The Assets - Season 1 - Eps 2: Jewel in the Crown
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.
About The Assets

Title: The Assets
First Air Date: 2014-01-02
Last Air Date: 2014-08-03
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.9/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 8
Network: ABC
Genres: Drama, War & Politics
Production Companies: Lincoln Square Productions, Baltic Film Services
Synopsis
1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.
Cast

Jodie Whittaker
Sandy Grimes

Paul Rhys
Aldrich Ames

Harriet Walter
Jeanne Vertefeuille

Ralph Brown
Wallace Austin

Christina Cole
Louisa Tilton

Stuart Milligan
Arthur O'Neill

Lex Shrapnel
Mitch Weaver

Catalina Denis
Rosario Ames

John Lynch
Vitaly Yurchenko

Akie Kotabe
Eric D'Amaro