The Agency Quotes

You’re not trying to help me, Doctor. You’re worried I may have somehow become sane.[to Blake]

You’re not a field agent, you’re undercover. You don’t get to jump in and out. We watch, we position, we learn, we vanish. There but not there. Engaging but forgettable. Too far out, you never get what you need. Too close in, you become the target.[to Danny]

You said there’s two types of agent. I believe there’s one. The insane. Go and pretend to be someone you’re not. Lie to everyone. Risk your life on a daily basis. Then come home, just f***ing deal. No glamour, no money, no exploding watch.[to Blake]

When you live undercover, there’s all these voices. Loud voices, quiet voices. The quietest of all is always there. It says the same thing over and over. “I can do this. I can do anything.” You know what the voice is? It’s hope. That’s the thing about this game. If you’re hoping, if you hope anything, ever, at any time… it’s too late.

When you fall, when you really fall, you never know how far it is. After a while, it feels like flying. Then you hit the ground.

This is the lesson. Never rely on the op to make you safe. Rely on yourself.[to Danny]

The greatest punishment of treachery? The faces of the people who trust you.

The CIA, this Department, it seeks us out, targets us. Individuals who need something. Something they can’t get anyplace else. It nurtures us, weans us, feeds us and sends us out into the world to behave in entirely unhealthy, devious, deviant, dangerous ways.[to Blake]

That thing in your hand has you under surveillance 24/7, where you are, who you see, what you think. Human intel is the last place an agency can operate unwatched. Maybe the last place anyone’s free.