The Safe House - Wiretaps

Sydney: The information my mother gave us helped us again, that's all.
Vaughn: You know you can talk to me about your mother.
Sydney: I know that doing that is harder for you than you make it seem.
Vaughn: Well, it's my job.
Sydney: Vaughn, she killed your father.
Vaughn: Yes, thank you.
Sydney: You don't have to pretend with me.
Vaughn: And you don't have to withhold.
Sydney: All I'm saying is that it's unfair.
Vaughn: Well, maybe so, but I certainly didn't join the CIA looking for fairness! After everything she's done to you, are those things you could ever forgive?
Sydney: I don't know.
Vaughn: Yeah, well, your father doesn't share that ambiguity. He's meeting with Assistant Director Kendall right now and he is lobbying to have your mother taken away.

Kendall: As long as she's helping us in the war against SD-6 and the Alliance, she stays!

Sydney: You were watching me. Dad, I have enough spying in my life to worry about.
Jack: What I've been watching is you make the same mistakes with that woman that I did. Sydney, she's someone you've idealized for almost twenty years. You didn't learn about her history with the KGB until recently.
Sydney: What does that matter?
Jack: That you've wanted a mother - your mother - all your life and now here she is.
Sydney: Dad, you don't have to worry about me. I'm not that naive.
Jack: I'm sure that's something we both hope is true.

Sydney: The information you provided was huge.
Will: Huge? Really?
Sydney: Because of you, the CIA scored a real victory. I should have told you that before, I'm sorry.
Will: No, no, no, don't worry about it. That's so good to know.

Will: Good guys or bad guys?
Sydney: Neither. My father.

Jack: Irina Derevko gave you the operations manual for her syndicate. I would like you to tell me where you've hidden it.
Richter: Derevko is a great woman.
Jack: Morphine's not bad, either. Let me be clear. I've only given you enough to last five minutes. Cooperate and get all you want. Resist and you get none.

Sydney: Our system was stagnant until Mom turned herself in! Dad, we've covered this. We've both been betrayed by this woman. The difference between you and me is that I'm willing to squeeze her for everything she's got to take down the enemy and to get me the hell out if this life as soon as possible! Anything!

Jack: She went to see her mother. I tried... I tried to stop her. I made it clear.
Barnett: Made what clear?
Jack: Trusting her mother - she's playing with fire.
Barnett: We've had this discussion.
Jack: There's no one else to do this job.
Barnett: Sydney went to see her mother.
Jack: Yes, she's there now... looking for help.

Jack: No one wants a happy ending to this story more than I do, but I know this woman. I know her charms. I know her tricks. The way she presents herself... she disarms you. Some people have that talent. Compared to all of them, Irina Derevko is extraordinary.
Barnett: Is there any chance that all she wants is forgiveness?
Jack: No.
Barnett: Be specific about your concerns.
Jack: I don't know what it is Derevko wants... maybe something within the CIA... Maybe to recruit Sydney to her side. I can tell you I know this: Derevko is using this agency and my daughter to get whatever it is she wants, and everywhere I look people are complacent and cooperative. Listening to the - listening to a woman who killed operatives of the CIA. Who destroyed countless lives.
Barnett: Yours?
Jack: You asked me what I was afraid of. I can tell you, it's obvious. I'm afraid of losing my daughter.

Vaughn: Good. Listen, as far as your mother's concerned, it's ridiculous for you to worry about me. I mean, I'm fine. What she did to my father, I can handle. But, when I heard what your father did, coming to see you like that, I realized how insane it must be for him, having your mother back in his life. Which only concerns me because that means he's not making it any easier for you. So, before you leave for Moscow, I just wanted to say that you might feel alone in all this, like you don't have an ally. I'm your ally. Never question that.

Sark: Whatever Arvin Sloane pays you, it can't be enough. Would you consider coming to work for me if it meant I'd let you walk out of here? I believe if you took the time to hear the comprehensive offer, you might actually say yes.
Sydney: You're cute, but I'll pass.

Vaughn: Sark asked you to come work with him?
Sydney: Like it wasn't even a question. Like it was a done deal. Sark is like the good looking guy in high school who knows how cute he is and won't take no for an answer.

Jack: Your mother knows that the only leverage she has is the information about her agency. As soon as we get that manual, she's got nothing.
Sydney: Unless she wants to prove herself.
Jack: That's the kind of hopeful thinking that will get you killed!
Sydney: I'm going in.
Jack: No, you're not.
Vaughn: Irina Derevko has proved her value.
Jack: Do not talk to me about that woman's value! Of all people, you should know better!

Sydney: If she was counting on my trust, that I would just walk in there and set off the explosives, then why would she help us get this far?
Vaughn: There are enough explosives in there to blow this entire place, operations manual included. Your mother was using us to destroy it for her.

Sydney: I thought there might have been a chance to believe - to believe that she had no hidden agenda.

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