Jack and Sydney in “The Box, Part I”

Jack

I know how this feels.

Sydney

Not exactly. You've had a lot longer to make sense of this than I have.

Jack

There was a time when this was news to me, too. Your mother was sent to the United States to steal secrets from a ranking officer of the C.I.A. How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. But it was just a set-up.