In the sixteenth episode of the third season of Alias<\/i>, the Covenant gets revenge for Sark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capture. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
God, this show. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just???? We are nearing the end of season three, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much going on, and all of it stresses me out??? LITERALLY ALL OF IT. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chat, friends!<\/p>\n
Lauren \/ Dixon<\/b><\/p>\n
Like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I hate all of the Covenant, and Sark has been easy to despise for a while, particularly this season. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a certain element to my dislike of Lauren, and this episode truly highlights why she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just as evil as Sark. Yes, she makes one comment about Dixon going through a nightmare, but SHE HELPED ORCHESTRATE THAT NIGHTMARE. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s made her husband suffer; she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s made Sydney suffer; she has killed NUMEROUS PEOPLE WITH NO HESITATION AT ALL. But knowing that she leaked information so that Dixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kids could be kidnapped\u00e2\u20ac\u201dafter his wife was already<\/i> killed because of his job\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis so incredibly goddamn evil that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever<\/i> see her finding redemption. (Same with Sark, for that matter.) I suppose it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially hard because Dixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suffering and torment is on full display throughout \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Taken.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lumbly is fantastic here, playing Dixon on the edge of grief and rage, and his scenes are all the best ones in this episode.<\/p>\n
So there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a contrast that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore. Lauren is calmly leaking information and setting up Arvin Sloan and Dr. Barnett while Dixon has a near nervous breakdown. UNFORGIVABLE, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I can see her as a sympathetic character after this! Having just one<\/i> statement that hints at remorse doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make up for the metric TONS of pain she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s given to other people!<\/p>\n
Arvin \/ Barnett<\/b><\/p>\n
I had a brief, sneaking thought that Dr. Barnett was actually part of The Covenant and that she seduced Arvin in order to help frame him. In hindsight, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very glad I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vocalize this poorly thought-out theory because IT MAKES LITERALLY NO SENSE AT ALL. What, was she just waiting around until she was useful? Maybe to get secrets from him or something? Rather, it makes much more sense that Lauren made Sloane the scapegoat because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so believable<\/i> that he would betray everyone to the Covenant. I am still not at all willingly to believe that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turned a new leaf, but y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. THE HORRIBLE IRONY. He is actually telling the truth in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Taken,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and yet no one will believe him! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to give Lauren props for this because SHE DESERVES NOTHING, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 shit, Arvin was the perfect person to frame.<\/p>\n
I admit, however, that I am deeply confused about Dr. Barnett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attraction to Arvin and her decision to break protocol to sleep with him. I always saw her as such a principled, ethical person, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what she sees in him. And now, I have no idea where there story goes. I could see it being finished with this episode, given that she believes that he betrayed her and used her for his own end. Which would have been a very Arvin Sloane thing to do!<\/p>\n
The Truth<\/b><\/p>\n
Of course, a huge form of suspense that the writers have been using since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Full Disclosure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the reveal that Lauren Reed is a double agent, that Vaughn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been on a parallel journey to Jack Bristow, that the person responsible for all the leaks is RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO THEM IN EVERY MEETING. Look, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even fathom how pissed these people are going to be when they learn the truth. I think Dixon alone<\/i> would kill her, but the writers make a very fascinating choice here: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jack<\/i> who first notices a clue that hints towards the identity of Sark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partner. The episode ends on that realization, and all I can imagine is that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be sneaky as HELL. He is going to want to definitively prove that Lauren is the mole, and y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. He is not going to confront her immediately. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to set a fucking trap. HE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GOING TO DO IT.<\/p>\n
Oh, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait. I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T WAIT.\u00c2\u00a0Plus I suspect that all this Rambaldi\/science fiction nonsense (which I love!!!) is finally going to be addressed in full. WHAT IS IN THE BOX WITH IRINA’S NAME ON IT!!!!<\/p>\n
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