- Renée Rienne
Alias character|
name = Renée Rienne
gender =Female
affiliation = Unofficial APO ally
rank = none
known relatives = Luc Goursaud (father, deceased)
portrayed =Élodie Bouchez Renée Rienne (real name Renée Goursaud, alias "Le Corbeau", "The Raven") is a
fictional character in thespy-fi television series "Alias". Played byÉlodie Bouchez , she was introduced as a new character for the fifth season. Bouchez appears in the opening credit sequence during the first half of the fifth season; beginning with "S.O.S." Bouchez and her character were removed from the opening and listed as a special guest star.Biography
Rienne is number eight on the CIA's most wanted list. She worked secretly with
Michael Vaughn for seven years. When she first approached Vaughn, she told him that his father Bill worked with her father on a project:Prophet Five . Renee has been responsible for numerous crimes, including the assassination of a Turkish interior minister, the deaths of three CIA agents inSerbia , an attack on a CIA listening post inTurkey , the theft of a cryogenic container from theDepartment of Special Research , and the infiltration of a US Army facility inFrankfurt ,Germany .In "Out of the Box" some details of her past are revealed. She was frequently ill as a child. Her father, Luc Goursaud, was a test subject of Prophet Five until learning something which frightened him. He took Rienne and fled, but was later taken from Rienne as she watched from hiding. She swore to take revenge on
Prophet Five .Many years later, Rienne stole a cryogenic container believing it contained her father. When opened, it instead disgorged Prophet Five researcher Doctor Aldo Desantis, who had worked with Renée's father. Desantis has been transformed, possibly by
Project Helix technology, into a duplicate of Luc Goursaud. Sydney exposed him as an impostor and Desantis was extracted by Gordon Dean.Rienne continued to work unofficially with APO. In the episode "The Horizon," she assisted
Jack Bristow (albeit unsuccessfully) in trying to rescue Sydney from her Prophet Five kidnappers. During this mission, she executed Desantis, who was involved in the kidnapping, on the orders of Jack. In the episode "Maternal Instinct," she worked with Marcus Dixon to obtain information regarding a classifiedSD-6 mission.In the episode "30 Seconds," Sydney offered her a position at APO, but Renée refused because she preferred to work according to her own schedule and she trusted very few people. She is later killed by
Anna Espinosa , who is posing as Sydney.A subsequent autopsy of Renée recovered an incomplete microchip, hidden in her body for at least thirty years. It was marked with the name "Andre Micheaux," Vaughn's real name. The other half, hidden inside Vaughn, was marked "Renée Goursaud," Renée Rienne's real name. The completed microchip revealed the location of a nuclear fallout shelter containing research on Prophet Five compiled by Bill Vaughn and Luc Goursaud.
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