- New CIA recruit Annie Walker is brought in to retrieve secrets from a Russian spy seeking asylum, but he is assassinated by a sniper before the exchange can be finished.
- Annie Walker is removed from the CIA training school and thrust into the inner sanctum of the Agency for what appears to be their need of her exceptional linguistic skills, but there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. At the agency, she meets Auggie Anderson, a CIA military intelligence agent, blinded while on assignment, who quickly becomes her friend and confidant; Arthur Campbell, the CIA's formidable director of Clandestine Services; and her new boss Joan, who happens to be married to Arthur. Annie meanwhile lives with her older sister Danielle, a married mother of two, whom she keeps a very large secret.—USA Publicity
- Annie Walker undergoes a CIA polygraph. She's 28 years old, speaks six languages, her last serious relationship ended two years ago. (Flash back to them frolicking in the surf in Sri Lanka and buying matching bracelets from a local boy.) The examiner asks if it ended badly. Flash back to her waking up to a note saying "The truth is complicated, forgive me."
He asks if she joins the CIA, will she be able to separate her work from her personal life. The machine goes nuts as she says "absolutely."
Jump to Camp Peary, the CIA "Farm." In a plane, 2,000 feet off the ground, she volunteers to jump first. She soars through the air and floats down to the target area. Perfect landing. Two serious men meet her on the ground, with orders to bring her with them.
Orders from Langley, her language skills are needed on a case.
CIA HQ, Langley A dude named Conrad welcomes her and escorts her in. She fills out a bunch of forms and gets her credentials.
In the office of the Director of Clandestine Services The director Arthur (Peter Gallagher) is peeved because someone leaked info to a reporter. Annie takes her oath as Conrad listens to Arthur promise to find the leak.
A tech guy named Augie Anderson (Christopher Gorham) greets her. He's blind and uses a high tech electronic device instead of a cane. He leads her on a tour - including Starbucks - and lays out some of the rules, including that they can't date foreigners. Dating within the agency is encouraged, to further the "circle of trust."
Augie takes her to the Domestic Protection Division Center where Joan greets her and tells her how she'll be outnumbered there by men four to one. She learns about Stanislav "Stas" Orlovski, a top Russian operative who just turned to the CIA. She's been assignment as his handler. Joan tells her she has to go in with a two way device, swap bank codes for secrets and pass for a call girl. There was someone else who could do that, but she's gone.
Augie offers up that he was blinded in in Iraq. They bond over Mingus.
At the Capitol Grand Hotel, Annie unbuttons her top button and goes in to the lobby to wait for her page. A slick Spaniard chats her up, but she turns him down. She gets her page and goes up to the room.
She lets herself in and looks around. She finds Stas passed out on the couch in his bathrobe. She asks if he has his PDA and they sync. Then he's shot through the window right through the head. Annie ducks for cover as bullets from a sniper rifle across the street destroy the room. Listening in, Augie calls for back up.
Annie makes it to the door as the room is slowly shredded. Her handler takes her to the waiting van and they drive off.
Joan and Arthur sit through a tense negotiation that turns out to be marriage counseling. Joan is called away. She's not upset to hear Stas is dead, since he's one less assassin they have to keep tabs on. But she's not thrilled Annie left the PDA there for it to get taken into evidence by DC police. Annie volunteers to go back.
She preps, this time looking the high priced hooker part. Augie gives her a PDA to sync with the others that'll get their info and replace it with harmless numbers.
She strolls up to the crime scene and her giggliest voice tells the FBI guys she was there when it happened. She gets into the scene and tells the FBI guy the john was Boris. She tries to show him where she was standing when it happened and moves a scene tech out of the way to get near the PDAs. She syncs her device from in her purse.
The FBI guy says she can go, but he asks why she really came. She collects the shoes she kicked off before. Christian Laboutins don't come cheap.
When she leaves, the FBI guy calls the escort service number Annie gave him and Augie answers.
Annie returns to Langley. They check out the info. It's useless. That's the end of that. Annie's incredulous. She saw a man get killed, lied to a federal agent, got shot at. Big first day.
Augie gives her a pep talk and invites her to happy hour. He knows every chick there. Conrad's there. Annie wonders why Stas sold them bad intel. He asks why she joined the CIA. She talks about traveling and the guy she met in Sri Lanka and the fact she let her guard down. She liked that in the CIA, she wouldn't get burnt again.
A sultry looking Joan walks into a bar and finds Arthur with a woman, who he says is legal counsel for somebody. She says it's innocent but Joan wants to talk to him. She presents him with phone records and reservations which she says prove the affair. He asks her to trust him, but she's an agent, she can't.
Back at the bar, they take turns observing a woman and making up her background and life story. Annie realizes she's late for her sister's.
Annie drives off, but is followed - aggressively. She notices. She slams on her brakes and the BMW blows by. She plays catch up. The car doesn't have any plates. It stops in front of her and does a 180. She follows. They both drive against traffic. She follows through city streets and pedestrians and jumps on the sidewalk in her red VW. Her car finally dies.
Later, she arrives at her sisters to find a dinner party in full swing. Her nieces greet her. Her blind date is waiting. He has mustache. She thinks Annie works at the Smithsonian. He rambles about traffic, chugs his wine, babbles about racketball and oyster shucking.
The next morning, her sister apologizes for trying to set her up and says she can't believe he tried to "kiss you." Something about the words sounds like something that rings a bell for Annie.
At the CIA, Arthur meets with the reporter, Liza Hearn, who talked to the leak. He offers to be her source instead. Liza calls it a "shameless sitdown" and says she can lighten up with her stories a little of he lays off her sources.
Annie visits her old Russian professor (Clarke Peters) at Georgetown. She tells him she's dating a guy from Moscow and he calls her "Kitsu." She asks what it means and he responds by asking her not to work for the CIA. He doesn't believe her when she says she's not. Kitsu means "kitten" in Estonia, but it's not the most common way to say it.
Someone from Moscow wouldn't use it.
Back at Langley, Annie flashes her badge and is immediately surrounded by cars with sirens. Inside, Joan chews out Annie for involving her professor in CIA business. They're following everyone after the leak.
She tells Joan the real Stas is still out there. The fake guy used the wrong word, hit on her too much and stood by a window plus she was followed last night. She tells Joan about the kitsu thing and Joan sends her away, telling her she might be washed out of the whole program.
She runs into the bathroom, pissed. Augie finds her and tells her how freaked out he was when he joined. He tells her if Joan was going to fire her, she would have done it. The agency likes people who take initiative. She asks Augie for help.
At the Medical Examiners office, she asks an orderly to take a picture of her with Augie. She uses a Listerine breath strip to lift his print and get in the building.
They find dead Pseudo Stas, who doesn't have the prison camp tattoos the real guy should have. Annie's proud of herself for proving it, but suddenly FBI guys bust in, including the same guy from before, Agent Vincent Rossabi.
She sticks with the call girl story and says Augie was her John and wanted to see the dead body. Augie tells the same story.
The FBI guy steps out and takes a call from his boss's boss's, who tells him to let her go. He thinks she's CIA.
Joan gets an NSA report. Wire taps on her husband show he was telling the truth.
Conrad brings Arthur the next day's story, well-sourced.
Joan tells Annie she was right, they checked DNA. They think Stas did the shooting, because if people think he's dead no one will look for him. So he's there to kill someone. They check the threat matrix. An outspoken Russian journalist named Petrov is speaking at the Smithsonian that night.
At the museum, a man dressed as a waiter hides a gun on his cart and approaches Petrov. Outside, Joan, Annie and a team pull up outside. Stas is carrying his gun under a napkin and near Petrov when he sees them and pulls away.
Joan hustles Petrov out of there as Annie makes her way through the crowd. She's stopped by Ethan, the blind date from hell. In the distance she sees the "Spaniard" who chatted her up in the hotel lobby. He runs. She chases.
He leads her through the kitchen, knocking over people and carts as he runs. He throws a liquor bottle on the gas stove and sets off the fire alarm. He races down the stairs and outside to an alley with Annie still on his heels. He runs for the Metro.
Annie reaches the platform in time to see a train pull away. She's looking around for him when suddenly there's a hand on her throat. It's Stas. He marches her down the platform with a gun to her head. He tells her to kneel.
Instead she whirls around and pushes his hand aside. She kicks him, jumps on him, punches him, kicks him, gets choked by him, gets up, keeps fighting but eventually he gets the better of her.
He's choking her against the wall when a train starts to pull up and through her fuzzy vision she sees her long lost beach love, dressed in black, walk up, pull out a gun, and fire twice into Stas. Then he boards the train and is gone. She sees him ride away.
Back at Langley, Arthur gives her the Intelligence Commendation Award, for neutralizing an enemy spy. He tells her she's staying at the DPD.
Annie talks to Joan and tells her she thought the man who killed Stas was someone she knew from traveling. Joan says it was Agent Baldwin, a similar looking guy. She takes Annie's award back - they stay there in the vault.
Joan meets Arthur in the hall. "He" is back. He surfaced as soon as they brought Annie in. Ben Mercer. "They must have had a hell of a time in Sri Lanka," Arthur says. He wants her to keep Annie working to try to draw Ben in.
Back at her sister's house, Annie goes for the ice cream. Her sister comes to say good night. She can tell something's wrong and says Annie's a terrible liar.
In her place in her sister's guest house, Annie takes out her scrap book from Sri Lanka. She remembers her romantic nights on the beach there and still has the bracelet.
In a car outside Annie's house, Ben holds onto his bracelet. He drives off.
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