Sydney Bristow quotes from Alias

Vaughn

I came by to see how you were.

Sydney

Are you kidding me?

Vaughn

No, I just wanted to make sure that you're-

Sydney

You didn't come by to see how I am. You came by to see how you were, because you know what you did, you want to make sure you're okay.

Vaughn

I buried you. Consider that for one second.

Sydney

Don't use rational thought as a defense with me, not after all you and I have seen. Vaughn, you and I live and breathe madness every day on the job. There is no rational thought. I can't pretend to have a conversation about anything else with you. What it comes down to is faith. What I was hoping you'd say was, "I gave up on us, I lost faith." But what you came here for was closure, and there is not a chance you are getting that from me. I'm not gonna say I understand. I'm not gonna sympathize with you, and tell you how hard this must be for you. But you wanna know how I am? I am horrible! Vaughn, I am ripped apart. And not because I lost you, but because if it had been me, I would've waited. I would've found the truth. I wouldn't have given up on you. And now I realize what an absolute waste that would've been.

Weiss

[helping Sydney move] You're sure you're okay with this? I mean, are you going to be all right? By yourself?

Sydney

I just can't wrap my head around it. I mean, Francie's been dead for two years, but I feel like I saw her a few days ago. And now that Will is in the witness protection, I can't even contact him. All my friends are just . . . gone.

Weiss

Not all your friends.

Sark

If I'm to understand what you're saying, you have no idea where you've been for the last two years. . . . None? . . . Unbelievable! I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh, it's just . . . I'm speechless. Sydney, if Sloane had intended to abduct you, I wasn't privy to it.

Sydney

What if I said I still don't believe you?

Sark

I'd say it'd make no difference. In twenty-four hours I'll be free, and . . . you'll remain in the dark.

Who the hell do you think you are!?

Sydney

I'm the person who's going to hold you accountable if they kill him!

Oh, you're going to hold me responsible!?

Sydney

Did I stutter?

If you're finished, this is the men's room.

Sydney

Who let you in?

Vaughn

The other day you said I gave up on us because I didn't have faith, that some how you didn't mean enough to me.

Sydney

When I said that I was...

Vaughn

No - let me finish. After you died, I used to talk to you, like you were still around, literally out loud. Whole conversations about nothing: the weather, should I get a new car? should I have another drink? Then one day you started answering. I mean I could hear you in my head, like you were right next to me Sydney. We all know rationally I was a guy who stayed up nights, drinking, talking to his dead girlfriend. Still, I couldn't stop. So before you tell me that you can handle my coming back to the CIA, there are two things you need to know. First, is that I was so in love with you - it nearly killed me. And second, I don't regret moving on with my life.

Lauren

The risks you are describing have already been factored into our analysis. And as for SD-6, the Alliance doesn't exist anymore . . .

Sydney

Well, the only reason that SD-6 and the Alliance broke down is because Arvin Sloane, a man the White House pardoned by the way, wanted them to! So do me a favor and don't revise history that I lived through!

Vaughn

All right, enough! Sark was an inch away from initiating a nuclear exchange, and that was only Phase One. Capturing Sark, while it might put a smile on my face, will do nothing to shut down the Covenant.

Sydney

I haven't even asked anyone how they met.

Weiss

Are you asking me? The NSC was wrapping up the case on your mom ...uh, we were all deposed ... Lauren was the one asking the questions. They hit it off.

Sydney

Was everyone there? Dixon? Marshall . . . ?

Weiss

Syd, she's a good person. I'm not trying to rub it in, but I ... I don't want to be dishonest.

Lauren

We need access to the bunker; Sloane can get it for us. If we can use him, I don't see why we --

Sydney

Maybe you haven't been lucky enough to have firsthand experience with that psychopath . . .

Vaughn

She brokered his deal.

Sydney

What?

Lauren

I was part of the team that arranged for Sloane's pardon.

Vaughn

Look, none of us have any illusions about Sloane. The only reason he was given a pardon is because he provided us with intel that led to the destruction of terrorist cells ...

Vaughn

I've never worked with anyone who can improvise better than you can . . . but when Simon called you Julia ... your reaction ... You didn't seem surprised.

Sydney

Vaughn--

Vaughn

No. Tell me what's going on. Look, I know we're not where we were, but even before then, professionally, we never kept secrets from each other. I'm still on your side ...

Sydney

You're right: we're not where we were. And trust me when I tell you, I am doing you a favor by keeping you out of it.

Jack

Vaughn's been quizzing me about "Julia." I tried shutting down his inquiry, but apparently something you said has made that impossible.

Sydney

All I said was that I couldn't talk about it.

Jack

Which, of course, has only piqued his interest.

Tell me who the hell you're working for!

Sydney

I'm working for myself, you son of a bitch!

Sydney

A member of Walker's team caught Michael; I still don't know how. Walker ID'd him as CIA --

Lauren

-- and stabbed him and left him for dead. I already know all this. It's in the briefing. Thank you.

Sydney

Lauren, that's not . . . Walker had a gun to Michael's head. He was about to pull the trigger. I took his knife . . . I stabbed him myself.

Lauren

I don't know about you, but I can't work to the best of my abilities while wondering whether or not I'm being polite enough to my husband's ex-girlfriend.

Sydney

You don't need to be polite with me. We're both past formalities.

Lauren

Then I'll be blunt. I want you to request a transfer to another field office.

Sydney

I know we're being blunt, but was that a threat? You don't have the authority to have me transferred.

Lauren

The NSC will support me, when they learn that our working together is compromising their fight against the Covenant.

Lauren

You've told Bomani you'd work for the Covenant?

Sloane

Yes. And now I'm telling you that I'm in the position to be a double agent. Working for the Covenant but loyal to the CIA ...What is it, Sydney?

Sydney

[in disbelief] This is classic ...

Marshall

Now as far as our technology can detect - and these are next gen tests, as high-end as it gets - he's not lyin', folks.

Sydney

If there's someone who can fool those tests, it's Sloane.

Marshall

Yeah, well, in theory, yes. But in practice, he'd really have to be using the next gen's next gen lie detector defeating tech, which frankly, even I can't imagine.