This doesn't seem like a pure repetition of the story line. However, the season has already become very predictable. Sloane will do anything for his daughter, so he made a deal. But why did they need Sloane? Easy. Rimbaldi. So, Sloane will appear to be working for the bad guys. However, in reality, he will be Jack's inside man, and the key to turning this whole thing around. This time, however, he'll probably die by the end of the season, because if Sydney is leaving the show, there is no point in keeping Sloane around. Rachel will continue to learn how to be a field agent, but it's not like when Sydney learned how to do it. Sydney wanted to be in the field. Rachel never had the stomach for it. She has been forced into it because it is the only way she can protect herself. There is good chemistry betweeen Syd and the new agents, and Dixon fills out the team in his usual suave manner.

My predictions for the end of the season:

Sloane dies, Nadia returns, Syd walks off into the sunset with the baby and Will, the new agents take over under Jack, Dixon sticks around. The new team for next year, if they continue, will be Nadia, Rachel, Dixon, and the new guy who's name still escapes me. Oh, and Jack. It might not be a bad show if they can figure out some new conspiracy to carry it for another few years. Something other than this one, which looks to be tied to another Rimbaldi cult.

<sub>Will Eisner's last work - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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