Setting: In Berlin, just after Sydney and Anna read the code, reporting back to CIA and SD-6.
Sydney: 0010.. Got that?
Dixen: Got it
Vaughn: Give them exactly...
Sydney: There's no way, forget it!
Vaughn: Sydney, you listen to me. This is critical. Sydney, you give them the number. That's an order!
Sydney: An order?
Vaughn: Yes!
Sydney: We have to have a long talk when I get back to Los Angeles!

Setting: Los Angeles. In an unmarked van, meeting place of Sydney and Vaughn.
Sydney: You do not give me orders!
Vaughn: Maybe I do!
Sydney: I could easily have misled them...
Vaughn: You are not thinking this through...
Sydney: That's what I'm here for...
Vaughn: Listen to me a second! If you'd have given SD-6 a bogus code, what would have happened if Ana gave KDirectorate the correct sequence?
Sydney: Who cares? They would have thought I made a mistake!
Vaughn: Oh, and what, that Ana didn't? She would have given them the correct code. They would have seen the code indicated Athens, KDirectorate would head there, SD-6 would have nothing, they would suspect YOU! Sydney we have to be very careful here. We have to be wildly, crazy careful. If SD-6 suspects you in the least, it's over.
Sydney: Ana's been the enemy for three years. In Berlin, I realized she wants SD-6 to burn almost as much as I do.
Vaughn: As far as the CIA is concerned, the only thing worse than SD-6 getting its hands on critical information is if KDirectorate gets it first. Ana is still your enemy.

Setting: At the carwash. Meeting place of Sydney and Vaughn.
Vaughn: Sorry I'm late
Sydney: It's alright. Are you okay?
Vaughn: Yeah.
Sydney: Sure you're ok?
Vaughn: Yeah, I just, uh...
Sydney: Did you have a fight with your wife?
Vaughn: My what?
Sydney: Your wife?
Vaughn: What wife? I... I have no wife.
Sydney: No? There's a picture in your office. You and that woman. I thought you were married.
Vaughn: She and I are not remotely... You thought I was married this whole time?
Sydney: I guess so. What's the big deal?
Vaughn: Nothing. So, when you get an idea on who he's meeting and/or details of that meeting, just call the usual number. Hit the 8 key. Dead drop in the trash can. Why did you ask me if I had a fight with my girlfriend?
Sydney: I don't know. Did you?
Vaughn: Huge. Good luck in Morocco.
Sydney: Thanks.

Setting: At the pier after Sydney was stood up by her father.
Sydney: I'm sorry to call you, I just didn't know who else to call. My father and I were supposed to have dinner to tonight for the first time since I was a kid. I can't even remember the last time... He just didn't show. He said he had work-- he didn't have work. This isn't just about my dad. When I was in Morocco the man who died, he was a friend of mine, he was a good man. He thought he was fighting for the right side-- he thought he was working for the CIA. He was lied to, and now he's dead. I had his blood on my hand.
Vaughn: Sydney...
Sydney: I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I don't know who I am anymore, or what I'm doing, or why I'm doing it...
Vaughn: You just threw your beeper in the Pacific.
Sydney: I know
Vaughn: Hey listen to me, there's something you need to know. When you first walked into my office with that stupid bozo hair, I thought you were crazy. I mean, I actually thought you might be a crazy person. I watched you, I read your statement. I've seen how you think and I've seen how you work. I've seen who you are. In this job you see darkness... you see the worst in people. The jobs are different and the missions change an the enemies have a thousand names. The one crucial thing-- the one real responsibility you have is to not let your rage and your resentment and your disgust darken you. When you're at your absolute lowest, your most deperessed, just remember that you can always.. you know... you've got my number.


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