Thomas Grace (Alias)
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| Alias character | |
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| Thomas Grace | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation(s) | APO |
| Held ranks | APO field agent |
| Current status | Deceased |
| Portrayed by | Balthazar Getty |
Thomas Grace is a character on the spy-fi drama series, Alias. He is portrayed by Balthazar Getty.
The character was introduced in the second episode of the fifth season. Thomas Grace is recruited into Authorized Personnel Only, a black-ops division of the CIA, in order to replace agent Michael Vaughn after Vaughn is supposedly killed (he also replaces Eric Weiss after Weiss transfers out of APO). This led to friction between Grace and Vaughn's partner and fiancée, Sydney Bristow. Grace also bonded with another new APO recruit, Rachel Gibson, and began training the novice agent how to fight.
Not much is known about the character's background, although his file, details unknown, caused many a person to halt and reconsider welcoming him into APO with open arms. In The Horizon, Marshall Flinkman discovers that Grace used to be married, though he initially believes it's a remnant from an undercover assignment. Grace reacts with anger at Marshall's nosiness.
In Maternal Instinct, Grace takes part in an APO mission to infiltrate CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia in order to locate Sydney, who has been kidnapped by Prophet Five. During the mission, he takes advantage of the opportunity to obtain information from the Witness Protection Program regarding the man who, it is revealed, murdered Grace's wife. Later, Grace tracks the man down, but instead of killing him, asks to be put in touch with someone called "The Cardinal." His "off-book" mission does not go unnoticed, as Rachel discovers Grace's investigation. Grace, in response, lies to her and says he intended to kill the man, but was unable to do so once he saw that he had started a family of his own.
In No Hard Feelings, Rachel discovers the truth: The Cardinal is the man who ordered the death of Gibson's wife and the man he had pursued was the hit man assigned to do the job. The hit man agrees to tell Grace why his wife was targeted, in return for his vehicle which had been impounded by the government. Upon returning the vehicle to the hit man, he is told that his wife was simply "in the wrong place at the wrong time" and that the intent was actually to kill Grace. The hit man then drives off in his vehicle, only to die when Grace detonates a bomb inside.
In the series finale, Grace is sent to defuse a bomb that Sark had placed onto a subway to destroy APO headquarters. He is instructed to leave when the timer gets to 60 seconds, but ultimately stays with the bomb beyond the one-minute threshold in order to keep it from going off. His last words are to Rachel Gibson, telling her that he wished they had more time because he would've asked her out. Starting to cry, Rachel responds that she would have said yes.
The identity of "The Cardinal" and why he had targeted Grace for assassination is never revealed, due to the cancellation of Alias and the subsequent abbreviated season.
| Alias |
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| Episodes: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 |
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Jack Bristow | Sydney Bristow | Francie Calfo | McKenas Cole | Gordon Dean |
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Alliance of Twelve | Authorized Personnel Only | The Covenant |
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