Francine "Francie" Calfo is a fictional character on the television series Alias, portrayed by Merrin Dungey. She is Sydney Bristow's close friend.
Francie was Sydney Bristow's best friend and roommate during the beginning of the series. During the first two seasons of the show, Sydney was tormented by having to keep her espionage lifestyle hidden from her closest friends. Francie would act as an occasional sounding board and confidante for some of Sydney's personal issues. Francie eventually decided to open a restaurant and then became romantically involved with her friend, Will Tippin.
After the fall of SD-6, a genetic doppelganger named Allison Doren kills Francie and begins posing as her, having effectively replaced her. Under orders from Arvin Sloane, Allison bugs Sydney's apartment, hypnotically interrogates Will, plants eavesdropping devices on Michael Vaughn, and murders Marcus Dixon's wife. At the end of the second season, Will discovers Allison is not Francie. He attempts to warn Sydney by leaving a frantic voicemail message on her phone, when he is suddenly attacked by Allison, who attempts to strangle him. After failing to kill him, Will corners her with a knife and demands, "It's always been you? Allison?" Allison expresses remorse at what was happening, as she had apparently developed feelings for him during the months she spent posing as Francie. Allison knocks the knife away from Will, takes it, and stabs him with it. She hides Will's body in the bathtub shortly before Sydney arrives home.
Live. Dream. Believe.
Kenny Williams: Look, I just want respect for me and my girls, that's all. [after Newell shouted racial insults]::Homer Horton: Yeah, well fighting Norville Newell is not a good way to get it, Kenny. Come on, I've been looking at their shit-eating grins for going on nine years now. Ten, if you count church. I saw you and I said, 'now there's a man who change all that.'::Kenny Williams: The first time you saw me, you thought you saw the new janitor.
Annie Shorty: Most of these kids have never met an African American before.::Kenny Williams: Well, I met my first Native American yesterday.::Annie Shorty: Indian.::Kenny Williams: Black.
Kenny Williams: Okay Cuch, why'd you bring me all the way up here?::Cuch: You're standing at the center of two worlds.::Kenny Williams: Yeah, well, I thought I left that other world behind.::Cuch: Well don't look through their eyes, look through your eyes. From here you can see forever - the past, the present, the future. See, the Creator scattered us to the four winds so we could prove that we're human by finding our way home.::Kenny Williams: Well, always trying to find your way home can make a man crazy.::Cuch: Hmmh, sometimes you have to go all the way around the world to find your way, and sometimes you've got to put pride aside to get there. Me, I'm home.::Kenny Williams: This is like, what, a sacred site or something?::Cuch: This? [chuckles] This is just a big rock. [walks away laughing]
Kenny Williams: What the hell's going on?::Annie Shorty: They don't understand why you're pissed off all the time.::Kenny Williams: Look, I've had to deal with Norville, Homer, Shirleen.::Annie Shorty: Shirleen?::Kenny Williams: Yeah, she went out and got herself pregnant.::Annie Shorty: She's not perfect, she made a mistake, but to you she's just another dark-skinned girl dragging down the race.::Kenny Williams: I didn't say that.::Annie Shorty: You thought it.
Dwayne: And last night the Lady Warriors basketball team kept their losing streak alive with a 27 to 89 squeaker against Fort Briggs. Hey, our girls finally broke into double digits! [on the radio]
Annie Shorty: I'm Annie Shorty.::Kenny Williams: Kenny...::Annie Shorty: Williams. Indian grapevine.
Kenny Williams: So, we're all good at basketball, right?::Homer Horton: You put it on your resume.::Kenny Williams: I was a player. And basketball never did a damn thing for me that a book didn't do better.
Kenny Williams: So, you're a mechanic too?::Cuch: You know, I thought about a more traditional line of work like bingo. But, I didn't like the hours.
Dwayne: The Lady Warriors kept their losing streak alive under new Head Coach Kenny Williams, giving up a season high 101 points in their most pathetic performance of the year. It was an all around team effort as our girls led in unforced turnovers, missed free-throws and half-time fan departures. Oh well, thank God for the band! This is the home of the Lady Warriors, all losers all the time. [on the radio]
Annie Shorty: What are you doing to those girls?::Kenny Williams: I'm teaching them to succeed.::Annie Shorty: By running them into the ground?::Kenny Williams: Well, it beats running off a mountain and screaming 'shit!' [referring to Carla's joke]::Annie Shorty: Oh, so you know all about Indians now? You know about 'unity,' 'harmony.' [said in Dine]::Kenny Williams: What?::Annie Shorty: Unity? Harmony? All of us together?::Kenny Williams: Look, what is this, multiple choice? I don't get it.::Annie Shorty: That's an understatement.
Plot
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.
Keywords: bonfire, evil-uncle, fireworks, full-frontal-female-nudity, incest, independent-film, magic, marionette, pubic-wig, toy
Plot
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion to a lavish estate, which turns out to be owned by the crazed father of the girl who died.
Keywords: accident, gatling-gun, house, independent-film, initiation, isolation, maniac, murder, music-score-features-flute, past
There's nobody to hear your scream...except your killer
An invitation to six beautiful women...for a deadly sorority reunion
[explaining her decision to take a shower despite being trapped in the house with a killer]::Francie: Cleanliness is next to godliness, right? So I figure, if I'm next to Him, Clybourn won't get next to me. [taps her head] Smart chick.
Francie folded her winter clothes
And put them in a cedar box
She stacked her belongings
In a corner by the bed
She wanted everything left behind
To be in order
In the pocket of a torn jacket
Francie found a glass orb
Given to her by her father
Long since forgotten
She held it up to the light
And looked into the glass
"where have you been
I was too angry to say goodbye"
Francie returned the orb into the pocket
And placed the folded jacket at the top of the pile
She pulled aside the curtains
To let the candlelight cast shadows