Still crying over a fictional characters death from a movie you saw years ago?

Having trouble letting go of that one episode of your favorite series?

Grieving a gone-too-soon show?

Alias

Credit: ABC

Alias,as Buster Bluth knew, was a show about a spy.

If it seemed like the premise ofAliaskept simplifying, thats because it did.

A frantic Will whispered that Francie was the double.

Sydneys expression barely shifted.

Has there ever been a better line?

This line should have been the You know nothing, Jon Snow of the early millennium.

Its universal in its specificity.

It invokes ice cream and carries a whiff of talking about yourself in the third person.

It has never failed me.

The whip-quick twists came with a human cost; inversely, the everyday took on heightened significance.

With everything out in the open, Sydney looked up at Alt-Francie.

No, she doesnt, she replied.

Sydney kept Francie in present tense because Francie was her friend.

Sydney Bristow was defined by, sometimes exploited for, and ultimately successful because of her empathy.

Two years later, but thats another story.