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And yet another thought about Arvin Sloane: he's an effective leader. I'd be tempted to say, "organizational genius," in fact. In the very first episode, Jack tells Sydney that the Alliance was formed "about ten years ago"; Sydney was recruited to SD-6 seven years ago. Which means that in three years, or even less if he wasn't one of the founding members of the Alliance, Sloane built an organization which could deceive some very intelligent people. Most of the original recruiting must have been done personally, by him, which also indicates that he's very good at spotting talent and putting it to use.
If this time-scale is correct, it also indicates that Sloane's interest in Rambaldi pre-dates his departure from the CIA. I think I had assumed that in any case, but I wonder if it was his interest in Rambaldi which brought him into contact with the Alliance; the fact that he's not on the "inner council" indicates to me that Sloane wasn't a founding member of the Alliance.
This may all be blindingly obvious to everyone but me.
If this time-scale is correct, it also indicates that Sloane's interest in Rambaldi pre-dates his departure from the CIA. I think I had assumed that in any case, but I wonder if it was his interest in Rambaldi which brought him into contact with the Alliance; the fact that he's not on the "inner council" indicates to me that Sloane wasn't a founding member of the Alliance.
This may all be blindingly obvious to everyone but me.
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Too late. For me, anyway. Here's one more snippet, from "A Free Agent":
SLOANE: Mr. Caplan, my name is Arvin Sloane.
MR. CAPLAN: Where's my family?
SLOANE: They're alive. And if you cooperate, you'll be reunited soon enough.
MR. CAPLAN: Where am I?
SLOANE: Years ago, I was with the army corps of engineering. They wanted me to study this.
(He opens a leather satchel.)
SLOANE: That manuscript is 500-years-old. Those sketches were drawn by a man named Milo Rambaldi. You will see that Rambaldi prophesied scientific principles centuries ahead of his time. Protoypes of his designs have turned up all over the world. For the past thirty years, I've been collecting them.
MR. CAPLAN: I don't understand. Why do you want me? I'm nobody.
SLOANE: You're going to help me put them together because, you see, Mr. Caplan, I know that you feel like you're only a hostage right now. But I assume you became a scientist to discover what secrets the universe has to offer. Believe me, when we're done here, you'll be thanking me for giving you the answer. So why don't you go ahead and take a look?
So if Sloane isn't lying, and if he means Army Corps of Engineers, then it seems that he came upon Rambaldi *before* he joined the CIA? Which suggests that the US government is involved. And where the US is, there's the Soviet Union, right?
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So it sounds like Sloane was with the corps of engineers in... let's see, roughly 1970, maybe a little earlier. Interesting. He's given the Rambaldi material to study and figures out what's going on, becomes fascinated by it. I wonder if his superiors expected either of those things to happen. I wonder if he was hand-picked to study this material by someone who saw and recognized tha kind of potential he had, or if the Army had just happened upon the document and it was sheer luck that Sloane ended up looking at it.
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That snippet was from "A Free Agent," in which Derevko and Sloane send Sark to kidnap the husband of a covert KGB operative, which husband has specialized knowledge of importance to the Rambaldi puzzle, or a piece of it.
That man just happens to be a covert operative of ... the NSA.
Uh?