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The Worst Episodes of Covert Affairs

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The Worst Episodes of Covert Affairs

A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her...

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  1. Background image for South Bound Suarez
    7.0/10(459 votes)

    #1 - South Bound Suarez

    S1:E3

    Annie is tasked with getting close to Diego, a college student, in the hopes that his sister, Julia, will provide the CIA with intel on Victor Ponces, a corrupt Venezuelan government official. But when the CIA station agent looking into Ponces goes missing, Diego's trust in Annie means that she's going to have to finish the job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Begin the Begin
    7.1/10(356 votes)

    #2 - Begin the Begin

    S2:E1

    When Annie and Ben go back to Washington DC, Ben goes missing. Annie is assigned to keep a professional tennis player from Estonia safe.

    Director:Kate Woods
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Horse to Water
    7.1/10(304 votes)

    #3 - Horse to Water

    S2:E14

    Annie keeps tabs on the daughter of a CIA analyst imprisoned for selling intelligence. After an asset is killed in Russia, the CIA suspects the woman could be helping her father.

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  4. Background image for Walter's Walk
    7.2/10(477 votes)

    #4 - Walter's Walk

    S1:E2

    New CIA agent Annie Walker is still forced to work on low-key cases until she is tipped off that a IRA cell operates in America.

    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Fool in the Rain
    7.2/10(360 votes)

    #5 - Fool in the Rain

    S1:E9

    An Iranian trade delegation member attending the WTO conference in Toronto escapes his handlers and contacts the CIA, hoping to parlay stolen intelligence into safe passage to the United States.

    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Hello Stranger
    7.2/10(297 votes)

    #6 - Hello Stranger

    S3:E6

    When the Prime Minister of Yemen arrives in the US for emergency heart surgery, Annie takes on a near-impossible assignment: with a three-hour window, no back-up, and the State Department warning the CIA not to interfere, Annie attempts to turn the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff into a CIA asset.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for In the Light
    7.3/10(398 votes)

    #7 - In the Light

    S1:E5

    In order to stop a weapons shipment, Annie asks a former operative for help and attracts Henry Wilcox's and her former lover Ben Mercer's attention.

    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Houses of the Holy
    7.3/10(395 votes)

    #8 - Houses of the Holy

    S1:E6

    Annie is tasked with investigating a potential national security leak originating from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Elsewhere, Auggie is assigned as a stateside handler for his old special ops unit, and Annie is worried that her brother-in-law, Michael, is cheating on Danielle.

    Director:Alex Chapple
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for What Is and What Should Never Be
    7.3/10(385 votes)

    #9 - What Is and What Should Never Be

    S1:E8

    After Annie witnesses a suspicious purchase at an art auction, her follow-up brings a surprise visitor — Ben Mercer — back into her life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for All the Right Friends
    7.3/10(326 votes)

    #10 - All the Right Friends

    S2:E4

    Annie runs into a set up when she tries to exchange a spy named Carlo Reni in Argentina. They escape the assassin and go on the run, trying to find the one responsible before the assassin can finish the job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Outsiders
    7.3/10(327 votes)

    #11 - The Outsiders

    S2:E6

    Annie and Reva are captured near the Polish-Belarusian border by a man (Peter Stormare) working for the secret Soviet police when they try to deploy surveillence cameras in the Bialowieza Forest. Meanwhile Jai assembles an extraction team to rescue them in Belarus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Uberlin
    7.3/10(307 votes)

    #12 - Uberlin

    S2:E12

    While on the trail of Isaak Von Hagen, a known money launderer, Annie prepares to turn his wife, Elsa, into a CIA asset.

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Crackity Jones
    7.3/10(254 votes)

    #13 - Crackity Jones

    S4:E7

    Annie finds she has met her match when she has to work to halt the illegal sale of deadly weapons and is teamed up with a seasoned operative. Meanwhile, circumstances force Auggie to deal with past demons' and Calder's suspicions of Annie Walker grow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Pilot
    7.4/10(665 votes)

    #14 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Annie Walker is removed from CIA training 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.

    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for When the Levee Breaks
    7.4/10(355 votes)

    #15 - When the Levee Breaks

    S1:E11

    Annie is forced to confront her past when Ben Mercer walks into CIA Headquarters.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Around the Sun
    7.4/10(326 votes)

    #16 - Around the Sun

    S2:E5

    Annie looks into a potential leak at NASA, which could threaten the U.S.'s spy satellites. During the mission, she must also adjust to working with a new tech operative after Auggie moves to a new position.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Communication Breakdown
    7.5/10(408 votes)

    #17 - Communication Breakdown

    S1:E7

    When communication systems throughout D.C. are shut down by a hacker, Auggie is put in the field to obtain the code for the CIA. But his excitement to be doing field work is tempered when he learns that the hacker responsible is Natasha Petrova ... who happens to be his ex-girlfriend.

    Director:Kate Woods
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for I Can't Quit You Baby
    7.5/10(376 votes)

    #18 - I Can't Quit You Baby

    S1:E10

    Annie needs to be recruited by smugglers; Arthur and Joan must bring Henry Wilcox back into the fold.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Sad Professor
    7.5/10(307 votes)

    #19 - Sad Professor

    S2:E9

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for The Wake-Up Bomb
    7.5/10(306 votes)

    #20 - The Wake-Up Bomb

    S2:E11

    Annie feels lonely during some downtime following a failed mission in Venice. Another assignment soon comes up, however, involving a chef tied to a Basque separatist movement.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for A Girl Like You
    7.5/10(336 votes)

    #21 - A Girl Like You

    S2:E13

    Annie is sent to find Mossad agent Eyal Lavin after it's discovered he's in Washington D.C. posing as a CIA operative.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
    7.5/10(300 votes)

    #22 - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

    S2:E15

    A MI6 operative asks Annie for access to the Smithsonian. Since he doesn't know that Annie's a CIA agent, she decides to cooperate in order to find out what he's after.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Man in the Middle
    7.5/10(281 votes)

    #23 - Man in the Middle

    S3:E13

    After receiving intel from Mossad warning that two suspected terrorists are planning to meet, Annie finds herself in a race against the clock to track down the meeting location before the targets get away.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Silence Kit
    7.5/10(228 votes)

    #24 - Silence Kit

    S5:E4

    Annie begins a stake out which ends less than routinely after the CIA discovers that a member of the intelligence community may have leaked confidential intel. Joan and Arthur both vie for a piece of government funding, as Calder’s personal and professional lives collide.

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  26. Background image for Elevate Me Later
    7.5/10(231 votes)

    #25 - Elevate Me Later

    S5:E5

    Auggie's emotional history with a potential asset complicates a mission when he and Annie switch roles as operative and handler in Paris. Joan attempts to play matchmaker for Calder. Arthur heads on his first operation abroad for McQuaid Security.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"South Bound Suarez" is the worst rated episode of "Covert Affairs". It scored 7/10 based on 459 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/27/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Begin the Begin".