9. The Horizon

Complete story — includes the ending

Sydney prepares dinner with Vaughn...waking restrained, "Who are you?" Dr. Gonzalo Burris reassures, he nearly has "what we need." Behind glass, a voice worries, "Stop...this won't harm the baby?" Sydney swears, "If you hurt my baby...I will kill you." San Francisco 2 days earlier: Kelly stabs Agent Zachary Turner, searches "Agent Michael Vaughn," kills another agent, steals hard-drives, and phones Desantis. Her audio tech thinks Vaughn shared "the location." Desantis marvels, we've searched thirty years. In Madrid, Sydney's abducted. Renée shoots the second van, capturing Desantis, "Where are they taking her?!" Burris injects " propofol cocktail" as "forced hypnosis," instructing, "think of Vaughn," probing Sydney's mind. Jack interrogates Desantis. Renée finds Desantis' calendar address, three weeks out; Sydney's due date. Desantis is "prepared to die." Renée shoots him. The voice wants, "the map of SD-6," an org-chart Sydney viewed only once (in " So It Begins "). Burris, "a name...what is it?" Sydney, "X23-Norte." Irina Derevko (the voice) tells Kelly, "I'll let my associates know...the location of The Horizon." Memory-Vaughn tells Sydney, they'll eventually know she gave the wrong name. In Hungary, Jack and Renée find the address; a nursery. Sydney tranquilizes Kelly, but discovers she's at sea onboard the bulk freighter Athena.