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Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Alias Season 4 Episode 12 - The Orphan
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #1 - The Orphan

    S4:E12

    Nadia puts her own life - as well Sydney's and Weiss's - in danger after failing to unveil her past through a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile, Vaughn finds a person who is somehow connected to his father and Nadia as well.

    Director:Ken Olin
    Writers:Monica Owusu-Breen, Jeffrey Bell

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  2. Alias Season 4 Episode 7 - Détente
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #2 - Détente

    S4:E7

    While Sydney and Nadia argue about Nadia's acceptance of Sloane's fatherly concerns, Sloane worries about Nadia's well-being when she and Sydney go undercover as wealthy, irresponsible young heiresses to uncover the whereabouts of a deadly chemical.

    Director:Craig Zisk
    Writers:Monica Owusu-Breen, Alison Schapker

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  3. Alias Season 4 Episode 11 - The Road Home
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #3 - The Road Home

    S4:E11

    Sydney must protect the life of a civilian, whom she unintentionally put in danger. Meanwhile, Jack plans a visit with an old friend, and Vaughn uncovers more disturbing secrets about his father.

    Director:Maryann Brandon
    Writers:Josh Appelbaum, Monica Owusu-Breen, Alison Schapker, André Nemec

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  4. Alias Season 3 Episode 20 - Blood Ties
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Blood Ties

    S3:E20

    After discovering the identity of the Rambaldi "Passenger," Sydney and Jack seek the aid of Sloane, to track the "Passenger" down. Meanwhile, after learning a secret about his father from Thomas Brill, Vaughn is kidnapped and tortured by Lauren and Sark, who are about to track "The Passenger" down themselves.

    Director:Jack Bender
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Alias Season 4 Episode 9 - A Man of His Word
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #5 - A Man of His Word

    S4:E9

    While Nadia is in a coma, Sark is taken into APO to help them infiltrate Cadmus Revolutionary Front and retrieve the bomb, but in return he demands to see Lauren's corpse and that Vaughn opens her coffin for him. Nadia may be the only person with the intel they need to intercept the bomb, so Jack is forced to prematurely wake Nadia from her coma, endangering her life, which doesn't please Sloane when he finds out.

    Director:Marita Grabiak
    Writer:Breen Frazier

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  6. Alias Season 4 Episode 19 - In Dreams...
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #6 - In Dreams...

    S4:E19

    The team captures the Sloane Imposter and questions him to find a rare Rambaldi orchid. The real Sloane must relive a painful memory in order to get the Imposter to reveal the orchid location.

    Director:Jennifer Garner
    Writer:Jon Robin Baitz

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  7. Alias Season 5 Episode 5 - Out of the Box
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Out of the Box

    S5:E5

    Sydney and Tom discover that Renie has stolen the cryo container, and soon find themselves under siege by a group of mercanaries who want the contents of the container. Meanwhile, Sloane takes matters into his own hands to get himself back into APO.

    Director:Jay Torres
    Writer:Jesse Alexander

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  8. Alias Season 5 Episode 8 - Bob
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #8 - Bob

    S5:E8

    Rachel and Sydney have to join forces with Julian Sark to prevent a deadly micropulse bomb from falling in the hands of a dangerous mercenary.

    Director:Donald E. Thorin Jr.
    Writers:Monica Owusu-Breen, Alison Schapker

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  9. Alias Season 2 Episode 7 - The Counteragent
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #9 - The Counteragent

    S2:E7

    Sydney races to find a cure for Vaughn, but in order to find the antidote, Sydney must make a deal with Sark that could endanger Sloane's life. Meanwhile, Will continues his research for Vaughn and discovers some disturbing inconsistencies involving 20-year-old standardized IQ tests.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writer:John Eisendrath

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  10. Alias Season 3 Episode 2 - Succession
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #10 - Succession

    S3:E2

    Sydney's search for her past leads to a jailed Sark, but their Q&A is cut short when he becomes the ransom for a pair of abducted CIA scientists, whose kidnappers may be tied to the murder of his father. Jack contacts an old friend of sorts for info on Sloane's new world-peace project, and Vaughn makes a decision about his future as an operative.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writers:Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

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  11. Alias Season 3 Episode 3 - Reunion
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Reunion

    S3:E3

    Sydney and Vaughn are reunited again as a team to prevent Sark from destroying the nation's satellite communications system. Meanwhile, Jack must find a way to stop Marshall from uncovering the identity of a familiar murderer. Sydney accompanies Vaughn and Lauren as they meet with Sloane to ask for a favor.

    Director:Jack Bender
    Writer:Jeff Pinkner

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  12. Alias Season 3 Episode 7 - Prelude
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Prelude

    S3:E7

    Jack takes drastic measures to ensure that the NSC never finds out the truth about Sydney's murder of a Russian diplomat. But his actions place a heavy strain on Vaughn's marriage, as Lauren gets closer and closer to the truth about Sydney. Meanwhile, Sydney agrees to go on a mission with Sloane in order to thwart plans to obtain the operating system to a deadly weapon -- and she discovers an unlikely ally in the hunt for her missing two years.

    Director:Jack Bender
    Writer:J.R. Orci

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  13. Alias Season 3 Episode 21 - Legacy
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Legacy

    S3:E21

    With the aid of Katya Derevko and CIA imprisoned security systems designer Toni Cummings, Sydney and Vaughn attempt to track down Sloane and Nadia. But Lauren and Sark are also in hot pursuit of them in order to uncover the secrets of Rambaldi. Meanwhile, Vaughn's obsession with tracking down Lauren is beginning to consume him, Sydney and Vaughn turn the tables on an old foe, and Katya expresses her attraction to Jack.

    Director:Lawrence Trilling
    Writer:Jesse Alexander

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  14. Alias Season 4 Episode 6 - Nocturne
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Nocturne

    S4:E6

    After being infected with a hallucinogen, Sydney starts to lose touch with reality. Vaughn and Jack must rush to find an antidote before Sydney puts her life - and others next to her - into danger.

    Director:Lawrence Trilling
    Writer:Jeff Pinkner

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  15. Alias Season 1 Episode 3 - Parity
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Parity

    S1:E3

    A mission to steal an ancient sketch pits Syd against her sworn nemesis, a Russian agent who's after the same target. But when the container holding the painting proves impenetrable, the two foes are forced to team up to satisfy their respective agencies. Meanwhile, Will begins to notice something very fishy about Danny's murder; and Francie frets over her guy's possible infidelity.

    Director:Mikael Salomon
    Writers:Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

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  16. Alias Season 4 Episode 2 - Authorized Personnel Only (2)
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Authorized Personnel Only (2)

    S4:E2

    Sydney unwillingly teams up with her father to hunt down a modern-day samurai. Meanwhile, Nadia doesn't want to go back to the spy business, but is forced to when Sydney's life is jeopardized. Sydney finds out the reason behind Jack's misdeed and Nadia makes an unsettling promise.

    Director:Ken Olin
    Writers:J.J. Abrams, Jeff Melvoin

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  17. Alias Season 4 Episode 15 - Pandora
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Pandora

    S4:E15

    In an attempt to talk to Sydney, Katya Derevko deliberately poisons herself and is temporally taken out from her cell. Once Nadia tells her sister about this, Sydney visits her aunt to tell her to stay away from Nadia. However, Katya unsettles Sydney by telling her that someone framed her mother as a means of getting her killed. Sydney sets off in search of the truth behind this story. Meanwhile, Vaughn becomes a rogue agent by getting involved with the people who might know his father's whereabouts. In the end, he and Sydney find out that the man behind these two plots is no other than A. Sloane. However, things are not exactly as they seem to be.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writers:Jeff Pinkner, J.R. Orci

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  18. Alias Season 4 Episode 20 - The Descent
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #18 - The Descent

    S4:E20

    After a tactical group infiltrates the DSR and steals Rambaldi artifacts, CIA director Hayden Chase discovers that the alarms at the DSR were disabled from Nadia's computer, allowing the raid to happen, and shows up at the apartment to question her. Soon Sloane and Jack arrive and suspect that Sophia, who had access to the computer while she was living with Syd and Nadia, is Elena Derevko. They follow her trail to a dead Rambaldi follower, a stunning betrayal, and a presumed dead family member...

    Director:Jeffrey Bell
    Writers:Jeffery Bell, Jeffrey Bell

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  19. Alias Season 5 Episode 7 - Fait Accompli
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #19 - Fait Accompli

    S5:E7

    Sydney and APO attempt to discover whom Gordon Dean is working for and what their end game is. Meanwhile, when the group claiming to have a cure for daughter Nadia continues to play mind games with him, Sloane struggles for control.

    Director:Richard Coad
    Writer:Andi Bushell

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  20. Alias Season 5 Episode 9 - The Horizon
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #20 - The Horizon

    S5:E9

    Sydney teams up with Vaughn after being kidnapped and being placed in a hypnotic. What Sydney doesn't know is that the kidnapper is a very familiar face with an obscure interest in her unborn child.

    Director:Tucker Gates
    Writers:Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

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  21. Alias Season 1 Episode 6 - Reckoning
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Reckoning

    S1:E6

    Sydney goes undercover in a mental institution to get information from Shepard, a man who has been unconsciously programmed to be a deadly assassin. Meanwhile, after Sydney becomes convinced that her father was responsible for the death of her mother 20 years earlier. Will discovers the true identity of the woman who claimed having an affair with Danny and Francie is relieved to learn that Charlie is not having an affair other woman. Marshall finds the computer worm planted in the SD-6 mainframe by the CIA.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writer:Jesse Alexander

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  22. Alias Season 2 Episode 4 - Dead Drop
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #22 - Dead Drop

    S2:E4

    Sydney's dealings with her mother lead Jack to take drastic measures to ensure his daughter's safety. Meanwhile Will is confronted by a mysterious woman about resurrecting his story on SD-6.

    Director:Guy Norman Bee
    Writer:Jesse Alexander

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  23. Alias Season 2 Episode 10 - The Abduction
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #23 - The Abduction

    S2:E10

    Jack meets Alliance counterintelligence head Ariana Kane, who is sent in to investigate Emily's disappearance and to discover who is trying to blackmail Sloane. Meanwhile, Marshall is sent on his first mission with Sydney as his partner. Vaughn schedules Will to take a CIA psych test. Francie gets suspicious over Sydney and Will's secretive behavior.

    Director:Nelson McCormick
    Writers:Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

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  24. Alias Season 2 Episode 12 - The Getaway
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #24 - The Getaway

    S2:E12

    While Alliance counterintelligence head Ariana Kane tracks Sydney in order to catch her fugitive father, Jack elicits Irina's help in finding Sloane's blackmailer. Meanwhile, Sydney and Vaughn risk exposing their covers to SD-6 when they share a romantic dinner together while on a case in France.

    Director:Lawrence Trilling
    Writer:Jeff Pinkner

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  25. Alias Season 2 Episode 15 - A Free Agent
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #25 - A Free Agent

    S2:E15

    Sydney must make a life-defining decision regarding her future with the agency, while Sloane re-emerges and continues his obsessive quest to piece together the mysterious Rambaldi artifacts - with the reluctant aid of a kidnapped scientist. Meanwhile, Dixon's marriage is put to the test after he tells his wife the truth about his occupation.

    Director:Alex Kurtzman
    Writers:Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Orphan" is the worst rated episode of "Alias". It scored 7.4/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Ken Olin and written by Monica Owusu-Breen, Jeffrey Bell, it aired on 3/23/2005. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Détente".