State of Affairs

Previously on State of Affairs...

- I've been receiving texts. Crypted texts. - _

Like, "they know what you did."

I don't think analysts should get

anywhere near potential assets.

He is second or third in command behind Sheikh Hakam,

and I am gonna break him.

What you're doing is illegal.

Hey, I'm not Agency on this one!

I just told you I've got Abdel Fatah.

I know Dawkins.

He's good.

Maybe even Sheikh Hakam as a bonus.

We get number one and two.

Whoever's sending you these texts has real resources.

Watch your back.

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

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If only we could make them take it.

Would cut the malaria rate by half.

Make 'em?

That's not exactly community outreach.

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Stay behind me.

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Don't talk. Don't talk.

Do you have drugs?

Not the kind you want.

Hey, hey, hey, hey...

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- _ - Okay, okay, okay. Okay, esta bien.

- Get down. - Earthquake!

- Are you okay? - Yeah.

I watched him do that to you.

There are monitors upstairs; I see everything.

You don't think I know your history?

And I know why you do it.

I want to kill people too.

Despite our differences, the desire to hunt

and hurt

and kill

is just as alive in me as it is in you.

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What the hell are you doing here?

I got another text.

But this time it's escalating.

It's a threat.

Well, at this point,

I don't think we can know what the hell it is.

Well, maybe because there's no gun emoticon,

we can just assume they're saying hi.

What?

I got it too.

But I think I have a lead.

Tell me.

No, let me play it out first.

Are we being stalked?

Is this skunk work or just straight blackmail

for what we did with Fatah?

Nick, I'm exceedingly good at this stuff,

and I can't see an angle.

Well, the earlier texts were about us and Fatah,

us trying to turn him, and him attacking the convoy.

And killing Aaron.

But this, the picture, a gun.

Charlie, once we clone the op,

we'll know the players,

'cause we already know the targets.

Us.

Je m'appelle Andrew. Et toi ?

Je m'appelle Philippe.

Still downloading?

I'm almost done.

Do you have to do that?

And...

Boom goes the dynamite.

You installed a driver.

It's astonishing.

Close support guy, installing new drivers.

- Speaking French? - Don't ask.

Turn that down.

Better yet, turn it off before I toss it down the burn chute.

All right.

All right, what is new and menacing in the world today?

Well, Sheikh Hakam is making new friends.

There's chatter of him co-opting with Abu Sayyaf

in the Philippines.

Abu Sayyaf?

Those guys are glorified gangbangers.

They're not righteous enough for Hakam.

Well, two of his top lieutenants

just arrived in manila on vacation.

Guys, Sheikh Hakam

has been top of the book 10 times in 20 weeks.

The first customer is getting frustrated.

You got to get me something actionable.

What else?

Bad scene in Panama.

I saw the news, big earthquake.

Huge. Near the Panama-Colombia border.

But there's a wrinkle.

DOD passed along some intel.

A sniffer plane was flying over the region

doing a recon on nuclear facilities,

and they found something.

They detected radiation?

Nope. Smallpox.

Okay.

Well, this is an issue for world health and the CDC.

We burn it?

Wait. Before you torch it...

Mo, find out if DOD has any more intel they can share.

We can't be flippant about this.

But until it's center stage, smallpox is back of the book.

Dash, get a hold of the Philippines analyst.

Lucas, would you find out

if Hakam is rapping on anyone else's doors?

And, Kurt, you are updating on the Gaza situation.

Smooth is fast.

As usual, we have more work than time.

Go! I want to see it again.

Let's go, focus!

Set...

Set... hut!

Good, guys, bring it in. Everybody, bring it in.

Take a knee around me. Come on. Great job, guys.

Coach and I are really proud of you.

Really proud of you.

Ma'am, you have a visitor.

She's not on the calendar, but...

- Who is it? - Senator Green.

- Jill, I have my briefing. - Your briefing can wait.

You should talk to her.

She's gonna be integral on education reform.

She's head of the foreign relations committee.

- I know her résumé. - I helped her build it.

You've already denied a meeting with her.

Come on, two minutes. Two minutes.

Two minutes. Show her in.

Yes, ma'am.

Madam President.

Thank you for seeing me. I know it's unexpected.

What can I do for you, Senator?

The investigation into the convoy attack on you

in Kabul last year is wrapping up.

Foreign relations will be taking the report into committee

- at the end of the week. - I'm aware.

There is something in that report that could hurt you,

gravely.

And why would you risk leaking this to me?

You and I both know I wouldn't be where I am without you.

And despite everything that happened between us,

I would never want you blindsided

when it comes to Aaron's death.

What does the report say about Aaron?

I can't speak to the substance of the report.

This is beginning to sound more like a threat than a warning.

Well, there is leaking, Madam, and there is purging.

And that I am not prepared to do.

And I know you and I have had our...

Well, "differences" seems too delicate a word...

but in this instance,

what I'm saying is, assume the worst.

You know I'm not gonna thank you for this visit.

Nor would I expect you to.

Thank you for your time, Madam President.

That was the last of the Lidocaine.

Well, we were tapped before this happened.

The Red Cross is trying to get us supplies,

but it's 48 hours out.

I don't know, maybe more.

Any word from the States?

Not yet.

I mean, face it, it's Panama. Nobody cares.

Despite the unrest,

we're hoping that Hamas continues to lose influence in the region.