6. Reckoning

Complete story — includes the ending

Sydney discovers her mother Laura Bristow 's accidental vehicular death, twenty years ago, resulted from Jack trying to escape the FBI investigating him as a KGB double agent. Sydney goes undercover in a Bucharest mental institution to get information from Shepard, a man who had been unconsciously programmed to become a deadly assassin. Meanwhile, Will discovers the true identity of Kate Jones (Eloise Kurtz), the woman who claimed to have had an affair with Danny. Francie is relieved to learn that Charlie is not having an affair, but rather trying to become a singer songwriter, and that the woman is his piano player. SD-6 Chief Technician Marshall Flinkman finds the computer worm planted in the SD-6 mainframe by the CIA and tells Sloane, who congratulates Marshall for passing a special Security Division test. Suspecting an SD-6 mole, Sloane sets out to determine who it is. Sydney's cover is blown when the asylum leader is revealed as a K-Directorate agent trying to uncover from Shepard the same information SD-6 wants.