into a room. They walk around the corner and see one of their guys dead. Red beams line the hallway. Jack pushed a code to turn off the lasers.) JACK: The advantages of high-level clearance. Let�s go. (They go to the camera room. Jack starts fiddling with the wires.) SYD: How could K-Directorate overpower fifty trained agents? JACK: If K-Directorate attacks SD-6, they know SD-6 will return the favor. This team that�s invaded SD-6 isn�t working with any organization we know. My guess is they�re working for a group, clearly unpredictable and dangerous. Hand me that cable. (she does) Now plug it in. (she does and Jack starts flicking through wires looking at different security camera pictures.) JACK: There are six hundred cameras hidden through SD-6. (They see where all the agents are tied up with a couple of guys guarding them.) SYD: Oh, my God. Look at that hardware. JACK: Latest military specs. SYD: Extended magazines, compensators, laser sights... JACK: I see four. SYD: There�s a fifth. (Cole walks in and starts talking to Sloane) Do you know this guy? JACK: I know the operation. Sloane in �96 sent a team to Chechnya to destroy the Shelhemil pipeline. There were complications. The team was captured by the Russians. (Later, still in the camera room) JACK: Those other two. Where the hell did they go? (Sees them in the vault room) ENDO: We should be in the vault within ten minutes! SYD: Ten minutes? What are they going for in the vault? JACK: Could be anything. Sloane was planning on sending you to Taiwan, did you know about that? SYD: FTL acquired some scud launchers. He wanted me to scramble their launch codes. JACK: Marshall�s working on a scrambling device for that op. Have you seen it? SYD: He showed it to me last week. JACK What does it look like? SYD: Why? JACK: Sloane must have activated the emergency failsafe. There are five hundred pounds of C-4 strategically placed within the substructure of this building. Opening the vault will trigger that C-4. All underground levels will collapse, burying any evidence that the Los Angeles cell of SD-6 ever existed. SYD: You want to scramble the vault codes. JACK: Can you see the scrambler in Marshall�s office? SYD: There it is. That compact on his desk. JACK: It�s not far from his air vent. But getting into his office is too much of a risk. SYD: So then...we fish for it. (Later, Jack is getting ready to go into the air vent) JACK: Watch the security feeds. If I�m caught, get out of the building through the elevator shaft as fast as you can. SYD: Dad, wait. You�re not doing this. JACK: Of course I am. What are you talking about? SYD: No, you�re not. You�re going to have to crawl through a maze of air shafts, get to Marshall�s office, get the scrambler, get to the vault room and scramble the code all in under ten minutes. I mean, no offense, but, Dad, I am doing this. JACK: You�ll have to find your way to the vault. SYD: I know. JACK: And use the scrambler. And stay low! SDY: Dad, I know how to use the scrambler. I can�t believe, of all things, we�re saving SD-6. |
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