****Takes place directly after The Telling****
Two years??? How could I've been missing for two years??
I'm so sorry Sydney. I'm so sorry.
Vaughn, why are you wearing that ring? You haven't told me yet!!
A lot of things have changed since you've been gone. We thought you were dead. Sydney, I fell apart after you disappeared. We tried everything to find you, but about 8 months after you vanished we found your DNA on a burned body in a warehouse in Mexico City.
So you just ASSUMED I was dead!! We work for the CIA, you know nothing is as it seems!!
I know, I know!! But I was distraught and weak. So I took an deep undercover mission to try and forget everything.
What kind of mission?
I can't tell you everything, but I was ordered to infiltrate the Triad as Micheal Phillippe, and gain their trust. Syd, to gain their trust I had to marry one of the leaders, Lorenzo Drimr's daughter Serena.
So that's why your wearing the ring?
Yes. I.
It's not real, though, is it? I mean after this is all over, you're not really married to her are you??
It's all fake. Once I married Serena, I had full trust. They gave me a mission to infiltrate an independent terrorist group here in China. I have to tell them what I know, but all the while reporting everything I find to the CIA.
What about Serena?
She thinks we're here to help develop one of her father's companies in Hong Kong.
Ok. Well, what about my dad, and mom, and everyone else? Is Sloane dead yet? My mother?
I tell you everything else on the plane. We have to get you to LA now.
****In a plane over the Pacific****
How is my dad?
Well, he's ok. He took it real hard after you were gone, but he's ok now that he knows you're alive.
What else? What are you not telling me about him?
He was working with your mom to find you.
What!?!?!?
The CIA closed your case after they found the body in Mexico. Your dad still didn't believe you were dead. He enlisted your mom's help in finding you. Three months ago the CIA captured your dad and mom in Bangladesh. They had a lead you might be there. We also had that lead and pursued it. The intel was so strong. Everyone thought that we would find you. It turned out to be another dead end though.
I can't believe it!!! My dad would NEVER work with her!!!!!!!!!
It's the truth.
Did Kendall over him to be locked up?
Kendall has been fired. After not been able to find you, along with a number of failed missions using US dollars and resources. The head of the CIA replaced him with Dixon.
So Dixon's in charge? That's great! How is he?
He's an assistant; there is someone higher up than him now, NSA Director Lindsey Burke. NSA, FBI, CIA, everyone has been joined together to try and save national spending and resources. It's actually a great idea. Too bad it wasn't done before you disappeared. We might have been able to find you. Dixon's doing ok, he's dating a woman for a while. The kids and everyone seems to like her. I haven't seen her; they started dating a little while after I left.
What about Marshall? How's he?
He's engaged to Carrie. All your other questions will be answered soon. We're going to land. You'll be taken to Medical services first, and then hopefully we'll clear everything up later.
Two years??? How could I've been missing for two years??
I'm so sorry Sydney. I'm so sorry.
Vaughn, why are you wearing that ring? You haven't told me yet!!
A lot of things have changed since you've been gone. We thought you were dead. Sydney, I fell apart after you disappeared. We tried everything to find you, but about 8 months after you vanished we found your DNA on a burned body in a warehouse in Mexico City.
So you just ASSUMED I was dead!! We work for the CIA, you know nothing is as it seems!!
I know, I know!! But I was distraught and weak. So I took an deep undercover mission to try and forget everything.
What kind of mission?
I can't tell you everything, but I was ordered to infiltrate the Triad as Micheal Phillippe, and gain their trust. Syd, to gain their trust I had to marry one of the leaders, Lorenzo Drimr's daughter Serena.
So that's why your wearing the ring?
Yes. I.
It's not real, though, is it? I mean after this is all over, you're not really married to her are you??
It's all fake. Once I married Serena, I had full trust. They gave me a mission to infiltrate an independent terrorist group here in China. I have to tell them what I know, but all the while reporting everything I find to the CIA.
What about Serena?
She thinks we're here to help develop one of her father's companies in Hong Kong.
Ok. Well, what about my dad, and mom, and everyone else? Is Sloane dead yet? My mother?
I tell you everything else on the plane. We have to get you to LA now.
****In a plane over the Pacific****
How is my dad?
Well, he's ok. He took it real hard after you were gone, but he's ok now that he knows you're alive.
What else? What are you not telling me about him?
He was working with your mom to find you.
What!?!?!?
The CIA closed your case after they found the body in Mexico. Your dad still didn't believe you were dead. He enlisted your mom's help in finding you. Three months ago the CIA captured your dad and mom in Bangladesh. They had a lead you might be there. We also had that lead and pursued it. The intel was so strong. Everyone thought that we would find you. It turned out to be another dead end though.
I can't believe it!!! My dad would NEVER work with her!!!!!!!!!
It's the truth.
Did Kendall over him to be locked up?
Kendall has been fired. After not been able to find you, along with a number of failed missions using US dollars and resources. The head of the CIA replaced him with Dixon.
So Dixon's in charge? That's great! How is he?
He's an assistant; there is someone higher up than him now, NSA Director Lindsey Burke. NSA, FBI, CIA, everyone has been joined together to try and save national spending and resources. It's actually a great idea. Too bad it wasn't done before you disappeared. We might have been able to find you. Dixon's doing ok, he's dating a woman for a while. The kids and everyone seems to like her. I haven't seen her; they started dating a little while after I left.
What about Marshall? How's he?
He's engaged to Carrie. All your other questions will be answered soon. We're going to land. You'll be taken to Medical services first, and then hopefully we'll clear everything up later.