Tyrant

Previously on Tyrant...

Molly.

I'm home.

I didn't fall into your bed

to end your marriage.

Good-bye, dearest.

We've been tracking Hanif Kattan.

He's been in touch with his sister,

Mahdiya Kattan.

I volunteered to be a martyr.

To bring jihad to their backyard.

We will not wait for them to attack us again.

Therefore, as of this moment,

a state of war exists

between Abuddin

and the so-called Caliphate.

Are you denying my authority?

You're an interim, unelected president.

To declare war on your last month of presidency, Bassam...

I'll declare war

in the last month, on the last day!

If I'm elected your president,

I will immediately

withdraw our troops from a war we should not be fighting.

What happens

in the first six weeks? Will we have enough success

to make it politically impossible

for the next president to withdraw our troops?

Well, you know I can't answer that.

You want to kill the man

who murdered your daughter?

You have to do it yourself!

I look forward to elections in Abuddin.

But now is not the time.

I am postponing, not cancelling,

our presidential elections

until we can be certain

that the Caliphate has been destroyed

once and for all.

Bassam once told us

that no single person

should mean more than all of us together.

He told us to demand democracy,

demand free elections,

and an end to the dynasties.

Now, for the second time in less than a year,

that is exactly what we have to do.

Our president has turned his back on us,

on his own revolution,

on those who died

for a free and democratic Abuddin.

But we, all of us,

are more than that man,

who was once our hero, once my friend.

The Al Fayeed dynasty must end!

It must end!

The Al Fayeed dynasty must e...

It's treason.

He wants to stir them into a mob.

And look at them, ready to turn on you.

They don't understand how far you've brought them.

Months ago, right before you took office...

remember? You said the people here,

they have no experience with democracy.

You said they couldn't learn overnight.

Well, okay, the night's been long,

and this is the darkest part,

but what do they think's going to happen when you're gone

and the Caliphate is at their door,

and that man is the only one they have to lead them?

He's my oldest friend.

We used to

commiserate about my father when we were kids, getting drunk.

The old dictator.

Now he says the same things about me.

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

But this can't be allowed to continue.

Arrest him.

I understand you're in a very difficult position.

I'm sorry, you invited me here so you could help me?

You very publicly support a so-called democratic regime,

to have it only transform to something quite different.

And it's not the first time.

We do have a history of being disappointed by our partners,

but what's to say you won't disappoint us, too?

I'm not asking you to support me.

I'm asking you to support free elections.

By abandoning Bassam Al Fayeed?

By abandoning your support of his war.

Without which he cannot make war.

And without that war,

Bassam has no reason to deny the vote.

You and I both know

Bassam doesn't want to be president.

He never wanted it.

What he wants is revenge.

I think that's right.

And tragic heroes make very poor political partners.

Halima.

It's nice to see you.

Thank you for making time.

Should we sit?

I know you've come here

to ask me to rethink the elections.

But you need to understand

what a dangerous situation this is...

I didn't come to argue with you.

I'm not important enough for that.

Look, Halima, I...

I've seen the person you used to be.

I fought next to him.

And even though we're sitting in this office

instead of some bombed-out building,

I remember you.

Even if you don't, I remember you.

Thank you for coming.

Daliyah?

Fauzi. Where are you?

Headed to my car on the way back to headquarters.

Tell your driver to bring you to my house.

What? Why?

I'll tell you when you get here.

Is everything okay?

Please, just trust me.

- And, Fauzi... - Yes?

Come straight here. Don't go home.

Are you sure?

I trust him.

We're on the Commission together.

His cousin's in the army.

He said Bassam issued the order this morning.

The charge is treason.

Fauzi, you need to get out of Abuddin.

I've got a way

across the border. We'll get you to Jordan...

No, I can't leave. I can't leave.

Not in the middle of this.

I ran away once before.

I'm not gonna abandon this country again.

I'm not going to argue with you about your guilt.

But this is different.

You can't speak for anyone if you're dead

or in chains.

Any opposition government will have to form abroad.

Be the people's voice from there.

Then come with me.

What?

You're no safer here than I am.

Fauzi...

Daliyah, I can't leave you here

to take all the risks while I run from them.

Come with me. We'll both stand up to him,

as equal partners.

If I know we're in this fight together, then I can go.

Are you okay?

I got a call.

The court

handed down its sentence.

Is he going to be executed?

In three days.

They'll let me see him once before.

You should go.

Say your good-byes.

Say good-bye for me, too.

You hate him.

I don't hate Wafiq.

Then you hate me for loving him.

No, I don't. I...

I miss you.

As for your brother...

God is the one who forgives.

I don't have that much mercy in me.

After all he's done, I'm not sure how you do.

Really?

You don't understand unconditional love?

I have no one else, but him.

- Nafisa. - Since I was

five years old.

Since their gas attacks made us orphans.

He took care of me!

He raised me!

I love him.

No matter what he does.

And I hate them!

No matter what they do.

He never went home last night. Someone tipped him off.

Who?

I don't know.

I have a thought.

Your husband, maybe.

No. That's... I-I don't believe that.

You heard what he said yesterday.

I did. I may be wrong.

But it makes sense.

A kind of amnesty.

Leave the country and I'll let you be, old friend.

I don't know if

the president has the stamina to do what's necessary.

Those who oppose him are the same people

who made him who he is.