I like you, Annie. So I have an offer for you: become me.
Excuse me?
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.
So what? You want me to betray my agency and my country? Why would I ever do that?
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.
You think you have power, here in the woods? Alone?
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.
You're a traitor, 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.
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