Alias character
Jack Bristow
Gender	Male
Affiliation(s)	SD-6 CIA APO
Held ranks	SD-6 senior partner CIA senior officer Director of APO
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Victor Garber

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Bio

Jack Bristow, a longtime agent of the CIA and former double agent with SD6, is often emotionally distant and can be among the show's coldest and most brutal characters. However, his character's defining trait is his devotion to the safety of his daughter, Sydney. He is highly protective of her and is willing to do anything -- torture, kill, even betray his country -- to ensure her well-being. His relationship with his daughter has always been problematic, although it has warmed and matured into greater understanding as the show has unfolded.

Prior to the events of the series, Jack fathered Sydney with Irina Derevko, a long-term KGB spy who married Jack to get close to the CIA and took the name Laura Bristow. Once it was realized that Irina was a double agent, she disappeared, leaving Jack to raise Sydney alone. However, as an agent of the CIA, then later as a double agent within SD-6 working for the CIA, Jack was often an absentee father. As Sydney went to college, Arvin Sloane recruited Sydney into SD-6 against Jack's wishes. Irina Derevko (a. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... The Alliance of Twelve is a fictional terrorist organization in the television series Alias. ...

Eventually, Sydney realizes that she is in the same position as her father - the only two double agents inside SD-6 and they learn to work together to bring down the organization. When Irina Derevko makes her reappearance in Season 2, Jack must also deal with his unresolved feelings of love and bitterness towards her while continuing to perform his job at SD-6 and the CIA. With SD-6's destruction, Jack found himself finally able to grow closer to his daughter.

As discovered in season 2, Jack submitted Sydney to Project Christmas, a project that trained and hardwired potential spies. Sydney initially believed that this programming had taken away her choices in life, but in Season 3 learned that it had, in fact, protected her autonomy and made her immune to brainwashing by the Covenant. During Season 3, Jack acted as a far more supportive father figure to Sydney, in response to her depression and emotional isolation during that season.

However, at the start of Season 4, it is revealed that Jack, having learned that Irina had hired a hit man to kill Sydney, killed Irina. This action causes yet another rift to form between him and his daughter, a rift aggravated when both agents are recruited by Arvin Sloane into the new CIA black ops agency, Authorized Personnel Only (APO). By the second half of the season, this rift has begun to heal. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Authorized Personnel Only (APO), is a fictional black-ops branch of the CIA in the American TV series Alias. ...

Jack Bristow contracted radiation poisoning during the events of the fourth season episode "Nightingale" when he entered a radioactive area in order to save Sydney's life during a mission. He initially kept his condition a secret from his APO colleagues except for Marshall (although Marshall later revealed it to Sydney). Bristow was seen consulting with a doctor who told him the condition was terminal. Not accepting this verdict, Jack subsequently began a painful regimen of blood filtering treatments in order to delay the inevitable, and appeared to be experiencing memory loss related to medication; he was also puzzled by the appearance of a mysterious implant in his hand, which his doctor said was designed to regulate the anti-radiation medication. Radiation poisoning, also called radiation sickness, is a form of damage to organic tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. ... Radioactivity may mean: Look up radioactivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

It was subsequently revealed that this doctor, and in fact Jack's entire treatment regimen, were hallucinations, and that Jack, his mind affected by the radiation, had been injecting himself with a poison. Further investigation by APO revealed that the hallucinated doctor actually existed; he was a scientist who had developed an experimental treatment for radiation sickness. In the early 1980s, Jack had helped the man escape to Scandinavia. Sydney and her colleagues stage an elaborate deception in order to get Jack to reveal the doctor's whereabouts; the man is located and began a genuine treatment regimen for Jack, which was presumably successful as the radiation sickness was no longer an issue by the end of the fourth season. During the deception, Sydney learned that her father had planned to leave the CIA in order to be a better parent to her and would have done so if her mother had not been revealed as a KGB agent. This did much to assuage Sydney's longstanding concerns about her importance in her father's life. An hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. ...

The fourth season finale saw Jack learn that he had not, in fact, killed Irina, but had shot a genetically engineered imposter. He was subsequently reunited with Irina, who chastised him for being so quick to rush to judgment about her, yet also said that she understood why he had acted to protect Sydney. Husband and wife parted with a kiss.

In Season 5, Sydney is expecting her first child. In the absence of Michael Vaughn, the child's father, Jack attends doctor's visits with Sydney and helps her to assemble a crib for his grandchild's nursery. However, he is distracted by the presence of Arvin Sloane within APO, a presence he (as the new director of the black ops unit) has authorized; Sloane's behavior appears dishonest, and although Sloane has admitted some of his lies, Jack remains on his guard.

As Season Five has progressed, Jack's daughter, Sydney, has given birth to a beautiful little girl named Isabelle.

Jack Bristow died in the line of duty, to prevent Arvin Sloane (who had apparently become immortal) from escaping the tomb of Milo Rambaldi. In Jack's memory, Sydney will name her second child Jack. This article is about a character from the television show Alias. ... Milo Giacomo Rambaldi is a fictional character from the TV series Alias. ...

Trivia

• Jack Bristow, like Michael Vaughn, is left-handed.
• Although it was not mentioned on screen, according to background information provided in the official Alias magazine, Jack Bristow is originally from Canada (reflecting the fact that actor Victor Garber is Canadian).
• Jack is widely referred to as "Spy Daddy" by the Alias fandom, and consistently ranks as one of the most popular characters. Victor Garber has thrice been nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jack, and fans voted the relationship between Sydney and Jack the best non-romantic relationship on the show in the 2005 AllAlias.com Fans' Choice Awards. [1]
• Jack Bristow is one of the few game theorists in popular culture.

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External links

• ABC: Jack Bristow Profile
• Listing of Jack Bristow's missions