First the cliffhangers of Lost, then the cliffhanger for Alias.
I may hate him.
Oh, I am hating him just a leeeetle bit right now…for “Alias”. I don’t watch “Lost.”
Wow…I…there are no words…words fail me. In fact, the phrase “Words fail me” doesn’t even begin to describe how much words fail me…just…GAH!!!
Regarding the cliffhanger for “Alias”
If Michael Vaughn isn’t Michael Vaughn, what the hell was all the big hoo-ha about find his dead-but-alive-but-dead father!!!
I don’t understand and now I must suffer four months. JJ is purposely screwing with our minds. That was a total mindfuck. I’m sorry…just…jeeeeeeez!!!
Evil like a FOX!
All “Alias” and “Lost” fans can assure you that he’s more evil than that…
Could someone give me a rundown on Alias last night? Thanks.
The team is in Zombietown (whatever that Russian city was called). They’re heading toward the Meuller device when Irina and Jack spot a white horse, which looks red under the light of the big glowing ball. Irina spouts some Rimbaldi prophecy about bloody horses and falling angels meaning that one of her daughters will perish that night.
The team meets someone from the NSA’s Rimbaldi squad whom she’s met before, and apparently shot at some point. The team decides to get to the device via subway tunnel. The Rimbaldi squad redshirt cracks wise about Sydney putting a hole through him and then gets stabbed through the gut with a piece of rebar by a zombie. Irony and death ensue.
Elena gloats while Sloane looks on.
Weiss and Marshall blackmail a Russian official to gain access to Russia’s military satelite network. They discover that Elena is set to broadcast the Mueller devide signal through the satelites to trigger the zombie infection everywhere the water has been primed by Sloane’s foundation.
Back in the tunnels, team members perform various tasks to get a subway train moving. Irina and Vaughn cut the brake lines to bleed the fluid, and Irina says something to Vaughn about not waiting to tell Sydney about his extra-ciricular activities. Sydney and Nadia are doing something to the tracks to allow the train to move and Nadia leaves the train to manually release something. The train starts up while Nadia is still outside, she runs after the train but is overwhelmed by zombies.
At the other end of the line, Sloane and some goons meet up with the team. Sloane triple reverses back to the good guys and takes out the goons. The team plus Sloane plan an assault on Elena’s headquarters.
Nadia somehow escapes the zombie horde without a scratch and goes to the surface. She hears someone crying for help and discovers a man who says his leg is broken, but who is actually one of Elena’s goons. he takes her prisoner.
Elena straps Nadia to a chair and injects her with tap water, infecting her.
The team and Sloane get into the headquarters and capture Elena. Sydney has gone to the roof after accepting Vaughn’s marriage proposal, and Vaughn is trying in vain to disrupt the power. While on the roof, Sydney and Nadia, who has been zombified, fight and Sydney knocks Nadia out.
Jack threatens to inject Elena with the zombie water unless he tells them which of two wires to cut to stop the device. Elena says to cut the white wire. Irina shoots her in the head and tells Sydney to cut the blue wire. Before she can, Nadia gets her around the throat with a chain and almost kills her, before Sloane shoots Nadia. Sydney cuts the wire, the Mueller device shuts down, the glowing ball collapses into a deluge of water, the team escapes and the building collapses.
In the aftermath, Jack allows Irina to escape rather than return to prison and they exchange a tender kiss. Irina tells Sydney how proud she is of her and that Sydney may not see Irina on her wedding day but Irina will see her.
Back in the States, Sydney goes to visit Sloane in prison. She tells him that the Russians have killed all the zombies in Zombietown and that no one will give up until they find an antidote for Nadia. She’s arranged for Sloane to see Nadia and he’s taken to her in chains.
Final scene, Sydney and Vaughn are driving in Santa Barbara and decide to elope and get married on the beach. Vaughn says there’s something he has to tell Sydney. She says there’s nothing he could say that would bother her, except that he’s a bad guy. Silence. Sydney asks, “are you a bad guy?” Vaughn replies that it depends on who you ask. “To start with, my name is not Michael Vaughn.” Then their car is struck on the driver’s side by another vehicle in a horrible accident (which I knew was coming but whisch still made me jump). The end.
I didn’t know it was coming, and I nearly jumped out of my skin! It was profoundly shocking, and left me stunned for a few seconds afterwards (it didn’t help that I was sitting in the dark in front of my HD big screen with the audio system cranked; it was as much a physical assault as emotional :)).
Good summary, by the way!
Geez, now we all have to wait till September… 
I think we need to have a Toronto Dopefest this summer to watch the first three seasons. 
I wasn’t nearly as traumatized as the rest of you because that was the first episode of Alias I saw all of. I kept meaning to take it up but hadn’t so all I know about it is what I have picked up from promos or watching for a few minutes here and there.
What I did notice is how ABC has its finger on the pulse of Alias and Lost viewers and have planned summer programming on Wednesday nights sure to keep them glues to their seats: Supernanny is in for Lost and Dancing With the Stars for Alias. I live for the opportunity to see Mr Peterman and Evander Holyfield dance.
Anyone remember exactly what Irina said to Vaughn - something about “you better tell Sydney about your past activities” - not “kind of” what she said, but exactly - maybe someone recorded it?
I jumped to the ceiling in the last scene. I had no idea it was coming at all.
All day I’ve been trying to figure out how it could have been intended for Sydney to specifically be sent to Vaughn when she walked in to the CIA.
I didn’t see the crash coming, and I’m sure the neighbors down the block heard me screaming at my television!
So who the heck is Michael Vaughn? And what the heck is going on??? Enquiring minds want to know, and would really rather not have to wait until next January, thank you very much.
One more thought – with Alias, aren’t we going to have to wait until January? I know that this season started in January so that they didn’t have to rerun any episodes. While I appreciated not having to wait more than one week for a new ep, I’m really bummed about not getting any new Alias until Januarh.
Upon seeing that ridiculous crash ending, I turned to my wife and said “You’re looking at the future of Lost.”
I’m expecting this future recap from Lost: Season 4: Episode 8:
“Zombie Locke has returned to Beach 7, carrying the Blackrock Device. Hurley decapitates him with the axe but it turns out Zombie Locke was a clone of the real Locke, who has been working for Evil Claire, who is revealed to be a Russian spy pretending to be American to infilrtate Jack’s cabal.”
Good news! Season 5 starts in September. Cite. It’s near the the middle of the page. Scroll down to Thursday.
Hehe! My first “citing”!
Irina: You shouldn’t wait.
Vaughn: For what?
I: I saw the ring.
V: You know, you killed my father. The way I see it I don’t have to ask for your blessings.
I: Despite that, you may have them…along with some advice.
V: Advice from you. Wonderful. Like what, “don’t betray your spouse”?
I: Yeah, that’d be one of them. But even between a husband and a wife, some secrets are acceptable. However, your activities are not.
V: What are you talking about?
I: You’re not as covert as you’d like to think. Consider my life an object lesson. If you don’t want to end up like Jack and me, tell Sydney the truth.
That seems to imply that he is, or was at one time, some kind of double agent. When they were in the car and Sydney asked if he were a bad guy and Vaughn said something like, “That depends” - plus it wasn’t an accident that she was sent to him upon doing her walk-in at the CIA, plus his name isn’t MV, that all makes me think “double agent.”
However, how they are going to explain that, if it’s the storyline, I can’t imagine. I think it’s going to turn out to be a really ridiculous convoluted pile of garbage. Sometimes I think TV writers forget that some people have been watching since Day One and remember things. Like a few episodes ago when someone, I think it was Weiss, asked Dixon about some other agent and asked if they trained together at Langley and Dixon said yes. Well, Dixon never went to Langley, did he? He was always a part of the SD-6 and only thought he was working for the CIA. Sydney asked Dixon once, when she was explaining the whole “fake CIA” thing to him, if he didn’t think it was strange - if they were really CIA - that he had never been sent to Langley and had never trained at Langley.
Did I miss some explanation of this?
Don’t tell me they’re not going to rerun Lost?1!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!
I still havn’t seen two of the episodes and was wating for re-runs to catch up on them!
They are. According to TV Guide, the first episode is on this Tuesday at 10.
whew…
Tuesdays would be fine.
I need to see Tabula Rosa and House of the Rising Sun