[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the midseason premiere of Covert Affairs. Read at your own risk.]
Jai packed his bags — but he didn't go to Phoenix.
Instead, he moved down the hall on the Covert Affairs midseason premiere into his new, swanky digs as director of special projects for the director of national intelligence — just like he had planned.
Covert Affairs' Sendhil Ramamurthy: Jai becomes a force to be reckoned with
Taking matters into his own hands for once, after Joan's shoddy reassignment in the summer finale, Jai (Sendhi Ramamurthy) slyly worked everyone like any good CIA officer would. He pestered his old frat brother into having him deposed in the Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA leak and made sure his dad Henry (Gregory Itzin) — aka the leak and hardly the apple of the agency's eye — got wind of that. That ultimately forced Henry to pull "all" of his strings to get Jai the new gig.
So what does the director of special projects do? And what does this mean for Joan (Kari Matchett), Arthur (Peter Gallagher), Annie (Piper Perabo), Auggie (Christopher Gorham) and, of course, Henry? Ramamurthy answers our burning questions about the twist and makes a promise for Season 3.
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Who did Jai call at the end of the Covert Affairs summer finale?
His dad Henry (Gregory Itzin)? Liza Hearn (Emmanuelle Vaguier)?
Sendhil Ramamurthy had his guess, but was more than happy to be wrong. "I called up [creators] Matt [Corman] and Chris [Ord] ... and they said, 'No, no, no. This is what's happening,'" Ramamurthy tells TVGuide.com. "As soon as they told me, it was like, 'Wow!' It became clear what they ...
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[WARNING: The following story contains major spoilers from the summer season finale of Covert Affairs. Read at your own risk.]
No, those ...
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They may play super-secret CIA agents on TV, but when the cast of Covert Affairs came to Comic-Con for the first time on Thursday, they let more than a few pieces of intel slip. Why is Annie's (Piper Perabo) love life about to get "crowded?" (And, more importantly, with whom?) What does Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) have up his sleeve? And, most pressing, what does Anne Dudek want to do with Christopher Gorham's abs? Read on for scoop on Season 2...
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If it seems like Jai has gotten short shrift on Covert Affairs this season, Sendhil Ramamurthy assures that's going to change quickly.
"He's so enigmatic and has kind of been lost in the shuffle so far," the actor tells TVGuide.com. "They've been gradually building up his unhappiness. He's in some dark places this year, but ...
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