Covert Affairs (TV Series)

Pilot (2010)

Christopher Gorham: Auggie Anderson

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Quotes 

• Auggie Anderson : [her Christian Louboutin heels clack as Annie walks away]  Gotta love those kitten heels.

• Auggie Anderson : Seeing that dead body really turned me on.

  Vincent Rossabi : You're blind.

  Auggie Anderson : What are you, "sight-ist"? I think I'd like to speak to someone a little more open-minded!

• Auggie Anderson : You all right?

  Annie Walker : I saw a man get killed today. I lied to a Federal Agent. I was shot at.

  Auggie Anderson : Or as we call it, "Thursday at the Agency."

  Annie Walker : [scoffs, shakes head]  Asset entanglement, evasion techniques, deception. These are all words they use in training. They make it... sound so clinical. But... it's not. It's... it's messy and it's dangerous.

  Auggie Anderson : It is messy. And it can be dangerous. But you're doing it well. Now... it's Miller time. Happy hour at the tavern.

  Annie Walker : A drink? That's your solution?

  Auggie Anderson : Oh, absolutely.

• Annie Walker : Everyone here is so young.

  Auggie Anderson : There was a hiring freeze that was unfrozen after 9/11. Fifty percent of the agency has five years' experience or less.

  Annie Walker : That's both... inspiring and weirdly unsettling.

  Auggie Anderson : You'll find this is a weird place to work. Polygraphs every year, no cellphones allowed inside the building, no dating foreigners. In fact, the CIA highly encourages dating within the Agency. Keeps things within the circle of trust. It's like a Club Med without the free drinks.

• Auggie Anderson : [getting a whiff of Annie's perfume]  Jo Malone grapefruit?

  Annie Walker : Am I wearing too much perfume?

  Auggie Anderson : No. No, it's very subtle. A lot of the ladies around here lay it on so thick, it's like they're chumming for hammerheads.

• Annie Walker : Where do I fit in?

  Joan Campbell : You've been assigned as Stas' handler. You'll go to the hotel room where we have him, wait for his call, and... bring this.

  [hands over device] 

  Annie Walker : A BlackBerry?

  Auggie Anderson : That is a dedicated two-way encoded transponder that only looks like a BlackBerry. He has one, you have one.

  Joan Campbell : You hot-synch 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 with him.

  Annie Walker : You think I'd sleep with him?

  Joan Campbell : I think he'd sleep with you.

  Annie Walker : [frowns]  Did you call me in because I speak Russian?

  Joan Campbell : Yes, and you can also pass for a call girl.

  [Annie widens her eyes in surprise] 

  Joan Campbell : We want to make it look like Stas is here to buy guns and party, not sell secrets to us.

  Annie Walker : I'm surprised there was nobody already here who could do that.

  Joan Campbell : There was. She's gone. Let's leave it at that.

  [about to go, has one last thing to say:] 

  Joan Campbell : If you don't want the assignment, we can send you back to the Farm.

  Annie Walker : No. No, I'm here. I can do it. I... do... do I have to wear, like, a... costume?

  Joan Campbell : Hookers in D.C. are pretty conservative. What you're wearing now is fine.

  [hands over file, goes off, leaving Annie at a bit of a loss]