Covert Affairs

'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 16, 'Letters Never Sent,' begins with Annie and Danielle going on vacation in Stockholm to help sooth big sister from finding out that her husband in cheating on her.

'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 14, 'Horse to Water' begins and ends with a gunshot. The first gunshot occurs in the middle of Red Square in Moscow when an American double agent is gunned down by one of his peers as a traitor.

'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 12, 'Uberlin' is a fascinating Arthur-centric tale that shines a light on his murky, Cold War past as a young operative in Berlin just before the Wall fell. The old spy and Annie, the young spy, work well together.

'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 11, 'The Wake-up Bomb,' finds Annie Walker still trying to reconnect with her estranged sister while performing an op in Venice, one of the loveliest cities in the world.

Review of the summer finale of "Covert Affairs."

Annie gets to help extract a Chinese defector, an engineer named Shen, from the clutches of his handlers at a Washington conference in this week's 'Covert Affairs.' Things go wrong, of course.

Annie is told that not only is her beloved languages professor dead but he was a CIA operative. What's more, he recommended her to the CIA for employment.

In 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 8, 'Welcome to the Occupation,' Annie is interrupted on her free climbing weekend with her doctor sweetie by an apparent gang of eco-terrorists who take the board of an oil company hostage in Mexico City.

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 7, "Half a World Away," Auggie is going to Istanbul on vacation to attend a jazz festival. This would ordinarily be a challenge for a blind man, but this is Auggie we are talking about.

"Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 6, "The Outsiders" finds Annie and Reva hiking along the Poland-Belarus border, planting surveillance cameras. Why the Poles, who seem perfectly capable of doing so, are not doing this is unknown.

In "Covert Affairs,", Season 2, Episode 5, "Around the Sun," Annie is assigned to investigate NASA. In the meantime, Auggie is trying to adjust to being a suit in charge of the CIA's Office of Congressional Affairs.

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 4, "All the Right Friends," Annie finds herself flying down Argentina way with Carlo, an Italian spy who is to be swapped for someone on an isolated air strip near Buenos Aires.

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 3, "Bang and Blame," Annie's next mission, should she choose to accept it, is to return to the Farm, complete her training, and find out who is outing promising CIA trainees.

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 2, "Good Advices," Annie is, of course, excited to be sent to Paris on an assignment. If one has to lie, betray, and almost get killed several times, the City of Light is the place to do it.

"Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 1, "Begin the Begin" finds Annie and Ben taking their ease in a Guam hospital while Ben recovers from his wound. That lasts just a few minutes before black-clad assassins come a calling.

These are my top 10 favorite quotes from season 1 of "Covert Affairs."

The USA summer series Covert Affairs has just had its season finale. As interesting as the series may have been does it have the staying power to come back again next summer?

CIA drama gets renewed for 2011 on USA Cable Network.

"Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 11 "When the Levee Breaks" begins with an elderly but kindly professor of chemistry named Dr. Anton being snatched from his Hong Kong private school by a gang of masked, heavily armed, and plainly nasty men.

At the beginning of "Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 10 "I Can't Quit You Baby," a gentleman is caught at the airport with rough diamonds in his box of medical supplies. Stupidly, he actually tries to run.

Covert Affairs season finale will air Tuesday at nine P.M. on USA after an all day marathon starting at 7:30 A.M. Don't miss this action packed series.

In "Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 9 "Fool in the Rain," two people go on a journey that ends with both in the same place. Annie winds up in Niagara with her sister. An Iranian gentleman named "Yahya" Rahimi also arrives by the Falls.

In "Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 8 "What Is and What Should Never Be," Annie finds herself on the floor of a warehouse, a gun close to her hand, a sprinkler system soaking everything in sight, and several bodies she cannot account for.

"Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 7 "Communications Breakdown" is an Auggie-centric episode in which the show employs a time-honored device of bringing in a long lost person from a main cast member's past to make trouble.

In "Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 6 "Houses of the Holy," Annie Walker has her most perilous assignment yet. She has to spy on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Meanwhile, Auggie is directing his old unit in a smash-and-grab op.

In "Covert Affairs" Season 1 Episode 5 "Into the Light," Annie Walker has to help take down an evil Sudanese arms dealer named Hassan Waleed. Annie also has to wrestle with the moral ambiguity of the spy game, as depicted on TV and in the movies.

"Covert Affairs" Season 1' Episode 4 "No Quarter" finds Annie Walker in Zurich and in a great deal of trouble. A simple "brush pass" of one metal brief case for another is interrupted by an explosion at the Zurich Air Port.

USA is counting on Covert Affairs being different than the tons of other crime solving shows on TV. Did they succeed?

In "Covert Affairs" Season 1, Episode 3 "South Bound Suarez," Annie Walker is asked to do something that she seems very well-equipped to do, which is to vamp an impressionable and strapping Venezuelan student named Diego eight years her junior.

In "Covert Affairs," Season 1, Episode 2: "Walter's Walk," Annie Walker, who had proven her worth in the take-down of the Russian assassin in the previous episode, is nevertheless assigned to interviewing walk in duty.

"Covert Affairs," Season 1, Episode 1: "The Pilot," is a new television series on USA about Annie Walker, played by Piper Perabo, a newly minted CIA agent taken out of the Farm, the CIA training school, for an operation in Washington DC.

Coyote Ugly star Piper Perabo headlines a new CIA dramedy offering from USA Network. The series also stars Sendil Ramamurthy, Christopher Gorham, Peter Gallagher, Kari Matchett, and Eion Bailey.

In 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 15, 'What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?' Annie is recruited by a fellow named Kenneth, an MI6 operative, to get him access to the Smithsonian in order to uncover a terrorist plot.

In “Covert Affairs,” Season 3, Episode 13, “A Girl Like You,” Annie Walker is plunged into all sorts of trouble when her FBI friend Vincent Rossabi informs her that a CIA agent is trifling with one of his people of interest. Could she get him to stop?

USA Network's "Psych" is a perfect blend of comedy and whodunit intrigue.

Farewell to summer for it is gone but not forgotten, and it is time for the reign of drama and spiral of Science-Fiction's new season and series to commence.

It looks like Piper Perabo was injured on the set of "Covert Affairs" while doing a stunt for the show.

With his cutting-edge laser cane, talking watch and high-end headphones, Auggie Anderson from Covert Affairs is a real credit to the Central Intelligence Agency.