Madam Secretary

You have made a very big mistake, Mr. Dalton.

I can't imagine what you hoped to achieve

with this vicious and unwarranted attack

but I promise you,

we will meet you in equal measure.

President Ostrov, I can assure you

that the United States is just learning of this

with the rest of the world.

Your lies are beneath you.

And they are an insult to myself and the Russian people.

You will pay for this.

I am flattered that you think we could organize a cyber attack

capable of crippling a city of Moscow's power and magnitude.

If we had managed to pull that together,

it would have to be in response

to something equally unprecedented.

Like someone hacking into

the navigation and communication system

on Air Force One,

putting the lives of all on board at risk.

You are insane.

Russia never hacked Air Force One.

And the U.S. didn't black out Moscow.

So we can part on neutral ground.

No, we will part on my promise

that Russia will not stand for this affront to its sovereignty,

and retaliatory measures will be taken immediately.

Well, I like her.

She's got moxie.

Mr. President, I think we can file that one

under "message received."

Am I the only one

concerned about her subtle

vows of retaliation?

Par for the course.

That's pretty much the clarion call

of any aggrieved demagogue.

Actually, the smart thing

for her to do would be to deny the U.S.'s involvement.

Spare herself the embarrassment of taking the hit.

So we're betting on smart?

The fact that she's even running the show is theater.

She's gonna listen to the counsel

of her generals and advisors.

They understand the cost

of a military response.

And we can track any movement in that regard.

But we're not too concerned.

She's been put in her place.

And she knows we won't tolerate any signs

of aggression toward us or Ukraine.

All right. Well...

I'll get to work on State's non-denial denial.

Make it a full-throttle denial.

Lying to save the world is allowed.

It's in the Constitution.

Okay.

Where the cyber attack is concerned,

we're in the dark right along with them.

That's good.

I'm not really going to say that.

I would.

Thanks, everyone.

Is it wrong to eat cereal for dinner?

I don't care.

So how was your day, Slugger?

Or... Boomer.

What is the universal linebacker nickname?

Brainless. Be nice.

So this horse

walks into the doctor's office.

The doctor says...

why the long face? Why the long face?

I don't know.

I just love that.

It gets me every time.

Thank you. Yeah.

So?

What's up?

I, uh, just got some bad news from the coach.

Oh, no.

Is he cutting you? No.

He's, uh, he's starting me.

Well... Wow.

Hey, that's great. I mean...

I'd think you'd be excited about that.

We're facing the biggest team

in the league, with the playoffs on the line,

and suddenly it's my turn?

Well, Jason, he must have seen

a lot of progress in practice.

Otherwise, he wouldn't put you in. Yeah.

Nice try, Dad.

Derrick got benched for a "D" in geometry,

Eli broke his arm and Gabe's moving to Florida.

So I'm sort of forced into this one.

Are you afraid you're going to get hurt?

No, I'm worried about being humiliated

and letting the whole team,

and in fact the whole school, down.

I mean, I did this to make friends

and I'm about to alienate everyone I know.

Jace, it's gonna be okay.

Or maybe you won't even play.

Everyone's saying that Russia's going to retaliate

for the cyber attack.

Hard to have Friday Night Lights with no lights.

What cyber attack?

Where did you get this?

Um... every major news outlet?

Yeah, well, it's all speculation.

There's no evidence of an attack.

Why don't you kids go eat in front of the TV? Sound good?

Okay, now I know the world is ending.

So...

Was it us?

Russia has an antiquated infrastructure.

The blackout could be

the Chernobyl of the power grid.

Okay, I know that we can't divulge stuff,

but I didn't know we'd moved on to spinning each other.

I'm just giving you

what the White House's official position is.

Okay, let's try this:

If it was us, was it in response

to what happened on Air Force One?

Solar flares happened on Air Force One.

I was read in to that one.

I know about the malware.

Well... but not who was behind it,

because we didn't know.

And we do now?

Are you okay?

'Cause I know that you've been very stressed out.

Don't gaslight me.

I... You're the one who's been all worried

about us keeping secrets.

That was just venting.

This is real world.

Henry, we almost went to...

to prison for sharing classified information.

So we cannot talk.

I thought maybe being on the verge of World War III

might change the rules.

Nope.

Can we maybe just... stop talking

about what we may or may not be talking about?

Sure.

Where are you going?

Can't talk about it.

Do you know anything about the situation in Russia?

Nothing.

I could speculate, but DIA hasn't

read me into anything.

Any word from Dmitri? No.

I don't know how long he stayed in Moscow

after he contacted us.

Did he feel like he'd been compromised?

He didn't say anything,

but it could be the reason that he wanted out.

That would be unfortunate.

Has the president seen the battle plan report

from Doroshevich?

The president? No.

Uh, why would he?

He might be interested to know

about a planned attack on Ukraine.

You think he doesn't know Russia has designs on Ukraine?

He might also be interested in what wasn't in the report.

What would that be?

Any plan to attack the computer system of Air Force One.

Okay, I'm not connecting the dots here.

If the blackout was an attack by the U.S.,

they went under the assumption

that Russia was behind the hack of Air Force One.

Okay.

The playbook that Dmitri gave us

laid out Russia's entire strategy

for the invasion of Ukraine,

including aggressive diversionary tactics

to deter U.S. involvement.

Okay, what is your ETA on the point, Henry?

Gamed out every crazy scenario,

from taking over Arctic drilling sites

to instigating conflict with ISIS.

But there was nothing...

nothing about a hack of Air Force One.

Just because they didn't put it in the report

doesn't mean they didn't do it.

You're trying to prove a negative.

You don't want to get into a dialectic with me.

Okay. You're right.

I don't even want to have this conversation.

You're crossing lines.

Just tell me you'll make an effort

to get this report to the White House.

How?

Call the President.

Demand to see him.

Henry, you might be coming a little unglued.