Joan Campbell quotes from Covert Affairs

Joan

[to Jai] You are either personally undermining me or your promotion has affected your better judgement, if such a thing ever existed. In the future, if you have anything to say to me, you will hold your tongue and speak to me privately. Or better yet, keep it to yourself.

Joan

You hot sync the devices in the room. He gets the bank codes for his payment and you get the intel, and that's it. Don't have a drink with him, don't sleep him.

Annie

You think I'd sleep with him?

Joan

I think he'd sleep with you.

Bethesda police scanner notified all units, shots fired at the address of Helen Newman.

Joan

Average response time for Bethesda PD is what, six minutes? [Tooke nods] Why couldn't it have been in D.C.? Their cops are so much slower.

Joan

I can't control whether or not you've been placed in my division, but decisions about my officers are always mine and always final.

I understand.

Joan

I'm not sure that you do, but you will.

Annie

This is one of those jobs where nothing is ever easy, isn't it?

Joan

Yeah, but look at the pension and the medical.

Auggie

And a chance to spend tropical nights with twenty-year-old men.

Annie

He's sleeping on the couch!

Joan

She got him.

She's good! She reminds me of someone.

Joan

Oh yeah? Yourself?

You!

What is it?

Joan

I've allowed Annie to travel to Russia to prove Lena's presence in-country.

What?

Joan

And I've provided her with funds and an active cover.

The agency has suspended all tactical missions on this front. I just gave the DCI my word literally this morning that we were done with this.

Joan

Arthur, she was going to go anyway. I just wanted to make sure she did it safely.

Is it going to be safe?

Joan

I don't know.

I can fire you for this. You know that, right? How is it going to look if she dies?

Joan

How is it going to look? I don't know, but it will feel terrible.