[all agents are required to submit to a polygraph, which annoys Auggie because Annie is out in the field and needs his assistance]
Interrogator: I'm going to ask you a series of questions to act as a control sample, OK?
Auggie Anderson: No, it's not OK.
[interrogator looks up]
Auggie Anderson: You wanted the truth, right?
Interrogator: Just answer the questions, please. Your name is August Anderson?
Auggie Anderson: Yes, but my friends call me Auggie. You can call me August.
Interrogator: Yes or no, please. You were born in Glencoe, Illinois, is that correct?
Auggie Anderson: Yes.
Interrogator: OK, you lost your eyesight while with special forces in Iraq, is that correct?
Auggie Anderson: [sighs] I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific.
Interrogator: You were in Tikrit.
Auggie Anderson: Yes.
Interrogator: There was an incident, an explosion.
Auggie Anderson: Yes.
Interrogator: And now you're blind.
Auggie Anderson: No, I'm not.
Interrogator: You're not?
Auggie Anderson: [coolly] What does the machine say?
[machine registers no change]
Auggie Anderson: I spent twelve months down in the farm, I did my SERE training at Fort Bragg and I have *four* mean-ass older brothers. You don't think I know how to lie well enough to beat that thing?