Although Vaughn discovered that his wife Lauren is indeed the mole working for the Covenant he must continue to act as if he want to save their marriage if the CIA are to get the Rambaldi documents which the Covenant possess. Luckily the CIA has the key needed to decrypt the documents so a wake key is prepared and the team, including Lauren is briefed about plans to acquire the documents. She is allowed to steal the fake key which leads Vaughn to the documents which he scans just before Lauren enters the room. It becomes clear that the Passenger wasn't Sydney's mother as suspected but her sister who she didn't know existed and was fathered by Sloane who is still scheduled to be executed.
While not as convoluted as many recent episodes this was still gripping, staring off with a great fight scene between Sark and guest star David Carradine and the conclusion featured Sydney, machine-pistol in both hands, mowing down loads of Covenant goons which was pretty exciting. In between there wasn't too much action but there were plenty of tense scenes. My only criticism of the episode was the very end, I think the final scene would have been better shown at the start of the nest episode although I guess the producers didn't want us to think Jack was that bad or let us think a major character was dead. As is often the case the best scenes were those between Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin as Jack Bristow and Sloane; they might not perform action scenes like the younger cast members but they can seem far more dangerous.
While not as convoluted as many recent episodes this was still gripping, staring off with a great fight scene between Sark and guest star David Carradine and the conclusion featured Sydney, machine-pistol in both hands, mowing down loads of Covenant goons which was pretty exciting. In between there wasn't too much action but there were plenty of tense scenes. My only criticism of the episode was the very end, I think the final scene would have been better shown at the start of the nest episode although I guess the producers didn't want us to think Jack was that bad or let us think a major character was dead. As is often the case the best scenes were those between Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin as Jack Bristow and Sloane; they might not perform action scenes like the younger cast members but they can seem far more dangerous.