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For the French Botanist and Explorer, see André_Michaux .
Michael C. Vaughn, played by Michael Vartan , is one of Sydney Bristow 's co-workers and ongoing love interests on the Television Series , '' Alias ''. At the beginning of season 5, it was revealed that his real name was not Michael Vaughn, but '''Andre Michaux'''. BIO Michael Vaughn was originally no more than Sydney Bristow's handler while she was working as a liaison Lauren Reed and married her some time during Sydney's two-year disappearance. Once he discovered that Sydney was still alive, Vaughn returned to the CIA and quickly saw his feelings for her reignite, a fact that caused a great deal of tension in his marriage to Lauren. Eventually, it was revealed that Lauren was a double-agent for The Covenant ; Vaughn became obsessed with her capture and was encouraged by Jack Bristow to kill her, which he did at the end of the third season. This act continued to haunt him into the fourth season even though he shot Lauren in order to prevent her from killing Sydney. (The kill was left ambiguous until a fourth season episode established that Lauren's body was returned to the US and placed in a secret government crypt.) Following Lauren's demise (and between the third and fourth seasons), Vaughn appeared to go into an emotional tailspin that culminated with him setting fire to his own house. He went through a month of psych evaluations before informing his best friend and fellow agent Eric Weiss of his resignation from the CIA. In reality, Vaughn had been recruited into a Black Op s division of the CIA called Authorized Personnel Only (APO), along with Sydney, Jack, and Marcus Dixon (Weiss and Marshall Flinkman would soon follow). One of his new duties was to keep an eye on Arvin Sloane , who had been appointed director of APO despite his long history of criminal activities as the head of SD-6. Vaughn successfully resumed his romantic relationship with Sydney during their first mission for APO. The first season established that Michael Vaughn's father was one of several CIA agents killed in the line of duty by Irina Derevko , Sydney's mother. The fact that Bill Vaughn is dead was questioned in season four of '' Alias '' after Vaughn found entries in his father's journal dated three years after his death in 1979. Vaughn's subsequent investigation led to him conduct a secret mission in collaboration with Sydney; he turned rogue by the end of the episode "Nightingale". However, he returned to APO after discovering his father really was dead and that the journal entries had been part of a ruse devised by Elena Derevko . At the end of the fourth season Vaughn proposed to Sydney and the two took their long-delayed vacation to Santa Barbara . During this car ride he confessed that his real name was not Michael Vaughn and implied that his first allegiance was not to the CIA. The season, however, ended in a car crash that cut his explanation short. In the premiere of season 5, Vaughn is taken by an armed group from the crash site. He is thought to be a traitor when he is recovered, and reveals his real name as Andre Michaux; his father was actually a mathematician associated with a group known as Prophet 5. At the end of the episode, he is shot dead by a rogue agent disguised as a CIA executive. Soon before this, he learned that Sydney was pregnant with his child. At the end of episode "Maternal Instinct" (#5.11), it is revealed that Vaughn is still alive in Bhutan living with monks connected to the outside world. One monk informs him that Sydney gave birth to their daughter. However, it is currently unknown how Vaughn was able to convincingly fake his death. In the following episode, "There is Only One Sydney Bristow" (#5.12), it is revealed that both Sydney and Jack Bristow know that Vaughn is still alive. Exactly when this became known to them -- or if they have known this all along -- has yet to be revealed. Cast listings from ABC for the final episodes indicate that Vaughn will be present in the final four hours of the show, which may provide answers to many of these questions. Trivia
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