Tyrant

Previously on Tyrant...

The Al Fayeed dynasty must end.

I don't want a hair touched on his head,

but this can't be allowed to continue.

Arrest him.

Fauzi Nidal is missing.

I'll take Ghani and I'll go.

And then when things are better,

we'll find each other again.

- Do you need me to be brave? - I really do.

You need to kill your husband.

You can't ask me to do that.

Either I die for a reason, or I die in vain.

- Wait. - What?

It tastes bad.

I'm asking you to support free elections.

By abandoning Bassam Al Fayeed.

By abandoning your support of his war.

Well, what was your recommendation?

That we maintain our support for the current president.

If any of our troops

get killed by soldiers we trained,

the blowback will be immeasurable.

Withdraw, General.

Understood.

The President orders you to surrender.

It is time to stand down.

Go home, General.

What the hell are you doing?

Bassam and I,

we hold each other's hearts.

Daliyah, what are you doing here?

- Your wife summoned me. - Why?

What are you waiting for?

Are you gonna choose your whore

or your own daughter?

You're under arrest.

Take this woman into custody.

I'm going on a hunger strike.

You can change your course.

Or you can watch me die.

We're 72 hours from going to war...

With the strongest army Abuddin has ever had.

Thanks to General Cogswell.

Ironically, yes.

Might as well, right?

Can't take it with you.

Not post 9/11 anyway.

So...

- They shipping me back? - Today.

I'm still in negotiations

to avoid a court martial.

I told them I hadn't conveyed

the orders clearly enough.

I can imagine they were dubious.

Not turning

on your allies sort of goes without saying.

Why'd you do it, Bill?

A 30-year career.

Out of love?

Not just that.

This place wears you down.

Failure wears you down.

After a while, you just want to say, "Fuck it,"

and do what you think is right.

Oh, boy, you really were done, weren't you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

What move do we have left?

I think maybe we need to be bolder.

Mobilize the people around the truth

that I'm the legitimate President of Abuddin.

Even before he left,

I was pulling ahead of Fauzi Nidal.

That is a hollow victory now.

Not necessarily.

Not if we use that fact to establish

a government-in-exile inside Ma'an.

Not the opposition anymore,

but the true government.

We call in the question.

It could trigger a very aggressive response.

I know you're trying to protect me.

Both of you.

But if the sheik stands with me

it's a risk I'm willing to take.

This is my home.

I'm not going anywhere.

My fighters will stay.

Good.

Tomorrow we'll announce the formation of our government.

You're gonna have to speak up, it's a little noisy in here.

How long before they take you?

By the looks of things, ten minutes.

This is the second time you've left this place

because of me.

Given up everything for me.

Yeah, well, I'm not a big talker.

It's...

how I express love.

What's going to happen to you?

Court martial, I imagine.

No, they can't.

I'll talk to someone.

Leila, listen to me.

We can't help each other anymore.

You need to speak to Exley.

Get the State Department to grant you asylum.

You need to get out.

I could be with you.

Except I can't.

I can't have made you sacrifice for a lost cause.

A good cause is a good cause, lost or not.

You need to hang up, General.

It's time to go.

I have to go.

Okay.

You've come back once before.

You'll come back again.

General.

I have to go.

- What are you doing? - Remembering.

The children are barely asleep.

Good for them.

I'm just waking up.

God has made me so lucky.

Is it very painful?

You sound a bit sadistic,

just so you know.

Not at all.

I don't want you to suffer.

You put me here.

That was Barry's doing, not mine.

I made it easier for him,

but it was his decision, first and last.

Has he come to see you again?

He won't. He's done with you.

I think he loved you

more than he ever loved me.

What a thing to have to say to another woman.

He doesn't understand how you could have abandoned him.

I think you've destroyed him.

You know what the most terrible thing is?

There was no reason.

The election timeline was always arbitrary.

He could have set it for 12 months away

instead of six.

Your child is alive.

Mine is dead.

She would've been 19 in two days.

After waiting all this time for a democracy,

what harm could it do

to wait a few more months till the men who murdered her

are punished?

You know.

You know exactly what harm it does.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be in this prison

for disagreeing with you.

Hussein?

What is it?

Please...

Please don't hurt my children.

Ihab only sent us to finish what you couldn't.

Exley just called.

Al-Qadi's dead.

What? How?

So this is news to you?

Well, of course.

Don't you think I would have come to you the moment I fo...

Wait, you think I'm responsible.

Is it so improbable?

I would never do anything so consequential

without your approval.

Okay.

But Leila will find a way to use this against us.

Maybe, but this could also be a lucky bounce for us.

Leila Al Fayeed is hardly the face of an Islamist Party.

Have the children eaten?

Latif?

The children need to eat something.

I worry about Kamilah.

She won't eat.

She saw blood. Her uncle's blood...

I shouldn't have brought them here.

Things are the same everywhere.

Governments killing their own people.

My brother, who's the only person

who could have changed things.

And now he's gone.

And his coalition's gone.

It's just over.

Let me help you.

I'm sorry.

Politics can wait.

You're in mourning now.

That's all that matters.

It's bad now, but her hunger pangs should disappear

in the next day or two.

She'll actually feel better just as her body starts

to break down. That's the ironic thing.