- Irina Derevko: Tell me... Sydney... who sent you here? You must tell me.
- Sydney Bristow: Or what? I'm grounded?
- Dr. Judy Barnett: How did you escape?
- Sydney Bristow: I'm sorry, but Agent Vaughn is missing and my sitting here telling Houdini stories to a CIA shrink, no offense, is pointless.
- Will Tippin: I understand that, but you can't think of another way than this?
- Jack Bristow: Yes, I can think of a number of other ways. But they all involve your burial.
- Will Tippin: Is that your idea of a joke? You're morbid, Jack.
- Irina Derevko: You must have known this day would come. I could have prevented all this, of course. You were so small when you were born. It would have been so easy
- Sydney Bristow: [on the phone with Jack] I'm in the middle of Taipei. I just got free. Is Vaughn with you?
- Jack Bristow: No, we haven't heard from him. Sydney, you have to get to the plane now.
- Sydney Bristow: Dad, I have to go back for him.
- Jack Bristow: No, there's no time! The Taiwanese authorities will check this airstrip.
- Sydney Bristow: I can't leave him behind. Hold the plane, I have to back to the lab.
- Sydney Bristow: Sydney, wait!
- Will Tippin: Who's Vaughn?
- Sydney Bristow: [on the phone with Francie] Have I heard from Will? No.
- Francie Calfo: Well, me neither and there's this story on the news right now. Will wrote a story in today's paper that wasn't supposed to get printed unless he went missing.
- Sydney Bristow: What was Will's story about?
- Francie Calfo: It's about the murder of your fiance, and some conspiracy, and some group called SD-6.
- Jack Bristow: [to Sydney] You and I need to assume Dixon's reported you. The best move for us is for me to take full responsibility.
- Sydney Bristow: What about Will?
- Jack Bristow: [to Will] You're... going to have a hard time.
- Dr. Judy Barnett: One more thing. You haven't said anything about your mother.
- Sydney Bristow: What, am I supposed to say something insightful? The first time I see my mother in twenty years, and she almost kills me. Which would have made me the thirteenth CIA officer she's killed. She's former KGB. She's betrayed my father. She's betrayed me. She's betrayed this country. All anyone needs to know about that woman is that she's a bad guy.
- Dr. Judy Barnett: I think this was a good beginning.
- Sydney Bristow: I'm so sorry. I'm going to shoot you with adrenaline. We have got to run.
- Michael Vaughn: Uh... don't do that.
- Dr. Judy Barnett: So the operation in France must have gone well. Your spirits seem lifted.
- Sydney Bristow: The doctor said Vaughn's going to be all right, so...
- [long pause]
- Sydney Bristow: Okay. I see what you're thinking and the answer is 'no'. There's no line being crossed. He's my handler. Vaughn and I have a professional relationship. That's it.
- Dr. Judy Barnett: Well, actually, I was thinking about your reporter friend.
- Will Tippin: [making a statement to the press for SD-6 to hear] My problem with heroin goes back three years. I'm embarrassed for myself and for my family when I tell you that most of what I've written in that time has been complete fiction including my most recent report about an organization that I called SD-6. These were desperate attempts...
- Sydney Bristow: Hey... how's your mouth?
- Will Tippin: I think it'll be fine
- [laughs]
- Will Tippin: . Of course I lose my health insurance the same day I need a root canal.
- Will Tippin: And I look up and everybody from the office is just staring at me. So I left my office this afternoon for, like, the last time. I got a lot of, like, "Take care, man." I got a lot of that.
- Sydney Bristow: I'm so sorry, Will.
- Will Tippin: Hey, I'm sitting here. I'm on a couch. I'm alive
- [sighs]
- Will Tippin: . Is anybody listening to us right now?
- Sydney Bristow: No. That lamp has a bug killer in it. So we're safe here.
- Will Tippin: So this is what your life is? Lying to everybody all the time? I've only been doing it for a few days and it's killing me
- Sydney Bristow: Thinking of Emily, I often wondered about my own mother and what she would have been like, had she lived. Would she have been as strong as Emily? As kind, as good? I always told myself that she would have had those qualities even though I couldn't see them, I simply believed them. But Emily wasn't just the mother I never had. She was the mother all of us wish we had.
- Michael Vaughn: When I was a kid, I was a swimmer; I could swim the hundred meters in 68 seconds. I can't tell you how irrelevant that was that night we were in Taipei. There'd been some pretty incredible inventions over the last 2000 years, but none more incredible than the screwdriver. None! I thought I was home free, but they knocked me out, next thing I knew I was in France.