State of Affairs

Previously on State of Affairs...

Syd, I got another text, this one with a photo.

- _ - Is that Omar Fattah?

Fattah is one of the most wanted men in the world.

Whoever's sending you these texts has real resources,

someone like Nick Vera.

I'm not behind this.

Then I'm not letting whoever is

burn me down with POTUS.

Charleston, I'm announcing a new permanent CIA director.

You won't be working with me. You'll be working for me.

You've wandered into a world I can't protect you.

Cut this guy loose, Charlie.

I can't.

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Quiet.

Quiet! Put your head down.

Put your head down.

Let me guess. Lawyer.

No.

Well, you're not a housewife.

Well, thank you... I think.

What is that?

Oh, the stamp? It's for the Cave club.

I tend bar there on Fridays and Saturdays.

You should stop by.

I'll hook you up.

Excuse me.

What?

"Milk, light foam."

That's what you ordered, right?

Right.

Hey.

Hey.

Are you following me?

Charlie, it's the closest place to work.

What do you want, Nick?

I want to talk to you about that photo you got.

That interrogation will never be declassified,

so, one, that photo should never have been taken,

and, two, it should never have made it back from the field,

and all of this started when you got back to D.C.

We worked Fattah together.

We let him go together.

You still don't trust me?

No, I trust you completely

to cover your own ass.

You're obvious, Nick.

Something's ensnared you, tied you to this.

Otherwise you wouldn't bother making me your swim buddy.

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Charlie,

the troops have amassed and are waiting for you.

Okay.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

- Okay. - What?

Not a peep out of Russia over the submarine incident.

They got bigger fish to fry.

Thank you, Ukraine crisis.

Oh, and it's still a crisis.

Sources confirm Russia dispatched another convoy

over the border last night.

Now the rebels inside the Ukraine

have shiny new rocket launchers to play with.

How do you say "sanctions aren't working"

in Russian?

"Crimea."

Top of the book is prepping POTUS

for the Camp David meeting with President Chu.

Navarro's doing the psych profile.

The director is briefing the president himself.

- Is this for real? - It is.

He took Lucas's gig.

I am the China expert, after all.

Well, don't get all butt hurt about it, buddy.

Everybody just wants their face time with Madam President.

Yeah, including you.

Excuse me.

Okay, let's just keep focused on the book.

We got something kind of ugly in Africa.

Boko Haram.

Tell me.

20 more girls were kidnapped near Mubi.

Soccer team. Their bus was hijacked.

Are we sure it's Boko Haram?

Yeah, the coach taped a video before he was killed.

In it, the gunman claims the girls by right of sharia law.

Pull it up.

Yeah, which means the bus

is probably headed to a camp in the Sambisa forest.

That place is a hornet's nest.

If they're true to form,

they'll upload videos of the captured girls.

Pleading for their release.

All right, let's get sat images of the area,

statements from eyes on the ground

in and around Mubi.

If we can pinpoint their location,

these girls may have a chance.

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President Chu Jian, um, well,

his father died fighting in the communist revolution

when Chu was just five.

That accounts for his zeal

for all things communist and military.

And he grew up poor; It's part of why

he's so concerned with keeping his government costs down.

It's an obsession with him.

Wish he was less concerned with cost cutting

and more concerned with the protestors

rotting away in Beijing's jails, but...

Thank you, Director Navarro.

No, no, Ray, please.

Ray, David, you can leave us now.

Bye, guys.

Thank you.

Director Navarro doesn't like that.

He knows you prefer the PDB to be one-on-one.

No, he doesn't like that you disrespect him.

Word to the wise.

Okay, top of the book is Boko Haram, Madam President.

Yesterday they kidnapped another 20 Nigerian girls

on their way to a soccer game.

They killed the coach, the bus driver,

hijacked the bus.

They've released videos demanding a ransom

from the west.

If it is not received within 24 hours,

they're going to sell the girls into slavery.

That was four hours ago,

and I'm sure I don't have to tell you

what they've probably already done to them.

Nigerian government

has been unequivocal in their position on this.

They're too afraid of Boko Haram to act

and too corrupt to be effective if they did.

Well, we have narrowed down a location

in the Sambisa forest.

Charlie, are you trying to influence me?

Of course not, ma'am.

The Nigerians have accepted our support

in an advisory capacity only.

Well, maybe we advise them

to rescue the girls.

I have very little diplomatic leverage.

I know.

See if you can find the girls.

But, Charleston,

understand I cannot put American boots on the ground.

I understand.

What's next?

Sir, I want to apologize if I was disrespectful back there.

The president and I have a shorthand,

and sometimes my tone can get a bit casual.

You just apologized to me?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, accepted.

What's the takeaway on Boko Haram?

She wants us to look for the girls.

Why?

I didn't ask.

Huh.

You expect me to believe that POTUS just authorized a search

for that camp by you and your team?

You don't have the capabilities or the time.

We can't move on that.

She just asked me to look, sir.

Okay, tell NSA and NGA that I want SIGINT and imagery

on the area around the Sambisa forest.

We're looking for the girls.

Nothing we can do about it.

They'll never authorize an Op.

Who said anything about an Op?

We're just looking for the girls, Sir Skeptic.

- Here you go, Charlie. - Thank you.

Hey.

What's going on with you?

Nothing.

Really?

You're in early. You're not hung over.

Which is great.

Maybe I'm just taking care of myself.

Taking care of yourself is going to the spa.

Come on, what's up?

Nothing's up.

All right, poker face.

Play it close, but if you need me, I am there.

I know.

Milady!