Michael Vaughn quotes from Alias

Vaughn

There's nothing routine about that list. There's something very specific about it. It's been a mystery within the agency for over two decades. Who murdered those C.I.A. officers? I'm sorry, but we have our answer now. It was your father. And I'm going to report him.

Vaughn

The guys who made the paperclip came up with this. [hands Sydney lock-breaking device] It overrides the circuitry. Tricks the safe into believing you entered the correct combination. They say it's bitchin,' so I'm assuming it's... bitchin.'

Vaughn

[to Sydney] This watch belonged to my father. It's broken now, but it used to keep perfect time. And when he gave it to me, he said, "You could set your heart by this watch." It stopped October 1st -- the day we met.

Vaughn

And the thing that makes me crazy every day is people that would kill us if we're seen together - the Alliance, SD-6, Sloane - are the very forces that brought you into my life to begin with. What kind of a sick joke is that?

Vaughn

[to Lauren] I am gonna erase you! I'm gonna remove any evidence you ever existed! You used me. You used my grief, my work, who I am. You took that from me – I'm taking it back.

Vaughn

I was married for a short time... The woman I was married to betrayed me, she betrayed a lot of people. And when I found out what she'd done, I let my hate for her consume me, I began to wish the woman I loved was dead. I woke up every day imagining how I'd do it, what was the best way, what was the most efficient way. It's all I wanted. That woman was evil and deserved to be punished and so I killed her. And although that woman was the worst kind of evil I also know that killing her was wrong. I don't sleep much, I can't. I can't close my eyes without seeing it, that moment, the look on her face. She won't leave me. She won't.

Vaughn

I was going to take you to the beach – Santa Barbara. We'd go out for a walk, maybe when the sun was setting. But now we're here, and I don't know what we're jumping into. And I may never get another chance to do this again. Sometimes I wake up before you do and I watch you sleep and I'm overwhelmed because ... you're so amazing. And I don't know why I'm lucky enough to have you in my life. That you're here with me. And I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you, trying to make you as happy as you make me. Sydney Bristow, will you marry me?

Vaughn

They're reviewing your statement. You wrote a lot.

Sydney

I know.

Vaughn

I mean, it's like Tolstoy long. Devlin says it could take weeks to verify. But I know we could use another double agent in SD-6, so we'll be in contact. I'm going to get you a ride out of here, keep you concealed. Why are you shaking your head?

Sydney

Because you said another.

Vaughn

So?

Sydney

So if you really had one already you most likely wouldn't tell me until I was authenticated.

Vaughn

Unless I had an instinct about you.

Sydney

My bet is you don't...have another double.

Vaughn

We might.

Sydney

But you want me to believe that you do, so that on the off chance that I'm actually looking to be a triple agent I'll report back that there's an existing mole to upset the balance of my agency.

Vaughn

I'm not trying to play you.

Sydney

Yeah, we'll see.

Sydney

You said you wanted to talk about the plan. I'm giving you the plan.

Vaughn

It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the plan. Tomorrow's your first day back at SD-6. Now, nothing should change. When you get your assignment, you'll detail your mission on a paper bag. [picks one up, showing her] Bag. Then you'll call this number. Memorize it. After three tones, press the appropriate digit -- one through six. Each corresponds to a trash can in a specific location. Now we'll review your information, create a countermission, and we'll contact you posing as a wrong number: Joey's Pizza. Any questions so far?

Sydney

Yeah. Can you show me what a bag looks like again?

Weiss

Your girlfriend's name is Alice.

Vaughn

Would you shut up.

Weiss

Hey, just checking.

Vaughn

Get out of my office.

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.

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.

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.