Madam Secretary

All teams in position.

Team One, you are clear to move in.

Rex Mayfield! Federal agents!

Rex Mayfield!

Men down!

Request immediate medical assistance.

Repeat, multiple men down! We got movement out back!

Cover back!

It's a beautiful day, boys.

We're all part of the Prophecy.

Isn't that glorious?

Okay, any final

thoughts or concerns

- on the West Africa trip? - Yeah.

I'm just not seeing it.

Seeing what?

The point of the trip.

The trip that leaves in two hours?

You mean beyond funding clean-energy

partnerships with Nigeria and Senegal

that will bring millions of Africans electricity?

Thus bolstering two of the most dynamic nations

in the region?

Not to mention locking in

education and employment initiatives

for women and girls.

Which is key to transforming developing economies.

So...

you're not seeing the point of that?

This is the first trip of the new administration.

Indeed, of Dalton's new Independent party.

There are a lot of eyes on this.

Which is why we're going to Africa.

It has the youngest and fastest-growing

population on Earth.

Africa is literally the future.

Sure. But right now?

Congress only gave us a third of the money we asked for.

There's a good chance we could go

all the way there and not succeed.

- And also, you hate to fly. - That's not it.

That's mostly not it.

So your concern, Daisy,

is by going with such fanfare,

if we were to come up short,

it could do a great deal of harm.

To the administration.

And, frankly, to our long-term goals in Africa.

I hear you, but diplomacy is all about

representing American values

and interests face-to-face.

Sometimes you just have to get on the plane. Let's go.

Even if it's a broken-down plane

that was never designed for transcontinental flight.

Shut up. You're not even going.

Which I'm super glad about.

Daisy, don't listen to him. It's gonna be fun.

Famous last words.

And dinner's served.

Gee, Dad, enchiladas.

Our favorite. Thanks. You're the best, Dad.

That's okay, kids.

- It makes it all worthwhile... - Okay. All right.

Just having dinner with you.

- Hi. Hi. - Okay, fine.

- Hi. - Look, isn't this nice?

No electronics, a little human conversation.

Let's try to keep it going for the seven minutes

it's gonna take us to wolf down our enchiladas.

You were saying?

All right, okay. Sorry.

I've got to take this.

- Hello? - Dr. McCord,

it's Marguerite Sanchez from the FBI.

Deputy Director Sanchez, what can I do for you?

We apprehended a suspect today

whom we believe is responsible

for building the bomb that was used in the attack

at the coffee shop in Illinois.

Yeah, I saw that on the news.

I think you may have some knowledge and expertise

that could be helpful to our investigation.

How so?

I prefer to discuss it in person.

Okay, I can clear some time on my schedule

tomorrow morning.

I'll be at your house in five minutes.

This is our guy, Rex Mayfield.

He built the bomb that Atif Al-Mutaya

detonated in Illinois?

They met in an ISIS chat room

and made the deal on the Dark Web.

The bomb was fairly sophisticated.

Evidence discovered in Mayfield's barn

links him strongly to that bomb.

Did he have any prior ties to ISIS,

or is he self-radicalized?

That's one of the things we're hoping you can help us with.

So far, he's not really saying much that's useful.

Well, look, I would be happy to help,

but you must have experts better qualified in Islamic extremism.

He also has ties to another radical group

you're very familiar with.

The Covenant of John?

I haven't heard that name in a while.

Apparently, he's one of the survivors

of the raid on their compound in Bolivia.

Yeah, I almost wasn't.

We're hoping your experience with the group can provide

some insight into why

a former member of a Christian doomsday cult

is selling bombs to ISIS.

Wait. Bombs? Plural?

When we raided his compound this morning,

we found evidence that Mayfield recently built a bomb

even larger than the one he sold to Al-Mutaya.

We don't know where it is or who may have it.

We need him to tell us before it goes off.

Science,

technology, engineering, math.

What do all these fields have in common?

Well, for starters, they were my favorite subjects in school.

And I bet they're yours, too.

They're also subjects that,

as more than one adult told me,

weren't really the right ones for a girl to care about.

And I bet maybe somebody said the same thing to you, right?

So it's a good thing we didn't listen, right?

Yeah.

Instead, you guys came here from all over Africa...

Togo to Tanzania, Mozambique to Morocco...

to learn and to make new friends.

Let me tell you about why I love math.

When I was 15, I lost my parents

in a car accident,

and school became my refuge.

Especially math.

Because math... math is elegant.

Math is fun.

And in a chaotic world, math made sense.

Well, maybe not calculus.

So when someone tells you that math isn't for girls,

or when someone calls you a nerd,

they don't know it, but they're paying you a compliment.

Because, believe me,

your passion for these fields

will take you places more incredible

than you'd ever dreamed.

And for me, this is one of those places.

So it is an honor to be here with you today.

Thank you. And I am looking forward

to talking with you guys about your projects.

Okay?

See? Not so bad.

So far, so good.

Looks like you spoke too soon.

Madam Secretary, I have some bad news.

President Diome,

all of the leg work on the solar farm

has been done.

Why on earth would you turn around

and give the contract to the Chinese?

They offered us better terms.

Let me guess, no money down

in exchange for exclusive rights

to your, what, titanium reserves?

The oil and gas fields recently discovered

off our coast, actually.

China's been making these deals

all over Africa.

They rarely work out well for the host nation.

You know that.

The Chinese will import their own workers

to build the solar farm, and then, most likely,

they won't train local engineers

to maintain it once they're gone.

So you're looking at five years max

of actual use in exchange for decades

of unfavorable terms on the oil field.

Yes, but Senegal is booming.

We're building an entirely new city

outside of our capital.

We need electricity today.

China can offer that.

You're right, Senegal is booming.

That is why the United States wants to invest

in diversifying your economy and your workforce.

Then why didn't your Congress fund the project fully?

Foreign Minister Chen assured me

that China has no such problems with cash flow.

When did you speak with Minister Chen?

He came to town yesterday.

Not only did Minister Chen

undercut our deal at the last minute,

he chose to do so

in a very public and embarrassing way.

So he... he trolled us?

Arguably tried to Bigfoot us.

I believe the correct

diplomatic term is he "pantsed" us.