Episode

Covert Affairs: Begin the Begin

Name: Covert Affairs: Begin the Begin
Released: 2011-06-07
Duration: 42 min
Cast: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher, Hill Harper

Covert AffairsSeason 22011-06-07

Overview

When Annie and Ben go back to Washington DC, Ben goes missing. Annie is assigned to keep a professional tennis player from Estonia safe.

Details

Series: Covert Affairs
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 2011-06-07
Runtime: 42 min

Episode context

Begin the Begin is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Covert Affairs. It aired on 2011-06-07. The runtime is 42 min.

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Episode 2: Good Advices 2011-06-14 | 42 min Annie meets Mossad agent Eyal Lavin again when they both try to turn a secretary working at the Syrian embassy in Paris into an asset.

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Episode 3: Bang and Blame 2011-06-21 | 42 min The leak of a CIA Trainee's name brings Annie back to The Farm with the sensitive task to find the culprit without being exposed herself which would end her own CIA career.

Episode 4: All the Right Friends 2011-06-28 | 42 min Annie runs into a set up when she tries to exchange a spy named Carlo Reni in Argentina. They escape the assassin and go on the run, trying to find the one responsible before the assassin can finish the job.

Episode 5: Around the Sun 2011-07-05 | 42 min Annie looks into a potential leak at NASA, which could threaten the U.S.'s spy satellites. During the mission, she must also adjust to working with a new tech operative after Auggie moves to a new position.

Episode 6: The Outsiders 2011-07-12 | 42 min Annie and Reva are captured near the Polish-Belarusian border by a man (Peter Stormare) working for the secret Soviet police when they try to deploy surveillence cameras in the Bialowieza Forest. Meanwhile Jai assembles an extraction team to rescue them in Belarus.

Episode 7: Half a World Away 2011-07-19 | 42 min Auggie is aided by a flight attendant (Rebecca Mader) while on his vacation to the international jazz festival in Istanbul. His trip turns into a mission when he inadvertently records the voice of the man who injured him during the war in Afghanistan.

Episode 8: Welcome to the Occupation 2011-07-26 | 42 min When a covert CIA operative and friend of Joan's gets caught up in a hostage crisis in Mexico, Annie and Joan are sent to assess the situation under the cover of being a news team. But when Arthur decides that they need additional backup, he sends Ben Mercer to assist them.

Episode 9: Sad Professor 2011-08-02 | 42 min Annie learns that her college professor Mark Ramsay was secretly working for the CIA when he was killed tracking a Pakistani spy ring. The CIA asks Annie to find the missing intel using her connection to Ramsay's widow Safia.

Episode 10: World Leader Pretend 2011-08-09 | 42 min While Annie runs the extraction of a Chinese scientist named Shen Yue who is willing to defect, she runs into complications and is forced to make a difficult choice.

Episode 11: The Wake-Up Bomb 2011-11-01 | 42 min Annie feels lonely during some downtime following a failed mission in Venice. Another assignment soon comes up, however, involving a chef tied to a Basque separatist movement.

Episode 12: Uberlin 2011-11-08 | 42 min While on the trail of Isaak Von Hagen, a known money launderer, Annie prepares to turn his wife, Elsa, into a CIA asset.