ALApril Luna
What can you do that the police can't?
You'd be surprised.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[after having faked being killed in a shootout] Nice fall, Shakespeare.
Oh, you should talk. You looked like you got hit by an arrow.
What are you talking about? A 9 mil at this range?
Michael, I know I said I would go along with you on this job, but I don't want you to work with Strickler. Not now, not ever. I can't help you with this.
It's a two person job. I need you.
I've seen the site. You can handle yourself. I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about you. Working with someone like Strickler, it changes you, little by little.
He's the only one that can get me back in. What do you want me to do?
You do what you have to do. I understand. I just can't stay here in Miami and watch. [walks out of the apartment]
Fi. Fi! Fiona!
[Voiceover] There's no greater luxury in the field than working with a friend you rely on. When you find someone you can trust absolutely, you want them on every operation you do, and nothing hurts worse than losing a friend to bullets, politics or something personal. But when you have to work alone again, you lock those feelings away and do the job at hand, because as every spy knows, there's time to think about what you've lost after the mission is over.
[V.O.] When you work as a covert operative, there's no line between who you are and what you do. You are who you need to be for the operation. It makes you effective, it keeps things simple. But when you spend so much time living with someone else, sometimes the people you care about most begin to wonder who you really are.
You never told them?!
No, Michael. Not even a Glenanne would forgive me for working with an American spy. Everyone at home still thinks you're from Kilkenny.
SStrickler
You don't get to have the job and the girl! She doesn't fit into your future, our future! So why don't you do yourself a favor and forget the past?!
Fiona is not my past. [shoots him]
Sam, if anything happens to me—
Oh, I'm finishing this, brother. I'm getting Fi out of there no matter what. Just don't tell her I said that.
[V.O.] When you realize that an operation is compromised, that your enemies are on the move, you're on the clock. You have to move as fast as you can to contain the damage and harden your defenses before it's too late. Sometimes you make it in time, and sometimes you don't. When you work in intelligence, the worst feeling in the world is knowing nothing. Being caught in something you don't begin to understand, because it's not the enemy you see that gets you. It's the one you don't.
Operation unburn Michael Westen is officially off.
[Voiceover] The day that the cell phone call log was invented should be celebrated as a national holiday for spies. Even a cautious cell phone user who uses dialback systems or switches phones often, leaves behind a lot of information you can use.
Still going through that thing?
Strickler used this phone. Chances are he used it to talk to whoever it is that's torching hotel rooms to say hello to me.
Have you considered turning this over to Homeland Security? They get paid for this sort of thing, you know.
For all I know he could be working for Homeland Security.
What are you worried about? So your mom becomes friends with the county records lady. So what?
You just never know how things are going to go! She's an asset. Things can get very complicated.
I was an asset of yours once.
And things got complicated and people got hurt.
True. In my experience, people get hurt and things get complicated no matter what you do.
I'm working on a listening device for your meeting with Ryan later. Would you care to join me?
I would love to.
You know, after the other day I never did get the chance to say— well, not that I have any doubt in my mind that I would have saved myself eventually, and I still think that your tactical approach was a little iffy, but you and Sam, you did come back for me. You gave up a lot to come back for me, whether I needed it or not.
You're welcome, Fi.
[Silence; they nearly kiss]
Watch it. You're getting solder on my transmitter.
[As cover ID Alex, to arguing thugs] Girls, girls, girls, don't fight; you're both pretty.
GGilroy
I had to see you in action and I have to say you've lived up to your reputation. Such panache! Love the suit, who are you wearing?
You know, you're awfully confident I won't shoot you right here. Don't be.
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