Alias (TV Series)

Maternal Instinct (2006)

Lena Olin: Irina Derevko

Quotes 

• Irina Derevko : [about being an agent and a mother]  In time you'll learn... you can't do both.

  Sydney Bristow : Watch me.

• Sydney Bristow : Did you put out the order to kill Vaughn?

  [Sydney has a contraction] 

  Irina : [Irina eyes Sydney up and down]  I'd known about his investigation for a long time. In Sovogda I tried to warn him. He didn't take my advice.

  Sydney Bristow : I fell for you. Even *Dad* fell for you.

  [pauses] 

  Sydney Bristow : But Vaughn never trusted you.

• Irina Derevko : [Over the phone]  Listen to me very carefully, Marshall. Jack and Sydney are in Vancouver, Queen's Bank. They need extraction.

  Marshall Flinkman : Okay, uh, is this who I think it is?

  Irina Derevko : Tell the team they'll need diapers.

• Irina : The only reason I saved the baby was because you're my daughter.

• Irina : You should know something Sydney. I never wanted to have a child. The KGB demanded it. They knew it would ensure allegiance to me. You were simply a means to an end. And then when the doctor put you in my arms and I looked at you, so fragile, all I could think was, how could I have made such a terrible mistake. And at that moment I was sure of one thing. I couldn't be an agent and a mother. I'd either fail at one or both. And I chose to fail at being a mother.

• Sydney Bristow : It was you, on the ship, wasn't it; behind the glass? You orchestrated the whole thing, because you wanted this. And when... When you couldn't torture it out of me, you came to me as my mother.

  Irina Derevko : I am your mother.