- Eric Weiss: [Vaughn is beating a punching bag, obviously angry] The bag is dead, I think you can stop now.
- Vaughn: Thanks for coming.
- Eric Weiss: Thanks for sweating.
- Vaughn: Well, you kill your wife after learning she's a vicious, homicidal, double agent, and see how rational you are.
- Kazu Tamazaki: You look familiar.
- Vaughn: Sometimes people tell me I look like hockey player, Alexei Kovalev.
- Kazu Tamazaki: Nah... that's not it.
- Vaughn: [Jack has just asked Vaughn to relay a message to Sydney] No, I'm not going to be a conduit to your daughter. I've tried that before; you can imagine how well that went over. And no she didn't say anything, if that's what you're asking. So... She hasn't said a word about anything that happened between the of you; which gives me an idea of what that is. And Jack, I hope for Sydney's sake, that I'm wrong.
- Vaughn: [Sydney opens her front door to find Vaughn] Sorry to drop by.
- Sydney Bristow: It's ok.
- Vaughn: I miss you I wanted to say that I missed you.
- Sydney Bristow: I've been thinking, obviously... about what we...
- Vaughn: What you're afraid to...
- Sydney Bristow: I'm not afraid... I... a... but I...
- Vaughn: You don't return my calls.
- Sydney Bristow: That's 'cause I could feel what was happening.
- [They both pause]
- Vaughn: Can I come in?
- Sydney Bristow: If you come in, we both know what's gonna happen. I don't want that; to jump right back in where we were, before everything, to pretend that those years didn't happen.
- Vaughn: Well that would be nice, wouldn't it?
- Sydney Bristow: But they did, we need to take it slow, Vaughn.
- Vaughn: Yeah, you're probably right...
- Yuri Komorov: [opens a suitcase] What is inside can be used for good... or evil.
- Sydney Bristow: Me too.
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: [to Sydney] Even for you, Agent Bristow, your arrogance today is appalling!
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: I'm recommending to the board that you be stripped of classified clearance and assigned to the Dispatch Office at Langley.
- Sydney Bristow: You're transferring me... to the mail room?
- Sydney Bristow: If this is your... decision, Director Chase... I will no longer burden this agency with the hazard of my participation.
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: Are you opting to terminate your association with the CIA?
- Sydney Bristow: I will say it in English for you: I quit.
- Vaughn: I'm leaving.
- Eric Weiss: Leaving what... the Agency? Is this because of Sydney?
- Vaughn: No, it's not because of Sydney; it's because last year sucked.
- Sydney Bristow: When I was approached about joining a black-ops unit within the CIA, I thought I was doing the right thing. And while I appreciate the necessary protocol in assembling a new team, Arvin Sloane is not...
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: [cutting her off] I understand you used to work for Sloane.
- Sydney Bristow: Yeah, a criminal psychopath beyond verbal descripition...
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: I know all about Sloane.
- Sydney Bristow: Then allow me to ask the most obvious question in the history of time: How can the CIA let that man, who ran what amounts to a terrorist cell within the borders of this country, run anything?
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: But we can use him now: His contacts, his expertise, and he will be closely monitored.
- Sydney Bristow: I pity the man with that job.
- [Chase just looks pointedly at Sydney]
- Sydney Bristow: [realization dawns on her] Wait a minute...
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: With you here... Vaughn, Dixon, and your father, there's a built-in system of checks and balances. If Sloane missteps... you'll catch him. Now, that's it. This is your assignment.
- Arvin Sloane: Quite frankly I was surprised by their call too, until I understood what it is they want: their own SD-6.
- Arvin Sloane: You'll need to get him to open the case for you.
- Sydney Bristow: Do you have any suggestions?
- Arvin Sloane: I assume you'll come up with something interesting.
- Sydney Bristow: I don't want that, to jump right back in where we were, before everything. To pretend like those years didn't happen.
- Vaughn: That would be nice, wouldn't it.
- Sydney Bristow: But they did.
- Arvin Sloane: [about Nadia] I knew she would be of great value here... but she chose to leave intelligence... to drop out.
- Sydney Bristow: You sure she really left? Fake-quitting seems to be all the rage.
- Arvin Sloane: [about Nadia] Because I see in her something I once saw in you: the need to work for what's right. And because you know what it is to put aside personal issues, and that... that's a gift.
- Sydney Bristow: It's not a gift. What it's been is a necessity, and it's become a burden, and, quite frankly, something I've run out of patience for.
- Arvin Sloane: I'm sending you, Sydney. I'll give you the details in my office.
- Sydney Bristow: Lucky me.
- Eric Weiss: You alright?
- Vaughn: Yeah, I think that a full month of Psych evaluations; more than enough.
- Eric Weiss: Really; for you? I don't know. It was a little overkill though. Come on, burning your house down...
- Vaughn: It wasn't a happy home.
- Eric Weiss: But still *fire*...
- Vaughn: Yeah, well you kill your wife after learning she's a vicious homicidal double agent and see how rational you are.
- Eric Weiss: I just want you to know that I'm there for you, whatever you need. You know if you need to stay with me for a while, cause your house is... ashes.
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: I know you spoke of being hungry, looking for a fresh start.
- Sydney Bristow: It was nothing, my father, Vaughn, irrelevant personal stuff. I want to serve my country the best I can.
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: Well this assignment will be a challenge for you. More than you were lead to believe.
- [Director Chase opens a set of doors and motions for Sydney to follow. She walks in and sees Dixon, Jack, and Vaughn]
- CIA Director Hayden Chase: The four of you chosen, handpicked to help run this team.
- Sydney Bristow: The four of us? Handpicked by whom?
- [Sydney turns around to see Sloane]
- Arvin Sloane: This is exciting!