Elena Derevko

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name = Elena Derevko
gender = Female
affiliation = The Covenant
rank = Leader
known relatives = Irina Derevko (sister, deceased)
Katya Derevko (sister)
Sydney Bristow (niece)
Nadia Santos (niece, deceased)
Isabelle Vaughn (grand-niece)
Jack Vaughn (grand-nephew)
portrayed = Sônia Braga

Elena Derevko is a fictional character from the television series "Alias", played by Sônia Braga.

Elena is the sister of Irina and Katya Derevko. Considered to be the most ruthless of the Derevko sisters, Elena is the secret leader of The Covenant. She was first mentioned in the season three episode "Crossings" by Jack Bristow. Nothing else is learned about Elena until the fourth season, when in "Welcome to Liberty Village" it is revealed that an unidentified Russian group is trying to find her. During the fourth season Elena is revealed to have been Sophia Vargas, caretaker to Nadia Santos during her time in an Argentine orphanage.

Elena uses her relationship with Nadia to gather intel on various APO missions. She later infiltrates the Department of Special Research and steals many of the Rambaldi artifacts the CIA had in its possession. With the artifacts from the DSR and the ones she had obtained from other sources, Elena has all the pieces to implement her endgame. Covenant agents contaminate the water supply of Sovogda, Russia and Elena activates a Mueller device over the city. Irina joined with Jack, Sydney, Nadia, and Michael Vaughn as they parachuted into the city and deactivated the device. Elena, who was captured during this operation, is subsequently killed by Irina with a gunshot to the head.

Elena's Past with Nadia

Sydney and Vaughn discover footage of a very young Nadia being tested with Rambaldi fluid in a Russian bunker. Katya Derevko tells them that Nadia was born to Irina in a Soviet prison after Irina left Jack. Sydney was born in 1975 and Irina left in late 1981. This means Nadia has to have been born in 1982. The footage proves that Nadia was in Soviet custody for at least the first few years of her life. Conservatively, based on the footage, she could have been in Soviet hands until at least 1985.

Elena, in her guise of Sophia Vargas, tells Michael Vaughn that the only time she met his father Bill was when he left Nadia with her at the orphanage in Buenos Aires. However, Michael Vaughn locates Sophia's address in Lisbon through an encoded entry in a journal purported to have belonged to his father, which indicated that Bill Vaughn had survived past 1979, when Irina Derevko was supposed to have killed him. Since this journal was a forgery, there is no reason to believe that information given by Elena supporting the authenticity of the journal was true.

Nadia runs away from the orphanage in 1992. The footage is fairly dark but it's possible that she was as young as 10 when she ran away. She's in a dormitory with other girls of about that age. She's recruited by Roberto Fox when she's 17 or 18, which would make the year 1999 or 2000. She dies in circa 2007.

Under this timeline, the only loose ends are how Nadia ended up at the orphanage in the first place and why the mercenary Thomas Brill would tell Michael Vaughn that his father was involved. Since the orphanage was headed up by Elena Derevko, the most obvious explanation is that Elena kidnapped her and she simply lied to Vaughn about his father's involvement, and that Brill - a mercenary - was paid to do the same.