Release News - Alias Series 4 DVD Details

Buena Vista Home Entertainment will be releasing the Series 4 DVD boxset of Alias starring Jennifer Garner & Michael Vartan, on the 21st of November. The retail price is quoted as £49.99, here’s the full press release:

ALIAS SERIES 4

The most sensational series yet explodes onto six disc DVD box set from 21st November 2005
Fast-paced and breathtaking, Alias arrives onto DVD for a frenetic fourth series as America's sexiest secret agent Sydney Bristow returns for more thrilling deeds in daredevil, disguise and espionage. This sensational six-disc box set is packed full of heart-stopping twists with 22 thrilling episodes and over four hours of exclusive DVD extras including never before seen deleted scenes. Created by J. J. Abrams, the man behind the smash-hit TV phenomenon Lost and starring Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner (Daredevil, 13 going on 30, Elektra) as Sydney Bristow, the Emmy award-winning Alias Series 4 will have you on the edge of your seats when it comes to DVD from 21st November 2005.

Series 4 is the most action-packed yet, as the gripping plot lines twist and turn through a nerve-wracking spiral of deceit and deception. Working once again with her father Jack (Victor Garber) and former CIA partner Marcus Dixon (Carl Lumbly) for the special operations unit, Authorised Personnel Only, Sydney is thrust into a high speed world of danger and adventure that leads to dramatic showdowns with both old rivals and new foes. When her beautiful, newly found, manipulative half-sister Nadia (Mia Maestro) arrives back in her life she faces further emotional turmoil as she is forced to deal with devastating family secrets.

Sydney's true love Michael Vaughan (Michael Vartan) makes an impactful return in Series 4, but he is devastated following the death of his wife and Sydney struggles to comprehend their relationship. With former arch-enemy Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin) now her boss, and her closest friends hiding their own dark secrets, Sydney's world is spun upside down as Series 4 rushes towards its stunning climax. Series 4 also sees acclaimed British actress Kelly Macdonald (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Finding Neverland, Trainspotting) make a guest appearance as nurse Kyra Maclane and Hollywood icon Isabella Rossellini brings even more glamour to the series when she returns as Katya, Sydney's Russian Aunt.

Over four hours of exceptional DVD extras ensure that the excitement continues long after the series' sizzling end. An exclusive one-to-one interview with Jennifer Garner provides an exclusive insight into her Alias character whilst a special featurette gives you the opportunity to find out more about newcomer Mia Maestro. With an extended episode and thrilling never-before-seen deleted scenes, including the shocking Russian Roulette scene from the "Nocturne" episode, the Alias Series 4 six disc DVD box set is an exhilarating experience that no one can afford to miss.

Production information:

Release date: 21st November 2005
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 900 mins
Created by JJ Abrams
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Michael Vartan, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, and Mia Maestro
Guest starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kelly Macdonald

DVD Extras Include:

• "Nocturne" extended episode including "Russian Roulette" Deleted Scene


• Deleted scenes


• One-to-one interview with Jennifer Garner


• "Meet Mia" Featurette on Mia Maestro and her character Nadia


• Director's Diary


• "Marshall's World" Featurette


• Blooper Reel


• Season 4 Guest Stars Featurette


• Audio Commentaries

Episode Synopsis:

1: Authorised Personnel Only (Part 1)
Having left the CIA, Sydney takes a job alongside Dixon, Jack, Vaughn and Sloane at a Black Ops unit known only as "Authorised Personnel Only". Meanwhile what Sydney found out in Wittenberg puts her relationship with Jack in jeopardy and eventually she has to reveal the devastating truth to Vaughn.

2. Authorised Personnel Only (Part 2)
Sydney teams up with her father to hunt down a modern-day sumarai. When Nadia discovers Sydney's life is in danger, she reluctantly returns to life as a spy and has to make an unsettling promise.

3. The Awful Truth
Sydney argues with Jack about Nadia, but is distracted by work when she has to seduce a murderous arms dealer in order to track down a stolen code-breaker. Meanwhile, Vaughn fears for Weiss's life.

4. Ice
Sydney and Vaughn go undercover in their efforts to track down a deadly biological weapon, whilst Nadia turns to Jack to find out the truth about her mother.

5. Welcome to Liberty Village
Sydney and Vaughn go undercover to find a dangerous weapon. However the quiet neighbourhood that they infiltrate as a married couple is much more hostile than it first appears.

6. Nocturne
When Sydney is infected by a dangerous hallucinogenic, she begins to lose touch with reality. With her life and the lives of those around her in danger, Vaughn and Jack face a frantic race to find an antidote.

7. Détente
Sydney and Nadia fall out over Sloane who has worries of his own, when Nadia and Sydney go undercover as wealthy young heiresses to uncover the whereabouts of a deadly chemical.

8. Echoes
When Sloane temporarily steps down as Director of his task force, he hands over authority of his latest assignment to Jack. The assignment involves Anna Espinosa, Sydney's old foe who captures Nadia, blackmailing Sydney to do her bidding. Sydney tells Nadia about the Rambaldi prophecy which states two sisters will fight and only one will survive. In the meantime, Vaughn visits Sark and tries to trick him into helping them catch Anna. In the final showdown Nadia is badly wounded.

9. A Man of His Word
With Nadia in a coma, Sark arrives in APO to help infiltrate Cadmus Revolutionary Front and retrieve a bomb, however in return he demands to see Lauren's corpse. When they discover Nadia may be the only person who knows how to intercept the bomb, Jack is forced to prematurely wake her from her coma, endangering her life and angering Sloane.

10. The Index
Dixon enlists Sydney to prove that Sloane is double-crossing the CIA in an effort to reconstruct the Alliance. She breaks into Sloane's house in an effort to track his calls. But she is discovered by Nadia. Meanwhile, Vaughn discovers a disturbing secret about his own father when he goes to visit his sick uncle.

11. The Road Home
When Sydney unintentionally puts a civilian's life in danger, she is forced to protect them from danger. Meanwhile, Vaughn uncovers more chilling truths about his father and Jack plans to visit an old friend.

12. The Orphan
Nadia endangers Sydney and Weiss, as well as herself when she fails to unveil her past liaisons with a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile, Vaughn finds a person who is somehow connected to both his own father and Nadia as well.

13. Tuesday
When her mission goes wrong Sydney finds herself under attack and in grave danger.
Meanwhile, APO is secured following the leak of a deadly toxin that Dixon has been exposed to. As the only one who can save her, Marshall faces a frantic race against time to reach Sydney.

14. Nightingale
Sydney and Vaughn risk their lives trying to find out the truth about Vaughn's father and the truth about why Jack and Sloane seem to be conspiring against Sydney and Vaughn is finally revealed.

15. Pandora
In an attempt to speak to Sydney, Katya Derevko deliberately poisons herself and is temporarily taken out of her cell. Katya tells her that someone framed her mother as a way to get her killed and Sydney sets off to find out the truth in Katya's story. Meanwhile Vaughn becomes a rogue agent as he attempts to find out his father's whereabouts. In the end he and Sydney discover that Sloane is behind their heartache, but things are not exactly as they seem.

16. Another Mister Sloane
When Sydney and Vaughn corner Sloane about both his alleged involvement in Vaughn's search for his father and Irina's contract on Sydney's life, they realise that he is being framed. The APO set out to trap the impostor Arvin Clone, but fail leaving Nadia fearing that their pursuit of Sloane's impostor may revive her father's past obsession of Rambaldi.

17. A Clean Conscience
When Nadia's former caretaker Sophia is severely beaten, she tells Sloane she was beaten up, because someone is trying to track Nadia down. This forces Sloane and Jack to tell Nadia and Sydney that Elena Derevko, the third and most evil of the Derevko sisters, has been surveying both Sydney and Nadia for a decade. Meanwhile, Jack's doctor advises him to tell Sydney about his illness.

18. Mirage
Jack's illness is causing him to hallucinate and Sydney needs to act out a past time when Jack was working for the CIA and hid the only man who may now be able to help him. This means Sydney has to disguise herself as her own mother. Meanwhile, Sophia moves in with Sydney and Nadia.

19. In Dreams...
The team capture Arvin Clone, the Sloane impostor and question him in their efforts to find a rare Rambaldi orchid. In order to reveal its location Sloane himself has to relive a painful memory.

20. The Descent
When several Rambaldi artefacts are stolen, the Director of the CIA Hayden Chase discovers that the alarms were disabled from Nadia's computer, allowing the thieves easy access to the treasures. He goes to her apartment to question her but when Sloane and Jack arrive they announce their own suspicions that Sophia, who had access to the computer while she was living with Sydney and Nadia, is actually Elena Derevko. When they set off to find her they unearth some shocking discoveries.

21. Search and Rescue
A giant device is found floating over Russia, driving its citizens mad and Rambaldi's devastating mission begins to fall into place. When a wounded Dixon reveals that Irina is alive, Sydney, Nadia, and Jack set off to find her and discover she is being held by Elena's army. Irina tells them about a page that was key to Rambaldi's endgame that she destroyed, but which under torture from Elena she was forced to recreate.

22. Before the Flood
Jack, Sydney, Irina, Vaughn and Nadia parachute into Sovogda where they plan to destroy the giant device that is turning people into zombies. Back at APO Marshall and Weiss use the Blackwell Index, a specially created blackmail list, to blackmail the Russian minister into giving them the access codes to a Russian satellite which they discover Elena is controlling. A CIA agent, Brodien reminds them that the Rambaldi device that is broadcasting a sub-audible frequency to physiologically alter people, is irreversible. Elena learns of the APO team's arrival.