Burn Notice (TV Series)

Hard Out (2011)

Lauren Stamile: Agent Pearce

Photos 

Quotes 

• Michael Westen : Our new CIA assignment.

  Agent Pearce : Steve Cahill: lowlife who works as a go-between for bad guys around the globe. We want him.

  Michael Westen : You "want him," as in you want to extract him. Why?

  Agent Pearce : Anywhere Cahill goes, nastiness usually follows. If he's up to something, we'd like to know what it is.

  Michael Westen : Where do we find him?

  Agent Pearce : One of our agents heard him running his mouth in a Bangkok bar about some big powwow he's got on the Caribbean tomorrow. Our orders are to find out who he's meeting, record what it's about.

  Michael Westen : And we put a head bag on Cahill. How big's our team?

  Agent Pearce : [cheery]  You're looking at it. The brass wants to keep this on the way-down-low.

  Michael Westen : Agent Pearce, a snatch-and-grab like this takes at least three members: two for the target and one for the getaway.

  Agent Pearce : My bosses are willing to let me bring someone else in. The only catch is that they'd have to have a security clearance.

  [Michael gives a considered, then smiling expression] 

  Agent Pearce : Wait. You know somebody with a security clearance, don't you?

  Michael Westen : Yeah, but he's not gonna like this.

  [slide wipe to the docks with...] 

  Jesse Porter : I hope you appreciate this is my first day off since Christmas.

• Agent Pearce : That is, bar none, the craziest play I have ever heard in the field.

  Jesse Porter : You don't hang out with him enough.

  Jesse Porter : [chuckles] 

  [Michael shoots Jesse an annoyed look] 

• Fiona Glenanne : [about approaching woman in heels]  Michael, who is that?

  Michael Westen : [smiling]  That's Agent Pearce.

  Fiona Glenanne : I think you might have left out a few details when you described her.

  Agent Pearce : You must be Fiona. I read your file.

  Agent Pearce : [shakes hands]  As an employee of the U.S. government, I'm probably not supposed to say this, but... wow.

  Fiona Glenanne : Thanks. Michael told me almost everything about you.

  Agent Pearce : Oh? Well, I hope he was discreet.

  Fiona Glenanne : [chilly]  When it comes to his work, Michael takes discretion to a whole new level.

  Agent Pearce : Oh, that's just how we're trained. It used to bug the hell out of my fiancé.

  Fiona Glenanne : Your fiancé? How does he put up with it now? I could use some tips.

  Michael Westen : Her fiancé is, uh...

  Agent Pearce : [Max]  Dead. Eight years now.

  [Michael notes the official lie] 

  Fiona Glenanne : I-I'm sorry.

  Agent Pearce : That's okay. Michael, we should go. Thanks for letting me borrow him a few days.

  Fiona Glenanne : You're welcome.

  Agent Pearce : I'll take good care of him.

  [Michael chuckles nervously] 

• Suited Man : Sorry. No guns on the chopper.

  Miles Vanderwaal : We'll bring our guns if we damn well please. Unless you want to take them, of course.

  Michael Westen : [narrative]  Disarming people by force is bloody and unpleasant. Sometimes it's easier to put on a smile and just ask.

  Michael Westen : Company policy, Vanderwaal.

  Miles Vanderwaal : Then make an exception.

  Michael Westen : [narrative]  Sometimes it's easier to put on a smile and just ask.

  Michael Westen : [chuckling]  It's a corporate chopper. It's overweight as it is. Come on. It's time to celebrate. Pop the champagne, *Commander*! Come on. Let's go.

  [Vanderwaal looks around] 

  Miles Vanderwaal : [to his men]  Okay.

  Suited Man : Gentlemen...

  Miles Vanderwaal : No one mentioned you boys from The Pyramid Group were wired so tight.

  Jesse Porter : That's 'cause they're CIA. We all are, actually.

  Miles Vanderwaal : Son of a bitch.

  [Agent Pearce takes down Vanderwaal with a knee to the gut and elbows to the back] 

  Agent Pearce : How's that for something you can feel, Mr. Vanderwaal?

  Agent Pearce : [handing files to Suited Man]  Get these to the top brass at the NSA. Shouldn't be hard for them to find our leak.

  Agent Pearce : [to Michael]  Anybody ever tell you your brand of espionage is hell on the nerves?

  Michael Westen : [with upward inflection]  All the time.

• Agent Pearce : So what's the deal? Why work with the man who ruined your career?

  Jesse Porter : Free yogurt. Lots of free yogurt.