Animated Alias: Tribunal
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Animated Alias: Tribunal is an American animated short film produced in 2003 for the DVD release of the third season of the espionage series Alias.
Jennifer Garner reprises her television role of CIA agent Sydney Bristow in this story that takes place between the second and third seasons of the live-action series. It is considered a "missing adventure" during a period Sydney later erases from her memory in which she works undercover as an assassin named "Julia Thorne."
Despite how it was promoted in the teaser, the episode does not reveal anything about Sydney's missing time. It's merely a mission she undertook, and contains no background, or much information (not even about the mission portrayed).
The events of this short are considered canonical with the live-action Alias series.
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[edit] Summary
The short opens with live-action footage from the season 3 episode Full Disclosure. Sydney has escaped from The Covenant and she meets with FBI Assistant Director Kendall. He convinces her to remain undercover as Julia Thorne.
The short switches to animation. Rudolph Gaborno is shackled to a chair, being interrogated on video about a mysterious woman (Julia/Sydney). Gaborno tells how he was tasked to protect an artifact in Ibiza. He has the artifact at a night club and in typical Alias fashion, "Julia" infiltrates the club and seizes the artifact, a key. She advises Gaborno to remain silent about her, otherwise she'll come back for him. Gaborno reveals that the woman actually stole a fake key and that he still has the real one. The tribunal adjourns to discuss his fate. While they're out, "Julia" breaks in and steals the real key. She also destroys the video camera that's recording the tribunal, despite Gaborno's protest that doing so will make the tribunal believe he's working with her. His fate is not known, though Gaborno suggests that without the evidence of his innocence, the tribunal will kill him.
The key may be a Rambaldi artifact, one of a dozen keys that Sydney and Andrian Lazarey use in the episode Full Disclosure to access a vault to obtain yet another Rambaldi artifact.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Cast
- Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow / Julia Thorne (voice)
- Terry O'Quinn as FBI Assistant Director Kendall
- Steve Kramer as Rudolph Gaborno
- Frank De León as Lucian Cezar
[edit] Crew
- Directed by David Lipson
- Written by Breen Frazier
- Executive Producers J.J. Abrams and Jesse Alexander
- Produced by Breen Frazier and David Lipson
- Animation by Noodlesoup Productions, Inc.
