Jack Bristow quotes from Alias

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.

Jack

We may never have a better chance to get Sloane. Remember, without Irina's help, the operation in Kashmir would have been an embarrassment.

Kendall

Jack, when the hell did we switch places? Derevko could be using this operation just to convince us that she's trustworthy.

Jack

I've had twenty years to reflect on that woman's ability to deceive. Trust me. If she lies to me again, I'll know it.

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

[watching Emily on security camera footage] She's alive?

Jack

She walked through the front door, told the duty guard she is the wife of Arvin Sloane, that she wants to cooperate with the CIA and that she will only talk to you.

Jack

I'm not willing to risk your life based on speculative intel you acquired from a Russian spy.

Sydney

Why would she lie?

Jack

That's precisely the question!

Sydney

She turned herself in!

Jack

She's not the first!

Sydney

We downloaded the DNA database Caplan decrypted from the computer he was working on. We finally have a lead on Sloane and Derevko.

Jack

Good. But, Sydney, if you go around me again I'll have you transferred and finding them will no longer be part of your job description.

Jack

I've worked with Agent Dixon for nearly a dozen years. You've worked with him for little over a month. If he feels ready to be in the field, I'm going to accord him that respect.

Vaughn

But given his state of mind, do you really think he's the right person to make that decision?

Jack

Yes.

Vaughn

Jack, he just lost his wife. I mean, with all due respect, why are you fighting with me on this?

Jack

I'm not required to justify my decisions to you, Agent Vaughn. However, I recruited Agent Dixon into SD-6. I'm the man who sold him the lie he was working for the CIA. I introduced him to the man who killed his wife. I will not be the one to tell him he can't assist in Sloane's capture.

Sydney

I have known Will for years. Trust me on this.

Jack

There's another possibility... that the man we have in custody is not Will Tippin. Project Helix. The doubling prototype that you destroyed in Poland was designed to reshape a person's physical attributes to identically resemble someone else. The prototype's database revealed two scheduled recipients of the procedure: Dr. Markovic who was killed, and a second unknown individual.

Sydney

You think Will is the double.

Kendall

We found Provacillium in Will's car. It's a medication usually taken by gene therapy patients to keep the body from rejecting the DNA mutations.

Sydney

If someone wanted to set Will up, this is exactly what they would do -- plant these clues, condition him. I'd like permission to assign Francie protective detail. If Sloane is targeting my friends, she could be next.

Jack

Done.

Sydney

I'd also like to speak to her about Will. She might have information that could help.

Jack

Tell her what you think is necessary, but only what's necessary.

Sloane

It's good to see you, Jack.

Jack

I assume that since you're sitting across from me with so little regard for your life, I'm in the cross hairs of a sniper rifle.

Sloane

Two of them.

Sydney

They told me you were charged with resisting authority. Dad, I don't understand.

Jack

I became obsessed with your death; with finding those responsible. And at a certain point in my pursuit, I needed help. So I contacted the one person I believed I could trust, given the circumstances...your mother.

Sydney

You were working with Mom?

Jack

At the time, she was number 6 on the CIA's most wanted list. The National Security Council, primarily ... Robert Lindsey. You met him?

Sydney

Yes.

Jack

He discovered that I was collaborating with your mother, so he threatened me, questioned my allegiance to this country. He chose to make an example of me - an NSC power play. And here we are.

Jack

Vaughn what?

Sydney

He got married.

Jack

Michael Vaughn is just a boy who was never good enough for you.

Jack

Vaughn's been quizzing me about "Julia." I tried shutting down his inquiry, but apparently something you said has made that impossible.

Sydney

All I said was that I couldn't talk about it.

Jack

Which, of course, has only piqued his interest.

Vaughn

You killed Javier Perez, you son of a bitch!

Jack

You've just returned from a traumatic experience, Mr. Vaughn. You're understandably emotional, which would explain your baseless accusation.

Vaughn

You're right, I am emotional. I get that way when I see a gun pressed to my wife's temple!

Jack

Ours is a risky business.

Vaughn

If you ever put my wife's life in danger again, I will kill you!

Jack

Then perhaps you finally understand the moral compromises you'll make when someone you love is in danger.

Jack

Sloane gave you a key, which he claims was sent to him some time before you woke up in Hong Kong.

Sydney

Yeah, his claim was pretty convincing: it was written in my handwriting.

Jack

Remember when I told you that during the time you were missing, I contacted your mother? That cipher text was encoded using a method that she devised.

Sydney

What does this mean? That I was in contact with Mom during the two years I was gone?