Missing

Here is what I was able to piece together from season 3. This is a step by step account of all we know about Sydney’s missing 2 years. The red parts are questions or tidbits that came to mind while I was documenting all of this. Some of the happenings might be out of chronological order. It starts with the fight in Sydney’s apartment and goes through what Sydney learned from Kendall leading up to her return in Hong Kong. Then it goes on to what we learn later.

Missing Two Years:

-Sydney is taken by the Covenant from her apartment after a fight with Evil Francie (Allison Doran).
-Sydney was tortured and subjected to psychological conditioning by the Covenant. She was programmed to be Julia Thorne, a Covenant assassin, living in Rome. She escaped the Covenant long enough to contact Kendall. She wanted to come back but Kendall insisted she stay undercover in order for the CIA to learn more about the Covenant. Perhaps Kendall wanted the cube for himself or to turn over to P5, in the assumption that the DSR is one of the 12 government agencies infiltrated by P5.

-As Julia Thorne, Sydney came into contact with a group of high priced thieves, led by Simon Walker. Her association with Walker during the 2 years is unclear. What her relationship with Walker entailed is unclear, although it was obvious that they had a physical relationship. Was Sydney deep undercover or was she truly brainwashed? Was the Covenant successful in brainwashing Sydney despite her Project Christmas training? If so, did they “un-brainwash” her in order for her to go to Kendall? If Kendall was working for the Covenant and P5, was his story on the plane true?

-Sydney, as Julia Thorne, is hired to kill Russian Diplomat Andrian Lazarey (Sark’s father).
-Sydney fakes Lazarey’s death and together they go on a mission to find the Rambaldi cube.
-While searching for the DNA, Lazarey loses his hand. Sydney buries it in the desert? The Covenant buries it?
-Sydney must have learned that the Covenant extracted her eggs in order to create a child with the DNA of Rambaldi, which was inside the cube.
-Sydney has her memory erased, and instead of turning the cube over to Kendall and the CIA, she hides the cube in a safety deposit box in Gras. Supposedly Sydney gives Sloane an envelope with a key and a code. The key is to Julia Thorne’s apartment in Rome and the code is the address. Did she truly give Sloane the key and code or was it a plant in order to get Sydney to investigate her missing years?
-Sydney wakes in an alley in Hong Kong with no memory of the last two years.
-Jack is in prison for corresponding with Irina in regards to Sydney’s apparent death. Jack knew she was alive because he saw her on a surveillance tape “killing” Lazarey.
-Vaughn has left the CIA and is a French teacher, married to a NSC liaison. (During this time he is working with French criminal Renee Rienne, investigating Prophet 5).
-Viewed as a possible Covenant mole, Sydney has to prove her loyalty to the CIA by retrieving a chip from the Covenant that has plans for a spy drone, a weapons aircraft. Upon retrieving the chip, she asks that Jack be released from prison.
-Sark stands to inherit $800 million and the Covenant (Sanko) wants to enlist Sark as their benefactor. Sark is taken to a bank to retrieve his money. It is the same bank that Gordon Dean’s money was in, in the Cayman Islands.

-Vaughn comes back to the CIA. Did he come back because Sydney was back and needed her information for Prophet 5? Or did he come back because he wanted to protect her, to be close to her? Or was it Lauren’s influence?
-Javier Perez, a member of Simon Walker’s team, is apprehended in a Mexican jail. He says he knows that the killer of Lazarey is a CIA agent. Lauren and Vaughn are tasked to interrogate Javier, but Jack murders him in order to keep Sydney’s secret.
-Lauren Reed, has been sent to the CIA LA office in order to investigate the murder of Lazarey. Sark approaches Lauren and reveals that Sydney is in fact the killer. Lauren informs her superiors at the NSC (Director Lindsey).
-The NSC wants to subject Sydney to invasive memory therapy in order to find out what happened to her in her missing 2 years. They take Sydney into custody and Lauren is enlisted to write the White House brief of Sydney’s interrogation.
-Jack, Vaughn and Sloane create a plan to break Sydney out. When Lauren witnesses Sydney being mistreated by the NSC, she offers up her help.
-The break out is made to look like the work of the Covenant. It is made to seem that Sydney and Lauren have both been taken, when in fact they are in hiding, researching possible alternatives to finding out what happened to Sydney in those missing years.
-Sydney and Jack follow coordinates Sydney was able to decipher from a code. The code leads them to the desert and to Lazarey’s hand.
-Jack, Sydney and Vaughn go to visit a dream doctor, a doctor recommended by Sloane. The doctor is able to help Sydney retrieve some of her memories. In her dreams Will is there. Sydney asks that she contact him in Witness Protection.
-Meanwhile, Lauren is returned to the NSC and tells Lindsey that she was kidnapped by the Covenant. The “Covenant” is willing to trade Sydney for the Rambaldi device. Lindsey instead wants Sydney assassinated and he enlists Sloane to do it.
-Will is able to tell her that St. Aidan is the code name used by one of his informants when he worked for the CIA. St. Aidan is Andrian Lazarey and he is still alive.
-Sydney and Will are able to track down Lazarey and the location of the Rambaldi cube, in the safety deposit box in Gras. But the cube is snatched by Sark, who tortured his own father to find the location of the cube.
-Sydney is returned to the CIA, and instead of being killed by an assassin, Robert Lindsey is killed.
-Sydney is later “kidnapped” by Kendall and taken aboard a CIA jet. Kendall shares with her all that happened to her during her 2 missing years.
-With the cube in their possession, the Covenant can now harvest Sydney’s eggs and create a Rambaldi child. Sark is tracked and Sydney destroys the lab before the experiment can be concluded.
-Lazarey is taken to the hospital after Sark’s lab is torched. In the ambulance he tells Sydney about the Passenger. Before he can tell Sydney who or what the Passenger is, Lazarey is assassinated by Covenant mole, Vaughn’s wife, Lauren Reed.
-When it is discovered there may be a mole inside the CIA, Jack investigates and discovers that Lauren maybe a possible mole. He takes his findings to Senator Reed, Lauren’s father.
-Vaughn decides to leave Lauren, but she needs him for inside information on Rambaldi. Sark suggests that she kill her own father in order to get Vaughn to stay with her.
-Lauren goes to murder her father and he discovers that Jack’s investigation is valid. Lauren is unable to kill her father. Her mother then busts into the room and shoots him. Olivia Reed is also Covenant.
-Sydney believes she sees Lauren on a mission. When she brings it up to Vaughn, Vaughn thinks it’s outrageous. Jack confronts him and tells Vaughn to look for clues that Lauren could possibly be the Covenant mole. Vaughn follows Lauren and picks up on a phone call between Lauren and someone else. Vaughn is unaware that the person on the other end if Sark and he is warning Lauren that Bomani is after her. Lauren later explains to Vaughn that she was talking to her mother. But, Vaughn later finds a black wig and passport papers in a piece of Lauren’s luggage.
-The CIA stages a coupe. They leak faulty intel to Lauren and she relays it to the Covenant. When Lauren believes she is in possession of a Rambaldi code key, she passes it on to the Covenant. Her mother discovers that it’s a fake and Lauren knows she’s been made.
-Lauren and Sark join forces to bring down the leads of the Covenant cells in order to take control of the cells themselves. They are then on the search for the Passenger, steps ahead of the CIA.
-The Covenant gets their hands on Conrad, the monk in Napal. They kidnap him in order to get the location of the Passenger.
-At this point, Sloane has learned of his daughter, Nadia, the Passenger. He is on a mission towards redemption, heading a world relief organization called Omni-Fam. He uses Omni-Fam as a front to put additives in the water supply of hostile countries in order to alter human brain chemistry to make all who drink it more susceptible to empathy, sympathy and kindness. (This coincides with Rambaldi’s message from El Dire (The Telling). The message was “peace.”) This also explains why Sloane is drinking water in many of his scenes.
-Sydney and Vaughn go to rescue Conrad and Sydney discovers that the Passenger is her sister. Sydney confronts her father about a sister. It is revealed that Irina had an affair with Sloane and that their affair produced a daughter. It is said in Rambaldi’s prophecy that only the Passenger’s father can find her, but Sloane has been framed and is up for execution. Jack, due to Sloane’s affair with Irina, refuses to help stage his pardon. Sydney begs him. In the end Jack fakes Sloane’s death and together the group finds Nadia.
-Sloane appears to double cross Sydney and Jack, by escaping with Nadia.
-Lauren and Sark join Sloane in order to drug Nadia, to put her in a trance to relay Rambaldi’s message. Sloane is torn between saving his daughter and learning of Rambaldi’s message. Sydney and the gang storm Sloane’s safe house to save Nadia and Vaughn goes after Lauren. Sloane is able to escape, as are Sark and Lauren, and Nadia is taken to safety.

-Vaughn tracks down Lauren and kidnaps her. As he is about to torture her, Vaughn is stabbed by Katya. (Would it not have made more sense that Olivia Reed was the one to stab Vaughn? Why would Katya stab Vaughn?)

There are some extra questions I had while watching:

-Sloane’s kidnapping by Bomani; was it staged? Did he plan it with Sark in order to become a double agent between the CIA and Covenant? Did Sloane have Sydney brought back in order to get Sark’s money to help Elena run the Covenant? And did he and Sark use Bomani to acquire Rambaldi artifacts? Did they use him as a pawn to take the blame for Sloane’s abduction?
-When Sydney returns from her two missing years she still thinks that Sloane is a baddie. Lauren brokered his deal in return for information on other terrorist cells. Sydney says, “yes, he used you to get rid of his competition.” This connects back to the idea that P5 has been using APO and the CIA to rid them of competition.

So, what have I missed? Do you have any ideas about the red pieces? Have I helped or hurt?