Season 2 opens with Sydney finding herself face-to-face with her long-lost mother, Irina Derevko, whose intentions for her daughter are made chillingly clear. However, Sydney manages to escape and rejoin Jack and Will in their escape from Taiwan.
The Counteragent isn't among the best episodes of the show, and it is at times still too disparate, but it begins to provide a road map this season was starting to need.
