Alias (TV Series) A Man of His Word (2005) User Reviews

Sark gets away!

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 5 September 2010]

This episode starts off where the last one ended; Nadia is in a coma after being shot and Anna Espinosa has the bomb. The only way to get to her seems to be to get Sark to help them and past experience shows that he is not to be trusted; still they have no other choice. Sark agrees to take them to meet the leader of the group Anna stole the bomb for; the meeting however does not go well as the contact is killed by Anna and she liberates Sark from the custody of Sydney and Vaughn. It looks like they have lost both of them until Marshall recovers CCTV footage that indicates that Nadia learnt where Anna would be selling the weapon. To get this information Jack wakes her from her coma despite being warned that it would be dangerous. Luckily she is okay and gives him the information that leads to the recovery of the weapon and the capture of Anna; Sark however escapes. When Sloane learns that Jack has endangered his daughter it is clear that it has damaged there working relationship.

This was a good episode with some great fight sequences; when Anna and Sydney fought it felt like they were really going for it. Guest star Gina Torres put in a fine performance as Anna. As always the scenes between Sloane and Jack were great, their verbal sparing matches the physical action in the series and they don't even raise their voices.

Win one, lose one

[gridoon2024 · 7/10 · 7 January 2010]

The "Man Of His Word" in the title is Sark - or so he claims. He promises to help APO track down Anna Espinosa and her bomb by leading them to the head of CRF. In exchange, he asks to see the dead body of Lauren Reed. Meanwhile, after having been shot by Anna, Nadia is in a medically induced coma, yet she holds information that is crucial for Anna's capture, so Jack is forced (yet again!) to take drastic measures with unpredictable consequences. "A Man Of His Word" is a strange episode: a lot of important stuff happens in it (Sark gets free, Anna gets captured, the head of CRF is assassinated, Nadia wakes up from her coma, etc.), and yet it feels a bit perfunctory. Anna's escape from the hospital after an assassination attempt on Nadia, and her fight with Sydney near the end, are 2 action highlights. David Anders is great value as always, and I still believe that his exclusion from the regular cast in this season was an unwise decision. *** out of 4.

The Past Must Be Blast (For The Sake of Season 4 !)

[elshikh4 · 30 October 2007]

"When the merchant becomes bankrupt, he searches for his old ledger accounts" that's an old saying we have in Arabic which applies so correctly to the case of those very days of Alias. The writers discovered that there was no good ideas anymore, so they went to the good old days of Alias, to raise the character of (Anna) from death, bring back Mr. (Sark) in person, and continue the very long, very worn-out, secret of (Rambaldi)! That could be the deathblow for Alias in its fourth season. But they DID IT, and with the excellent mark, despite some silliness of course.

Well, the plot is great not like we used to watch, and predict, during the earlier episodes in that season. So I can assure that you'll be so tense, anxious and on the edge of your seat, till the very end, like the good old days. There are so many twists, surprises, and good thrilling time, including the obscure negotiation between (Sark) and (Sloane), a visit to (Lauren)'s grave, (Sydney)'s disguise as (Lauren) to meet a terrorist, the murder of that terrorist, (Anna)'s attempted to murder (Nadia) in the hospital, (Anna)'s escape from the hospital, the good chase to find (Anna), then the expected fight between (Sydney) & (Anna).. Just WAW!

It got some memorably well-made moments like: (Anna)'s escape from the hospital by the hydrant, witnessing for the first time ever (Sark)'s emotions over (Lauren)'s grave as a true lover of her in front of (Vaughn) her wounded husband / killer too. So (Sloane)'s feelings for his injured daughter; with great performance by (Ron Rifkin) as frozen evil man who got emotional, and the return of (Melissa George) as (Lauren Reed)'s corpse, only for one shot!

Yes guys, this is good TV, till you think about it. Why is that? I'll tell you: How (Jack) could be that genius as a doctor to treat (Nadia) successfully and make her awake from her coma? (While no doctor could!), and if he was like this, why didn't he do it from the start?? Well, the answer would be to fabricate a face to face confrontation between (Sloane) as (Nadia)'s loving father, and (Jack), which ends the episode powerfully! Then, during the attack on the hospital, when did ever (Sloane) have the capacity to transport his unconscious daughter to another place, and replace her by blood sacs in such too short seconds?? And when (Anna) helped (Sark) to escape from the nightclub, she knew about the tiny bomb in his nick, so from where exactly she already knew such a top secret which (Sark) himself didn't know?!

But Hey, it was fun altogether as a cool episode. Rather too cool for this season in specific. Simply, it's the gold effective formula of the old Alias as a nice drama, action, thriller, sci-fi which also - by the escape of (Sark) at the end, and the vitalization of (Rambaldi)'s secrets, inventions and prophecies - promises more and more. But would the rest of this season have also this mix in that fine quality? Well, watch it, and answer by yourself!