Episode
Covert Affairs: World Leader Pretend
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Covert Affairs
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2011-08-09
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
World Leader Pretend is Episode 10 in Season 2 of Covert Affairs. It aired on 2011-08-09. The runtime is 42 min.
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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.
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