Michael Vaughn quotes from Alias

Sloane

Ah... you must be the man that Sark told me about. The man that Sydney was willing to kill me for.

Vaughn

She would have killed you for a lot less.

Vaughn

Marshall? I'm Michael Vaughn. Welcome to the CIA.

Marshall

[smiles nervously] Heard that one before.

Vaughn

[smiles] Well, this time it's for real. [gestures for Marshall to turn] We have a desk set up for you.

Marshall

[turns] Syd!

Sydney

How are you?

Marshall

I'm fine, except every few moments I fight the urge to weep openly. But that's normal, right?

Vaughn

Can it wait?

Weiss

Apparently not, he wants Sydney too. Are you with her?

Vaughn

Uh ... No. I haven't seen her.

Weiss

You're in bed with her right now, aren't you?

Vaughn

I'm trying... just find out what he wants.

Vaughn

You said everyone in the radius was affected, even people who were taking cover?

Marshall

Yeah. Well, there's no defense against this kind of energy. It goes through walls, concrete, steel, everything.

Kendall

There's no shield.

Marshall

No. Sorry. Oh, um, I should probably also tell you that, um, this kind of energy knocks out computer circuitry. Which means if it's pointed at the sky, it could take down planes.

Dixon

I'm out.

Vaughn

Sydney's in trouble.

Dixon

Respect my decision.

Vaughn

I can't do that. Not when your decision may cost Sydney her life. You wouldn't tell Sydney how you infiltrated Kabir's so she found an alternate way in using what turned out to be faulty intel. She was captured and unless we find another confirmed access point, no one will be sent in to get her out.

Vaughn

Look, there is something you don't know about me. I don't like it when people question my loyalty. It makes me insane.

Sydney

This isn't about loyalty. I never said anything about loyalty.

Vaughn

When you ask me if I'm keeping secrets, the suggestion's pretty clear.

Sydney

And you know what? Secrets will be a problem between us. After everything we've been through, you should know that.

Sydney

Research? What kind of research?

Vaughn

It's something private. Something just for me.

Sydney

Who do you think you work for? Nothing is private. You're being investigated.

Vaughn

I had to find out if she was deceiving us again. I mean, I could not sleep at night knowing I was doing nothing. That somehow, I was helping her.

Sydney

And did you find anything?

Vaughn

Nothing. She's clean.

Sydney

You were right to investigate her.

Vaughn

Sydney . . .

Sydney

No, it's okay. It's the truth. I'm not blaming you, it's me. I was so naive about her.

Vaughn

I don't think you should be a part of this task force. Look, you know how I feel about Irina Derevko but no one should have to hunt down their own mother, no matter what the circumstances are.

Sydney

Vaughn. I mean, okay. The backpack is getting a little ridiculous.

Vaughn

What do you mean?

Sydney

[she points to her bureau] The middle drawer. It's yours.

Weiss

She gave you a drawer, huh?

Vaughn

It was a gesture of convenience.

Weiss

And, uh, what did you put in it?

Vaughn

Why do you care?

Weiss

What do you mean, why do I care? Do you know how spoiled you are? You know, a drawer! I wish I had a girlfriend to say "Hey, do you want a drawer?"

Vaughn

I'll give you a drawer at my place.

Weiss

I don't wanna drawer in your place.

Weiss

[to Vaughn] If we end up sharing a cell in federal prison, I'm not giving you a drawer.

Vaughn

You're saying that five hundred years ago Rambaldi drew the DNA profile of a man who's alive today?

It gets even better. Di Regno's DNA profile was a code key. It let us decrypt page 94 of the Rambaldi manuscript.

Dixon

What's on the page?

Times and dates, each marking an apocalyptic event.

Jack

I've worked with Agent Dixon for nearly a dozen years. You've worked with him for little over a month. If he feels ready to be in the field, I'm going to accord him that respect.

Vaughn

But given his state of mind, do you really think he's the right person to make that decision?

Jack

Yes.

Vaughn

Jack, he just lost his wife. I mean, with all due respect, why are you fighting with me on this?

Jack

I'm not required to justify my decisions to you, Agent Vaughn. However, I recruited Agent Dixon into SD-6. I'm the man who sold him the lie he was working for the CIA. I introduced him to the man who killed his wife. I will not be the one to tell him he can't assist in Sloane's capture.

Vaughn

We thought you were dead. They asked me to come back to . . . to explain.

Sydney

Come back from what? What are you talking about? [noticing his hand] Vaughn... why are you wearing that ring?

Vaughn

Syd... since that night... you were missing. You've been missing for almost two years.

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.

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.