Will Tippin

Alias character


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name = Will Tippin
gender = Male
affiliation = CIA
rank = CIA analyst
known relatives = Amy (sister)
portrayed = Bradley Cooper

William "Will" D. Tippin is a fictional character, one of Sydney Bristow's friends on the television series "Alias". He is portrayed by Bradley Cooper.

Biography

At the beginning of the series, Will was just Sydney Bristow's friend and a local newspaper reporter. Following the death of Sydney's fiancé, Danny Hecht, Will begins pursuing leads surrounding Danny's bizarre death. Sydney, knowing the truth — that Danny was killed because SD-6 found out that he knew that Sydney was a spy, asked Will to cease his investigation. However, Will pursued and found himself wrapped up in Sydney's world of espionage. This all came to a head towards the end of the first season, when he was kidnapped by Julian Sark and had to be rescued by Sydney and Jack. Around this time, Will had gotten enough facts to write an article about SD-6 and handed it to his editor to publish if he wasn't in contact with her within 24 hours. In order to discredit the story - and at the same time, save Will from being killed by SD-6 - Jack arranged for Will to appear as if he had a heroin habit at the time of writing the article, thus ruining any chance Will had for getting a regular newspaper job. [http://www.allalias.com/guide/index.php/Will%27s_SD-6_Investigation_Timeline]

Will was eventually recruited as a private researcher for the CIA. Utilizing his tenacity and journalistic instinct, Tippin researched the secret government experiment Project Christmas for Michael Vaughn. Project Christmas was designed to use standardized tests given to school children to determine potential future CIA recruits. The Soviets became aware of the project and sent KGB operative Irina Derevko on an undercover mission to determine the specifics so that they could enact their own version of the program. Will briefly dated Francie Calfo and shortly after, unbeknownst to him, Francie's genetic doppelganger Allison Doren. Will discovers the ruse by finding Provacillium in Allison's purse, the medication taken by gene therapy patients. At the exact same time, Allison looks through Will's work and finds out that Will is researching an "Allison Georgia Doren." Allison realizes that Will is close to knowing the truth, and attempts to kill him, nearly succeeding in doing so. Upon being nearly killed, he was quickly shuttled into the Federal Witness Protection Program, removing him as a regular character for season three. However, he did have a brief reappearance after he was sought out by Sydney and the two had a brief tryst. During this reunion mission, Will finally encounters Allison and kills her for the murder of Francie, after which he returned to private life.

Near the end of the 5th season, in the episode "There's Only One Sydney Bristow" (also the series' 100th episode), Tippin is kidnapped by Anna Espinosa and used as bait for Sydney. During the rescue mission, a sample of her DNA is stolen. Later, it is discovered that Will's captors (Prophet Five) have implanted a miniature bomb in his head, set to go off if Sydney doesn't deliver a Milo Rambaldi artifact to Anna aboard a train in Europe. Will accompanies Sydney on the mission, which is once again a trap to gather more genetic material from Sydney (ultimately used to transform Anna into a genetic duplicate of Sydney in the same way Francie was replaced by Allison). Will rescues Sydney and Sydney disarms the bomb with a remote control. During this mission, Will informs Sydney he was planning on proposing to his girlfriend before he was kidnapped and asks Sydney to be his best man, to which she agrees with enthusiasm.

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