A Simple Alias

This is the one where Sydney endangers a civilian (Jason Segel AKA Marshall Erickson) and Vaughn follows clues in his father's journal and learns some shocking information.

This is also the one where Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) need a Spy Daddy (the early years) spin off and JJ can have ALL the credit…and they also question how the "known for" listings are chosen for IMDB and how in the world How I Met Your Mother doesn't make that cut on Jason Segel's page.

MUSIC: The featured music in this episode matches from streaming to original.

This is the one where we think Sloane is up to no good (or at least Dixon does) and then it turns out Jack and Sloane are in cahoots?!

It's also the one where Nadia has a birthday, doesn't want to celebrate, gets talked into celebrating, and is then very disappointed when Sydney set up the dinner so she could spy on Sloane. It's ALSO the one where Vaughn goes to see his ailing uncle in the hospital only to receive his dad's journal with... entries after his death?! Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) have way more questions than answers this episode.

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This is the one where Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) go back and rewatch the first set of episodes (episodes 4 - 9) that were aired in a different order than they were originally written and examine the impact on the season and more particularly the characters.

Season 4 intended/written order:

(the bolded episodes are the ones that were aired "out of order"... this episode tackles the first section of bolded episodes)

1. APO 1
2. APO 2
3. The Awful Truth
4. Detente
5. Ice
6. Nocturne
7. Echoes
8. A Man of His Word
9. Welcome to Liberty Village
10. The Index
11. The Road Home
12. The Orphan
13. Nightingale
14. Pandora
15. Another Mister Sloane
16. Tuesday
17. A Clean Conscience
18. Mirage
19. In Dreams
20. Descent
21. Search and Rescue
22. Before the Flood

Season 4 Aired Order:

1. APO 1
2. APO 2
3. The Awful Truth
4. Ice
5. Welcome to Liberty Village
6. Nocturne
7. Detente
8. Echoes
9. A Man of His Word
10. The Index
11. The Road Home
12. The Orphan
13. Tuesday
14. Nightingale
15. Pandora
16. Another Mister Sloane
17. A Clean Conscience
18. Mirage
19. In Dreams
20. Descent
21. Search and Rescue
22. Before the Flood

MUSIC: The featured music in these episodes match from streaming to original.

This one is a "classic" (just as Sark and also Jess (@jesspkoehler)! After Anna shoots Nadia at the end of last episode, we find Nadia in a coma most of this episode while Jack has Marshall work to learn what Nadia knew that led to Anna shooting her (and then trying to shoot her again!). Ultimately, Jack pulls Nadia out of her coma early. This is also the one where Sark will only talk to Sloane, Sark gets sent on a "glorified date" mission with Sydney and Vaughn, and he is extracted by Anna. THEY TEAM UP! This is also the one where Bree (@bleach226) keeps misprouncing Anna's name for no good reason.

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This is the one where we get both ANNA ESPINOSA and SARK back on our screens! (aka Gina Torres and David Anders)....need we say more?

It's also the one where we, Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) love how "classic" Alias this episode feels...and have concerns about why Sloane is even in the building.

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This is the one where Sydney keeps going off book during her missions with Nadia. This is the one where Nadia and Sydney get an invite to Boris' hotel room to steal his information about the sale of black thorine (much to Sloane's frustration and everyone else's delight) and then they go on ANOTHER mission to steal the vials before the sale occurs (where once again Sydney goes off script when she talks to the purchaser about Sloane. It's also the one where we, Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler), enjoy Vaughn's smile, love Dixon, and wonder when Alias will stop living in a stand alone episode world.

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This is the one where Alias tries its hand at a horror-type episode (and succeeds), and Sydney nearly loses her mind. This is also the one where (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) really start to wonder the impact of the air order versus the written order of the episodes this season.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode (and our discussion about it) contains some intense scenes with two suicides. Please listen (and watch) with care. (Note: the Disney+ version is slightly less intense in the events leading up to the suicides than the original version on the DVDs)

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This is the one where Sydney and Vaughn go undercover as a married Russian couple pretending to be a married American couple in Liberty Village, a training site for the October Contingent. This is also the one where Vaughn tells a story about proposing at the Santa Barbara Zoo in front of a crooked-neck giraffe and it turns Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) into complete saps. This is also the one where we give Tom a performance evaluation for his plan... was it really the best decision to have the spies that they recruited kill each other just because they weren't ready for this mission????

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This is the one where we learn if you freeze dry a person they shatter into cereal...possibly Fruity Pebbles, Vaughn is a priest, and we go "old school" spy. This is also the one where Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) gush over the commentary and have many 2005 moments.

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This is the one where the whole crew goes on TWO missions together! First, the team heads to the Bahamas and then they head to Spain! This is also the one where Bree (@bleach226) and Jess (@jesspkoehler) are very frustrated by Jack being a jerk to Nadia and the one where Weiss finds out about APO.

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