"Alias"
Tuesday (2005)

Director:

Fred Toye

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator)
Drew Goddard (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Alias" (2001)

Original Air Date:

30 March 2005 (Season 4, Episode 13)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

When a mission to Cuba goes wrong, Sydney is attacked and placed in serious danger of being buried alive in a sealed coffin...

Plot Keywords:

Buried Alive | Eyeball | Poisonous Gas | CIA | Power

Cast

Jennifer Garner	...	Sydney Bristow
Ron Rifkin	...	Arvin Sloane
Michael Vartan	...	Michael Vaughn
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Dixon
Kevin Weisman	...	Marshall Flinkman
Mía Maestro	...	Nadia Santos
Greg Grunberg	...	Eric Weiss
Victor Garber	...	Jack Bristow
Amanda Foreman	...	Carrie Bowman
Diego Wallraff	...	Alex Rucker
Ulrich Thomsen	...	Ulrich Kottor
Gina Morelli	...	Grandmother
Raoul N. Rizik	...	Merchant (as Raoul Rizik)
Richard Willgrubs	...	Technician

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Bad Robot

Now You're Talking !

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The return of the golden days of Alias again .. that was my comment after this one came to an end . Actually (Tuesday) is proving seriously that this show had the great talent of course and had lost it for a long time too ! just compare this fine episode to another crappy ones ..then you'll find that the crappy would be too many yet the good are too masterly enjoyable ! quite like that one ..

Here .. we have one strong plot which had been divided to 2 good parts (How Marshall could save Sydney from burying alive in Cuba) , (How Marshall and Sydney could make it together and steal a terrorist's secrets) , both of them were unbelievably outstanding especially at that time of Alias .. to the extent that you'll say : wow .. maybe all the rest weren't that bad after all ! (yes it's as good as that extent !)

The episode's idea of paralyzing the APO's agency by bacterial virus while (Sydney) in a coffin under the ground in Cuba as the clumsy (Marshall) is the only agent who could rescue her from inescapable suffocation .. it's all genius writing and the ultimate result was as powerful as the script (particularly the entire sequence of Marshall in the cemetery) , the second part was no less suspense when the foolish Marshall trying to imitate his ideal (jack Bristow) !

There was some comic lines : (Now I've got hepatitis !) when a drunk girl kissed the scrupulous (Marshall) at the night club !, (that means that you ripped the retina apart !) when Jack was sorry for (Marshall)'s failure at cutting off the dead terrorist's eye ! , and for sure (Marshall)'s song to his baby about the nonmetallic elements !

The previous episode was all for (Nadia) and now they made one for (Marshall) who is a beloved character and the only un-brawny one in the team so when we have the opportunity to watch him as successful in action it would be a victory of the poor un-brawny us !

It was all exceptional from the start till the great last scene of (Sydney) and (Vaughn) dancing romantically in the train station as it's a finale of a beautiful classic movie , well .. I kept telling myself while watching : this what made Alias a cult TV once ,this had been made to watch not one time but several times , all the ones who may hate the show are the very unlucky ones who didn't ever watch that kind of episodes .. , and if they only could write like this all along !

Forget all about How the whole APO had no agents out of it to rescue (Sydney) ?! or what was the need for Sydney's sell phone and whatever (Marshall) invented out of an old Cuban radio while in the same time he could easily use the satellite's thermal power as he did eventually (but after some real hot thrilling time) , or How all the terrorists in the world had their offices in night clubs ?! , or even How bad the dance of salsa at the start was ! or the old trite one about How (Sydney) could work under (Sloane)'s authority !!? Here all of those silly questions are not allowed to be asked , simply you'll not even have the time to ask them ! because here you finally lived what could make you in the joy zone having the best time from that one's interesting work which is based on the original perfect thrill of the first Alias .. it's in brief .. an absolute fun.