Covert Affairs quotes

What are you doing?

Just establishing protocol.

What is this place?

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

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

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.

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

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.

I owe her.

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

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GGary

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

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

GGary

Do you have something to be contrite about?

No. I've done nothing wrong.

GGary

Didn't you fall in love with Simon Fischer?

You asked me if I did anything wrong.

GGary

Did you love him?

Yes. I loved him.

GGary

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

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.

GGary

You didn't answer the question.

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

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Auggie, are you busy?

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

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

[receives hug from Eyal] Oh. Hello.

It is so great to finally meet you.

August Anderson. Thanks for helping us out.

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

You didn't think I'd be blind.

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

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

[laughs] I like you, Auggie Anderson.

I'll try to take that as a compliment.

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

I didn't say I did.

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

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

RRivka

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.

Hey! Don't talk to her that way.

RRivka

Excuse me?

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

RRivka

That can be arranged.

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

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

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?

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

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The guy does demo.

That's probably where Cole got his explosives.

You take the front door and I'll take the back.

If you're so eager to get shot, why don't you take the front door?

We're two highly trained intelligence operatives. You don't think we can get the drop on a contractor with an NRA card?

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You want to tell me what just happened here? What's going on with you?

Rivka's at Langley. She says you've gone rogue. That you doctored the photos of al Masri, not Mossad. You.

Wait a minute. Rivka's at Langley?

You wouldn't do that, would you?

You mean she's there right now?

I'm telling you she just left Joan's office. Eyal, tell me that's not true!

I'm sorry, Annie. It's true.

You're lying.

Annie, I did it.

Mossad got caught pulling a fast one on the CIA and now you're taking one for the team to smooth things over. You're sacrificing yourself to protect them!

You're wrong. I acted on my own.

Was there no other way to achieve what you wanted than by using me like this? I trusted you.

I told you a long time ago that there's no such thing as trust among spies, but you don't seem to get it. You know this thing you keep doing, looking for the good in people? Not only does it make you weak, it makes you a target, and an easy one at that.

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Maybe you're right: maybe I'm naive, maybe I need to grow a thicker skin. I'm still having trouble believing you would give me doctored photos knowing what would happen, given all we've been through.

What are you saying, Annie?

I'm saying I'm giving you one last chance to save our friendship.

There's nothing I can say.

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RRivka

What did you tell her?

That I acted alone. That's what I was supposed to do, wasn't it?

RRivka

We had no choice. It had to be done.

By way of deception, thou shall do war.

RRivka

Eyal, you had a role to play here for Mossad, for Israel.

Annie trusted me completely.

RRivka

Yes, that was the point.

That's all over. I'm finished here. What now?

RRivka

Now you go to Tel Aviv. We'll find a desk for you.

I don't think so.

RRivka

You don't think so? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

It means I quit.

RRivka

Excuse me?

I've done some foolish, dangerous, questionable things for Mossad, for you. But this, this crossed the line.

RRivka

Don't forget which side of the line this woman is on.

I trusted her. She saved my life five times, even though she only counts three.

RRivka

Listen to me: what is happening here is much larger than you know. We've all had to play our parts. We've all had to pay the price.

Yeah? What have you lost in this grandiose scheme, hmm?

RRivka

You.

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So much for being polite. What happened?

I didn't have time to be polite. We need to get that money so we can pay off that club manager.

I'm not talking about your methods. You didn't want him to call Tel Aviv. Are you on the outs with Rivka? Did you get suspended?

I quit Mossad.

You quit Mossad? [sigh] I knew it! I knew they would make you take the fall for them.

Don't read too much into it. I wanted to hunt Khalid down and kill him, they had already completed their mission. Let's just call it creative differences.

Eyal.

It was time anyway.

Eyal, I'm sorry. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you.

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His guys must have clocked us and had Megan killed.

She was in love. She was never going to listen to me.

It wasn't your fault.

I know that. She had a chance to get herself out; more than one. She refused my help. There's nothing I can do about that. What?

Nothing. I agree with everything you said, it's just I've never heard you talk like this before.

Yeah, well I didn't feel like this before, but I've learned a lot since the last time we were here. Not everybody can be saved. That's not my job.

Please tell me you didn't take everything I said back in West Virginia to heart. Your empathy is one of your greatest talents. Never lose it. You never know when you might need it.

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We're talking about handing over agency assets. How many names are on that list? How many lives are we trading for one man?

Three assets in Riyadh, one in Dubai, but they're both collecting intel on OPEC, not the Ansari family.

That designation doesn't mean anything.

Can't we get them off the board before Khalid gets to them?

Yes, but the lives of those assets will be irrevocably changed.

I know. I pulled everything I could on the Ansari family looking for a way around this. I can't think of another plan. I don't want to give over those names, either, but somebody has to do something! Eyal needs my help, and I can't do nothing.

Is this about Russia?

And Paris, and Zurich, and West Virginia. It's about all of it.

You once told me you didn't have feelings for him. Is that not true? Is that what's driving this?