Without a Trace (TV Series)

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (2003)

Poppy Montgomery: Samantha Spade

Quotes 

• [During Sam's OPR interview] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Well, uh... Oh, oh, one other thing, Agent Spade. Have you and Agent Malone ever had a sexual relationship?

  Samantha : I beg your pardon?

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Unless you're going to go Clinton on me, it's a fairly straightforward question.

  Samantha : You have no right to ask me that.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Actually, I do. Administrative Operation Procedures of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, section 23...

  [Farrell flips througha manuscript] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : "A supervising agent - " that would be Agent Malone - "is strictly forbidden from having a sexual relationship with an agent and his immediate reporting chain."

  [Looks at Sam] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : That would be you.

  Samantha : I'm not going to respond to this.

  [Sam stands up and heads for the door] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : [forcefully]  We are not done!

  [Sam stops at the door] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Look... Samantha...

  Samantha : "Agent Spade."

  [Sam sits back down] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Agent Spade... I don't mean to be impolitic when I say I think we can all understand the pressures of this job, especially the difficulties a junior agent may face, say, if she were approached by a superior - a man in a very unhappy marriage, desperate for the intimacy he wasn't getting at home. In this light, the Agent's actions would be understandable. However, refusing to answer, or lying about such a relationship, would not.

• [after Sam's OPR interview] 

  Samantha : He asked me about us. He had all this stuff. Um, security card access records of nights that we left together; phone logs.

  Jack Malone : And what did you say?

  Samantha : I told him it wasn't true.

  Jack Malone : You have no idea of what he knows or doesn't know. That's his ace up the sleeve - that's how he wins.

  Samantha : I was just trying to protect you.

  Jack Malone : Yeah, but you didn't have to lie. Even if he had hard evidence, there's nothing he could do about it.

  Samantha : We broke at least half a dozen conduct codes.

  Jack Malone : And lying to an OPR investigator could get you fired.

  Samantha : And sleeping with an agent under your command could get you fired. I'm sorry I lied. I was just trying to save your ass.

• [Danny walks into Jack's office] 

  Danny : Mr. Farrell.

  [Farrell looks up] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Yes.

  Danny : You suggested I come back today, if I reconsidered.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : And you have.

  Danny : I have. So have my colleagues.

  [Vivian and Sam walk in and stand next to Danny] 

  Samantha : We think we understand your Advise of Rights form now. As it turns out, you have the Right to be a miserable little bastard.

  Vivian : And we have the Right to tell you to "shove it".

  [All three of them tear up the 'Advise of Rights'] 

  Agt. Jason Farrell : Have you lost your minds?

  Danny : You should go home now.

  Agt. Jason Farrell : I'll leave when my work is done.

  Danny : Knock yourself out.

• [after the trial, on a bench in front of the courthouse] 

  Jack Malone : [amused]  So you guys just tore them up?

  Samantha : Well, Farrell had the originals. We tore up copies. It was more of a symbolic gesture.

  Jack Malone : [smiles]  I appreciate the gesture and the symbolism.

  Samantha : You were right, you know.

  Jack Malone : About what?

  Samantha : It was dumb to lie to Farrell.

  Jack Malone : Not as dumb as what I just did in there. I think I let a killer walk free, and I lost my job all in one hit.

  Samantha : You know, when Farrell asked me about us, my instinct was to tell him the truth... because it's been really hard for me not telling anyone... being around you all the time and pretending like nothing never happened, you know?

  Jack Malone : [quietly]  I know.

  Samantha : I don't think I was lying to save you. I think, in that moment, I thought maybe... if I say this, if everybody knows... then it really will be over.

  [pauses and looks over at Jack] 

  Samantha : It is over, isn't it?

  [Jack reaches out and brushes some hair out of Sam's eyes] 

  Jack Malone : Yeah, it's over.

  [Sam leans onto Jack's shoulder. Jack put his arm over her, and rests his cheek on her head]