Best of: Alias

Jennifer Garner is super spy Sydney Bristow in the show that turned JJ Abrams from a jobbing writer into a Hollywood player. These are the 10 best episode.

1. The Telling

The final episode of the second season featuring many twist and turns. The final on being particularly gut punching.

2. Truth Be Told

The shows first episode. Sydney's world is turned when she tells her boyfriend about her double life setting her on an new path. Abrams won an Emmy for his direction

3. Parity

Sydney goes on a mission to Madrid to retrieve a relic connected to the prophet Rambaldi. The episode features the first appearance of Sydney's Cuban nemesis Anna (Gina Torres) Espinosa.

4. Phase One

The episode where everything is turned on it's head. Sydney finds a way to destroy the criminal organisation The Alliance but not everything is what it seems. Featuring a guest appearance by Rutger Hauer.

5. Welcome to Liberty Village

Sydney and Michael (as played by Michael Vartan) Vaughan go undercover in a fake town where Russian terrorists are being trained to blend in to American society in order to wreck havoc after an EMP strike.

6. Sucession

The release of Julian (David Anders) Sark is the demand for the release of a CIA agent. During the operation to free the agent Sydney gains a clue to the missing 2 years of her life.

7. Dead Drop

Sydney must complete a mission inside the Kremlin itself and has to turn to her KGB agent Irina (Lena Olin) Derevko.

8. The Counteragent

To cure Vaughan of a deadly virus Sydney must deliver sworn enemy Arvin (Ron Rifkin) into the hands of Sark. The episode features the show's best use of pop songs, Peter Gabriel's I Grieve and Sheryl Crow's I Shall Believe.

9. Almost Thirty Years

To save her friend Will (Bradley Cooper) Tipping, Sydney and her Father Jack (as played by Victor Garber) must return a Rambaldi relic to Sark leading to a dramatic reunion.

10.  Solo

Sydney trains Rachel Gibson (as played by Rachel Nichols) for her first mission. Unfortunately Gibson has a less than warm reunion with one of her former associates Kelly (Amy Acker) Peyton.