Having learned that her father is also a double agent for the CIA, she begins the long and arduous task of destroying SD-6 from the inside. Sydney decides to offer her services to the real CIA as a double agent. She discovers that her father Jack Bristow is also an SD-6 agent and that SD-6 is not part of the CIA instead, it is part of the Alliance of Twelve, an organization that is an enemy to the United States. In the pilot, she tells her fiancé Danny Hecht (played by Edward Atterton) that she is a spy and as a result of her revealing SD-6's existence to an outsider, Danny is murdered by SD-6. Having accepted, she was assigned to a unit called SD-6, which she was told was a secret 'Black Ops' section of the CIA. She was approached by someone who claimed to work for the Central Intelligence Agency and offered her a job as an agent. Seven years before the first episode, Sydney Bristow was an undergraduate student. Alias is considered to be part of a wave of television series from the late 1990s and early 2000s that feature strong female characters, alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, La Femme Nikita, and Dark Angel. The series also received numerous awards and nominations. The series' later seasons deal with multiple character and plot driven storylines, with a recurring focus on the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a fictitious Renaissance-era figure with similarities to both Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus.Īlias was well received among critics and has been included in several 'best of' lists, including the American Film Institute's top ten list for television programs in 2003. The first two seasons of Alias mainly explore Sydney's obligation to hide her true career from her friends and family as she assumes multiple aliases to carry out missions as well as her efforts to take down SD-6 with the help of the CIA. Main co-stars throughout all five seasons included Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn, Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane, and Victor Garber as Jack Bristow. It stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a double agent for the Central Intelligence Agency posing as an operative for SD-6, a worldwide criminal and espionage organization. Abrams, which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006. Alias is an American action thriller and science fiction television series created by J.

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