State of Affairs

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E, get down!

Just everyone get down, get down!

- Mom, get down! - I'm gonna hit it.

I'm gonna hit it! Aaron!

Oh, God!

Get out of here, move.

Get her out!

- Just get her out! - No problem, we got you.

- Get the senator out. - Go with Jack.

- Maureen, come on. - Senator Payne, come with me.

- Aaron, help me out. - Charlie, you too.

- Go, go, go! - Let's go, they're dead!

Get down! Get down! They're going to find you here.

Hang on!

We've got front contact. Front contact!

Hey guys! Look out!

They're firing in here!

Oh, God!

Hang on, Charlie, hang on!

Aaron!

Charlie!

No!

Oh, God.

Please, can we just stop?

I don't want to talk about Aaron dying again.

I don't want to talk about what happened that day, I just...

You fight this process, Charleston.

- Yeah, because it's flawed... - The trauma...

Doesn't help me.

It doesn't make this better.

The trauma of Aaron dying

has affected your recollections of the events themselves.

You're repressing something.

You're making omissions from your memory of that day.

I remember. I remember.

I remember him dying,

and it was brutal and ugly and...

And instead of the memory fading over time, it just...

It's... it just gets more and more vivid.

That's good.

That, to me, means that you're ready to face it.

Face what?

Whatever really happened that day.

He was killed in a terrorist attack.

That's what happened.

And I made it out, and now I have to deal with it.

And I have to deal with it every day from now on, and it sucks.

And what are we doing to deal with that exactly?

- Oh, cheers, another one. - Cheers.

All right. Oh, nice.

I already feel better.

With reckless personal behavior?

Hey, let's do another? Can we get one more round?

For me and, uh... for me and my friend Tom.

It's Tim, actually.

Well, don't get all judgey, doc.

I like to have a good time.

You want to see a trick my dad taught me?

Do I? Yes.

- Now, do you see this? - Yeah, bottle cap.

- Got it? - Got it.

Oh, yeah.

Do you consider yourself sexually irresponsible?

Occasionally, yeah.

What's wrong with that?

There's a lot wrong with that.

And it makes me worry about you.

Charleston, always going out, drinking, partying,

I don't think any good can come of that.

Well, good doesn't have to come.

I do.

And I'm not going to apologize for that.

Can we just pick this up next week?

I'm sorry, I really just... I can't be here right now.

I'm sorry.

Hey, you.

Look, I gotta go.

I gotta go to work,

which means you've got to go.

It's 1:30 in the morning.

I've got to be at work at 2:00.

Who has to be at work at 2:00 in the morning?

I've already called you a cab.

Hey, can we get dinner this week?

Absolutely, I'll call you. I will.

You don't have my number.

I promise.

- Morning, ma'am. - Morning, guys.

Morning.

Aaron!

Charlie!

Wow.

Lucas Newsome?

Charleston Tucker.

How'd you know it was me?

Besides the fact that we're both headed to the same floor

at 2:00 A.M.?

Right, yeah.

You're very handsome.

- Thank you. - And very old.

Well, no thank you.

Old for a new briefer, no?

Where'd you go to school?

- UNC Chapel Hill. - Tar Heel?

Yes, ma'am.

Duke Blue Devil.

Oh, isn't that great when you can hate someone

for no real reason right off the bat?

Okay, everybody.

This is acting director Skinner's new briefer Lucas.

Lucas, this is Maureen,

Kurt and Dashiel, otherwise known as sec def briefer,

state department briefer, leave it to briefer.

He is our justice department briefer

and he also briefs the FBI director,

and we love him.

- Thank you. - We do?

And this is the crack team that puts together the book,

or P.D.B.,

which is basically the CIA's top 10 lists

of the most critical threats facing our country.

Which you then deliver to president?

Yes, which we then deliver to POTUS.

All right, Lucas, pull up a chair.

We span the world, so to speak,

and we cover a lot of ground quickly, so try to keep up.

Let's do this.

All right, item number one, a former Mossad agent,

Tamir Hofi, has been detained in Istanbul trying to sell

what he was billing as the "Stuxnet 2" virus.

The original Stuxnet was a cyber warfare...

Effort against uranium enrichment in Iran.

Open source.

- Like Google? - You a big Googler?

Apple polisher.

- You like to Google things? - Wikipedia for sure.

- Wikipedia's great. - Was it People Magazine?

All right, low priority back page.

Next?

Right, 26 Suni militants

attending a suicide bombing training session were killed

when their instructor accidentally loaded a belt

with live explosives.

- That is amazing. - Yes.

I guess our work is done.

All right, all right, we may find it hilarious.

The president will not. Burn it. Next.

Onwards, Nairobi station picked up some back-chatter

about a new terrorist sect looking to make a splash.

An act directed right at the heart of,

and I quote, "the Great Satan."

Mm, that's us.

The Great Satan.

Haven't heard that one before.

That group just uploaded a video.

Al Jazeera's website's running it now.

Just sent it over.

All right, so what brings you kids

from the windy city of Chicago...

Okay, that's Kenya...

The wilds of Kenya?

That's the Dabaab refugee camp...

It's so good to actually work in a place

where you can have some efficacy and really make an impact.

You recognize the doctor?

My God, he looks like Aaron.

I know, it...

It's unbelievable, right?

What is?

Nothing.

He's obviously American.

No one other than a Chicagoan would wear cubs gear abroad.

Wait a minute.

What the hell are you doing?

These are sick people.

No!

What have you done?

Get him out of here now!

This guy has got less than 12 hours to live.

This is now front of the book.

Let's go.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Doctor's name is Benjamin Butler.

He's a cardiologist from Chicago, divorced, no children.

He's headed up help beyond borders, big non-profit

for the past three years.

Resides primarily in Africa.

He was in Haiti before that.

- Gibbons? - Yeah.

Lucas Newsome, Director Skinner's new briefer.

Do we have any intel yet on who the kidnappers are?

No, we're working on it.

Acting Director Skinner needs to see you.

Okay, let's pull up every piece of data

available on Dr. Butler.

Find out what agency or JSOC teams are in the region

and as this thing flows, pay special attention

to NSA and "five eyes" back channels, okay?

Lucas, since you'll be briefing Skinner by the end of the week,