FBI: International (TV Series)

Crestfallen (2022)

Aaron Serotsky: Michael Rafferty

Quotes 

• Michael Rafferty : Do you remember the oath you took when you became an agent? Maybe you forgot. "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Now, nowhere in there is there a carve-out that if your mom becomes a spy for Russia, you can adopt some... some situational ethics and everyone will let it slide. Okay, loop in the bureau's Counterintel folks. Hand over everything you have. Don't do anything on your own. If you don't wanna do this for your country, Scott, do it for yourself,

• Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : Rafferty.

  Michael Rafferty : Why are you looking into Pavel Novikoff?... Come on, you know all the keystrokes on your work computer are...

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : Are logged. I know. I got a tip from a confidential source.

  Michael Rafferty : Your mom? Yeah, that whole Hutchinson file thing? That was an integrity test on you by your mother to see if you would do her bidding, and you did.

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : I notified OPR when she reached out.

  Michael Rafferty : No, you asked for the case file, then had a change of heart and called in OPR, yes or no?

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : What do you need, Mike?

  Michael Rafferty : You're being played, Scott. If this wasn't your mom, you'd see it from a million miles away.

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : And what is in the Hutchinson file that is of interest to her in the first place?

  Michael Rafferty : It sure as hell wasn't so she could clear her name.It was Hutchinson's chumminess with Novikoff that was of interest to her.She wanted details on Hutchinson so she could find a way to expose Novikoff at the Kremlin. But Novikoff ran before she could make her power move.

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : Why does she want Novikoff?

  Michael Rafferty : He grew a conscience, gave the wrong advice to the wrong people. Now he's out of favor at the Kremlin and on the run. And your mom, as a Russian loyalist, is trying to find him and kill him and use you to facilitate it.

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : My own involvement started in this in Kraków when you gave me a surveillance photo of her. You must've known that I was gonna look into her. So is that what you wanted? So are you her handler, hmm? You lost touch, you started to panic, wanted to use me as your bloodhound?

  Michael Rafferty : Yes, and I thought I knew her well till she fully betrayed me and the United States and became fully absorbed in Russia. Novikoff was the one who recruited and turned her, by the way.

  Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester : So if he really is on the run, wouldn't it be in the best interest for the Americans to bring him in out of the cold? I mean, he's in the top lineup at the Kremlin.All those communications are face-to-face, "Godfather"-style. We could set back Russian penetration efforts a decade with what's rattling around in that man's head.

  Michael Rafferty : Yeah, that's not for you to determine... Nor contemplate.