Jack Bristow quotes from Alias

Jack

I know why you checked yourself out of medical services early. I know you're under the impression you're fine, that all you need to do is hold yourself together, bury yourself in work.

Vaughn

Get to the point, Jack.

Jack

I suggest you focus your energy into achieving closure on this matter.

Vaughn

No one wants Lauren in custody more than I do!

Jack

That's not the kind of closure I'm referring to.

Sydney

[about Vaughn] You want him to kill Lauren...

Jack

If he doesn't, it will eat at him like a cancer. The only cure is to end it now. She destroyed Vaughn's life.

Sydney

Vaughn's life. Not yours. This is about what Lauren did to Vaughn, not what mom did to you. I don't know what you've told him or how much of all this you've orchestrated, but in some twisted way you got Vaughn carrying your burden. Trying to get you closure by doing the one thing you never had the chance to do – kill the person who betrayed you.

Jack

I did have a chance. And I didn't take it. And not a day went by that I didn't regret letting her go. Vaughn will feel the same way. He will end up like me. And I love you too much to let that happen.

Jack

It must've been lost in the mail.

Sydney

Your invitation?

Jack

Unless it was an e-vite. I don't read e-vites.

Jack

I'll make you a deal; you cooperate with us... That's it.

You don't frighten me.

Jack

Then, clearly you're an idiot.

Sydney

You manipulated Nadia.

Jack

I gave your sister closure.

Sydney

But not the truth.

Jack

Sometimes a satisfying lie, Sydney, can do more good than the awful truth.

Nadia

I don't mean to seem impatient, but... I've never done anything that's lasted as long as this.

Jack

How sad for you...

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Is something on your mind Agent Vaughn?

Vaughn

[hesitant] No, not really. I'm not very sleeping well.

Jack

It's Lauren, isn't it?

Vaughn

I think I see her sometimes; I thought I saw her in the market in Algeria. Did that ever happen with you?

Jack

Do I have visions of Lauren?

Vaughn

I don't know that many people who killed the woman they were married to. I was just wondering if that's what happens.

Jack

It did, now it doesn't.

Jack

Irina Derevko collected 19th century literature. There was a small bookstore in Prague that stocked rare first editions. Whenever I was in town, I'd buy one for her as a gift.

Marshall

Oh, that's sweet.

Jack

The KGB encoded assassination orders in these pages.

Marshall

Oh. Well... that's... not as sweet.

Jack

In the next 24 hours, Sark should lead us to CRF headquarters. We'll put a tactical team on stand-by. For now, we wait.

Marshall

Who wants to order Chinese? I'm starving. [Jack and Vaughn give him identical stares] Thai? Indian?

Sloane

I don't care about her agenda. That woman is a threat - I want her destroyed.

Jack

Your daughter has just been attacked, I understand that. But this is no time to react emotionally.

Sloane

Whatever it takes to find Anna... whatever corners you have to cut, whatever favors you have to call in, do it. But find her. Eliminate her.

Jack

And what about your faith that Nadia will survive?

Sloane

Oh... this isn't about faith.

Jack

[on the phone] What's your status?

Marshall

Well, it's really hot here, and everyone keeps calling me Chongo.

Marshall

Oh God. It's oozing. It's oozing everywhere, sir.

Jack

[via cell phone] That means you've ruptured the macula. The eye is useless, abandon it. Approach the second one gently, like a soft-boiled egg. You're going to need a digging instrument to assist with this.

Marshall

I've got a spork.

Jack

What's a spork?

Marshall

It's like a half-spoon... half-fork, will that do?

Jack

That will work.

Jack

Coordinate an in-country rendezvous with Sloane at twelve hundred hours.

Weiss

Jack, it's me. You can say 'noon'.

Jack

Just do it!

Sydney

You still trust him.

Jack

I trust that when he laid the seeds for this crisis, he thought he was doing something good. That he didn't see this as a trigger for global genocide.

Sydney

So he's simply a delusional megalomaniac with benign intentions.

Jack

I was set up. Elena put a hit out on Sydney, framed Irina for it.

Oh, I see. So, you executed my sister on misunderstanding. Well, then, all is forgiven. Don't stand there pretending you are a patsy; you're too good at what you do. If you pulled the trigger, part of you wanted to be manipulated.