This was the Alias we have been missing. I think the reason is that they've had an ending of some sort planned out for some time, but they haven't been forced to execute until now. Now we're finally getting the endgame we've been waiting one season (season four was crap) too long for.

<sub>Will Eisner's last work - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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"Well, as it happens, I wrote the damned SOP," Illescue half snarled, "and as of now, you can bar those jackals from any part of this facility until Hell's a hockey rink! Is that perfectly clear?!" - Dr. Franz Illescue - Honor Harrington: At All Costs

"I don't know what I'm do, or how I do, I just do." - Alexander Ovechkin</sub>