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A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

A sorceress travels to the Lost Lands in search of a magical power that allows a person to transform into a werewolf.

Set in a small town whose residents find themselves under attack after a spaceship carrying the universe's most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard.

Michele Rigby Assad is a former CIA operative and the author of "Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For." Here, she reacts to eight undercover-espionage scenes and rates them on their accuracy. Assad looks at undercover operators such as Leonardo Dicaprio in "Body of Lies" (2008), Claire Danes in "Homeland" (2011-2020), and Jennifer Garner in "Alias" (2001). She rates training scenes in "Spy" (2015) and "Spy Game" (2001). She also rates clandestine CIA operation scenes in "Mission: Impossible" (1996), "Skyfall" (2012), "Argo" (2012), and "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" (2018).