In the previous episode Sydney acquired a camera for SD-6 but it turns out it was just a prototype; Sark has the fully operational model and he intends to put it on a satellite to search for a Rambaldi artefact known as 'The Music Box'. Both the CIA and SD-6 want the location so Sydney is sent to the launch site in Sri Lanka where she must access the equipment on the rocket just before it launches... to get away without being incinerated she must rely on Marshall's latest gadget: a rocket powered luge! Once the satellite is in orbit the Music Box it located in a Siberian ice cave. Sydney is dispatched there by SD-6 to retrieve the item but they don't realise that she has the activation sequence and plans to use it on site for the CIA and destroy it... of course Sark is on his way there too.
This was a decent episode with some great action scenes; on might have expected the escape from the launch site to be part of a cliff hanger but the scene took part fairly early on. The final scenes were just as tense with Sydney once again looking doomed. I enjoyed the nod to 'Aliens' in the scene where Dixon and his team monitor Sark's men getting closer and closer until they were right upon them without seeing a sign of them till they attack from an unexpected direction. Once again Ron Rifkin put in a great performance as Sloane; showing the character dealing with the loss of his wife as somebody tries to contact him from places he used to go with her. Bradley Cooper also had some nice scenes as he has to relive his capture in order to get him to remember information he might have seen subconsciously at the time.
This was a decent episode with some great action scenes; on might have expected the escape from the launch site to be part of a cliff hanger but the scene took part fairly early on. The final scenes were just as tense with Sydney once again looking doomed. I enjoyed the nod to 'Aliens' in the scene where Dixon and his team monitor Sark's men getting closer and closer until they were right upon them without seeing a sign of them till they attack from an unexpected direction. Once again Ron Rifkin put in a great performance as Sloane; showing the character dealing with the loss of his wife as somebody tries to contact him from places he used to go with her. Bradley Cooper also had some nice scenes as he has to relive his capture in order to get him to remember information he might have seen subconsciously at the time.