Three Hours:
The teams were in place. Leading the first team, Dixon's objective was to capture Sloan and then Sark. Jack leading Sammy and the two other agents, were ready to enter the sub-basement levels of Credit Dauphine to find the imprisoned Vaughn. Both teams waiting on Marshall to decode the entrance and shut down their security. Sammy thought to herself, 'I'll assist them in quickly finding Vaughn, and then make sure they are imprisoned prior to any conversation with Vaughn. I've got the element of surprise on my side. I can then contact Sloan and inform him of the breach. I will have to return to Zurich, but the CIA will be hurt. Sloan will be pleased... hopefully...'
As the door opened and Marshall stepped back, the two teams entered the building.
Junior Agent Blessman had been given the assignment by director Kendall himself. "...Get that traitor out of this office. I want her at the holding facility. Take her!" The job seemed easy enough. Transport a small framed girl, still drunk from the drugs they used during the interrogation, to the next building and put her into a cell. Easy enough job.
Agent Blessman unlocked the chains and helped the girl stand. He started to place cuffs on her, but Meelon's body began to fall limply onto the floor. Agent Blessman held her up by the shoulders. "Come on ma'am. Can't you walk?"
"Who's that?" Meelon slurred.
"Can't walk can you? They must have given you quite a dose. Here, I'll carry you." He picked up Meelon and carried her out of the building, forgetting about the cuffs. 'She's too out of it anyway.' He told himself.
Meelon looked up into Agent Blessman's eyes and captured them. Suddenly he stopped walking. "You can put me down now agent. I can walk." Agent Blessman lowered Meelon to the ground and continued to stare into her eyes. Do you have your keys in your pocket?"
"Yes."
"Good, let's get your car."
The agent and Meelon walked together to the parking garage. He pointed out his car and gave Meelon the keys and then his sidearm when she asked for them. Meelon looked around the garage and then held his eyes once more. "You will continue to stand here until someone walks by and says your name."
Meelon got into the car and made her way out of the parking garage. She made sure to be inconspicuous throughout her ride to Credit Dauphine.
Sammy knew where she was going; she had spent almost two years here training, before she returned to Sydney's life. She didn't want them to discover that, until it was too late. She followed Jack Bristow's lead and made occasional suggestions. But Jack went straight to the area where SD-6 kept prisoners, hoping old habits die hard for Sloan. His hunch paid off, when they came across the holding facility guarded by three men.
The four agents quickly disabled and disarmed the guards and approached the cell. Jack gave a sign to the two other agents. Quickly they approached Sammy and took her into custody.
"What do you think you are doing? Let me go." Sammy ranted and struggled to escape.
Jack retrieved the keys to the cell, off of one of the guards.
"Dad, tell them to let me go. What is going on?"
Jack looked at his daughter. He approached her and touched her cheek. "All will be OK in a minute, dear." Jack left them and entered the cell.
"Let go of me!" Sammy continued to rant. She struggled and was soon able to get one of the guards off balance. She used her exceptional training and stability to trip the off balance agent into the other. One let go and the other started to pull her over as the two agents fell. Quickly, Sammy kicked the man's arm, causing pain and thus he let go of her. Free from her captors, Sammy looked back quickly as she exited the room. Jack and Vaughn exited the cell as she ran out of the room.
This place she knew. The twists and turns of this floor were laid out to confuse and deter any escapee. 'Jack will guess that I am going to leave this floor to warn Sloan. He's stupid to think Sloan is even here. I will double back and take them out from behind.'
Sammy continued to work her way through the maze of the hallways. Sammy then turned the corner, right into Vaughn. Immediately their guns were drawn and aimed at each other.
"Michael Vaughn, it's nice to see you again."
"Sydney, put your gun down."
"You know I am not Sydney... don't you? Or, you would not have raised your gun against me. Therefore, I can assume that you know there is nothing you can do to stop me now."
"There is something..."
"You love Meelon. You have told Sydney that already. You do not love me."
Vaughn looks at the girl. "I still love Sydney. Over and above any love I had or thought I had for Meelon. I will fight for Sydney."
Guns still aimed at each other Vaughn says the first word of the spell. "Recidivus"
"No! You can not change me back." Sammy fires her weapon.
"Mei"
Sammy fires again. "What is wrong with this why don't you die! Where are the dam bullets?"
"Carus." Completing the spell, Sammy looks at Vaughn and collapses.
Sydney awakens and looks up to see Vaughn, a few steps in front of her. His gun is pointed at her. "Vaughn, where are we? What is going on? What...?"
"Sydney, stay down!"
"Vaughn?" Sydney looks at him and sees madness in his eyes. She knows she must get out of the path of the gun if she is to survive. 'Why would Vaughn want to shoot me?' She tries again to stand. From behind her, she is kicked back to the floor. She twists and looks behind her.
"He said stay down."
Now, out from in between the pair, Sydney understands the gun was not pointed at her, but at Meelon behind her. Sydney knows she must find a way out of this for both her and Vaughn. 'What happened that would bring these two together against each other?"
"You won't shoot me Michael. You love me."
"I thought I loved you. You made me think that. Up until the point you helped Sloan kidnap me. I'm no longer under your spell. I know who you are and where your loyalties lie."
"That may be, Michael. But you will still not shoot me."
"But I might." Sydney says as she tackles Meelon onto the floor and reaches for the gun, now pointed over their heads.
Meelon throws Sydney off of her and somersaults into a kneeling position, perfect aim to shoot. Meelon begins to depress the trigger.
The shot rings out clear in the sub-basement floors. The echo is heard again and again. Jack turns the corners and comes across the scene. Stunned, he drops his weapon and runs over to Sydney. Vaughn stands there stunned. He drops his gun.
"Sydney, are you alright?"
"Yes, Dad! Vaughn shot her... she was going to kill me... I was in her sights... Vaughn shot her."
"She's dead Jack." Vaughn stated; his voice tired and heavy from the activities. He knelt beside his wife. "How could I not know about her? How could she mess up my life like this?"
Sydney moved toward Vaughn. "You saved my life. How can I ever thank you?" Sydney takes him in her arms. Vaughn is crying. "She won't mess up your life any longer. She won't be messing with anyone."
Vaughn looks at Sydney. "Is it really you? Are you... not... whoever you were?"
"Who was I?"
Jack steps in. "Sydney, you will be debriefed, but if Rambaldi was correct we won't be seeing that alter ego again."
"Sydney, I'm sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry I left you... your memory... so easily. I thought I was stronger than that... I thought I would never need to meet anyone else. I'm sorry I married Meelon and did not wait for you. Please forgive me."
"Vaughn, I'm here now." The pair embrace and kiss deeply, reminiscent of a previous kiss, also held in the hallowed halls of the Credit Dauphine Building.