Madam Secretary

Previously on Madam Secretary...

We're in therapy so we can work through it.

We're in therapy

because I can't accept what happened to Dmitri,

and what's still happening to his sister.

Images show the I-8 district of Islamabad,

where Jibral Disah is said to be sheltered,

to be a highly exposed residential area.

We'll give Murphy Station a diplomatic cover.

Conrad wants you guys working from inside the embassy,

and that's what's gonna let me sleep at night.

The embassy is under an evacuation order.

JSOC is ready to initiate render safe, Mr. President.

I'd like to wait until all of our citizens are out of danger.

I appreciate that, Mr. President.

But securing over 100 nuclear warheads in a fallen regime,

with ties to multiple jihadist groups, has to take precedence.

I didn't travel halfway around the world to get on a chopper

the moment we have Disah in our sights.

Have you looked outside?

This city is falling apart.

Which is the perfect cover we need to get this done.

This is finishing the job

we came here to do...

To kill Jibral Disah.

Elizabeth...

CENTCOM just received

a coded e-mail from Murphy Station.

They got a hit on

Jibral Disah's location and decided to stay in Islamabad.

Please, tell me they have a Marine detail.

Things are fluid.

We're trying to reach them.

Yeah... me, too.

Two hours ago, I was at a pancake social

in Dixville Notch, charming party insiders,

when the guy at the syrup bar

tells me Pakistan is imploding.

Thanks for making it back so quickly.

Mr. President...

Mr. Jackson, welcome back.

You're all needed in the Situation Room.

Another slow day at the office.

Prime Minister Khoosat was unfit to lead the people of Pakistan,

and the people rightly took to the streets to demonstrate...

What's going on?

Abedi just declared himself

the new Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Does he have the military behind him?

Unclear. Though it's totally

clear that he's in league with Hizb al-Shahid.

Let the Chief of the Army Staff

and his principal officers know that

the United States does not recognize Abedi,

and they would be wise to do the same.

Where are we on wrapping up their nuclear weapons, Admiral?

Special Operation Forces out of Afghanistan and Qatar

are en route.

Before they breach Pakistani

airspace, CYBERCOM'll be paving the road.

We already killed most of the power grid and all comms.

Still working on jamming

their surface-to-air missile capabilities.

But just in case,

we're bringing in every available drone

to clean up any bumps along the way.

Then what?

Pakistan's 110 nuclear weapons

are stored in 12 bunkers, scattered all over the country.

We'll be handling the seven in the northern half

that account for 68 bombs.

The Russians will be taking the five bunkers in the south.

However, far as we can tell,

the Russians haven't launched any units yet.

I can reach out to Minister Avdonin about that.

How long do we expect all this to take?

Assuming our intel on bunker locations is good,

six hours till taillights over the border.

Mr. President, I have Murphy Station on the line, sir.

Put them on speaker, Colonel.

Give us your status, Murphy.

En route to Islamabad's I-8 district.

If our intel is right,

we should be staking out Jibral Disah's location

in about 30 minutes.

Hey, it's Elizabeth.

McCord.

Hey.

You should know

we've initiated an operation to...

secure all of Pakistan's nuclear

weapons, so... most of their power grid's down.

We'll be coming in pretty heavy,

with Russian Special Forces joining in.

Copy that.

Get it done and get out.

Murphy Station, could you, uh,

could you give us a second?

Mr. President, there are riots

raging throughout Islamabad.

I, uh...

I'm questioning the wisdom of leaving

three high value assets to take out this terrorist,

in a rapidly deteriorating situation,

while we have bigger fish to fry.

You want to abort the Disah mission.

As much as I would love to light that

son of a bitch up,

render safe has to be our priority.

Elizabeth?

I think we should back Murphy Station's play, sir.

Walk and chew gum at the same time, it is then.

Let's get it done. All of it.

Yes, sir.

Maybe she's sick of you.

Ma'am.

It's Allison. She says it's an emergency.

Ali, baby, what's going on? Are you okay?

You didn't sign the New York trip permission slip.

So you're not bleeding out on the street somewhere?

I left it on the coffee maker last night.

Well, I ended up staying at work all night.

Oh, yeah, that'll fly with Dean Ward.

Quaker education is all about personal responsibility.

You know Richard Nixon was a Quaker.

Just saying.

If it's not signed by 3:00, I'll be stuck in study hall

while all of my friends are seeing Hamilton.

Oh, Hamilton, well...

I'll have Blake take care of it.

But listen, no more saying that it's an emergency

unless there are paramedics or SWAT teams involved.

I love you, baby.

What am I taking care of?

Appeasing a fascist Quaker.

Minister Avdonin,

thanks for coming,

but a phone call would have sufficed.

I wanted to tell you in person

that Russia has decided to back Abedi as prime minister.

You can't be serious. Madam Secretary...

Of course you're serious. But... Abedi?

Who basically murdered the legitimate prime minister

and is in bed with the worst terrorists on Earth?

That guy?

Pakistan has a long history of cooperating

with jihadist groups. But none of them

ever set off a dirty bomb inside the United States.

We will never get behind anybody associated with Hizb al-Shahid.

That's...

Oh, my God.

You're backing out of render safe.

We agreed to it before Abedi took power.

Abedi hasn't taken power,

and it is absurd to think that

he could hold that country together.

Our intelligence agencies have already seen fissures

in the Pakistani military.

Are those the same intelligence agencies

that were so sure Russia hacked Air Force One?

Konstantin, our joint render safe plan has been in place

for years, and it's happening now.

You can't just back out of it

like it's an annoying dinner party.

I should let you go.

There's nothing more to discuss.

Hello.

You okay?

I'm...

I'm okay, I'm... I'm...

Yeah. I'm...

We got this.

Seriously, don't worry.

I believe you.

Look, I-I don't want to hang up, Henry, but I-I just found out

the Russians are bailing on us, and I've got to brief POTUS.

Wait, don't hang up. Go.

Just hold on.

Look, I know I wasn't marrying a couch potato and...

I don't know how to say this.

I...

I love you, so don't die on me, okay?

Copy that.

And I love you.

Now I gotta go, too.

Yeah, the two-story one with the blue trim.

SUVs out front.

They could be out of there pretty quick, if they had to.

Son of a bitch is in there.

I can feel the dark side

of the Force.

Well, we wait until we see him.

I'll call for a drone.

Or a droid.

President Salnikov won't budge.

We're on our own.

So what does that look like, Admiral?

Five more sites, hundreds of miles apart.

It'll extend the mission to closer to ten hours.

Can't we move faster by destroying the bombs?