1 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:07,799 [bugle playing "The Last Post"] 2 00:00:07,882 --> 00:00:11,010 If this was Tehran, I will rain hellfire upon them. 3 00:00:11,094 --> 00:00:13,972 A lot hinges on whether we believe this is Iran 4 00:00:14,055 --> 00:00:15,515 or we believe it's someone else. 5 00:00:15,598 --> 00:00:18,351 When it's Hal, you have to be really fucking sure. 6 00:00:18,435 --> 00:00:20,437 -You're getting divorced. -No, we're not. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,439 The ambassador says your marriage is over. 8 00:00:22,522 --> 00:00:24,107 You ever been married? 9 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:26,943 [Carole] There was a call the day of the approach on a burner. 10 00:00:27,026 --> 00:00:29,654 I called Niccolo. He called Shahin. That's the whole story. 11 00:00:29,738 --> 00:00:30,572 -Is it? -Yeah. 12 00:00:30,655 --> 00:00:34,451 My husband snuck out and called Iran? And then lied to me about it? 13 00:00:34,534 --> 00:00:37,454 They kidnapped my husband and called off a hit. 14 00:00:37,537 --> 00:00:40,457 The prime minister has to stop saying it's Iran. 15 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:42,000 It wasn't Iran. 16 00:00:42,083 --> 00:00:44,210 Ambassador, Number 10 will walk back nothing. 17 00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:47,964 If you're concerned, I urge you to speak with President Rayburn, 18 00:00:48,047 --> 00:00:50,759 who clearly has a great deal of influence over the prime minister. 19 00:00:50,842 --> 00:00:55,013 As soon as this lunch is over, get on some plane and not be here. 20 00:00:55,096 --> 00:00:56,890 You have so thoroughly fucked with my head, 21 00:00:56,973 --> 00:01:00,852 I can't do the fucking job if you are within a 100-mile radius. 22 00:01:00,935 --> 00:01:04,647 Katie, the vice president's gonna resign. They want you to replace her. 23 00:01:04,731 --> 00:01:06,066 You can't be divorced. 24 00:01:41,392 --> 00:01:42,352 Thank you, guys. 25 00:01:44,604 --> 00:01:47,941 Ambassador Wyler. More time with me than you ever wanted. 26 00:01:48,483 --> 00:01:50,193 And you. Like a bad fucking penny. 27 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:52,111 -Welcome to Blighty, sir. -[Rayburn] Yeah. 28 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:53,071 Looking good. 29 00:01:53,154 --> 00:01:55,490 [Rayburn] That's because nobody lets me eat a carbohydrate. 30 00:01:55,573 --> 00:01:57,784 -Well, it's working. -I'd rather be dead. 31 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:05,792 [man] Welcome, Mr. President. 32 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:08,002 Ma'am. You got this. 33 00:02:08,086 --> 00:02:09,546 Mm-hm. Mm-hm. 34 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:11,673 Mm-hm. 35 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,301 Sharon? Where's the necessary? 36 00:02:15,385 --> 00:02:19,097 Pardon me. May I show you, Mr. President? This way, sir. 37 00:02:19,681 --> 00:02:21,683 -[man] The PM is ten minutes out. -[Billie] Great. 38 00:02:22,851 --> 00:02:24,352 Are we your first guests? 39 00:02:24,435 --> 00:02:25,895 We're a real nightmare. 40 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:27,021 I just told her. 41 00:02:27,605 --> 00:02:29,232 -Now? -Seemed the time. 42 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,068 -Did it? -May have been a miscalculation. 43 00:02:33,069 --> 00:02:35,947 -Welcome to Winfield. -[Billie] You have time to think about it. 44 00:02:36,030 --> 00:02:39,242 You are on a short list. Doesn't mean you're forced into anything. 45 00:02:39,325 --> 00:02:40,660 -I just told her. -Just now. 46 00:02:41,494 --> 00:02:42,370 Really? 47 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:44,539 Cancel the press avail. 48 00:02:44,622 --> 00:02:47,041 He can have lunch, no photos, and then... 49 00:02:48,293 --> 00:02:50,837 -Does she need to lie down? -"Hellfire on Tehran" 50 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:53,089 got Nicol Trowbridge the bump of a lifetime. 51 00:02:53,172 --> 00:02:56,342 If he's standing next to the president, he's gonna say it again. 52 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:58,052 -[Frances] Thank you, Mr. President. -Okay. 53 00:02:58,136 --> 00:03:00,013 Now, that's a nice powder room. 54 00:03:00,096 --> 00:03:01,222 Mr. President. 55 00:03:02,473 --> 00:03:04,809 The ambassador wants to cancel the press avail. 56 00:03:04,893 --> 00:03:07,228 She's concerned it'll look like an endorsement. 57 00:03:07,312 --> 00:03:09,647 Of a military strike on Tehran. 58 00:03:09,731 --> 00:03:11,649 I'm not sending him MiGs. 59 00:03:11,733 --> 00:03:13,067 His Navy got hit. 60 00:03:13,151 --> 00:03:15,278 I show up and stand next to the guy. 61 00:03:15,361 --> 00:03:17,906 Sir, you're gonna be pinned like a butterfly 62 00:03:17,989 --> 00:03:21,784 -while the PM is quoting Leviticus. -Maybe we don't take questions. 63 00:03:21,868 --> 00:03:24,871 -The visual is enough. -The visual is also not okay. 64 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:27,457 The British government still thinks it's Iran. 65 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:30,668 -Contrary evidence is having no impact. -[Rayburn] Why would it? 66 00:03:31,252 --> 00:03:35,423 We've got pictures of an Iranian boat leaving a port in Iran. 67 00:03:35,506 --> 00:03:38,635 -And what on the other side? Some guy? -A compelling guy. 68 00:03:38,718 --> 00:03:41,888 They're not saying they're still gathering facts. They're saying it's Iran. 69 00:03:44,766 --> 00:03:47,936 -It's not Iran. -Because of the compelling guy? 70 00:03:48,019 --> 00:03:50,188 -Yes. -Not sure you get out enough. 71 00:03:50,271 --> 00:03:51,105 Let's go. 72 00:03:52,607 --> 00:03:53,483 Hal? 73 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:54,400 Sir... 74 00:03:55,985 --> 00:03:57,153 it's me. 75 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,154 I'm the guy. 76 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:00,198 They kidnapped me. 77 00:04:00,281 --> 00:04:02,617 So, first of all, it was a pull-aside. 78 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:06,412 They kidnapped me and put me on the phone with the deputy foreign minister of Iran. 79 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:07,372 Fucking hell. 80 00:04:07,455 --> 00:04:10,416 He stuck his neck on the line and his wife's and kids', 81 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:12,001 of which there are five. 82 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:13,127 They didn't do it. 83 00:04:16,005 --> 00:04:18,633 -Let me shake your damn hand. -It's fine. He's a friend. 84 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:22,679 -Not Iran. That's a fucking relief. -It hasn't moved the Brits. 85 00:04:22,762 --> 00:04:26,140 -Tell them it was Hal Wyler. -She did. She told the foreign secretary. 86 00:04:26,224 --> 00:04:27,934 -She told Dennison? -Didn't move the needle. 87 00:04:28,017 --> 00:04:30,645 [Kate] We should look at Russia and Saudi Arabia 88 00:04:30,728 --> 00:04:32,647 and unexploded marine ordinance. 89 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:35,775 -Trowbridge won't get off Iran. -We should've canceled the trip. 90 00:04:35,858 --> 00:04:38,695 Kate asked the secretary of state to cancel. 91 00:04:38,778 --> 00:04:43,283 -He wouldn't do it. He knew it was me. -I swear, that man can hold a grudge. 92 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:45,868 He thinks I'm the only reason there's no peace in the Middle East. 93 00:04:45,952 --> 00:04:47,620 -It's not about that. -I find it flattering. 94 00:04:47,704 --> 00:04:50,290 The secretary made a reasonable decision in the moment. 95 00:04:50,373 --> 00:04:52,875 State and CIA can't give unprocessed intelligence 96 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:57,505 to a president at an inflection point. That's gone badly for them in the past. 97 00:04:57,588 --> 00:05:00,800 Forty cameras are on their way and the prime minister is off the rails. 98 00:05:00,883 --> 00:05:02,802 You can't stand next to the guy. 99 00:05:02,885 --> 00:05:03,970 [knocking on door] 100 00:05:04,053 --> 00:05:05,096 [door opens] 101 00:05:05,179 --> 00:05:07,348 Ambassador Wyler, the prime minister is here. 102 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:35,710 Don't know why we don't do this more often. 103 00:05:35,793 --> 00:05:36,961 If I knew we could have you in 104 00:05:37,045 --> 00:05:39,756 and dispense with you an hour later, we'd have done it all the time. 105 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,716 -If I could have a quick word. -Of course. 106 00:05:42,550 --> 00:05:43,384 Can you...? 107 00:05:44,427 --> 00:05:45,261 [Hal] Gentlemen. 108 00:05:49,223 --> 00:05:50,266 Three courses. 109 00:05:50,349 --> 00:05:53,478 Light, but still, it's a lot. 110 00:05:53,561 --> 00:05:56,397 The press availability might be gilding the lily. 111 00:05:56,481 --> 00:05:58,483 The press event is the lily. 112 00:05:58,566 --> 00:06:00,485 The president is uncomfortable with the optics. 113 00:06:00,568 --> 00:06:03,488 The prime minister is uncomfortable with 41 dead. Perhaps we call it square. 114 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:05,364 He's had two days to shade that comment. 115 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:08,284 Shading's not what brought Mr. Trowbridge to Number 10. 116 00:06:08,367 --> 00:06:09,202 Anything. 117 00:06:10,286 --> 00:06:13,956 "I didn't mean hellfire on Tehran. I meant hellfire on whoever. 118 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,919 And we don't know who 'whoever' is, but we are trying to figure it out." 119 00:06:18,002 --> 00:06:19,045 Oh, you're right. 120 00:06:19,128 --> 00:06:20,922 It has a ring. 121 00:06:23,549 --> 00:06:24,967 They can take candids of the lunch. 122 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:28,638 Then it looks like a delegation of 12 come to scold the prime minister. 123 00:06:28,721 --> 00:06:31,474 How about a couch, conferring in the sitting room after lunch? 124 00:06:31,557 --> 00:06:33,476 -No. -They'd look like equals. 125 00:06:33,559 --> 00:06:36,771 He has a short torso and looks like a troll on a couch. 126 00:06:38,606 --> 00:06:41,859 -If they were to dine, the two of them-- -Then it really looks like a scolding. 127 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:43,486 Looks like everyone else was kicked out 128 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:45,905 so my guy could whack your guy on the nose with a newspaper. 129 00:06:48,324 --> 00:06:51,410 I think we should tuck in. Hm? You must be starving. 130 00:06:51,494 --> 00:06:54,288 -They're still horse-trading. -I'm producing sound. 131 00:06:54,372 --> 00:06:57,041 I'd always have a sandwich before every state dinner. 132 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:59,377 That way I wouldn't land at the table like a rabid animal. 133 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:00,878 That's not a terrible idea. 134 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:01,796 Frances? 135 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:03,214 [Frances] Sir? 136 00:07:06,217 --> 00:07:08,553 -If it was just the two of them... -[Kate] Yes? 137 00:07:08,636 --> 00:07:11,722 If. And if the president is convinced it's not Iran-- 138 00:07:11,806 --> 00:07:15,476 -That's not an if. He's convinced. -I'd like to reach the end of my thought. 139 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:16,936 Sorry. 140 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:21,899 If the president is convinced that it's not Iran, 141 00:07:21,983 --> 00:07:24,026 a lunch for two would provide him with the opportunity 142 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:26,696 -to persuade the prime minister. -Exactly. 143 00:07:26,779 --> 00:07:31,159 To persuade him that we're all served by a cooling. 144 00:07:31,242 --> 00:07:32,326 Yes. 145 00:07:32,410 --> 00:07:36,789 -Like I asked you to do yesterday. -I'm not president of the United States. 146 00:07:36,873 --> 00:07:39,208 -On that, we agree. -He's persuasive in a way I can't be. 147 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:43,296 Especially if you don't try. This is good. I think this is good. Yes? 148 00:07:46,674 --> 00:07:47,842 [door opens] 149 00:07:47,925 --> 00:07:49,218 [indistinct chatter] 150 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,019 What if it was just the two of them? 151 00:07:58,102 --> 00:08:00,229 -And me. -Or just the two of them. 152 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:04,442 -William Rayburn, off script, no staff? -I realize-- 153 00:08:04,525 --> 00:08:06,736 Shooting the shit with Nicol fucking Trickle? 154 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:09,155 -The alternative is-- -It's a terrible idea. 155 00:08:09,238 --> 00:08:12,408 I've been floated for VP. There are a lot of bad ideas on the table today. 156 00:08:14,076 --> 00:08:16,287 -Okay, so we're taking a breath. -Know what? 157 00:08:16,370 --> 00:08:18,581 Maybe listening to the evolution of the thought. 158 00:08:18,664 --> 00:08:22,793 It is an opportunity for Rayburn to explain to Trowbridge slowly 159 00:08:22,877 --> 00:08:25,505 why a human source on a well-established back channel 160 00:08:25,588 --> 00:08:29,342 is more compelling than a fuzzy drone shot of an Iranian fast boat. 161 00:08:29,425 --> 00:08:31,928 I understand the thinking. I just don't agree with it. 162 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:34,514 It was the least bad idea, so I said yes. 163 00:08:43,814 --> 00:08:45,608 [Frances] Thank you. Just the two. 164 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:50,696 [Hal] He loved the English language. He loved idiom. He loved the poetry of it. 165 00:08:50,780 --> 00:08:52,990 So I taught him a phrase a day. 166 00:08:53,074 --> 00:08:55,451 The mission wraps. I'm leaving Zagreb and I say: 167 00:08:55,535 --> 00:08:57,954 "Pasha, we've been like brothers, 168 00:08:58,037 --> 00:09:00,414 but from now on, we're not gonna see so much of each other, 169 00:09:00,498 --> 00:09:03,543 just fleeting glimpses like ships in the night." 170 00:09:03,626 --> 00:09:06,879 So the next day, we're at the palace, he says to the president: 171 00:09:06,963 --> 00:09:08,464 "Hal Wyler is leaving us. 172 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:12,593 We have been brothers, but now we are only lambs in the dark." 173 00:09:13,761 --> 00:09:14,845 Lambs in the dark. 174 00:09:15,805 --> 00:09:17,473 -"Sheeps." -In the night. 175 00:09:17,557 --> 00:09:19,058 Right? The man's a poet. 176 00:09:19,141 --> 00:09:20,434 [Trowbridge] Sheeps in the night. 177 00:09:20,518 --> 00:09:24,230 -On my best day, disoriented livestock. -Right on the nose. 178 00:09:24,313 --> 00:09:26,524 -Katherine. -[Trowbridge] Oh, dear. 179 00:09:27,525 --> 00:09:30,278 He call you that when you've deployed your schoolmarm glower? 180 00:09:30,361 --> 00:09:31,862 [Rayburn chuckles] 181 00:09:31,946 --> 00:09:32,905 Lunch is served. 182 00:09:32,989 --> 00:09:33,948 Ah. 183 00:09:34,448 --> 00:09:35,283 At last. 184 00:09:36,325 --> 00:09:38,369 -I met John Gage. Do you know him? -[Rayburn] Oh, no. 185 00:09:38,452 --> 00:09:39,662 He's a motherfucker. 186 00:09:40,204 --> 00:09:42,748 -Pardon me. He is a motherfucker. -Yeah. 187 00:09:42,832 --> 00:09:46,002 -I'm beginning to get that impression. -He was a neocon in '03. 188 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:47,587 Now he's an isolationist. 189 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:50,631 If you don't like his fundamental values, wait five minutes. 190 00:09:51,465 --> 00:09:52,383 Prime minister. 191 00:09:53,050 --> 00:09:54,260 Oh, here we go. 192 00:09:54,343 --> 00:09:56,429 -This is a message of import. -Of course. 193 00:09:56,512 --> 00:09:58,973 He has to drop the Iran thing. He can't even say the word again. 194 00:09:59,056 --> 00:10:00,308 -Yeah. -They didn't do it. 195 00:10:00,391 --> 00:10:01,475 -Yeah. -Don't "yeah" me. 196 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,728 People are throwing rocks at the Iranian embassy. 197 00:10:03,811 --> 00:10:07,148 If we were home, they could sidle up with an AR-15. 198 00:10:07,231 --> 00:10:10,359 Right, it's the perfect time for American sanctimony. 199 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:13,321 -Don't know why I bother. -[Trowbridge] I abandoned a drink. 200 00:10:13,404 --> 00:10:14,655 Perhaps a fresh one. 201 00:10:14,739 --> 00:10:17,408 No, for the good of the planet, waste not. 202 00:10:17,491 --> 00:10:20,953 Toss it out, and I'll have radical hausfrauen torching my home. 203 00:10:33,049 --> 00:10:34,216 [Kate sighs] 204 00:10:42,350 --> 00:10:44,935 I'm so sorry, sir, your deputy is asking if you can join him... 205 00:10:45,019 --> 00:10:47,647 Do you know the last time he was alone in a room with anyone? 206 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:49,273 -I don't. -[Billie] I don't either. 207 00:10:49,357 --> 00:10:52,151 The secretary of defense is gonna lose his shit. Find Leiber. 208 00:10:52,234 --> 00:10:55,780 You know, if you wanna have a talk with the ambassador 209 00:10:55,863 --> 00:10:57,615 about the vice presidency... 210 00:10:58,699 --> 00:11:01,160 now is not a terrible time. 211 00:11:07,416 --> 00:11:12,505 Grace Penn recently learned her husband misplaced a $6.3 million NIH grant. 212 00:11:13,339 --> 00:11:14,799 We tried to keep a lid on it, 213 00:11:14,882 --> 00:11:17,426 but some relentless ferret from The Wall Street Journal 214 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:19,512 is putting it together, and when he does, she's done. 215 00:11:20,471 --> 00:11:23,641 The list of people who can replace her is very short. 216 00:11:23,724 --> 00:11:26,769 It features four identical-on-paper female legislators 217 00:11:26,852 --> 00:11:30,856 who'd all kill for the job and use it to launch their own presidential campaigns. 218 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:33,359 It's something that makes the president extremely ornery. 219 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:36,570 You're not cut out for campaigning, clearly, 220 00:11:36,654 --> 00:11:41,117 but governing is something you've managed to pull off under live artillery fire, 221 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,245 which is not unlike a chat with the U.S. Congress. 222 00:11:45,287 --> 00:11:49,041 It's entirely possible that you could be a reasonable lieutenant 223 00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:52,795 to help a lame-duck legacy-build overseas, which is the only way possible 224 00:11:52,878 --> 00:11:56,257 given the polarized deathmatch that is today's Washington. 225 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,761 That is the worst marriage proposal I ever heard. 226 00:12:01,470 --> 00:12:05,391 Sorry. Ms. Park's looking for you. Can you step out? 227 00:12:06,350 --> 00:12:07,184 I'd love to. 228 00:12:11,105 --> 00:12:14,442 Any idea why some CIA base in ass-fuck northern Iraq 229 00:12:14,525 --> 00:12:17,736 is making NSA requests about cell calls in London? 230 00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:19,613 I don't. 231 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:23,033 -Did she ask you for an NSA search? -No. 232 00:12:23,117 --> 00:12:25,369 Nothing about SIGINT? Or GCHQ? 233 00:12:25,453 --> 00:12:27,705 Can you just talk about what you're talking about? 234 00:12:31,876 --> 00:12:33,752 A request was filed by Carole Langetti, 235 00:12:33,836 --> 00:12:37,339 a CIA analyst in Iraq who worked with Kate Wyler in Baghdad. 236 00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:42,219 She put in an order for a signals intelligence collection from GCHQ. 237 00:12:42,303 --> 00:12:43,804 -That's not normal? -No. 238 00:12:44,805 --> 00:12:47,433 Why was the ambassador 14 inches up my ass about vetting a tip 239 00:12:47,516 --> 00:12:48,809 that came in through her husband? 240 00:12:48,893 --> 00:12:51,479 She just got here. She wants to be careful. 241 00:12:51,562 --> 00:12:55,107 She ambushed the foreign secretary yesterday. Is that careful? 242 00:12:56,358 --> 00:12:59,361 -It wasn't my favorite. -Yeah. She's careful with my work. 243 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:01,822 -But not her own. -We do the same thing. 244 00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:05,826 All the time. We know people in other countries, we ask for favors. 245 00:13:08,412 --> 00:13:10,372 [Hal] You've got six months. That's plenty of time. 246 00:13:10,456 --> 00:13:13,125 [Billie] If the story breaks, we don't have plenty of anything. 247 00:13:34,396 --> 00:13:35,231 Hi. 248 00:13:40,194 --> 00:13:41,195 Quite a day, huh? 249 00:13:46,408 --> 00:13:49,662 -Eidra would like to speak to you. -Which one is that? 250 00:13:50,412 --> 00:13:51,247 CIA. 251 00:13:52,790 --> 00:13:54,041 When you're done. 252 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:01,882 You knew. 253 00:14:02,841 --> 00:14:05,928 About the VP? Yeah. 254 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:11,517 That she was leaving or that I was on a shortlist to replace her? 255 00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:14,395 Both. 256 00:14:18,857 --> 00:14:21,902 Anyone else around here know more about my life than I do? 257 00:14:22,861 --> 00:14:24,196 [Stuart] I don't think so. 258 00:14:25,072 --> 00:14:26,407 A handful in Washington. 259 00:14:27,408 --> 00:14:28,242 Five. 260 00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:30,786 Actual hand. 261 00:14:57,479 --> 00:14:59,899 It's been a busy few days since you touched down. 262 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,737 My introductory briefing on the intelligence relationship 263 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:07,907 between the U.S. and the UK hasn't made it onto the schedule. 264 00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:11,410 -I'm sure we'll get there. -The relationship is unique. 265 00:15:12,202 --> 00:15:16,165 We share almost everything. More than with any other country. 266 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:19,168 We don't spy on them, they don't spy on us. 267 00:15:19,251 --> 00:15:23,380 MI6 and CIA share intelligence. We run ops together. 268 00:15:23,464 --> 00:15:26,175 -Mm-hm. -NSA and GCHQ share hardware. 269 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:31,680 There's a traffic control system for information the NSA swaps with GCHQ. 270 00:15:32,222 --> 00:15:33,641 It's called Sorting Hat. 271 00:15:33,724 --> 00:15:35,851 -Like from Harry Potter. -Cute. 272 00:15:38,979 --> 00:15:43,233 When you request intelligence from your friend in northern Iraq, 273 00:15:43,859 --> 00:15:47,780 and your friend orders a collection from GCHQ about a target in London, 274 00:15:49,031 --> 00:15:52,493 MI6 gets an alert from the Sorting Hat. 275 00:15:53,661 --> 00:15:55,412 And then MI6 is confused, 276 00:15:55,496 --> 00:16:00,834 because when CIA London makes a request of GCHQ, we tell them. 277 00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:05,339 So now MI6 wants to know why I'm keeping things from them. 278 00:16:05,923 --> 00:16:09,051 Which is tough to answer. Because of course there are, 279 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:11,845 between ourselves, a number of things I'm keeping from them. 280 00:16:11,929 --> 00:16:16,475 Managing them isn't easy. It's even less easy when I don't know what they are. 281 00:16:18,143 --> 00:16:18,978 I'm sorry. 282 00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:24,525 -You should've come to me. -I did. 283 00:16:24,608 --> 00:16:26,652 You acted like I was the nosy neighbor. 284 00:16:26,735 --> 00:16:29,279 -If you don't trust me enough to tell me-- -I trust you. 285 00:16:29,363 --> 00:16:30,489 I'm sure you don't. 286 00:16:31,115 --> 00:16:32,908 I don't trust my spouse. 287 00:16:35,285 --> 00:16:36,370 It's worse, right? 288 00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:43,252 -Wanna give me some context? -I really don't. 289 00:16:54,096 --> 00:16:56,265 Hal contacted Shahin first. 290 00:16:57,141 --> 00:16:58,642 Not the other way around. 291 00:16:59,351 --> 00:17:00,185 He started it. 292 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:06,066 He hates all the ideas. 293 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:08,569 He liked Grace Penn. Doesn't wanna be married to somebody else. 294 00:17:08,652 --> 00:17:12,614 But it's not gonna be nobody. At some point, you gotta pick a horse. 295 00:17:14,616 --> 00:17:15,451 Yes. Go. 296 00:17:16,326 --> 00:17:17,286 What was that? 297 00:17:18,912 --> 00:17:19,788 Salt. 298 00:17:21,248 --> 00:17:24,752 -The president would like more of it. -If he hears anything 299 00:17:26,128 --> 00:17:26,962 substantive... 300 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:31,675 Sometimes the president mutters something like, um, 301 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:33,302 "Find out what bric-a-brac means." 302 00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:37,514 From country to country, it can mean different things. 303 00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:39,683 Okay. 304 00:17:40,350 --> 00:17:41,685 I'm wasting my breath. 305 00:17:43,270 --> 00:17:45,856 -The vice presidency. -I think you sold it. 306 00:17:45,939 --> 00:17:50,360 -It's supposed to sell itself. -How about you try again with enthusiasm? 307 00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:52,863 -After this debacle? -You said you wanted a doer. 308 00:17:52,946 --> 00:17:54,406 I changed my mind. 309 00:17:54,490 --> 00:17:55,616 [Pensy] Sir? 310 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:03,332 The ambassador was hoping you could join her and Ms. Park. 311 00:18:03,415 --> 00:18:04,500 In the library. 312 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:13,175 Iran has moved an infantry battalion from the Pakistan border to the coast. 313 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:14,301 God. 314 00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:21,850 So it was one call to a contact in Italy, 315 00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:25,145 a nation that does have diplomatic relations with Iran. 316 00:18:25,229 --> 00:18:29,608 I asked my contact to tell Shahin that I was in London. 317 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:33,278 Information he could have gotten from a newspaper. 318 00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:34,905 But he didn't. 319 00:18:34,988 --> 00:18:37,616 You offered yourself up, and then lied about it. 320 00:18:37,699 --> 00:18:41,161 She can't corroborate this with anyone else. She has one source. 321 00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:43,580 This thing has legs because of your reputation, 322 00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:46,500 and once you've established yourself as a liar, liar, pants on fire, 323 00:18:46,583 --> 00:18:48,502 you undermine game-changing intelligence. 324 00:18:48,585 --> 00:18:50,879 So I'm the first guy ever 325 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:53,590 to make clandestine contact without reporting sources and methods? 326 00:18:53,674 --> 00:18:55,717 You aren't a member of the clandestine services. 327 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,846 -You don't work for the U.S. government. -If this falls on friendly ears-- 328 00:18:58,929 --> 00:19:00,430 But if someone wants to fuck with you, 329 00:19:00,514 --> 00:19:03,183 like the secretary of state because he hates the fucking sight of you, 330 00:19:03,267 --> 00:19:06,478 it's a 951 violation, and they can put you away for ten years. 331 00:19:06,562 --> 00:19:08,981 Even Ganon doesn't want me in jail for ten years. 332 00:19:09,064 --> 00:19:10,941 -Yeah, but I do. -You should go. 333 00:19:14,069 --> 00:19:16,280 -I'll stop. -[Eidra] We're okay without you. 334 00:19:16,363 --> 00:19:19,324 No, it's-- She's had a tough day. Let her stay. 335 00:19:20,075 --> 00:19:24,496 Okay, this is new to me, this both of you at the same time. 336 00:19:25,205 --> 00:19:26,373 I could use less of it. 337 00:19:36,508 --> 00:19:37,634 I'll stop. I'm sorry. 338 00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:41,221 The ambassador is correct. 339 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:45,350 You making contact with Shahin first changes the entire analysis. 340 00:19:45,434 --> 00:19:46,268 Yeah. 341 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:49,438 Your story is the best tool we have to de-escalate a situation 342 00:19:49,521 --> 00:19:51,565 that is quickly spinning out of control. 343 00:19:51,648 --> 00:19:53,525 It'd be great if it held water. 344 00:19:55,777 --> 00:19:56,778 Here to help. 345 00:19:56,862 --> 00:20:00,282 Write down every word of your conversation with the deputy minister 346 00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:01,783 and his interlocutor. 347 00:20:01,867 --> 00:20:04,870 He was an assassin. The interlocutor. 348 00:20:05,829 --> 00:20:06,914 On the paper. 349 00:20:06,997 --> 00:20:09,750 -You don't wanna just talk and record it? -I don't. 350 00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:13,879 Okay. 351 00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:38,487 You tried to tell me yesterday. A bunch of times. 352 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:40,113 Yeah. 353 00:20:41,657 --> 00:20:42,741 I'm really sorry. 354 00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:55,212 Ma'am, coffee has been served to the gentlemen. 355 00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:56,296 Okay. 356 00:21:03,512 --> 00:21:05,514 [indistinct chatter] 357 00:21:06,306 --> 00:21:08,850 [Billie] ...step up UAV surveillance... 358 00:21:09,768 --> 00:21:10,978 They're wrapping up. 359 00:21:11,061 --> 00:21:13,397 I'll have the defense secretary give you a call. 360 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,439 Okay, thank you. 361 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,571 -They're on coffee. Won't be long. -Mm-hm. Tea, right? 362 00:21:22,614 --> 00:21:26,118 Uh, they serve coffee. It's not great. But if you ask... 363 00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:27,744 -Did he? -Who? 364 00:21:28,453 --> 00:21:32,332 -Did the president order coffee? -I don't know. She served coffee. 365 00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:34,543 -Motherfucker. Andrew! -What's wrong? 366 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:36,878 He can't have coffee. It sets his heart in A-fib. 367 00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,797 He fucking sneaks it. Coffee. 368 00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:42,134 -Should we get--? -[Rayburn] What did I tell you? 369 00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:43,969 -Sir, put it down! -You see? 370 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,888 -That's extraordinary. -Isn't it? 371 00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:48,056 [sniffs] 372 00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:51,184 It's tea. 373 00:21:52,561 --> 00:21:53,437 Unbelievable. 374 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,481 My cardiologist is sure I'm gonna die on his watch. 375 00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:59,901 -The list of things I can't ingest. -This one is serious. 376 00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:04,489 I ordered a cup of coffee in Madrid, it came in this 400-year-old porcelain, 377 00:22:04,573 --> 00:22:07,576 which they had pilfered from the Chinese in 1882. 378 00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:10,495 He batted it out of my hand. It hit the ground, turned to dust. 379 00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:15,292 Incredible. I can't get a rise out of my lot unless I strike a child with my car. 380 00:22:17,544 --> 00:22:19,921 -I only do it because I love you. -I don't want your love. 381 00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:22,215 Tehran has sent an infantry battalion to the coast. 382 00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:25,093 He'll back off Iran once his guys are out of there. 383 00:22:25,177 --> 00:22:28,347 We're gonna send a carrier group to the Gulf, give them a ride to Bahrain. 384 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:29,723 His ship is sinking. 385 00:22:29,806 --> 00:22:32,476 -[Trowbridge] There it is. See? -What am I looking at? 386 00:22:33,101 --> 00:22:34,561 The hags tell the Scottish king, 387 00:22:34,644 --> 00:22:39,191 "You shall ne'er be vanquished till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane." Macbeth. 388 00:22:39,274 --> 00:22:40,317 The play. 389 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,321 Some sneaky Winfield groundskeeper knew Barbara Hutton loved the Scottish play, 390 00:22:44,404 --> 00:22:48,950 so he lopped a cutting off the last Birnam Oak and planted it in the garden. 391 00:22:53,747 --> 00:22:54,998 Did he say "sinking"? 392 00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:57,709 -It's sinking? -Sorry? 393 00:22:57,793 --> 00:23:00,295 The president said he's sending a carrier group to the Gulf 394 00:23:00,378 --> 00:23:02,464 to rescue your crew before they drown. 395 00:23:03,090 --> 00:23:05,759 How do you not tell me the ship is sinking? 396 00:23:08,345 --> 00:23:09,971 Because it isn't. 397 00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:14,267 Where can we speak privately? 398 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,270 -Ah, we could go in-- -[Austin] Not in the house. 399 00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:20,565 -Walls are pretty thick. -Not... in the house. 400 00:23:20,649 --> 00:23:24,152 -Is it bugged? -Can we choose an outdoor venue? 401 00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:27,614 I moved in five minutes ago. I haven't scouted the grounds. 402 00:23:28,698 --> 00:23:30,617 -What's that over there? -The garden? 403 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:32,410 -Yes. -It looks like a garden. 404 00:23:32,494 --> 00:23:34,371 Okay. Let's meet on the other side of it. 405 00:23:34,996 --> 00:23:37,541 You go that way, I'll cut through the house. 406 00:23:58,562 --> 00:23:59,938 [whispering indistinctly] 407 00:24:04,568 --> 00:24:08,738 A couple M48 Patton tanks outfitted with Russian smoothbore guns. 408 00:24:09,865 --> 00:24:14,369 I'm so sorry to interrupt, ma'am. Could I--? Just for a moment? 409 00:24:18,665 --> 00:24:23,545 Ambassador Wyler asked if you'd ask the secretary of defense for a keel report. 410 00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:24,838 From the carrier. 411 00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:27,132 -A keel report. -Yes. Thank you. 412 00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:31,344 And it's an honor to meet you. 413 00:24:33,013 --> 00:24:34,639 What the hell is a keel report? 414 00:24:39,102 --> 00:24:41,188 The carrier is taking on water, 415 00:24:41,271 --> 00:24:44,357 which is not unexpected given the yawning gash in its hull. 416 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:47,903 HMS Courageous is designed to take fire, 417 00:24:47,986 --> 00:24:51,698 seal off the debilitated compartment, and remain afloat. 418 00:24:51,781 --> 00:24:53,742 Why does the president think it's sinking? 419 00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:55,744 Presumably someone told him. 420 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:57,746 Because...? 421 00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:02,834 What did the president pledge to send on this rescue mission? 422 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:04,753 A carrier group. 423 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:07,631 Warships. 424 00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:12,135 Had the prime minister asked for an American show of force in the Gulf, 425 00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:13,470 the president would have refused 426 00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:17,724 because it could launch both our countries into a catastrophic regional conflict. 427 00:25:18,725 --> 00:25:19,851 But a distress call... 428 00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:23,230 He's luring a strike force into the Persian Gulf. 429 00:25:23,313 --> 00:25:24,898 -Yes, he is. -And you're okay with that? 430 00:25:24,981 --> 00:25:28,735 -What suggests I'm okay with this? -Tell him to fucking stop it! 431 00:25:28,818 --> 00:25:30,862 What do you think I've been doing for three years? 432 00:25:30,946 --> 00:25:33,323 Telling Nicol Trowbridge to fucking stop it! 433 00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:38,745 I begged you to have Rayburn intervene. 434 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:40,205 You-- When? 435 00:25:40,288 --> 00:25:42,457 Yesterday. And today. 436 00:25:42,540 --> 00:25:44,084 You didn't. 437 00:25:44,167 --> 00:25:48,546 Uh, "If the president could share his perspective, his wisdom 438 00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:51,508 -with the PM, perhaps--" -That's what begging looks like to you? 439 00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:55,220 -I didn't drop to my knees. -If the house is on fire, tell me. 440 00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:57,597 The house is on fire! 441 00:26:05,188 --> 00:26:09,776 You know, Iran is the best thing that ever happened to Nicol Trowbridge. 442 00:26:09,859 --> 00:26:13,238 -Iran didn't happen to him. -Does that matter? 443 00:26:13,321 --> 00:26:14,406 Did you tell him? 444 00:26:14,489 --> 00:26:17,242 About your husband's tale? Of course I did. 445 00:26:17,325 --> 00:26:20,870 If you call it a tale, it kind of undermines the intelligence. 446 00:26:20,954 --> 00:26:23,707 He believes Mr. Wyler provided interesting evidence, 447 00:26:23,790 --> 00:26:26,918 but not incontrovertible and nowhere near actionable. 448 00:26:27,002 --> 00:26:28,878 We have to stop trying to prove a negative. 449 00:26:28,962 --> 00:26:31,339 We need to figure out who it was, not who it wasn't. 450 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:32,382 What an insight. 451 00:26:32,465 --> 00:26:36,886 I mean, really like a bolt from the heavens. 452 00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:39,264 You're kind of an asshole. 453 00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:43,059 Something about your charmingly foul mouth 454 00:26:43,143 --> 00:26:46,604 makes me feel like you appreciate the unvarnished. 455 00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:50,525 Are you saying that you like me? 456 00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:55,030 I'm saying that I would like to trust you. 457 00:26:58,658 --> 00:27:01,161 I thought I could manage this, but I can't. 458 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:12,714 What? 459 00:27:13,923 --> 00:27:16,968 I drank the Kool-Aid, like a fucking child. 460 00:27:20,513 --> 00:27:21,348 The husband. 461 00:27:21,431 --> 00:27:22,390 Ah. 462 00:27:23,016 --> 00:27:23,975 Was it bullshit? 463 00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:26,603 No. It was incomplete. 464 00:27:26,686 --> 00:27:28,271 And she tried to warn me. 465 00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:32,984 -Well, look, even you can make mis-- -No, this is not a small mistake. 466 00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:39,199 By the way, I asked you to come to Cairo... 467 00:27:39,949 --> 00:27:41,534 It's a terrible idea. 468 00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:44,537 Being a tandem couple has fucked both of them. 469 00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:45,538 But mostly her. 470 00:27:46,247 --> 00:27:48,083 -Well, how? -He lies to her, 471 00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:50,377 regularly enough that she expects it. 472 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:51,795 It's fucked her career. 473 00:27:51,878 --> 00:27:54,381 Well, I think her career's going okay. 474 00:27:54,964 --> 00:27:56,633 She doesn't wanna be here. 475 00:27:57,592 --> 00:27:59,803 Why is she here? She's frontline material. 476 00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:03,056 Yeah. Exactly. 477 00:28:03,681 --> 00:28:06,101 Ma'am? Could you join the ambassador? 478 00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:07,352 Of course. 479 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,605 [man] No concrete intel on Riyadh... 480 00:28:10,688 --> 00:28:13,525 [indistinct chatter] 481 00:28:19,614 --> 00:28:21,241 [Billie] We can't afford to piss them off, 482 00:28:21,324 --> 00:28:24,619 but at this point, there isn't a credible threat to our interests. 483 00:28:25,328 --> 00:28:27,956 [sighs] In the meantime, what's the secretary of defense saying? 484 00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:30,250 I asked. Says it's time-sensitive. 485 00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:33,420 Find me when NSA weighs in. 486 00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:37,465 We have to come to some agreement with the Saudis not to make this worse. 487 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,053 Were you able to get the report? Keel report. 488 00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:44,973 -Still working on it. -Can we--? For a minute? 489 00:28:58,361 --> 00:29:00,363 Rayburn can't send ships to the Gulf. 490 00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,699 Trowbridge played him. He lied to his face. 491 00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:05,702 He wants the visual of American warships buzzing Iran. 492 00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:09,330 -The aircraft carrier is not sinking. -How do you know that? 493 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:13,710 I'd know for sure if I had a keel report, but I have it on very good authority. 494 00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:15,044 Shit. 495 00:29:15,128 --> 00:29:19,299 We're getting flares from the Brits. They can't shut Trowbridge down. 496 00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:23,261 The president needs to say our ships can't get there in time to help. 497 00:29:23,344 --> 00:29:25,013 He won't renege on a rescue mission. 498 00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:28,266 This is a distress call coming from a senior government official. 499 00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:29,434 Named what? 500 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,020 We can't do anything. 501 00:29:32,103 --> 00:29:36,816 When we had a dangerous head of state, we relied on our allies to respond 502 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:38,818 when we made distress calls. 503 00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:45,116 You know why I didn't want this job? 504 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,369 I spent a decade building a reputation in a community 505 00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:52,791 such that when I say something, people fucking listen to me. 506 00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:55,210 -I have none of that here. -Not none. 507 00:29:57,921 --> 00:29:59,088 Not none. 508 00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:08,640 The prime minister is setting the stage for an attack on American hardware 509 00:30:08,723 --> 00:30:09,933 and American troops. 510 00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:12,769 He wants this to be our problem as much as his. 511 00:30:13,728 --> 00:30:15,563 We need to talk to that source. 512 00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:16,689 -Shahin? -If we have to. 513 00:30:16,773 --> 00:30:18,191 -You talked to...? -Yeah. 514 00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:20,151 You wanna go back to Shahin? 515 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:23,196 If you think the president should renege, we need more to bring to the Brits. 516 00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:25,448 You can't. It's too dangerous. 517 00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:27,283 [Rayburn] That's a Birnam Oak. 518 00:30:29,077 --> 00:30:30,119 From Shakespeare. 519 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:31,746 Go take a look. 520 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:32,789 We will. 521 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:36,417 It's Iran's backyard. 522 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,336 If we wanna know who did this, 523 00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,421 they'll have better intelligence than anyone. 524 00:30:40,505 --> 00:30:43,383 Shahin's own regime will go after him. He will be killed. 525 00:30:43,466 --> 00:30:47,053 If we go to war with Iran, a lot of people will be killed. 526 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:49,931 Shahin wants to modernize his country. 527 00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:52,058 He's one of the only people in the regime 528 00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:55,395 who gets along with the reformists and the military and the mullahs, 529 00:30:55,478 --> 00:30:59,065 because his father rode bikes with the supreme leader when they were 10. 530 00:30:59,148 --> 00:31:01,985 And inexplicably, he doesn't believe we're the great Satan. 531 00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:04,404 -I understand he's valuable. -You don't. 532 00:31:05,071 --> 00:31:06,865 An Iran Deal can be revoked. 533 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:07,782 Clearly. 534 00:31:08,324 --> 00:31:12,287 What we're really doing when we negotiate with them, or with anyone, 535 00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:17,041 is looking for one or two friends we can call when the world is truly fucked. 536 00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:21,004 It is a flimsy web of relationships. 537 00:31:21,087 --> 00:31:22,463 But sometimes it holds. 538 00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:24,424 Do not tear it. 539 00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:28,261 Do not be an infinitely ravenous American. 540 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:30,179 Use what he already gave you. 541 00:31:33,224 --> 00:31:34,058 Danny? 542 00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:38,646 Get me Stuart Hayford. Can we get the president out of the woods? 543 00:31:40,523 --> 00:31:43,151 -Tell Langley to go at it another way. -Okay. 544 00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:46,946 I need a drink. 545 00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:18,937 -That was moving. -What? 546 00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:20,521 A spiderweb. 547 00:32:21,397 --> 00:32:24,943 You gotta have a couple of those in your pocket when things get existential. 548 00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:25,860 [chuckles] Yeah. 549 00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:28,696 We're waiting for someone. 550 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:30,073 [knocking on door] 551 00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:37,455 -We doing this? -Maybe. 552 00:32:40,833 --> 00:32:42,669 I sent you here to be with him. 553 00:32:42,752 --> 00:32:46,339 For a lot of reasons, but he's checking you out. 554 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,510 That's creepy. 555 00:32:51,469 --> 00:32:55,431 Five U.S. presidents were formerly ambassadors to this country. 556 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:59,310 It's the right place to learn. You'd melt on a campaign trail. 557 00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:02,063 You'd call your donors corrupt to their faces. 558 00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:04,732 But there's no campaign. 559 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,945 Imagine if your... frankness 560 00:33:09,612 --> 00:33:11,280 were actually a plus, 561 00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:15,493 if your only goal was to keep the president relentlessly on track. 562 00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:18,371 [Billie] The president needs someone to stop him 563 00:33:18,454 --> 00:33:19,831 from rambling about chicken tariffs 564 00:33:19,914 --> 00:33:21,541 when he needs an arms deal. 565 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:25,753 The VP spends more time in the Oval than anyone who doesn't have a desk there. 566 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:29,632 -First in, last out of every meeting. -Guys... 567 00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:33,344 -You wanna know why you're on the list? -Uh, I have a uterus. 568 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:35,388 That's not-- Not the only reason. 569 00:33:35,471 --> 00:33:37,807 You spent seven years building a ticket 570 00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:41,227 where an elderly guy could hand the baton to an electable woman 571 00:33:41,310 --> 00:33:44,439 and deliver us the first female president. 572 00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:49,152 Now you want someone with no voting record, no baggage, no opinions. 573 00:33:49,902 --> 00:33:52,572 Clean me up, put me in a dress, and hope I never speak. 574 00:33:53,281 --> 00:33:54,449 Yeah. I had a plan. 575 00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:56,659 Turned to shit. 576 00:33:56,743 --> 00:34:01,080 But as far as rebounds go, you don't have to survive a campaign. 577 00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:04,250 We air-drop you in to govern, maybe you catch fire. 578 00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:06,002 She thinks you'd be good at the job. 579 00:34:06,085 --> 00:34:09,964 I called nine people and said, "If it looks like the apocalypse is now, 580 00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:11,424 who's your first hire?" 581 00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:13,259 Five said you. 582 00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:15,970 What you did in Lebanon. 583 00:34:16,971 --> 00:34:19,807 What I'm not supposed to know you did in Baghdad. 584 00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:23,603 Makes a great poster. "Iraq. Could have been worse." 585 00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:26,522 No campaign. No posters. 586 00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:30,151 We'd put you in the lead on foreign policy. 587 00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:33,446 You get the Middle East. You can deal with Russia without freaking out. 588 00:34:33,529 --> 00:34:34,864 You know cobalt is the only thing 589 00:34:34,947 --> 00:34:37,158 we're really gonna be talking about for the next 25 years. 590 00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:39,452 You'd be doing it for the country, not the power. 591 00:34:39,535 --> 00:34:41,079 [Billie scoffs] If I'd thought about it, 592 00:34:41,162 --> 00:34:42,705 -I'd have planned it this way. -Mm-hm. 593 00:34:43,831 --> 00:34:47,710 Really. It's almost embarrassing. Never even occurred to me. 594 00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:49,962 Pick someone good at the job, not the interview? 595 00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:54,717 [Billie] I mean, it's bad for the guys, but for the women? Fuck me. 596 00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:58,679 Is she pretty but not too pretty? Appealing but not hot? 597 00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:02,683 Confident but not bitchy? Decisive but not bitchy? 598 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:04,727 Cute bitchy, but not "bitchy" bitchy. 599 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:09,107 We had to come to an agreement 600 00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:11,400 about how many days a week the VP would wear a thong. 601 00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:14,821 She doesn't like them. Her team doesn't like panty lines. 602 00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:17,698 Weeks of my life. 603 00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:20,952 And then an agreement. Yes, she will wear ass-floss, 604 00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:24,664 but only two days out of seven, and days cannot be banked week to week. 605 00:35:26,666 --> 00:35:29,085 Can you imagine hiring someone for a key governing position 606 00:35:29,168 --> 00:35:30,837 just because you think they'd be good at it? 607 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:33,589 [door opens] 608 00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:40,054 Don't say anything. She's actually thinking about it. 609 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:41,430 -Are you? -Shh. 610 00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:44,058 Are you? 611 00:35:48,062 --> 00:35:49,063 That's progress. 612 00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:57,155 Give it time. When Hal and I first spoke, it sounded ridiculous, 613 00:35:57,238 --> 00:36:00,533 but a month later... it seems kind of brilliant. 614 00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:03,369 [door opens] 615 00:36:03,452 --> 00:36:06,289 [Andrew] Ma'am, he's asking for you. 616 00:36:07,331 --> 00:36:08,499 [clears throat] 617 00:36:17,216 --> 00:36:18,050 A month? 618 00:36:20,386 --> 00:36:21,512 Listen-- Let-- 619 00:36:22,221 --> 00:36:23,764 Let me just tell you how-- 620 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,022 Kate. Kate. 621 00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:37,403 Kate. Katie. 622 00:36:38,279 --> 00:36:39,322 Kate, stop. 623 00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:40,698 I'm going for a walk. 624 00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:42,867 -Can I come? -I don't think that's a good idea. 625 00:36:43,910 --> 00:36:46,996 -When Billie called me-- -She called you a month ago. 626 00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:50,416 Yeah, and at that point, it was talk, that's all. 627 00:36:50,499 --> 00:36:52,919 She wanted advice, the Grace Penn thing-- 628 00:36:53,002 --> 00:36:54,545 -The vice president. -Yeah. 629 00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:56,964 You should call her the vice president. 630 00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:59,592 The issue with the vice president and her husband, 631 00:36:59,675 --> 00:37:04,055 and the $6 million NIH grant that went missing had just surfaced. 632 00:37:04,138 --> 00:37:05,806 So Billie called you. 633 00:37:05,890 --> 00:37:09,435 Uh, yeah. As a friend of the-- Friend of the court. 634 00:37:09,518 --> 00:37:11,479 At that point, she wanted the VP to stay. 635 00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:13,522 She was just trying out ideas for damage control. 636 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:18,778 So the notion that the vice president might be replaced didn't come up. 637 00:37:18,861 --> 00:37:20,863 We tossed around a couple names. 638 00:37:20,947 --> 00:37:21,989 Including mine? 639 00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:25,409 -Who else, your mom? -There aren't a lot of names, Katie. 640 00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:28,079 I mean, they need a woman. They need someone clean. 641 00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:32,166 Abby Shotkin's too old. Stella can't keep her mouth shut. 642 00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:35,711 He promised the first lady he wouldn't pick Rachel Beer, 643 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:37,338 'cause he fucked Rachel Beer in college, 644 00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:40,591 and he told his wife she wasn't the best lay of his life, Rachel Beer was. 645 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:43,177 And if he picks Laurie Davis, we lose the House. 646 00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,180 Okay, so at that point, someone says... 647 00:37:47,014 --> 00:37:47,848 You. 648 00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:49,267 Who says me? 649 00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:54,438 Uh, me, Billie, I can't remember. It wasn't a plan. We were spitballing. 650 00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:57,233 You were on your way to Kabul. You weren't ready for prime time. 651 00:37:57,316 --> 00:37:58,818 It wasn't realistic. 652 00:37:58,901 --> 00:38:00,069 Definitely not. 653 00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:03,072 -But now...? -Well, once the London thing happened, 654 00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:05,783 it was like, maybe she could spend six months in a more public post, 655 00:38:05,866 --> 00:38:09,287 get your sea legs, get used to the spotlight, you know. 656 00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:11,247 So at that point, you called Billie. 657 00:38:11,330 --> 00:38:12,957 -Billie called me. -Like Shahin did? 658 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,961 -Katie, Billie called me. -Was there a point at which you thought 659 00:38:17,044 --> 00:38:18,754 I should come into this conversation? 660 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:21,299 What would you have said? I'm serious. 661 00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:24,218 One month ago, on your way to Kabul, 662 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:27,638 would I have got halfway through the sentence trying to pitch this to you? 663 00:38:29,181 --> 00:38:30,474 Fair. That is a fair point. 664 00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:34,770 -So the London thing happens. -Yeah. And it didn't matter. 665 00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:37,189 This place is a shit show. VP or no, it's good you're here. 666 00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:39,108 We figured, you know... 667 00:38:39,942 --> 00:38:41,736 -What? What did you figure? -Well... 668 00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:46,282 Listen, I was trying to find the right time to tell you. 669 00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:47,199 And... 670 00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:49,577 I-- 671 00:38:50,703 --> 00:38:51,912 I didn't find it. 672 00:38:53,622 --> 00:38:55,499 Now, two weeks ago-- 673 00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:59,253 -I swear to fucking God. -Two weeks ago you said, "Call Rick." 674 00:39:05,051 --> 00:39:05,885 Yeah. 675 00:39:06,927 --> 00:39:08,471 -And I... -You called Rick. 676 00:39:08,554 --> 00:39:10,097 -I did. -Katherine. 677 00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:14,602 You know the chessboard, you are undaunted by complexity-- 678 00:39:14,685 --> 00:39:16,062 I called our attorney. 679 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:20,107 This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get someone into the White House 680 00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:23,319 with a preternatural ability to un-fuck clusterfucks. 681 00:39:23,402 --> 00:39:25,696 I called Rick and said, "Get us a mediator. 682 00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:30,659 Because this is gonna be the cleanest, loveliest divorce anybody ever had." 683 00:39:30,743 --> 00:39:32,161 You have an orchard. 684 00:39:32,244 --> 00:39:35,122 The president of the United States is in it. 685 00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:39,293 You need to have a conversation with him. Hear what he's thinking. 686 00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:44,298 You need to, in a chill way, get to know the guy before he leaves, 687 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:46,801 -which is in ten minutes. -You didn't tell me a lot of things. 688 00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:48,761 -Katie-- -You had your reasons. It's okay. 689 00:39:49,637 --> 00:39:50,930 But when you said... 690 00:39:51,847 --> 00:39:54,767 -"Yes, we can be done..." -Yeah. 691 00:39:54,850 --> 00:40:00,106 "...we had ten good years, we're done," you were crying. 692 00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:01,649 There was snot. 693 00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:03,818 Kate, it's the vice presidency. 694 00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:05,903 -You want me to think about it, right? -Yeah, I do. 695 00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:07,405 -Can you? -Yeah. 696 00:40:08,572 --> 00:40:09,573 -Really? -Yeah. 697 00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:13,869 -Katie-- -If you answer one question, truthfully. 698 00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,288 Really truthfully. 699 00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:19,083 Sure, okay. Yeah, anything. 700 00:40:21,335 --> 00:40:25,589 When you said, "Call Rick," when you said, "We're done," 701 00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:28,843 did you think we were done? 702 00:40:37,101 --> 00:40:37,935 No. 703 00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:40,729 [shouts] 704 00:40:42,231 --> 00:40:43,399 What the fuck? 705 00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:45,317 [grunting] 706 00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:50,114 Kate. Kate, take a breath-- 707 00:40:50,197 --> 00:40:52,324 -[shouting] -[grunts] Jesus! 708 00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:53,993 -Fuck. -[Kate] Shit! 709 00:40:54,076 --> 00:40:55,411 What the fuck? Kate! 710 00:40:55,494 --> 00:40:56,620 Jesus. 711 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:07,173 -You are killing me! -[Martin] Huh. 712 00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:10,176 -Thoughts? -We're not his detail. We're hers. 713 00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:12,052 Not going well for him, is it? 714 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:13,304 [Kate shouting] 715 00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:16,056 [panting] Kate. 716 00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:20,102 -Kate, put it down. -Shit. Stop. No! 717 00:41:20,186 --> 00:41:23,063 -Fuck! You fucking shit! -I swear to God-- 718 00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:25,691 Fucking-- Kate. Ow! Stop. 719 00:41:26,609 --> 00:41:27,902 Okay. Okay. 720 00:41:35,868 --> 00:41:38,913 -This marriage is... -Jesus! Kate, stop! 721 00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:40,247 ...killing me! 722 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:43,667 -You are killing me! -Yeah, I'm trying, it's not working. 723 00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:45,753 -Fucking shit! -[Byron] Ma'am? 724 00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:50,132 The chief of staff would like you to speak to the president. 725 00:41:50,216 --> 00:41:52,218 [panting] 726 00:41:57,848 --> 00:42:00,809 -What the fuck happened? -I tripped. Where's the president? 727 00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:03,062 -Forget it. -[Hal] She can change. 728 00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:04,688 Her clothes. 729 00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:07,066 President's not budging on the ships. It's a rescue mission. 730 00:42:07,149 --> 00:42:09,276 I thought maybe you could turn him around, 731 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,070 -but this isn't gonna-- -[Kate] No. 732 00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:13,781 -This is perfect. -Kate. 733 00:42:21,664 --> 00:42:22,706 [Kate] Okay. 734 00:42:25,167 --> 00:42:26,627 Is she gonna be okay? 735 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:28,754 I don't know. 736 00:42:46,146 --> 00:42:48,107 They could've rerouted to Diego Garcia. 737 00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:51,610 Everybody wants to know why I didn't warn them we were going after the tanker. 738 00:42:53,445 --> 00:42:54,446 Give me a minute. 739 00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:06,083 Marla Dane has a lot of experience. 740 00:43:06,166 --> 00:43:09,878 She took a year off to take care of her dying mother who is now dead. 741 00:43:09,962 --> 00:43:11,672 -So-- -She's available. 742 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,550 She can be ambassador. She will love this... 743 00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:17,678 whatever this is on the walls. 744 00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:21,015 And she's the one you want for the other thing too. 745 00:43:21,098 --> 00:43:22,141 Where are you going? 746 00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:25,603 I am not cut out for this. 747 00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:27,313 I'm stepping down. 748 00:43:27,396 --> 00:43:31,358 Good news is, that makes me the one person in the world 749 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:36,905 who isn't trying to kiss your ass, but still knows a lot about Iran. 750 00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:45,789 A man named Saman Karimi 751 00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:49,126 was removed from the command of a Quds Force unit in Syria 752 00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:52,588 when even Bashar al-Assad said he was a guy who took things too far. 753 00:43:53,464 --> 00:43:55,966 -But you can't fire a Saman Karimi. -No. 754 00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:59,803 So they gave him command of a Fishing Industry Safety Regiment. 755 00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:03,432 Complete with 14 boats and a lot of RPGs. 756 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:05,559 You think they're gonna swarm the Fifth Fleet? 757 00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:08,312 I think they're gonna load an RPG onto a fishing trawler 758 00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:10,314 and see what they can hit. 759 00:44:12,232 --> 00:44:15,027 A couple of Americans die, and then we're in it. 760 00:44:16,153 --> 00:44:17,571 Not rescuers. 761 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:18,906 Combatants. 762 00:44:19,782 --> 00:44:22,201 -I told Billie-- -You told her Russia's watching? 763 00:44:22,284 --> 00:44:24,453 That everyone's watching? That it's a litmus test? 764 00:44:24,536 --> 00:44:25,579 Because it is. 765 00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:26,705 Of course it is. 766 00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:30,709 The minute Russia savaged Ukraine, every NATO state's been waiting to see 767 00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:34,630 if I meant it when I said, "An attack on one is an attack on all." 768 00:44:34,713 --> 00:44:36,048 One just got attacked. 769 00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:38,425 This is not the straw that will break the alliance. 770 00:44:38,509 --> 00:44:41,428 Why not? An alliance is nothing. 771 00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:45,432 It's a pinkie promise like I made with Jason Slavick when I was 10. 772 00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:47,810 -"You get hit, I show up." -You're here. 773 00:44:48,602 --> 00:44:50,604 In this case, I show up with a carrier group. 774 00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:52,189 Or judgment. 775 00:44:54,108 --> 00:44:58,570 Fifty thousand British soldiers marched on Baghdad because we asked them to. 776 00:44:59,071 --> 00:45:00,280 And we chased that with an era 777 00:45:00,364 --> 00:45:02,950 defined by a profound lack of interest in anybody but ourselves. 778 00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:07,621 Sir, you're not doing this to restore our reputation in the world. 779 00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:11,500 This ought to be good. Why am I doing it? 780 00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:14,545 You're scared your enemies think you're too old and frail 781 00:45:14,628 --> 00:45:16,505 to put Americans in the line of fire. 782 00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:20,426 Do people like you? 783 00:45:21,927 --> 00:45:23,512 You're right to worry about it. 784 00:45:24,054 --> 00:45:30,185 That smug Brazilian guy who kept offering you pee breaks every 15 minutes at the G20 785 00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:35,190 revived all the rumors about incontinence your team spent six months trying to kill. 786 00:45:35,274 --> 00:45:39,236 And it's not nothing, particularly when you're dealing with Russia and China. 787 00:45:39,319 --> 00:45:42,614 Any leader who looks at you and sees his own age, 788 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,409 it makes them wanna crush you. 789 00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:48,912 But that is like 49 percent disastrous. 790 00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:52,166 And potential for war with Iran is 51. 791 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,501 Which means I win by two. 792 00:45:57,754 --> 00:45:59,256 A wise man once said, 793 00:46:00,048 --> 00:46:04,303 "Decisions don't get to the desk of the president unless they're 49-51. 794 00:46:04,386 --> 00:46:09,099 I spend my days splitting hairs, but that's the job I raised my hand for." 795 00:46:09,933 --> 00:46:11,059 I said that. 796 00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:12,060 Did you? 797 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,607 I thought you were the only one in the world who wasn't kissing my ass. 798 00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:20,110 Billie. 799 00:46:23,655 --> 00:46:26,366 -President would like the chief of staff. -I'm here. His voice carries. 800 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:29,453 -How are we doing? -[Rayburn] No ships. Bring the car around. 801 00:46:29,536 --> 00:46:30,913 [Andrew] We're wheels up in two. 802 00:46:30,996 --> 00:46:34,041 -[Billie] Give me more on "no ships." -She wins, I lose. 803 00:46:34,124 --> 00:46:36,877 And someone should wash her. She looks ridiculous. 804 00:46:37,794 --> 00:46:39,171 Find the secretary of defense. 805 00:46:39,254 --> 00:46:40,756 Tell him no ships go to the Gulf. 806 00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:44,051 Make sure he doesn't fly back with me. He's gonna be a real turd about this. 807 00:46:44,134 --> 00:46:47,054 I need a car for the secretary of defense going back to Heathrow. 808 00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:53,936 This one tried to quit. 809 00:46:54,436 --> 00:46:55,896 Tell her to sack up. 810 00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:00,943 Hey. 811 00:47:05,614 --> 00:47:08,825 Call me on Tuesday. We'll talk about the other thing. 812 00:47:08,909 --> 00:47:11,411 Ma'am, I'm sorry, it's not gonna work out. 813 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:12,329 What? 814 00:47:12,412 --> 00:47:14,456 I have to say no. 815 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:15,374 Yeah. I know. 816 00:47:17,167 --> 00:47:18,293 [Rayburn] You're doing great. 817 00:47:18,377 --> 00:47:22,256 Just knock off that "I resign" shit. It really pisses me off. 818 00:47:23,257 --> 00:47:25,092 I don't have that kind of time. 819 00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:05,382 [theme music playing]