Tomorrow night is the series finale of Alias. I remember seeing parts of the pilot back in 2001, and I liked it, but I kept forgetting the show was on Sunday nights. So I caught an episode here and there, maybe three total for the season, and not the finale.

I got more involved in the second season, but I truly hate that I missed the mid-season shakeup with the post-Super Bowl episode. I remember trying to stay awake during the Super Bowl, but for some reason I was just exhausted. When I went back and read the recap the next day, my jaw almost hit my desk at work.

Alias has been the first show that has made me almost possessed with wanting to know more. Granted, it's had its share of ups and downs in quality, and I don't know if it ever really recaptured the magic of those first two seasons. However, even one of the weaker episodes was more entertaining than a lot of stuff on TV.

I know I said I was going to do an episode a day until the finale, but I ran out of time. So here are my top five Alias episodes of all time countdown. (Images courtesy of Alias Media)
5 — Episode 5.22, Before the Flood: How do you top the last line of the second season finale? How about with "My name isn't really Michael Vaughn—" BAM! As a whole, the episode wasn't as good as the season two finale, but that line alone puts it in my top five.

4 — Episode 2.07, Counteragent: Vaughn comes down with this fatal disease that Irina had developed as a bio weapon. Sydney is caught by Sark while trying to get the cure, and she has to do his bidding before he'll give it to her. The task? Bring Sloane to him so Sark can kill him. The end of this episode is one of those romantic tension things when Vaughn decides he wants to tell Syd how he feels after she's walked away. He follows her, but he doesn't catch her before she leaves the building. *sigh*

3 — Episode 2.13, Phase One: The post-Super Bowl episode that I missed where all hell breaks loose. SD-6 goes down. Syd and Vaughn kiss. Syd's best friend, Francie, is killed and replaced by an evil double, unbeknownst to everyone else on the show, of course.

2 — Episode 1.22, Almost Thirty Years: The Season One finale where Syd sees her mom again. Actually, she's being held captive by her mom. Will, who's been captured by the same organization, gets the line of the episode. He was injected with a truth serum that his torturer says causes paralysis in one in five people. So when Will gets up the strength and the kahunas to fight back, he takes another syringe of the stuff, jabs it in his torturer's leg and screams, "One in five, BITCH!" My husband still loves that line.

1 — Episode 2.22, The Telling: The Season Two finale that officially started my obsession with all things alias. The fight between Syd and EvilFrancie is the. Best. Fight. Ever. Hands. Down. And the whole thing ends with the second best cliffhanger (the best one being the last line of Season Four): Syd waking up in Hong Kong thinking the whole fight happened just yesterday, but Vaughn shows up at the safehouse (WITH A WEDDING BAND ON HIS FINGER) and tells her that she's been missing for two years. I think I walked around the house for the next half-hour saying nothing but, "Two years?"

There you have it — my top five. It all ends Monday night. I bought a few boxes of Kleenex to get me through.