Sydney Bristow quotes from Alias

Sydney

Are you insane? Calling me in here for a social event? SD-6 has a division whose sole responsibility it is to track their agents and report back suspect activity. "Your girl" is risking her life, and you yours, every time we lay eyes on each other. So, do me a favor: don't be so friendly.

I-I just love your spirit.

Sydney

That's heartening. Are we done here?

I hate to pull rank, but time is a factor here.

Sydney

Time is a factor here. You know how much time? Seven years. That's how long I worked for SD-6 before I found out who they really are. And now that I know, my days of blindly following orders are over.

Who the hell do you think you're talking to?

I know exactly who I'm talking to. Tell Devlin if Agent Vaughn isn't on the other end of this earpiece when I turn it on, the C.I.A. gets nothing.

Vaughn is a junior officer.

Sydney

Then promote him.

Vaughn

Give them the correct number, Sydney! And that's an order.

Sydney

An order? We need to have a long talk when I get back to Los Angeles.

Francie

He has a law review in an hour.

Sydney

You want to follow him.

Francie

So much, I cannot even tell you.

Sydney

I think spying on your boyfriend is generally regarded in a relationship as bad precedent.

Francie

What if he's cheating on me?

Francie

You're a really good friend, you know that?

Sydney

Yes, I do.

Francie

Hey, there he is. Start the car. Start the car.

Sydney

Wait until he's a block away.

Francie

Look at you getting all into it.

Sydney

Everyone knows you wait.

Francie

I don't know you wait.

Sydney

You wait.

Sydney

Did you have a fight with your wife?

Vaughn

What wife? I have no wife.

Sydney

No? There was a picture in your office. You and that woman. I thought you were married.

Vaughn

She and I are not remotely -- you thought I was married this whole time?

Sydney

I guess so. What's the big deal?

Vaughn

Nothing.

Sydney

I'm sorry to call you. I just didn't know who else to call. My father and I were supposed to have dinner tonight for the first time since I was a kid. I can't even remember the last time. He just didn't show. He said he had work. And he didn't have work. This isn't just about my dad. When I was in Morocco the man who died was a friend of mine. He was a good man! Who thought he was fighting for the right side, that he was working for the CIA. He was lied to and now he's dead. I had his blood on my hands!

Vaughn

Sydney --

Sydney

I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I don't even know who I am anymore, or what I'm doing, or why I'm doing it.

Vaughn

You just threw your beeper in the Pacific.

Sydney

I know.

Vaughn

When you first walked into my office with that stupid Bozo hair, I thought you were crazy. I thought you might actually be a crazy person. But I watched you, and I read your statement, and I've seen... I've seen how you think, I've seen how you work, I've seen how you are in this job. In this job, you see darkness. You see the worst in people and though the jobs are different and the missions change, and the enemies have a thousand names, the one crucial thing, the one real responsibility you have is to not let your rage, and your resentment, and your disgust, darken you. When you're at your absolute lowest, at your most depressed, just remember that you can always -- you know. You got my number.

Francie

Okay, so I'm in my Operations and Technology Management class, and I realize two things. One, I prepared the wrong chapter.

Sydney

No!

Francie

I don't want to talk about it. And two, you and I are going to have a Halloween party.

Dixon

Sloane is asking about Berlin. He thinks someone might have gotten to Schiller. He thinks he might be a plant. He wanted to know why you had me change the pick up to Koenig Strasse.

Sydney

I told you, I thought I was being followed.

Dixon

Syd, is there something I should know?

Sydney

No.

Sydney

He practically apologized.

Vaughn

Sloane did?

Sydney

For thinking maybe I'd mailed him the wrong guy. Imagine that.

Sydney

Those men died for no reason.

Vaughn

No, those men died for their country.

Francie

Hey, how was your trip?

Sydney

Oh. Not good. I was working with these people who -- they were terminated.

Francie

Oh, man. The economy sucks.

Sydney

What's this?

Vaughn

A bug.

Sydney

What are you, twelve years old?

Vaughn

No, a bug.

Sydney

Raid my closet.

Francie

Thanks, but I got boobs.

Jack

What you think you know, you don't know.

Sydney

Then you explain it to me.

Jack

You don't have clearance.

Sydney

Clearance?!

Jack

Yes.

Sydney

To be told how my mother died??

Jack

There are rules, Sydney.

Sydney

Then you break them!

Jack

Think about what you're saying. Acting cavalier about breaking the rules. Think about the last time you did something like that. I'm not a perfect man. I know that. But I am smart enough not to draw simple conclusions and then act upon them. I would think if anyone had learned that lesson it would have been you.

Jack

Shephard killed Danny. I'm sure you know that already.

Sydney

If I didn't, thanks for breaking it to me gently.

Sydney

How do I look?

Dixon

For the record, that's a question you never have to ask anyone.