The CIA scores a major break when Vitaly Yurchenko, a high-ranking KGB officer, defects to the US. Assigned as the lead in the debriefing, Aldrich Ames engages in a verbal cat-and-mouse game to determine whether he is in danger of being ratted out. Ames considers taking drastic measures when Yurchenko reveals that he knows of a mole in the CIA. Meanwhile, Sandy frets over the safety of a beloved and esteemed asset, General Dmitri Polyakov.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 2 of The Assets was watched by 2,920,000 viewers, resulting in a 0.60 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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The Assets Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - My Name Is Aldrich Ames
• s01e02 - Jewel in the Crown
• s01e03 - Trip to Vienna
• s01e04 - What's Done is Done
• s01e05 - Check Mate
• s01e06 - A Small Useless Truth
• s01e07 - The Straw Poll
• s01e08 - Avenger

The Assets Show Summary

"The Assets" will look inside the true, personal stories of the conclusion of the Cold War as told by the keepers of the nation's secrets: the CIA.

It is based on the book "Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed" by retired CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille. Together they hunted down CIA officer Aldrich Ames, a mole who fed information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the passings of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who had spied for the United States.