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.
Alias may never get quite as existential & disturbing, in terms of the wider world view and the underbelly of geopolitical terror about a fast-changing world than here.