Alias is an American SpyFi television series, created by J. J. Abrams, and starring Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a CIA double agent.

Contents

1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Staff 4 Episode list 4.1 Season 1 4.2 Season 2 4.3 Season 3 4.4 Season 4 5 Production 6 Distributors 7 Alias: The Video Game 8 DVD 8.1 Season 1 Features 8.2 Season 2 Features 8.3 Season 3 Features 9 External links

Plot

Sydney Bristow is a college student who is approached with a job offer by someone claiming to work for SD-6, a black ops division of the Central Intelligence Agency; she accepts the offer and quickly becomes a field agent. When she tells her fiancé Danny that she is a spy, however, he is murdered by SD-6.

It is then that Sydney is told by her father Jack Bristow (another SD-6 agent and a double agent for the CIA) that SD-6 is not part of the CIA; instead, it is part of the Alliance of Twelve, an organization that is an enemy to the United States. She decides to offer her services to the real CIA as a double agent. Her offer is soon accepted, and she begins the long and arduous task of destroying SD-6 from the inside.

A major subplot of the series is the search for and the recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a Leonardo da Vinci-like inventor and prophet from the Renaissance period. Rambaldi's works include electronics and other devices that would not be invented by others for centuries. He also predicted that a woman who looks like Sydney will cause "utter devastation" to the world. This subplot pushes Alias into the genre of science fiction.

Characters

See List of characters from Alias

Staff

• J. J. Abrams - Executive Producer
• John Eisendrath - Executive Producer
• Ken Olin - Executive Producer
• Michael Giacchino - Composer

Episode list

Season 1

1. Truth be Told
2. So it Begins
3. Parity
4. A Broken Heart
5. Doppleganger (sic)
6. Reckoning
7. Color Blind
8. Time Will Tell
9. Mea Culpa
10. Spirit
11. The Confession
12. The Box (Part 1)
13. The Box (Part 2)
14. The Coup
15. Page 47
16. The Prophecy
17. Q&A
18. Masquerade
19. Snowman
20. The Solution
21. Rendezvous
22. Almost 30 Years

Season 2

1. The Enemy Walks In
2. Trust Me
3. Cipher
4. Dead Drop
5. The Indicator
6. Salvation
7. The Counteragent
8. Passage Part 1
9. Passage Part 2
10. The Abduction
11. A Higher Echelon
12. The Getaway
13. Phase One
14. Double Agent
15. A Free Agent
16. Firebomb
17. A Dark Turn
18. Truth Takes Time
19. Endgame
20. Countdown
21. Second Double
22. The Telling

Season 3

1. The Two
2. Succession
3. Reunion
4. A Missing Link
5. Repercussions
6. The Nemesis
7. Prelude
8. Breaking Point
9. Conscious
10. Remnants
11. Full Disclosure
12. Crossings
13. After Six
14. Blowback
15. Facade
16. Taken
17. The Frame
18. Unveiled
19. Hourglass
20. Blood Ties
21. Legacy
22. Resurrection

also: Tribunal, a seven-minute animated short (full title: Animated Alias: Tribunal) which was produced for the season 3 DVD release and takes place prior to the events of The Two.

Season 4

1. Authorized Personnel Only: Part 1 (JJ Abrams / Ken Olin) January 5 2005
2. Authorized Personnel Only: Part 2 (Jeff Melvoin / Ken Olin) January 5 2005
3. The Awful Truth (Jesse Alexander) January 12 2005
4. Détente (Monica Breen & Alison Schapker)
5. Ice (Jeffrey Bell)
6. Nocturne (Jeff Pinkner)
7. Echoes (Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec)
8. A Man Of His Word (Breen Frazier)
9. Welcome To Liberty Village (Drew Goddard)
10. The Index (J.R. Orci & Alison Schapker)
11. The Road Home (Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec)
12. The Orphan (Jeffrey Bell & Monica Breen)

Debuts January 5, 2005. (Note: the series has been moved from Sunday to Wednesday night for its fourth season.)

Production

Production locations are primarily in Los Angeles, California and the series is produced by Touchstone Television and Bad Robot Production. Despite its worldwide locales, only one episode has ever been filmed outside the Los Angeles region (and that one was shot in Las Vegas).

Distributors

• Australia - Seven Network
• Austria - ATV+ http://atvplus.at
• Canada - CTV
• France - Téva http://www.teva.tv and M6 http://www.m6.fr
• Germany - ProSieben http://www.prosieben.de
• United States - American Broadcasting Company

Alias: The Video Game

The video game Alias, based on the series, is a 3D third-person stealth/action title developed and released by Acclaim Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The plot was written by the creators of the show and the game features the voices of the cast principals.

• Released: April 6, 2004
• ESRB Rating: T for Teen

DVD

The first three seasons of Alias have been released on DVD. The fourth season is expected sometime in September 2005 after its initial airing on television in January of 2005.

Season 1 Features

Released September 2, 2003

• Audio commentaries on select episodes
• Deleted Scenes
• Pilot production diary
• Featurette: A Mission Around The World
• Marshall Finkman's Gadget Gallery
• Auditions
• Season Two Preview
• PS2 game sneak peek
• Season Three Preview

Season 2 Features

Released December 2, 2003

• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Audio Commentary with cast & crew
• The Making of The Telling - An In-Depth Look at the Season Finale
• The Making of the Video Game
• Featurette: Undercover: The Look of Alias - A Look at Costume Design, Makeup, and Disguises

(A skit filmed for Monday Night Football was advertised as being in the set, but was removed from the DVD set before release.)

Season 3 Features

Released September 7, 2004

• Animated Alias: Tribunal - a brief animated feature detailing a mission that Sydney undertook during her "missing" two years.
• Deleted scenes
• Blooper reel
• Featurette: Burbank in Barcelona - a look at the production design
• Gadget Lab - Marshall Finkman's gadgets from script to screen
• The Alias Diaries - meet the unsung craftsmen and technicians
• Team Alias - a special introduction filmed for Monday Night Football and Michael Vartan meets the Stanley Cup.
• Ultimate fan audio commentary
• Script scanner
• Cast & Crew Commentaries
• Widescreen anamorphic video format.

External links

• Alias (2001 - Current) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285333/ at the Internet Movie Database
• US distributor ABC Alias Website http://abc.go.com/primetime/alias/
• Canadian distributor CTV Alias Website http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1063400728240_58809722
• Alias fan community All Alias http://allalias.com
• Alias on Television Without Pity televisionwithoutpity.com http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show.cgi?show=75