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SEASON 3

Covert Affairs · Season 3

Covert Affairs Season 3 quotes

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S3 E1Hang on to Yourself

LSLena Smith

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.

I'm just doing what I signed on for.

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

You seem to know a lot about me.

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

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

Face it, Annie Walker. You've graduated.

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

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

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

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

S3 E2Sound and Vision

Are you listening to me?

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

[smiles] No. I didn't.

Oh.

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?

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

What am I looking at?

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.

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

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

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

[smiles] Whatever you say, dear.

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

You know what I like about you?

Just one thing.

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

That makes me a chump.

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

S3 E10Let's Dance

AArthur

What is it?

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

AArthur

What?

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

AArthur

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.

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

AArthur

Is it going to be safe?

I don't know.

AArthur

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

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

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

You shouldn't be calling.

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

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

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.

I'm sorry. I can't.

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.

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.

Okay, Annie, pull the trigger. It'll be as if you're pulling the trigger on yourself. You'll never make it out of Russia. You'll be lucky to make it to the auto route. I'm sure Joan gave you the whole 'we will deny any knowledge' speech. You're going to find out just how true that is. They will hang you out to dry; leave you to rot, and the worst part is you'll never be able to look at yourself the same way again. You'll know that you killed for malice, and that changes you. Go ahead, Annie. Pull the trigger.

S3 E11Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

[having just rescued Annie from a Russian prison] Sorry to drop in unannounced, but I didn't have your phone number. You weren't doing anything today, were you? [Annie hugs him] You're okay.

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.

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?

S3 E12Wishful Beginnings

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.

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.

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!

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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