Sydney Bristow quotes from Alias

Vaughn

You're being investigated by the DSR.

Sydney

DSR?

Vaughn

Department of Special Research. And it was created during World War II to investigate Nazi interest in the occult. After the war, an executive order was signed, empowering them to investigate fringe science, uh, parapsychology, remote viewing --

Sydney

What do they want with me?

Vaughn

They want to know why your picture is in the Rambaldi book.

Sydney

We'd have to leave tonight. You in?

Vaughn

Yeah. I'll break into the Vatican with you.

Vaughn

You said an explosion will trigger the alarm.

Sydney

Which is on a fifteen second delay.

Vaughn

And you said you could disarm it in under twenty seconds. How far under twenty?

Sydney

I work better under pressure.

Vaughn

Those medical tests you took, they were looking to match three specific anomalies Rambaldi mentioned: DNA sequencing, platelet levels, and the size of your heart. You match all three.

Sydney

So what does the prophecy say?

"This woman here depicted will possess unseen marks, signs that she will be the one to bring forth my works. Bind them with fury. A burning anger, unless prevented, at vulgar cost, this woman will render the greatest power unto utter desolation."

Sydney

The truth is, I didn't love any of the subjects I was studying. My father and I weren't speaking, my mother had died when I was six and the highlight of my social life was my dorm's salad bar. So, I called them.

Kendall

SD-6.

Sydney

They didn't use that name. These men led me to believe they were CIA. They were very convincing. Are very convincing.

Sydney

I might not have been a genius at nineteen years old, but I was smart enough to know what questions to ask. They had all the right answers.

Kendall

Says here you were a genius.

Kendall

What does "SD" stand for?

Sydney

Section Disparu: the section that doesn't exist. Alain Christophe, one of the Alliance founders, the term was his.

Kendall

Explain to us about the Alliance of Twelve.

Sydney

The Alliance is like a board of directors. Some are from the private sector, but most are former intelligence officers. All wealthy. They started a company together, except this company -- the Alliance -- trades intelligence.

Sydney

You didn't think about it. Not once. The possibility that Rambaldi could be right about me.

Vaughn

No, I didn't.

Sydney

Why not?

Vaughn

Because I believe in you. Do you think I'd just throw anyone in my trunk?

Sydney

No. I don't want an explanation. I came here because I need you to help me find her.

Sloane

Mmm. Sydney, how much do you remember about the year after you were told that your mother died?

Sydney

I remember... just feeling disconnected from everything. My father was away on business for most of that year.

Sloane

No. Your father spent six months in solitary in a federal prison. He was suspected of being in collusion with Laura. The FBI almost tried him for treason and even though he was vindicated, the damage was done. And he began to unravel.

Sydney

Unravel...

Sloane

He drank. He started taking unnecessary risks. Come on, Sydney, you know the father he was to you all those years. He took a long time to fully recover, and I was under direct orders from the DCI not to let him know that Laura had survived the accident. Unfortunately, that also required lying to you.

Right. You're still mad.

Sydney

No. When you left and you just disappeared, it was a kick in the stomach, and I carried that around for a long time.

You were the last person that I ever wanted to see again... ever. And you were the only person that I ever wanted to see again.

Sydney

You know I can't do that.

Why?

Sydney

Well, for about a million reasons.

I highly doubt there are a million reasons. There might be fifty, and I'd like the opportunity to refute all of them.

Sydney

One of the biggest reasons that comes to mind is my mother. Khasinau was her superior. My mother was a spy for the KGB and those files that we recovered may help me find her. I'm not going anywhere until I know where she is.

Francie

I'm gonna send flowers to Will to thank him for babysitting our rodents. What do you think the card should say?

Sydney

I had sex with someone.

Francie

[laughs] Seriously.

Sydney

He is my friend. He is, like, one of my best friends.

Vaughn

I understand that.

Sydney

No, you don't. You get to tell your friends that you work for the CIA while I go home and look desperately for a tiny moment that I can be honest with anyone about anything. Now that Will knows the truth - he's never going to trust me again. You should have seen his face in Paris. It was like he was looking at a stranger.

Vaughn

But he wasn't. He was looking at you. Maybe for the first time. He was looking at you.

Dixon

How am I supposed to know what you believe when you've been lying to me? I'm your partner!

Sydney

Just think about this for a minute. Just think about everything we've been through. Just think about who I am. Now, what I am going to ask you to do is just accept the fact that I cannot tell you what this is about. What I am doing is classified but Dixon... I swear to you that I am not betraying this country. I could never do that. You know that!

Dixon

I don't need rhetoric, Sydney. Right now, I need a reason not to report you to security section.

Sydney

Hi. How did you find me?

Vaughn

You told me a couple of months ago that when you feel the need to disappear, you go to the observatory. But the observatory was closed. And then I remembered you said the pier calms you down. But you weren't there. And you weren't at the bluffs and the palisades, either.

Sydney

You didn't really go to all those places.

Vaughn

Yeah, I did. And then I remembered you liked the train station, too. Normal people going to their normal jobs.

Sydney

I can't believe you remember that.