The Enemy Within (TV Series)

An Offer (2019)

Lev Gorn: Mikhail Tal

Quotes 

• Mikhail Tal : Hello, Erica.

  Erica Shepherd : Tal.

  Mikhail Tal : Such a pleasure to finally meet you.

• Erica Shepherd : Where's my daughter?

  Mikhail Tal : Safe.

  Erica Shepherd : If you hurt her, I will kill you.

  Mikhail Tal : You are in no position to make threats. I suggest you don't. You look different in person. Stronger. Odd how our opinions can shape a person's image in our mind.

  Erica Shepherd : Where is she?

  Mikhail Tal : Ask again and I'll have her eyes plucked from her skull.

• Mikhail Tal : Do you know why I'm here? Do you know why I risked my life to enter this country?

  Erica Shepherd : No.

  Mikhail Tal : It's because of you, Erica. I'm here to tell you your future. The four CIA operatives who work for you will die. There is nothing you can do to change that. And soon your country will know your... part in their deaths. You'll be arrested as a traitor and spend the rest of your life locked in a cage like a dog. Your country will despise your very existence. And you will never see your daughter again. That future is as inevitable as the dawn. Except through me.

  Erica Shepherd : What do you want?

  Mikhail Tal : You.

  Erica Shepherd : You want me? You want me to work for you?

  Mikhail Tal : I've had many adversaries in my life. Interpol, MI6, Mossad. But no one came close to stopping me. Not until you. And I want you to be an operative. I want you as you are. Deputy director of the CIA. Feed me intelligence. Protect me from your country. In return, I will save you from that cage. And your daughter will be safe forever. Don't answer now. I know anything you'll say will merely be in service of saving your daughter. No.

  [amused laugh] 

  Mikhail Tal : I want you to think... about your response. I want you to feel the noose of incarceration tightening around your neck. Then, and only then, do I want your answer. You hate me. But in time, you'll see, just as many before you have, that beyond hatred lies salvation. Your daughter is upstairs in her room unharmed. She knows nothing about this. She simply believes she was caught skipping school. The less she knows, the better, in case your decision is one that pleases me.

• [last lines] 

  Mikhail Tal : Hello, Erica.

  Erica Shepherd : Tal?

  Mikhail Tal : I must admit that I didn't think I would hear your voice again. What is it you want from me?

  Erica Shepherd : Three years ago, you made me an offer.

  Mikhail Tal : What of it?

  Erica Shepherd : I want to know if it still stands.

  Mikhail Tal : Three years ago, you were in a position to help me.

  Erica Shepherd : I still am. The FBI, William Keaton. He's closing in on you. I know you feel it. I can help you.

  Mikhail Tal : Why? After all these years, why would you do this now?

  Erica Shepherd : I am not going to die in a cage.