- Annie discovers that the latest CIA casualty is her former language professor - whom she had no idea was part of the agency - and she is assigned to find a secret message in his documents before his killers.
- The CIA mourns the murder at home of language professor Ramsay. His agency link was kept secret even for Annie, whom he recommended for recruitment, like many unsuspecting students. His Pakistani widow Safia is furious to learn the same secret, inspiring Annie she must tell her own sister, whom Auggie masterly keeps ignorant by pimping the Smithsonian cover. Safia becomes both suspect and probable target as the murder is ascribed to a Pakistan-based Jihadist group, about whom the professor somehow kept data in an old-fashioned micro dot, so Jai seduces their front charity's executive Rubina Jafari.—KGF Vissers
- Annie (Piper Perabo) comes downstairs and announces to Danielle (Anne Dudek) that she'll be working late. Danielle offers to drive her to work for some "Annie time". but Annie makes up a story about a conference she has to go to. Danielle notices she's been working late a lot and asks if everything's OK. Annie says it is. She leaves.
Danielle puts on her sunglasses and grabs her keys. Danielle follows Annie in her minivan. Annie notices and tries to lose her. Danielle darts through traffic. Annie finally ditches her at a yellow light.
She gets to work 20 minutes late and tells Auggie (Christopher Gorham) her predicament. "If I can't fool my sister how am I going to fare against FSB counter intelligence?" she asks.
Auggie says it's normal, his brother checked up on him constantly at first. Auggie bought him an Xbox.
Annie notices Arthur (Peter Gallagher) is on their floor, which can't be good news.
Arthur announces an active case officer named "Moonlight" was killed two days ago. He explains how rare it is for the agency. 103 agents in the last 65 years -- only four on US soil.
Joan (Kari Matchett) calls Annie in with bad news. She knew the operative. Annie looks at a picture of her Georgetown language professor Mark Ramsay, but doesn't understand. He was "Moonlight." Annie is the only one who can help them catch his killer.
Annie tries to process the information. He was tracking a Pakistani state-sponsored spy group. They think his contact turned on him. They want Annie to use her relationship with his widow Safia to get his last bit of intel.
"You want me to go to the house of a grieving widow whose husband was just murdered and ask her where the classified documents are hidden?" Annie protests.
Joan says it's more complicated. Safia didn't know he was CIA. Joan thinks they should respect that. Arthur over-rules her and tells Annie to tell the widow the truth.
Auggie tries to cheer Annie up with a fancy microscrope for reading a microdot. It's the size of a period but contains a page of text.
Auggie advises Annie to be direct breaking the news to Safia. Annie thinks the news will shatter her.
Annie arrives at his wake, bearing lilies. Safia, who is Pakistani, greets her in Urdu. The house is full of people, including a couple of Ramsay's other former students.
Later, Annie and Safia take a walk. Annie's carrying an envelope. She gives it to her. It's a commendation from the CIA. Annie tells her Mark was undercover for 20 years and Annie works for them, too. Safia rips it up and walks away.
Annie catches up with her. Safia tells her she doesn't believe her. Annie follows her into the house. They see it's been ransacked. There's a noise upstairs. A man comes down with a gun. Annie hides Safia as he goes out the front door.
They go out the back. He turns and sees them. He fires and jumps in a waiting car. The car drives down alleys, chasing them. Annie pushes a trash bin in its way and checks out the license plate before it drives off.
Later, CIA "movers" go over every inch of Safia's house. They think the Pakistani group is after the microdot.
Annie explains the movers are looking for information on Mark's killers. Safia thinks his life was a lie. Annie explains his Georgetown job and overseas lecturing were real. He just also recruited assets and spied on foreign nationals.
Safia says he should have told her. Annie says it's hard to find the right moment. If you wait too long it gets harder.
Annie wants Safia to go stay somewhere safe, but she refuses. The movers find a safety deposit box key behind a fake wall in the closet.
Annie and Safia go to the bank. There's a microdot kit in the box and tons of postcards from every city they ever visited. Safia finds his wedding vows, too. Annie has to take it back to Langley, but promises they'll return it.
Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) reports to Joan that Pakistan is denying any link. The car that chased Annie was a rental that chased to the Pakistani Welfare Agency, based in DC.
He has dossiers on every employee. Joan and Arthur look through them. Arthur homes in on Rabina, the hot young secretary to the CEO. Arthur tells Jai to find an "in."
Annie comes home to find Danielle waiting up. She's watching coverage of Ramsay's shooting, which was staged to look like a gang initiation. Danielle hears he was a Georgetown professor. Annie says he was her advisor. Danielle can't believe Annie didn't tell her someone she knew was killed. Annie asks if they can drop it. Danielle regroups and expresses sympathy.
The next day, Auggie oversees dozens of techs looking through every single one of Mark's belongings for the microdot. They've already gone through twice. Auggie tells them to go through a third time.
They found nothing in the safety deposit box. Annie looks at the collection and notices the wedding vows are missing.
Annie goes to Safia's house, which has been under surveillance. Annie goes in, but Safia's not there.
Back at Langley, Joan thinks her disappearance means she's working with the spy organization. Annie protests she knows Safia and she loved her husband.
Annie might not know Mark as well as she thought. Joan shows Annie a paper she wrote in college. Mark gave it to the CIA and told them to recruit her. Annie was on the agency's radar long before she applied.
Joan tells Annie to stay out of things until they find Safia.
Auggie finds Annie at her desk. Auggie says he was recruited because he could write unbreakable code and won his state wrestling tournaments. There's no trace of Safia yet.
Auggie knows he's not supposed to tell Annie to investigate on her own, or give her the code to the annex where Safia's stuff is. But he does anyway.
Annie looks it all over. She looks at a postcard from Maine and a ferry pass.
Auggie gets a call from the Smithsonian. Danielle is there looking for Annie. Auggie heads over. Danielle is exasperated after getting the runaround for two hours. She recognizes Auggie from the tour he gave her daughter's class.
Auggie uses the acquisition conference as an excuse for Annie. He offers to buy Danielle coffee.
Jai approaches the Pakistani Welfare Agency woman at a bar. She brushes him off. He tells her they both know how the charade plays out. Cut to them making out and stripping in her apartment.
She pauses halfway through and goes for champagne. He calls tech support. They walk him through hacking into her phone. His end of the mission is done, but he decides to stick around. The woman comes out in lingerie.
Danielle tells Auggie her worries about Annie and that she's canceled dates with Dr. Scott. Auggie didn't know. He tells her Annie has made a commitment to art and protecting it. It's very demanding.
Meanwhile, Annie takes a ferry to a house in Maine. She calls for Safia. She turns around to find Safia holding a gun on her. She accuses Annie of being a spy who's just after his files. Annie assures her she can trust her. Safia lowers the gun.
Cut to them sitting in beach chair as Safia explains she questioned everything after she learned Mark was a spy. When she saw the safety deposit box she knew even though he kept things from her, he loved her. Annie thinks he didn't register the house with the agency because he wanted to keep it between them.
Annie tells her the last time she saw Mark he told her not to join the agency. She now understands why: it's not easy deceiving people, especially the people you love.
Safia gives Annie the handwritten vows. Annie scans them with a magnifying glass and finds a microdot. Mark knew his house wasn't safe.
At Langley, Joan wants to know why Arthur is retasking her people to the Ramsay investigation. Arthur is frustrated they're stumped. "Don't do this," Joan says. She thinks he's worried it could have been him. He says he's not worried about himself. He's worried about Joan and their team.
On the ferry home, Annie tries for a cell signal, but gets nothing. Annie sees Safia talking to someone on the boat.
At Langley, Jai cross-referenced Rabina the PWA woman's contacts with Ramsay's and found Tommy, the nerd from the wake. He took three classes from Ramsay and studies nuclear physics at Georgetown and has top secret clearance, a perfect mark for the Pakistani group. He had huge student loans recently paid off.
On the boat, Annie points out the amazing coincidence of running into Tommy. He says he's on vacation, but Annie notices he has no bags. He grabs Safia. Annie quickly pulls him off and bounces his head off a handrail, knocking him out.
One of the Pakistani goons appears. Annie races Safia to the upper deck. They head to the top deck. As he follows, Annie waits and kicks the gun out of his hand. They race for a lifeboat, but the man charges them.
Annie tells Safia to run. She tries to fight the man off. He punches Annie and throws her into the railing and clearly has the upperhand, when Safia grabs an oar and whacks him.
Annie pushes him into the boat and flips him off the side.
Back at Langley, Ramsay's microdot confirms the identity of seven Pakistani spy agency operatives, including Tommy and the man from the boat.
Arthur knows conventional wisdom is to try to turn the Pakistanis against their own and get higher ups. Joan wants to bring them to justice, saying the CIA protects its own. Arthur was hoping she'd say that.
Arthur leads the ceremony for adding a star to the wall at Langley. Safia's in the audience with Annie.
After the ceremony, Annie tells Auggie she wants to tell Danielle. He tells her to go ahead. He eventually had to tell his brother. After he didn't speak to Auggie for six months, they became closer than ever.
Back home, Annie sees Danielle waiting up in her living room. She takes a deep breath.
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