Absolution

by YoungStarsOwner

The search continues... Absolution is the sequel to Redemption, the story of a girl who found out her entire life was a lie. You don't have to have read Redemption in order to read Absolution. An adequate story summer is included.

1. Absolution

Title: Absolution
Sequel to Redemption BUT you don't have to have read Redemption to follow Absolution, the summary is fine.

Author: Young Stars Owner

Rating: PG-13 (some chapters will be clearly marked as R)

Cast: All Cast Adventure

Distribution: Here, SD-1, -- anywhere else, please ask.

Cast
Kat --Shiri Appleby
Jack -- Victor Garber
Sydney -- Jennifer Garner
Irina --Lena Olin
Vaughn --Michael Vartan
Weiss -- Greg Grunberg
Will --Bradley Cooper
Sark --David Anders
Sloane --Ron Rifkin
Dixon --Carl Lumbly
Marshall -- Kevin Weissman
Carrie --Andrea Foreman
Kendall -- Terry O'Quinn
JJ --Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Garcia -- Nicholas Gonzales

I am posting the Summary for Redemption as a refresher, because it ended on a cliffhanger and it has been a long time since many of my readers read it.

Redemption
Story Summary
When Sydney investigates new Intel regarding the The Covenant she discovers she has a 17 year old sister named Kathryn whom she never knew about. Irina faked her death when Kathryn was five and Kathryn spent the rest of her life in foster care in NYC. Sydney, Vaughn and Weiss save her from the Covenant. Kathryn was kidnapped because the Covenant thought she had knowledge about something called The Contessa. Jack and Sydney quickly realize that Kathryn isn't an ordinary teenager and was in fact being molded by Sloan to become an agent. Kathryn didn't know who Sloan really was, but he'd discovered her shortly after Irina left her. Sloan is currently in CIA custody. Jack discovers that Kathryn's father was an ex-KGB officer named Petrov Khasinau who died when she was four. He puts Kathryn in protective custody at a safe house. The safe house is attacked and all but Kathryn are killed. During a regression therapy session they learn that Kathryn has a lot of secrets. Her father whom they thought was Petrov Khasinau was really his brother Alexander Khasinau and during her years in foster care, she was abused significantly both sexually and physically and when she was twelve she gave birth to a baby. Kathryn's son is named Joshua and was adopted at birth as Sloan had arranged. Sydney shows Kathryn a picture of him and they decide to continue the charade with everyone that her baby died at birth in order to avoid any potential . Jack, Sydney, Sloan and Weiss are the only ones who know otherwise. Kathryn becomes good friends with Weiss. Kathryn participates in an operation in an undercover operation in Spain and Jack sees that she could become a very good agent. Kathryn is slowing building a relationship with Sydney. Sydney meets Irina and tells her what happened to Kat as a child and then Irina sends Jack a very important message Kathryn is really Katarina Madrid Bristow, his daughter. Kathryn is kidnapped and then reported dead. A funeral is held and she is buried. In actuality as the others quickly learn, her death was staged by the man who kidnapped her and who works for Petrov Khasinau, the man she thought was her father and thought was dead. Petrov Khasinau is after The Contessa. Kathryn tries to escape but a somewhat shocked Sark prevents her from doing so. Jack and Sydney locate Kathryn with Irina's Intel and they rescue her. She is found alive, badly beaten, but alive and saves Irina's life. For the first time since she was a kid Kathryn gets a good look at her mother. After returning to LA Kathryn reveals that she knows what the Contessa is. It's a purple diamond tiara. The Contessa is connected to Rambaldi and there exists a scroll 47, which they are now looking for. Jack and Kathryn (now going by Kat) make a connection and both realize that maybe there will be hope for them both. Kat is suffering psychologically due to the circumstances of her childhood and her desire to know her son and she is plagued by continuing nightmares. Vaughn, Sydney, Weiss, Will and Kat go to Russia to search for Scroll 47 in an old house owned by the late Alexander Khasinau. Kat encounters Irina and pulls a gun on her, but Irina gets control and shoots the others with a tranq gun so she can talk to Kat. Kat holds a lot of animosity towards Irina. After Irina leaves, they find scroll 47. The scroll is analyzed and reveals that the Chosen one has a sister and she is termed The Countess and she is the only one who can stop the chosen one from complete destruction. Kat is quickly recruited into the agency, much to Jack and Sydney's displeasure. While training at the farm Kat becomes friends with JJ Cruz, who later joins the team. After 8 weeks Kat returns home seemingly a bit older and decides to live with Jack. Sydney throws Kat a surprise 18th birthday party and Jack's gift to her is a new room in a new home; the house where Sydney grew up. Kat and Weiss are on a mission and she encounters Sark. They both realize that they know somehow they knew each other before meeting when Kat was kidnapped by Khasinau. Weiss realizes that Kat is hiding something. Meanwhile a search for a mole has been occurring and when Kat returns home she is arrested under suspicion of being the mole. She was framed and when she is being transferred to another facility the bus is attacked and she is extracted. The last thing she sees is a woman aiming a gun at Weiss.

Chapter by Chapter Summaries

Chapter One:
Sydney and the team receive intel about the pending abduction of a 17-year-old girl from NYC named Kathryn Sullivan by the Covenant. Sydney thinks she looks a little familiar. Syd and Vaughn go to NYC break into her apartment only to find that she's already been taken. Syd finds an interesting photograph and shows it to Jack when they return. Turns out Kathryn's mother who was thought to be dead is really Irina Derevko. Kathryn's father Paul Sullivan supposedly committed suicide when she was four and her mother Alison Porter was killed in a Convenience Store robbery when she was five, after which she entered the Foster Care System and was emancipated at the age of fifteen.

Chapter Two
Syd and Vaughn go to Bangkok where Kathryn is being held. They find her but she is not doing well as she was tortured and she is diabetic. Vaughn carries her out but they are attacked and Kathryn manages to save Vaughn by shooting one of the guards with a tranq gun but they get out safely. She does however punch Weiss knocking him out.

Chapter Three
Jack met the team at the landing strip and they took Kathryn to the OP Center. While she slept in Jack's office, they learned that she was being tortured for information about something called The Contessa.

Chapter Four
Kathryn meets Jack and he realizes that there is no doubt that she is Irina's daughter. He questions her about The Contessa but she has no idea what it is or why she was taken.

Chapter Five
Kathryn tells Jack about the events leading up to her rescue and he convinces her to allow him to do some tests. Memory tests, IQ tests etc… The next morning, she sees and recognizes Weiss and goes to apologize to him earning the nickname Shiner. She sees a code Marshall has been working on for hours and tells him how to decipher it. She sees Jack talking to a woman. As she approaches them, they switch to Greek and finally she interrupts asking what they were saying about her mother.

Chapter Six
Jack and Sydney explain to Kathryn that her mother was not dead, that she was really Irina Derevko, Russian spy extraordinare. They told Kathryn about her mothers past history and that she indeed was alive. Upset Kathryn ran out of the building and Sydney chased after her. Marshall told Jack about Kathryn's help in decoding the message. Syd and Kathryn have a heart to heart and she starts to loosen up a bit but when they go back to the office Jack ruins things as he demands to know who she is working for.

Chapter Seven
Kathryn denies any wrongdoing and explains to Jack and Syd that her mother taught her how to break codes as soon as she could read at age two. She is fluent in over 40 languages. She began learning them as a young child. She explained that she got answers on the memory tests purpose so he didn't suspect her of cheating and they learn she has a photographic memory. Jack decides to place her in protective custody. As they are going to the cell, Kathryn sees and recognizes Arvin Sloan and Sydney and Jack realize that Sloan has known Kathryn existed for a long time.

Chapter Eight
Jack tries to talk to Kathryn about Sloan but she is reluctant. Sloan has been kind to her for as long as she could remember. Jack explains his history regarding SD-6. Sloan found out about Kathryn after her mother supposedly died in the robbery and he came to see Kathryn in the hospital as she recovered from nearly dying. Sloan arranged for her to take all sorts of lessons and classes regardless of what foster home she was living in at the time. Jack realizes that Sloan had been training Kathryn to be a spy since she was six years old with plans to recruit her for SD-6. Jack informs her that she will be transferred to a safehouse that night.

Chapter Nine
Jack sees Sloan again and Sloan informs him that Paul Sullivan Kathryns father was really a KGB Agent. Sloan denies any knowledge of The Contessa but hints at the fact that Kathryn is hiding some deep secrets.Weiss arrives at Kathryn's cell to take her to the safehouse, but first he takes her to a shooting range at Jacks request. Jack informs her that her father was really a KGB agent named Petrov Ravinski. He hands her a gun and tells her to shoot, she does and Weiss then takes her to a safehouse. Jack shows Kendall the target. She was a perfect shot and yet she said she'd never held a gun before.

Chapter Ten
Jack contacts Irina seeking info about the Contessa. She claims not to know anything but she will look into it. When the agents on Kathryn's security detail fail to check in, Weiss, Jack and Vaughn go to the safehouse and find a bloody massacre. All their agents were killed and Kathryn was no where to be found.

Chapter Eleven
Jack, Vaughn and Weiss look around the property for Kathryn and eventually find her hanging from the edge of the roof. Vaughn goes up and gets her down but her arm is broken and she isn't talking to any of them. They take her to Sydney's house where a doctor shows up and sets and casts her arm. Jack, Syd, Vaughn and Weiss watch the security footage and see Kathryn take down four armed attackers, presumably from The Covenant. Jack explains to Syd how Sloan was training her and that Kathryn must have been trained in firearms and other things at some point and then her memory was erased. He also reveals that Petrov Ravinski was unable to have children and he was really Petrov Khasinau, Alexander Khasinau's brother. There is a good possibility that Alexander Khasinau is Kathryns father, not Petrov Khasinau/Petrov Ravinski/Paul Sullivan. Kathryn breaks down blaming herself for all the agents deaths and when asked reveals that she has heard the name Alexander Khasinau before.

Chapter Twelve
Kathryn tells Jack and the others how the day before her father committed suicide she heard him, her mother and a man named Alexander Khasinau aruging. She found her father dead in the bathtub the next day. Jack goes to see Kathryn later that night. She's supposed to be sleeping but she's not. Jack explains to her that Kendall and Lindsey want her to undergo a hypnotic regression therapy session and she agrees to it against Jacks advice. He tells her to go to sleep and she asks him if he would stay until she fell asleep and he realizes that she is scared to fall asleep. He agreed and sat beside her bed holding her hand all night long.

Chapter Thirteen
Kathryn has her regression therapy session and everyone learns that Kathryn was abused and raped as a child while in Foster Care. She became pregnant at the age of 12 and Arvin Sloan arranged to have her baby adopted. She goes back to the night of the argument between her mother, father and Alexander Khasinau and they realize that her memories of the events were not correct. As a child Kathryn watched as Alexander Khasinau killed his brother and stated that it was he who was Kathryn's father, not his brother. When asked about The Contessa she tells them that she and her mother went to Russia and lived there for about a year after her father was killed. On her fifth birthday she remembers Alexander Khasinau showing it to her but she is unable to say what it is. She only saw it for a quick second. She tells them that she and her mother returned to New York and that the night of the robbery she went to the store with her babysitter. Alexander Khasinau was there with her mother and others and they accidentally shot Kathryn and Khasinau forced Irina to leave her behind. Jack finally stops the session and Vaughn takes Kathryn back to Sydney's.

Chapter Fourteen
Jack shows up at Sydney's that night and explains their new arrangement. Kathryn would stay with Sydney providing she would attend sessions with Dr. Barnette and interview briefings with Kendall and Lindsey along with Weiss. Kathryn is having horrible nightmares and Jack results to drugging her to get her to calm down and sleep. For the second night in a row he sat in a chair beside her bed holding her hand as she slept.

Chapter Fifteen
The next morning Sydney tries to talk to Kathryn about the therapy session but she refuses at first not wanting Sydney to know what she went through as a child. She reveals a little to Sydney and Sydney shows her a photograph of her son, his name is Joshua and he was adopted by a good family as Sloan had arranged. Sydney had gone to see Sloan after finding out about Kathryn's baby. It is decided that in order to protect Joshua they will tell Kendall and Lindsey that he died during childbirth. There aren't any hospital records so they are unable to verify anything. Will arrives home to Syds earlier than expected and is surprised when he is knocked out by Sydney?

Chapter Sixteen
Syd arrives at home and finds Will unconscious. He wakes up and accuses her of hitting him. Syd can't find Kat and still out of it Will helps her look for her CAT. He finds Kathryn hiding under the kitchen sink holding a baseball bat. Sydney asks Will to stay with Kathryn for about a week because she has to go on a mission and her dad is in Switzerland. Will agrees but Syd warns him that she had Regression therapy and will probably have nightmares for quite a while. Three weeks later Syd comes back. She'd been injured on the mission requiring a hospital stay but she had forbidden anyone to tell Kathryn. Syd learns that Weiss has been sleeping in a chair beside Kathryn's bed every night as she sleeps better when he does. Syd goes to see Kathryn before going to bed and wakes up Weiss. Kathryn overhears their conversation realizing that everyone lied to her about Sydney's health and whereabouts during her mission. Two weeks later Kathryn gets her cast off and Jack blows up at her after finding out she agreed to help the CIA out on a mission to Spain and he has to go with her.

Chapter Seventeen
Flashbacks reveal that Kathryn and Jack are going to Spain posing as a father and daughter from South Carolina, Alexia and Samuel Deveraux. Kat is a redhead with blue eyes posing as the fiancée of an undercover CIA agent who accidentally slipped up on his cover story when his boss got him drunk. Aidan MacGreggor is posing as JD Salenger. During a party the mission is to go in to his boss's lab download satellite plans and implant a virus into the computer. Jack is still angry with her for agreeing to go on the mission, as she is untrained. They get into an argument and Kathryn accuses Jack of being a bad father to Sydney and not to try to act like one to her b/c she doesn't need one. She accuses Jack of being a liar just like Irina.

Chapter Eighteen
JD Salenger and his partner Paul Collins are awaiting the arrival of Alexia and Sam. JD/Aidan is surprised when they arrive to find out that Alexia is so young

Chapter Nineteen
Jack explains the situation regarding Kathryn's non-CIA status to Aidan/JD. Ruggiero, Aidan/JD's sleezeball boss tries to convince Alexia to play the harp for the guests but Kathryn doesn't play the harp. She convinces Ruggiero that she's out of practice but might she play the violin for him instead. Aidan/JD and Alexia/Kathryn dance getting ready to make their escape. They get into a fight and Kathryn slaps him running off followed by Aidan and Jack. Paul Collins keeps Ruggiero from following. They break into the lab and download the satellite plans but Aidan/JD is unable to plant the virus. Despite everyone telling them to abort Kat who had seen the code has Marshall talk her through the firewalls and then manually types in the virus coding based on her photographic memory. It works but they are behind schedule and unable to avoid the security cameras. Aidan/Jake gets them to a room adjacent to the ballroom and they climb over the balcony but Kathryn slips losing her shoes. Aidan/JD pulls her up near breaking her arm. They get back into the party unnoticed the mission was a success.

Chapter Twenty
On the plane ride back to LA, Jack watches Kathryn and Weiss sleeping and reflects on how much Kathryn was like Irina but she reminded him of Laura and how Irina's actions had damaged Kathryn's life forever. He flashbacks to the night before. Kathryn had a horrible nightmare and woke up screaming bloody murder about her foster father touching her. He didn't know what to do but Weiss managed to calm her down. Kathryn wakes up and changes out of her disguise reflecting on Alexia's goodbye with Aidan/JD. She wouldn't tell him who she was, but she got her first real kiss when he kissed her goodbye. Jack and Kathryn make small talk and she reveals that she's allergic to strawberries. She has a memory of the year she spent in Russia with her mother. All she remembers is the smell of ammonia and rubber gloves but she's not sure what it means. She also remembers a man who was nice to her. He gave her an Archangel, patrons saint of guardian angels medal. She thanks Jack for staying with her that night many weeks before when he slept by her bed because she was scared to go to sleep.

Chapter Twenty One
Syd picks Kathryn up after her session with Barnette happy to find that she's in a good mood; the sessions with Barnette have been suprisingly helpful. Kathryn guesses that Kendall has a thing for Barnette, after she saw them together after her session. Syd tries to get Kathryn to talk about her past but Kathryn still refuses not wanting to ruin the relationship she is slowly building with her sister. Syd takes Kathryn to the ice rink and she and Vaughn and Weiss try to teach her how to skate. Sydney gets a surprise visitor while there, Irina who wants to talk to her about Katy. Sydney refuses to discuss her and finds out that Irina had no idea how Kathryn had lived for the past 12 years. Irina's informant had been misleading her. Sydney tells Irina about Kathryn's past and Sloan's involvement in her life and that Kathryn had a son who died. Irina reveals that when she and Kathryn lived in Russia for a year, unbeknownst to her, Khasinau had been training Kathryn with a more advanced version of Project Christmas. When Irina found out she took Kathryn and ran. Khasinau found her and the incident at the convenience store was an accident. Katarina Derevko (Kathryn's real name) was reported dead to KGB and K-Directorate because it saved her life. Irina plays the emotional card professing her love for both her daughters. Weiss interrupts and Irina gets away before he sees her. He tells her that her father called and had an allergic reaction to strawberries so he would be late the next day. Jack arrives home and finds a package on his doorstep. He opens it finding the book A Little Princess. He knows right away that it is from Irina and opening it she's written on the first page, "she has your spirit." He unfolds the piece of paper marking the page of chapter twelve and is stunned to find that it is a birth certificate, for Katarina Madrid Bristow. Kathryn is his daughter!

Chapter Twenty Two
Jack reflects on Kathryn being his daughter, on how he is going to tell her and how she might feel about it considering she already hates him. Jack tells Sydney and then tells Kathryn the truth. Six years after "Laura Bristow" died, he was on a mission in Madrid when he'd gotten hurt. He had no memory of approximately three days during that time and Irina must have found him and slept with him. Kathryn denies the possibility that she is his daughter saying there must have been a mistake or a mix up of some sort. Upset Kathryn runs off. Jack stops Sydney from going after her. Dr. Barnette calls a little later when Kathryn doesn't show up for her session and they realize that she is missing. She had a tracer on her and they track it to Mexico but don't find her. She's been kidnapped. Kathryn awakens in a strange place from a drug-induced slumber. She recognizes one of her captors. He was the one who broke her arm when the safehouse was raided. He puts a gun to her head and despite her protests, he pulls the trigger.

Chapter Twenty Three
Viktor Melnikov stands over the body of a young girl. She's dead; a bullet wound straight to the temple. In LA, it's been four days since Kathryn disappeared. Jack contacts Irina who begins looking for Kathryn from her end. Irina tells Jack to ask Sydney about her time in Russia. Jack does and learns that Kathryn was programmed to be a spy by Alexander Khasinau. The next day Dixon pulls Syd and Jack into his office. They've received Intel on Kathryn. Her body was found in Rome dead with a single bullet to the temple. They were also sent photographs and video footage of her murder. Kathryn is dead.

Chapter Twenty Four
Sydney and Jack go to Rome to identify Kathryn's body and bring her home. Vaughn is concerned about Eric who appears to be handling Kathryn's death a little too well considering he knew her better than anyone, even better than Sydney.

Chapter Twenty Five
Jack blames himself for Kathryn's death for not protecting her like he promised. He and Sydney reflect on their relationship with her. Weiss, unable to handle things well anymore goes up to the cliffs and remembers the first time he brought Kat there, after her first meeting with Kendall and Lindsey. He told her how his brother had committed suicide there and that he goes there when he needs to remember that life is worth living. After that he brought her there after every meeting she had with Lindsey and Kendall when she needed to unwind.

Chapter Twenty Six
Irina remembers the time she took five year old Katy to the beach and how happy they'd been. She promised they'd go again but she broke that promise. The next day her daughter lay near death in a hospital and she was on a plane bound for Germany. She reflects on her relationship with Katy and Sydney realizing that leaving Kathryn had been harder than leaving Sydney and her feelings regarding Kathryn's hatred towards her and all the things that were never supposed to happen. She replays the events when Jack had met her in Rome and come to tell her that Kathryn was dead. Currently she was sitting disguised in a darken Sedan watching her daughters funeral. Sydney speaks at her funeral and so does Weiss. Jack was at the funeral but did not speak. He lowered her casket to the ground. Once everyone was gone to the wake Irina emerged going to the gravesite to say goodbye to her daughter. She gets a phone call from Sark who tells her that the details of her daughter's death have been exaggerated. She calls Jack to tell him that Kathryn is alive and all he says is "I know."

Chapter Twenty Seven
Two Days Earlier
Kathryn is on the run in some kind of house or facility where she is being held. After her argument with Jack and Sydney she ran out of the building and began walking. She was shot with a tranq dart and kidnapped. She was brought to Mexico then Rome and now Russia where she was questioned about The Contessa and tortured for information that she would not give. It was then that a man named Viktor Melnikov pointed a gun to her head, called her Katarina and pulled the trigger and she blacked out. She awoke hours later surprised to find that she was still alive. She manages to escape and take down several guards before taking off to try and find a way out. She's about to escape through an air vent when a gun is cocked behind her and a man calls her Agent Bristow. It's Sark! He's surprised to discover that the girl isn't Sydney. She passes out and he carries her back to Melnikov. Kat tries to escape again but Sark catches her, he thinks she seems familiar other than her resemblance to Sydney. Sark grills Melnikov about why he has Kathryn. Melnikov's employer wants to know about The Contessa and reveals that Kathryn failed the lie detector test. She does remember the Contessa. Kat is tortured by The Dentist. Sark is there only to make a trade with Melnikov. Diamonds for information.
Three Days Later
Vaughn, Will, Marshall and Weiss are called to the warehouse by Sydney, where she and Jack reveal that Kathryn is not dead. She'd been doubled somehow using Project Helix and her double was killed and attempted to be passed off as Kathryn but Sydney had noticed the day before the funeral that Kathryn was missing a scar. Their suspicions were confirmed when the received Intel from Irina about where she was being held. The Covenant was not responsible for her abduction. They form a plan to extract Kathryn without the CIA's knowledge because they would not have allowed it.
Kathryn wakes up from being drugged unsure of where she is. She's in a bedroom dressed in clean pajamas. Someone walks in the room and she calls him Papa.

Chapter Twenty Eight
Kathryn is surprised to see her Papa. She realizes something is very wrong when he asks Katarina, what the Contessa is. She thought she was safe but she wasn't. Papa was Petrov Khasinau who was supposed to be dead. Will and Weiss are going over the plans for Kat's extraction and Will tells him that Irina will be going along. Weiss is not happy about this but they trust Jacks intuition. Kathryn goes to see Petrov Khasinau and realizes that the whole murder/suicide was just a plan to get Irina and Kat in Russia. Kat claims that people will come looking for her and Khasinau shows her pictures of her murder and funeral. Khasinau shows her a doll named Mishca and says a nursery rhyme and suddenly Kat is in a trance. She was hypnotized as a child and the doll and nursery rhyme are the trigger to bring her back into the hypnotic state where she was no idea what is going on around her. Khasinau shows Melnikov footage of a four year old Kathryn completing a simulation holding a semi-automatic handgun. Under the hypnotic state she will do anything she's told but will only respond to the voice of the person who put her under. Once she's pulled out of the hypnosis she doesn't remember a thing. Viktor took her back to her room with the offer than if she told him what the Contessa was he would see that she remained comfortable though his offer insinuated other things. Kat's rescue team consisting of Sydney, Jack, Will, Vaughn, Weiss and Marshall wait for Irina. Once the plane is in the air Weiss confronts Irina with a gun to her head. If she makes one wrong move, he'll kill her himself.

Chapter Twenty Nine
Kat is sleeping and awakens to find a drunk Viktor Melnikov on top of her attempting to harm her. She tries to fight him and scream but feels frozen and can't move, can't talk, can't breath. Khasinau arrives and pulls Viktor off her, he then puts her in a trance and leads her somewhere. Outside the rescue team is taking their positions. They are getting ready to go in when Will spots Kathryn on the roof walking along the narrow peak. Suddenly the person she's with swings her out holding her over the edge of the roof. A few minutes later he suddenly pulls her back in and they disappear from the roof. They're about to go in when a car pulls up and about twenty minutes later a man leaves. Kathryn is still inside and this time they go in. Melnikov is torturing Kathryn asking her where the Contessa is. Weiss finds her first, Melnikov was in the process of using shock therapy on her. Sydney took down Melnikov and as they make their escape Kathryn is shot in the leg. Jack carries her out but suddenly she pulls his gun and fires three shots. He looks over to see Irina in a heap on the floor but she stands up. Her mask is pulled up revealing half her face. (Irina was supposed to keep her mask on at all times so Kat didn't know her mother was involved.) Melnikov was about to kill Irina but Kat killed Melnikov instead.

Chapter Thirty
The team is on their way to the safehouse. Irina arranges to be extracted before Jack's comes. Kathryn wakes up and pulls on Jacks face to see if he is real. She remembers Irina and tells her to take off her mask, Irina does. Irina tries to talk to her but Kat won't listen and tells Irina that she is not her mother, her mother died when she was five years old. Kat apologizes to Jack for calling him a bad father when they were going to Spain. Kat tells them all that Papa was responsible, that he had never died it had all been a plan to get Kat and Irina to Russia.

Chapter Thirty One
They arrive at the safe house. Irina explains part of her reason for keeping Kathryn away to Jack. If she'd told Jack about Katy when she was born, they all would have been killed including Sydney. Irina tries to talk to Kat but she refuses. She asks Kat what she told khasinau about the Contessa and Kat denies telling him anything. She doesn't know anything. Jack takes the bullet out of Kats leg and sews her up. A helicopter comes and extracts Irina. She'd called Sark for the extraction and Sark reveals that Kathryn lied to Irina about knowing what the Contessa was. Kat failed the lie detector test. She does know what the Contessa is. Lindsey and Kendall meet the team at the landing strip in LA and are surprised to discover Kat is with them. They attempt to place her in protective custody following Devlins orders from before she went missing but she shuts them up by telling them that she knows what the Contessa is. They go back to the JTF.

Chapter Thirty Two
At the JTF the team is debriefed while Kat locks herself in Jacks office with a sketchpad and her doll Sophie and a glass of grape juice. Jack talked to Devlin and convinced him to cancel the protective custody order as long as Kat stayed with him. Kat then shows everyone the secret code hidden in her dolls dress and that the Contessa is part of the Romanov Legacy and it is a large rare purple diamond that has been fitted into a tiara. Jack takes Kat to his place and then finds that she was hurt far worse than she let on. She was whipped by a belt and beaten very badly. Her sides ache and it hurts to breath. Jack fixes her as best he can but tells her that she will have x-rays the next day. He asks her if they raped her and she says no. She goes to sleep and Jack wakes her the next morning. They have to go to the JTF, progress has been made on The Contessa.

Chapter Thirty Three
Jack takes Kat to the JTF and she's worried about the reaction she'll get because half the staff went to her funeral. She sees Weiss and tries to talk to him but he doesn't hear her. Sydney takes her to Marshall's office so that she can meet Marshall and Carrie's baby. She was born the day of Kat's funeral and they named her Kate after Kathryn. Carrie asks her if she'll be the baby's godmother Sydney Vaughn and Weiss already agreed but she politely refuses unsure of how long she'll be around. Kat goes to talk to Dixon and Weiss bursts into Marshall's office. No one knows what they found out about the Contessa but Weiss overheard some agents brought in from Langley talking and they mentioned that The Contessa was connected to Rambaldi. In The briefing, Dixon introduces Kat as Kat Bristow. Kat is confused because Weiss has been avoiding her and wont even look at her during the briefing. Dixon briefly explains Kat's kidnapping and who was responsible and that she did know what the Contessa was. An analyst from Langley explains that they traced the Contessa back to the Romanovs. The Romanovs had it and it was cut into a diamond tiara. Before the Romanovs had it, it belonged to rambaldi. Analysis of Kat's doll Sophie, reveals that the material of the dress containing the code was manufactured during Rambaldi's lifespan and that coding is his. They only found one mention of The Contessa in Rambaldi's works. He referred to the diamond as "the Key" This triggers Carrie's memory who remembers that in Rambaldi's manuscript he made reference to the fact that the key would be explained in scroll 47 which they had assumed meant Page 47, the prophecy page. Now they realize that there is a scroll 47 out there. Kat sees Devlin and confronts him telling him that if he tries to lock her up again, she'll run and they won't ever be able to find her. Devlin confronts Jack with the knowledge that he knows Irina contacted him about Kathryn and wants to know if she had any part in Kats abduction (which she didn't). Jack meets Kat in his office and Kat asks if he is angry because Dixon called her Kat Bristow, she wasn't sure what she wanted to be called because she doesn't know who she is anymore. Jack tells her to get her coat; he wants to take her somewhere.

Chapter Thirty Four
Jack and Kat are about to leave when Kat sees Weiss. She tries to talk to him but he blows her off. Jack surprises Kat by taking her to the cemetery in order to show her that her life as Kathryn Sullivan is over. She can be anyone else but she can't continue to be Kathryn as The Covenant thinks she's dead and it's best if it stayed that way. Kat finds a bouquet of blue roses at the gravestone and they suspect that they are from Irina. Jack tells her that he understands how it feels to be betrayed and deceived by Irina and that she doesn't have to accept him in her life as her father but she does have to accept the fact that he is her father. Instead of taking her back to the JTF, Jack takes her to the carousel where he and Laura/Irina used to bring Sydney as a child. She asks him what he wants from her, as his name on her birth certificate doesn't make him a father. He asks for a chance to earn her trust again, not as Sydney's father but as her own. Jack tells her about why Irina changed her identity and left her in NYC, how Alexander Khasinau had tested a more advanced version of project christmas on her. He told her that Irina was the one responsible for her rescue and Kat told him that a Mr. Sark who was uninvolved in her kidnapping had been with Melnikov for a short while. Kat tells him that he reminds her of Mr. Caldwell and that she doesn't hate him, but she was jealous of Sydney and his relationship because she'd never really had a father growing up. They start to leave but Jack stops her and asked why she lied to him the night before when he asked if she'd been raped while in Melnikov's custody.

Chapter Thirty Five
Kat tries to deny that anything happened but Jack won't believe her. She finally tells him that Melnikov was drunk and tried to but Petrov Khasinau pulled him off her. She tells him that she gave up and couldn't fight him. She was ashamed that she was going to let it happen. Everyone thought she was dead, no one would be coming to rescue her, so she stopped fighting. She's crying and calls him Daddy and apologizes for giving up on him. Jack realizes that she's slowly beginning to break down the protection walls she'd built up around herself. Jack asks her what she told Petrov Khasinau about The Contessa. She told Jack that there is a lot that she doesn't remember. She has no recollection of Khasinau taking her up on the roof of the building, all the sudden she was just there and he was holding her out over the edge, demanding to know about The Contessa. He told her if she didn't tell him, he would have Sydney, Will and Vaughn killed right then and there. Not knowing it was a bluff, she lied and told Khasinau that The Contessa was a book. Kat asks Jack if she can see Arvin but he refuses at first but then relents and says that he'll see what he can do. She tells Jack that she remembers being Katarina and wants to be her again, Katarina Bristow. As they get ready to leave Jack gets a call from Sydney asking if he's seen Weiss because no one can find him. Kat asks Jack to take her somewhere before they go back to the JTF.

Chapter Thirty Six
Jack takes Kat to the cliffs and leaves her there with Weiss. She asks Weiss what's going on, why he's giving her the brush off. Weiss tries to deny it and eventually explodes. He's ashamed because he really believed she was dead. She tells him that she understands how he's feeling and that he's her best friend. He never judges her or has expectations. They hug and Weiss realizes that the feeling is mutual, she's his best friend too. He finds the bandage on her back from the whippings. They sit on the bench for a while longer and joke about finding Weiss a girlfriend.
In Italy Sark is thinking about Kat. She impressed him with her ability to stand up to Melnikov. She reminded him of the Sydney, he had known before her double agent status had begun to take effect and before the murder of her best friend Francie Calfo. He decides that soon he will contact a Covenant mole within the CIA, but not just yet.

Chapter Thirty Seven
Back at the JTF Vaughn finds a lead. Before his death Alexander Khasinau rented a safety deposit box at a bank in Cairo. It supposedly contains documents and there is a good chance it contains Scroll 47. Kat and Weiss come back and Jack orders Kat to go to Medical Services. He talks to Weiss asking if there is something going on between Weiss and Kat. Weiss protests the insinuations that their relationship is unethical. Jack asks what Weiss does to calm Kat down when she's having a nightmare. After much prodding Weiss finally gives in and tells Jack that he sings to her. Jack gets called to Medical Services where Kat is giving the doctors a hard time about taking her blood. Later at Jack's apartment Kat gets a package of old photographs from Irina and angrily trashes Jack's kitchen. After cleaning up Jack goes to check on Kat and finds that she broke into a locked drawer in his desk and was looking at an old photograph of him and Laura. Kat asks if he's still in love with her.

Chapter Thirty Eight
Kat accuses Jack of still being in love with Irina and of having forgiven her. Jack denies it and Kat tells him that she remembers seeing the photo before. When she was three, before her Papa supposedly died she found the picture in her mothers room. Irina told her never to tell anyone about it that it was a special man whom she would meet someday. Papa (Petrov Khasinau) wasn't around much and Kat used to sneak into Irina's room look at the picture and pretend the man in the photo was her father. Kat baits him for answers but Jack won't give in and tells her to stay out of his personal life. Kat tells Jack that Marshall and Carrie asked her to be their baby's godmother but she refused because she may not be around much longer. Jack tells her that she needs to continue to make plans for her future and asks if her hesitation has to do with Joshua. It does and Jack tells her not to dwell on him so much, he's safe and happy and someday she will have other children. Kat argues that she won't be able to have other children and Jack knows this. She is unable to have any more children due to the damage she suffered as a child. Jack tells her not to give up hope and says goodnight.
Sydney and Vaughn are in Cairo attempting to recover Scroll 47. They break into the banks safety deposit boxes and find Alexander Khasinau's box, #47.
Jack wakes Kat up from a terrifying nightmare, in which she killed Jack and Sydney. Unable to get her to calm down he eventually resorts to singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Sydney and Vaughn open the safety deposit box. Scroll 47 isn't there, only a bunch of coded papers.

Chapter Thirty Nine
Kat has a meeting with Barnett the next day but she refuses to talk to her. Barnett can't figure out what changed in the span of one day. Kat's very angry and won't say a word. Carrie shows up to take Kat to lunch and asks her again to be Baby Kate's Godmother and Kat accepts.
A week later nothing has changed. Kat still refuses to talk to Barnett; she's angry and tempermental. Sydney asks her to examine the codes she and Vaughn found in Cairo to see if she can decipher them. Jack finds some disturbing drawings Kat made of knives dripping with blood. Another imaged he guessed to be Sydney and himself tied up with blood all over them and a woman holding a bloodied knife. He makes an appointment to see Dr. Barnett the next morning.
Later that night Jack wakes up to find Kat missing from her bed.
Weiss is woken by someone ringing his doorbell and he is surprised to find Kat there upset, barefoot and freezing. He calls Jack and finds out that Kat snuck out. Weiss tries to find out what happened to Kat but she's not forthcoming. He finally gets it out of her that she's tired of all her nightmares. Everyone else thinks they've stopped but they haven't. Kat hasn't slept through the night since she was six years old. Weiss tells her that they'll figure it out and they'll get the nightmares to stop. Kat decides she made the right decision by leaving Jacks. She can't stay so close to him or Sydney right now. Weiss asks why she came to him and she says that she tried to think of the one place she felt the safest, and that was where he was.

Chapter Forty
Jack goes to Weiss' apartment the next morning. Kat still hasn't told Weiss why she took off. Weiss tells Jack that Kat's nightmares have never stopped. Jack tries to talk to Kat but she ignores him and he tells her that he won' play her games. He tells her not to ever leave without telling him again. Jack leaves and Kat explodes at Weiss for telling him her secret. Weiss blows up at Kat and telling her to stop trying to do everything herself and let people help her. Everyone is worried about her, one minute she and Jack are getting along better and the next she can't stand the sight of either him or Sydney.

Chapter Forty One
Jack and Sydney meet with Barnett regarding Kat's drawings. They decide that her recent change in behavior is due to the dream that she had where she killed Sydney and Jack. Barnett explains that over the years Kat has developed coping mechanisms to deal with her nightmares such as forcing herself to wake up before she screamed. She also explains that although Kat is very much grown up in years and experience, she is also very much still a child as she's never learned how to trust people and because she had to grow up so fast, she skipped many stages of emotional development. Kat shows up for her appointment with Barnett and is angry with Jack for going through her belongings and finding the drawings. She confesses that she was so distant from Jack and Sydney because she was afraid that she might hurt them. She's afraid that she'll loose them. Jack asks her to trust him again and she decides to give it another shot. Jack takes her home and she goes to sleep. When she wakes he is packing to go on a trip. She reveals to him that the coded documents Syd and Vaughn found in Cairo were written by her. She knows this because of a notation on each page, four symbols which stand stands for Katy but she still doesn't know what the documents say. She asks Jack to hide all the sharp knives because they make her nervous and Jack tells her that in the morning before he leaves, he's going to take her to see Sloane.

Chapter Forty Two
Vaughn asks Weiss if there is anything going on between him and Kat and Weiss denies it. Vaughn explains to him about Kat's dream of killing Jack and Sydney and that's why she was such a pain in the ass. She was trying to scare them off.
Kat decodes the pages Syd and Vaughn found in Cairo. The documents reveal an address in St. Petersburg, Russia, a key code to a vault and the words to the Jack and Jill nursery Rhyme. Syd, Vaughn and Weiss check with their contacts and begin to spec out a mission with hopes that the address and code would lead to Scroll 47. Syd and Kat make plans for a girls night in that night.

Chapter Forty Three
Kat and Syd have a girls night in. They discuss first kisses and a certain Agent Aidan MacGreggor. Kat and Syd discuss love and how Syd knew she was in love with Danny and how Kat is afraid she might miss out because she's afraid to trust guys. Kat tells Syd that despite all the craziness she is happy. She also tells Syd about her meeting with Sloane. Sloane didn't give Kat any information, rather he taunted her, twisting her words making her angry until she let it slip that Jack was really her father. Jack shows up having come back early from his business trip and has a present for Kat. It was a little kitten. He also brought Sydney poetry books and Kat her two favorite books Anna Karenina and Les Miserables. Kat asks him to stay and watch the movie with her and Sydney. Jack and Sydney go into the kitchen and Syd tells him about Kat solving the code. Jack is angered to find that Kat ignored her food intake and ended up to be hyperglycemic as a result of too much sugar. Vaughn calls and Syd goes to answer the phone. Kat names her kitten Oliver. Kat and Jack talk for a while and she asks Jack if she can call him Dad, which he of course says yes. Syd returns to the living room to find Kat asleep, her head in Jack's lap. She tells Jack all the intel was verified and in the morning she, Vaughn, Weiss, Will and Kat were going to St. Petersburg.

Chapter Forty Four
Jack is at the communications center back in LA anxiously awaiting contact from the team in St Petersburg. Communications had been cut off twenty minutes before and they hadn't heard anything since. Vaughn finally contacts them and tells him that they were all shot with Tranq guns and Kat is nowhere to be found.
Forty Minutes Earlier
The team infiltrates the house in St. Petersburg. Will and Kat stick together and Kat is surprised to find a vase of fresh cut daisies. Will turns around and Kat is gone and they can't contact her. Marshall realizes that she's purposely turned her com link off. Will tracks her movements and goes up to the third floor. As he opens the door he sees her standing in front of him holding a silver .48 gun. Kat cocks the gun and warns Will not to come any closer.

Chapter Forty Five
The rest of the team go to the third floor and enter the room stunned to find Kat pointing a gun at her mother. They tell her to put the gun down but she won't. Syd turns Kat's com link on hoping Jack can get her to put the gun down. He can't and Kat turns the com link off. Irina challenges Kat and she is beginning to loose control and is about to pull the trigger.

Chapter Forty Six
Irina got the gun away from Kat and shot the others with tranq darts. She grabs Kat and takes her into another room handcuffing her to a chair. Irina and Kat have a confrontation. Kat tells Irina a few bad stories of her growing up and accidentally tells Irina that she got pregnant. Irina warns Kat to stop looking for the scroll. Irina clarifies some of Kat's memories and tells Kat that just before she took Kat and left Russia, she came home early and found Kat. There was something wrong with her she appeared to be almost sleepwalking and there was blood all over her hands. Kat realizes that Irina must know something about scroll 47. Irina tells Kat that she loves her, and then leaves.

Chapter Forty Seven
Vaughn, Syd, Weiss and Will wake up and go in search of Kat. They find her. They go back to search for the scroll but Kat tells Sydney that it was never there. Irina got there first but the scroll was not in the safe. Kat goes into a room that she remembers as being her bedroom when she lived there. She takes a painting off the wall and realizes that it's a scene from Jack and Jill. Will takes the painting apart and they find Scroll 47 hidden in the back.
Back in LA, Jack takes Kat to the gym laces up boxing gloves ordering her to hit the bag as an outlet for her anger. Kat gets harsher and stronger and eventually begins to loose control and Jack pulls her away before she hurts herself. They are called back to the office after analysis has decoded Scroll 47. Scroll 47 is a prophecy. It's The Countess Prophecy by Rambaldi.
Rambaldi prophesized that a girl to be called The Countess is the only one who can stop The Chosen One. She will be forced to make difficult decisions and use The Countess to choose between the path of good and the path of evil. Either path will bring with it a great sacrifice.
Kat bursts out laughing unable to believe the ludicrous situation.

Chapter Forty Eight
Kat sneeks away from the briefing room. Lindsey finds her and calls her into his office. When she comes out she goes to talk to Jack and tells him that she made a deal with Lindsey and with the CIA. She had to choose between protective custody and recruitment and she chose recruitment. Kat tells Jack that she loves him and says good bye.

Chapter 49
Jack is royally pissed off when he discovers that both Devlin and Lindsey were in on the plan to recruit Kat and he realises that her decision to join the CIA wasn't as forced as she led him to believe. Kat wanted to join. He also learns that Devlin had Kat's guardianship transferred to himself behind Jack's back. Jack realises that Kat joined the agency mostly for revenge against her mother. Two weeks later he receives a letter from Kat explaining her decision to join the CIA despite it being against his wishes. Part of her reason was for revenge; another was to pay back what others had lost. She thanks him for sticking by her through everything and giving her a chance to make something of herself. She also asks him to stop excessive drinking. After finishing the letter, Jack went to the kitchen and soon felt a gun pressed against his neck.

Chapter 50
The owner of the gun is Irina wanting to know where Kat disappeared to. Jack pins Irina against the couch and questions her knowledge and involvement regarding The Contessa. They kiss until Jack breaks it off and tells Irina where Kat is and tells her that he screwed up regarding Kat's legal custody. He gives Irina Kat's letter to read. After reading the letter Irina finds Jack looking at drawings Kat had made. She sees one of a young boy and asks Jack if Kat's son Joshua is really alive.

Chapter 51 Part 1
Jack confirms that Joshua is alive and that just about everyone thinks that he died at birth. Irina is delighted at the knowledge that she is a grandmother but Jack quickly quells it reminding her that Katarina is not Joshua's mother anymore and that they are also not his grandparents, because he has parents and grandparents who love him. Irina tells Jack that she knew about the Contessa but had been searching for three years for evidence that Kat either was or was not The Countess and she had no knowledge of Scroll 47. Irina tries to talk to him about something important but he distracts her and they sleep together.

Over at the Farm, Kat is in CIA training. Most of her fellow trainees don't like her and protest her training. They think she's too young and small with the exception of JJ Cruz who recognises her talent. They know her as Amanda Scott age 21, until another recruit Anna Myers discovers her true identity.

Chapter 51 Part 2
Jack and Irina lay in bed after making love and Irina tells Jack that she needs to tell him something important, but instead asks Jack to tell her about Katarina and he complies. He gives her a picture of Sydney and Kat and they fall asleep. He later awakens to find Irina gone and 'Truth Takes Time' scrawled in red lipstick on his mirror.

JJ Cruz finds Kat training late at night and confronts her about the scars on her back and about Kathryn Sullivan/Katarina Bristow. She explains that she was under orders by Director Devlin to keep her identity a secret and she tells him who she really is Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko's (The Man's) daughter. She also reveals that she is really only seventeen years old. Kat and JJ forge a friendship.

Chapter Fifty Two
Sydney visits Kat at the training centre. She meets with Sam, the SD-6 trainer who trained her and was recruited into the real CIA as head-trainer at Jack's recommendation. Sam immediately asks Sydney why the CIA, specifically Devlin tried to fool him by changing Kat's name. Sydney observes Kat training while JJ spots her on the uneven bars and is a little surprised at how good she is. Sam explains that he has been ordered to train her harder than anyone and that while everyone else is on free time she trains of her own volition. The other recruits didn't take too kindly to her real identity with the exception of JJ who has always treated her equally, unlike the others due to her age and physical stature. Sydney gives Sam a little history on Kat and that some people are after Kat. Sydney decides to fight Kat herself and she fights her blindfolded. They pin each other a few times until Sydney gives in. Kat is shocked to find that it's Sydney she has been fighting. After learning that training is going well and Kat is just homesick, Sydney takes her to dinner.

Chapter Fifty Three
About six weeks after Sydney's visit to The Farm, Kat returns home looking and seeming slightly older than when she left. After catching Sydney and Vaughn in an awkward position she goes to Jack's apartment deciding that she wants to live with him for a while and falls asleep outside his door waiting for him to get home. Both Vaughn and Sydney have noticed that despite being happy to be home, Kat also seemed a little sad. After Kat is in bed, Jack sees her sketchpad and realises what is bothering her.

Chapter Fifty Four
Weiss gets an interesting wake up call when he finds Kat sitting on his stomach. She broke into his apartment and rewired his security alarm. It's her last two days of freedom before officially starting work at the CIA and she wants to spend it with him. She wants him to take her to the beach and finally he agrees. Weiss takes her to breakfast and notices that there is something "off" about her. When he sees her watching a little boy he realises what it is. At the beach, Kat and Weiss are building a sandcastle. Kat runs off for more water and is distracted helping a couple of small children fill their buckets. Jack shows up and speaks with Weiss asking him if Kat can stay with him for a few days because Sydney, himself, Vaughn and Will will all be busy, but he's telling Kat that they will all be out of town. Kat comes over and Jack asks her to take a walk and she agrees. Jack tells her that she seems older now and she denies that anything has changed. Jack tells her that he and everyone else will be going away for a few days and he tells her that he knows what today is. Kat pretends not to know what he's talking about. Jack tells her that he knows she is drawing "him" again and that she shouldn't dwell on him because it was only making her miserable. Kat is upset at his words and runs off. Jack follows and explains to her that he's not asking her to forget "him" but by dwelling on him she was only hurting herself and that she will still love "him" even if she's not always thinking about "him". Kat explains to Jack that she's not even sure if she loves "him" or if she only thinks she does because she knows she's supposed to. Jack tells her that there is no right or wrong answer to her question and asks her to try and put the past behind her so she can move on with her life and be happy. He leaves and she goes back to building sandcastles with Weiss.

Chapter Fifty Five
That night Weiss takes Kat to a fair with Will, Carrie and Marshall, but she is depressed and distracted and not having a good time. Will is concerned about Kat's behaviour and asks Weiss what's wrong but he won't say anything. The next thing they know Kat has disappeared. Will thinks she might have taken off on purpose but Weiss counters saying she might not have even been aware that she'd walked off as she'd been a sort of daze all evening. Weiss nearly reports her missing to the CIA but then spots a vendor selling red helium balloons and knows she must be nearby as she's spent most of the afternoon drawing red balloons on a pad of paper. He spots her buying a balloon for a small blond haired boy. Angry, Weiss approaches her and tells her never to run off like that again and she punches him. Weiss apologises for yelling at her and they argue until Kat breaks down crying. She tells Weiss that Jack says she was obsessing over "him" and she admits that "he" is all she thinks about. Weiss tells her that it's normal, after all "he" is her son and she loves him. The "he/him" that they've been talking about is Joshua, her son who was put up for adoption when she was thirteen. Today is Joshua's fifth birthday/ She confesses to Weiss that she's not sure if she loves "him", she's not sure if she is capable of loving anyone but Weiss tells her that she does love him. Love is a basic human emotion innate in everyone, but some people show more than others do. Kat tells Weiss the truth of his birth and he makes the suggestion that she write Joshua letters of everything she wants to tell him, even though he won't ever read them. Kat wishes on a shooting star before she and Weiss return to the fair. The next night Will is taking Kat to see a show but they have to stop off at The Restaurant 'Francine's' which his sister Amy is reopening. As they enter the restaurant "SURPRISE"

Chapter Fifty Six
"Surprise" It's a surprise birthday party for Kat. Kat is a little surprised because she doesn't think it's her birthday but Jack explains that according to her original birth certificate, her birthday is the next day, not two months prior like she thought. Kat quickly greets everyone and is shocked when Weiss introduces her to his new girlfriend Lisa, whom he hadn't mentioned. Jack sees this and sees the hurt in her eyes. He tries to leave but Kat stops him and asks him to stay telling him that if he thinks she's still angry at him because of their conversation on the beach, she's not and she wants him to stay. She also tells him that she knows she loves Joshua and she is going to try to move past it and get on with her life. Jack ends up in an awkward position holding Marshall and Carrie's daughter Kate. Weiss talks to Sydney and reminds her that because Kat and Joshua's birthdays were really only a day apart; Kat was in fact only 12 when she had him. He also finds out that Sydney hasn't ever talked to Kat about Joshua, nor has she told Vaughn that Joshua is alive. Kat joins them followed by Will. JJ, having been transferred to LA to work at JTF surprised Kat and calls her Baby, a nickname she obtained after they watched Dirty Dancing at The Farm. He tells everyone about Kat's undercover exercise as a nightclub singer at The Farm. Jack takes great delight in depositing Baby Kate on Vaughn's lap. Despite Kat's objections they convince her to sing. She sings "Can't Hurry Love" "Good Mother," changing the word mother to father or sister offering more meaning to Jack and Sydney and to her life. Jack and Sydney quietly discuss Kat's hatred of Irina and Jack informs Sydney that Kat is more scared of turning out like Irina, than she actually is afraid of her. After Kat is finished singing, Sydney gets her, as they will cut the cake in a few minutes and briefly questions her about her relationship with JJ. To Sydney's surprise Kat informs her that JJ is gay. After cake, she opens presents and receives a stationary set from Weiss, a Faberge carousel from an unknown person and a key on a string from Jack and Sydney. Jack takes Kat home and in the car questions any new memories. She only has one, the name Mishca. Kat doesn't recognise the surroundings and asks Jack where they are going. She falls asleep before hearing his answer of "Home." When they get "Home" Kat's asleep and Jack carries her out of the car, but a nosy neighbour interrupts him. Kat wakes up and is confused having no idea where they are. Jack instructs her to open the front door of a house using her key. It's the house that Sydney grew up in. Kat explores the house finding an office for herself, her musical instruments, and a newly decorated bedroom. She plays moonlight sonata on the piano but stops halfway through and tells Jack that it was Irina who sent the Faberge Carousel. She asks him if he hated her before they found out she was his daughter and he tells her the truth.

Chapter Fifty Seven
Weiss and Kat are on a simple reconnaissance operation and Kat thought she might have recognised one of Viktor Melnikov's guards so they dye her hair red just in case. Weiss notices that Kat is "off" and quieter than usual but she tells him that nothing is wrong and questions his trust. Kat slips away from the party and heads to the meeting she will be spying on. Kat takes pictures of the two men and is made. She runs and is chased by both men. She is caught by one and fights with him. Weiss is outside in the security van and goes after her. The team at the JTF recognizes Sark, but it's too late for Kat as he gets control and points a gun at her. He wants the camera and Kat is having difficulty concentrating. She moves to hand him the camera but begins a Shakespeare quote. She sees that Sark is having a reaction to her words and she calls him Julian. He calls her Katia and her communications link to Weiss and baseops is severed.

Chapter Fifty Eight
Sark suddenly realizes why Sydney seemed familiar years before he met her younger sister and realizes that Kat is the young girl from his recent dreams of when he was a child. Kat hugs him and is confused and crying, unsure of what is going on and she asks Julian to tell her. He doesn't, instead he walks away. The baseops team has video surveillance footage so they saw what happened but Kat turned off her com link so they couldn't hear. Weiss runs into Sark, they fight and Sark knocked Weiss down, running off before he can get back up. Weiss finds a photograph Sark dropped and picks it up before going in search of Kat. He finds her alone and unharmed. In LA Jack is having trouble believing what happened between Kat and Sark and that Kat willingly let him go. Weiss and Kat are on the plane going home. Kat has been avoiding him and prior to their flight home he heard her crying in the hotel bedroom for hours. He watched the security footage on his laptop and is wondering what Kat is hiding from him and he feels really hurt watching Kat hug Sark, the enemy. They talk and Kat shocks him by telling him that she knows Julian would never hurt her, but she's not sure how or why or when she knew him. Weiss warns her of a probable investigation into her actions. He shows her the picture he found on Sark and Kat identifies the girl as herself, but asks him not to tell anyone about the picture. Kat sits with Weiss and he comforts her and she tells him that he is her safe place. Kat is asleep when they land and Jack comes on board to talk to Weiss. He explains that the NSC is on a mole hunt and due to the failed operation and Kat is becoming the center of the mole hunt in addition to her behaviour changes since returning from training at The Farm. Kat wakes and Jack asks her what she remembers. She just remembers that Sark's name is Julian, she knew him from when she was a child and Alexander Khasinau used to dye her hair red when she was a child. Two security officers show up and Kat is being taken into custody under the Patriot Act under suspicion of treason against the United States Government.

Chapter Fifty Nine
Kat is being held in the prison at the JTF in LA. in the same cell Irina had been held in. Vaughn meets her and reflects on her resemblance to Irina. Kat tells him that she is not her mother. Vaughn tells her what's been happening. Missions have been compromised in the last few weeks, all centering around info Kat had access too. Shortly before Kat and Weiss' two undercover agents working in Columbia in a Covenant based operation were killed. Branden of the NSC found information implicating Kat as the sender of a transmission to The Covenant naming the agents as CIA. Kat protests telling him that she is not a traitor. Everyone's clearance to see Kat has been revoked except his because he hadn't seen Branden yet. Everyone is protesting the arrest including Dixon and Dr. Barnet, but Branden has good evidence and The Senate Advisory Committee is even questioning her initial recruitment. Branden shows up at her cell and Kat's personality changes as she becomes cold, and defiant, an entirely different person. Vaughn is surprised as he's never been witness to her personality changes and Kendall and Lindsey are surprised as well. As Vaughn is about to leave Kat asks him to tell Sydney and Jack that she is okay and to ask Weiss to make copies of the pictures she wanted. Branden pulls her out of the cell to interrogate her himself.

In Italy Sark questions reflects on the events, which have passed, and exactly who Katia/Katarina Bristow is. He examines an old Shakespeare book and finds a sticky red mark. He's sure that it is from a cherry lollypop. He calls a contact and identifies himself as Anotonio Matrusca requesting all information on Katarina Bristow.

Vaughn meets Jack, Sydney, Weiss, Will and Carrie at a warehouse and tells them about his meeting with Kat. Jack and Weiss quickly determine that Kat was lying to Vaughn about something because she was tapping her left index finger, which is a signal when she lies. Marshall shows up and tells them information he found that proves Kat couldn't have sent the communication to The Covenant but the evidence is not good enough. JJ shows up with information about Kat.

Chapter Sixty
JJ tells him what he was told by his "friend" Garcia in security about what went on during Kat's interrogation, which the end result was Kat being knocked unconscious by Branden. Vaughn tells Weiss what Kat had said about the photographs and Weiss recognizes it as a code to tell someone about the picture he found of Kat and Sark. Devlin arranges for Sydney and Jack to see Kat and everyone leaves, but Weiss talks to Jack before doing so and shows him the picture of Kat and Sark.

Sydney and Jack go to see Kat and find her rather beat up. They question her and ask who she is protecting, but Kat denies that she is protecting anyone and Sydney and Jack know she's lying because they can see her tapping her finger in a repetitive pattern. They get into a shouting match with Kat continuously denying that she is protecting Sark. Finally she yells at Jack to stop because she won't betray Julian. Branden hears this and sees it as an admission of guilt. Branden informs Kat that she is being transferred to Camp Harris for unrestricted interrogation to determine the extent of her betrayal.

Weiss is driving in the car behind Kat's transfer van as she's being transferred to Camp Harris. The transfer van is attacked. One of the attackers is trying to get into the transfer van and Kat manages to get a hold of a gun from one of the unconscious guards. She points the gun at the person who breaks in. Kat isn't sure whether to trust the woman or to shoot her and the woman tells her to trust her now and ask questions later. The woman frees her and tells her to struggle against her as she pulls her from the van. A man takes a hold of Kat and begins dragging her to their own van. Kat sees Weiss running towards them aiming a gun and the woman aims her gun and shoots Weiss. That is the last thing that Kat sees before being knocked unconscious.