Will Tippin
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Template:Alias character William "Will" D. Tippin, played by Bradley Cooper, is one of Sydney Bristow's friends on the television series, Alias (see List of characters from Alias).
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 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. [1]
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 then, unbeknownst to him, Francie's genetic doppleganger, Allison Doren) before he was nearly killed and then 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. Will will return in the thirteenth episode of the fifth season (titled "There's Only One Sydney Bristow).
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