Alias (TV Series)

Authorized Personnel Only: Part 1 (2005)

Jennifer Garner: Sydney Bristow

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Quotes 

• Sydney Bristow : [to Dixon]  One thing makes up for all of this... having you as my partner again.

• Vaughn : [Sydney opens her front door to find Vaughn]  Sorry to drop by.

  Sydney Bristow : It's ok.

  Vaughn : I miss you I wanted to say that I missed you.

  Sydney Bristow : I've been thinking, obviously... about what we...

  Vaughn : What you're afraid to...

  Sydney Bristow : I'm not afraid... I... a... but I...

  Vaughn : You don't return my calls.

  Sydney Bristow : That's 'cause I could feel what was happening.

  [They both pause] 

  Vaughn : Can I come in?

  Sydney Bristow : If you come in, we both know what's gonna happen. I don't want that; to jump right back in where we were, before everything, to pretend that those years didn't happen.

  Vaughn : Well that would be nice, wouldn't it?

  Sydney Bristow : But they did, we need to take it slow, Vaughn.

  Vaughn : Yeah, you're probably right...

• Yuri Komorov : [opens a suitcase]  What is inside can be used for good... or evil.

  Sydney Bristow : Me too.

• CIA Director Hayden Chase : I'm recommending to the board that you be stripped of classified clearance and assigned to the Dispatch Office at Langley.

  Sydney Bristow : You're transferring me... to the mail room?

• Sydney Bristow : If this is your... decision, Director Chase... I will no longer burden this agency with the hazard of my participation.

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : Are you opting to terminate your association with the CIA?

  Sydney Bristow : I will say it in English for you: I quit.

• Sydney Bristow : When I was approached about joining a black-ops unit within the CIA, I thought I was doing the right thing. And while I appreciate the necessary protocol in assembling a new team, Arvin Sloane is not...

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : [cutting her off]  I understand you used to work for Sloane.

  Sydney Bristow : Yeah, a criminal psychopath beyond verbal descripition...

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : I know all about Sloane.

  Sydney Bristow : Then allow me to ask the most obvious question in the history of time: How can the CIA let that man, who ran what amounts to a terrorist cell within the borders of this country, run anything?

• CIA Director Hayden Chase : But we can use him now: His contacts, his expertise, and he will be closely monitored.

  Sydney Bristow : I pity the man with that job.

  [Chase just looks pointedly at Sydney] 

  Sydney Bristow : [realization dawns on her]  Wait a minute...

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : With you here... Vaughn, Dixon, and your father, there's a built-in system of checks and balances. If Sloane missteps... you'll catch him. Now, that's it. This is your assignment.

• Arvin Sloane : You'll need to get him to open the case for you.

  Sydney Bristow : Do you have any suggestions?

  Arvin Sloane : I assume you'll come up with something interesting.

• Sydney Bristow : I don't want that, to jump right back in where we were, before everything. To pretend like those years didn't happen.

  Vaughn : That would be nice, wouldn't it.

  Sydney Bristow : But they did.

• Vaughn : You want to tell me what happened in Wittenburg?

  Sydney Bristow : No, actually, I don't.

• Arvin Sloane : [about Nadia]  I knew she would be of great value here... but she chose to leave intelligence... to drop out.

  Sydney Bristow : You sure she really left? Fake-quitting seems to be all the rage.

• Arvin Sloane : [about Nadia]  Because I see in her something I once saw in you: the need to work for what's right. And because you know what it is to put aside personal issues, and that... that's a gift.

  Sydney Bristow : It's not a gift. What it's been is a necessity, and it's become a burden, and, quite frankly, something I've run out of patience for.

• Arvin Sloane : I'm sending you, Sydney. I'll give you the details in my office.

  Sydney Bristow : Lucky me.

• CIA Director Hayden Chase : I know you spoke of being hungry, looking for a fresh start.

  Sydney Bristow : It was nothing, my father, Vaughn, irrelevant personal stuff. I want to serve my country the best I can.

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : Well this assignment will be a challenge for you. More than you were lead to believe.

  [Director Chase opens a set of doors and motions for Sydney to follow. She walks in and sees Dixon, Jack, and Vaughn] 

  CIA Director Hayden Chase : The four of you chosen, handpicked to help run this team.

  Sydney Bristow : The four of us? Handpicked by whom?

  [Sydney turns around to see Sloane] 

  Arvin Sloane : This is exciting!