34 Facts About Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane is a fictional character played by Ron Rifkin.

Arvin Sloane was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias.

Arvin Sloane is the cold, calculating leader of SD-6, directing its operations against the US government under the guise of being a secret organization within the government itself.

Arvin Sloane is eventually promoted to being a full member of "The Alliance", the organization that operates above each individual SD cell.

Arvin Sloane is married to his long-time wife, Emily, for over 30 years.

Early in his marriage Arvin Sloane was with the CIA, attached to the US Army Corps of Engineers, which is where he first encountered the works of Milo Rambaldi.

Wracked with grief, Arvin Sloane stumbled across some Rambaldi pages that he had stuck in a desk drawer and forgotten about.

At some point, Arvin Sloane had a brief affair with Jack Bristow's wife, Irina Derevko.

Arvin Sloane eventually became head of that section of the Alliance known as SD-6.

When Sydney was 19 and a freshman in college, Arvin Sloane recruited her to join SD-6, convincing her that she was joining the CIA.

Arvin Sloane made the mistake of telling Sydney what she knew and SD-6 soon caught wind of this fact.

Unable to bring himself to do this, Arvin Sloane set up an elaborate ruse, including the amputation of Emily's finger, to convince the Alliance that she was dead.

Concurrent with his engineering the downfall of The Alliance and SD-6, Arvin Sloane went underground, allying with Julian Sark and continuing his obsessive pursuit of Rambaldi artifacts.

Emily collaborated secretly with the CIA to expose her husband's new crimes and consented to helping them capture Arvin Sloane by wearing a hidden wire but was coaxed by Arvin Sloane, during this operation, swaying Emily from her cooperation with the CIA, thus allowing them to foil the CIA's original task.

Between seasons 2 and 3, Arvin Sloane turned himself in to the US government and, in exchange for a full pardon, utilized all of his knowledge to help bring down various terrorist organizations.

Arvin Sloane then moved to Zurich, Switzerland, setting up a humanitarian organization called Omnifam and apparently becoming a philanthropist, claiming that his research into Rambaldi's secrets led him to one word: peace.

Arvin Sloane determined that The Passenger was his daughter with Irina Derevko, a woman named Nadia Santos who was an agent with Argentine intelligence.

Arvin Sloane is subsequently pardoned again and is recruited by the CIA to head up a new black ops division patterned after SD-6, called Authorized Personnel Only.

Toward the conclusion of the fourth season, Arvin Sloane confesses that through his work with Omnifam, he has seeded water supplies around the world with chemical contaminants designed to make humanity more peaceful.

In reality, Arvin Sloane is infiltrating Elena's organization in order to stop her endgame but Dixon is seriously wounded when trying to stop Arvin Sloane.

Dean threatens to undo all this if Arvin Sloane doesn't agree to act as a mole within APO.

Dean is captured by APO, but Arvin Sloane soon finds himself becoming beholden to another element of Prophet Five, who holds the key to curing Nadia.

Under the promise of a more permanent cure, Arvin Sloane is ordered to kill Dean, which he does.

Once again, Arvin Sloane is forced to act as a mole within APO on behalf of Prophet Five, with a vague promise of a cure for Nadia.

Ultimately, Arvin Sloane continues to work with Prophet Five until they provide him with a cure for Nadia's condition.

Arvin Sloane subsequently is haunted by an apparition of Nadia, who states she is only appearing because Arvin Sloane wants her to be there.

Arvin Sloane realized that once his expertise with Rambaldi was no longer necessary to Prophet Five, he would be 'removed' from their services permanently.

Arvin Sloane finally set about achieving his endgame, kidnapping Marshall Flinkman and Rachel Gibson to force them to hack into a satellite network to locate a cavern where he could utilize another Rambaldi artifact, an amulet, to uncover further details towards the fruition of his ultimate goal.

Finally, Arvin Sloane's endgame was achieved in Mongolia, in the Tomb of Rambaldi, where Arvin Sloane used The Horizon to create a strange hovering sphere from which a reddish liquid drained.

However, Arvin Sloane himself was shot and killed in retaliation by Sydney, one bullet entering his head to confirm a kill.

Arvin Sloane recovered from his bullet wounds and was revived fully intact but was confronted by a dying Jack Bristow.

Arvin Sloane offered his old friend the chance to be saved in the same rejuvenating liquid but Jack refused.

Arvin Sloane is currently trapped under large rocks in the tomb, several hundred feet underground and alone but he is alive and seemingly immortal.

Thirty years before season 4, Emily Sloane was pregnant with her and Arvin's daughter.