“The Confession” · Season 1
In this episode: Sydney Bristow (3), Jack Bristow (3), Michael Vaughn (2)
[After Sydney and Jack have escaped from captivity]
It took me a second to realize what you were doing.
I was blinking as fast as I could.
I know. I was like, "Hard on your light"?
Guard on your right.
Well, I figured it out. I was just never very good at Morse code.
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.
What's the question?
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.
[Sighs] Revealing the truth about what you were doing would have required revealing the truth about what I was doing.
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.
Your father?
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.
There's nothing routine about that list. There's something very specific about it. It's been a mystery within the agency for over two decades. Who murdered those C.I.A. officers? I'm sorry, but we have our answer now. It was your father. And I'm going to report him.
This is CIA Director Devlin, Deputy Director Tucker, Executive Director Gerstner, and these are Senior Officers Haley, Stafford, and Collum. ...I knew weeks ago that my file had been pulled, and that you were suspicious of my activities twenty-five years ago regarding the KGB. When I learned that you had scheduled a meeting with Mr. Devlin regarding... my history, I knew that it was time. Let me say in advance I'm sorry to make this such a public display, but I felt it was important to do this in front of these people because they already know the truth, and because I didn't think that you would believe me otherwise... Those Cyrillic codes you found in those books -- yes, they were orders from the KGB, and yes, they were orders to kill. An agent received those orders and carried them out -- murdered officers of the CIA, including your father, Mr. Vaughn. All this is true. But Sydney, I was not that agent: your mother was.
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