Ohhh, my head. I haven't seen Alias in a million years. This will all be very foggy. Hmm... well, it all started when Syd (S1) found some old books of her mother's with Cyrillic spy-codeyness in them, leading her to believe that *Jack* (he gave Irina the books) was the Russian spy... then I think Vaughn was the one who sorted her out about the whole your-mom's-evil-and-Russian issue, via sneaky research (what sticks most in my mind from that episode is Vaughn's opening a can in a bar fight and threatening to set a guy on fire and looking really pretty... oh wait, Irina-lore...). She first found out Irina was alive when she's all chained to a chair and whatever in the S1 finale and then "The Man" (guy rumored to be in charge of whatever baddie nest they were fighting at that point) walks in, and it's Irina. I'm thinking that until then, she thought her mom was just a dead Russian spy. I think. The Jack-in-jail business sounds plausible, but I can't remember any specific canon that confirms it. "Laura" was definitely a teacher, quite likely of the college lit variety.
Anyway, I'm probably getting this all wrong, use all that free time of yours and go to http://abc.go.com/primetime/alias/missions/episode101a.html . They've got all the episode recaps, very cut-and-dried, but useful. Or try Television Without Pity, and get the snarky, extremely long versions. : ) And stop reading fanfic, it rots your brain. Much like trying to understand the stupid Rambaldi mythology. Even the show's writers have no idea what's up with that. Just tune it out and count Vaughn's forehead wrinkles.
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Date: 2005-06-15 09:45 pm (UTC)Ohhh, my head. I haven't seen Alias in a million years. This will all be very foggy. Hmm... well, it all started when Syd (S1) found some old books of her mother's with Cyrillic spy-codeyness in them, leading her to believe that *Jack* (he gave Irina the books) was the Russian spy... then I think Vaughn was the one who sorted her out about the whole your-mom's-evil-and-Russian issue, via sneaky research (what sticks most in my mind from that episode is Vaughn's opening a can in a bar fight and threatening to set a guy on fire and looking really pretty... oh wait, Irina-lore...). She first found out Irina was alive when she's all chained to a chair and whatever in the S1 finale and then "The Man" (guy rumored to be in charge of whatever baddie nest they were fighting at that point) walks in, and it's Irina. I'm thinking that until then, she thought her mom was just a dead Russian spy. I think. The Jack-in-jail business sounds plausible, but I can't remember any specific canon that confirms it. "Laura" was definitely a teacher, quite likely of the college lit variety.
Anyway, I'm probably getting this all wrong, use all that free time of yours and go to http://abc.go.com/primetime/alias/missions/episode101a.html . They've got all the episode recaps, very cut-and-dried, but useful. Or try Television Without Pity, and get the snarky, extremely long versions. : ) And stop reading fanfic, it rots your brain. Much like trying to understand the stupid Rambaldi mythology. Even the show's writers have no idea what's up with that. Just tune it out and count Vaughn's forehead wrinkles.