Francine "Francie" Calfo is a fictional character, Sydney Bristow's close friend on the television series, Alias. She was portrayed by Merrin Dungey. Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ... Look up Female in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sydney Anne Bristow (born 17 April 1975), played by Jennifer Garner, is the main character on the television series Alias. ... Merrin Dungey as Francie Calfo on Alias Merrin Dungey, born August 6, 1971, Sacramento, California, is a film and television actress. ... Sydney Anne Bristow (born 17 April 1975), played by Jennifer Garner, is the main character on the television series Alias. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Alias is an American SpyFi television series, created by J. J. Abrams, and starring Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a CIA agent. ... Merrin Dungey as Francie Calfo on Alias Merrin Dungey, born August 6, 1971, Sacramento, California, is a film and television actress. ...

Biography

Francie was the best friend of Sydney Bristow, with the two being roommates for some time. During the early parts of the show, Sydney was tormented by having to keep her espionage lifestyle hidden from her closest friends, especially Francie. Francie would act as an occasional sounding board and confidante for some of Sydney's personal issues. Francie eventually decided to open a restaurant and then became romantically involved with her friend, Will Tippin. This article is about a character from the television show Alias. ...

Francie appeared in a brief flashback in the series finale, in which it was revealed that Sydney met Danny Hecht — the man who would become her fiancé and whose death would lead her to become a double agent — through Francie and her boyfriend.

Allison Georgia Doren

Midway through the second season, on orders from Arvin Sloane and Julian Sark, Francie was killed and replaced by a genetic doppelganger, Allison Doren, to use Francie's relationships with Sydney and Will to gather intelligence. Prior to the discovery of her name, this fake was unofficially named "Freplica" or "Francinator" by fans of the series.^{[citation needed]} Allison, who was Sark's lover, bugged Sydney's apartment, the bugs however where discovered forcing Allison to frame a deliveryman. Since the bugs at home was no longer an option she gave Michael Vaughn a tie claiming it was a spur of the moment decision and it reminded her of him but it was in fact an eavesdropping device. She used Will Tippin, Francies boyfriend and a CIA Analsyst to disrupt the CIA satellite survaillance by hypotysing him to get the location of the satellite and then to use is account to "switch off" the satellite tracking Arvin Sloane and Irina Derevko. On Sloane's orders, she murdered Marcus Dixon's wife to avenge Emily Sloane's death at the hands of Marcus Dixon. Arvin Sloane, played by Ron Rifkin, was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias. ... This article is about a character from the television show Alias. ... Project Helix is the name of a fictional technology in the TV series Alias. ... Michael C. Vaughn, played by Michael Vartan, is one of Sydney Bristows co-workers and ongoing love interest on the television series, Alias. ... This article is about a character from the television show Alias. ... Arvin Sloane, played by Ron Rifkin, was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias. ... Irina Derevko (also known as Laura Bristow and as The Man), is a fictional character on the television series Alias. ... Marcus R. Dixon is a fictional character portrayed by Carl Lumbly, is one of Sydney Bristows coworkers and the CIAs Director of Joint Task Force on the television series, Alias. ... Emily Sloane is a fictional character from the American television series Alias. ... Marcus R. Dixon is a fictional character portrayed by Carl Lumbly, is one of Sydney Bristows coworkers and the CIAs Director of Joint Task Force on the television series, Alias. ...

After the CIA traced the satellite disruption to Will they believed him to be a genetic doppelganger. To facilitate this Allison used hyposis to make Wills memories elusive so he couldn't prove himself. Whilst Will was transported the Sark tried to sell the illusion that he was disloyal by posing as Wills back-up. He was exonerated however when new evidence was found along with the name Allison Doren. Will recognised the name as a person that undertook the Project Christmas regime and was later presumed dead. Will brings his work home and whilst Will was in the bathroom Allison uses the opportunity to read his files. In it she finds a photograph of her aged 9. She then releases he needs to be eliminated. Whilst in the bathroom Will finds Provocillin pills in Allisons sponge bag whilst looking for aspirin, the pills being used to stop subjects of genetic experiments from rejecting the new DNA. Will therefore calls sydney and leaves an answer phone message saying he think Francie is the double. He then leaves the bathroom and Allison is gone and he sees the front door open, the goes to investigate and is surprised by Allison wrapping a wire around his throat. He fights her off but is no match in his fighting ability. Allison grabs a knife and after a struggle stabs him. Project Christmas was a fictional black ops project developed by the Central Intelligence Agency, and headed by Jack Bristow in the 1970s, which was intended to train children as sleeper agents to become future spies. ...

At the end of the second season, Will and Sydney both begin to suspect that Allison is a fake. Allison appears to kill Will (though it would later be revealed that he survived the attack), and then battles Sydney in vicious hand-to-hand combat before Sydney shoots her three times, apparently killing her.

However, she appears in series three when it transpires that the covenant saved her life by administering a formula designed by Milo Rambaldi. Dixon tells sydney that Allison Doran survived after the fire and that she is now working with the covenant. The following mission is to procure a man named Robert Lang. Allison tried to snipe him but Sydney pushed him out the way, allowing him to leave the room. Allison then pins Sydney down with a barrage of gunfire. Vaughn attempts to sneak up on Allison but she has disappeared by the time he gets there. Lang is in a elevator and Allison jumps from the floor above through the elevator roof, kills Lang and removes his tooth, which contains a device that opens a vault. Sydney cautiously approaches the elevator when it stops moving but Allison is gone and so is the tooth. Allison knocks Sydney unconcious and runs off. Milo Giacomo Rambaldi is a fictional person from the American television series Alias. ...

Sydney wondered why Allison didn't kill her and later finds out the covenant ordered its operatives to refrain from using lethal forces against her as they want to recover something from her memory. Dixon orders Sydney to kill Allison upon sight as revenge for the deaths of Francie Calfo and Diane Dixon.

Allison is track to a building where Sydney and Vaughn split up in order to find her. Allison holds Sydney at gunpoint and says that she will defy her orders and kill Sydney as Sydney would kill her. However, Sydney manages to disarm Allison and after a fight grabs the gun a shoots her. A pulse is found to the disappointment of Dixon. After 20 minutes they realise something is wrong as Allisons ambulance is ten minutes late arriving and the hospital. After driving along the route the ambulance took Sydney and Vaughn find the ambulance overturned with the guards dead and Allison missing. Vaughn is confused as any back-up would have been at the hotel meaning Allison killed the guards despite barely having a pulse 20 minutes ago. For this reason it is believed by many that the Rambaldi formula has long lasting healing capabilites.

A few episodes later Sydney is forced to pull Will out of witness protection to find a rambaldi device which Sark and Allison are close to acquiring. Sydney informs Will that Allison survived and Will claims he wants to kill her as revenge for the death of his girlfriend, Francie. Sydney and will find the device but before they can take it is is grabbed by sark from the back of the safe. Sydney and Will are in hot pursuit when Will says he'll go after Allison whilst Sydney gets the device. Sydney easily gets the device, but Allison is ready for Will. As will isn't trained to fight Allison easily gets the upper hand in the fight throwing Will around. Will however gets hold of a kitchen knife and runs towards Allison, she grabs his hand before he stabs her and they are fighting over control of the knife (in the same way Allison stabbed Will the last time they met). Will says with fury "this is for francie" and rams the knife into her chest. It is presumed she truly dies after this attack as there is no mention of her after that.

Trivia

The character shares a name with a onetime vice president in charge of drama series development at Touchstone Television [1], who currently serves as Executive Vice President for Development & Current Programs at ABC Entertainment. Alias is among the series the real-life Francie Calfo once oversaw in her earlier position. Touchstone Television is an television production company and is the television production arm of movie studio Touchstone Pictures. ...

Footnotes

External links

• ABC: Francie Calfo Profile