- [talking about Sydney]
- Weiss: So she gave you a drawer, huh?
- Vaughn: It was a gesture of convenience.
- Weiss: And, uh, what did you put it in?
- Vaughn: Why do you care?
- Weiss: What do you mean, why do I care? Do you know how spoiled you are? You know, a drawer! I wish I had a girlfriend to say 'Hey, do you want a drawer?'
- Vaughn: I'll give you a drawer at my place.
- Weiss: I don't want a drawer at your place.
- [Sydney and Vaughn walk into Syd's apartment, Vaughn's cell phone rings]
- Vaughn: Hello?
- Agent Eric Weiss: Hey, Kendall has something he wants to show you.
- Vaughn: Ah, can it wait?
- Agent Eric Weiss: Apparently not, he wants to Sydney too. Are you with her?
- Vaughn: Ah, no. I haven't seen her.
- Agent Eric Weiss: You're in bed with her right now, aren't you?
- Vaughn: Trying. Just find out what he wants.
- Sydney: Hi. How did you find me?
- Vaughn: You told me a couple of months ago that when you feel the need to disappear, you go to the observatory. But the observatory was closed. And then I remembered you said the pier calms you down. But you weren't there. And you weren't at the bluffs and the palisades, either.
- Sydney: You didn't really go to all those places.
- Vaughn: Yeah, I did. And then I remembered you liked the train station, too. Normal people going to their normal jobs.
- Sydney: I can't believe you remember that.
- Agent Jack Bristow: When I look at her, when I look at the little girl who raised herself to become one of the most extraordinary human beings and one of the finest agents I've ever had the privilege of knowing, I see only the promise of my own redemption. Turning myself in was the only way I could think of to make that clear to her, to prove that despite... my limited abilities as a father, I love her more than I could ever say.
- Sydney: You've lost weight.
- Agent Eric Weiss: Yeah, I stopped eating all the foods I like. I'm miserable, but I look really good.
- [Vaughn and Weiss watch as a sleazy bad guy leers at Sydney while she's in disguise as a prostitute]
- Vaughn: That son of a bitch!
- Weiss: Easy, come on.
- Vaughn: I swear I'm gonna to kill this guy.
- Weiss: There's no way that guy smells as good as you do.
- Vaughn: It's aftershave, I got a new aftershave.
- Weiss: Yeah, well, I'd lighten up on it a little.
- Vaughn: Yeah?
- Weiss: Oh yeah. To the point of non-use.
- [Marshall is offered a job with the real CIA]
- Vaughn: Hi, I'm Michael Vaughn. Welcome to the CIA.
- Agent Marshall Flinkman: Uh, yeah I've heard that one before.
- Agent Marshall Flinkman: Syd, this guy buried you alive.
- Sydney: Yeah, but he cheated, he hit me with a car first!
- Sydney: Is something wrong?
- Vaughn: No. I'm just getting old, I guess.
- Sydney: You expect me to believe that?
- Vaughn: I've just had a lot on my mind lately, that's all. It'll pass.
- Sydney: Yesterday was the day, wasn't it? The anniversary of your father's death?
- Vaughn: How could you remember that?
- Sydney: I remember what missing him does to you.
- [Sydney and Marshall have just talked their way past a security post]
- Sydney: What did you say to him?
- Agent Marshall Flinkman: [nervous] I don't know. I think it was "Go away I can smell you from here" in Ewok.
- Weiss: Hey, you sure you don't want to talk about this?
- Vaughn: There's nothing to talk about.
- Weiss: I share my fights with you.
- Vaughn: No you don't.
- Weiss: Yeah I do. Remember when Alan pissed in the living room?
- Vaughn: That was your dog!
- Weiss: Yeah, but I was angry about it and I let you know how upset I was.
- Agent Jack Bristow: [to Sloane] Personally, I would have found it anticlimactic, that after expecting to assemble a weapon of ultimate power, you ended up with a revelation you could have acquired from a fortune cookie.
- Vaughn: I'm going to say something, and it will either be obvious to you or seem presumptuous, either way I'm going to say it. This isn't working. I've been thinking about this for a while, I don't know what the hell to do.
- Sydney: What?
- Vaughn: I think you know what.
- Sydney: I need you to tell me.
- Vaughn: You need me to tell you what, that when you're on operations I can't sleep at night, that when we're in debrief I have to force myself to remember what the hell we're supposed to be reviewing when all I want to do is kiss you.
- Sydney: Sometimes it is hard to remember what we're supposed to be talking about.
- Vaughn: That's what I'm talking about, and the thing that drives me insane every day is that the people who would kill us if we were ever seen together-the Alliance, SD-6, Sloane, are the very forces that brought you into my life. What kind of a sick joke is that?
- Sydney: So what are you thinking, that maybe we shouldn't be working together?
- Vaughn: Yes, that was what I was thinking, but we're great together, and the more we work together the sooner the Alliance gets destroyed.
- Sydney: So, what are you suggesting?
- [Agent Weiss interrupts]
- Vaughn: [to Sydney] No, but, what you said about wanting to go to a hockey game... wanting me to be part of your life... I think I wasn't clear about something. That it would be nice to be in public with you, to actually get to look at you. Grab a pizza or go to a hockey game. I just... I wasn't clear that I would really like that, too.
- Vaughn: [to Sydney] When you're at your absolute lowest, at your most depressed, just remember that you can always... you know. You got my number.
- [Weiss has just prompted Vaughn to finally ask Sydney out on a date while on a mission in Nice]
- Weiss: And?
- Vaughn: We're going to dinner.
- [Weiss breaks into a celebratory dance]
- Vaughn: I'm going to keep my comm channel open. I need you to monitor the RF frequency.
- Weiss: Got it. Okay, in exchange I get an eclair.
- Vaughn: No, I'm serious, any suspect signal and I want to know about it. Anything.
- Weiss: If they're small, bring at least two!
- [Sydney and Vaughn are returning to the US from a mission in Russia]
- Vaughn: You know, we have operational command of this aircraft. The pilot could take us anywhere we want...
- Sydney: [playfully scolding] Our orders are to proceed with our extraction. If we were divert this aircraft for our personal use, we would get into a lot of trouble.
- Vaughn: Yes.
- Sydney: [disappointed] Yeah...
- Vaughn: Wanna have dinner with me in Paris?
- Sydney: [without hesitating] Absolutely.
- [they kiss]
- Agent Jack Bristow: Any complications?
- Sydney: Well, I think I lost us about $900,000, depending on the exchange rate...
- Agent Marshall Flinkman: [to Jack, randomly and smugly in the middle of an intense op] Vaughn asked me to lunch.
- Irina: I see through you. You must know that.
- Sloane: This is who I am.
- Irina: You may need to think of yourself as an honorable husband, a father figure. But I don't. I will never see that man in you, which frankly is why we have this agreement.
- Sloane: You need to get some rest.
- Irina: Never talk to me about your love for Sydney again.
- Agent Eric Weiss: Did you ever stop to think that the reason you and Sydney work so well together is because of the feelings you have for each other?
- [pause]
- Agent Eric Weiss: How's that for spin?
- Vaughn: Pretty good.
- [after Sydney asks if he is married]
- Vaughn: Wife? I don't have a wife. You thought I was married this whole time?
- Irina: [Sydney is confronted by her mother for the first time since she was six] I've waited almost thirty years for this... You must have known this day would come. I could have prevented all this, of course... You were so small when you were born. It would have been so easy... Tell me... Sydney... Who sent you here? You must tell me.
- Sydney: Or what? I'm grounded?
- [Irina shoots Sydney in the shoulder]
- Irina: Tell you what. Think about it. I'll come back and ask you again.
- Irina: I remember the first time you introduced me to Sloane. You were both working at the CIA, he came to the house for dinner. You were true friends.
- Jack: Yes. We shared a similar unsentimental patriotism... and a devotion to our wives. But Sloane changed and... it was Rambaldi that did it. I'm not sure what it is - he never told me - but Sloane has a personal connection to Rambaldi.
- Irina: I lived for years with the same obsession, to find a higher meaning in Rambaldi's work. I never understood how you managed to avoid getting caught up in it.
- Jack: I had something neither of you did.
- Irina: Sydney.