Sydney Bristow quotes from Alias

Sydney

About last night ...

Vaughn

Is this going to be about Alice?

Sydney

I know it's complicated ...

Vaughn

We're not together anymore.

Sydney

Since when?

Vaughn

Since this morning. The truth is, we've been over for a long time.

Emma used to say that she had spent so much of her life pretending to be other people that she was afraid she might disappear. And I have been sitting here trying to remember all her aliases. You're right. It's hard to keep track.

Sydney

I lost my fiancé last year and I know we're trained to compartmentalize things that hurt too much, but I still haven't been able to do that. As hard as it is, I would rather feel it than to not feel anything.

I could've sworn you were a blonde.

Sydney

I was. My hair's usually brown. Hard to keep track.

Sydney

How is this possible without obvious scarring?

Jack

The procedure isn't surgical. A patient's genetic code is altered to reshape their physical attributes.

Sydney

Is it reversible?

Jack

It's unclear. It only works on people of a certain genetic disposition and the recipient must be induced into a comatose state for several days while their cells regenerate. The data indicates the only way to distinguish the real person from the double is by an ocular scan. A flaw in the iris was deliberately built into the procedure to tell them apart.

Sydney

I've had two years of perspective! I am through letting Arvin Sloane control my life and I don't need your approval to resign! I told you as a courtesy!

Kendall

Well, then, I will pay you the courtesy of informing you that if you leave this agency, you forfeit the clearance to see your mother.

Vaughn

Marshall? I'm Michael Vaughn. Welcome to the CIA.

Marshall

[smiles nervously] Heard that one before.

Vaughn

[smiles] Well, this time it's for real. [gestures for Marshall to turn] We have a desk set up for you.

Marshall

[turns] Syd!

Sydney

How are you?

Marshall

I'm fine, except every few moments I fight the urge to weep openly. But that's normal, right?

Sydney

Hello?

Sloane

Congratulations, Sydney. You have so many things to celebrate today. I, myself, am still coping with the pain and disappointment of learning that you and Jack were double agents. The two people I trusted most in the world.

Sloane

You don't really think it was a coincidence that I happened to be away these past two weeks, do you? The intel that you acquired that allowed the CIA to take down the Alliance -- I provided that. My involvement with the Alliance is merely a means to an end.

Sydney

Why are you telling me this?

Sloane

Because knowing that I'm alive is going to tempt you to come after me. Don't. We've helped set each other free, Sydney. And as much as I wish you well, I will end your life if you get in my way.

Sloane

[On the phone] Our first honest conversation, Sydney, and you have nothing to say?

Sydney

Listen to me, you son of a bitch! You have been a plague on my life. You repulse me! Every time I sat across from you, listening to your lies, all I could do was fantasize about slashing your throat!

Dixon

How long have you known?

Sydney

Two years. I wanted to tell you so many times, but I was ordered not to. The CIA had no way to verify what I knew in my heart was true -- that you would never consider working for a man like Arvin Sloane.

Dixon

We were partners. You lied to me, then chose to tell me the truth when it was convenient for you. I never want to see you again.

Irina

I wanted to see you because... it's going to be dangerous, setting this trap. I hope it goes well but there's no guarantee. So whatever happens, there's something I need you to know. Sydney, I love you.

Sydney

Mom--

Irina

You don't have to say anything. I'm pretty sure I haven't earned very much, and that's okay. This was just something I needed to say.

Sydney

What is this about? I'd appreciate a little context here. You haven't even given me your name.

I'm Mitchell Yeager, I'm counter-intelligence threat analyst. That should give you a little context. I've been sent here to investigate Michael Vaughn. It's come to our attention that over the past three months, Mr. Vaughn has been in contact with a number of unapproved foreign operatives. He's also actively pursued contact with Mr. Pograski, who happens to be a former KGB assassin known to have ties with at least three terrorist organizations.

Sydney

Listen to me, there is not a chance that he is a traitor, that he would be collaborating with an enemy.

You know, I knew your mother. About twenty years ago, met her with your father. We used to go to a lot of these agency functions, you know. She was, uh, charming. Very disarming woman... who wasn't what she seemed.

Vaughn

Look, there is something you don't know about me. I don't like it when people question my loyalty. It makes me insane.

Sydney

This isn't about loyalty. I never said anything about loyalty.

Vaughn

When you ask me if I'm keeping secrets, the suggestion's pretty clear.

Sydney

And you know what? Secrets will be a problem between us. After everything we've been through, you should know that.

Sydney

Research? What kind of research?

Vaughn

It's something private. Something just for me.

Sydney

Who do you think you work for? Nothing is private. You're being investigated.

Vaughn

I had to find out if she was deceiving us again. I mean, I could not sleep at night knowing I was doing nothing. That somehow, I was helping her.

Sydney

And did you find anything?

Vaughn

Nothing. She's clean.

Jack

Your mother betrayed us. Betrayed the CIA. Her meeting with Sloane was staged to secure her escape.

Sydney

You don't know that. Sloane could've set up the meet to abduct her.

Jack

Before the operation, she swapped the Rambaldi manuscript. She left us with a fake. She and Sloane are now in possession of the original. Sydney, they planned this.

Sydney

My mother's earrings. They found a note she left. She wanted me to have them. Just now, when my dad was telling me, the first thought I had was that she was dead, that she'd been killed. I had this whole thing in my head that she died proving herself a hero.

Dixon

No one can be blamed for trusting their own mother.

Sydney

I wish she had been killed.

Sydney

You were right to investigate her.

Vaughn

Sydney . . .

Sydney

No, it's okay. It's the truth. I'm not blaming you, it's me. I was so naive about her.

Vaughn

I don't think you should be a part of this task force. Look, you know how I feel about Irina Derevko but no one should have to hunt down their own mother, no matter what the circumstances are.