Sydney Bristow quotes from Alias

Jack

Lie detector test.

Sydney

I studied the C.I.A. 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.

Will

[Reading from a book] "Laura, all my love, forever and a day. Jack." That's not, like, your dad Jack, is it?

Sydney

Yeah.

Will

Wow. That's uncharacteristically sweet of him.

Sydney

I know. He actually has a heart, which I'm learning little by little.

Sloane

I always knew there was something about you, from the first time I saw you.

Sydney

A lot can change in seven years.

Sloane

It's been a lot longer than seven years. I've known your father since 1971. I met him at Langley. I knew your mother. I went to your parents' wedding. Sydney, I've known you since you were a baby. I was out of the country for most of your childhood, various operations, but I kept tabs on you. I checked in on you in my own way. I always thought of you as my daughter, even from the beginning. Well, I just wanted to let you know...before you went away.

Sydney

Look, to you, my job might seem pointless and stupid but it's not. It's far from pointless and if you knew what I dealt with every day, you might even thank me for doing my job so well!

Will

[Confused] What the hell are you talking about?

Sydney

Nothing. I'm going to work. I'll see you guys.

Sydney

It took me a second to realize what you were doing.

Jack

I was blinking as fast as I could.

Sydney

I know. I was like, "Hard on your light"?

Jack

Guard on your right.

Sydney

Well, I figured it out. I was just never very good at Morse code.

Sydney

Dad, can I ask you something? When you started with SD-6, you knew that they were a mercenary group and they had no connection with the C.I.A. But I didn't. When I joined, I thought I was going to be saving the world and not making it more dangerous.

Jack

What's the question?

Sydney

Why didn't you say something? I mean, you could have told me what I was really doing -- damage instead of good -- but you kept quiet.

Jack

[Sighs] Revealing the truth about what you were doing would have required revealing the truth about what I was doing.

Sydney

What happens when someone you care about is in trouble? What you said, that nothing else matters. It all just goes away. Last week when I learned what my father did for me, sacrificing Russek, it made me sick. But now, I know I would have done exactly the same thing. You should have seen him.

Vaughn

Your father?

Sydney

Yeah, he was like ... he was like a pro. He was good. I mean, the way you talked about him once, what his reputation was, I could see it in action. He was ... impressive.

Jack

I know how this feels.

Sydney

Not exactly. You've had a lot longer to make sense of this than I have.

Jack

There was a time when this was news to me, too. Your mother was sent to the United States to steal secrets from a ranking officer of the C.I.A. How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. But it was just a set-up.

Sydney

Dad, wait. You are not doing this.

Jack

Of course I am.

Sydney

No, you're not. You're going to have to crawl through a maze of airshafts, get to Marshall's office, get the scrambler, get to the vault room and scramble the code all in under ten minutes. I mean, no offense, but Dad, I am doing this.

Sydney

Did you study bomb diffusion at Langley?

Vaughn

Just seminar style. Nothing field specific.

Sydney

Does anyone ever learn anything at seminars?

Vaughn

Okay, let's just take this one step at a time. This is a charge of C-4. I can tell, 'cause it says "C-4" everywhere.

Will

[about his hickey] It's very embarrassing.

Sydney

The fact that I saw it or just that it's there at all?

Will

No, look at it. I feel like I'm 15 years old.

Sydney

That's about the age of your intern.

Will

When I said 15, I knew you would say --

Sydney

Did the Clinton administration teach you nothing?

Jack

When you asked me the other day about school, I couldn't help you. I... I'm out of practice when it comes to, uh... personal matters.

Sydney

Dad, I'm in no rush.

Jack

Believing your mother was a professor may have influenced you somewhat, but the decision to go back to school was yours and I'd trust that. I think that, uh, if you stick with it... you could become the kind of teacher your students will always remember.

Sydney

Thank you.

Vaughn

Yeah. Last week, when you talked about quitting SD-6 --

Sydney

I was being naive.

Vaughn

No, but, um, what you said about wanting to go to a hockey game... wanting me to be part of your life... I, uh, I think I wasn't clear about something. [Pause] That it would be nice to be in public with you, to actually get to look at you. Grab a pizza or go to a hockey game. I-I just... I wasn't clear that I would really like that, too.

Dixon

How's it hanging, Syd?

Sydney

Very funny.

Sydney

This is a bug? [Flips paper clip over]

Vaughn

It's good, huh? You should see the guys who make it. It's like they've never seen sunlight.

Sydney

You should meet Marshall.