Covert Affairs (TV Series)

The Outsiders (2011)

Piper Perabo: Annie Walker

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Quotes 

• Auggie Anderson : [on radio]  When are you gonna realize I know everything?

  Annie Walker : I don't know whether to be scared or oddly comforted by that.

• Annie Walker : [to interrogator Max]  This is a terrible mistake. We're just hikers. I've never met a spy, but I imagine they look nothing like us.

• Max Kupala : So, what's it like to work for the CIA?

  Annie Walker : I wouldn't know. I work in a travel book store in Toronto.

  Max Kupala : But for being an American hiker, you know a lot about this country, huh?

  Annie Walker : I'm not American.

  Max Kupala : Ah, sorry,

  [laughs] 

  Max Kupala : a Canadian.

  Annie Walker : I wanted to visit your country for a long time. I admire the Belarusian people very much.

  Max Kupala : We are organized, hard-working... very kind to foreigners.

  Annie Walker : Your country has been sold, stolen, borrowed, occupied and destroyed by everyone from the Vikings to Stalin. Even now you only exist because Russia allows you to.

  Max Kupala : Uh. You learned all that in a travel book store.

  Annie Walker : I like to read about the places I'm gonna visit.

  Max Kupala : Is that also where you learned to speak Russian... like a schoolgirl from Minsk?

  Annie Walker : I like research.

  Max Kupala : Research? This is not research.

  [with growing distaste:] 

  Max Kupala : You didn't read a guide book about my home country. You read the CIA files. And they are pretty good in analyzing the vulnerabilities of a people, right? Huh? I just wish you... could appreciate us for more than... just our... resilience. We make, uh, world-class motorcycle.

  Annie Walker : [snaps]  After being held against my will... I think I'll buy a Harley!

  Max Kupala : Then watch your pretty mouth. I work for my government just like you work for yours. We both have a job to do. Huh? Yours is to come here uninvited, and mine is to use your presence to help my country.

  Annie Walker : You're not giving it to your country. The money you get will go directly to the Secret Police. And you'll get what, fifteen percent?

  Max Kupala : Ten.

  [Annie smirks] 

  Max Kupala : We both work for our agencies. We have to work very hard to prove our worth, to separate ourselves from our colleagues, right?

  Annie Walker : I like working with my colleagues.

  Max Kupala : I have a family, and to support them, I have to prove myself all the time. I hope your agency understands the simplicity of that.

  Annie Walker : Like I said, I don't have an agency.

  Max Kupala : Then you will not stay here for much longer... in this cosy little house.

  [turns to leave] 

  Max Kupala : You have a good night.