Madam Secretary

Previously on Madam Secretary...

Jay, it's everything.

We are not a family anymore.

Abby, come on.

I just needed

some time apart.

Virginia Field Force.

Your standard militia group.

Anti-government, little white supremacy.

I'd like to think about hiring

private security contractors like Vesuvian.

Pirosmani stole American weapons

and sold them on the black market.

Any idea where he is?

They're trying to track him down,

but he's gone.

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I tell you,

if I get one more e-mail

about the book fair... I get it.

How did you get on that list?

I signed up

during a 2:00 a.m. guilt trip.

You handle world diplomacy, Mom.

Dad's got the book fair.

You do?

- Babe, books. - Uh, just so you know,

remainders of your book on St. Augustine

are not gonna be huge sellers.

Huh, too bad it's not celebrity gossip.

Oh, don't go telling your dad

that St. Augustine isn't a celebrity.

That's right.

Jason!

You are gonna miss your ride.

Hey.

Could I get some money for school?

Good morning to you, too.

What do you need?

It's this graphing calculator for Calc.

It's $127.

- What? - For a calculator?

Can't you just use a pencil and paper?

I could.

I could also just become a blacksmith

and use primitive tools for an obsolete job

in a world that no longer exists.

- Is this a requirement? - Yeah.

They're actually $170,

but we get a student discount at the store.

I know.

Thank you.

Well, for $127,

it'd better guarantee an "A."

Yeah.

That's kind of a big ask

for most public school parents, right?

This arms dealer that we've been after,

Dito Pirosmani?

Spanish law enforcement

was supposed to apprehend him

at his villa. All they got was a house cat.

Not a good morning for the CIA.

Or me, since I convinced CIA to let Spain handle the op

instead of our guys.

I'm sorry, you were saying? The calculator.

You know what? Maybe you could talk to Jason's math teacher

when you're at the school?

Intelligence work is never done.

Hey, I'm about to read this.

Oh, yeah?

- Yeah. I... - When?

Our source on Pirosmani's location

was solid, sir.

Then what the hell happened?

It's not hard to believe

he got inside information from Spanish Intelligence.

Or on our end.

He already had a mole in the State Department.

So, what's our next move?

We've frozen Pirosmani's assets

in all of our allied nations.

That will limit his movement.

But now that he's looking over his shoulder,

it'll be that much harder to capture him alive.

I want this contained.

- Whatever it takes. - Mr. President,

I do think that we should make every effort

to take Pirosmani into custody.

Yes, the evidence

that he was behind the stolen weapons is significant,

but it's still circumstantial.

Alive, we would have the opportunity

to interrogate him and flush out his whole network

- of illegal arms dealing. - We have no reason

to believe that he will cooperate

- in an interrogation. - We also have to consider

the damage to our alliance with Georgia

if we assassinate one of their citizens extra-judicially.

Though I doubt he's their favorite citizen.

Mr. President,

if forced to choose between killing Pirosmani

and allowing him to remain free,

I advise lethal force.

Let's get him alive if we can,

but we'll take him dead if he leaves us no choice.

Rough night?

Caffeine withdrawal.

Think I'm having a stroke.

Why would you give up on caffeine?

To be healthier, less dependent.

Is that black?

Oh.

Coming over for the game tonight?

Dude, no offense,

but I can't do another night at your place.

I mean...

All those metal folding chairs

make me feel like I'm at an AA meeting.

Then sit on the floor.

Okay, what is this?

Are you trying to relive your first apartment after college?

Because that is not a year I want to relive.

Mark Meese stole my girlfriend

and ate all my cereal.

And the furniture was terrible.

I'm just keeping it simple.

That's what guys say when they don't want to commit.

But, you see...

you need to commit to your life.

Because your life

is not a girl you met at Burning Man, man.

You're better with caffeine.

I know.

- Damn it. - Hey.

Call me when you have an ottoman.

This is it. Everything we've got on Pirosmani.

From the Western allies.

I can go back to CIA.

I don't know. I...

It feels like we're looking for a puzzle piece

that just isn't there.

He said he doesn't deal in stolen U.S. weapons,

and now all the best Intel

in the world says the same thing.

On the other hand, he is an arms dealer.

Who kept his word in Somalia.

I thought

I had a good read on him.

CIA's Russian file did say

they had a forensic accountant

in GRU tracking him over the last eight years.

Well, I'm sure the Kremlin isn't in a hurry

to expose their lax weapons control

- and corruption. - That's what I thought.

So I looked up the accountant.

He's due to attend an international conference

on information systems over the next few days in Nice.

One of us could reach out.

See if he'd meet.

That would be going around CIA's investigation.

It's a fact-finding mission.

Following up on Somalia.

Call him.

He agrees to take the meeting, you go.

Just me?

Take a few extra days on the Riviera.

You've been through it lately. You could use a break.

Like the sound of that.

So, where are we with the VFF since they landed in Greece?

Sir, based on Dr. McCord's theory

that they're following

Biblical prophecy,

we're focusing on the Middle East,

but we don't want to rule out

- a European attack. - Not much of a focus.

No leads?

We have every available SIGINT system

tracking Slattery, Abbott and Zanner,

but so far no hits with facial or voice recognition.

Either they're still in transit

or they slipped past border control.

This isn't gonna work.

It's too much territory.

We need another approach.

Sir, we can go with Henry's theory

and just put all of our chips on Jerusalem.

The Lailat Al Mi'raj celebration at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

It's a likely target if you want to provoke conflict

between Israel and Sunni Islam, but it's not the only one.

There's Al Kaaba at Al-Masjid Al-Haram in Mecca,

there's Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina...

But you said Al-Aqsa

is the most likely target?

If I'm right and they want to provoke

worldwide conflict, the crossroads

of Judaism, Islam and Christianity

is a likely place to start.