Wha!?
Why would Lauren sacrifice herself herself for Sydney? I think she would take great pleasure in killing Sydney herself. And Vaughn? She clearly wants him dead.
What I can't figure out is how Sloan factors in to any of this. The only thing we know is that he doesn't want any harm to come to Sydney. But, he is still obsessed with Rembaldi (however it's spelled), and that explains why he was causing problems with Irina, who is also obsessed with his work. There is a much larger picture going on here.
And didn't Jack, or someone, come across evidence that Irina somehow knew, or came into contact with Sydney while she was Julia? I doubt Sydney told Kendall everything. And I'm sure she doesn't remember this, because Kendall couldn't brief her on it.
I guess the real question is who is behind the Covenant? Is it Irina? Is it actually Sloan? Has it been Sloan all along? Was he pretending to have the his Covenant come after him, demanding his cooperation so that he would have a legitimate reason to interact with them?
If this is the case, then I can see Lauren sacrificing herself for Sloan, b/c I think she knows what's going on.
As for the possibility of Sark being Irina's son, do we know how old he is? Is he enough years younger than Sydney for this to work?
Or, is he perhaps Katya's son? Just playing with the "everyone's related angle."
Oh, one more very BIG thing: The name on the artifact makes sense.
Remember back in season 1, when the government was going to lock Sydney away b/c the prophesy lead them to believe that she was a threat? And remember how it said that if the woman who has those marks, etc., were to see the beauty of the sunrise atop that mountain, then she would not be the one the prophesy was referring to? And remember how that lead Sydney to believe that her mother could have pulled off what she did under water, and how she could be alive, and how the prophesy was probably referring to her?
And, in this season, it was revealed that Rembaldi saved his DNA to be used with the woman in the prophesy to give birth to a son. But, Sydney can't be that woman. And everyone who knows this seems to have become distracted by the harvesting of Sydney's eggs.
So, I think that's why Irina's name is on the box.
There is something else we are missing. Does anyone remember exactly what was Sloan was told as to why he was the one destined to find Rembaldi's work? And why he became obessesed with it? And all that? What exactly was said at that time, by him, and by the man who put him on that path?
I know we are missing something, and I think the pieces we need are lost somewhere in the details.
