Ben Mercer: You changed things for me, Annie.
Annie Walker: And you left me. I was in love with you, and you skipped out with a note.
Ben Mercer: If I would have stayed any longer, you would have been in danger.
Annie Walker: From what?
Ben Mercer: My mission. I was with the Agency.
Annie Walker: [softly] I knew it. With Stas, on the train tracks. It was you who saved me.
Ben Mercer: I was tracking him. I'm on my own now.
Annie Walker: And... and somehow that's my responsibility?
Ben Mercer: I was in love with you, Annie. That was it.
Annie Walker: I've thought... so long about what I would say to you if I ever saw you again, and now, I realize I don't wanna talk. I want you to talk. Why are you here... now?
Ben Mercer: The Cole painting at the auction.
Annie Walker: You marked it on my programme.
Ben Mercer: There's more there. Keep digging. Just... push it hard.
Annie Walker: What kind of cryptic nonsense is that? You show up two years later, out of the blue, and you expect me to "push it hard"? You push it hard!
[turns away]
Annie Walker: I don't believe you!
[walks past]
Ben Mercer: There's an arms dealer. Seraf Murat. The auction is one of the ways he moves his money.
Annie Walker: That's why that guy over-bid so much.
Ben Mercer: Murat's Number Two, Russ Hilburn. He wasn't just buying a Thomas Cole painting. He was buying a Cole and schematics for a Russian missile guidance system.
Annie Walker: That doesn't make sense. The CIA would wanna stop that. Why would...
Ben Mercer: They want to control it. They wanna control him. I want to stop Murat.
Annie Walker: So, just to be clear. You're not asking for forgiveness. You're asking me for a favor. What do you want me to do?
Ben Mercer: Go to Sophie Jacklin, the Bramble's director. Ask her about February 22nd, Lots 19 and 75. It may take some coaxing, but I think she'll come into Langley with you. And if you have to use my name, you use it.
Annie Walker: You know her?
Ben Mercer: Call her "Mona Lisa" and she'll know you're not bluffing.
Annie Walker: [shakes head] No.
Ben Mercer: [whispers] Annie. I know this is a lot to take in.
Annie Walker: The CIA would...
Ben Mercer: Forget protocol. The Agency is using you to get to me. You can't believe anything they say about me or anything I've done.
[emphatically:]
Ben Mercer: Do not trust Joan and Arthur.
[as she walks past, grabs her arm:]
Ben Mercer: Maybe I don't deserve this, but I'm asking you to trust me. Trust the man you fell in love with in Sri Lanka.
[and the beads are there to remind Annie]
