What's old is new?

So I was watching a taped show this afternoon. A girl finds out that she was working for an "off the books" division of CIA. She finds out that it is actually a criminal organization. She is asked to go on a mission to collect data about said criminal organization. Sounds just like the pilot episode of Alias? You're wrong, it was Wednesday night's new episode. I thought Archie comics recycled plot lines that often.