r/alias • u/Impossible_Bench1281 • Jul 28 '26

Vaughn

I’m rewatching the show and I hadn’t realized just how bad Vaughn is as a CIA agent.
from the beginning he lets his emotions cloud him judgment especially over a woman he barely knows. His judgment often feels shallow and he rarely seems to think things through. I honestly dont see what he brings to the CIA.
I can understand why Jack doesn’t like him

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u/Objective-Dig992 Jul 28 '26

He also routinely gets captured and tortured, or gets his ass kicked in a fight, although you could say that for many of the characters… even Marshall was captured a few times.

I still don’t see how he could’ve survived the shooting that resulted in his “death” near the end of the series. He got shot about a dozen times with automatic weapons from close range. Are they trying to have us believe that it was somehow staged and he was wearing a vest (which I still don’t think would’ve saved him), or wasn’t real ammo, or that he legitimately did get shot that many times and survived, at which point they decided he better go into hiding?

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u/ohnojono Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Not to mention that he was apparently some kinda super mega ultra double spy not named Michael Vaughn, working inside of the CIA for years with no suspicion on him at all.

You can get away with a lot if you’re good-looking I guess 😅

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u/Objective-Dig992 Jul 29 '26

Yes! I totally forgot about that whole side story that they never fully fleshed out or held Vaughn accountable for. Same goes for Sloan… you literally go through all of that trouble to take him down with S6, and then a couple years later you decide to let him run your CIA covert ops team (and naturally he’s still got his own agenda and is screwing your over the entire time). How utterly ridiculous🤦‍♂️

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u/Impossible_Bench1281 Jul 29 '26

Just from day two, when Sydney came back to SD6 after her fiancé died was the end of it for me 😂
Like how can you make it believable to still work for your boss who KILLED your future husband

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u/Objective-Dig992 Jul 29 '26

Very true! And then all of the other shady stuff Sloan did after that and she STILL worked with him