Michael Westen en voix off, épisode 617

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VO : As a spy you spend so much of your life lying that you have to keep reminding yourself that you're doing it for the greater good. It's easy to believe that when the people you're deceiving are your enemies. It's much harder when you find yourself on the ones you love the most to attend a secret meeting in the dead of night.

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VO : If you need to leave the country quietly one of the best methods is getting hired onto the crew of a cargo ship. Ports have so much internal oversight, including months of background checks and union wait lists, police don't pay much attention. The trick is finding a union rep willing to shuffle your paperwork to the top, and then of course providing him with the proper motivation.

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VO : When a member of your team is injured in the field the first priority is an extraction – getting him away from the danger as fast as you can. But getting away won't do much good if the person you're trying to save bleeds out. Which means as soon as you possibly can you have to stop and figure out exactly how bad the situation is.

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VO : In the field, capture is always a possibly that's why spies are trained to resist interrogation. One of the best ways to do this is known as "story telling" – Spinning a long winded but believable tail that keeps you talking and them listening. Because, the more you talk the less they can ask questions.

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VO : The interrogation technique known as the "prisoners dilemma" involves turning two prisoners against each other and seeing which one cracks first. It can still work if you only have one prisoner as long as you can convince your target he's not alone.

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VO : In the intelligence world anyone who isn't actively your enemy is a potential friend. Spies can't afford any grudges. In a pinch you have to be willing to turn to anyone for help no matter how complicated your history is.

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VO : Interrogations are all about finding a persons vulnerability and exploiting it. If they're dumb, you trick them; scared, you intimidate them; emotional, you rile them; but if they're trained in all the same way you are, sometimes all that's left is telling the truth.

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VO : Cellular phone technology has come a long way in the last ten years. Land lines, on the other hand have worked the same way for a century which means making a working home phone requires only very basic equipment. A set of head phones can be turned into a handset by flipping the leads in one of the speakers and making it a microphone. After that's done you just need to make a hook switch – a circuit that does the job of the key pad. Then as long as you can count to ten and know the number you're dialing you can complete a call to anyone.

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VO : Intelligence agencies safe houses are designed to be difficult to detect. Still you can find one if you know what to look for. The biggest tip offs are transportation and security. If you see two armored vehicles parked in front of a run-down old building with brand-new storm shutters chances are you are in the right place.

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VO : Using gas as part of a breech is extremely dangerous and rarely done. But, if the building's small enough and you can access the ventilation system, it can help you avoid a bloody situation. A hospital vaporizer will allow you to turn the liquid sedative into an aerosol and dilute it with a solvent gas. Once you have the right concentration you let the AC unit pump it into every room.

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VO : Timing is extremely important when administering an opiate analgesic. You have to wait long enough for the drug to take effect, but not so long that you leave bodies on the ground. At most you only have a few minutes to inject the sedative's inverse to ensure that no one overdoses and goes into respiratory arrest.

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VO : In any kind of an emergency situation an operatives greatest enemy is panic. The spike of adrenaline, the increased blood pressure and the loss of any sense of time can make it impossible to think clearly at exactly the time you need a clear head the most. In those moments it takes all your training, all your will power to pull yourself back from the brink.

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