Episode 3.12 - Wishful Beginnings
Eyal and his boss request the CIA's assistance in tracking a Mossad asset.
Episode 3.11 - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Auggie, Joan and Arthur work with an old friend to bring Annie home from a Russian prison.
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Covert Affairs - Episode 3.11 - 3.12 - Titles and Short Synopsis
11 Sept 2012
Covert Affairs
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Oh...a Russian prison. Yeah...they're not known for their proper treatment of prisoners.
ReplyDeletePoor Annie! Why is she in Russian prison?!
ReplyDeleteRUSSIAN PRISON? Holy --! Whaaaaaaat. Oh that is just not good at all for anybody.
ReplyDeleteWhat? There are consequences to Annie's actions? I'll believe it when I see it.
ReplyDeleteYou mean getting shot, hospitalized, and accused of treason aren't enough consequences for you?
ReplyDeleteMeh, that's nothing, NOTHING. Bring it on, I say!
ReplyDeleteI just wonder what real consequences would be then...
That's all being Lena's fall guy. Not repercussions to her not following protocol, creating international incidents, using sex as spycraft, doing whatever she wants most of the time and letting the writers or her latest fawning male fix it for her.
ReplyDeleteThe first step would be a desk job.
ReplyDeleteNo, Annie's actions made her vulnerable enough to be Lena's fall guy. Annie made the choice to work off book and go behind Joan's back, Annie took non-sanctioned missions (even though Lena backed her up after the fact), and Annie is the one who became personally attached to an asset. Those are all Annie's choices and those choices made her the perfect target for Lena.
ReplyDeleteAnnie wouldn't be in this position if she did everything by the book so what has happened to her are perfect examples of the consequences you suffer for bending and breaking the rules.
I see where you are coming from, but from last episode to the promos for this one, it seems like Lena is rewriting everything Annie did, even what was by the book. So Annie isn't facing the consequences of her actions she's taking the fall for being played by a double-agent. I highly doubt she is going to come out of it and be like "Joan you are right, the protocols are in place so I am protected politically and legally, so I don't piss off the State Department and they stop allowing me to get visa's for my assets, so my assets don't get killed. I respect that I am a junior agent in a big bad world and I have a lot to learn about the political structure of the CIA and how to get along with other agencies and department and how to think past the most obvious move." If that happens, I'll come back here and apologize for being too hard on Annie. xD
ReplyDeleteThose aren't consequences you're describing, that's contrition. Annie has suffered consequences for the choices she's made. I think what you're looking for is disciplinary action from the agency, which is a kind of consequence but not the only kind.
ReplyDeleteHm, good point.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking for disciplinary action, I'm looking for it to not magically work out for her, like it has every single time since the show started, I'm looking her her to get put in her place. She can run around corners into a gun pointed at her and not get hit. She can create an international incident and piss off the State Department and not even get her hand slapped. She can blow her cover how many times? It always works, she's always right, every guy always falls for her. If the producers are going to give us all this big talk about danger and real-life crap, they need to follow through and not make life so easy for inexperienced, rash, "I know everything" Annie.
ReplyDeleteI do acknowledge I'm not doing a good job explaining. I can I see how you are hoping that the getting shot (finally) could seem like a consequence of her actions with Lena, but if she doesn't take responsibility (contrition or just learning a lesson) for it, I think they are going to play it off as Annie (and the rest of the CIA) got schooled. Jai wasn't facing the consequences of being bad at his job, he got killed because he was good at his job. Lena outplayed Annie and the only "problem" Annie is going to have to face is that she trusted the wrong woman. She won't deal with the fact she was in the muck using people. She won't deal with the fact that she let a spy go because she liked him and she was in over her head running unauthorized missions places she shouldn't go. Auggie got demoted and sent to psyche review for getting in a bar fight that he didn't even really start. Annie crosses the state department twice, ignores a direct order from her boss, and gets to go be rude to her boss who covered for her and nothing else is said about it.
Well, you did a very good job of explaining yourself this time. You want Annie not to come out of this unscathed (like she always seems to) and to actually learn from this experience and be humbled by knowing the fact she doesn't always know better than her peers and superiors. There's a strict hierarchy at the agency for a damn good reason. She's not James friggin' Bond, she's a government employee and she needs to start acting like it. Am I close? :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's like sitting Dwayne Wade on the bench for not running the plays Spoelstra calls?
ReplyDeleteSomething like that yes. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say I'm sorry, now. But Annie is going to Russia to catch Lena against orders. Because Lena made two silly mistakes.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's going to take a more personal incident or loss (family?) for Annie to start playing things straight.
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