Madam Secretary (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 9 - Russian Roulette - full transcript

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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.

I know you're upset about Dmitri.

At least get it into the
hands of Ephraim Ware.

The DNI needs to know about this.

Stop. You're getting above your pay grade.

And mine.

You've done your duty, Professor.

Let us handle this.

These three pipelines went off-line

approximately two hours ago.

We've received reliable verification

from both U.S. and European intelligence

that the pipelines were shut down

by direct order of Maria Ostrov.

Those particular pipelines

provide 40% of Western
Europe's supply of gas.

Just as they're heading into

one of the fiercest winters
predicted in decades.

So much for blustering.

It's a clear message

that she's not playing by the rules.

She's escalating the conflict.

Turning America's NATO
allies into collateral damage.

Mr. President, they want
to break the alliance

so they can run the
table with Eastern Europe.

It's something Pavel Ostrov coveted

and now she's trying to make it happen.

This has stopped being a dialogue.

It's a march to war.

Then we need to retaliate.

And we need to hit them hard.

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We can neutralize the targets in Crimea.

Air strikes to follow,

to address any aggression

on the Ukraine border.

And, worst-case scenario,

boots on the ground.

Just enough to make a point.

And what point is that?

That we're willing to use military force.

But I thought the point
of the power grid attack

is that we weren't willing to do that.

That was before this latest action.

You had to know they would respond.

We honestly thought

it would be much more measured.

This... this is extreme.

They escalated, so we have to.

Why can't we reach out to our allies?

Western Europe's holding
us fully accountable.

They're blaming us for all of it.

Well, of course they are.

Because no one knows what's going on.

We're still calling

Air Force One solar flares.

What are you proposing?

I want to go before the UN.

I want to give them a lay down speech

and spell it out for them,

step by step.

We give evidence of
military overreach by Russia

against the U.S. and Ukraine.

We divulge all of their aggression.

The attack on Air Force One,

the Poloniumed hacker,

the financial records
that point to Russian GRU.

Mr. President, that is a radical

roll of the dice.

Putting all our cards on the table

leaves us nowhere else to turn

if the allies don't go for it.

Which, given the current climate,

I think it's a pretty safe bet they won't.

Nowhere else to turn?

You mean, as opposed to

all those other comfortable options

we'll have after we launch

a full-scale military campaign

against the world's second
biggest nuclear power?

Elizabeth, it's an enormous gamble.

For starters, it would have to be

the speech of your life,

right up there with Adlai Stevenson

in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I think that's an apt analogy.

And I think I'm up to it.

I don't see what we have to lose.

Sir?

All due respect, everything.

The upper hand, the element of surprise...

General, we forfeited all
that with the cyber attack.

Now we're being pulled into Russia's game.

Escalating the conflict is our only choice,

unless we can get the
allies to circle the wagons.

It's...

it's gonna take the
world's commitment to war

in order to actually stop the war.

It has to happen in the next 24 hours.

We-we cannot give Russia time
to one-up our show of force

should we decide to go there.

Agreed.

Let's get on the line with President Bozek.

We can't do this alone.

We need to get Ukraine on board.

I appreciate you taking me into
your confidence, Mr. President.

Tell me, what is your plan.

We intend to draw a line in the sand.

And that line is the Ukrainian border.

In addition to the, uh, lethal
aide we've already provided,

we plan to send American
advisors to the east

and enforce a no-fly zone
over Ukrainian airspace.

You don't know how long

I've waited to hear these
words of support from you.

Tell me, what can I do in return?

I'm-I'm glad you asked, Mikhail.

All of this will depend on
the support of our allies,

which I have to rally in the next 24 hours.

It won't be easy, so the
more evidence that we have

to convince them that Ostrov
was behind the cyber attack

on your plane and ours, the better.

I'll need any information that you have.

That is easily provided, Madam Secretary.

And I will need you at my side

when I make the address at the U.N.

I will make preparations to
fly to New York right away.

Thank you.

Better get your staff to work

on the speech of your life.

The objective is simple.

Convince the entire world...

particularly our allies...

that we are justified
and willing to go to war

to contain Russian aggression.

So, your basic St. Crispin's Day speech.

Yes.

Hopefully without having to go into battle.

Once we have the authority,

the idea is that we
won't have to enforce it.

That's a big risk.

We're aware.

How much of the classified stuff

do you want me to use?

Outside of sources and methods,

the president has authorized all of it.

- All of it.
- All if it?

We're giving up George Lasko as the guy

who hacked Air Force One?

His connection to Russia?

The attack on President Bozek's plane?

The Polonium assassination...?

That pretty much covers
what I mean by "all of it."

If we are showing our entire hand,

it means the end of
any kind of negotiation.

That's why this speech has to work.

Hi, welcome to Smokin' Al's.

I only have ten minutes.

That's all I need.

I have to admit I never expected
you to be in a place like this.

Well, that's why we're here.

Does your wife know that you eat like that?

Of course not.

What can I do for you, Henry?

I need to bring you some intelligence

that I've uncovered.

I've taken it as far as I
can with DIA, but it stalled.

I assume you talked to
Jane Fellows about this?

She essentially terminated my assignment,

but you're my original recruiter.

That's where it ends.

Russell, my asset managed to lift

Russia's entire playbook
for the invasion of Ukraine.

They spell out every scenario imaginable,

including a number of ways
to manage the U.S. reaction.

Yet nowhere is this exhaustive document

is there any mention of
hacking Air Force One.

Why are you telling me this now
when we are right in the middle

of a military campaign
against Maria Ostrov?

Before the Challenger exploded...

The space shuttle?

- What kind...? What is...?
- Low-level engineers

discovered serious design
flaws with the shuttle;

particularly related to the O-rings,

which they knew could not withstand

extreme changes in temperature.

They kept pushing the information upstairs,

but it stalled.

Or 9/11...

Here we go.

The CIA and FBI

may have had enough foreknowledge

of Al-Qaeda's plan to stop the attacks,

but because of bureaucratic intransigence,

they never even spoke to one another.

So what, so in this
parable, I'm the lackey,

who waves you off and says
it's above my pay grade?

No, that was Jane Fellows.
You're the guy that never

got the information in the first place.

You have the power to stop this.

Stop what?

We've already engaged.

You mean the cyber
attack on the power grid?

The entire intelligence community believes

Russia was behind Air Force One.

So even if they didn't do it,

they did it, understand...?

There you go.

And you're willing to go to war over that?

We are trying our damnedest to stop a war

by creating a united
front... do you get that?!

If you tell your wife

any of this "Russia didn't do it" nonsense,

based on classified Intel from DIA,

you'll be thrown in prison

for the rest of your mortal days.

Both of you, understood?

Just keep your head
down and your mouth shut.

For God's sake, just do
what we tell you to do.

Well, whoever she is,

I hope she fed you.

We finished off the Kung Pao chicken.

She was an endless seminar
on the Sino-Soviet split

and its effect on the end of the Cold War,

which is ironic given the day's headlines.

Might be a spring roll or two left.

You could have that.

We have to talk.

No, we really don't.

I understand you're scheduled
to speak at the U.N. tomorrow.

That's right.

- What if I knew something that would change
- Stop!

the way that you approach this?

Henry, I-I don't make the decisions

on how to approach this.

You're gonna reveal Russia's involvement

in the Air Force One hack in hopes

of getting the allies to fall into place.

And if you do your job well,

which you have a track record of doing,

then the world will be poised to go to war

with a country that is just unstable enough

to take the bait.

If you're wrong,

do you really want to
be on the side of that?

Well, obviously I wouldn't make this speech

if I thought I were wrong.

At what point would you be willing

to violate this cone of silence between us?

What would it take?

Would millions of lives
have to be at stake?

Because that's where we are.

You're scaring me, Henry.

Good, because this is scary.

I'm willing to roll the
dice on going to prison.

But what I'm not willing to do

is live with what might
happen if we don't talk.

We know things

that can help each other.

That's not the point.

Actually, that is the point...

I don't think the Russians
hacked Air Force One.

Look, we have incontrovertible proof.

Do you?

On multiple fronts.

Then explain this to me.

If Russia hacked Air Force One,

then they have the most
advanced cyber capabilities

of any country on the planet.

And what is their response

to a counter-cyber attack
by the United States?

They shut off the gas.

You have more to go on than speculation?

I mean, if we're gonna go
all the way with this...

I have an asset,

who works for a top advisor to Ostrov.

If Russia didn't do this,

if they're not behind it, then who?

I don't know.

Does it really matter?

I have to present some plausible theory

to get them off of this path...

I haven't gotten that far.

But, babe, I know this is a leap.

And I know there's a chance that I'm wrong.

But what if I'm not?

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I need you guys to streamline

whatever we have that directly links

Lasko with the Russians.

Primarily it's the money.

An e-mail on his computer
from a Russian bank...

one associated with GRU...
informing him of a wire transfer

to his Cayman Islands bank account.

Okay, it says here the NSA
was monitoring this bank

for criminal activity.

So where's the record of
a transfer from Russia?

Uh...

NSA has no corresponding
record of a wire transfer.

But they're not perfect.

It's, you know, often these
shady banks have multiple...

If NSA has no record of a wire transfer,

then how do we know that
the e-mail is legitimate?

We traced its IP address
back to Moscow servers.

IP addresses can be faked

to look like they come from anywhere.

Sure, but it's a convergence of evidence.

Ma'am, the odds of all this
being counterfeit are very slim.

It's like he says... "a
convergence of evidence."

I heard him.

And I'm gonna ask you
both to stop saying that.

Because "convergence of evidence"

is beginning to sound eerily

like the new "weapons of mass destruction"

So, Oliver, I'm gonna ask you again.

On the eve of my telling

the entire world that

Russia is behind the greatest
cyber attack in human history,

prompting actions which could lead us all

into the greatest world
conflict in human history...

there's a chance that all
the evidence we have here

is fake?

Yes, ma'am.

There is a chance.

It's a little long.

I could definitely take some trims.

I might've used, uh, JFK too many times.

But I think it will get the point across.

Madam Secretary, Russell Jackson's office

is demanding to see a draft of the speech.

He wants to vet it in time for changes.

I'm sure he does.

And, uh, you are scheduled to leave

from the White House lawn in two hours.

Four major networks cleared
time for a breaking news segment.

I'm gonna, uh,

take this little window of time.

I'm just gonna say this.

What if we're wrong?

About what?

Oh, I don't know.

Everything. All of it.

What if Russia wasn't behind
the Air Force One hack?

Isn't it a little late
in the game for that?

Oh, no. I-I think it's exactly
the right point in the game.

It's, uh, fair to say

that Russia is not an utter certainty,

but nothing points to another actor.

And given that, I think...

clearly, the-the White House thinks...

that we should proceed with what we know.

How many messes

have we gotten ourselves into

with what we were

almost sure we knew?

I'm just asking for a
quick, exhaustive review.

Let's just take a few minutes

and consider the other possibilities.

Okay, so let's... backtrack.

We're reasonably sure that George Lasko

was behind the hack of Air Force One.

He had previous connections

to Russia and China, North Korea and Iran.

And now he's dead

by way of polonium poisoning.

I think we can rule out Iran.

Our nuclear agreement closely monitors

their radioactive material.

We can rule out North Korea.

Their nuclear capabilities

are not sophisticated enough
to synthesize polonium.

That leaves China,

which makes some sense.

How is that?

With Russia and the U.S.

locked in a slowly escalating conflict...

Or quickly escalating.

...China is free to shore up

control over Southeast Asia.

It's a long shot,

but it might be worth looking into.

Even though it would ruin my speech.

You're saying China framed Russia

for the Air Force One hack?

I'm not saying.

I'm just asking.

Mr. Jackson's office

is again asking for your speech.

This time in all caps.

He is officially shouting.

Right.

Tell him we're putting the
finishing touches on the speech.

Yes, ma'am.

If you'll excuse me,

I obfuscate more effectively by phone.

You will be the first to know.

Okay.

Good-bye.

I hate to bother you.

Yes, I read your first draft.

You're really gonna make me ask?

I think it's the finest piece of writing

- I've ever seen from you.
- Really?

No, I'm shining you on
because I hate to disappoint.

It is good, isn't it?

It's brilliant.

- She's never gonna use it, is she?
- Matt...

this speech was intended

to rally the nations of the world

into a potential war with Russia.

If the secretary never reads it out loud,

that would mean the best
of all possible outcomes

had been achieved.

Don't you agree?

Of course.

Minister Chen,

thank you for coming
in on such short notice.

I was surprised by the
urgent nature of the request.

I'm aware that you are scheduled

to appear before the UN in a few hours.

Please, have a seat.

Word is that you intend to address

the recent events in Russia.

Minister Chen,

you-you recall a couple of months ago

when the communications system

on Air Force One was shut down?

The result of solar flares, was it not?

That was our best working
theory at the time, yes.

But we have reason to believe

there may be other factors involved.

You mean someone hacked into the system?

Possibly.

I wanted to ask you

about information that you might have

about other actors who might have

had reason to engage in such aggression.

One of the things I've always valued

about you, Madam Secretary,

is that you tend to speak plainly.

I urge you to do so now.

Did you guys do it?

Did China

hire George Lasko, aka Dash,

to hack Air Force One?

You can't be serious.

I assure you,

I have never been more serious.

And why would we do that?

Engaging the U.S. and-and Russia

in a costly military conflict

would free China up to pursue

a number of foreign interests.

In the year 2000,

China owned only six percent of
the United States' foreign debt.

Now we own over 21%.

We have over $1 trillion in U.S. securities

and hundreds of billions
in Russian securities.

If we pitted the two of
you against each other

in a nuclear war,

what good would that do
our investment portfolio?

So you had nothing to
do with Air Force One?

China is playing a long
game, Madam Secretary.

When we come for you,

it won't be with missiles
and cyber attacks.

We'll repossess you.

- I apologize, Madam Secretary.
- Thank you, Blake.

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Grilling Oliver Shaw

about the Air Force One hack

in front of the Director

- of National Intelligence?
- I wouldn't call it a grilling.

And now I'm hearing about
some emergency meeting

with Minister Chen about God knows what.

Maybe we got different playbooks,

but when appealing to the world

to go to war with Russia,

I think it's important
to get the facts straight.

Your facts are about as
straight as they're gonna get.

I hope to hell you're not
talking to Henry about this.

What does Henry have to do with anything?

He came to me, babbling
about some half-cocked theory.

Well, that's between you and Henry.

I have serious questions.

And I am telling you that you don't.

Marine One is out there
on the lawn right now,

Air Force One is ready at Andrews,

ready to take you to the UN

to make a speech you insisted
on giving not 24 hours ago.

If I make this speech and we're wrong,

it could destroy the U.S.'s
credibility for decades.

If I miss the speech, Russell,

it's barely a footnote in history.

I am telling you to get on Marine One.

The president's waiting.

Aren't you supposed to
be at the UN right now?

Henry, you'd better be right about this.

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Jeffrey, when I say

the secretary won't be
addressing this matter

in the press today, that is
exactly what I mean by that.

Obviously, she had a reason

for canceling her appearance at the UN.

Look, I'm not saying it's
related to national security.

You are. And if you print it,

you'd better have your
attorney on speed dial.

Wow.

You're getting good at that.

I'm getting a lot of practice today.

Look, if we just release a statement,

the press will calm down.

Anything we feed them

is going to make them hungrier.

Let's wait

until we have something to say.

Like, for example, I've been fired.

Mr. Jackson's office has been

eerily quiet.

Yes, and it's speaking volumes.

What's it saying, exactly?

The White House

doesn't want to look unstable

in the middle of a crisis.

They'll deal with me later.

...announcing our renewed partnership

with the people of Ukraine.

Today, we are drawing a line in the sand.

Because when it comes
to the cause of freedom,

we are all Ukrainians.

My speech was so much better.

Well, in order to facilitate
avoiding the press,

I'm officially making myself unavailable.

I have a football game to get to.

And when I get back,

let's figure out what I'm going to say

about not having anything to say to the UN.

What?

I don't know.

It's kind of bizarre.

Then it ought to feel right at home.

What?

When Bozek came to D.C. a month ago,

he was on his knees

begging for NATO membership.

Now look at him: at the White House,

with the President of the United States

doing everything but making a blood pact?

He's getting more than he wanted.

He is, isn't he?

I'm saying it's weird.

What are you saying?

The man had to jump out of his own plane.

That's insane, right?

Right.

Pull the staff together.

Find out everything you can

about the incident on Bozek's plane.

Quietly.

And if word gets out,

I'll swear you all went rogue.

Yes, ma'am.

Come on, Panthers! Let's go!

Hold 'em! You got this!

Tackled by number 46...

I don't know what I was worried about.

I mean, he's doing great.

He's missed every tackle.

That's what I'm talking about.

He's doing the bare minimum.

Babe, I think he's playing
at the top of his game.

Well, even better.

Those big guys are just brushing by him.

Works for me.

So is it a totally crazy idea

that the Ukrainians
hacked into Air Force One,

pinned it on the Russians,
and then orchestrated

their own plane crash
to cover their tracks?

Why?

Because I need to know just how crazy it is

before I go down this road.

No, I mean,

why would they do that?

How do you get the President
of the United States

to commit to taking on Russia?

Make him think that he
was attacked by them.

Then he'll never allow

for any kind of aggression against Ukraine.

That's a huge swing.

Desperate times, desperate measures.

45. Third down.

So... is it nuts?

Is it possible?

How long did it take the passengers to jump

after the plane got in trouble?

According to the black box,

uh, 48 seconds.

Were there any fatalities?

And how banged up were they?

The report gave no indication

that any of the passengers were injured.

Well, that's interesting.

When I was doing parachute training,

everybody always had something
on their first couple of jumps.

Cuts, bruises,

sprains, even a couple of fractures.

And this was a bunch of Marines

in top physical condition

jumping out of a stable plane.

Not a bunch of diplomats
bailing from a nosedive.

Nice hit, Jace!

Great play, Panthers!

They stopped a potential touchdown drive.

- Hi.
- What do you want?

I need your help.

I'll ask you again.

What do you want?

You went to Ukraine

to meet with Bozek and his staff

directly after the incident
with their plane, right?

The day after. Yes.

What kind of physical shape were they in?

Fine.

Cuts, sprains, bruises?

Any kind of injuries?

Bozek had a small laceration

on the side of his face.

Otherwise, not a mark on them that I saw

or that anyone mentioned.

Huh.

You're not doubting

that the crash happened?

There's documentation.

They found the wreckage.

- I'm not doubting that.
- Then what?

You didn't come all the way over here

to ask me how they looked.

Actually, I did.

Thanks, Craig.

I know you have a
wrathful grudge against me

that you might well take to your grave

and we are never going to see eye to eye

about what transpired,

but I do know one thing about you.

First and foremost, you're a patriot.

I really do wish you well.

Wow.

You guys look like you've
been here all night.

Well, because they've been here all night.

I was going for sarcasm.

Oh, sorry.

I've been here all night, too.

So what have we got?

Matt has a friend in Defense.

Matt has a friend?

In the Defense Department.

None of my jokes are landing.

Must be the sleep deprivation.

So my friend in Defense

somehow got his hands on the manifest

for that Ukrainian flight.

Both versions.

Both?

Two days before the flight,

the entire passenger roster list changed.

The original list was just
his usual inner sanctum.

But suddenly, the guest list changed

to include seemingly random

members of his staff.

"Seemingly."

What's the connective tissue?

Everyone on board the plane,

including Bozek,

was a former officer in the Ukrainian Army.

All with hundreds of hours

of paratroop training and experience.

Wow.

What are the odds?

There are no odds.

Ma'am.

We're just getting a report

that a man has died in
a Vietnamese hospital

of polonium poisoning.

What?

The, uh, alpha particle
signature off his body

indicates that it's polonium-210.

That's the same kind that
was used to kill George Lasko.

Where was this man from?

Ukraine.

Specifically, an agent

with their Foreign Intelligence Service.

A man named Sasha Marchuk.

He spent two days trying to
secure a flight out of Cambodia,

but was denied because of his
grave and indeterminate illness.

He finally staggered into
a hospital in Biên Hoa

where he admitted

that he was suffering
from polonium poisoning.

By then, it was too late.

He died of liver failure
just a few hours ago.

I don't understand.

Who is he?

He's the person

who hired the hacker,

George Lasko,

and then killed him

to cover the tracks.

But polonium is a tricky murder weapon

and he accidentally poisoned himself.

You're saying the Ukrainians

were behind the cyber attack

on Air Force One.

What would they possibly have to gain?

President Bozek was panicked
about Russian aggression

and he knew Ukraine could
never stand up to them

without international aid.

So he decided to take
matters into his own hands.

He sought out Lasko and
gave him countless resources

to develop his malware
and hack Air Force One.

He figured we'd blame Russia

and get pulled into the conflict.

But when we didn't take the bait,

he followed up with an appeal to join NATO.

His request was denied,

so he escalated the ruse.

He uploaded fake financial records

onto Lasko's laptop,

transactions pointing back to Russian GRU.

And then he attacked his own plane?

Yes, sir.

He covered for the lives of the passengers

by replacing officials

with trained paratroopers.

That was the final piece of the puzzle.

We just found it.

It wasn't Russia.

We were duped, Mr. President.

It was Bozek all along.

Mr. President,

I could not be more at a loss.

Mikhail, believe me when I tell you

this will go much better for you

if you dispense with this approach.

My parents and grandparents

suffered countless horrors
at the hands of the Russians.

I was not going to let
Ukraine be swallowed up

by the Russian monster once again.

I resolved to do

everything in my power,

from risking my life

to risking yours, Mr. President,

to preserve my country's independence.

I would do it again.

Well, luckily for you,

this scheme of yours

has put us all in the same box.

If we reveal the deception,

Russia will hit you
with everything it's got,

killing millions of innocent people.

And a wordless pulling out of troops

makes us look weak,

exposing you to the same outcome.

So, for the time being,

we are maintaining our presence

and enforcing our no-fly
zone over Ukrainian airspace.

40 million Ukrainians

don't deserve to get slaughtered

because of what you did.

Thank you.

And my people thank you
for your great mercy.

Let's be clear.

If you breathe one word of this to anyone,

we will expose you, capture you,

and throw you into the same dark hole

where we kept Noriega.

Dude, he was coming across the line

like Beast Mode with a jet pack.

You came out of nowhere, dude.

He was dragging you and
trying to shake you off,

but you wouldn't budge.

Then he just tried to
fling you and he was down.

Boom! I thought there was gonna be

nothing but a grease spot.

The Secretary of State.

Oh, hey, Mom. The, uh...

the guys brought pizza.

I know, it... it smells so good.

Don't let me interrupt.

- Your son is one crazy-ass
ball player, ma'am. - Dude!

Yeah, I know.

And now he's out for the season.

It's so sad.

She's not sad.

Not the least bit sad.

But I'm glad you had a good game.

Dude, you're totally coming back next year.

Oh, you know it, dude.

Our son has a whole new
group of friends named Dude.

They named him MVP of the game.

Giving him a trophy.

Wow. And I don't have to worry about him

for a whole nother season.

Oh, forget it.

He's already told me
he's retiring his jersey.

What?

He's talking about fencing now.

Swords.

Fabulous.

Thank you for talking to me about things

that could have sent us to prison.

So you followed through on your theory?

Oh, yes.

All the way to the president's office.

World catastrophe avoided.

Still have to find a way

to extricate the U.S. from Ukraine

without losing any more lives.

Otherwise, they'll just
keep banging the drum

until someone fires a shot.

My asset's gone dark.

I don't know if he got
trapped in the blackout

or he fled to Stockholm in time.

I-I have no idea.

Henry, I'm sorry.

Why is Jason quitting football?

Is it because of me?

Because if he's really good at it,

then he should do it, even if it scares me.

Uh, no, he's quitting
because it scares him.

Believe me, he has nothing
more to prove there.

Hello, Mr. President.

Yes, sir.

I'm on my way.

You're a praying man, right?

I'll get St. Francis on it. He owes me.

There's a development
over Ukrainian airspace.

The Russians just
violated the no-fly zone.

Half an hour ago.

What does Ostrov say?

Nothing at all out of Moscow.

They're not picking up the phone.

The message is clear.

They're not recognizing our authority.

It's their show.

Then we have to be equally clear.

Our men are locked and
loaded, Mr. President.

Just waiting for the order.

Permission to engage, sir?

Permission granted.

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