7.0/10325 votesLoading...#1 - Begin the Begin
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/7/2011
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: N/A
7.1/10429 votesLoading...#2 - South Bound Suarez
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10444 votesLoading...#3 - Walter's Walk
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2010
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: N/A
7.2/10330 votesLoading...#4 - Fool in the Rain
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2010
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.
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: N/A
7.2/10278 votesLoading...#5 - Horse to Water
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/22/2011
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.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez
Writer: N/A
7.2/10278 votesLoading...#6 - Hello Stranger
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2012
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: N/A
7.3/10370 votesLoading...#7 - In the Light
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2010
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.
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Writer: N/A
7.3/10367 votesLoading...#8 - Houses of the Holy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2010
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: N/A
7.3/10354 votesLoading...#9 - What Is and What Should Never Be
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/31/2010
After Annie witnesses a suspicious purchase at an art auction, her follow-up brings a surprise visitor -- Ben Mercer -- back into her life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10324 votesLoading...#10 - When the Levee Breaks
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2010
Annie is forced to confront her past when Ben Mercer walks into CIA Headquarters.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: N/A
7.3/10294 votesLoading...#11 - All the Right Friends
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 6/28/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10296 votesLoading...#12 - The Outsiders
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/12/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10279 votesLoading...#13 - Uberlin
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/8/2011
While on the trail of Isaak Von Hagen, a known money launderer, Annie prepares to turn his wife, Elsa, into a CIA asset.
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Writer: N/A
7.3/10237 votesLoading...#14 - Crackity Jones
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/2013
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10627 votesLoading...#15 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/13/2010
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: N/A
7.4/10297 votesLoading...#16 - Around the Sun
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/5/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10380 votesLoading...#17 - Communication Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/24/2010
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: N/A
7.5/10343 votesLoading...#18 - I Can't Quit You Baby
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2010
Annie needs to be recruited by smugglers; Arthur and Joan must bring Henry Wilcox back into the fold.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: N/A
7.5/10281 votesLoading...#19 - Sad Professor
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/2/2011
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.
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: N/A
7.5/10274 votesLoading...#20 - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 11/29/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10261 votesLoading...#21 - Man in the Middle
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 10/30/2012
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10210 votesLoading...#22 - Silence Kit
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/15/2014
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.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Zak Schwartz
7.5/10213 votesLoading...#23 - Elevate Me Later
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/22/2014
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.
Director: Jamie Barber
Writer: Karen Campbell
7.5/10206 votesLoading...#24 - Brink of the Clouds
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2014
Annie and McQuaid search for an off-grid ex-CIA agent in Azerbaijan; Auggie learns upsetting information about an old friend; Calder has a confrontation with Joan.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Hayley Tyler
7.5/10197 votesLoading...#25 - Trigger Cut
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/6/2014
McQuaid's health hangs in the balance; Annie seeks information in Istanbul; Arthur takes control of McQuaid Security; Calder has a new recruit.
Director: Stephen Kay
Writer: Stephen Hootstein
The Worst Episodes of Covert Affairs
Every episode of Covert Affairs ranked from worst to best. Explore 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...
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:USA Network
Worst Episodes Summary
"Begin the Begin" is the worst rated episode of "Covert Affairs". It scored 7/10 based on 325 votes. Directed by Kate Woods and written by N/A, it aired on 6/7/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "South Bound Suarez".