USA Network Covert Affairs Pilot Recap
No show has left me wanting more after a new episode since Chuck. Finding myself telling any and all of my friends about Covert Affairs, I decided to launch into a new adventure and write about this show and any news related to it.
Covert Affairs (from the producers of The Bourne Trilogy, shown on USA Network, Tuesdays at 10/9c) has already aired its seventh episode and was picked up for a second season. Needless to say, I’m behind. My plan? I’ll start with the pilot and write over the next week until we are caught up.
The pilot starts with various passionate scenes between a man and woman, who appear deeply in love; however, their love is not “happily ever after.” The woman wakes up to find a note on her pillow with a cryptic message and her man gone. Heartbroken, Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) joins the CIA. She’s in CIA training “on the farm” when she is ostensibly pulled for a special mission needing her extensive language skills.
She walks into the CIA building on her first day and immediately meets Auggie Anderson (Christopher Gorham), a former CIA special operative blinded during a prior mission. He and Annie take to one another in a mentor/mentee relationship. He’s positive and upbeat; she’s eager to learn from him.
Their boss, Joan Campbell (Kari Matchett), has crawled her way to the top in a male dominated organization. She comes across as tough, but one gets the feeling that she is also protecting Annie, the newest female agent. Joan adds additional spark to the show by being married to Arthur Campbell (Peter Gallagher), the director of the Clandestine Service Department of the CIA. Arthur is a slippery character and neither his wife nor the viewer can ever really accept him at face value.
Annie’s first day on the job, she is to meet and receive information from a Russian assassin, who supposedly has been turned by the CIA. What should be a simple exchange is anything but. The assassin is not the assassin and Annie almost dies with him in a hotel room.
When the real assassin reveals himself at the end of the show, almost strangling Annie to death, a mysterious man appears from nowhere and kills the Russian. Just as Annie is passing out, she sees an image of a man she believed she loved.
Next up...episode 2.
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