Jack Bristow quotes from Alias

Jack

We're waiting for Sloane.

Vaughn

You called Sloane on this?

Jack

You and I will be the prime suspects behind any attempt to free Sydney from NSC custody. Sloane has agreed to make it seem as if it were the work of the Covenant. Do I trust him on this? Not necessarily.

Vaughn

The fact that you're letting me see this place means: it's not your only one, is it?

Jack

You're smarter than you look.

Sloane

You and Sydney still believe I'm pursuing some hidden agenda. Now, whatever you may perceive that agenda to be, clearly it would be easier to obtain if you were both dead, given that you're my most vocal detractors - my most capable antagonists.

Jack

Or you need us for something. Something you believe only we can provide.

Sloane

You and Sydney are my absolution, my penance. You're all I have left.

Sydney

What happens if what we're looking for isn't metal?

Jack

Then we're screwed; it isn't an unfamiliar situation.

Jack

You're sure the DNA matched Lazarey's?

Lauren

Yes. Which means that Sydney did not kill him - Lindsey has nothing on her. She can come home.

Jack

I didn't bring this up to start a petty fight. The fact is, you and I have something in common. We both suffered through the death of the woman we loved only to discover that she was still alive. I know, it's hard. But this isn't about you. And I will not allow my daughter to become your mistress.

Vaughn

If that's where you think my concern for Sydney is headed, then you are even more cynical than I thought.

Jack

If lightning strikes, Mr. Vaughn, and you and I get to walk free again, if you care about my daughter as you claim to, then push her away. Be cruel if you have to. Make her despise you because your kindness tortures her. I can see it, what it does to her. And I won't have it.

Jack

Tell me, which of Irina's sisters are you? Elena or Yekatarina?

I haven't been Yekatarina since I was a child. My sisters call me Katya. Which means Irina wasn't the one who told you about me.

Jack

Learning that your wife is actually a Russian spy drives you to learn all you can about her true identity.

As observant as you are, you were married to my sister for five years without suspecting who she really was: her love must have been intoxicating.

Jack

Actually, Ryan alerted local authorities, gave them time to evacuate the building.

Weiss

So he's a humanitarian bomber?

Vaughn

He wanted the bomb squad called in?

Marshall

Well, maybe because he knew there was nothing they could do.

Sark has never met Ryan.

Jack

Are you sure of this?

Yes.

Sydney

That wasn't a "yes," that was a "no."

Jack

All I have is a paper trail. Not definitive proof but the beginning of what Director Dixon and I believe to be a strong case for the existence of a mole.

Other than Sloane.

Jack

Or instead of him. At this point, that is unclear.

Is it that hard to identify a traitor? Honestly, sometimes I think you people just get too close.

Jack

My marriage with Irina, in spite if everything, was a happy time to me. It was easy being with her. But there were times, moments and I became curious. How would she occupy her morning, or what were her plans when I was out of town? Usually she told me but occasionally she stopped what she was doing, walk over and offer me a kiss – spontaneous gesture. But on one occasion it struck me, this impulsive kiss, what if it was an evasion? Camouflaging the truth in an expression of love. Of course I dismissed my concerned immediately. Merely my professional paranoia, after all she was my wife. I don't regret having married. I have Sydney because of our time together. What I do regret is once I saw signs of her duplicity, once I sensed her betrayal, I chose to ignore it. All I'm asking is that you be responsive to the signs if and when they present themselves.

Vaughn

You never respected me. Never thought I was worthy of your daughter. So I'm not surprised you're so quick to think Lauren is betraying me. But whether or not you or Sydney believe me, I know the life I'm living, and I know the woman I am married to. Lauren is not Irina, and I am definitely not you.

Sydney

We should talk to Dixon and figure out a way to handle this.

Vaughn

Oh, I know how to handle this.

Jack

You will act like nothing has changed.

Vaughn

Okay, what's Plan B 'cause that's not going to happen.

Vaughn

My wife betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. You can't expect me to pretend that never happened.

Jack

I'm not sure you have a choice.

Vaughn

Why is that?

Jack

Because you're the one that married her.

Sydney

If Sloane dies, any chance I have of finding my sister dies with him.

Jack

Has it occurred to you that your half-sister might be a danger to you?

Sydney

Yes of course. But it's equally possible that I can help her. She could be an innocent victim.

Jack

With Irina Derevko and Arvin Sloane as her parents, I don't think so.

Sloane

Irina betrayed both of us, Jack. She sought me out for information the same way she did you.

Jack

She was my wife.

Sloane

She was a KGB spy who cared nothing about you or me. I've always thought that you understood your relationship with Irina was nothing more than that. But now that your schoolboy crush on the woman who destroyed your life is preventing you from saving mine, I will have to revise that assessment.

Jack

Sydney, there's something you should know. When I first learned of Sloane's affair with your mother, I was forced to consider the possibility that I wasn't in fact your biological father.

Sydney

You don't even--

Jack

It's not the case. I had our medical files examined. Our relationship is clear. But I wanted you to know, during that brief time before I was reassured my feelings for you never changed.