'Covert Affairs' Shows Spying Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 10, "World Leader Pretend," Annie gets to help extract a Chinese defector, an engineer named Shen, from the clutches of his handlers at a Washington conference. Things go wrong, of course.

Recap: 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 8, 'Welcome to the Occupation'

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 8, "Welcome to the Occupation," Annie is interrupted on her free climbing weekend with her doctor sweetie by an apparent gang of eco terrorists who take the board of an oil company hostage in Mexico City.

Recap: 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 7, 'Half a World Away'

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 7, "Half a World Away," Auggie is going to Istanbul on vacation to attend a jazz festival. This would ordinarily be a challenge for a blind man, but this is Auggie we are talking about.

Recap: 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 6, 'The Outsiders'

"Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 6, "The Outsiders" finds Annie and Reva hiking along the Poland-Belarus border, planting surveillance cameras. Why the Poles, who seem perfectly capable of doing so, are not doing this is unknown.

Recap: 'Covert Affairs,' Season 2, Episode 4, 'All the Right Friends'

In "Covert Affairs," Season 2, Episode 4, "All the Right Friends," Annie finds herself flying down Argentina way with Carlo, an Italian spy who is to be swapped for someone on an isolated air strip near Buenos Aires.