Alias/Countdown

Countdown
Season 2, Episode 20
Airdate	April 27, 2003
Teleplay by	Jeff Pinkner
Story by	R.P. Gaborno
Directed by	Lawrence Trilling
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Alias — Season Two

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Countdown is the twentieth episode of the second season of Alias, and the forty-second episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow), Ron Rifkin (Arvin Sloane), Michael Vartan (Michael Vaughn), Bradley Cooper (Will Tippin) (credit only), Merrin Dungey (Francie Calfo) (credit only), Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon), Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman), David Anders (Julian Sark)

with Lena Olin (Irina Derevko) (credit only)

and Victor Garber (Jack Bristow)

Special Guest Star: Danny Trejo (Emilio Vargas)

Guest Starring: Jonathan Banks (Frederick Brandon), Amanda Foreman (Carrie Bowman)

with David Carradine (Conrad)

and Patricia Wettig (Judy Barnett)

Co-Starring: Jimmie F. Skaggs (Captain), Carlos Cervantes (Panamanian Detective), Allen Evangelista (Jandu), Ryan Honey (Delta Force Leader), James Carraway (Proteo Di Regno)

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• A man named Proteo Di Regno is killed and has his heart extracted, which turns out to be artificial (despite never had a transplant). It turns out his DNA was drawn by Rambaldi and is the key to decrypting a manuscript, which foretells an apocalyptic event to occur at specific time. Unbeknown to the CIA, this event is the moment Sloane reads a scroll by a monk that sent on his path of Rambaldi. He knew about Emily's death as it was part of Sloane's journey and that what's on the scroll is another part.

Characters

• Marshall meets Carrie Bowman and the two clearly like one another.