Tuesday (30 Mar. 2005)

When a mission to Cuba goes wrong, Sydney is attacked and placed in serious danger of being buried alive in a sealed coffin. Back in Los Angeles, Dixon is exposed to a deadly pathogen ... See full summary »

Director:

Fred Toye

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator), Drew Goddard,

Stars:

Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Jennifer Garner	...	Sydney Bristow
Ron Rifkin	...	Arvin Sloane
Michael Vartan	...	Michael Vaughn
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Dixon
Kevin Weisman	...	Marshall Flinkman
Mía Maestro	...	Nadia Santos
Greg Grunberg	...	Eric Weiss
Victor Garber	...	Jack Bristow
Amanda Foreman	...	Carrie Bowman
Diego Wallraff	...	Alex Rucker
Ulrich Thomsen	...	Ulrich Kottor
Gina Morelli	...	Grandmother
Raoul N. Rizik	...	Merchant (as Raoul Rizik)
Richard Willgrubs	...	Technician

Storyline

When a mission to Cuba goes wrong, Sydney is attacked and placed in serious danger of being buried alive in a sealed coffin. Back in Los Angeles, Dixon is exposed to a deadly pathogen released inside APO which is currently in lock down due to the toxin and Marshal (not being in the building at the time due to his home life problems), is the only one who can get to Sydney and save her. Only with com link help from Jack, Vaughn and the others at APO, the socially awkward and field inexperienced Marshal has to finish a very important mission on his own before it's too late.

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Plot Keywords:

buried alive | poisonous gas | eyeball

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 March 2005 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Union Station - 800 N. Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bad Robot, Touchstone Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Marshall saves the day… twice!

When Sydney is sent to Havana to make contact with a man offering to give her details about the 'Third Faction' she has little idea just how badly it will turn out. The meeting appears to go well and she gets the information that leads Dixon to a computer hard drive. Afterwards however she is captured along with her contact; he is promptly executed but she is destined for a far worse fate… she is buried alive. Meanwhile back at APO Dixon hands over the hard drive to one of the technical staff but as soon as he tries to access it a deadly toxin is released, this forces APO to go into lock down. The only member of the team outside is Marshall, this means he must get to Havana, track Sydney's phone signal and dig her up before her air runs out. If that wasn't enough once he has got her out they learn that the man responsible has a lot more of the toxin so the two of them must go to Berlin to retrieve the data off the real hard drive. As he has seen Sydney this means Marshall will have to bluff his way into the man's office and keep him talking long enough to clone his computer. Of course it isn't quite that simple and Marshall is forced to do some fairly serious things with a spork before their inevitable success!

This was a great episode with gave Marshall a chance to get out of the office and be the hero for once. Kevin Weisman does a great job in the role. It also made an interesting change to see Sydney genuinely terrified; usually she has a degree of control under the worst of circumstances but here she just has to lie there hoping that Marshall will get to her in time.