October 7, 2001: So It Begins: Sydney gets shocking info on her dad's role in Danny's murder and takes on a countermission against the SD-6 to bring down an arms dealer linked to a missing nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Will (Bradley Cooper) begins to grow suspicious of his friend's secret life; and Vaughn is taken off Syd's case after his mishap puts the entire world in danger.
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October 14, 2001: Parity: A mission to steal an ancient sketch pits Syd against her sworn nemesis, a Russian agent (Gina Torres) who's after the same target. But when the container holding the painting proves impenetrable, the two foes are forced to team up to satisfy their respective agencies. Meanwhile, Will begins to notice something very fishy about Danny's murder; and Francie frets over her guy's possible infidelity.
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October 21, 2001: A Broken Heart: On the trail of a terrorist with an explosive plot to disrupt a world-trade seminar, Syd is also roped into helping Francie spy on her guy as he steps out with another woman. Also, Vaughn (Michael Vartan) opens up to his newest recruit about his tormented love life; Will uses his newspaper ties to locate the woman Danny was booked to travel with the night of his murder; and Jack (Victor Garber) begins to feel the heat over a secret he's keeping from his daughter.
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October 28, 2001: Doppelganger: Vaughn helps Syd pull a fast one on the SD-6 after she's sent to abduct a German engineer working on biochemical vaccines. But when a glitch triggers Sloane's eye, Jack is forced to step in and display his darkest side to protect his daughter's cover. Meanwhile, Will comes face-to-face with the woman Danny was booked to fly with the day he died.
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November 18, 2001: Reckoning: Syd pieces together Jack's role in her mom's death; a mole is found at SD-6; and Francie's guy explains his sneaking around with another woman. Meanwhile, Syd finds herself trapped by a sadistic K-Directorate agent after checking into a Romanian asylum housing a crazed assassin (John Hannah); and Will hits another dead end in his quest for Kate Jones.
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November 25, 2001: Color Blind: Syd uncovers a shocking truth about Danny's murder while trying to break Shepard (John Hannah) out of the K-Directorate's asylum; Sloane comes to the realization that not all of his agents are on the up-and-up; Charlie gives Francie a Thanksgiving she'll never forget; and Will hits the deadest end of all in his search for Kate Jones.
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December 2, 2001: Time Will Tell: As Syd hits Mexico for info on an ancient clock linked to the Rambaldi case, Sloane fires up his deadly plan to silence the SD-6's mole; Will struggles to kill a front-page piece on Danny's murder until a high-tech bug in Kate Jones' car takes his story in a new direction.
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December 9, 2001: Mea Culpa: Will makes contact with the mystery man on the other end of Kate Jones' bug; Sydney falls into Sloane's trap after Jack saves her from a sting to smoke out the SD-6 mole; Dixon comes out of his coma with little or nothing to say about what went down in the Andes.
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December 16, 2001: Spirit: The holidays take a terrifying turn as Sydney's cover is blown and she lands in the hands of the sadistic Sloane. Awakening in a top-secret SD-6 torture chamber, Syd realizes her double-agent days are over. But before Sloane can get her to crack, Jack pulls a fast one to save his abducted daughter, who then takes a risky mission to win back her boss's trust. Things go from bad to worse, however, once Syd discovers that her new assignment has put dear old dad in hot water with one of Sloane's most wanted foes. Meanwhile, Vaughn reveals a softer side by giving his comely colleague a very appropriate Christmas gift.
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January 6, 2002: The Confession: Series producer (and Thirtysomething alum) Ken Olin guest stars in a pivotal episode that finds Syd under fire and Jack feeling the heat. After delivering terrorist Hassan (Aharon Impale) to the CIA, Syd heads to Crete to locate his top-secret stealth technology. What she encounters instead is a death trap set by Hassan, who backs Vaughn into a corner with a dirty deal for Syd's life.
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January 20, 2002: The Box, Part 1: Quentin Tarantino begins a two-part guest stint in this tense installment. The Pulp Fiction auteur (who nabbed an Oscar for the 1995 film's script) plays McKenas Cole, a former SD-6 operative left for dead after a botched mission in Chechnya. Now he's back and ready for revenge, taking the Credit Dauphine headquarters by siege. His goal: Crack the agency's wired-to-blow vault and give the duplicitous Sloane a fatal lesson in torture techniques. But what Cole doesn't know is that two brave Bristows are on the loose somewhere in the building, cooking up a desperate plan to save the day.
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February 10, 2002: The Box, Conclusion: The attack on SD-6 heats up as Vaughn breaks CIA ranks to help Syd bring down Cole before he triggers the explosives wired to the vault. Meanwhile, Sloane refuses to crack under his captor's cruel and unusual torture; and Will decides it's time to find out the truth about what lies within David McNeill's secret locker.
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February 24, 2002: The Coup: As the team behind the attack on SD-6 targets Sloane's rival intelligence groups, Dixon and Syd hit Vegas to observe a K-Directorate who may be next in line for a lethal visit. But their mission is compromised by the unexpected arrival of Francie and her two-timing fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack gets a chance to play dad to his daughter, who is having a hard time deciding her educational future.
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March 3, 2002: Page 47: Amy Irving guest stars in a riveting hour that closes with a don't-miss moment. It all kicks off with Vaughn's discovery of a mysterious blank page in the Rambaldi book that may hold the 16th-century physicist's secrets in invisible ink. The problem is that the book is locked up at Sloane's, forcing Vaughn to ask Syd a delicate favor: Use her friendship with Sloane's dying wife (Irving) to get inside the house. After that, it's up to Syd to snag the page from her boss's vault and get it to the CIA. What their tests uncover, however, turns out to be more unsettling than Syd ever could have imagined. Meanwhile, Will's work with McNeil to expose SD-6 comes at a shocking price.
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March 10, 2002: The Prophecy: Roger Moore has a license to kill as a lethal British operative with information for Sloane's eyes only. Moore, who played The Saint on the small screen in the 1960s before his first appearance as James Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die, is cast as SD-9 leader Edward Poole, who drops a bombshell about a traitor within the Alliance of 12. Meanwhile, the CIA is up to their dossiers in psychic surprises, as agents reveal Syd's bizarre link to the 500-year-old Rambaldi drawing—and an ominous prophecy about a risk to world security.
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March 17, 2002: Q & A: As the FBI grills a captured Syd about her past and Rambaldi's doomsday prophecy, Jack and Vaughn race to free her before SD-6 suspects anything is amiss. But once a rescue op is launched, Syd soon finds proof that Rambaldi's writings may hold more truth about an alleged weapon of mass destruction — and the fate of her own family.
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April 7, 2002: Masquerade: The truth about Syd's mom emerges in an episode filled with adventure and romance. Peter Berg (Chicago Hope) guest stars as Noah Hicks, an ex-flame and fellow agent who resurfaces to help Syd snag a device owned by "The Man" that holds the key to her mother's KGB work and possible whereabouts. Before long, Syd and Noah realize that their feelings for one another are as strong as ever. Elsewhere, Sloane owns up to his part in a cover-up that takes a severe emotional toll on Jack; and a mysterious plane ticket has Will and Francie fearing that Syd has something to hide.
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April 14, 2002: Snowman: Syd's torn between following her heart and finding her mother after Noah offers her a way out of SD-6 just as a KGB tape of Irina Derevko surfaces. But once she makes her decision, an assassin steps in to change her mind — and all the rules. Meanwhile, Will and Francie confront Syd about her secret travel plans; Vaughn begins to hide his agent's info from the FBI; and Jack seeks out Barnett's aid after hitting bottom.
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April 21, 2002: The Solution: Syd and Vaughn set a trap for Khasinau with a report about the existence of a second dose of the Rambaldi serum; Sloane's wife lets Syd in on a little secret and puts her own life on the line in the process; and Will confronts Jack about his kidnapping following a phone call from his unnamed informant.
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May 5, 2002: Rendezvous: Will makes a startling discovery while helping Jack smoke out Deep Throat in Paris, where Syd is set to pull a switcheroo on Khasinau with the captured Sark's aid. Meanwhile, Dixon begins to suspect all is not on the up-and-up with his partner; the Alliance fills Sloane in on the plans for Emily's elimination; and Vaughn begins to pull away from his favorite agent in an effort to save his — and her — life.
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May 12, 2002: Almost Thirty Years: The spy games heat up as the drama winds down its first season. "So many pieces from the year come together," reveals creator and producer J.J. Abrams of the top-secret hour, which he feels is "a mirror" to the show's pilot. "Only this time, it's Syd and her father going against both SD-6 and the CIA" after a mole within one of the groups puts Will in jeopardy. Abrams also hints at "two dramatic deaths," a major wrinkle in the Rambaldi plot, some bittersweet justice for Sloane that could cost him his wife and a cliffhanger that Abrams will only describe as "the one I've been waiting to do all year."
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