“The Enemy Walks In” quotes from Alias

Irina

Tell me... Sydney... who sent you here? You must tell me.

Sydney

Or what? I'm grounded?

Sydney

I met Emily shortly after I started working at Credit Dauphine. Like many young women, I was intimidated... by the world. I was sort of desperate for a little guidance. As he had been for most of my life, my father was busy working. I'd lost my mother when I was six... so I didn't have anyone to go to. No role model. Arvin invited me for dinner one night. I remember after dinner was over, Emily walked me out to the car. I didn't know her at all and she said in this simple, reassuring voice... "You're gonna be okay." Thinking of Emily, I often wondered about my own mother and what she would have been like, had she lived. Would she have been as strong as Emily? As kind, as good? I always told myself that she would have had those qualities even though I couldn't see them, I simply believed them. But Emily wasn't just the mother I never had. She was the mother all of us wish we had.

Jack

The only way SD-6 will let you live is if you destroy the life you've got.

Will

I understand that, but you can't think of another way than this?

Jack

Yes, I can think of a number of other ways. But they all involve your burial.

Will

Is that your idea of a joke? You're morbid, Jack.

And you did all this with a bullet in your shoulder?

Sydney

Do you not believe me?

It's impressive.

Sydney

Not really. One thing I have learned doing this - there's no drug like adrenaline.

One more thing. You haven't said anything about your mother.

Sydney

What, am I supposed to say something insightful? The first time I see my mother in twenty years, and she almost kills me. Which would have made me the thirteenth CIA officer she's killed. She's former KGB. She's betrayed my father. She's betrayed me. She's betrayed this country. All anyone needs to know about that woman is that she's a bad guy.

I think this was a good beginning.