- C.I.A. Agent Virginia Kerr: Agent Bristow, I've seen your profile. Your spatial intelligence is stellar. It's no surprise that you can solve the puzzle.
- Sydney Bristow: But I wasn't solving it. When I was standing there, staring at the puzzle, it was like I remembered where every piece belonged. There wasn't any thought involved. You said the KGB developed a similar project, it's possible that my mother new the techniques and maybe she...
- C.I.A. Agent Virginia Kerr: Agent Bristow. If you are looking to uncover a trauma then I need to warn you. Hypnotic regression can trigger severe nightmares, flashbacks, acute depression...
- Sydney Bristow: Understand that to do what I do, maintain my cover at SD-6, I compartmentalize a lot. But the idea that I might have been programmed to be a spy... I can't tuck that away. I need to know what happened to me.
- C.I.A. Agent Craig Blair: I knew about Weiss. How is He?
- Michael Vaughn: It was rough, but he's gonna be okay, which is more than I can say about the nursing staff.
- C.I.A. Agent Virginia Kerr: We had no idea that the sixteen Next Generation weapons would turn out to be children.
- Sydney Bristow: They were being trained as sleeper agents?
- C.I.A. Agent Virginia Kerr: That appears to be the case. See, the best spies have certain traits: proficiency with numbers, three dimensional thinking, creative problem solving. These abilities are all in evidence as early as five years old.
- Sydney Bristow: I've seen the footage. Mom's briefing with her KGB handler. She was sent here for one specific purpose, to steal information from you about a project you were developing for the CIA. An operation to train children to be American spies. Project Christmas. Ever since Mom came back, you were afraid she'd figure out what you did to me. You weren't trying to protect me from her, you were trying to protect your secret. So the first opportunity you had, you set her up... in Madagascar.
- Jack Bristow: Sydney, understand something...
- Sydney Bristow: No, Dad, you understand something. You took away my choices in life. You programmed me to be a spy. I will never forgive you for this.
- Arvin Sloane: In his last communique to our source in Vienna, Hater informed us that the triad was engaged in a plot to deploy and develop sixteen Next Generation weapons.
- Marcus Dixon: Any idea what Next Generation refers to?
- Arvin Sloane: No, which is a major source for concern. According to the communique, testing of the weapons is ahead of schedule which means they may soon be put into the field.
- Michael Vaughn: Okay. I'll confer with your father about your countermission.
- Sydney Bristow: My father?
- Michael Vaughn: He didn't tell you? Based on your father's instincts in the Madagascar incident, Devlin gave him operational approval.
- Michael Vaughn: I don't see why you're denying this possibility!
- Sydney Bristow: I understand that your authority has been superceded by my father and maybe you feel irrelevant. But he saved our lives. Remember that! I won't wait to hear from you.
- Jack Bristow: Sydney, Washington has made a decision regarding your mother. What she did to you invalidated her agreement with the CIA. The government is pressing charges. They're going to seek the death penalty.
- Sydney Bristow: Sixth grade was an awkward phase for me.
- Will Tippin: Oh, come on. You, awkward?
- Sydney Bristow: Yeah. Big teeth and little eyes. And I always was a foot taller than everyone else so I sort of hunched over.
- Will Tippin: When I was in sixth grade, I was sort of anonymous. You know, you had the smart kid, and the funny kid, and the good athlete. And I was just Will.
- Michael Vaughn: I saw de Souza. He told me that you hired him to rig those explosives.
- Jack Bristow: Irina Derevko would eagerly destroy all of our lives.
- Michael Vaughn: I'm not a big fan, either. It still doesn't justify what you did.
- Jack Bristow: You do good work, Agent Vaughn. But your consistent shortcoming - you should know this - is your naive sense of morality. Evil must be eliminated by whatever means necessary.
- SD-6 Agent Kelsey: There are no fingerprints on the glass. The wine is a '99 Hadley Cabernet Franc, unremarkable vintage. What is remarkable is what I extracted from inside the wine. I was so surprised I redid the test but I'm certain. It's VTX, a calcium-based anitdote. Extremely scarce.
- Arvin Sloane: Antidote to what?
- SD-6 Agent Kelsey: Uh, mainly heart attack inducing toxins. Kertotic acid, um, sodium morphate. VTX simulates death, it slows the lungs, nearly stops the heart, which is how it prevents the poisons from causing cardiac arrest. And then the VTX is, uh, is metabolized. The, uh, body, it returns to normal.
- Michael Vaughn: The Triad? You never mentioned them before.
- Sydney Bristow: It's a loose coalition of organized crime entities. They deal in mainly drugs and prostitution, but over the past couple of years they've made a significant foray into weapons.