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The Spy 1×6

Dan Peleg: He's done his job! He's gone above and beyond. Let's bring him home.
Prime Minister Eshkol: We have an opportunity of having a Deputy Defense Minister in the Syrian government. It is an opportunity once in a lifetime. It will not happen again!
Dan Peleg: I understand. But...
Jacob Shimoni: This is bigger than you and him, Dan. He's going back. This is bigger than all of us. This is too good an opportunity. The benefits of us having a Deputy Defense Minister in Syria outweigh the risks of him getting caught.

Nadia Cohen: Let's have a real conversation, for once. The three of us. Finally. Let's have an open, honest conversation on what my husband does.
Eli Cohen: Nadia...
Nadia Cohen: And if either of you tell me that Eli's buying furniture, I will break his face.

Eli Cohen: Why can't we just tell her the truth?
Dan Peleg: The truth is probably worse than anything she can imagine.

Colonel Amin Al-Hafez: I agreed to fund the military wing of the PLO, the Fatah. Arafat will be training guerrilla soldiers here to infiltrate and seed fear into the Zionists' heart. A little terror will drive Israel crazy, but they won't get the world's support, and they can't blame us.
Eli Cohen: Brilliant. Brilliant.

Dan Peleg: Listen to me. Kamel isn't real. That life isn't real. You are not invincible, and you are not above suspicion. Ma'azi, Seif, Al-Ard, they are not your friends. You are not Kamel Amin Thaabeth, you are Eli Cohen, and whatever it takes, you need to remember that.

Suidani: You are going to send a message to your friends. Tell them... the game is over.

Dan Peleg: The Prime Minister has authorized us to make any deal possible to free him. We're going to do anything possible to bring him back. Nadia, I know this...
Nadia Cohen: Did you read today's newspapers? The Lebanese papers? The Iraqi papers? The Egyptians? They're all making fun of Al-Hafez. Saying Eli turned Syria into a joke. They are going to kill him.

Dan Peleg: So, do you know who we are?...

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Fish Gotta Swim

The Spy 1×5

Benny: His name is Mohammed Bin Laden. He's a construction giant from Saudi Arabia.
Jacob Shimoni: What's he doing in Syria?
Benny: We don't know. We also don't know how long he's been there.
Maya: Bin Laden's been involved in some of the biggest construction efforts in the Middle East, including the reconstruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque. If he's working on something in Syria, something no one knows about, something the Syrians don't even trust their own people with... maybe it's...
Dan Peleg: Shallal.

Dan Peleg: He hasn't been home in a very long time. Every agent needs to come up for air, or they drown.

Colonel Amin Al-Hafez: Water, the source of life. No creature, no matter how primitive, can survive without it. No civilization can thrive without it. That is why mankind has always fought over sources of water. For years, we've been playing a deadly game with our neighbors. They steal the water they claim is theirs. We, uh, damage their main pipes, blow them up, but they fix them and life goes on. It's a stupid cycle. Lake Tiberias may be in Israel, but the two rivers that feed it are not. The Banias and the Hasbani. Without those rivers... As they say, l'chiam.

Colonel Amin Al-Hafez: All this whispering behind my back, scheming, conspiring... I can't sleep at night. I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to answer me honestly...
Kamel Amin Thaabeth: Of course. Anything.
Colonel Amin Al-Hafez: Suidani is convinced that there is a spy working against us. He thinks it explains many of our failed operations. I got rid of my Deputy Minister of Defense because Suidani didn't trust him. I'm telling you all this because you've become a part of the family... I would like you to be our new Deputy Minister of Defense...
Eli Cohen: So what will be my answer?

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The Odd Couples

The Spy 1×4

Ma'azi: Lake Tiberias. In all its glory. And there is Israel.
Eli Cohen: So close...
Ma'azi: The most fertile soil ever. Beautiful lakes, mountains, waterfalls, landmines...
Eli Cohen: Our country is the most beautiful in all the world.
Ma'azi: Mm. I'll take your word for it.

Ma'azi: You've been to the Alps... to South America, to Paris!
Eli Cohen: All of them together, Ma'azi, don't come close to the majesty of this land.
Ma'azi: If you say so.

Eli Cohen: What's that?
Ma'azi: Oh. New deal with the Soviets. Khrushchev is supplying us with a lot more than he's admitting to the world.
Eli Cohen: And they are...
Ma'azi: They are 120-millimeter mortars. Not even the Israeli have those.
Eli Cohen: Good for us.

Eli Cohen: So, tell me, what are we looking at here?
Colonel Salim Hatoum: The Ein Gev kibbutz. Fishermen, mostly. The Zionists like to play victim. As if we are shooting indiscriminately. But they are stealing our land and fishing in our water, despite international agreements.
Eli Cohen: Mm.
Colonel Salim Hatoum: So you can see them up close and personal.
Eli Cohen: Thank you. The enemy... They look like us.
Colonel Salim Hatoum: What did you think they'd look like? Octopus?

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Colonel Salim Hatoum: Would you like to shoot one? Please, my present to you.

Eli Cohen: I'm not a soldier, I'm sorry.
Colonel Salim Hatoum: It's easy. You point... and you squeeze the trigger. Is there a problem?
Eli Cohen: On the contrary.....
Colonel Salim Hatoum: Don't be confused. They might wear civilian clothes, but each one of them is a Zionist soldier. Even the young ones. Simply choose a target. Put your finger on the trigger... and now, when you're ready...

General Ad-Din: Do you know why the Lake Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, as they call it, is so important to the Israelis? Water is the most vital substance for a living organism, and for a country. Without it there is no life, only death. The Sea of Galilee is the only water source the Israelis have. It feeds all their citizens, north all the way down to the desert!

Nadia Cohen: You really want to help? Bring me back my husband.

Michel Aflaq: Do you know who I am?
Eli Cohen: Of course, you're Michel Aflaq, the author of The Battle for One Destiny and the leader of the Ba'ath movement.
Michel Aflaq: Hm. Freedom of thought is always a scary thing for those who are in power. So they give you a title, which makes it easy for them to get rid of you.

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Alone in Damascus

The Spy 1×3

Sheik Majid Al Ard: Let me give you a piece of advice, Mr. Thaabeth... You are moving from Argentina to Syria.
Eli Cohen: Hm.
Sheik Majid Al Ard: There are things that one does not discuss in open places. Things you have talked about openly where you have come from will get you killed in the place you are going to.

Sheik Majid Al Ard: Since you're risking my neck as well as yours, I think I deserve to know... why didn't you want them looking through your things?
Eli Cohen: ... I'm a single man, and I have needs, and I have some... extremely graphic pornography in my suitcase.
Sheik Majid Al Ard: You're a naughty man. You're a naughty man, Kamel!

Jacob Shimoni: A toast to Operative 88, our man in Damascus!

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What's New, Buenos Aires?

The Spy 1×2

Julia Schneider: This is not a game, Kamel. This is not a role that you are playing. You are either him or you are dead!

Julia Schneider: Eli doesn't exist. Nadia doesn't exist.
Eli Cohen: I understand, Julia.
Julia Schneider: Say it.
Eli Cohen: Eli doesn't exist.
Julia Schneider: Say it... Say it!
Eli Cohen: Nadia doesn't... exist.

Dan Peleg: We need to keep looking. We need more time.
Jacob Shimoni: You need to calm down. Eighteen years, that's all it's been. Eighteen years since we were told that nothing bad is going to happen to us. That we have time. That we should stay put. The world won't let anything bad happen to us, they said. Well, the world doesn't care if we live or die. And if we don't take care of ourselves, no one will. There's no time, Dan. Time was never on our side.

Eli Cohen: Wh... Why didn't someone tell me? I didn't know.
— Because you were Kamel. Eli, you just came back.

Eli Cohen: Because of me, a man is dead.
Dan Peleg: You are saving lives, Eli. Not taking them. Remember that.

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The Immigrant

The Spy 1×1

Eli Cohen: Well, they invited us to add color to their party, Nadia. That's it.
Nadia Cohen: What color is that?
Eli Cohen: Brown.

Jacob Shimoni: We owe our people the right to live in peace and security. In this land, that right doesn't come without a price. And sometimes the price is high, as you very well know... Look, at least before you say no to me, consider all the people we are responsible for. Not just the one.

Jacob Shimoni: We want to offer you the opportunity to do something important with your life. Do you consider yourself a patriot?
Eli Cohen: I love this country with all my might.
Jacob Shimoni: If your country needed you to quit your job, would you do it?
Eli Cohen: To do what?
Jacob Shimoni: If your country needed you to quit your job, would you do it?
Eli Cohen: Yes.
Jacob Shimoni: If your country needed you to lie to your friends, your family, your wife, would you do it?
Eli Cohen: ... Yes.
Jacob Shimoni: If your country asked you to risk your life, would you do it?
Eli Cohen: I already have.
Dan Peleg: Nothing about this conversation is hypothetical. Tomorrow morning, you will get up, pack your lunch, kiss your wife goodbye, and come here without telling anyone...

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