Arvin Sloane quotes from Alias

Sloane

I miss LA. I miss Emily. I miss the friendship with your father. [sighs] I miss your confidence and trust. Perhaps, I can get it back someday?

Sydney

You will never have my confidence and trust ... or my father's friendship and respect ... ever.

Sloane

Sydney, I was very pleased when Dixon said you'd agreed to be my handler.

Sydney

It was an assignment, not an agreement - the way a janitor doesn't agree to clean a toilet. But as your handler, you'll do as I say, when I say it. I select your assignments; I design your missions. I control you, not the other way around.

Sloane

Is that what you used to let Vaughn do? Control you?

Sydney

You will set up a meeting with Sark and Allison. You'll explain to them that their travel plans have been compromised. You'll then offer them assistance in revising their arrangements.

Sloane

And pass the information along to you.

Sydney

That won't be necessary. You'll be wearing a wire.

Sloane

And if they discover that it's a setup?

Sydney

Then I get to hear them kill you.

Sloane

By the way, you look beautiful.

Sydney

Spare me.

Sloane

You know, Sydney, we should dance.

Sydney

Like hell.

Sloane

There was a time you trusted me.

Sydney

That was before I knew who you were . . . That was before I knew who I was.

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.

Vaughn

If you betray her, I swear to you no matter what it costs me, I will kill you.

Sloane

No need to worry, Agent Vaughn. I love her too.

Are you telling me Sydney is your daughter?

Sloane

I never tried to prove it, one way or the other. But the strength that Sydney finds within, I like to believe that comes from me. . . How about that: the world didn't come to an end.

Sloane

You have such a beautiful smile, Sydney. I miss it.

Sydney

If you're executed, I'll be a witness. I'll smile then.

Dixon

We've looked everywhere on Earth.

Sloane

Really, Marcus? Have you? Or is it simply that you've looked everywhere on land?

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.

Sloane

Sydney, whatever grief my apparent death might have caused you, I only wish I could have spared you the pain.

Sydney

When I heard you were dead, any grief I felt was over the possibility of never knowing my sister. I did not grieve for you.

Sloane

Because I see in her something I once saw in you: the need to work for what's right. And because you know what it is to put aside personal issues, and that... that's a gift.

Sydney

It's not a gift. What it's been is a necessity, and it's become a burden, and, quite frankly, something I've run out of patience for.

Sloane

[about Nadia] I knew she would be of great value here... but she chose to leave intelligence. Drop out.

Sydney

You sure she really left? Fake quitting seems to be all the rage.

Sloane

Thank you.

Sydney

For what.

Sloane

For letting my daughter stay with you. As Nadia acclimates to this life, to a new family... she needs support... and you have put my mind at ease.

Sydney

The thought that I did something that might have given you a warm and fuzzy feeling makes me want to kick my own sister out of my house.

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.

Sloane

Among the items retrieved was the Blackwell index.

Weiss

Blackwell? What is this, worst dressed list?