Marshall Flinkman - Mission Recap (Part 2)
Like alias_jems, I'd like to apologize about the lateness, but here it is -- part two of Marshall's missions, covering the last ten episodes of the series. Enjoy :)
MARSHALL'S MISSION PROFILE (Part Two)
5x08 "BOB"
Mission # 1: To provide preliminary information regarding a prototype micropulse bomb.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Mission # 2: To decrypt Basarov's transmission.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Rachel sends Marshall Basarov's transmission for decryption, which reveals that the Prophet Five agent is due to meet Basarov in Spain.
Quote: (while playing Tetris) "Carrie, honey, listen...I'm into something really huge right now, okay?"
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 3: To monitor Jack's meet in Malaga, Spain.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sydney; Tom; Dixon; Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: APO matching laptops.
Details: The APO gang surveys Jack's meet in Malaga, during which Jack is ambushed.
Mission # 4: To walk Rachel through disarming a micropulse bomb.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sydney.
Location: APO.
Details: Using comms, Rachel successfully guides Rachel while she disarms the bomb.
Outcome: Success.
5x09 "THE HORIZON"
Mission: To organize APO personnel files.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: While organizing the files of APO agents, Marshall comes across Tom's and discovers that he used to be married.
5x10 "S.O.S."
Mission # 1: To look into Sydney's transmission.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Marshall receives a distress call from Sydney, but this is soon interrupted. Marshall looks into this and is confused when he and Jack realize someone at Langley deleted the archive.
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 2: To access the back-up of Sydney's transmission on the Echelon server.
Agency: APO.
Alias: Mr. Gornish.
Callsign: Merlin.
Accompanied by: Dixon; Tom; Rachel; Weiss.
Location: CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia.
Details: Knowing there is a mole inside the CIA, Jack sends the APO team undercover into Langley to recover Sydney's transmission. Marshall distracts the tour guide so Dixon could stage a fake anthrax attack and distract the guards. Rachel obtains the transmission but the system goes into lockdown, so Jack requests helps from Weiss to extract the APO agents. Weiss and Marshall head for Rachel's location and helps her evade the guards and escape.
Quote: "Oh, God! Maybe they found out I decoded the message...we should run!!!"
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 3: To monitor Jack's meet in Langley and help identify the CIA mole.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sloane; Dixon.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Marshall realizes someone with alpha-black clearance deleted Sydney's transmission and Jack decides to set up a meeting with Langley's top directors in order to obtain her location. During the meeting, Marshall makes Director Davenport's phone ring and Jack tortures forces him to reveal Sydney's location.
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 4: To identify the transport ship holding Sydney.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sloane; Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: With Rachel's help, MArshall identifies the coordinates of the transport ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.
Outcome: Success.
5x11 "MATERNAL INSTINCT"
Mission: To look into Sydney's intel without the CIA knowing.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: After the CIA orders the suspension of all Prophet Five investigations at APO, Jack has Marshall look into the Sydney obtained from Prophet Five, Leo 47 Norte, an old Alliance mission, and finds out that it was an operation in 1999 coordinated by Jean Bertrand.
Quote: "I love secret conspiracies. As long as I'm a co-conspirator."
Outcome: Success.
5x12 "THERE'S ONLY ONE SYDNEY BRISTOW"
Mission # 1: To provide op-tech and access as APO team surveys Anna Espinosa's meet with Yerik Semanko and saves Will Tippin.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Dixon, Tom, Rachel, Sydney
Location: A club in Moscow, Russia.
Equipment: Laptop. X-ray glasses.
Details: With Sydney's help Marshall hacks into the system, allowing Dixon, Tom, and Rachel to enter the exclusive club. They use Marshall's glasses to identify a man with a lot of cash, knowing this would be Semanko.
Outcome: Sucessful.
Mission # 2: To analyze Will Tippin.
Agency: CIA/APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Eh?
Details: After Will is rescued, CIA agents realize there is something wrong with him. Marshall analyzes Will to find out his brain has been converted into a ticking human bomb and that surgery isn't an option. Marshall reveals that the bomb can be deactivated only if Will comes within range of the detonator. When they receive a call from Anna Espinosa, Sydney and Will leave to track her.
Outcome: Successful.
5x13 "30 SECONDS"
Mission # 1: To investigate leads on Anna Espinosa.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: L'eau de Passion.
Details: When Marshall realizes Anna has been routing her calls through a call center in Jaipur, he provides Sydney with a bottle of "L'eau de Passion" to place within five feet of a Wi-Fi access point so they can listen to Anna's calls.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To identify the location of Anna Espinosa.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Laptop. The Bug.
Details: When they get a hit on the bug they'd placed, Marshall and Rachel intercept the call to hear Peyton talking to a man speaking in French. Rachel gets a satellite feed of the man and discovers he is holding Page 47, while Marshall discovers Peyton is in Barcelona but is unable to identify the exact location as Peyton hangs up.
Outcome: Succesful...sort of.
[No picture.]
Mission # 3: To assist in the plan to test Sloane's loyalty.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack. Dixon.
Location: APO.
Details: Marshall himself is not shown, but it is Jack who reveals that Marshall has been assigned to report Sloane if the latter approaches him for details regarding the decoded Page 47 message.
Outcome: Failed. Nadia discovers that Sloane has betrayed APO and the CIA already.
Mission # 4: To demonstrate his plan to apprehend SydAnna to Jack.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Mitchell's toy cars and knickknacks.
Details: Marshall's antics in this scene are hilarious even if he annoys the poker-faced Jack :)
Outcome: Failed.
5x14 "I SEE DEAD PEOPLE"
Mission # 1: To obtain information regarding the chip found inside Renee Rienne.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack. Tom.
Location: Marshall's station.
Equipment: Microscope.
Details: After careful scrutiny, Marshall reveals that the chip is more than thirty years old and contains 100 kilobytes of encoded data, which seemed to be corrupted. Tom points out markings on the chip and Marshall places it under the microscope to find Vaughn's real name, André Michaux, etched on the surface.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To (accidentally) discover a bug within APO and inform Jack about it.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Details: While ordering stuff for Mitchell on the line, Marshall notices a lot of static. He rushes off to Jack and informs Jack about a bug planted in APO's phone lines, and he and Jack head off to the parking lot. Marshall tells Jack that Sloane must have planted the bug and Jack worriedly says they should inform Sydney right away.
Quote: "We're out of coffee!"
Outcome: Successful.
5x15 "NO HARD FEELINGS"
Mission # 1: To track Sydney using a device planted on the chip from Renee Rienne.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by:
Location: APO.
Equipment:
Details: Marshall locates Sydney in Tiergartenstrasse using the chip, but Peyton soon destroys the chip and Vaughn has Marshall patch into the traffic feed and control the traffic lights as he races after Sydney in order to hand over a new tracker.
Quote: "You know, I cried at your funeral."
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To look into Tom's suspicious activities.
Agency: APO.
Details: Marshall invesitgates files concerning Tom and realizes that Tom was lying about his encounter with the man who killed his wife, Alan Korman. He informs Rachel about his findings, and Rachel tells him she'll talk to Tom.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 3: To monitor Sydney and Sark as they enter a maximum-security prison.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment:
Details: Marshall fails to access the prison's high-security network, but Dixon is able to provide APO with visual surveillance. Using Dixon's splicing handiwork, Marshall accesses the triggers the alarm in the prison, and in doing so he prevents Sloane from strangling Sydney.
Outcome: Successful.
5x16 "REPRISAL"
Mission # 1: To take part in APO's plan to obtain photo surveillance of Prophet Five's leaders.
Agency: APO.
Location: Steam room in Bangkok, Thailand.
Equipment: Camera watch.
Details: Marshall sits alone in the steam room explaining to the men there that he had a shirt on because he had a bad skin condition. When Prophet Five's guy enters, Marshall takes a picture of him then leaves.
Quote: "Hoo! Time flies in the old steam room. Has it really been six minutes? Feels like...two."
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To create a program to track the movements of the leaders of Prophet Five.
Agency: APO.
Details: Jack has Marshall create the program, but Marshall tells him it'd take a lifetime. Jack gives him a Look and Marshall tells Jack he'll get right on it.
Outcome: Successful, but Marshall is unable to hand it over to the CIA and it is Carrie who later accesses the program in order to locate him and Rachel.
Mission # 3: To locate the Rambaldi cavern for Sloane while sending his and Rachel's location to APO in secret.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel.
Location: Some dark room, later discovered to be in Mexico.
Equipment: Laptop.
Details: Sloane and Sark torture Marshall and Rachel into helping them locate Rambaldi's cavern. Sloane gets Sydney on the phone in order to convince Marshall. Marshall decides to play along in order to alert APO to their location, and before hanging up Marshall is able to pass on a message for Carrie about reading Littlest Fish to Mitchell. With Rachel's help Marshall triggers the security protocols for the website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration while searching for Sloane's data, and Sloane realizes the cavern is in Mt. Subasio. After gaining the information, Sloane has his big henchman kill Marshall and Rachel, and Rachel does some kick-ass beatin' up and gets her and Marshall free.
Quote: "That was the coolest thing I've ever seen! That was, like, Empire Strikes Back cool!"
Outcome: Successful.
5x17 "ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD"
Mission # 1: To assist in tracking Sloane and his partners by following the money trail left by weapons bought off the black market.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Equipment: Laptop.
Details: Using this information, along with phone records obtained by Rachel and Dixon, APO tracks and apprehends Kelly Peyton.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To hack into the NRO global surveillance system and abort the impending missile strike.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel; Dixon.
Location: Some warehouse somewhere.
Equipment: His laptop to the very end!
Details: Marshall and Rachel hack into the system and discover that the US defense system has been compromised by a virus from Hong Kong (uploaded by Irina Derevko). They realize there is a missile strike aimed towards Washington and London. After torturing Sark, Vaughn obtains the codes needed to stop the missile strike, and Marshall enters the codes and aborts the launch with five seconds to spare.
Outcome: Successful.
MARSHALL'S MISSION PROFILE (Part Two)
5x08 "BOB"
Mission # 1: To provide preliminary information regarding a prototype micropulse bomb.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Mission # 2: To decrypt Basarov's transmission.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Rachel sends Marshall Basarov's transmission for decryption, which reveals that the Prophet Five agent is due to meet Basarov in Spain.
Quote: (while playing Tetris) "Carrie, honey, listen...I'm into something really huge right now, okay?"
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 3: To monitor Jack's meet in Malaga, Spain.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sydney; Tom; Dixon; Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: APO matching laptops.
Details: The APO gang surveys Jack's meet in Malaga, during which Jack is ambushed.
Mission # 4: To walk Rachel through disarming a micropulse bomb.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sydney.
Location: APO.
Details: Using comms, Rachel successfully guides Rachel while she disarms the bomb.
Outcome: Success.
5x09 "THE HORIZON"
Mission: To organize APO personnel files.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: While organizing the files of APO agents, Marshall comes across Tom's and discovers that he used to be married.
5x10 "S.O.S."
Mission # 1: To look into Sydney's transmission.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Marshall receives a distress call from Sydney, but this is soon interrupted. Marshall looks into this and is confused when he and Jack realize someone at Langley deleted the archive.
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 2: To access the back-up of Sydney's transmission on the Echelon server.
Agency: APO.
Alias: Mr. Gornish.
Callsign: Merlin.
Accompanied by: Dixon; Tom; Rachel; Weiss.
Location: CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia.
Details: Knowing there is a mole inside the CIA, Jack sends the APO team undercover into Langley to recover Sydney's transmission. Marshall distracts the tour guide so Dixon could stage a fake anthrax attack and distract the guards. Rachel obtains the transmission but the system goes into lockdown, so Jack requests helps from Weiss to extract the APO agents. Weiss and Marshall head for Rachel's location and helps her evade the guards and escape.
Quote: "Oh, God! Maybe they found out I decoded the message...we should run!!!"
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 3: To monitor Jack's meet in Langley and help identify the CIA mole.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sloane; Dixon.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: Marshall realizes someone with alpha-black clearance deleted Sydney's transmission and Jack decides to set up a meeting with Langley's top directors in order to obtain her location. During the meeting, Marshall makes Director Davenport's phone ring and Jack tortures forces him to reveal Sydney's location.
Outcome: Success.
Mission # 4: To identify the transport ship holding Sydney.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Sloane; Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: With Rachel's help, MArshall identifies the coordinates of the transport ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.
Outcome: Success.
5x11 "MATERNAL INSTINCT"
Mission: To look into Sydney's intel without the CIA knowing.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Location: APO.
Equipment: His computer.
Details: After the CIA orders the suspension of all Prophet Five investigations at APO, Jack has Marshall look into the Sydney obtained from Prophet Five, Leo 47 Norte, an old Alliance mission, and finds out that it was an operation in 1999 coordinated by Jean Bertrand.
Quote: "I love secret conspiracies. As long as I'm a co-conspirator."
Outcome: Success.
5x12 "THERE'S ONLY ONE SYDNEY BRISTOW"
Mission # 1: To provide op-tech and access as APO team surveys Anna Espinosa's meet with Yerik Semanko and saves Will Tippin.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Dixon, Tom, Rachel, Sydney
Location: A club in Moscow, Russia.
Equipment: Laptop. X-ray glasses.
Details: With Sydney's help Marshall hacks into the system, allowing Dixon, Tom, and Rachel to enter the exclusive club. They use Marshall's glasses to identify a man with a lot of cash, knowing this would be Semanko.
Outcome: Sucessful.
Mission # 2: To analyze Will Tippin.
Agency: CIA/APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Eh?
Details: After Will is rescued, CIA agents realize there is something wrong with him. Marshall analyzes Will to find out his brain has been converted into a ticking human bomb and that surgery isn't an option. Marshall reveals that the bomb can be deactivated only if Will comes within range of the detonator. When they receive a call from Anna Espinosa, Sydney and Will leave to track her.
Outcome: Successful.
5x13 "30 SECONDS"
Mission # 1: To investigate leads on Anna Espinosa.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: L'eau de Passion.
Details: When Marshall realizes Anna has been routing her calls through a call center in Jaipur, he provides Sydney with a bottle of "L'eau de Passion" to place within five feet of a Wi-Fi access point so they can listen to Anna's calls.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To identify the location of Anna Espinosa.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Laptop. The Bug.
Details: When they get a hit on the bug they'd placed, Marshall and Rachel intercept the call to hear Peyton talking to a man speaking in French. Rachel gets a satellite feed of the man and discovers he is holding Page 47, while Marshall discovers Peyton is in Barcelona but is unable to identify the exact location as Peyton hangs up.
Outcome: Succesful...sort of.
[No picture.]
Mission # 3: To assist in the plan to test Sloane's loyalty.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack. Dixon.
Location: APO.
Details: Marshall himself is not shown, but it is Jack who reveals that Marshall has been assigned to report Sloane if the latter approaches him for details regarding the decoded Page 47 message.
Outcome: Failed. Nadia discovers that Sloane has betrayed APO and the CIA already.
Mission # 4: To demonstrate his plan to apprehend SydAnna to Jack.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment: Mitchell's toy cars and knickknacks.
Details: Marshall's antics in this scene are hilarious even if he annoys the poker-faced Jack :)
Outcome: Failed.
5x14 "I SEE DEAD PEOPLE"
Mission # 1: To obtain information regarding the chip found inside Renee Rienne.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack. Tom.
Location: Marshall's station.
Equipment: Microscope.
Details: After careful scrutiny, Marshall reveals that the chip is more than thirty years old and contains 100 kilobytes of encoded data, which seemed to be corrupted. Tom points out markings on the chip and Marshall places it under the microscope to find Vaughn's real name, André Michaux, etched on the surface.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To (accidentally) discover a bug within APO and inform Jack about it.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Details: While ordering stuff for Mitchell on the line, Marshall notices a lot of static. He rushes off to Jack and informs Jack about a bug planted in APO's phone lines, and he and Jack head off to the parking lot. Marshall tells Jack that Sloane must have planted the bug and Jack worriedly says they should inform Sydney right away.
Quote: "We're out of coffee!"
Outcome: Successful.
5x15 "NO HARD FEELINGS"
Mission # 1: To track Sydney using a device planted on the chip from Renee Rienne.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by:
Location: APO.
Equipment:
Details: Marshall locates Sydney in Tiergartenstrasse using the chip, but Peyton soon destroys the chip and Vaughn has Marshall patch into the traffic feed and control the traffic lights as he races after Sydney in order to hand over a new tracker.
Quote: "You know, I cried at your funeral."
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To look into Tom's suspicious activities.
Agency: APO.
Details: Marshall invesitgates files concerning Tom and realizes that Tom was lying about his encounter with the man who killed his wife, Alan Korman. He informs Rachel about his findings, and Rachel tells him she'll talk to Tom.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 3: To monitor Sydney and Sark as they enter a maximum-security prison.
Agency: APO.
Location: APO.
Equipment:
Details: Marshall fails to access the prison's high-security network, but Dixon is able to provide APO with visual surveillance. Using Dixon's splicing handiwork, Marshall accesses the triggers the alarm in the prison, and in doing so he prevents Sloane from strangling Sydney.
Outcome: Successful.
5x16 "REPRISAL"
Mission # 1: To take part in APO's plan to obtain photo surveillance of Prophet Five's leaders.
Agency: APO.
Location: Steam room in Bangkok, Thailand.
Equipment: Camera watch.
Details: Marshall sits alone in the steam room explaining to the men there that he had a shirt on because he had a bad skin condition. When Prophet Five's guy enters, Marshall takes a picture of him then leaves.
Quote: "Hoo! Time flies in the old steam room. Has it really been six minutes? Feels like...two."
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To create a program to track the movements of the leaders of Prophet Five.
Agency: APO.
Details: Jack has Marshall create the program, but Marshall tells him it'd take a lifetime. Jack gives him a Look and Marshall tells Jack he'll get right on it.
Outcome: Successful, but Marshall is unable to hand it over to the CIA and it is Carrie who later accesses the program in order to locate him and Rachel.
Mission # 3: To locate the Rambaldi cavern for Sloane while sending his and Rachel's location to APO in secret.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel.
Location: Some dark room, later discovered to be in Mexico.
Equipment: Laptop.
Details: Sloane and Sark torture Marshall and Rachel into helping them locate Rambaldi's cavern. Sloane gets Sydney on the phone in order to convince Marshall. Marshall decides to play along in order to alert APO to their location, and before hanging up Marshall is able to pass on a message for Carrie about reading Littlest Fish to Mitchell. With Rachel's help Marshall triggers the security protocols for the website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration while searching for Sloane's data, and Sloane realizes the cavern is in Mt. Subasio. After gaining the information, Sloane has his big henchman kill Marshall and Rachel, and Rachel does some kick-ass beatin' up and gets her and Marshall free.
Quote: "That was the coolest thing I've ever seen! That was, like, Empire Strikes Back cool!"
Outcome: Successful.
5x17 "ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD"
Mission # 1: To assist in tracking Sloane and his partners by following the money trail left by weapons bought off the black market.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Jack.
Equipment: Laptop.
Details: Using this information, along with phone records obtained by Rachel and Dixon, APO tracks and apprehends Kelly Peyton.
Outcome: Successful.
Mission # 2: To hack into the NRO global surveillance system and abort the impending missile strike.
Agency: APO.
Accompanied by: Rachel; Dixon.
Location: Some warehouse somewhere.
Equipment: His laptop to the very end!
Details: Marshall and Rachel hack into the system and discover that the US defense system has been compromised by a virus from Hong Kong (uploaded by Irina Derevko). They realize there is a missile strike aimed towards Washington and London. After torturing Sark, Vaughn obtains the codes needed to stop the missile strike, and Marshall enters the codes and aborts the launch with five seconds to spare.
Outcome: Successful.