Network: USA Network
Episodes: 75 (hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: July 13, 2010 — December 18, 2014
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Peter Gallagher, Eion Bailey, and Eric Lively.
TV show description:
This spy series revolves around a woman who finds herself being moved up the CIA ladder very quickly.
Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is 28 years old and has great instincts and a certain persistence. She finds herself yanked out of her CIA training early and sent out into the field. Her first assignment doesn’t go well, but it only serves to make her more determined. Without the benefit of full training, she only has her instincts to rely on. She originally got into this line of work while trying to heal her broken heart. Since then, she’s only become more driven.
Danielle Brooks (Anne Dudek) is Annie’s married older sister and a parent to two daughters. She doesn’t know anything about Annie’s occupation, and thinks she’s just hung up on the her ex and emotionally unavailable.
Auggie Anderson (Christopher Gorham) is the new man in Annie’s life. He’s a former CIA special operative who was blinded while on a mission. He’s now in charge of the tech ops department and has an understanding of the massive bureaucracy within the CIA that most others don’t. Realizing Annie’s intelligence, he more or less becomes her guide, helping her find her way through the system. Annie is drawn to him platonically and she realizes Auggie’s a guy she can finally trust.
Arthur Campbell (Peter Gallagher) is the director of the Clandestine Service Department at the CIA. He recognizes a good fight when it presents itself, whether on the job or at home with his wife, Joan. That doesn’t always make him Mister Popularity.
Joan (Kari Matchett) works at the Agency, too, and is Annie’s direct boss. There haven’t been many women to climb this high in the Agency. She’s a lot like Annie, and that makes her even tougher on her. Joan suspects that Arthur is cheating on her and isn’t above using the CIA to get her answers.
Asked by Arthur to get close to Annie to gain her trust, Jai Wilcox (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is more than happy to fulfill the request. A former lacrosse star, he’s quite the lothario. A second generation CIA man, Jai tries to make his own path while also living up to his father’s expectations. As luck would have it, Annie is just his type, and they have a friendly and flirtatious chemistry with each other.
Episode #75 — Gold Soundz
Auggie and Deckard are safe on a plane headed back to DC but Annie and McQuaid still have to get out of Buenos Aires. They have Belenko in custody but the Russians want him dead and have sent in a Vega Force unit, their most deadly strike team, to do the job.
McQuaid is ready to ditch Belenko but Annie manages to convince him that Belenko’s intel on the FSB is too valuable to lose. McQuaid concedes, and then shocks Annie by proposing marriage — not once but twice.
Thanks to skill and teamwork — including some surprise help from Belenko — they defeat the elite team of assassins in a gun battle at the La Recoleta Cemetery.
Meanwhile, back at home, Calder leads a team to apprehend Belenko’s hired gun, Allen Langer. Unfortunately, the highly trained assassin manages to kill and impersonate a low-level CIA employee and enter the Langley headquarters. He’s there to kill two more people on his hit list — Auggie and Deckard.
Langer locks Auggie and Deckard in an interrogation room and releases a poisonous gas, but Calder rescues them. Langer is shot and the attack on the still unconcious Sydney is avenged.
A political operative asks Arthur to run for the US Senate, arranging to declassify the true story of his resignation from the CIA. Joan is placed in charge of a new special task force, and gets permission to reinstate Annie as a CIA agent — in spite of her heart condition.
Later, Auggie reveals to Annie that he’s leaving the CIA to travel the world with Natasha, who has received full immunity. As the episode comes to a close, Annie says “Got it,” indicating that she’s come to a decision about her marriage proposal and the invitation to join the CIA task force.
First aired: December 18, 2014.
What do you think? Do you like the Covert Affairs TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
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135 Comments on "Covert Affairs"
Please revisit for a season 6!
I agree. Don’t know why they ask for our opinions when they don’t listen anyway. I loved the show, and it had everything!
I wish they would bring Covert Affairs back!! Why base everything on money? A great show is a great show-look at Carol Burnett!
Bring it back!!
Has to be Renewed. Great Show. Every time you get a good show it gets Cancelled.
Amazon has to pick this series up.
YES! Bring. It. Back!!!!
We love the show pls it needs to come back
We loved this show. It needs to come back. Please.
I loved it, I am disappointed it was cancel….I been looking for it this hole year…and last year…
I loved the show and I’m pissed that cancelled it is hope another network will pick it up
I have watched the show from the beginning; I was waiting for its return. I thought I’d better check on its status…. Why do they always cancel good shows? I loved the characters and the excitement of each and every episode. Piper perabo has come a long way since coyote ugly! I wish the networks would show on their channels the new line up of each season, so you wouldn’t be waiting for something that’s not coming back!?! Thank you cast and crew for 5 wonderful seasons. USA please reconsider this terrible decision!
This was a great show and was sad to see it cancelled! Surprise, surprise!
Love that show. As good as NCIS. The characters were great. When I heard it wasn’t returning, I was disappointed. Please do your best about getting the show to return. Thank you
Great Show. I was expecting another season. I am very disappointed. Also watched Royal Pains but I liked Covert Affairs much better Any chance of it returning. I miss it. I watch NCIS and I compare it to that. Please work on this program being returned. Thank you
Going to miss this show
I think over to the fair should’ve been renewed and it’s the same problem as always being counters are telling him it’s much cheaper to run reruns of a lot of other shows them to produce but it doesn’t keep the people watching your network like it used to just another bean counter going to route destroy another company it’ll ruin USA back to where it was before they started actually having shows and what can you do they don’t listen to the people that watch and they don’t listen the ratings money who