Annie Walker quotes from Covert Affairs

Annie

So you said medical school? Did you finish?

Eyal

No.

Annie

What happened?

Eyal

In 2002 my family needed me and so I took a leave of absence. Never went back.

Annie

Doctor Lavin has a nice ring to it.

Eyal

You're my mother.

Annie

Did you ever think of going back?

Eyal

No. It's different in Israel. Our ambitions are about life, living well, not our careers.

Annie

What about having both?

Eyal

See, that's very American. Life takes you where it takes you. You can only do so much, sometimes none at all. History taught us that.

Annie

Don't fight the current? Is that it?

Eyal

Or swim with it. Instead of fighting, live your life. The current may know something you don't.

Eyal

Why are you here, Annie Walker?

Annie

This is a suicide mission. Don't do it. It's not what your sister would want.

Eyal

[chuckles] Oh, you didn't know my sister. This is exactly what she would have wanted. See, we know this is when you fight the current.

How many operatives do you think do what you do? Go into the field, turn assets, stay cool in real danger, use a weapon, use it to kill. Not many, and of those, how many of them are women? Even less. So, here's my pitch: I think you were being under utilized at the DPD.

Annie

I'm just doing what I signed on for.

Lena

I don't believe you believe that. It's what you're supposed to say, but it's bullshit.

Annie

You seem to know a lot about me.

Lena

Not in a creepy way, but yeah. I know it's pretty hard to go through what you went through.

Annie

With all due respect, I don't think you know how I'm feeling.

Auggie

Face it, Annie Walker. You've graduated.

Annie

I told you I was nervous before. I'm more nervous now.

Auggie

Watch your six. Lena's ops can find a way to kind of get banged up.

Annie

You're not worried about me are you, Auggie?

Auggie

I worry about a lot of things: global warming, the Cubs playoff hopes, the state of my old Corvette, but you? Never.

Annie

Are you listening to me?

Auggie

Well, you asked why we're here in the safehouse, didn't you?

Annie

[smiles] No. I didn't.

Auggie

Oh.

Annie

The first thing a guy does when he gets married is stop listening. Or so I'm told. How much more time do you need?

Auggie

Ten, fifteen more minutes. Come here, you've got to check this out.

Annie

What am I looking at?

Auggie

Poetry. No, actually I take that back. It's more like sheet music. Red Rover is using the basic building blocks of the Stuxnet virus, but this thing has got so much more soul. It's like a melody.

Annie

[smiles] I have to take your word for it.

Auggie

Zero data tags. Man in the middle attacks. Modular, sophisticated, it's like Miles in his kind of Blue Period.

Annie

You should have told me you were such a dork when you proposed. I might have said no.

Auggie

[smiles] Whatever you say, dear.

Auggie

I have to admit, my radar was a little off on this one.

Annie

You know what I like about you?

Auggie

Just one thing.

Annie

Positivity. You see the best in people until they prove you wrong.

Auggie

That makes me a chump.

Annie

That makes you a romantic. [pause] And a little bit of a chump.

Auggie

Annie, listen to me, you need to get out of Russia.

Annie

You shouldn't be calling.

Auggie

I know this is off-book, but your ambush has damaged State's negotiations and the Russians are looking for you.

Annie

The negotiations were bullshit. I'm the only one who's acting.

Auggie

Annie, please. You're a person of interest. Every moment you remain in Russia is a moment too long. Now, I can arrange a water egress for you through the Black Sea. Use your resources and protocols and get to Novorossiysk.

Annie

I'm sorry. I can't.

Auggie

Annie, do you remember that moment we talked about in the car, where you've gone too far? This is that moment. Now I need you to come home, and this isn't the Agency calling and I'm not Joan. There are things that I need to say to you face to face. Important things. Please.

Lena

I like you, Annie. So I have an offer for you: become me.

Annie

Excuse me?

Lena

You would be an exquisite double within the CIA. No one would suspect you and I would conspire after all we've been through. It would be audacious, elegant. Just go back, tell them you couldn't find me. We could establish dead drops within a year.

Annie

So what? You want me to betray my agency and my country? Why would I ever do that?

Lena

For one thing, you would be incredibly rich, but mostly I'd like you to experience power. Real, true power. You would be in control. Something I think you're finally starting to realize will never happen while you're in the CIA.

Annie

You think you have power, here in the woods? Alone?

Lena

Yes. I had the power to summon you here to me, didn't I? And that kind of power, to compel people, to move the pieces, it's intoxicating.

Annie

You're a traitor, Lena.

Lena

CIA, FSB, America, Russia, these are all just words. The best spies have always known that the sides can change, it's the game itself that matters.

Annie

What are you doing?

Eyal

Just establishing protocol.

Annie

What is this place?

Eyal

It's a friend's. This isn't Mossad business, if that's what you're getting at.

Annie

You came on your own? How did you know how to find me?

Eyal

It was a lucky guess. [smiles] Believe me, that's just a slight exaggeration. Hey, just know that you have at least one really good friend back home.

Annie

You've already done more for me than I can already repay.

Eyal

You bet your ass I have! We're talking about Simon Fisher's sister, right? Look, whatever he may have meant to you, it's over. You don't owe him in perpetuity.

Annie

I owe her.

Eyal

[shakes his head] A normal person doesn't do this kind of thing. You know that, right?

Have a seat. Over the next few days and weeks we'll be doing timelines, we'll be doing polygraphs, and we'll talk.

Annie

[smiles] And if I act contrite enough, I get to go back to my desk?

Do you have something to be contrite about?

Annie

No. I've done nothing wrong.

Didn't you fall in love with Simon Fischer?

Annie

You asked me if I did anything wrong.

Did you love him?

Annie

Yes. I loved him.

So you were unable to separate your professional life from your personal one.

Annie

The CIA has asked me that question before; both then and now it feels like an indictment. The truth is the CIA needs me to blur those lines and I am very good at it.

You didn't answer the question.

Annie

[whispers] My mission was to make my professional life my personal one, and my personal life professional.

Annie

Auggie, are you busy?

Auggie

I'm the only one here who can work without a screen, so yes.

Annie

I just need a minute. I wanted to introduce you to Eyal Lavine.

Auggie

[receives hug from Eyal] Oh. Hello.

Eyal

It is so great to finally meet you.

Auggie

August Anderson. Thanks for helping us out.

Eyal

You know, I have to confess that after weeks of coded texts and encrypted emails, one forms a picture in one's mind.

Auggie

You didn't think I'd be blind.

Eyal

I didn't think you'd be this short.

Auggie

[laughs] Well, I didn't think you'd be this handsome.

Eyal

[laughs] I like you, Auggie Anderson.

Auggie

I'll try to take that as a compliment.

Eyal

Listen, just because I saved you out of a Russian prison doesn't mean you owe me.

Annie

I didn't say I did.

Eyal

Why not? I saved you out of a Russian prison!

Annie

Is there anything that Mossad could share with us about the intel that was on that watch? Maybe if we had some specific leads --

Miss Walker, these questions are inappropriate and they are not helpful. As far as I can tell, your field work at best is unpredictable and at worst it is reckless.

Eyal

Hey! Don't talk to her that way.

Excuse me?

Eyal

She's just trying to make the best of a bad situation. If you want to yell at somebody, yell at me.

That can be arranged.

Eyal

So how long before your supervisors realize you shared your intel with us?

Annie

I don't know. I don't care. They paired us together because we work well together. They can't have it both ways.

Eyal

I'm impressed. You're learning to work your agency, showing them you can't be pushed around. You had me, you know. When Griffin was running away, you could have kept that watch for yourself. Why share it with Mossad?

Annie

I didn't share it with Mossad. I shared it with you.