Helen Finds Out - True Lies
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Harry calls his wife and lies to her about what he is doing. His wife is disappointed but focuses on other aspects of her career -- grading papers.
 
Harry and his team members begin their mission of extracting a drug dealer.
 
Helen makes an excuse about their father to his children, who are skeptical of why he's never home.
 
The team accidentally trips an alarm, putting their mission at risk. As they attempt to escape, they are followed by the bad guys. They have their target in a van.
 
They escape.
 
Harry returns home but practices his cover story before going in the house. He comes with fake gifts and gives them to his children as they prepare to leave for school.
 
As she drives the children to school, Helen listens to them complain about their dad and how he doesn't appear to know them. Later on, Helen also expresses dissatisfaction with her marriage. She speeds off to yoga class.
 
She discusses her problems with a colleague who proposes that Henry might be cheating.
 
Harry's boss informs him of some dangerous weapon they have been tracking.
 
The Taskers host a BBQ party where a work colleague crashes with some news. The weapon they had been tracking was sold before they picked up the weapons dealer.
 
Helen is annoyed with the work talk and confronts Harry about it. She says she thinks he's cheating. Harry panics and invites her to Paris, pretending he had planned it as a surprise.
 
Gib is annoyed with his decision to invite his wife on a mission to retrieve the weapon.
 
Harry leaves Helen in the hotel room and goes to complete the mission. He pretends to pick up opera tickets. The mission succeeds.
 
They go out to dinner, but Harry spots possible bad guys and activates his SOS watch alarm.
 
A fight ensues in the restaurant when Harry and Helen start fighting with the bad guys. They are captured.
 
The team goes into crisis management mode.
 
The children are visited by their next-door neighbor, who offers to make them dinner. She is there to keep them safe as she is a trained assassin.
 
In captivity, the captors want to kill Helen because she is useless, but Helen and Harry fool them by pretending she works with him. He comes clean about his job as a spy.
 
Helen and Harry free themselves, fight their way out, and escape.
 
Helen is drafted into Omega because of the secrets she's learned.
 
Helen and Harry return home. Their children are suspicious.
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True Lies Season 1 Episode 1 Quotes

Why save the world if you're not doing it for those you love?

Harry

Do they look like people who have come from vacation?

Dana