Madam Secretary

Dr. Zanner.

Our partners would like an update on your progress.

See for yourselves.

80% kill rate within two weeks.

Makes Ebola look like the common cold, huh?

The virus is airborne, friends.

And preparations

continue for the G20 Conference on Banking Secrecy.

We leave for Rome the day after tomorrow, ma'am.

Ah, Roma, city of carbs.

Have to admit, I've been dreaming

about the stracci for the past week.

And a deal with Russia on... tax avoidance.

So, where are we on that?

Sadly, still in the Gulag.

President Salnikov is making noises

about rejecting the entire framework agreement outright.

The fact is,

Russia welcomes the money American billionaires hide

in dummy Russian corporations.

But frankly, plenty of Russian oligarchs

do the same thing here in the U.S.

So they're willing to look the other way

when terrorists hide their money,

as long as the billionaires are happy.

With the rhetoric coming out of the Kremlin,

the gaggle wants to know if it's Cold War 2.0.

Oh, come on, we're not even close to a cold war.

A little chilly, maybe.

Ma'am, you're needed in the White House.

All right, find out what Salnikov wants.

Two hours ago, Jordanian West Bank border.

This vehicle way back in the line,

that's Reverend Andrew Slattery.

We believe that the two men on either side are.

Dr. Bill Zanner and Lance Abbot.

Our missing doomsday cult members.

We identified the two men in front

as Al-Qaeda-in-Syria lieutenants.

I take it

this isn't a cross-cultural exchange program.

Confirms our theory that the VFF and Al-Qaeda

are working together.

And now they're inside Israel.

Not necessarily.

Based on our warnings,

IDF had beefed up security on all border checkpoints.

Moments after this

was taken, they turned around, bugged out.

Our best guess is that they'll make another run

at getting into Israel through a smuggling tunnel.

Okay. Doesn't Israel know the location

- of those tunnels? - Not all of them.

But the Palestinians do.

We can ask,

but I doubt the Palestinian Authority

wants to give up its only real strategic advantage

to Israel.

What else, Ephraim?

I'd like to send a joint CIA-FBI task force to Jerusalem

to liaise with Mossad,

so we can work shared Intel in real time.

Just Agent Maloof and Dr. McCord

- and a support team. - Excuse me?

I-I mean, I'm-I'm... sorry. Did you know about this?

Yeah.

Huh.

It just came up this morning.

Well, as much

as I'd like to see where...

this goes, if nobody has anything else...

It's not that...

You ambushed me.

I would have told you, but we were a little busy

trying to prevent a bio-terror attack.

If only there were some method of communication

where you could send messages almost instantaneously.

I'm sorry you felt ambushed.

I'm sorry that I called you out

in front of the leader of the free world.

I just find it surprising that a guy

who was shot multiple times not two months ago

and is still on crutches is going to oversee

a field op halfway around the world.

Babe. I've been on point with the VFF mission

since the beginning... are you really that surprised?

Okay, okay, it's not that you're going, it's that you

- didn't tell me. - No, it's that I'm going.

- Are you really gonna push me on this? - I'm sorry you felt ambushed.

Elizabeth. We have the Israeli and Palestinian leaders

- on the line. - Okay.

Am I at least gonna see you at home?

Yeah. We're not leaving till tonight.

I'd say "break a leg," Henry, but...

Seriously, good luck.

We will share information with your government,

President Dalton, but not with Israel.

That won't work, President Sayedd.

Mossad has to run point on this.

You really think we don't know

about your smuggling tunnels, Bassam?

If we had such tunnels,

they would be to bring vital supplies

that your government deprives us.

- Nonsense. They are to attack us. - To defend ourselves!

Gentlemen, you've seen our intelligence briefs.

There are only a few hundred people on the planet

with the expertise to whip up a superbug

that can kill millions.

Dr. Zanner is one of them.

We're not going to achieve peace

in the Middle East today.

But if you don't cooperate on this...

it might not matter.

They both called

for emergency sessions of their governments,

and now suddenly everyone's on board.

Well, there's nothing like the power

of the mutually-assured- destruction card.

- (sighs) - Babe,

I'm gonna be fine.

Yeah, so said the man flying straight into said destruction.

Okay, let's talk about how you got the Israelis

and the Palestinians to work together.

- Let's focus on that. - That is pretty cool.

- It's so cool. - It was very cool.

Hey, um...

what'd you guys want to talk to me about? I can...

Oh, no, no. Yeah.

- I... - Okay,

so look, um, Mom has to go

- to this G20 thing in Rome... - Mm-hmm.

...and I just found out that I've got to go

to a conference in London, so...

we were wondering if you could, uh,

take over for the next week

and sort of run the show with your brother and sister?

Oh. Yeah. Sure, no problem.

Really?

Yeah. I mean, your work is really important

and I'm very happy to help, so...

Cool. Thanks, honey.

Okay. Great.

Well, that was easy.

Yeah. Maybe a little too easy.

We just asked her to spend the week as a single mother,

and she just... accepted.

She doesn't have any plans? She's 22-years-old.

What, she and Jareth don't have a life?

They don't live together. You ever wonder about that?

Maybe she's just a really great kid

who wants to help her parents out.

Or maybe she's a mustang and we broke her.

And way ahead of schedule.

No, I'm serious.

I had to grow up way too soon, and it was no fun.

And it did serious damage

to my relationship with my little brother.

You and Will are fine and this has nothing to do

with what you guys went through.

I know.

I just don't want to clip her wings.

I got to go.

Wish I could clip your wings.

_

(man speaking Arabic over walkie-talkie)

What is it?

The Americans must have followed you here.

Now, the Israelis

are waiting outside.

There has to be another way, another tunnel.

Or maybe through Egypt.

Reverend Slattery survived.

He's in surgery

at Yad la Chole hospital in Jerusalem.

Any sign of the drone or bio-weapon?

No, sir.

But the tunnel was being entered by IDF on the West Bank side

right about the time they were shot.

So, Al-Qaeda got wind and bailed on the joint attack.

That's our operating theory.

So, we have doomsday weapons in the hands of hardened terrorists

with unknown intentions

and not a single clue on their whereabouts.

Is there a more optimistic slant,

or is that about the size of it?

Well, our team just arrived in Jerusalem.

Dr. McCord and Agent Maloof

will be working directly with Mossad.

Subtitle sync and corrections by awaqeded for <

Bess, I hear our little intel-sharing op

- with the Israelis has borne fruit. - Yeah.

I trust your marriage will survive it.

- I mean it. - I believe you.

Listen, if you're still up for it,

I'd love for you to do what you can

to get Stevie off the wait list

and over the finish line at Harvard Law.

What happened to withdrawing from the battlefield?

Well, I realized that going to school in another state