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| Time Will Tell |
| Episode 8: Time Will Tell [Sloane�s office] JACK: Got a minute? SLOANE: Of course. JACK: Eloise Kurtz. She was found dead two days ago in Echo Park. She was a new promotion at SD-6. SLOANE: Yes, I know. JACK: You retired her, didn�t you? SLOANE: I think the more pressing question is, why did you send her to talk to a reporter without running it by me first? JACK: I wasn�t keeping it from you, but this reporter- SLOANE: Will Tippin. JACK: Yes. He�s a friend of Sydney�s. He was looking into the name Kate Jones, one of her aliases. I tasked Eloise Kurtz to lead him down a dead end so he�d drop it. SLOANE: You underestimated Tippin and Agent Kurtz�s lack of field experience. Put us all at risk. What are you doing using a junior agent, Jack? JACK: Talk to McCullough. I used Eloise Kurtz based on his assessment of her field ability. He gave her his highest rating. In any case, I had contingencies, all of which are now irrelevant. SLOANE: Tell me something. How did Tippin get a lead on the Kate Jones alias in the first place? JACK: I don�t know yet, but I�m looking into it. SLOANE: Well, your efforts notwithstanding, that reporter may be a casualty of his own curiosity. JACK: I�d consider that a last resort. I know you want what�s best for Sydney, and if at all possible, we should spare her the pain of losing someone else. SLOANE: Well, how do you suggest we proceed? JACK: Leave it to me. I�ll get Tippin off the story. SLOANE: And if you can�t? JACK: Then I�ll kill him myself. [SD-6 halls] SYD: Dad, do you have a few minutes? JACK: Yes, of course. Could you just- SYD: Somewhere quiet, somewhere else. JACK: (leads her into a room) In here. (He pulls out a pen and flips the lid.) Signal jammer. We�re okay for sixty seconds. They�ll think it�s radio interference. Talk quickly. SYD: Sloane�s having me followed. I confronted the guy last night. I thought it might be K-Directorate looking for revenge after Oxford. I talked to Sloane, and he insists it�s all routine. Should I be worried? JACK: I�m one of only five agents in this office who knows the truth about SD-6. I�ve had Sloane�s trust, but lately, I haven�t been informed of much at all. SYD: So, what does that mean? JACK: Two things concern me. While you were in Romania, Marshall noticed some computer abnormalties. I assumed it was just a system error, but it�s possible he�s realized that the SD-6 network has been compromised. SYD: Could Sloane trace it to CIA? JACK: I don�t nkow. THe second thing. Carl Dreyer is coming in from op comm to upgrade the biometric scanners. But if Slaone suspects a double agent, Dreyer is the one he�d turn to. If that�s the case, the first thing Dreyer will do is give each of us a functional imaging test. SYD: What�s that? JACK: Lie detector test. SYD: I studied the CIA instruction book on how to take a successful LDT. JACK: This isn�t like that. This test monitors variations in blood flow in the brain. It�s very difficult to deceive. Tell your handler Vaughn he needs to prepare you for this. If he can�t, he�ll get someone who can. SYD: Dad, you seem nervous. (signal jammer beeps) JACK: Well, I think that should be fine. Thanks for coming to me. SYD: Of course. [Briefing] SLOANE: As you know for some time now, we have been operating under the assumption that the sum of Rambaldi�s inventions is greater than the parts. This clock is evidence of that. MARSHALL: Thank you, hi. All right, now, who here remembers this? (holds up a golden circle) SYD: The golden sun I got from the church in Malaga. MARSHALL: That�s right, the polymer. If you look at it closely, hundreds of tiny imperfections, air bubbles, nothing unusual, right? But what is unusual is this. (Puts circle into the clock) Now, I realized if you set this to exactly 12:22, and 1:22, then this happens. (Hands magnifying glass to Syd) Ms. Bristow, ladies first. SYD: (looks through magnifying glass) What is that? MARSHALL: It�s a star chart. A snapshot of the sky taken from one specific place on earth at one specific moment in time. (Jack enters) JACK: Sorry I�m late. DIXON: Sort of like an ancient GPS system. MARSHALL: Well, yeah, if you have the date and the time that the snapshot was taken. See that�s the genius. See, these two things separately? Nothing, nothing at all. But you put them together and...that sound that you�re, you know, that boom? That�s my mind blowing. SLOANE: Now, if we assume that star chart refers to the date on the back of the clock: August 16th, 1523 at 12:22 AM GMT, then the only spot on earth with that exact view of the stars is the southern slope of Mt. Aconcagua on the Chile/Argentina border. DIXON: X marks the spot. So, we think Rambaldi stored something there? SLOANE: Possibly. Your mission is to find out. Marshall will fill you in on the op tech. Oh, and Sydney? Before you head off, I want you to go down to Psych and see Carl Dreyer. |
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