Sydney Bristow, college student by day, superspy by night, is one of the greatest characters in television history.  The central character on ABC's "ALIAS" had a dysfunctional family life (to say the least) when growing up.  Her mother died when she was young, or so she was led to believe, and her father, Jack, a CIA double agent under the guise of an airplane parts salesman, was mostly absent....at least emotionally.   Sydney was recruited into the spy game to work for a covert branch of the CIA...but she found out that was all a ruse, once her fiance was brutally murdered by Arvin Sloane...