Alias season premier

Well after waiting to see another year of 24 and Alias they're finally back.

Alias Season 3 left us on a terrific cliff hanger.

Syd and Lauren fight. Lauren says that Syd still doesn't know the truth about her life. Lauren is about to finish Syd off when Vaughn shoots Lauren dead. Before she dies, Lauren tells Syd that the truth is in box 1062 in the Bank of Wittenberg. Syd and Vaughn kiss.

In Wittenberg, Syd opens the safe deposit box and finds top secret documents. She cries as she peruses files documenting her life, each one bearing Jack Bristow's signature. Jack enters and says she was never supposed to have found these

Tada! Season 4

Sydney returns to Washington after a failed mission, has a fall out with her boss, Director Chase and quits the CIA.

She proceeds to a secret location underneath the Washington subway system where she discovers her new life in a unit run by Sloan called APO. Director Chase is there and welcomes her. She explains Langley approved this black ops division only months ago. Dixon, Jack, Vaughn are all there - a team handpicked by Sloane.

Sloane explains that their covert unit is like the CIA's own SD-6, called APO - Authorized Personnel Only. Their first mission targets Russian scientist Yuri Kamarov, who wants to sell an isotope to an unknown buyer on a Belorussian train.

Review--
The season premier lacked surprise. After such an impressive finish in Season 3, Authorized Personnel Only (Episode 1-2) just like the name, failed to push beyond the comfort of its' boundaries. The name of the outfit was as lame as the plot. APO just sounds like a strip club not a rogue arm of the CIA. The familiar long sequences of Sydney struting her stuff, and wearing barely anything, walking into her next mission replaces a good storyline. Her and Vaughn hit the sheets right of the bat killing any tension they built up over the proceeding two seasons. And Nadia, Sydney's sister (and Sloan's daughter), joins APO as an agent making the plot even more ridiculous.

Rating: 5/10