Sark kidnaps Will and takes him to Taipei, where Will has an unwilling appointment with that same sadistic creep who was torturing Sydney with dental instruments in the pilot episode of the show. Sark phones Sydney and proposes an exchange: the missing Rambaldi blank page & the liquid that can make it readable for Will. Having no choice, Syd turns to her dad and they decide to break into both SD-6 (herself, for the page) and CIA (her father, for the liquid), fly to Taipei, free Will and destroy Khasinau's lab. Vaughn understands what those two are planning, and he tags along. Meanwhile, Dixon follows Sydney around and has his suspicions confirmed, while Sloane must decide if he values his wife's life more or less than his loyalty to the Alliance. A notch below the previous episode, "Rendezvous", in my opinion, but still a fine season finale that ends with multiple cliffhangers. It's probably the darkest and most violent episode so far, with some scenes that are designed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable. My favorite bit is actually the clever sequence where Sydney and Jack try to "steal" Sloane's voice and fingerprints so that Syd can later enter SD-6's lab where the Rambaldi page is kept. *** out of 4.
Review of Almost Thirty Years
