"Alias"
Search and Rescue (2005)

Director:

Lawrence Trilling

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator)
Monica Breen (writer) ...

TV Series:

"Alias" (2001)

Original Air Date:

18 May 2005 (Season 4, Episode 21)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Rambaldi's catastrophic endgame begins to fall into place as a giant red ball version of the Circumference/Mueller...

Plot Keywords:

Mother Daughter Reunion | Rage | Apocalyptic | Heroine | Power

Cast

Jennifer Garner	...	Sydney Bristow
Ron Rifkin	...	Arvin Sloane (credit only)
Michael Vartan	...	Michael Vaughn
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Dixon
Kevin Weisman	...	Marshall Flinkman
Mía Maestro	...	Nadia Santos
Greg Grunberg	...	Eric Weiss
Victor Garber	...	Jack Bristow
Angela Bassett	...	CIA Director Hayden Chase
Lena Olin	...	Irina Derevko
Andrew Divoff	...	Lucien Nisard
Alex Wexo	...	US Marshal

Runtime:

Germany:41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Company:

Bad Robot

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of this episode several characters skydive from a plane. Shortly before they jump, we see a close-up of Vaughn. He puts on his helmet, lowers the face mask, but does not attach the chinstrap before jumping. Any trained skydiver would know better than to leave the helmet unattached, as it could fly off very easily in midair.

Quotes:

Irina: I've seen you all my life. In my mind.

Alas Not Alias !

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Yes, (Jack) and (Arena) looked pretty elegant at the start, but the storyline of him killing her to discover that he murdered her double was all ridiculously fabricated, and I've never believed it ! And eagerly, why the happy smile upon her face while she was dead under the water ???, like the double says "How stupid Jack was ..He killed me thinking that he killed the real Arena HA HA HAA, he's so mistaken as I'm so dead HA HA HAA" (!)

Yes, the cliffhanger of this episode was too cool with true fine music (which will be the closing credits' theme at the next season), however the whole story about Rambaldi's sphere and how it makes people hate each others !, moreover the Hocus Pocus about the water !, then the Zombies ! That was too far and absurd even by the standards of Alias itself !!, not to mention how the Rambaldi's sphere will have totally different using at season 5 ! They manipulated and hackneyed the Rambaldi's everything to the utmost while they never put a final limits or certain concept to it ever, and you know what : IT SHOWS !

Yes, the Action looked nice as usual, but the scene where (Arena) meets her daughter (Nadia) was quite laughable, like the writers told (Lena Olean) : "Hey this is your long lost daughter, we made her up while you were out of the series, well.. We have no time to write anything, so anyway hug her passionately yet briefly, to rap it up quick today" !??. Really that scene was weak to idiotic extent ! And to anyone complains : how (Arena) noticed SUDDENLY that this girl is her daughter, putting in mind that she met her earlier, and recognized nothing ?!!

Yes, Auntie (Elena Derevko) is so bad, but I supposed that the big evil behind all the crimes must have been someone more convincing. I can bet that the team of writers didn't know who's to make as the mastermind till the very end of the season. Wicked P.S : (Elena Derevko) was going to blow up Russia while she was in the middle of it, in fact, endless "!!!!!!"

Yes, this show had wonderful days, but those ones were the opposite.