Burn Notice (TV Series)

Company Man (2011)

Dylan Baker: Raines

Quotes 

• Max : Glad you made it. I was beginning to wish I'd brought a magazine.

  Michael Westen : There was a guard change at the front entrance. Isn't knowing that supposed to be *your* job as senior field officer?

  ["Max" / "CIA officer"] 

  Max : Handling that, kind of your job as operative extraordinaire?

  Michael Westen : Oh, but that's not my title. Until my burn notice is officially lifted, I'm just a "civilian intelligence asset."

  ["Michael" / "CIA asset"] 

  Max : Just sayin', the way the boss talks about ya, I'd think handling a few government security guards would be a piece of cake. I think he's got a crush on you.

  Raines : [over comms]  I can hear you guys, you know. Your mics are live.

  ["Raines" / "The boss"] 

  Max : Just bustin' your chops, boss: I'm here with your favorite toy; I get jealous sometimes.

• [first lines] 

  Michael Westen : [narrative]  In the world of intelligence, taking down an entire covert network is the ultimate challenge. It's not something you can do alone.

  Michael Westen : [black-and-white flashback]  You.

  Raines : [black-and-white flashback]  Welcome back.

  Michael Westen : [narrative]  You need the resources of an entire intelligence agency behind you. You need solid intelligence that can point you in the right direction

  Michael Westen : [v.o. flashback]  That list is the key to destroying the people who burned me.

  Michael Westen : [narrative]  But that's just the starting point. You're not after an individual person; you're after dozens of people, all of them hiding, all of them with resources and skills, all of them fighting you by any means necessary. It's a gigantic jigsaw puzzle of information that requires months of research and analysis where one target leads to the next: a courier picked off the suburban street leads to a spy hiding out as a diplomat in a foreign embassy leads to a hardened group of armed assassins in another place entirely. Sometimes it's a surgical operation done with discrete teams that no one ever hears about; other times, it's all-out war; but one thing is always the same: with each piece of the puzzle, you find you understand your enemy more clearly, you penetrate the secrecy that shields people behind the scenes, working your way to the top of the network to the people pulling the strings. You keep fighting, trying to put that last piece of the puzzle in place, trying to find that last person who will give you the answers you're looking for.