All language subtitles for Madam Secretary - S01 E20 - The Necessary Art (720p - AMZN Web-DL)

(singing russian hip-hop)

(speaking russian)

(singing stops immediately)

Elizabeth: Passport? Check.

Wait.

Oh. Okay, check.

Lecture notes. What?

Oh, uh,
yeah. Got it. Okay. Check.

What about that big, ugly parka.

That I bought you
that's so warm?

Uh... Yes. You gonna take it?

Got it. Russia...

Listen,
I want you to take this cell phone.

Instead of your regular one.

What? Why? Better
calling plan or...?

It's a more secure line.

You know,
there's nothing covert about this visit.

I'm just lecturing
about fundamentalism.

To a bunch of
colonels named boris.

First of all,
it's not just a lecture.

These military-to-military
exchanges.

Help keep the
peace. It's a big deal.

I feel special again. Thanks.

You think just anyone.

Gets invited to these things,

Especially at the
personal behest.

Of foreign minister
gorev? Guess he forgot.

That I once refused to
give his daughter an "a."

Ha. Do the world a favor:

Don't remind him of that.

Now, that is a secure line.

So that we can, you know,

Talk without any
borises listening in.

Just in case you have
trouble staying warm.

On those long winter nights.

Arthur (laughing):
I was not sleeping.

(laughing): Yes,
you were. I was meditating.

You were not; you were
snoring in the middle of...

I was not. Yes.

Was I? Yes.

But you find that incredibly sexy though,
right?

Snoring.

Come on, it's not an old thing.

It was a, it was a boring movie.

No. Come on, I'm so with it.

I'm so... Look, come on.

Look at my phone.

Look at all the applications

(laughing): Life
hacks. (phone dings)

Whoa.

What?

Let me see.

Oh, my god,
where'd you get that?

I have an alert
app that dings me.

Every time your name or
photo shows up on the internet.

What? Well, no,
I have it for everyone in the office.

I have to make sure they're not
making the wrong kind of news. Oh.

Wait, how did this get here?

Well, who posted it?

Alison!

Alison, it's her account.

God, I'm gonna kill her.

And that-that's... That's,
that's harrison, right?

Yeah. (whispering): The,
uh, president's son?

Yeah.

Sort of breaks your
heart to see him.

Before all the bad choices.

Alison: I don't see what the big
deal is. He's the president's son, ali!

That kind of
makes it a big deal.

Plus,
he really needs privacy right now.

What does that mean? Don't
worry about what it means.

Wait, are you freaking
out because there actually.

No, no, look, I already told you
we dated for, like, three weeks.

When I was your age, okay?

We are just friends.

But it is really
important to me.

That he feels like I am
someone that he can trust.

Please be more mysterious.

Look,
I don't want him looking at this.

And thinking that I'm
going around telling people.

That I'm "one
half of starrison."

And according to this,
not the cute half.

Henry: Girls, I'm leaving.

Come say do svidan'ya.

(sighs)

Let's go say do svidan'ya.

(elevator bell dings)

Nadine tells me I have a
very full schedule today.

Uh, yes,
we're starting with the russian war games.

Off the alaskan coast.

A flotilla of some 50
different vessels and aircraft.

They're technically
within their rights.

The maneuvers and test
firings are taking place.

On international waters and
outside american airspace.

Still insultingly close
to our northern borders.

But we were expecting something like this,
right?

After the nato thing?

Nadine: Yes,
it's believed to be a response.

To our announced deployment
of the nato rapid response.

Strike force in latvia.

Daisy: Which was our
response to russia's meddling.

In its neighbor's affairs.

Moldova being the
most recent example.

White house expects us to send.

A démarche, ma'am,
a diplomatic cable in protest.

The nato force in
latvia was the right call.

I'm just annoyed that
ostrov is so determined.

To refight the cold war,

Instead of fixing
his crappy economy.

Don't, uh,
put that in the protest thingy.

Yes.

Matt: Speaking of the cold war,
ma'am?

There's a ceremony today.

For ezra lyle helsinger,

The department's oldest
foreign service office.

He's retiring today,
after 60 years of service.

Wow, 60 years.

Good for him.

I'm sorry, ma'am?

You're needed in
the situation room.

Jackson: Elizabeth.

Blake couldn't
give me any details.

That's because
it's need to know.

Okay, what do I need to know?

Russian war games
have gotten heated.

One of their subs split.

From the fleet and has
crossed into us coastal waters.

That's aggressive,
but not unprecedented.

Sure, russians like.

To test our defenses,
just like we test theirs,

But we were tracking the sub,
and it vanished.

That is unprecedented.

So they've perfected some
kind of cloaking technology.

And the sub's nuclear armed,
I'm guessing?

And now it's somewhere
off the alaska shoreline,

Intentions unknown.

Could be posturing,
could be about starting world war iii.

We're told he's at
a remote location.

He can't be reached.

So he's vanished, as well.

Heck of a week for
henry to go to russia.

Can't disagree with you there.

Thank you.

Professor mccord,
you are most welcome.

Thank you, minister gorev.

You must call me anton.

Even after I wouldn't give your
daughter an "a" last semester?

I overreached in asking.

An "incomplete" was generous.

Well, good.

I'm glad we cleared
the air on that.

Indeed, that is the purpose
of these wonderful meetings.

Between our militaries.

To keep the air clear.

Especially in a time of such...

Unfortunate misunderstandings.

Thank you very much.

It's an honor to be here.

I'm gonna speak with you today.

About a subject that
is of great importance.

To our two countries and
our common civilization,

And that is the roots
of the two notions.

Of righteous religious
warfare or struggle.

Namely,
jihad in classical islam,

And in both eastern
and western christianity,

The concept of crusade.

Gorev: Professor mccord,
my I introduce the president.

Of the russian federation.

And our supreme
commander-in-chief,

Pavel ostrov.

Professor mccord,

It is an honor to meet you.

(stammers)

It's also my honor,
uh, mr. President,

And a bit of a surprise.

I like to come to this
place on occasion for a visit.

For the beautiful country,

The recreation and for the game.

I'm told you enjoy blood sports.

If, by that, you mean hunting,

Then, yes,
my father took me sometimes.

Deer, duck,
an occasional squirrel.

Then you must come hunt with me.

No refusing.

My pleasure is to show.

The goodness of russian life.

To such eminent,
distinguished guest.

With such a beautiful,
Eminent wife.

Admiral hill: Mr. President,
we've been in contact.

They deny that
sub is even there.

Still claiming their
right to refute reality.

What do we know
about the sub itself?

We think it's the yalta,
sir; it's a new sub.

Out of vladivostok with an
experimental stealth technology.

More advanced than ours.

Apparently.

It's powered by
a fission reactor,

Carrying six bulava-type
cruise missiles,

Each with 150-kiloton warhead.

And a range of about 60 miles.

But again,
what is most disturbing about it...

Besides the fact
that it could be.

On its way to
flatten anchorage...

(sonar pinging) Is how
they have just proven.

That they can evade all
forms of detection by sonar,

Magnetic anomaly
Or satellite array.

A true stealth weapon.

They can hit us before
we even know they're there.

Ostrov's been
bankrupting his economy,

Trying to get back to
military parity with the west.

Now he may have it. Dalton: Well,
they've got the drop on us.

The question is
what do they want?

Is ostrov just making us sweat,

Or is this more than posturing?

Sir... If ostrov
isn't talking to us,

I may know somebody who will.

Nadine...

You clear my schedule
for the rest of the day?

All of it, ma'am?

And, nadine, quietly, okay?

Get gorev on svtc, please.

Yes, ma'am.

Is everything okay, ma'am?

Yeah, it's fine.

I just need to
clear my schedule.

Oh,
it's definitely a loose nuke.

We're all dead.

Good news is there's a
bunker in the basement.

Okay, that's enough doomsday.

You heard the secretary.

Let's clear her schedule.

Quietly.

Okay.

She's fun.

Nadine: I heard that.

Don't try and evade the issue,

And don't try telling me the
this sub isn't there, anton.

It's just the tow of us now.

Yes,
two friends talking openly and honestly,

But then friends also
don't put powerful weapons.

On each other's borders.

(chuckles) I'm listening.

I thought it might come to this.

So,
say one of our subs did lose its direction.

And come too
close to your alaska.

With its bears and salmon.

You're about to put nato
troops on the latvian border,

Just a few hundred
miles from moscow.

Which is less friendly?

So what can we do about that?

Cancel the nato deployment,

And perhaps the captain.

Will find his map again,
Come back home.

Honest enough for you?

Perfectly.

You also know I'm being honest.

When I tell you that
bullying and threats.

Will not alter the resolve
of the United States.

And your president
needs to pick up the phone.

I will tell him myself
when I see him.

He can't have gone far.

What are you talking about?

Didn't you know?

President ostrov has
invited your husband henry.

To go hunting with him.

They're in the woods,
hunting grouse.

One of president
ostrov's favorite pastimes.

It's quite an honor
for your husband.

Is that what it is?

I'm certain they're
having a wonderful time.

All I can say is,
They better be.

Until later, madam secretary.

(phone ringing)

Oh. Sorry.

Hunt requires quiet, professor.

We are not having
very much luck today.

Maybe the camera crew
had something to do with it.

I don't understand.

With this gun,
I always have very good luck.

Oh, it's beautiful.

My grandfather's.

He kept it with him in
the great patriotic war,

Your world war ii,
during the blockade leningrad.

The siege of leningrad?

You know it? Yes, of course.

Through entire blockade,
my grandfather kept it.

Cocked and loaded
by the front door,

So,
if the germans ever break through,

If they come to the house for
my aunts and my grandmother,

He has something to
shoot the enemy with.

And if necessary...

His family, and then himself.

May I ask, sir,

Why you're telling me all this?

Our people are never.

Frightened, professor,
and we outlast our enemy.

So,
tell your wife and your president,

We don't back down.

I will convey your message,
mr. President.

But to be honest,
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Don't worry. They will.

(bird squawks)

(wings fluttering)

(gunshot)

Elizabeth: He did what?

Henry: Yeah. My
left ear is still ringing.

But at least now I know
what that was all about.

He was using me for propaganda.

Let's just hope.

That's all you are.
Henry: You really think.

He'd take me hostage?
Elizabeth: I don't know.

Clearly, he coordinated the
sub incursion with your visit.

It's just optics.

Lecturing the secretary
of state's husband.

While his sub is
sneaking around alaska?

The message is:

Don't let nato
troops go into latvia.

Well, now that we've heard it,
why don't you come home?

No, if I cut and run now,

He'll just know
that we're scared.

I think I should act
like everything is fine.

They've invited me to
tour an orthodox monastery.

Of st. George.

I think I should go.

Besides,
it's a significant historical site,

Crucial to the spread of
christianity during mongol rule.

I am finding your dorkiness.

Oddly reassuring right now.

We need you in there.

Henry, I gotta go.

Be safe, okay?

I will. Okay.

Henry all right?

As long as the only
actual shots being fired are.

At a bunch of defenseless birds,
yeah,

I think we're all right.

Mr. President,
this is ostrov grandstanding.

Clearly,
the man likes to put on a show.

Dalton: What are you proposing,
darren?

Darren: Well,
if he wants to grandstand,

Hide-and-seek with the sub,

Not to mention whatever
he's trying to do with.

The secretary's husband,
we should put on a show right back.

Not only mobilize the
strike force to latvia,

But deploy the sixth fleet's
flagship to the black sea.

Turkey will allow it,
but it's posturing.

It's us doing exactly.

What ostrov is doing,
only bigger and louder.

Surest sign of strength is to
show you are able to use it.

But are we willing to use it,
sir?

I think we just got a signal
through your husband, bess.

All this russian president
truly understands or respects.

Is force.

Give the order
to move the fleet.

Yes, sir.

We've managed to clear
the secretary's schedule,

But one item's
proving a little tricky.

And that is?

Ezra helsinger's
retirement ceremony. Oh.

She's expected to give a speech,
or at least make an appearance.

I mean,
he's a living legend in the department.

Everyone's gonna be there,
including press.

Yeah. M sec doesn't show,
there'll be rumors.

I'll let the secretary
know. Keep it on for now.

Speaking of rumors,

I'm hearing the pentagon's
parking lot is hopping.

You know,
people coming in instead of going home?

Never a good sign. Yup,
we're all about to be.

Fragged by a
fiery ball of death.

It was nice to know you.

Daisy, something you should see.

You know the secretary's
so protective of the family?

"let them say what
they will about me,

So long as they leave
the kids out of it"?

Mm-hmm.

The kids are not out of it.

Well,
the secretary's not gonna love this.

But just looks like your
typical internet rumors.

Daisy, you have a phone call.

It's the secretary's daughter.

Or not.

Admiral hill: She's at
the mouth of glacier bay.

Resting on a seabed in a
hundred meters of water.

Darren: Well within
the 12-mile limit.

And a clear violation of
our territorial sovereignty.

Aerial recon found
it when it detected.

A burst of very
low-frequency transmission.

They're fairly certain.

They were attempting
to communicate.

With their command vessel.

Since then, nothing.

No distress signal,

No response to our
radio transmissions.

Or hydrophone.

And ostrov still isn't
picking up his phone.

What's his game, bess?

Trying to back
us out of latvia...

I thought.

But to be honest,
at this moment, sir,

Is there an optic cable
buried along that coast?

It's land-linked
to our anti-missile.

So, it could be a spy
mission trying to tap that cable.

Yes, and it also has six
nuclear cruise missiles.

Capable of destroying juneau
55 miles down that channel!

It could awaiting orders!

If they wanted to nuke us,
they have icbm's.

That could obliterate
new york in 20 minutes.

Why park a sub off of alaska?

And then the sub would
disappear down the coast, to seattle,

L.A.

How long before we
can physically engage?

You mean threaten it, sir?

Capture it and report it?

I mean destroy it.

Admiral hill: Sir,

Our closest surface vessel.

Is the navy
minesweeper kirkland.

It can be at the site
within 90 minutes.

Tell the russians
they have two hours.

Two hours for that
sub to be gone.

Or we take it out ourselves.

By whatever means necessary.

Which the russians will
view as an act of war.

And this isn't?

Can't say we didn't warn them.

Elizabeth: Sorry I'm late.

So we're gonna pay
tribute to mr. Helsinger.

Just like nothing's wrong.

Yes, ma'am.

Is anything wrong?

Uh, nothing we're talking about.

Ma'am, uh,
your speech doesn't need to be formal.

Just a few unrehearsed,
off the cuff remarks.

And here they are.

Great.

Six decades of
service in germany,

Eastern europe
and the middle east,

A crewman for a
vanderbilt yacht.

And a writer for time
and the paris review.

Ezra...

You truly are a witness
to and a creator of what.

Your first boss, henry luce,
called "the american century."

Thank you.

Enjoy your life.

And have some cake. (laughs)

(indistinct chatter)

Yeah, sure, sure, of course.

Oh, please, don't get up, ezra.

I'm very sorry.

I was supposed to
bring you your gift.

But we're a little
disorganized today.

Well, there's no need to apologize,
ma'am.

In threat of war
with the russians?

That's apt to frazzle a person.

And on the very day that.

The last of the cold warriors.

Shuffles off to buffalo, too.

How's that for irony?

Has someone been
telling you things?

I have seen this movie before,
madam secretary.

The russian navy
holding war games.

In the bering sea.

I, uh, I happened to see.

A little item on the dod...

Daily rundown this morning.

We are sending.

A naval flagship
into the black sea.

Ostrov is posturing
on russian tv.

And with your husband, no less.

He's a handsome fella,
by the way.

You've cleared your calendar.

Except for those events where
your absence would be noticed.

You really do know
how to read the signs.

Now, tell that to the dmv.

They took my damn license!

(chuckles)

You still work for me.

For the next several hours anyway,
right?

Um... Yeah.

Till 5:00.

So,
there's this invisible submarine...

A super weapon...
It's just sitting there,

Letting us look at it.

Right! I was wondering about that,
too.

I mean,
why turn off the stealth technology?

Well, back in my day,

We only tried to read
the russians' intentions.

Their mentality.

To look at the chess player.

As well as the
pieces on the board.

(sighs) well,
that's sort of tough since ostrov.

Won't even admit there's a game.

(wry chuckle) not even talking.

But see? That in itself
tells us something.

I mean,
he's a bully and a poser, right?

Well, uh, the question is...

Why isn't he bragging?

Throwing this in our face?

Right... Why-why not
tell the russian public...

Or the whole world,

For that matter, that he snuck.

Advanced technology
in right under our noses?

Beat us at our own game.

In our backyard.

And you're right, you know,

It isn't like ostrov
to hold back.

Unless there's something
he didn't count on.

Something went wrong.

That sub isn't doing
what it's supposed to.

And again...

Ostrov would never admit that,
would he?

Kind of makes you wish it
was him sitting here now,

Instead of me, doesn't it?

So you could ask him.

You do know there's no smoking in here,
right?

Mm-hmm, oh, yeah, yeah. I, uh...

Ordinance against
smoking in this building.

Since 1997, I think, I...

I miss the war.

♪

You know, I, too,
have great respect for st. Nicholas.

Stop filming.

What are you doing here, henry?

Your tour of the church is over.

I mean, st. George is great.

The warrior saint.

The victor.

But st. Nick
represents compassion.

He's the one you turn
to when times are tough.

Of course,
we've trivialized him in the west,

Made him into the precursor
of our modern-day santa claus.

Thought that maybe we
would light a candle together.

I don't think so.

I'm in no need of miracles.

You may be.

Not me.

So, we clear?

No more pictures.

Nothing personal.

No posting where others can see.

And...? Absolutely nothing
involving the first family.

Thank you. Okay,
then, leave it to me.

I'll see what I can do to
keep major news outlets.

From picking up the story.

Without telling mom?

Yeah, no.

Daisy: It'll all be fine.

Besides,
the best defense is the truth.

And since you and harrison
aren't actually an item...

I mean,
you'd tell me if you were, right?

'Cause, honestly,
he is kind of cute.

(chuckles)

I mean, I'd understand.

No, I have a boyfriend, okay?

Oh! Oh, yeah? Who's that?

Oh, it's just, uh,
this guy that I work with.

Another intern from
the microloan program?

Uh... Wait,
what's with the face?

What, are you, like,
dating your boss or something?

Oh, my god.

Wait,
are you dating arthur gilroy?

Yeah.

Look,
I know it sounds... Stevie, no.

Forget harrison,
now we have a problem.

No,
mom and dad are fine with it. Sort of.

They may be fine as parents,

But from a press perspective,

Looking at damage control...

Stevie, there are three words.

That can never go
together in this town,

And that is "boss,"
"intern" and "sex."

You've got to end it. Now.

What?! Why?

What do you think will happen.

And it will,
now that you're in the spotlight.

I will deal with it. The
microloan program was.

Already on the chopping block.

And don't you think
there are people.

Who would love to get
back at your mother?

And they'd happily
throw arthur gilroy.

Onto the fire to do that.

You really think that's
what will happen?

I know it will.

This is st. Nicholas
we're talking about?

As in kris kringle?

Henry: He means something
more in orthodox tradition.

He's the one you turn
to in cases of calamity,

When things have
turned against you.

It's just an observation,

But he seemed like
a different person,

Like he was afraid, even.

Afraid of what?

I don't know,

But I've been around
enough true believers.

To know when they're really praying,
and ostrov was.

The guy that took me
hunting this afternoon.

Was confident, secure,

Like everything
was going his way.

Could something have
happened to change that?

Yeah, as a matter of fact,
something did.

Look, henry,
I gotta take this to the president.

If ostrov is scared,

It may be because he's
lost control of that sub.

You think he could overreact?

That, or we will.

(dog barks)

For the yalta to leave
our waters isn't up yet.

We've got the
russians' response.

Two of their kirov-class
battle cruisers.

And three sister attack
subs are on a direct course.

To glacier bay.

Carrier strike group
11 out of everett.

Is on its way to intercept.

The kirkland stationed
directly over it,

About to commence
dropping depth charges.

Wh-why?

Standard naval etiquette.

You don't surrender,
we force you to surface.

Deck officer: This
is the kirkland.

We are directly
above the target.

We are about to
drop depth charges.

Three, two, one...

(shouting in russian)

Deck officer: Standing by.

There's something happening.

Fish in the water.

Target has launched a torpedo.

Initiating counter...

(explosion thundering)

We are hit.

Repeat, kirkland has been hit.

Sir,
we've lost communication with the kirkland.

Carrier strike group has
re-established contact.

With the kirkland.
Damage assessment?

Injuries. So far, no fatalities.

We have a visual
from a medi-chopper.

Ship is still under power,
headed for port.

Man (over speaker):
Norad reports a squadron.

Of russian mig-35s
just performed a flyover.

Saw the kirkland take the hit.

Damn it.

Becker: Mr. President,
I've got northcom.

And the commander
of the u.S. Pacific fleet.

Requesting immediate
authority to engage.

We just got a communiqué
from the russians.

Their vessel was
defending itself,

And any further
attack will be met.

With quote,
"overwhelming retaliatory force."

Without getting into specifics.

Call their bluff, sir.

They're entirely in the wrong.

They're guilty of an act of war.

Well, all due respect,

We don't know
who's guilty of what.

I'm just saying, mr. President,

Before we declare war,
let's determine.

Exactly who we're
going to war with.

What if that sub hasn't moved.

Because it's
incapable of moving?

What if something went wrong?

That sub isn't doing
what it's supposed to.

The captain and crew could
be operating without orders,

Off the chain of command of
the kremlin and his president.

What does it matter?
We respond to actions,

Mr. President, not intentions.

We do not let an attack on
american lives go unanswered!

And we don't go to
war over a mistake!

Outside.

We should believe that
ostrov lost control of the yalta.

And he saw ostrov
ask santa for a wish?

Actually,
the secretary's husband has shown.

He can be a pretty
effective operative.

On occasion,
as well as a religious scholar.

Well,
what if I trust your analysis?

That he's operating
in the blind,

Like we all are here.

Then we don't push
him to the brink.

Not until we know more.

Every second we wait lets
those battleships get closer.

Or lets the sub fire
another missile...

Or six of them,
all of them nukes.

And if we hit it
with one of ours,

We risk sending a radioactive
tsunami down the channel...

That'll make fukushima a
fond memory... I get it, bess.

So what do you propose?

We have to take one last chance,

And try and talk
to that submarine.

Directly and without
moscow knowing.

There has to be a way.

Admiral hill: That's the
unmanned submersible.

If the russian
crew gets a visual,

They'll know it's harmless,
incapable of attack.

We're tapping on their hull.

We're using the retractable
arm to tap out a message.

(electronic beeping)

Morse code.

Old school, but it works.

Hill: We're asking them to
state their name, mission,

Allow us on board.

(morse code beeping)

That's them answering.

(morse code beeping)

There's activity.

One of her torpedo tubes is opening,
flooding...

She's gonna fire.

No, it's her distress buoy.

They're asking for help.

Stephanie!

Are you and harrison
dalton dating?

Is he a good kisser?

Reporter: Are you and
harrison dalton dating?

Hey, you okay?

Yeah,
I'm not used to being ambushed.

Yeah, you have a lot of pings.

You're getting some
serious unwanted attention.

Yeah,
they were outside my house.

It's crazy. All right,
don't worry about it.

You and harrison are
just filling bandwidth.

Between kardashians.

(chuckles) it's gonna
blow over soon.

None of this matters.

Listen to me... what
matters is our work.

The microloans program...
That's what matters.

Yeah, about that.

Hey, you're not quitting,
are you?

Oh, you're quitting this.

Us.

Both,
I'm quitting... I'm quitting both.

Once they figure out.

That I'm not dating harrison,

They're going to figure
out who I am dating.

So what?

You really want to throw away.

Your whole career
on some intern?

Listen to me,
I know I've harped on this a lot,

But I-I have been around, okay?

Just let me... Let
me worry about that.

Look, okay, you know what?

You're too old.

You're too old,
and it's not gonna work.

(scoffs)

Is that what you need to hear?

Uh, okay.

Well,
it's been really nice working with you...

Listen to me... do
you really want to lose.

What means so much to you?

Please, just take a few days,
and think about the job, not me.

The job.

Okay.

I have to go.

See you around, kid.

(wry laugh)

See you around, old man.

(speaking russian)

Translator: He's
the executive officer.

Of the russian submarine,
the yalta.

They're transmitting
from the bridge.

They have an antenna
attached to their distress buoy.

They suffered a malfunction
when the new technology failed.

There was a fire in the control room,
they couldn't contain it.

A loss of oxygen...
(speaking russian)

"42 crew members
have already died."

That's two-thirds of their crew.

"The captain broke
radio silence to report it.

"We received instructions:

"do not signal for help.

"Do not allow the
americans to board.

"If you can't restore power,
then destroy the sub.

And all evidence of new
deflector technology."

Anything to keep us from
getting our hands on it.

Ask why they fired the torpedo.

(translator speaking russian)

(speaking russian)

"The captain panicked..."

(executive officer
speaking russian)

Translator: He thought
they were being attacked.

(executive officer
speaking russian)

"The captain's no longer
in command of the vessel."

Nice way of saying
they mutinied.

(executive officer speaks russian,
gasps)

"We only have two
hours of oxygen left.

"We're asking for your help.

Please help us."

(speaking russian)

"Please... Help us."

Becker: Mr. President,
the russian battle cruiser.

Has just reached
our line of quarantine.

Darren: We tell the
russians we're going down.

To get those men out,
they will refuse.

To send out a
missile of their own,

And destroy it themselves.

Before we'll get a
chance to touch it.

Dalton: So, no good options.

Ostrov will never admit failure,

Concede that one
of his crews mutinied.

Not in public.

There may be a
way to resolve this.

A deal that even
he can live with.

But we're gonna need to
go through back channels.

And we happen to have one.

We do.

Ostrov: It's an
interesting offer.

President dalton
will confirm it's real.

You can call him directly.

I'm sure it's genuine,

But I wonder if
there are alternatives.

The alternative is a return.

To the days of the cold war,
sir.

There was a time
when our two countries,

Our two grandfathers,

Fought on the same side.

Mine survived a siege,
too: Bastogne.

The battle of the bulge.

At the end of the war,
he exchanged cigarettes.

With russian soldiers,
on the elbe river.

Traveling here,
I thought of him.

He would've been happy.

He knew, firsthand,
what our countries.

Could accomplish when they
work together for the common good.

I wear this in honor of mine.

St. Nicholas.

My grandfather's name-saint.

Nikolai is an old family name.

He, too,
may have been happy to see us... Here...

In peace.

Perhaps this is what he
sacrificed so much for.

I will call your president.

News anchor (on tv): After an accidental,
nighttime collision.

Between the russian
nuclear-powered submarine.

And the u.S.
Minesweeper kirkland,

The disabled sub then drifted.

Into american
territorial waters.

U.S. Naval personnel boarded it,
in an attempted rescue.

Tragically,
they found no survivors.

Crew members
will be buried at sea.

And the hulk of the
sub will be returned.

To its home port of vladivostok.

(broadcast continues)
those poor guys.

What a way to go.

I'm just glad that things
didn't escalate with russia.

(turns off tv)

Look who I brought.

Jay: Mr. Helsinger.

We thought you'd left.

Your tour of duty
ended yesterday.

Well,
I figured one more day wouldn't matter.

Also, they told me I still
had to pick up my gift.

Oh, yes...

The secretary wanted to
give that to you personally.

If you don't mind,
it'll just be a few more minutes.

I'll wait.

Getting used to that, waiting.

Ezra: Oh, yeah.

Interesting how all that turned out,
isn't it?

But defense is handling it;
we had nothing to do with it.

Still, it is very interesting.

And it is a story. (wry chuckle)

Kind of makes you wonder
what really happened.

Dalton: These are all of them?

All 20 survivors of the yalta.

Being given a top-secret
and strictly classified welcome.

Aboard the uss teddy roosevelt.

The russians will be announcing.

That their remains
have been buried at sea,

So we'll leave it to them to
make sure the story holds up.

As you said,
they are good at refuting reality.

Ostrov accepted the deal?

Jackson: Yes, sir.

And identities,
here in the United States.

The price for letting
us rescue them.

Elizabeth: In fairness,
sir, we did get a chance.

And take a good look at
the new stealth technology.

Before giving it back.

Won't get sent home
and shot for mutiny.

But they will never
see their families again,

Not even to let them
know that they're alive.

Any contact puts their
loved ones in danger.

Dalton: All so that
ostrov could save face.

Hell of a thing.

Jackson: Sir, the nato forces.

Are still deploying
to latvia and the...

Yalta situation didn't
spiral out of control.

We won this round.

Yeah.

The world did not
blow up on our watch.

For at least another day or two.

Ezra: Probably my
first day on the job.

I could not believe I
was meeting the old man.

Whoa! Is that
john foster dulles?

The architect of
permanent peace in europe.

Who stood up to
soviet aggression.

Elizabeth: That picture was taken
the day that president eisenhower.

And secretary dulles
signed the treaty.

Bringing germany into nato.

Ezra: He always said that
"the ability to get to the verge

"without getting into the war...

Is the..." "The necessary art."

Would you guys give us a minute?

Congratulations, sir.

Thank you. A pleasure.

Mine.

Never even asked you
where you were going.

Oh, um... Prague.

Budapest, berlin.

You ever think you'd
live to see the day?

When the wall came down,

Open borders, free elections?

(wry chuckle)
sometimes we wondered.

If we'd live to see
the next five minutes.

(both chuckle)

But, somehow, we understood.

That, uh,
if we just kept talking...

In the end, the soviets
didn't want to push that button.

Any more than we did.

There was a,
um... A rationality to it,

Crazy as it seems.

Mutually assured destruction.

Yeah,
but your new enemies today...

They have no such qualms.

They want to push that button...

And there's no
holding them back.

That's a bit grim, isn't it?

(wry chuckle)

(sighing): I don't know.

Makes me feel naive
for being hopeful.

Oh, you'll be fine.

I've seen a lot of
them come and go.

I think you're the
one for the job.

Ezra... Madam secretary?

You and I should keep talking.

Well, for what it's worth,

Ali feels terrible
about "starrison."

I know she does. It's okay.

And I'm sorry
about... "starthur."

Let's not go crazy
with the names.

I think that you did
a very adult thing.

But I know it was hard,
and I'm so sorry that you're hurting.

Come here.

Thanks. Sweetie.

Well,
at least dad will be overjoyed.

But he'll hide it well,

Which is all you can ask for.

Mm-hmm.

This is nice, by the way.

You going to an event tonight?

I am. The mccord family dinner.

Soon as dad gets back.

Oh...

Yeah, I don't,
I don't know if I'm up for that.

Well, get up for it.

We're celebrating.

Why?

(sighs) because we can.

Because we're here.

Jason: Dad's home!

We found a place with
awesome vegan options.

I did.

(quiet laugh)

That's nice.

Listen, I just want you to know.

That even when it's hard,

And no matter how
much it hurts right now,

It is not the end of the world,
okay?

Henry: Where are they?

There they are... hey! Hey,
you...

(gentle laugh)

I missed you guys.

What do you think?

Oh, I think it's awful.

Yeah. Hi.

Hi. Oh, mom texted me.

I'm so sorry, honey.

Nice try, dad.

Jason: Hey... Come on,
let's get some food, please.

Let's go. Wait, wait,
let me just get my shoes.

Alison: Dad,
can I wear the hat? Henry: No.

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