Alias when does vaughn find out about lauren

Vaughn discovers that the Rambaldi equation indicates a location in Palermo, and he quickly captures Lauren. Sydney finds that Jack is assisting in the pursuit of Lauren and accuses him of working out his own issues with Irina through Vaughn, but Jack stresses that Vaughn needs to kill Lauren himself to find "closure. Before he can torture her, however, he is stabbed in the back by an unseen figure.

Sloane breaks into the safehouse and asks Nadia for the location of the Rambaldi artifact, though she declares that she does not share his beliefs and will not help him. Vaughn is rushed to the hospital and Sydney hurries to his side, informing Jack that she now intends to kill Lauren herself. Lauren is placed in the cell next to Sark's and acknowledges that he betrayed her, but she seems to forgive him and he gives her the passcode for the Rambaldi information — but Lauren is then revealed to be Sydney in disguise.

Even more, we can only imagine how Heigl's career would have panned out had she landed on Alias instead of in residency in Seattle. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, and the rest is history. George landed the role, and became a subject of polarizing fan opinion all on her own From the character's introduction, it was clear that Lauren would be a real problem for fans.

She was the human plot device that had been wedged between the series' main couple of Sydney and Vaughn, an inconvenient source of drama that would inevitably be dealt with in one way or another. Then, suddenly, she was revealed to be an evil mastermind, which just amplified the fan outrage expressed toward her.

All of this before the age of social media, at that. Abrams has maintained all along that Lauren was always meant to be an evil character who would be abruptly written out of the series. Best friends working together in Hollywood is a fairly common occurrence, especially when the pairs are friends who can share screentime together on projects. What's less common, however, is when one friend is behind the scenes and snags the other friend a prime role on screen.

In the case of lifelong best friends J. Abrams and Greg Grunberg, however, that's exactly what happened. Having been friends since childhood, Abrams often fits Grunberg-- known to Alias fans as Sydney and Vaughn's coworker, Eric Weiss, and to Heroes fans as mindreader Matt Parkman-- into his projects wherever he can. Most recently, Abrams scored Grunberg the small but enviable role of Temmin "Snap" Wexley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens , a character whose story has been expanded considerably in comics and novels.

The father-daughter relationship between Jack and Sydney Bristow wasn't always one that allowed the characters to be on the best of terms.

However, over time, their bond clearly became the beating heart of the series, which makes Jack's sacrifice at the end of the series-- and Sydney's naming of her child after her father-- so much more poignant.

As it turns out, the close bond between father and daughter is one that extended beyond the screen. Jennifer Garner and Victor Garber are still incredibly close to this very day.

Garber is, in fact, godfather to one of Garner's daughters with ex-husband Ben Affleck. Even sweeter than that, Garber and his husband were the only two guests at Garner and Affleck's wedding-- and Garber himself officiated the marriage. Talk about adorable. What other secrets behind the making of Alias do you know about?

Let us know in the comments! Katerina is a List Writer here at Screen Rant with a background in literary criticism and creative writing. She has been in love with all things film and television since she saw her first movie in theatres at 2. Sydney phones him and directs him to it while Lauren and Olivia are outside. He scans and transmits the documents with a watch. Vaughn finishes just before Lauren enters. Sydney disconnects her comm as they fool around.

The documents reveal a Rambaldi artifact known as the Hourglass, which was auctioned to Masa Raidon, a yakuza keeping the artwork in a building in Little Tokyo. The manuscript says The Hourglass will reveal the location of The Passenger only to her father. Sloane will be executed in 6 hours. The Justice Department won't stay the execution.

Sydney bluffs Jack into agreeing to turn over his info on The Trust and exonerating Sloane. Jack then talks with Sloane, bringing champagne to his cell to celebrate the knowledge of a daughter. Jack accuses him of trying to take Sydney away from him.

He refuses to help Sloane and threatens The Passenger. Sydney treads delicately in the Yakuza stronghold but when Marshall tells her Dixon is at the execution, she kicks in to high gear.

As Sloane enters his execution chamber, Sydney, double guns blazing, mows down the guards and grabs The Hourglass. Sloane slowly dies as he receives a combination of lethal injections. Sydney later turns her back on her father. As Vaughn uploads Cypher's data to Marshall, Lauren touches the ring to the drive. Later, Marshall tells them that flash drive's memory was wiped. He suggests it was purposely exposed to an electromagnetic pulse. However, he's able to partially reconstruct the source code and determines that its real purpose was to gather information for The Covenant.

Bomani realizes the CIA cut their data feed. Sydney tells Jack that she seriously suspects Lauren. Jack pays Vaughn a visit, tells him that Irina would sometimes camouflage the truth in a kiss. An outraged Vaughn says Lauren is no Irina and he is not Jack. Marshall finds the worm was searching for the genetic code for one woman.

There are ten possibilities. Lauren downloads the data, then tells Vaughn she has errands to run. He follows her to a mall, watches her receive a phone call - Sark warns her off the drop; he wants to see her in person.

Vaughn has Weiss run a tap on Lauren's phone and he overhears her speaking intensely. Later, Lauren tells Vaughn that she got a call from her mother which explains the phone call to Vaughn. Dixon says the ten women are actually aliases for one woman. Records reveal this woman was always treated by one doctor -- Robert Viadro in Milan.

Sydney and Vaughn go to Milan.