Alias/Blood Ties

Blood Ties
Season 3, Episode 20
Airdate	April 25, 2004
Teleplay by	J.R. Orci
Story by	Monica Breen & Alison Schapker
Directed by	Jack Bender
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Alias — Season Three

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Blood Ties is the twentieth episode of the third season of Alias, and the sixty-fourth episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow), Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane), Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn), Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon), Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman), Melissa George (Lauren Reed), Greg Grunberg (Eric Weiss), David Anders (Julian Sark)

and Victor Garber (Jack Bristow)

Special Guest Star: Richard Roundtree (Thomas Brill)

Guest Starring: Mia Maestro (Nadia Santos), Glenn Morshower (Marlon Bell), Erik Jensen (Phillip Terrance)

Co-Starring: Yun Choi (Carl)

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• It's revealed that the elixir Sloane tried injected himself with was the result of a formula he found in a Rambaldi text, which would allow the Passenger to channel a message for Rambaldi.

• Thomas Brill tells Vaughn that his father was a Rambaldi follower who freed the Passenger, then a little girl, from KGB custody and hid her and died protecting her.

• The Hourglass houses a green ball that acts as a battery to a Rambaldi artefact that etches a brain wave pattern on parchment. A DOD satellite network is used for remote electroencephalography to locate the Passenger. It's a woman named Nadia Santos who works for SIDE, Argentine Intelligence.

• Sydney learns from Vaughn that there is a prophecy that says the Passenger and the Chosen One will battle and neither will survive.

Characters

• Sloane finally meets his daughter and claims he changed because he didn't want her to despite him. However, he calls the Covenant to tip them to their location, which causes a distraction and allows Sloane and Nadia to flee. He then has her strapped to a table and begins injecting her with the elixir.