The Bad Influence Speaks

Covert Affairs: All the Right Friends

Season 2, Episode 4

 

Annie is sent to handle the transfer of an Italian agent to his own people, but the exchange goes wrong and no one is sure who is on what side.

Annie: What are you going to do? Run all the way to Buenos Aires?

 

Annie: If I bought you a macchiato, you think it'd jog your memory about who's after us?
Carlo: Maybe. But no caramel or whipped cream, it's coffee not apple pie.

 

Carlo: It's not jail I fear. It's a censored press.

 

Annie: You need to trust me.
Carlo: I do trust you...mostly.

 

Carlo: But it's not the battles won, Annie, it's the battles waged. You can understand that if you are who I think you are.

 

Auggie: You're in a public relations battle and I'm the feel good hit of the summer.
Arthur: That's ballsy, Auggie. Good for you.

 

Arthur: There's never a clean game board, Auggie, never. It gets more complicated the higher you climb.

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Covert Affairs: Fool in the Rain

Season 1, Episode 9

 

Annie takes a few days off and heads to Niagara Falls with her sister, Danielle, but her time is limited when a Iranian trade delegate escapes in Toronto and wishes to defect.

Liza: Trust me. You do just fine in the reciprocating department. You do fine in most every department. You're, like, almost perfect.
Auggie: Almost?

 

Danielle: Maybe we'll find a nice, single guy for you up here.
Annie: Oh,yeah, because Niagara is where all the well adjusted, single men go to find available women.

 

Joan: He's a potential asset, not a kitten you found on the corner.

 

Annie: Jai, if this guy is a plant then the world's seriously been underestimating Iran's sense of humor.

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Covert Affairs: Season 1

 

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Hump Day Quote: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each scar serves as a permanent reminder to me that that which doesn't kill you will just require many stitches.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows, Caillen Dagan

BSG: Flesh and Bone

Season 1, Episode 8

 

A copy of the Leoben Conroy cylon is found aboard a ship in the fleet and claims there is a nuclear bomb placed on a ship. Starbuck, still recovering from her knee injury, is sent to interrogate him.

Starbuck: How many cylons are there in the fleet?
Leoben: We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Leoben.
Starbuck: How many cylons are in the fleet?

 

Leboen: What is the most basic article of faith? This is not all that we are.

 

Leoben: I knew this about you. You're everything I thought you'd be.

 

Leoben: All this has happened before and all of it will happen again.

 

Leoben: You kneel before idols and ask for guidance and you can't see your destiny has already been written. Each of us plays a role. Each time a different role. Remember the last time? I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same, and this time, this time, your role is to deliver my soul unto God.

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BIS Book Review: Smokin' Seventeen

  by Janet Evanovich

 

Stephanie strikes again. While the bonds office is being rebuilt, the gang is working out of Mooner's RV, but the building schedule runs into a few hitches when bodies start appearing in the lot. Meanwhile, on the home front, Stephanie is being pressed to make a decision between Morelli, Ranger, and a new man her mother is trying to set her up with. If life wasn't hard enough, she's even being stalked by Morelli's Grandma Bella.

 

After 17 books, you can expect the plot to get a little formulaic. It happens. Stephanie and Lula get in over their heads, some maniac is after Steph, she rolls around some with Ranger and Morelli, and destroys a car or two. Even with that, this is still an entertaining, feel-good read. I easily finished it in one evening and laughed myself silly a few times. I did agree with Hal though; she's done better at destroying a car.

Ranger fans will like the fact that she spends more time with him in this book. I'm, admittedly, a Ranger girl myself and greatly enjoyed those scenes. I'm considering the appropriate place for the Ranger sticker that came with the book (there's a Morelli sticker as well). Of course, I also don't see why she should have to choose. Her life works for her, well, other than the constant peril.

Although the series has gotten a little routine, I'm still looking forward to 18 (which I think comes out at the end of the year).

 

BIS Rating: 4 of 5 nightlights

BIS Rating system:
1 nightlight = put it down and didn't care to pick it back up
2 nightlights = finished the book
3 nightlights = enjoyed the book but probably wouldn't re-read it
4 nightlights = had a hard time putting the book down
5 nightlights = stayed up way too late to finish instead of going to bed

 

Buy Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich at Amazon.com.

Covert Affairs: Bang and Blame

 

Season 2, Episode 3

The stakes are high when Annie is sent back to the Farm to smoke out the person who is posting information about promising trainees online. If she's burned, it will end her career with the agency.

Annie: I love to compete for a job I already have.

 

Roy: Ironically, her ignorance saved her ass.

 

Annie: It's not a big deal.
Gideon: Yeah, right. It only determines whether you're going to be James Bond or not so James Bond.

 

Scott: You're a daring woman traveling all over the world eating strange delicacies for fun.

 

Instructor: The only way to fail is to still be on this plane when it lands.
Gideon: Well, if I fall to my death, does that mean I still pass?

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Covert Affairs: Good Advices

 

Season 2, Episode 2

 

Annie is sent to Paris to develop an asset within the Syrian embassy, but runs into competition with an old colleague from Mossad. Oded Fehr guest stars.

Eyal: You don't believe in kismet?

 

Salma: You're too Jewish to be a Mossad officer.
Eyal: Too Jewish?

 

Eyal: Any chance you've been issued a gun yet?
Annie: Not yet.
Eyal: Yeah, this is a good plan.

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Hump Day Quote: Colin Ferguson

Honor is never based on a technicality. Do the right thing even when others don't... and remember to love the whole time.

Colin Ferguson, tweet on June 20

Covert Affairs: Begin the Begin

Season 2, Episode 1

 

Annie returns to duty and must quickly get back into the swing of things with a Estonian tennis playing asset. Arthur faces continues scrutiny because of leaked documents appearing in the press.

Auggie: It's like a laser pointer of nasty instead of the massive gaseous cloud of pain that is Wikileaks.

 

Auggie: Damn. You played the morality card.

 

Auggie: Look. In our line of work, there is a very thin line between intuition and paranoia. Our job is to walk right up to that line, but never to cross it.

 

Annie: We got to go.
Auggie: Really? I don't get to finish my beer?
Annie: You really don't.

 

Auggie: I can't see the speedometer, but I'm going to ask you to slow down.

 

Annie: You have some mouth on you.
Nadia: You speak Estonian?
Annie: Just the swear words.

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