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Main characters

Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow

Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane

Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn (1.01-5.01, recurring afterwards)

Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin (Seasons 1 & 2, guest star in 3.10 and 5.12)

Merrin Dungey as Francie Calfo (Seasons 1 & 2, guest star in 3.6, 3.10 and 5.17)

Carl Lumbly as Marcus Dixon

Kevin Weisman as Marshall Flinkman

Victor Garber as Jack Bristow

Greg Grunberg as Eric Weiss (Seasons 3 & 4, recurring before and afterwards)

David Anders as Julian Sark (Seasons 2 & 3, recurring before and afterwards)

Lena Olin as Irina Derevko (Season 2, guest star in 4.21, 4.22, 5.9, 5.11 & 5.17)

Melissa George as Lauren Reed (Season 3), uncredited guest appearance in Season 4

Ma Maestro as Nadia Santos (Season 4, recurring before and afterwards)

Rachel Nichols as Rachel Gibson (Season 5)

lodie Bouchez as Rene Rienne (5.01-5.09, recurring afterwards)

Balthazar Getty as Thomas Grace (Season 5)

Amy Acker as Kelly Peyton (5.10-5.17, recurring before)

Production and crew
Produced by Touchstone Television and Bad Robot Productions, film production primarily took place in the greater Los Angeles area. Despite its worldwide locales, only one episode was ever filmed outside the Los Angeles region (Las Vegas, Nevada).

J. J. Abrams - Executive Producer
John Eisendrath - Executive Producer (Season 1-3)
Alex Kurtzman - Executive Producer (Season 2-3)
Roberto Orci - Executive Producer (Season 2-3)
Jeff Pinkner - Executive Producer (Season 5)
Jesse Alexander - Executive Producer (Season 5)
Ken Olin - Executive Producer
Michael Giacchino - Composer
Michael Haro - Coordinating Producer

Season One
Main article: Alias episodes (season 1)
Seven years before season 1, Sydney Bristow was an undergraduate student when she was approached with a job offer by someone claiming to work for SD-6, which was supposedly part of the Central Intelligence Agency. She accepted the offer, and quickly became a field agent. In the pilot, she tells her fianc Danny that she is a spy. As a result of revealing SD-6's existence to an outsider, her fianc is murdered by SD-6.

It is then that Sydney is told by her father Jack Bristow (another SD-6 agent) 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. Sydney decides to offer her services to the real CIA as a double agent. Her offer is soon accepted, and she begins the long and arduous task of destroying SD-6 from the inside. She quickly learns that her father is also a double agent for the CIA.

Major plotlines from season 1 include Sydney hiding her triple-identity from her friends, both in her personal life and in her SD-6 job, Will Tippin's investigation into Danny's death, and the past antics of Sydney's mother. Sub-plots included Sydney's friendship with Francie, Francie's romantic relationship with Charlie, and Sydney's developing relationship with her CIA handler Michael Vaughn, of whom she is skeptical at first but grows to trust as her life becomes increasingly stressful.

Season Two
Main article: Alias episodes (season 2)
The second season begins with the introduction of Irina Derevko, Sydney's mother, who soon becomes a vital part of the series. Midway through the second season, the series underwent a "reboot" of sorts with Sydney successfully destroying SD-6 (after gathering valuable intelligence for tactical strikes from an airborne SD-6 server) and becoming a regular agent for the CIA, still in pursuit of former SD-6 leader Arvin Sloane, his associate Julian Sark, and the Rambaldi artifacts. Sydney's friends at SD-6, Marcus Dixon and Marshall Flinkman, are finally made aware of her dual identity and also brought into the CIA.

In the second half of the season, it was revealed that Francie Calfo, Sydney's best friend, was murdered and replaced by Allison Doren, a woman who was transfigured to look exactly like her. Allison was then in a position to spy on Sydney and Will. The end of the season saw Will possibly murdered and Sydney (following a ferocious battle with Allison) awakening in Hong Kong for the last two years, but also that Vaughn found a new love and is now married.

Season Three
Main article: Alias episodes (season 3)
The third season takes place two years after the events of season 2, with Sydney having been missing and presumed dead. DNA evidence in a badly burned body confirmed her death to her family and friends.

The truth, however, is that Sydney was kidnapped by a terrorist organization called The Covenant, that tried to brainwash her into believing she was an assassin named Julia Thorne. Eventually Sydney voluntarily had her memories of the two years erased in an attempt to forget some of the deeds she was forced to undertake as Julia and to ensure that one of Rambaldi's artifacts would never be found.

As Sydney recovers, she begins investigating her absence while reintegrating into the CIA. There she deals with the facts that Arvin Sloane had become a world-renowned humanitarian after being pardoned, and that Michael Vaughn had married NSC agent Lauren Reed. Reed was revealed as a member of the Covenant and a lover of Julian Sark. The NSC plays a role as a government organization that holds massive unsupervised power, with a Guantanamo-like detention facility and considerable influence over the CIA, and driven by questionable motives. Sydney later discovers that her mother and Arvin Sloane had a child together, the result of an affair between the two years earlier. She locates her half-sister, Nadia, and rescues her from being killed by the Covenant.

At the end of the season, Sydney goes on a mission and encounters Lauren. After battling, Lauren begins to taunt Sydney by saying she has information about her past. When Vaughn shows up, Sydney goes to him, leaving Lauren a chance to attack again. Vaughn shoots Lauren, and she dies, but before she does she gives Sydney the number of a security deposit box where she can find information about her past.

Season Four
Main article: Alias episodes (season 4)
Season 4 begins where season three ended with Sydney uncovering a shocking, classified document called "S.A.B. 47 Project." It is explained that the document authorizes Jack Bristow to execute Sydney's mother, who had mysteriously placed a contract on Sydney's life (this was apparently something of a retcon to cover for actress Lena Olin's presumed departure from the series, as the first page refers to Sydney as the "active" subject of a "project" that began 17 April, 1975, a possible reference to Project Christmas, and also setting up Jack as either the real head of the Covenant or being a descendant of Rambaldi/Rambaldi himself).

Sydney joins a black ops division of the CIA, patterned after SD-6 and run by her one-time nemesis Arvin Sloane. The new division is dubbed "APO": Authorized Personnel Only. Members of APO (all hand-picked by Sloane) include almost all of the recurring characters from previous seasons, including Jack, Vaughn, Sydney's former partner (and third season CIA director) Marcus Dixon, the computer and technical genius, Marshall Flinkman, and Vaughn's best friend Eric Weiss (brought in after having to be rescued by Sydney and Vaughn, who he previously believed to have left the CIA). Sloane's daughter and Sydney's half-sister Nadia Santos also eventually returns to join APO.

During the season, an Arvin Sloane impostor, jokingly identified as "Arvin Clone," acquired the technology to implement a Rambaldi-predicted apocalypse. Using Omnifam, the real Sloane had polluted the world's drinking water with chemicals that caused feelings of peace and tranquility. However, these feelings can be reversed with the Mueller device. The third Derevko sister, Elena, had built a giant Mueller device in Sovogda, Russia, which drove the residents to insanity. Sydney, Jack, Irina, Nadia, and Vaughn parachute in, destroy the device and kill Elena. But Nadia is injected with the tainted water and driven insane. She battles Sydney until Sloane is forced to shoot his own daughter. Nadia is later put into a coma while a cure is sought and Irina escapes again.

The season concludes with Sydney and Vaughn becoming engaged. On a trip to Santa Barbara, Vaughn confides a shocking secret: his name isn't really Michael Vaughn; their initial meeting wasn't coincidental; and that his allegiance may not be to the CIA. Before he can divulge any more information, another car hits theirs and the season ends.

Season Five
Main article: Alias episodes (season 5)
As season five begins, Vaughn is abducted. Sydney learns that Vaughn is under suspicion of being a double agent and that the crash may have been a cover for his extraction. Vaughn later escapes and explains to Sydney that his real name is Andr Michaux. He reveals that he is investigating a secret operation known as Prophet Five, which at one point involved his father. During a mission in recovering a Prophet Five book, Sydney receives a phone call from her doctor with some untimely news - she's pregnant. (This development was created to deal with the actress' real-life pregnancy.[1][2]). Vaughn is later shot, and apparently killed, on orders of Prophet Five operative Gordon Dean. Four months later, as Sydney continues to investigate Vaughn's murder, she works with an assassin and associate of his, Rene Rienne, in order to unearth the inner workings of Prophet Five, while at the same time trailing Dean and his criminal organization "The Shed," disguised as a black ops CIA division, very much like SD-6.

Two new members are added to APO to replace Weiss, who moved to Washington, D.C. for a new job, and Nadia, who is still in a coma. Thomas Grace is a brash young agent with unorthodox methods who often butts heads with Sydney. Rachel Gibson is a computer specialist who, like Sydney, was deceived into thinking she was working for the real CIA and briefly works as a mole within The Shed, as did Sydney within SD-6, before The Shed's destruction by Dean.

In an ongoing subplot, Arvin Sloane follows his own personal obsession, finding a cure for Nadia. Sloane is jailed for his actions during Season 4; however, he is released after the sentencing committee is manipulated by Dean. In exchange for his freedom, Sloane is now working for Dean as a mole within APO. Unaware of Sloane's new allegiance, Jack agrees to let Sloane rejoin APO and use its resources to seek a cure for his daughter.

With the series' end, it emerges that Sloane's ultimate goal is that of immortality, for which he sacrifices Nadia's life. However, he is trapped forever in Rambaldi's tomb by a critically wounded Jack, who sacrifices himself to avenge all the pain Sloane caused Sydney over the years. Sydney tracks Sark and the Horizon to Hong Kong, finding Irina. After a final battle between them, Irina plunges to her death.

The series ends with a flash forward to several years in the future. Sydney and Vaughn are semi-retired and married, with a second child named Jack in honor of Sydney's father. Daughter Isabelle exhibits the same ability to complete the CIA test that marked Sydney's inborn skills to be an ideal agent at that age. If the series had gone on for a sixth season, Jennifer Garner would have left, leaving the door open to Rachel Gibson to replace Syd.

Alias: The Video Game
Main article: Alias (video game)
The video game Alias, based on the series, is a 3D third-person stealth action title developed and released by Acclaim Entertainment for the PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The plot was written by the creators of the show and the game features the voices of the cast principals. It was released on April 6, 2004, and has a rating of T for Teen. The game is set between episodes 19 and 20 of season 2.

Prior to the Acclaim release, ABC Television produced an episodic downloadable videogame entitled Alias: Underground which is available through ABC's website. The game was a 3D third-person stealth action game much like the Acclaim production, with missions released monthly during the original broadcast of the TV show's second season.

Original novels
A number of original novels based upon the series have been published, primarily for a teenage reading audience. Due to the intricate and story arc-based nature of the series, most novels published to date have been prequels to the series, some focusing on Sydney in her early missions for SD-6, and others focusing on Vaughn's missions before meeting her. Their canon status with regards to the televised series has yet to be determined. Although aimed at young readers, the books tackle serious subject matter, such as one volume which details the first time Sydney kills someone.


Book cover for "A Secret Life"Recruited - Lynn Mason (2002) ISBN 0-553-49398-1
A Secret Life - Laura Peyton Roberts (2003) ISBN 0-553-49399-X
Disappeared - Lynn Mason (2003) ISBN 0-553-49400-7
Sister Spy - Laura Peyton Roberts (2003) ISBN 0-553-49401-5
The Pursuit - Elizabeth Skurnick (2003) ISBN 0-553-49402-3
Close Quarters - Emma Harrison (2003) ISBN 0-553-49403-1
Father Figure - Laura Peyton Roberts (2003) ISBN 0-553-49404-X
Free Fall - Christa Roberts (2004) ISBN 0-553-49405-8
Infiltration - Breen Frazier (2004) ISBN 0-553-49437-6
Vanishing Act - Sean Gerace (2004) ISBN 0-553-49438-4
Skin Deep - Cathy Hapka (2004) ISBN 0-553-49439-2
Shadowed - Elizabeth Skurnick (2004) ISBN 0-553-49440-6
A new series of novels are in publication. Entitled "The APO Series", they fit into the season four timeframe and are published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment.

Genre Spy-fi - Drama - Action
Created by J. J. Abrams
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 105
(+1 animated short)
Production
Running time approx. 42 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 30, 2001 – May 22, 2006

-Note:All information taken from Wikipedia