15. No Hard Feelings

Complete story — includes the ending

"The circle will be complete when The Chosen One finds The Rose in San Cielo." — Milo Rambaldi, The Prophecy (deciphered) For The First, Sloane translates Page 47, "The circle will be complete." He questions how Anna killed "a remarkable agent." Sydney, "wasn't a martyr...legend...just a person...shot in the back....easy." In Rome, Sark meets Sydney, calls police, detonates a bomb, robbing an OTB bar; they're sent to La Fossa prison (San Cielo monastery – Rambaldi's internment before execution). Dixon and Vaughn infiltrate sewers; Marshal hacks a junction-box. Inducing seizure, Sark accesses security; an old man says, "I am the Rose," giving Sydney an amulet, Rambaldi's "greatest gift," and "curse...defiance of the natural order...The end of nature itself." Sydney, "very bad people want...this." The Rose, "You can't stop them." Sydney, "You don't know me very well." Kelly cons the Warden for extradition. Sloane tasers Sydney, strangling, "Sydney deserved better than an anonymous bullet." Marshall triggers alarms, distracting Sloane. Sydney fights, "I don't die that easy." Sloane escapes with the amulet. Vaughn shoots a guard, rescuing her. Meanwhile, Marshall informs Rachel, "Tom's been lying." Confronted, Tom believes "The Cardinal" ordered his schoolteacher-wife killed." They steal Korman's WITSEC-seized car. Korman retrieves diamonds, pulling a gun. Tom, "Tell me why" Amanda "had to die." Korman, "wrong place...wrong time," driving away. Tom detonates the car-bomb. Episode epilogue: Sloane phones, "It was you, Sydney....You're a survivor, just like me....thanks to you, I have everything I need."