Episode
Covert Affairs: What Is and What Should Never Be
Overview
After Annie witnesses a suspicious purchase at an art auction, her follow-up brings a surprise visitor — Ben Mercer — back into her life.
Details
- Series
- Covert Affairs
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2010-08-31
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
What Is and What Should Never Be is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Covert Affairs. It aired on 2010-08-31. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 7: Communication Breakdown
When communication systems throughout D.C. are shut down by a hacker, Auggie is put in the field to obtain the code for the CIA. But his excitement to be doing field work is tempered when he learns that the hacker responsible is Natasha Petrova ... who happens to be his ex-girlfriend.
Episode 9: Fool in the Rain
An Iranian trade delegation member attending the WTO conference in Toronto escapes his handlers and contacts the CIA, hoping to parlay stolen intelligence into safe passage to the United States.
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In order to stop a weapons shipment, Annie asks a former operative for help and attracts Henry Wilcox's and her former lover Ben Mercer's attention.
Episode 11: When the Levee Breaks
Annie is forced to confront her past when Ben Mercer walks into CIA Headquarters.
Episode 4: No Quarter
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Episode 3: South Bound Suarez
Annie is tasked with getting close to Diego, a college student, in the hopes that his sister, Julia, will provide the CIA with intel on Victor Ponces, a corrupt Venezuelan government official. But when the CIA station agent looking into Ponces goes missing, Diego's trust in Annie means that she's going to have to finish the job.
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New CIA agent Annie Walker is still forced to work on low-key cases until she is tipped off that a IRA cell operates in America.
Episode 1: Pilot
Annie Walker is removed from CIA training and thrust into the inner sanctum of the Agency for what appears to be their need of her exceptional linguistic skills, but there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after.