Madam Secretary

What the hell?

Holdup at the gate.

Looks like we got a welcoming committee.

Hey! This is private property.

Clear the entrance!

You can't come in and take what you want anymore!

Chile is our country, and this is our gold!

Come on, let's go.

Pablo, back in the truck!

Okay, we're going in.

Can't, because we are totally ready to go.

Alison's even got her coat on.

But I'll tell you what, one last thing though.

You know those, um...

Oh, gosh, those blueberry-lemon muffins

at Angelina's that I love?

Do you want a muffin? No.

All right, just two. You know what? Get four.

And then whatever you want, okay? Of course.

You have to ask, not me.

I will. Elizabeth: Yes, I did see that.

So, the protests are in Santiago now, too?

Okay, I'll come in.

But let's make it really quick, okay? Thanks, Blake.

Okay, who is excited for

some college tour action?

Um, maybe you should hang back.

Stevie said she could take me.

What?

I actually wouldn't mind

a break from studying.

And it does sound like you have your hands full.

What, that?

That's, uh...

It's a little kerfuffle at a gold mine in Chile.

Just ten minutes at the office, that's it. Okay?

It's just...

College is supposed to be my thing,

and if we show up in a motorcade with diplomatic security

and you and Blake constantly on the phone...

I know, total bummer.

Which is why I got us down to two cars,

and I asked Blake specifically to tell the school

not to make a fuss about anything.

Because I get it, Ali, you want to be normal,

but that goes for me, too, you know.

And this is a really big deal,

and I don't want to miss out on it,

and I really want to come.

Okay. Let's go.

Okay!

Okay, okay. And you know what?

I'll tell you what.

Stevie'll come, too.

It'll be...

Look at that, you already packed a bag.

Yeah, you know, just in case.

So what do we have on this girl?

We confirmed the marriage to jibral disah

took place in January, possibly December.

Oh, well, that's definitive.

You couldn't find a more recent photo?

It's a school I.D. Photo from 2011.

Records are spotty after the fall of gaddafi.

There's almost nothing online.

Yeah, isr drone's been on the al wahat district 24/7,

but it's pretty hard to get facial recognition

when she's only ever out in a niqab.

You said this hijriyyah business was the key

to getting disah before he attacks us

with another dirty bomb.

I'm not hearing any doors opening.

It's gonna take time.

Patience and pattern analysis,

building more covert assets on the ground.

This can't be another ten-year quilting circle like bin laden.

Hizb al-shahid is ready

to attack us again. They got plenty

of leftover uranium, they're recruiting our own citizens.

We need to find that girl

so we can take them down. Now.

We can move faster,

but that means taking bigger risks.

Losing Mimi was a pretty big risk.

Not my call.

I'm talking about who to reach out to next.

Disah has dozens of powerful enemies in Libya,

most of them militia leaders vying for power.

They want to take disah down.

That's a motivation we can exploit.

Henry: We already got burned by someone we thought we could trust.

These guys, we know we can't trust.

You want to get the lowest,

you have to work with the lowest.

It's risky, but I've seen it yield good intel.

I have to agree with Henry on this.

We might be able to exploit a common interest now,

but how many times has covert ops handed a gun to extremists

only to have it turned on us later?

Sounds like we don't have much of a choice.

Well, w... there might be another way.

This photograph was taken at al-taria academy in tripoli.

I checked into the faculty.

There's a teacher living in Delaware under a visa.

She taught there at the same time.

Was she hijriyyah's teacher?

That I don't know, but it's worth looking into.

High risk of exposure

if this woman has any loyalties back home.

Well, we might be able to use the visa status,

get some leverage.

And risk losing our only advantage?

Which is that, so far,

no one knows we're looking for this girl.

All it takes is one word

to make her flee our area of interest,

and we're screwed.

And talking to warlords is

not risking exposure?

All right. Henry, go talk to this teacher with Jane.

Jose,

reach out to CIA, see what assets you can find.

If all we got are two bad ideas, let's see which one works.

Good morning. Morning.

Here's a copy of today's agenda.

Thank you. And did you get the...

Four lemon-blueberry and a vegan scone,

in case Stevie joined us.

That's just eerie.

Mm. Thank you.

Uh, also, I took the Liberty of highlighting

various students' online reviews

of professors at Rafferty college.

The debate professor is wonderfully polarizing.

Mom, I don't think you pay Blake enough.

Oh, I am sure I don't.

Okay.

Not that I don't love seeing your faces,

but explain to me again why I had to be here

to discuss protests at a gold mine in Chile.

The demonstrations are growing at the mine,

as well as in Santiago.

Well, it's not surprising people might object

to moving an entire glacier to dig the gold out.

It's not so much the glacier

as the strong whiff of neocolonialism

in a U.S. company coming in to cart off

most of a Latin American country's gold to El norte.

Wait. This company, hercutel,

bought the rights from the Chilean government...

Yes. Fair and square?

Yes, the terms of which were fully agreed upon

with Chile's minister of mining.

But now, president contreras

has found that she's had a change of heart.

It's her incendiary statements to the press,

accusing hercutel of negotiating

far more than their fair share of profit,

that sparked the protest.

Of course, what she doesn't mention

is that the hercutel deal follows the same terms

as every other mining contract in the region.

So she's spinning the truth to try to look tough.

Still not sure how state figures here.

Jay: Yesterday, one of hercutel's employees,

an American, was injured

when a protester hit him with a rock.

Nadine: Hercutel wants assurance

of its employees' safety.

And the white house has made it clear

that this is a priority.

Ah. Well.

Now I understand why I'm here.

Okay.

Um, Matt...

Hmm? Draft a statement

to foreign minister torres

reminding him of his country's responsibility

to protect our workers.

Emphasize the impact on Chile's economy

should they jeopardize their trade agreement with us.

So threaten to break up with them if they cheat on us.

Or at least stop hitting us with rocks.

Okay. I am off

to try and figure out how in the world

I'm going to pay for three liberal arts educations

before I retire.

French horn.

Huh?

It's a guaranteed scholarship.

Oh.

Well, somehow I don't see Alison jumping on that.

But Jason could be in for a surprising birthday present.

Blake: All right.

First up is the campus tour,

featuring the bell tower completed in 1857.

Mom, have you seen this blog about Chilean protesters?

I'm reading it.

And we're in a regular tour group, right?

No photo op with the Dean or anything?