After the death of Annie University professor, Mark Ramsay, Annie learns that he was actually a CIA agent who was killed while tracking a spy network in Pakistan.
"Covert Affairs" focuses on a young CIA trainee Walker, Annie (Piper Perabo), mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field agent. While Annie believed to have been promoted for his exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from his past that his bosses are actually the CIA later. Christopher Gorham plays Auggie Anderson, an agent of the CIA's military intelligence who was blinded during the mission and the guidance of Annie in the world of bureaucracy, the excitement and intrigue.