Espionage

Covert Affairs – The Complete Second Season

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No longer the new kid on the block, Annie Walker’s (Piper Perabo) second year working for the CIA sends her all around the world including Paris, Buenos Aires, Belarus, Venice, Berlin, and back to the Farm to find a traitor burning the CIA’s best and brightest new recruits.

Only a pair of episodes, the season-opener and trip to Mexico City with Joan (Kari Matchett) include Ben Mercer (Eion Bailey) as the second season is built on Annie finding her own footing with the CIA and turning into one of their best field agents.

We also get the return of Mossad Agent Eyal Lavine (Oded Fehr) for a pair of episodes including his search for the man who killed his sister, Annie will have to break the news to a friend (Laara Sadiq) that her recently deceased husband was secretly working for the CIA for two decades, and Auggie (Christopher Gorham) gets his own episode as he goes after the man responsible for his blindness and the death of several members of his former unit.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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  • Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-posterSmiley. George Smiley. Reinterpreting John le Carré’s novel for the big screen director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriters Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan drop the audience into the middle of a Cold War British spy tale centered around five senior intelligence officers under suspicion of being a Soviet mole.

Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley, the right hand of the former Head of the Service (John Hurt) who was pushed out the door with his friend. Smiley is coaxed out of retirement by Oliver Lancum (Simon McBurney) after an operation in Hungary ends in disaster when an agent (Mark Strong) is shot while trying to buy intelligence from a Hungarian informant.

Smiley is charged with discovering the truth of the rumor that there is a high-ranking Soviet mole inside the “Circus” (what those who work for MI6 and the SIS call home). To do so he will have to work outside the bounds of the Circus, hiding the fact that any investigation is in progress to some of the smartest and most paranoid men in the entire country.

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Covert Affairs – Letter Never Sent

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  • Title: Covert Affairs – Letter Never Sent
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In Covert Affairs‘ season finale Annie’s (Piper Perabo) vacation getaway to Stockholm doesn’t go quite as planned. First, her sister Danielle (Anne Dudek) comes along after learning her husband has been cheating on her and decides to use the opportunity to reconnect with a friend from her youth (Joakim Nätterqvist). And second, Auggie (Christopher Gorham) calls with an assignment to deliver a CIA package concerning a rogue spy (Greg Bryk) during a gala.

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Covert Affairs – What’s the Frequency Kenneth?

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While keeping up appearances at her Smithsonian cover Annie (Piper Perabo) is approached by an agent (Tony Curran) of MI6, who, not knowing who Annie really works for, tries to recruit her to work for the British Government. Annie takes an immediate shine to Kenneth (Curran) and, with Joan’s (Kari Matchett) approval, gets her first taste of life as a double-agent.

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Covert Affairs – Horse to Water

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When a longtime CIA asset is killed Arthur (Peter Gallagher) suspects a former CIA analyst (Bruce Davison) convicted of treason, and currently held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, may be behind it. The CIA decides to look into both of the man’s daughters to see if they are involved.

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