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[Mac] Previously on
Commander in Chief:

[man] Mr. Speaker,
the president of the United States!

[Rod] A country full
of people who believe in you.

I want you to be my chief of staff.

- Rod, stay in your lane.
- If I've got an idea...

You're the one that
has her ear at bedside.

Are you guys allowed to have
guests over, to the White House?

I can do whatever I want.

Well, I'm... free tonight.

Man, if I was your age
I'd be crawling out of my skin.

I love this stuff. Guess it's
'cause I'm pretty mature.

I have to be able to do my job.

Part of it is knowing
when to keep her from the press.

I'm gonna run for president.
I have to.

I want you to resign.
I want you to be my vice president.

We can save this country.
We can save it from her.

What a town. You can't even
trust the backstabbers.

[Rod] Put it on, Amy.

No.

We had a deal, Princess Orion.

You want to wear that costume,
you gotta throw the coat over it.

But I'm not cold.

- It's October.
- But I'm hot.

Come on. We're gonna be late.

There you go.

- I'm already hot.
- I know. I know.

Yeah. She's a bird, she's a plane,

she's off to Pierce Elementary,

- All right, have fun at school, kids.
- Bye, Dad.

- Bye, Daddy.
- Bye-bye! See ya!

Ah!

Missed it.

Everything OK?

- Yeah, fine.
- You?

Yeah. I'm about to introduce
our new national security advisor.

Mm.

I was wondering if you would like
to sit in. I think Anthony would...

Oh, you remember? I'm gonna
go see, uh, Ken. In Baltimore.

- The World Series.
- Should be a good game.

- Wanna go?
- Yeah. I'll just blow this off.

You realize this will be
my first night here without you?

Mm, just do what you normally do.

- Fall dead asleep?
- Mm-hm.

Maybe we could work
on that when you get back.

Sounds like a plan. So...

- ...see you tomorrow, kiddo.
- Mm.

Have fun.

[Melanie] I hate the new guy.

You've known him two minutes.

That is long enough to know
that he is an unqualified kiss-ass.

You're right. Deputy director
for Latin America at State,

ambassador to Venezuela,
led the DOD Policy Board.

What was she thinking?
They go way back to school.

They're bosom buddies, and I have to
answer to him? I'm not the only one...

Justice and Homeland only answer
to Prado on domestic terrorism.

The president wants one point person
on security issues. Give her a break.

Hey, Kelly.

Hey. Anything special I should know?

No, just the announcement.
You know the press agenda.

First Latino in the job, fluent in six
languages, worked with the president.

Great. See you in there.

[Mac] Please join me in welcoming
our new national security advisor,

Anthony Prado.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam President,
for your kind words.

I promise to serve you honorably and
always provide my most honest judgment.

I know. And that's what worries me.

Madam President,

isn't it true Mr. Prado recommended you
for your first job out of law school?

[Mac] More like, uh, sold me
into indentured servitude.

That firm worked me 100 hours a week.

Now, it's... payback time.

Mr. Prado, do you think
you'll approach your job differently

because of your Latino background?

[Prado] That's hard to say,

as I've never approached
a job from a white background.

- [laughter]
- Touché. Let me rephrase the question.

Sorry. No more questions.
The president has a meeting now.

Thank you for coming, everyone.

[man] Thank you, ma'am.

[cameras clicking]

[chatter over TV]

What's going on?

U.S. Border Patrol picked up a guy
trying to cross the Canadian border

early this morning. He had explosives.

He's being transferred to FBI now.
We need to prepare for a real threat.

The subject, real name is Tariq Azam,

was picked up three hours ago
crossing the border at Windsor, Ontario,

using a false U.S. Passport,
alias, Douglas Salib.

His real nationality, Saudi Arabia.

Somehow Azam evaded our watch lists...

Melanie, let Prado lead.

Sorry. Not used to the new system.

What we know so far is that Azam
is an al-Muharib operative.

Trained at the Shahid camp in Lebanon.

Al-Muharib always plans simultaneous
attacks and always thematically linked.

How many targets
have we identified exactly?

[Prado] Unfortunately, only one. Azam's.

His attack was scheduled
for tomorrow, Halloween,

- at 1:00.
- Where?

The Alexander Hamilton Elementary
School in Springfield, Missouri.

TATP explosives were hidden
in the passenger seat.

Two timing devices
concealed in a spare tire

along with blueprints
of the Hamilton School.

- How many students there?
- Three hundred and sixty,

ages five to 12.

If we're assuming
a multiple point attack,

projected casualties could be
anywhere from 600 to 1,000 dead.

Our biggest priority right now
is to track down the rest of this cell.

We have no intercepts
on Azam from Intelligence.

Also, an active al-Muharib cell

always halts all communications
at least ten days before an attack.

[Melanie] If we don't locate Azam's
co-conspirators before 11am tomorrow

others bombs will go off
as no doubt planned.

More schools.

If children are the targets,
it could be parks, malls.

I recommend we raise the terror alert.

We do that, we tip off Azam's
co-conspirators that he's in custody.

That's our only advantage. I don't
want anything leaked to the press

about this threat until
the rest of the cell is in custody.

[Jim] The last thing we need is for them
to speed up or alter their targets.

Who knows about the threat?

Templeton and Remarque are briefing
the Intelligence Committee shortly.

We also had to inform the local
police and the mayor of Springfield.

- All advised not to talk to the press.
- I'll fill Kelly in.

Ma'am, it is fairly clear
that the only way we are gonna

find Azam's co-conspirators
before tomorrow morning is if he talks.

- What are the chances?
- Everybody talks eventually.

The question is will it be soon enough.

[Jimmy Kimmel on laptop] The president
had to delay her vacation to Camp David

when husband Rod, and this is sad,

pricked his finger trimming
the White House rose garden.

Wait. What'd he say? Make it louder.

[applause on TV]

What's up? Series highlights?

I saw in the news today
that President Allen

may give her husband,
Rod, a new Cabinet post.

He will be secretary
of making her breakfast.

- I hope your parents don't watch this.
- They've stopped.

- Really? And why is that?
- Because it's not funny.

They made your daddy
the secretary of making breakfast.

Hey, whoa, man. I thought
you had a sense of humor.

- You gonna take this?
- It's just stupid jokes.

- But they're about your dad.
- [boy] Is that why you acting weird?

Because your dad's a big wuss?

All right. Come on, let it go.

Being a wuss runs in the family.

- [woman] Hey! Hey! Hey! Knock it off!
- [man] Cut it out!

- Knock it!
- Break it up!

[man] You've probably got some idea
why we invited ourselves over.

Well, it's not totally
out of left field.

We didn't expect
Congressman Reinhold to retire.

We'd thought he'd stick
around another term.

- I know Reinhold did too.
- Yeah.

Mm. Would you like
something to eat? Please.

- Yeah.
- Sure.

That's an amazing wife you got there.

She spends her days
putting murderers away,

and then she comes home
and whips up a mean cheese spread.

[laughing] Yeah.

Of course she's following the brilliant
example set by our attorney general.

Mm-hm, I learned
everything I know from him,

as a prosecutor and a chef.

[laughter]

You said that you came about Reinhold?

Right. If Mike Zamore wins Reinhold's
seat, that would be a disaster.

He's got the state party's backing.

More reason to think outside the box.

Excuse me one minute.

Where you going?

I have to put the twins to bed.

- You're the one we came to see.
- We want you to run for Congress.

I am a student.
I was studying engineering.

[man] That how you
learned to make bombs?

[Azam] I don't know
what you're talking about.

You don't have a sister in Green Bay.

Do you have any other family
in the United States?

No. No, I don't.

I've done over 200 interrogations.
This guy's not breaking any time soon.

The Shahid camp in Bekáa Valley,
Azam trained there.

Maybe there's a paper trail.

We've got our best interrogators on
their way. Should land in half an hour.

- What's the status of the camp?
- In a CIA overwatch.

They've been monitoring it
since 2002. Yields a lot of intel.

- Ma'am, if I may...
- Let's raid the camp.

We've got a team
on the ground in Jordan. Black ops.

Overnight. Bust down the doors
and pull out whatever we can find.

Justice already has this threat covered.

A covert operation
like this is expensive,

risky, and it could cost lives.

[Prado] The president's plan
makes sense.

Its likely Azam
met his conspirators in training.

- What's the one thing we know?
- They keep the best records.

So we're just giving up on Azam?

We have 25 hours until bombs start
going off, and we have no idea where.

Keep up the interrogation,

but I am not trusting the safety of our
children to what happens in that room.

[Templeton] I'm at a loss, Melanie.

What's she doing?
Has MI-5 gotten into the mix?

As far as they were concerned, he's an
engineering student and a devout Muslim.

The bomb-making materials they found,

is that enough for...
What's his name?

Azam.

To classify him as an enemy combatant?

- Not this president, I promise that.
- Bloody hell.

Don't forget you're scheduled to be
on Gordon Blake's talk show tomorrow.

And we're in a crisis.

The public's gonna expect you
to be swaddled in the American flag.

Swaddled, no.

I'm gonna very humbly say that the
president is doing everything she can

to avert this terror threat.

Now you tell me, Melanie...

...will I be I be lying if I say that?

I'll talk to her.

Good girl. Go do it.

It would be unseemly.

I cannot be seen
to be critical of the president

when all of this is unfolding.

But you be ready to book
a couple of shows next week

because if one bomb goes off tomorrow,

I am gonna put this all
on her shoulders.

The Bekáa Valley
is technically part of Lebanon.

- If they find out that our guys...
- We have to make sure they don't.

Ma'am.

Kids at Hamilton Elementary
won't be going to school tomorrow.

The mayor of Springfield got scared.

He notified the principal
who notified the parents.

Let's contain it.

Too late. AP picked
the story up and got a quote

from the mayor confirming
that it's terrorist-related.

He tipped off Azam's cohorts.

He wasn't told why
we were keeping this covert.

It should be enough the FBI
told him to keep his mouth shut.

Look, I have a dozen reporters
hounding me for details.

Keep it under wraps that we have Azam.

Don't mention al-Muharib. Don't bring up
other cell members, additional targets.

We handle this correctly,
we can convince the collaborators

we don't know they're out there
and avoid a panic.

All right. Thanks.

OK. Jim, call Prado and see if we can
move up the launch from Jordan.

I wanna know what the risks
are if we go in before nightfall.

Our 25-hour window
may slam shut any second.

There's a possible threat
of loss of life.

Why weren't we informed
about the threat?

The government doesn't share every
aspect of homeland security measures.

Could the government tell us
how they learned of the threat?

Was it routine intelligence?
An individual in custody?

For security reasons, I can't answer...

Come on, Kelly,
you gotta be kidding.

The most important thing
is that now we know

we've taken every possible measure
to avert the existing threat.

What about the New York Stock
Exchange, Lambeau Field?

There is only one known target.

Can the White House confirm
the safety of these locations?

That's a loaded question.

Does that mean that
the threat has been resolved?

At this point we don't know

if it's an isolated target
or part of a larger plot.

[woman] Terrorists groups have never
before tried to attack a red state.

What does this means? Moving away
from only targeting blue states.

It mean we should stop thinking of
ourselves as red states and blue states

and start thinking
of ourselves as the United States.

[Ken] One guess why
I asked you to make the trip up.

Uh... not for the pleasure
of my company? [laughs]

Uh, you want Mac to toss out
the first ball the next opening day.

Not even close. Frank Hanford's
contract is up in December.

We've got a short list of ten.
You're at the top of it.

We want you to be the next
commissioner of baseball.

Your legal background,
leadership experience...

Washington connections.

Sure. Those entered the discussion.

But the truth is
the league needs you, Rod.

We're about legitimacy and integrity.

Here's your chance
to make it to the bigs.

To make an impact
on the game that you love.

You can't tell me you don't want to.

- I have obligations.
- Of course.

To the president, to my kids.

No first person has ever worked
outside the White House.

Did Mary Todd Lincoln
ever have this good an offer?

Think about it.

If you could keep me updated on
any new intelligence that comes...

- [yelling] Princess Orion!
- Excuse me.

Amy. Mommy is on the phone.

What did we say about that?

I... forgot.

I'm sorry. Again, we are
keeping this internal for now.

- Sorry, Mommy.
- It's OK.

Vince. [groans]

Yes, ma'am?

Would you escort
Princess Orion back to her galaxy?

Of course I will.

Ready, Amy? One, two, three!

Operation Orion begins in 45 minutes.

- When should we have news?
- A couple hours.

Homeland Security recommends
that we raise the terror alert.

At least until after Halloween.

When the story hit the wires,
schools began shutting.

If we don't do anything,
we risk looking unresponsive.

How many schools have shut down?

About 40 percent of elementary,
30 percent of middle, upper.

We don't have a number on how many
parents are keeping their kids home.

Teachers calling in sick.

- Azam talking?
- Still stonewalling.

Why should he talk when he's being wined
and dined by the anti-torture statutes?

Those statutes
were written for a reason.

May we have a moment
in private please, ma'am?

[door shuts]

There are other steps
that we could be taking.

If we classify Azam
as an enemy combatant...

- You're advocating torture.
- Your word.

It's not been proven to work.

- More times than not, they'll lie.
- You're tying my hands.

- I didn't write the Constitution.
- It's not a suicide pact.

We have a living, breathing person
in custody who has answers.

Have Homeland raise the terror alert.

Yes, ma'am.

[man] Charlie,
there's nothing to talk about.

- I remember it.
- [Charlie laughing] Nothing. No.

You remember nothing.
Off with their heads?

You don't remember that.

Come on, man.

- Hey, Kelly.
- Hi, Charlie.

Alex, can I borrow you for a second?

Yeah.

Later.

- [door shuts]
- Alex.

Alex.

Look, Alex, what happened today,
it can't happen again.

Whoa, slow down. What're...?

What're you talking about?

The president tells me
what to say and what not to say.

- If you're not in those meetings...
- I ought to be.

- You are. A lot of the times.
- No.

I ought to be in,
and you ought to be out.

That's right.

I'm not... I'm not
the only one who thinks so.

Why don't you ask
our friends in the press corps?

[exhales] You're still upset that
the president gave me the job.

Upset? Upset? That I, a Harvard
graduate, was passed over by someone

who a month ago thought a lid
was something you put on lattes.

Look, I know it's hard...

No, you don't. You don't know anything.

And I'm sick and tired of taking orders
from some UC Santa Barbara Pi Beta Phi

who majored in rushing
and minored in getting on her knees.

Or... I'm sorry,
do I have that backwards?

Did... did you... minor in rushing?

Don't come in tomorrow.

All right. Look, I'm sorry.

Look, I'm sorry, Kelly.

OK? I just... I'm just... I'm just...
I'm just, you know, drunk.

Yeah. You're just, you know, fired.

And next time, check your sources.

I was born in Santa Barbara.
I graduated from Princeton.

Phi Beta Kappa.

What? You're too good
to go trick or treating?

No, not too good. Just... too old.

Nah, never too old.

Well, besides, if I go,
it'll be a huge production.

I mean... Secret Service and whatnot.

And probably press.

You sure? 'Cause I make
a pretty convincing Dracula.

Oh, yes, I'm sure.

[as Dracula] I want to suck your blood.

Ahh!

[both laughing]

God, you're beautiful.

[knock on door]

Are you leaving on your own,
or should I call Rebecca's agents?

Madam President,
it's honor to meet you.

It'd be more of an honor if you weren't
in my daughter's bedroom at 11pm.

- Sam?
- Um... Mom, this is Mike Flemming.

We were just studying.

- Ma'am.
- Please show this young man out.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thanks.

Mom, Mike's a good guy.

You're 16. More relevant, he's 16.

- Seventeen.
- Well, OK then.

But he's a total gentleman

and a good guy and a good friend.
Mom, you should have seen him.

I've seen enough. Thanks.

No, I... I mean today, at school,
with Horace. He completely defended him.

Why did Horace need defending?

Um...

...because kids at school
were making fun of Dad.

Hey.

All quiet on the home front?

Can I have the CIA shift
their overwatch to Rebecca's room?

Two Chinooks, four helos total

will be entering Lebanese airspace
within the next 15 minutes.

Shall I update you each step?

- I won't be sleeping.
- Yes, ma'am.

Mr. Waverly.

Were you able to reach
the first gentleman?

Not yet.

Will the children be going
to school tomorrow?

I think they should stay home.

Very good, ma'am.

If I can ask...

...should I tell my daughter
to keep my grandchildren back?

That, I can't answer.

Seems like most people plan to.

Attention!

Everyone. What do you
have for me, Mr. Secretary?

The Orion team is back on the ground
in Jordan, debriefing and sorting.

- Casualties?
- There were two wounded, one seriously.

Thank you. Please sit.

The, uh, preliminary
assessment is very promising.

They got over 300 data CDs,
ten hard drives, a stack of paper files.

We're fairly confident that they'll
be able to decode and identify

all of Azam's co-conspirators.

But when? Next week?

Azam's attack
was scheduled for 1pm.

It's already 4am.
That gives us ten hours.

Ma'am, Azam still remains
our most valuable asset.

It is my recommendation that he
spend time with the Kilo Charlie team.

- They just got back from...
- Afghanistan. I know.

It's a matter of expertise.

FBI agents spend maybe ten weeks

learning to fight terrorism
within very strict parameters.

Obviously, you agree
with this since just yesterday

you decided that Justice should answer
to NSC on domestic terrorism issues.

I think we wait for news from Amman.

But it could be days. Or weeks.

Yeah.

Hand him over.

But, Melanie,

I don't want to hear
that he was tortured.

- Do you understand me?
- Perfectly.

Thank you.

[man] Ma'am.

I bet you don't know who that is.

Her name is Amy too.
She used to live here.

A long time ago, when
her daddy was the president.

You know what Amy used
to do for Halloween?

Uh-uh.

She'd have a party. I was thinking
maybe we should do the same thing.

- Have a party and go trick or treating?
- Mm...

I was thinking just the party.

But I'm going with Abigail.
And Luke's coming...

I wish people could
celebrate the way they want.

But there's bad guys
that are trying to ruin Halloween,

and it's my job, as a mommy,
to make sure that you're safe.

Are you gonna catch all the bad guys?

- Oh, I hope so.
- Before tonight?

I'm gonna do my best. I promise.

I bet Princess Orion could
catch them right away though.

I'm gonna go take this off.

So we know it's al-Muharib.

That means more than one target, right?

At least. But we have no idea where.

- Who's your source?
- Rod...

Do you have anyone in custody?

If I'm not a part of this,
what am I doing?

Do you have any idea why I was
calling you? Why I couldn't sleep?

It's not just ‘cause of the threat.

Amy is distraught
because I destroyed Halloween.

Rebecca is entertaining
boys in her room.

Horace got into a fight.

OK, look, I didn't mean the kids.

I just...
What's "entertaining," exactly?

I handled Rebecca.

But you should talk to Horace.

- A fight, huh?
- Greer called it an incident.

Will you talk to Horace please?

Sure.

What did you want to talk about?
What happened in Baltimore?

Oh, it's nothing
you need to worry about.

- Hey.
- Hey. Whatcha doing?

I was trying to find
a horror movie for tonight.

Best I'm gonna do
for Halloween, considering...

I heard you got in a fight.

I want to know what happened.

Hey. Did he insult you?

Your sister?

Your mom?

Me?

Pretty easy target these days.

Horace, I know it's an adjustment,
but I am proud of what I'm doing here.

- And you don't need to defend me.
- Someone's gotta.

You're a national joke, Dad.

No one's noticed Mom is
the first female president

because they laugh
at her wuss husband.

- What did you just say to me?
- You heard me.

Don't you walk away from me.

- Just forget it.
- Wait a minute.

You think I can forget
what you said to me?

- Dad, I didn't mean it.
- Get out of here!

- Hey, Gordon.
- There he is.

- This me?
- Right there.

- You look good.
- Thanks.

You look really good.

I think I've lost a few pounds.

You're taking that little blue pill.

- [laughing] Oh, come on now.
- You're blushing.

We'll toss a few things around. I'm sure
you want to get into the vouchers bill.

Whatever you like. It's your show.

I'm sorry if I'm a little...
I just... Off the record?

Thank you. Thanks.

I just came out of the intel meeting

on this Missouri business,
it's always scary.

We're on in ten.

These sessions, our president...

- We should get into that.
- Oh, golly, no. Please.

Don't put me on the spot.
You know me and my mouth.

- You're on.
- Hello. I'm Gordon Blake.

And this is Speaker of the House Nathan
Templeton. This is The War Room.

Speaker, tell me,

is the president
of the United States soft on terrorism?

You're dealing from
the bottom of the deck, Gordon.

There's a terror alert.

It would be very remiss
of me to, in any way,

criticize the president
at a time like this.

Well, can you look into that camera,
our audience, and tell America,

"Worry not. Your children
will be safe this Halloween"?

[laughing] You're incorrigible.

Now you're asking me to speak
for the president and her NSC team.

Because that's where
the security of the country lies.

It lies with her.

I'm not gonna tell
the president what to do,

not on national television, anyway.

What I can say,

and I am confident that the president
would agree with me saying it,

is that this is not a time
for politics.

This is the time for the president
to do everything within her power...

...to keep Americans alive.

Do you have any other
family in the United States?

No. No, I don't.

- [man] In Canada?
- [Azam] No.

[man] We know you're a Saudi citizen.

I'm new, but I'm sure you're
not supposed to be doing this.

- I'm sorry.
- Be thankful I caught you and not Jim.

I was wondering and curious
at how it was going with the prisoner.

We're sending him
for a more aggressive interrogation.

- Good.
- Pardon me?

If it means stopping him and nabbing
other terrorists, do whatever it takes.

I'm surprised to hear that.
You're strong on Palestinian rights.

Yes, I am. I'm just not very big
on terrorists having rights.

There's a difference. Thanks
to them, people don't see it.

I say boil the bastard alive.

- Hey.
- Hey. Weren't you in Baltimore?

Mm-hm.

Business or pleasure?

It started out as pleasure.

Wanna swap lives?

I don't, uh...

I don't think you'd make
a good baseball commissioner.

Hmm?

I got offered the job.

Wow. Can you believe that?

What? When did that
happen? That's fantastic.

- Mm-hm.
- What are you gonna do?

It's, uh... it's complicated.

Yeah. A little.

The truth is, there's no legal
reason I can't take that job.

You might be happier.

Plus, Horace must be jazzed.
That's every boy's dream.

Yeah.

[exhales] I gotta go.

Aren't those for Amy?

- Didn't I ask you to get Anthony?
- Yes, ma'am.

Then why isn't he here?

Because you would ask him
why he doesn't have any updates,

and I thought I would spare him
the seventh trip down the hall.

Why doesn't he have any updates?

- You see The War Room this morning?
- No. Why?

Gordon Blake had Templeton on.
He implied that if anything happened...

I don't want to get into political games
with Templeton. Don't take the bait.

If we're lucky, my second day
might be better than the first.

We've got names of co-conspirators
and specific school targets.

The question is, can we
round them up in time.

We have the entire cell in custody.

As a precaution we're keeping heightened
security at the other target schools

in... uh... Bloomington,
Hillsboro and Fort Worth.

I want to visit
all four schools on Monday.

I'll set it up.

So... that's it.

I don't know about you, but I
could not pull another all-nighter.

[laughter]

I don't bounce back like in college.

- Ask Anthony.
- I think you did just fine.

Operation Orion was an inspired
move. Not to mention aptly named.

But at what cost?

Two black ops in the hospital,
millions of dollars

and the loss of Shahid training camp
as a future source of intel.

And the foreign minister of Lebanon

will be canceling his visit
to the White House.

I assure you that on Monday morning,
when I'm saying the Pledge

with the children of Alexander
Hamilton Elementary,

I will not be regretting
any of my actions.

Absolutely, ma'am. My point is,

simply, we have limited resources,
and there are limitless threats.

I got the same list of co-conspirators
from Azam's interrogation.

Plus, coordinates of safe houses
they may use in the future.

What's done is done.

The important thing is you
just averted the first major threat

of your administration,
Madam President. Congratulations.

[all] Congratulations.

- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

Hi. You look so cute.

Is it too late to have the party?

Oh, baby. This is what
you wanted to do.

It's gonna be really, really fun.

What's the matter, hon?
You still scared?

Maybe it's OK to be
a little scared on Halloween.

You caught all the bad guys, right?

We wouldn't let you go
if it wasn't safe. You know that.

Are you sure you can't come?

Yeah. Pete and Eddie
aren't gonna let me come.

But Daddy's gonna come with you.

Mommy's gonna have
a huge jar of candy corn

- to share with us when we get back.
- Half a jar, maybe.

We better go.

Come on.

[engine starting]

Happy Halloween.

- That Amy's stash?
- Yeah.

- Do you want some?
- No, thanks.

Hey.

About earlier...

I'm sorry I said what I said, but...

But what?

You're the son of the president, Horace.

People have opinions. You can't go
after every jerk who has a remark.

I didn't have a choice!

And I say you do.

[sighs] Yeah.

Straight ahead, sir.

Madam President.

- Nathan.
- [sighs]

Well, bloody hell.
It's been really something.

Uh... yeah. It has.

A defining moment for you.
For us. For all of us.

At times like these
we're all Independents.

Hmm.

Anyway, I just wanted
to say to you, you did good.

Well, thank you.

That uh... that means
a great deal to me.

Thank you very much.

When I think of how close we came...

Hmm.

Anyway, what's his name,
Azam, talked and...

...that's what's important.

Intelligence oversight.

I see the same secret papers you do.

I'm subject to the same
code of silence you are. And...

...I will not speak a word.

That is after all, unspeakable.

But this is the business we've chosen,

this business of leading,

paying the price for the greater good.

Mr. Speaker, what the hell
are you talking about?

Nathan?

Madam President.

Just you and me.

No one else here.

I'm trying to tell you...

...that I am proud of you.

You understand the burdens
of the necessary evil.

I didn't think that was part
of your makeup. I was wrong.

I was trying to congratulate you.

[exhales]

Well...

...good night, Nathan.

Good night.

Congratulations.

Sleep well.

[sighs]

Ma'am?

What happened with Azam?

- He talked.
- Why did he talk?

I told you, Kilo Charlie
was better equipped to...

Better equipped with what? Electrodes?

I said there was to be no torture.

You said no such thing. You said you
didn't want to hear about torture.

Presidents don't speak in metaphors.

"I don't want to hear"
means "I don't want to hear."

- Is he alive?
- Barely. I don't care or give a damn.

I do.

If I thought there were another way...

We found another way.

There's always another way.

I am not prepared
to ever accept torture.

Then perhaps you're not
prepared to be president.

Do you really think
that what you did was right?

I am not gonna have
any trouble sleeping tonight.

Could you have done it yourself?

Why send him to a special military unit?

Why not do it right here,
in the Oval Office?

Strap him down to my desk.
That's what you did...

He wanted to kill our children.

And you would have had to see
the corpses of our children.

When you saw them you would
have said to yourself one thing:

"I would have given anything
to have prevented this."

Well, you did.

Principles mean little when we're
the only ones playing by the rules.

Those bastards don't
deserve our protection.

The rules are not there to protect them.

They are to protect us.

Other nations follow us.

If we torture, there is nothing
to prevent other countries

from doing the same to our citizens.

Understood.

You are relieved of your duties.

And I'm not talking in metaphors.

[thunder]

Madam President?

I spoke with Melanie.

If you need me, I'll be in my office.

Thank you.