"Alias" The Getaway (2003)

Director:

Lawrence Trilling

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator)
Jeff Pinkner (writer)

TV Series:

"Alias" (2001)

Original Air Date:

12 January 2003 (Season 2, Episode 12)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Sydney and Vaughn reach a crossroads as they try to turn a professional relationship into a personal...

Plot Keywords:

Heroine | CIA | Double Agent | College | Fight

Cast

Jennifer Garner	...	Sydney Bristow
Ron Rifkin	...	Arvin Sloane
Michael Vartan	...	Michael Vaughn
Bradley Cooper	...	Will Tippin (credit only)
Merrin Dungey	...	Francie Calfo
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Dixon
Kevin Weisman	...	Marshall Flinkman
David Anders	...	Julian Sark (credit only)
Lena Olin	...	Irina Derevko
Victor Garber	...	Jack Bristow
Terry O'Quinn	...	F.B.I. Asst. Director Kendall
Courtney Gains	...	Holden Gemler - The Nerd
Greg Grunberg	...	Eric Weiss
Faye Dunaway	...	Ariana Kane
Amy Irving	...	Emily Sloane

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

In the second season episode "The Getaway", a French waiter jokes that Michael Vaughn speaks French better than he does. In reality, actor Michael Vartan, who plays Vaughn, was born in France.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: The agents working for Agent Cane downloaded Vaughn's files from the US DMV. At a far off shot, you can see on the screen of their laptop is a picture of Vaughn's driver's license. But then, on the next close up shot, you only see a large picture of Vaughn. They then search through the DMV database to find Vaughn's license. Then you see the same picture as was on the screen before they looked it up.

Quotes:

Michael Vaughn: Involving you had no upside.
Michael Vaughn: There's no upside to keeping me informed? You didn't tell me about Manolo or that you had discussions with my mother! You didn't even tell me that you were seeing Alice again!
Michael Vaughn: Wait. What is this about?
Sydney Bristow: This is about me being too old to be coddled!

Movie Connections:

Features D.O.A. (1950)

A close call (or two)

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Sydney is sent to Nice, France to recover a gyroscope with missile guiding capabilities, but the growing affection in her relationship with Vaughn puts them both at great danger. Meanwhile, Jack continues to be hunted down by Ariana Kane and her posse, and they're beginning to suspect Sydney as well. So he turns to Irina to help him re-evaluate the whole situation and find the clues that will lead him to the mysterious blackmailer. Opening with a exciting car chase (which mirrors a sequence from the Pilot of the show - this time it's Sydney rescuing Jack), raising the stakes in the middle (there are at least 2 occasions when Sydney is mere SECONDS away from being exposed as a double agent), and closing with a twist that gets the viewer thinking just how much of what he or she saw in the second season so far was "real" and how much was fabricated, "The Getaway" also benefits, once again, from the incredible chemistry between Victor Garber and Lena Olin - those two can tell a lot just by looking at each other. And the writers prove that their plans for the series are long-term, by turning an almost forgotten event from a late Season 1 episode into a major plot point now. *** out of 4.