Alias/Authorized Personnel Only (2)

Authorized Personnel Only (2)
Season 4, Episode 2
Airdate	January 5, 2005
Written by	J.J. Abrams & Jeff Melvoin
Directed by	Ken Olin
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Alias — Season Four

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Authorized Personnel Only (2) is the second episode of the fourth season of Alias, and the sixty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow), Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane), Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn), Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon), Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman), Mia Maestro (Nadia Santos), Greg Grunberg (Eric Weiss)

and Victor Garber (Jack Bristow)

Guest Starring: Rick Yune (Kazu Tamazaki)

Co-Starring: Dennis Di Angelo (Jorge), Jay Harik (Lebeque), JR Reed (Lead CIA Agent), Mark Ryan (Cooney)

Featuring: Clive Pearson (Guard #1)

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• It's revealed that what Sydney learned in Wittenburg is that Jack made an official request asking for the authority to execute Irina, which was granted.

Characters

• Marshall is recruited into APO.

• Nadia also joins APO.

• Weiss and Nadia meet for the first time.

• Sydney and Jack's relationship begin to mend after Sydney learns that Irina had put a hit out on her, which is why he killed her.

Trivia

The Show

• The revelation about what Sydney found in the bank vault is an obvious retcon from the direction hinted at in the Season 3 finale.