The Safe House - Wiretaps

Sydney: I wanted to stand in this cell, just once. You tried to warn me about her so many times. I'm so sorry that I didn't listen to you.
Jack: Some things you need to experience for yourself. I imagine every parent wants to protect their children from that truth.

Sydney: I never said thank you for saving my life.
Jack: We're due for a briefing at SD-6. We should go.

Vaughn: Okay, I'll confer with your father about your countermission.
Sydney: My father?
Vaughn: He didn't tell you? Based on your father's instincts in the Madagascar incident, Devlin gave him operational approval.
Sydney: Oh.

Vaughn: When you and I were approaching that building, ops was monitoring our progress via sat radar scan. Now, at the last moment, your father switched to infared, which is how he saw the explosives. We don't have routine satellite coverage over Madagascar; one had to be retasked. Now, the closest one was over the Indian Ocean, yet your father specifically requested the one over the South Atlantic. Which, of the two, is the only one that has infrared capabilities.
Sydney: He wanted to account for every possibility.
Vaughn: Probably. Or, it's possible that he already knew there'd be explosives at that entrance.
Sydney: I don't see how. He never trusted my mother's motives, but he... You think my father wired that entrance?! To set up my mother. We were nearly killed!
Vaughn: I know.
Sydney: If there had been interference on our comms -
Vaughn: You have to admit it wouldn't be the first time.
Sydney: Meaning what?!
Vaughn: Rusik.
Sydney: Rusik!
Vaughn: Your father set up Rusik!
Sydney: I was a prisoner! Sloane was about to have me executed!
Vaughn: I don't see why you're denying this possibility!
Sydney: I understand that your authority has been superceded by my father and maybe you feel irrelevant. But, he saved our lives. Remember that! I won't wait to hear from you.

Jack: Sydney, Washington has made a decision regarding your mother. What she did to you invalidated her agreement with the CIA. The government is pressing charges. They're going to seek the death penalty.

Vaughn: Manola de Souza, I'm Agent Vaughn. Has anyone offered you a drink? I'm sure I could find a soda. (pause) This is not a good time to be a terrorist, Manola. A couple of years ago, and you would have had some civil rights. Now we just throw you in a cell, no attorney, no due process. So, who were you working for? (pause) Okay. In that case, we'll just let the pictures tell the story. Satellite photos from four days ago showing you rigging a plantation building in the jungle near Sambava. Those photos are all we need to put you away for the rest of your life. So, I'm going to ask you one more time - do you want that soda?
de Souza: I was working for you, you son of a bitch! CIA!
Vaughn: Through what office?
de Souza: My contact was Jack Bristow. You tell that bastard I'm not taking the fall on this.

Sydney: Dad, when I signed up with SD-6, I wanted to join. When I found out the truth; I mean - the kids... I know what it's like to be used. I'm going to Buenos Aires.

Vaughn: I saw de Souza. He told me that you hired him to rig those explosives.
Jack: Irina Derevko would eagerly destroy all of our lives.
Vaughn: I'm not a big fan, either. It still doesn't justify what you did.
Jack: You do good work, Agent Vaughn. But, your consistent shortcoming - you should know this - is your naive sense of morality. Evil must be eliminated by whatever means necessary.
Vaughn: I don't think Sydney would agree with that.
Jack: Sydney will never know about what I've done.
Vaughn: You betrayed her trust. I won't. Now, she should hear it from you, but if you don't tell her, I promise you, I will.

Sydney: Understand, to do what I do - maintain my cover at SD-6 - I compartmentalize a lot. But, the idea that I might have been programmed to be a spy... I can't tuck that away. I need to know what happened to me.

Sydney: No, Dad, you understand something. You took away my choices in life. You programmed me to be a spy. I will never forgive you.

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