Alias (TV Series)

The Descent (2005)

Victor Garber: Jack Bristow

Quotes 

• Hayden Chase : [Director Chase is caressing Dixon in the hospital where he is unconscious. She walks out and approaches Jack and Sydney]  If anything changes, you call me.

  Sydney : [to Jack]  Did you have any idea she and Dixon...

  Jack Bristow : No... But then I tend to miss those kinds of details.

  Sydney : What are you talking about? You're the master of details.

  Jack Bristow : Really? I've gone over the details a thousand times in my mind. Each one, added up to the same conclusion. That your life was in danger, and your mother was the lethal threat.

• Michael Vaughn : [Vaughn is waiting for the elevator, you can tell he has something on his mind, it opens and Jack walks out]  How's Dixon?

  Jack Bristow : Same, Sydney and Nadia are there now.

  [Vaughn enters the elevator, it goes to close and Jack stops it] 

  Jack Bristow : You asked me a question earlier that I didn't get a chance to answer; properly...

  Michael Vaughn : I'd say the answer was loud and clear.

  Jack Bristow : We're more alike, than I'd care to admit; Agent Vaughn. And I realize now, that in disapproving of you, I was only hating my own limitations. I wasn't asking myself what would be best for Sydney. If you honestly believe that you can make my daughter happy, then by all means you have my blessing to marry her.

  Michael Vaughn : Okay then.

• Jack Bristow : [Hangs up phone]  As if weapon grade anthrax grows on trees.

  [to Vaughn] 

  Jack Bristow : What is it?

  Michael Vaughn : Oh if this is a bad time I can...

  Jack Bristow : No, please. After dealing with that Chechnyan lunatic for the past couple of hours, whatever business you have will be a welcome relief.

  Michael Vaughn : [Vaughn smirks to himself and walks towards jack desk]  Well we've umm... I know you're a man who... I know you're a man who respects tradition. As... as do I. And...

  Jack Bristow : Please just get to the point agent Vaughn.

  Michael Vaughn : I'm gonna ask Sydney to marry me and I'd like your blessing.

  Jack Bristow : Perhaps you believe my recent illness rendered me less incoherent than before or that my cogitative faculties have been somehow dulled or diminished. Allow me to clarify the facts for you Mr. Vaughn. While I've come to believe that you're not as useless as I first imagined. I still don't feel you have...

  [They are interrupted by loud sirens]