Alias Season 1 Episode Guide
Season 1 has 22 episodes, from September 30, 2001 to May 12, 2002. Descriptions stay brief and spoiler-light.
Episode 1: Truth Be Told
Airdate: September 30, 2001
Description: Sydney Bristow is a college student who leads a double life: she works for shadowy government agency called SD-6 which is supposed to be a covert branch of the CIA and reports to Arvin Sloane.
Episode 2: So It Begins
Airdate: October 7, 2001
Description: In her new role as a double agent for the CIA, Sydney is intent on destroying SD-6 within weeks.
Episode 3: Parity
Airdate: October 14, 2001
Description: Sydney and Dixon go to Madrid to steal a lockbox containing a sketch with what appears to be a digital code drawn by a 15th century seer, Milo Rambaldi.
Episode 4: A Broken Heart
Airdate: October 21, 2001
Description: Sydney and Anna memorize a code written by Rambaldi.
Episode 5: Doppelgänger
Airdate: October 28, 2001
Description: Will tells Francie that he's been investigating the death of Danny.
Episode 6: Reckoning
Airdate: November 18, 2001
Description: Sydney forms the opinion the Jack's suspicious activities led to the death of her mother 20 years earlier, creating a deeper tension between them.
Episode 7: Color-Blind
Airdate: November 25, 2001
Description: Sydney learns about Shepard's involvement in her past.
Episode 8: Time Will Tell
Airdate: December 2, 2001
Description: Sydney travels to Oxford to steal an ancient clock connected to the Rambaldi mystery.
Episode 9: Mea Culpa
Airdate: December 9, 2001
Description: Sydney is scared, as she thinks that Dixon may have heard her talking to the CIA.
Episode 10: Spirit
Airdate: December 16, 2001
Description: Jack must save Sydney when Sloane orders her to be tortured and killed after she is suspected as the mole.
Episode 11: The Confession
Airdate: January 6, 2002
Description: After Jack saves Sydney during a mission, she discovers that he was responsible for the deaths of many CIA agents, complicating her feelings for him.
Episode 12: The Box (Part 1)
Airdate: January 20, 2002
Description: A group of heavily-armed intruders sneak into SD-6 and take control of the building.
Episode 13: The Box (Part 2)
Airdate: February 10, 2002
Description: Sydney discovers a note left for her by her father, explaining the dire predicament: opening the SD-6 vault would trigger a fatal explosion.
Episode 14: The Coup
Airdate: February 24, 2002
Description: Sydney and Dixon travel to Las Vegas to try and track down the group that nearly destroyed SD-6.
Episode 15: Page 47
Airdate: March 3, 2002
Description: Sydney and Dixon are dispatched to Tunisia.
Episode 16: The Prophecy
Airdate: March 10, 2002
Description: The Department of Special Research inquires about Sydney's connection to the Rambaldi notebook.
Episode 17: Q&A
Airdate: March 17, 2002
Description: While being questioned by the FBI about her ties to Rambaldi, Sydney makes a shocking discovery that may unravel the mysterious 500-year-old prophecy.
Episode 18: Masquerade
Airdate: April 7, 2002
Description: Sydney is reunited with Noah Hicks, an SD-6 agent she dated five years ago.
Episode 19: Snowman
Airdate: April 14, 2002
Description: Vaughn confirms that K-Directorate has hired an assassin, known as "The Snowman" for his favored use of an ice pick as a weapon, to take out Khasinau.
Episode 20: The Solution
Airdate: April 21, 2002
Description: Sydney and Vaughn meet with Mr Sark hoping to catch Khasinau, but Sydney's cover is endangered when an SD-6 agent is sent to stop the trade.
Episode 21: Rendezvous
Airdate: May 5, 2002
Description: Sydney and Dixon must go to a Paris nightclub, where Sark will deliver the ampule to Khasinau.
Episode 22: Almost Thirty Years
Airdate: May 12, 2002
Description: Vaughn and Sydney must destroy a Rambaldi artifact to save Will.