Thanks for the rec! It's rather strongly inspired by your recent Sloane story, so you deserve the kudos.
As you may have seen, we were totally on the same page with this episode. Brilliant stuff, and completely owned by Ron Rifkin.
As for the immortality question, I think that the Ultimate Rambaldi Secret does involve the power to cheat/reverse/beat death, but perhaps that's only part of something greater. What's greater than that? Don't know yet.
And I agree that I want Sloane to be falling off the wagon, to have genuinely been dedicated to nothing more than Jack, Sydney, Nadia and redemption all this time. I think it's possible that he hired Cloane -- but long ago, i.e., in Season 2 as part of the whole "gaslighting" thing. He would've needed a double for the Alliance to go after, as he didn't know how long it would be before Syd and Jack brought down SD-6. So he hired this guy, gave him all the information he'd ever need to BE him, introduced him to Rambaldi -- and then realized too late he'd created a monster.
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As you may have seen, we were totally on the same page with this episode. Brilliant stuff, and completely owned by Ron Rifkin.
As for the immortality question, I think that the Ultimate Rambaldi Secret does involve the power to cheat/reverse/beat death, but perhaps that's only part of something greater. What's greater than that? Don't know yet.
And I agree that I want Sloane to be falling off the wagon, to have genuinely been dedicated to nothing more than Jack, Sydney, Nadia and redemption all this time. I think it's possible that he hired Cloane -- but long ago, i.e., in Season 2 as part of the whole "gaslighting" thing. He would've needed a double for the Alliance to go after, as he didn't know how long it would be before Syd and Jack brought down SD-6. So he hired this guy, gave him all the information he'd ever need to BE him, introduced him to Rambaldi -- and then realized too late he'd created a monster.