Status Updates From Into the Deep (Delta Shield...

I braced for impact in case I was wrong, as if that'd do any good to fight a blast and fiery inferno.

jumped to conclusions. I was an idiot.

I'd have done the same thing. We're used to people breaking our trust and our hearts. I'm not mad at you, only sorry I couldn't clear the air last night.

"Lo lamento." A deeper form of regret than lo siento

You didn't just touch me, Alejandro. You undid everything he broke.

kindly remove your head from your @$$ so I can go back to being the grump on the team. Not a fan of sharing the spot with you.

He's a ghost operative from Stratos ... and Mitch is going to use Eden as leverage to get to me.

[Mini spoiler!!! Twisty-turny ... never mind the whole Hollis backstory.]

My family has been accused of hiding everything from the maps of Atlantis to the Ark of the Covenant.

So what you're saying is you're a little Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Lara Croft all mixed up into one?

my parents relocated us here when I was three, but they kept all their other estates around the world active.

I didn't stumble into spycraft; I was raised in it. My family has amassed priceless and sometimes questionable relics, one of which is coming in handy for this auction. The invitations were secured because of it.

We're part of the first intelligence networks that existed centuries before agencies and their acronyms. We even helped design MI6's cipher system.

But we don't serve just one country. We serve order. And we also store secrets. Our vaults make the Smithsonian look like a gift shop.

My family ... we're legacy operatives with titles across multiple empires going back over six hundred years. They've advised the Medicis. Funded exploratory work for da Vinci. Even smuggled artifacts out of Constantinople before it fell to the Turks and became Istanbul. My lineage was granted special diplomatic status by the Vatican in the 1600s, a status that was never revoked.

my closed-off suite, which was three times the size of one of those business pods on a commercial plane

Buckley, the military base in Aurora [CO]

Me: You're hilarious, you know that, right?

Alejandro: I'm the team's comic relief. It's in my job description.

That's what happens when you create a monster - eventually it turns on you.

You let me look at your phone. That was your way of letting me know without telling me. A loophole.

I f#ckin' hate being left in the dark, so ...

For a non-people-y person, you're not so bad at it. Thank you for being honest. Well, as honest-ish as you're allowed to be.

She's not a threat. More like an asset. But don't tell her I said that.

I'm really getting tired of everyone deciding what is and is not safe for me without my input.

If my father had taught me anything, it was to always view everything as one of the three Ds: diversion, deflection, and deception. Between that and Beth, it's no wonder I have trust issues.

...while I may have had the psych degree and often gave advice, I never took any myself.

Don't you dare blame yourself for Mitch's choices. He's clearly a skilled manipulator. How could you possibly know the kind of man you were marrying?

He was fourteen years older, charming, and I guess he tricked me...

I don't just feel something. I feel everything.

I don't want you getting hurt.

You think she'll hurt me?

I know you'd like to kill me, but we've already got enough bodies on our hands.

Trevor's, what, forty?

Pick your poison. But one woman makes me want to jump from a cliff, and the other one makes me feel like I already fell.

Which woman is which?

Ignore me.

from the sounds of it, Mitch had sucked us deep into hell. And last I checked, no one ever made it out of there alive.

I think I aged ten years from that call.

Well, you look good for forty-three.

(So Audrey is really 33?)

when Echo Team puts a man down, he doesn't get back up.