Alias/The Telling

The Telling
Season 2, Episode 22
Airdate	May 4, 2003
Written by	J.J. Abrams
Directed by	J.J. Abrams
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The Telling is the twenty-second episode of the second season of Alias, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow), Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane), Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn), Bradley Cooper (Will Tippin), Merrin Dungey (Francie Calfo), Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon), Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman), David Anders (Julian Sark)

with Lena Olin (Irina Derevko)

and Victor Garber (Jack Bristow)

Special Guest Star: Terry O'Quinn (FBI Special Officer Kendall)

Guest Starring: Jonathan Banks (Frederick Brandon), Amanda Foreman (Carrie Bowman)

with Greg Grunberg (Agent Weiss)

Co-Starring: Kevin Bowens (Alpha Team Leader), Jon Dixon (CIA Agent), Kent George (Sloane's Guard), Paul Keeley (Police Officer), Michael Yama (Chinese Agent)

Uncredited: Kane Hodder (Sloane's Guard #2)

Notes

47

• The Telling machine consists of 47 pieces.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Will learns that Francie has been replaced by Allison Doren. Sydney later discovers Francie has been doubled and they get into a fight that ends with Sydney shooting her three times, twice in the chest.

• Sloane compiles everything he needs for a Rambaldi machine called The Telling. It remains unknown what it reveals.

Characters

• Sark is apprehended and put in CIA custody.

• Allison stabs Will where Sydney later finds his body in the bathtub. We're later told he's okay.

• After her fight with Doren, Sydney wakes up with a scar on her stomach in Hong Kong. In a safe house, she is contacted by Vaughn, who she observes is wearing a wedding ring, and he tells her she's been presumed dead and missing for nearly two years.

Trivia

The Show

• The episode does not feature the title sequence with the credits displayed over the very beginning of the episode.

Behind the Scenes

• The fight between Sydney and Francie took two days to film.

• Merrin Dungey had problems in scene of making out with David Anders as she had recently broken up with her boyfriend who happened to be a close friend of Anders'.

• According to Abrams, Dungey was anxious to shoot the fight scenes as she was tired of playing a sentimental, non-action character.