Piper Perabo presents Annie Walker as the super competent yet damaged young woman who ends up joining the CIA for reasons that are somehow related to a whirlwind romance which did not work out. We learn that she is a go-getter, a talented driver, and has a gift for many spy skill requirements, including languages. The best part is that within this premiere episode, we are not only told of these things, but we see her abilities fully displayed in humourous but believable situations, or dangerous chase sequences.
My particular favourite moment was when Annie and Auggie (Christopher Gorham), a fellow agent who is blind, were caught in a morgue while examining a body. The FBI agent who stopped them had met Annie before, pretending to be a Call Girl while retrieving information, and he was clever enough to suspect that something more was going on. Still, Annie and Auggie had figured out their story well, and the idea of a blind man with strange fetishes being taken into a morgue to see the man the girl on his arm saw getting murdered the day before, with the enthusiasm for the encounter which both showed, was purely brilliant.
Otherwise, Auggie is a truly unique and yet clichéd character. His ability to still be as charming and as much of a hound as he must have been before he lost his sight, and yet the sweetness that is still part of him despite not having grown up with his particular difficulty, makes him irresistible. What girl would have been able to resist his charm under normal circumstances, let alone when he manages to do so much and so well when he is blind.
And if the characters, the humour, and the high speed chases weren't enough to catch your interest, then surely the mystery of the man whom Annie loved and his connection to the CIA should be enough to hold you. I predict Covert Affairs will be a great success, in a lengthening line of USA network successes.
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