Alias · Season 5
I can fend for myself.
But you're not just fending for yourself, you're fending for two. [Glances at Syd] Let's be honest Syd, right now you waddle.
I don't waddle.
Oh ho ho, yes you do.
I'll admit I may be a little less graceful, but I don't waddle.
You're right, [Syd scoffs] actually it's more of a teeter.
You should know something, Sydney. I never wanted to have a child. The KGB demanded it. They knew it would insure your father's allegiance to me. You were simply a means to an end. And then, when the doctor put you in my arms and I looked at you, so fragile, all I could think was: how could I have made such a terrible mistake. And at that moment I was sure of one thing: I couldn't be an agent and a mother. I'd either fail at one or both. And I chose to fail at being a mother.
If Peyton's here, then she's here to kill me too.
Then she'll be very disappointed because I'm about to beat her to it.
We're going to be grandparents.
I'm trying to ignore that fact.
You do not leave edged weapons within the reach of children.
She's four weeks old, Dad.
Particularly young Bristow women.
She can't even hold her head up. I think we're safe.
[to Sydney] With your permission, Ma'am, we'd like to go through the house, baby-proof it from top to bottom. Socket protectors, safety latches, gates on stairs. Spread-spectrum RF protectors, perimeter sensors, explosive sniffers. All the usual stuff.
Hopefully she won't even know I've been gone.
Oh, no. The mother-child bond is impossible to replicate, even by Agent Dalton and myself.
We were talking about what happened. We have to assume you were grabbed because someone was trying to hurt me.
Well, yeah. I didn't think they wanted me for all the Lakers statistics I have in my head.
It's a subdermal device, placed just below the skull at the brain stem. I've never seen one this small before. Looks like they patched a radio receiver to a powerful microcharge.
[Sydney, Jack and Sloane exchange worried looks.]
So what – what does that mean?
It means that they – they put a bomb in your head.
What?!
I know, I know. But there's ... good news. Looks like the charge is small enough that the blast will be localized.
Wait – wait. So it might not kill me?
No, it'll definitely kill you. There just won't be any collateral damage.
[referring to Rambaldi's Page 47] You have to make a choice, either me or this.
Please, don't make me choose between the two most important things in my life.
I suppose then you'll lose us both. [Throws the page into the fireplace.]
A few days ago I was absolutely horrified that you would suggest I would turn against APO. That I would kill my own daughter. I realize now that both were inevitable. That death is a necessary sacrifice. Necessary to complete the final leg of this journey. I have been preparing for this my whole life. I knew it was coming. I have betrayed everyone I ever loved. But I was chosen.
What I am about to say is not to leave this room. Agent Vaughn is alive.
I knew it! I knew he couldn't be dead...!
You know, I cried at your funeral.
Um, yeah, uh ... sorry about that.
No, no. Thank you. I need a good cry every now and again.
Where are you?
Right now? In your kitchen, playing with Isabelle.
You are? How is she?
Happy.
[Isabel coos.]
Dad, did she just –
– giggle? Yeah. Apparently I'm funny.
[to Isabelle] Gonna be just like your mom, aren't you?
Oh, I hope not. I hope she's a ... doctor, or a teacher, or just anything that does not involve wearing a wig.
I don't know... I think she'd look pretty cute in a little pink wig. [Isabelle rolls over] Maybe not.
[...]
[Isabelle starts to snore. Vaughn laughs.] Oh my god. All right, the snoring, it kills me.
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