Episode 4.01 & 4.02: Authorized Personnel Only, Parts I and II
Airdate: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.
“…superspy Sydney is in the hot seat, this time on a mission to Rio where she faces off against her newest nemesis, a modern-day Samurai named Tamazaki (Rick Yune)…”
Angela Bassett guest stars in the fourth-season opener as the new CIA honcho, who makes an announcement that’s almost as unsettling as Syd’s discovery about Jack’s past. Meanwhile, Nadia struggles with her dad’s identity; Vaughn realizes that business and pleasure don’t always mix; and the hunt for a pseudo-Samurai leads to a very tense teaming between the Bristows.
Robert Patrick Benedict (Felicity’s Richard) plays Sydney’s new partner and is absolutely fantastic.
Sydney finds out something shocking about Jack, and before she can tell Nadia, he puts his own spin on it, much to Syd’s dismay.
Sydney’s working life is about to get turn upside down, and she discovers that the truth behind Jack’s secret documents is more complex than she thought…
Sydney, Vaughn, Jack and Dixon are stunned by CIA Director Hayden Chase’s (Angela Bassett) choice to be their new boss. Meanwhile, Sydney and Vaughn’s possible reconciliation is surprisingly in doubt — even though Lauren is dead — and Sydney learns an appalling secret about Jack that threatens to destroy their relationship. Additionally, against Sydney’s vehement objections, her new boss partners her with Jack to hunt down a modern-day samurai; Sydney’s half-sister, Nadia, is reluctant to return to the spy game since learning the truth about her father — Arvin Sloan; and Vaughn and Jack share a surprising bond over Jack’s unspeakable past misdeed – much to Sydney’s chagrin.
There are some reshoots done, one adding (or recasting) a Russian character.
[Last year’s] cliff-hanger figures prominently in the two-hour premiere. By the end of it, you will know what Jack did and what the ramifications are.
In the episode, there will be a man named Jorge Calvo who’s heading a front at a meat packing plant in Rio. There will also be a businessman named André Leclerc working at an estate auction house in Brussels.
Syd grills a dying British guy for information.
The episodes will be titled “Authorized Personnel Only”. Note that this is a working title and that it could change. In the second part of the episode, there will be a Japanese male in his 20s named Kazu Tamazaki. The man is a rogue gang leader and may be seen in the episode doing swordplay or matial arts.
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