The best episodes of Covert Affairs
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Eyal and his boss request the CIA's assistance in tracking a Mossad asset.
- 02
Auggie, Joan and Arthur work with an old friend to bring Annie home from a Russian prison.
- 03
After it's discovered that Jai was investigating Simon Fischer when he was killed, bringing Simon in becomes Arthur's top priority. In the hopes of protecting Simon, Annie requests that she be allowed to bring him in herself.
- 04
When a fellow spy is taken hostage, Annie travels to Amsterdam to eliminate Khalid once and for all.
- 05
With Auggie in Iraq and Joan out of the office, Annie turns to Eyal to help her track down Khalid Ansari.
- 06
As the life of one the Agency's best hangs in the balance, the team works to discover the truth after it's revealed that one of their own might not be who they thought.
- 07
Annie Walker is removed from CIA training and thrust into the inner sanctum of the Agency for what appears to be their need of her exceptional linguistic skills, but there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after.
- 08
What Is and What Should Never Be
After Annie witnesses a suspicious purchase at an art auction, her follow-up brings a surprise visitor -- Ben Mercer -- back into her life.
- 09
After a "simple brush pass" goes sour, Annie is stranded and on the run in Zurich with Eyal, a Mossad agent who can't be trusted. Meanwhile, as Auggie works to bring Annie home safely, Arthur and Joan are busy trying to track a leak coming from within the CIA ... and Auggie is near the top of the list.
- 10
Annie is tasked with investigating a potential national security leak originating from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Elsewhere, Auggie is assigned as a stateside handler for his old special ops unit, and Annie is worried that her brother-in-law, Michael, is cheating on Danielle.
- 11
When communication systems throughout D.C. are shut down by a hacker, Auggie is put in the field to obtain the code for the CIA. But his excitement to be doing field work is tempered when he learns that the hacker responsible is Natasha Petrova ... who happens to be his ex-girlfriend.
- 12
Upon arriving in Toronto, Yahya "Johnny" Rahimi escapes his handlers and contacts the CIA, hoping to parlay stolen intelligence into safe passage to the United States.
- 13
When Simon invites Annie on a trip to Cuba, she accepts, knowing this is her best opportunity to learn what Simon has been planning. But going to Cuba means Annie won't have any backup if she gets caught.
- 14
The CIA attempts to obtain proof that an enemy is hiding in Russia, in the hopes of bringing them to justice.
- 15
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Annie and Eyal track down an important asset who has vanished from protective custody.
- 16
After the DPD gets word of an incoming shipment from an arms dealer Hasaan Waleed is entering the USA, Annie sent to try to enlist former CIA operative, Christopher McCauley, and see if he can help with the current situation. However, there are still mixed feelings to what McCauley has in mind of what justice is. Meanwhile Henry Wilcox, former to Arthur's job is having a ceremony to which many don't believe he deserves, including his own son.
- 17
Annie is forced to confront her past when Ben Mercer walks into CIA Headquarters, and the two are sent to Sri Lanka together to rescue Ben's former asset.
- 18
While in Argentina attempting to exchange a spy, an assassin attacks Annie and the spy, Carlo Reni. Forced on the run, Annie and Carlo have to evade arrest and figure out who set them up before the assassin can catch up with them.
- 19
Annie is sent to London to be a "mark" attempting to be recruited by a group of smugglers. Meanwhile, back at the CIA, the chain of command is tested as Arthur and Joan are forced to bring Henry Wilcox back into the fold.
- 20
When a CIA Trainee's name is leaked online, Annie is sent back to Camp Peary (aka "The Farm") to find the leak. But if Annie isn't careful, she could become the next victim of the leak, which would mean the end of her own career.
- 21
After receiving intel from Mossad warning that two suspected terrorists are planning to meet, Annie finds herself in a race against the clock to track down the meeting location before the targets get away.
- 22
Annie is tasked with getting close to Diego, a college student, in the hopes that his sister, Julia, will provide the CIA with intel on Victor Ponces, a corrupt Venezuelan government official. But when the CIA station agent looking into Ponces goes missing, Diego's trust in Annie means that she's going to have to finish the job
- 23
The team must pick up the pieces and go after the people responsible for killing one of their own agents.
- 24
Annie and Auggie are sent to Spain to acquire a computer virus.
- 25
Annie begins a stakeout; the CIA learns that a member of the intelligence community may have leaked intel; Joan and Arthur compete for funding; Calder's personal and professional lives collide.
Shows like Covert Affairs
The closest matches on shared genres, ranked by match strength and popularity.
- 01Drama·Action·EspionageThe best episodes of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan2018–2026
Jack Ryan is a drama featuring Tom Clancy's popular hero Jack Ryan billed as a new contemporary take on the character in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative using the novels as source material. - 02Drama·Action·EspionageThe best episodes of Alias2001–2006·ABC
Sydney Bristow is not exactly your average grad student. - 03Drama·Action·EspionageThe best episodes of Condor2018–2020·Pickbox NOWJoe Turner has always been conflicted about his work for the CIA.
- 04Drama·Action·EspionageThe best episodes of Teşkilat2021–present·TRT1In Turkey, a terrorist attack is carried out on the SİHA factory in Ankara.
- 05Drama·Action·EspionageThe best episodes of Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond2014–2014·BBC AmericaThere's no questioning the iconic status of the man they call 007, but before his thrilling adventures hit the page or screen, they were experienced first-hand by author-to-be, Ian Fleming.
- 06Drama·Action·Science-FictionThe best episodes of Arrow2012–2020·The CWAfter a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific.
