[Alex] Previously on Quantico...
[Clay] My mother is gonna be impeached.
We're all gonna be exposed. This operation is over.
We get briefing memos too,
People in custody who look like the right person,
but don't match fingerprints on file.
Make me hate you again.
[Shelby] I thought that I had feelings for you.
But the person I really care about...
Was my brother.
There's still a way we can win,
but it's a big risk.
It's gone, all of it.
Someone erased everything we have.
This is everything President Haas' task force has on your team.
They won't be a problem for us.
[helicopter blades whir]
[man] You're watching a live broadcast of the House of Representatives' debate...
[Clay] The House voted to impeach Johnson and Clinton.
I'm not going anywhere.
You're 47 votes away from being served with articles of impeachment.
Special Agent Mike Lowrey at the FBI
has been tasked with leading the criminal investigation
into the task force and who knows what else.
And as of this morning, 72% of the American public
is ready to grab their pitchforks and drive you out of this house.
Polls only exist so that the media has something to talk about.
They're not real.
You're quoting me to me?
Yes, and you were right when you said it, just like I'm right now.
You need to get your team out there and figure out what to do next.
What team? I mean...
[scoffs]
I've got two members, Ryan Booth and Shelby Wyatt,
who are too radioactive to leave The Farm because they've been named in the press
as potential lieutenants of yours.
Raina Amin is still pretending to be her sister, who, I remind you, is being held
at an undisclosed location they won't even tell you about.
And Alex Parrish and Owen Hall have disappeared.
Who knows what they're up to?
I feel like all I've been saying for the last day is "no comment,"
because for the first time in my life, I don't know what's happening.
That's because you're trying too hard to save me.
Look...
it might be inevitable that the Collaborators take the presidency,
but they cannot take away our freedom or our rights.
I won't let them, and you can't, either.
Now stop protecting me and start protecting this country.
Get your team back together and figure out how to fight back.
Yes, Madam President.
Fletcher was supposed to call an hour ago.
Well, considering he's in the middle of a presidential coup d'état,
he's earned the right to be a little tardy.
Or he's got what he wanted and he's done with me.
Don't worry. Here.
-Do you remember what I told you? -Yeah.
If they put a gun in your hand and say shoot...
-I shoot. -Right.
I can't wear this when I meet them. You know that, right?
Or any of the other gadgets that you managed to steal before we left The Farm.
How will you know where I am? I'll know. I've done this before.
When can we tell the team?
We can't.
For this op, strength isn't in numbers. It's just in you and me.
The deeper I go in this, I'm afraid you won't be able to pull me out.
Mm.
So, when I first briefed Helen Sharp
about life undercover,
she was a wreck.
We were at a café in Haidhausen, Munich,
and I didn't know what to say,
so I gave her a coin
and told her a story about how it was the lucky charm
of an old spy in World War II. It was basically --
Complete B.S.
Yeah, the point is, Helen knew that the Deutschemark meant I was with her.
She wasn't alone.
It's a coin, Owen.
That no one, not Maxwell Fletcher or Alice Winter would notice.
And it will remind you you're not alone
until the day you won't need it anymore.
Because I'll be dead.
[scoffs]
[cellphone vibrates]
Okay, here we go.
Hello?
[Maxwell] Meet us at the Greypool Headquarters in an hour.
Of course. I'll be there.
Give me that quarter.
[birds chirping]
[clears throat]
Okay, you're three hours away from anyone who knows you.
Are you gonna help me or not?
Help you what?
I'm not a lawyer.
And my sister doesn't need one
since she didn't do anything.
She hasn't even been charged.
-Why? -I don't know.
Your boss does.
Well, he must have a reason not to tell me.
[sighs]
You're a smart man.
Why do you believe in him so much?
He does many good things for the Hispanic people of America.
And he does terrible things for everyone else.
You agree with his Muslim registry and rounding up other immigrants?
Or do you not care because you're not in danger yourself?
[scoffs] I have a green card.
-Which can be taken away. -Exactly.
You're privileged.
You've probably never been in a room,
where your family's reputation didn't precede you.
You've never known what it's like to have someone look at you
like
whatever comes out of your mouth next better prove you belong.
So what can I do?
I just want to know where my sister is being held
and what the charges will be when they're filed.
You have access to Roarke's office.
I don't have access to everything.
[sighs]
But I will find out what I can.
For you.
Thank you.
♪ I do my makeup in somebody else's car ♪
[Shelby] Now will you admit that "13 Hours"
is a better movie than "Notting Hill"?
I lived "13 Hours," okay?
"Notting Hill" is an escape.
And if you tell anybody that I said that,
just remember I know how to disappear people.
[chuckles] Oh, my God. If this is how we're acting
after being cooped up for a day, we're gonna go insane by Monday.
Yeah. The press mob looking for a story will have moved on by then.
Hopefully to better news.
When was the last time you texted her?
Hugh was interviewing Julia for "Horse & Hound."
Mm.
How about we talk to each other?
Like a conversation about our feelings?
Scary feelings.
You can do it.
[sighs]
You go first.
I am worried about Clay.
Worry is not a feeling.
It's more of a thought.
[sighs] Okay.
Why are you worried about him?
Well, because everything he cares about is a mess right now.
His mother's career is in jeopardy, the country is at risk,
and he thinks that I slept with Caleb.
Well, that last one was not quite on par with the other two.
To him it might be.
Clay doesn't open up to a lot of people,
and I just slammed the door on him when he needs me most.
Well, you can help him and 300 million other people
by doing what's right for the mission.
What's right for Clay, it's up to him.
You know, when I talk to Alex, she's a lot less judgmental.
[scoffs] Yeah, she doesn't judge you
'cause you might turn around and tell her the truth.
Which is what, in your estimation?
That she probably sabotaged --
Possibly.
Fine. -- Possibly sabotaged everything
that we've worked for in the bunker and then left us with nothing
and then ran off to work alone
with probably, possibly Owen.
Okay, fine.
You want to talk about feelings? I feel angry.
I feel... [sighs]
You were gonna say worried.
[groans] I was.
Mm-hmm. [chuckles]
Look, my best guess, she's safe.
And she and Owen are up to something.
[cellphone vibrates]
[sighs]
♪ I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it ♪
Clay wants us in the bunker. The House voted.
They're serving the president with articles of impeachment.
♪ I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it ♪
The White House believes that the impeachment process
will ultimately vindicate the president of all wrongdoing.
Jeffrey.
The next 24 hours are crucial.
Now that this is passed in the House,
the Senate will start the impeachment trial tomorrow.
That could take weeks or months.
And the longer it takes, the more the momentum will shift into Roarke's favor.
Right now, we still have a chance to do something
and make sure the Collaborators don't win.
Do you have any ideas?
To be honest, no.
But I figure if I get the smartest people I know in a room,
maybe we'd come up with something.
Still no Alex or Owen.
I have you three. I think that's enough.
Clay.
So I'm asking one thing, Madam President.
You answer for your crimes.
You own up to your sins
and you tell the truth to the American people for once in your life.
Roarke calling for the truth?
As much as it pains me to say this publicly,
I have seen evidence that Claire Haas covered up
what truly happened in the G20 hostage crisis.
She knew the threat was imminent, and yet she turned a blind eye.
And when it was over, she covered it up, and all for one reason.
She financed the attack.
Now -- [television shuts off]
It's not true. We all know that.
[Raina] But the country doesn't.
He can say any fiction and the people will believe him.
-How can we change that? -Destroy his credibility.
Break the trust they have in him.
Do exactly to Roarke what he has done to my mother.
That man cannot take power. He cannot become our president.
[Peter] This entire room is a Faraday cage. No signals of any kind.
Your iPhone is a $700 paperweight.
I guess I won't be able to live-tweet
this meeting, then.
Claire Haas will be out of the White House in 24 hours,
which means we have to prepare the intelligence agencies
for the transition.
And that's where you come in.
You'll be going, along with Alice,
to your former employers to, uh, usher in the message
of Henry Roarke's new America.
And what exactly is this new America?
We have some reading material for you to study.
Call it a sales manual.
Was it easy turning on them like this?
They can still be my friends and be wrong
about the right path for our country.
[Maxwell] Fair point.
Perhaps the course of today will enlighten them
to what you so clearly understand.
You're one of us now, Alex Parrish.
It's time to convince everyone you used to work with,
starting with the CIA.
Do you think they'll believe me?
We're about to make sure of it.
[Owen] No tracking devices, no viruses on the tablet,
no hidden messages in these dossiers,
no poison on the papers, no malware on the tablet.
Everything is clean.
[sighs] Okay, so now what?
Well, they want you to be the face of their operation.
You do exactly that.
What they have me doing to Matthew Keyes, I...
It's more than just peddling an agenda.
It's the price for admission.
Crossing another line to prove your worth.
You having access to the Collaborators' ongoing plan
is all that matters.
Yeah.
Roarke wants my mother gone so he can take her place.
But if we get Roarke gone,
the Senate pro tem, Victor Rollins, is next in line.
He may be a Republican, but he's one of the good ones.
He'll make a better leader if it comes to that.
We've spent weeks trying to tie Roarke
to everything that's happened, and we've come up empty.
Not to mention that Alex deleted
every bit of evidence we did have on him.
Yeah, we know we can't tie him to the Collaborators,
but every politician has a personal secret
that can bring them down.
We need to find something so damaging to his reputation
that it removes him from the seat of power.
Let's start digging.
[keyboard clacking]
When it comes to sex, something salacious can be deadly.
Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, John Edwards,
I mean, even the most promising politicians
can compromise themselves.
Roarke is widowed, so affairs are off the table.
He dates age appropriate.
His porn search history is vanilla.
And there are no Tinder, Grindr, or Whiplr accounts
matching his age, weight, and body type in the D.C. area.
Even adjusting for ego.
And there are no suspicious cash withdrawals
from any of his accounts,
no mysterious activity in his pattern of life
that points to prostitution.
[exhales sharply]
Raina, your research turn anything up?
♪ I keep on runnin' toward, runnin' toward, runnin' toward ♪
Earth to Raina.
♪ I keep on ♪
-Anything on Roarke? -Oh, nothing yet.
Excuse me.
♪ Oh, I let my lover go ♪
You are not doing a financial deep-dive, are you?
I'm trying to track down Alex.
I'm looking for a digital footprint
she might have left since she disappeared.
She didn't disappear, Ryan.
She's just working on her own.
And when she goes rogue, everybody around her gets hurt.
I want to figure out what she's doing
before we have to go clean it up later.
Financial corruption is another poison pill
when it comes to bringing down the powerful.
Bribes, embezzlement.
What's Roarke hiding?
His tax returns have been public record every year
since he was a 16-year-old intern for a federal judge.
And those returns are immaculate.
I don't think this is the right plan.
No, this is the right plan.
You just have to keep digging.
But, to her point, there's no evidence
of any offshore accounts, either.
He is earning and spending
well within his government salary.
If he's hiding money,
it's sitting untouched under a mattress.
Keep going.
We'll find something.
♪ Oh, I let my lover go ♪
♪ Didn't wanna be a liar ♪
You got any new angles to play?
'Cause I'm running out of ideas.
Why are you asking me?
I respect your work.
I was worried you might not respect me
after the other night.
For a second, I forgot about that.
♪ Runnin' toward the fire ♪
Uh, how is he?
He's great.
We talked on the phone all last night,
made plans to spend the summer together.
Good.
That's good.
Nothing.
We got nothing on Roarke.
It's like he spent his whole life
-preparing for this moment. -[Clay sighs]
Not a single ounce of dirt on him.
Even if there were,
new polls suggest that he is untouchable.
He's the great white male hope against Claire Haas.
Polls don't mean anything.
What about Felix?
I mean, he warned you the Collaborators
were gonna burn us, and they did.
Maybe we can use him to get something big enough
to take Roarke down.
I can't involve him.
I don't know where he stands anyway.
He's gone silent since the engagement party.
Not exactly.
You spoke to him?
Well, he reached out to me.
He said he can maybe help use Roarke's influence
to find Nimah and tell us that she's safe.
And you believed him?
Raina, that was a complete manipulation.
What did he ask for in return?
Nothing.
He seemed genuine.
[Clay] He works in politics.
If he seemed genuine, he's definitely lying.
I believe he's on our side.
I know I'm new at this.
I just --
I trust my instinct.
And I have to trust mine.
[cellphone vibrates]
It's a no go on Felix.
Great. So we're back to square one.
Felix wants to meet.
Do you know anything about this, Raina?
No.
I'd say it's a sign.
Maybe you're right.
Hopefully I come back with good news and a plan.
At least I can get some intel on him.
Just keep working.
I need coffee. [sighs]
What are you doing?
I'm gonna find Alex,
figure out what the hell she and Owen are up to.
When you called an urgent meeting, Ms. Parrish,
I wasn't expecting company.
Yet it seems you have managed to succeed where Ryan failed.
Thank you, Ms. Winter, for doing the right thing
by joining us.
[Alice] Mr. Keyes, I'm afraid you're very confused
about the nature of this conversation.
I'm not Ms. Parrish's asset.
I'm her partner.
We fought the good fight, Matthew...
and we lost.
The administration is about to crumble.
I am prepared to do whatever it takes
to fix this country once the dust settles.
Are you?
Is this some sort of test?
Where are the others?
There are two options the way we see it.
One, you resign as the DDO of the CIA
and allow peaceful transition of power
to a party of our choosing.
Or two, you retain your position,
and we expose your role in the forming
and authorizing of Claire Haas' illegal task force.
I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only one
under duress right now.
I'm sorry, Matthew.
You're on your own on this.
I trust that you'll make the right decision.
And for the record, it's number one.
No, I'm the one who should be sorry.
Working with you was the biggest mistake of my career.
And to think I'd had my doubts about you.
[Clay] Is he back there?
Yeah.
[indistinct chatter]
I'm looking for Felix.
And I'm looking for you.
Did you ask him to bring me here?
Not at all. It was his idea.
So this is an ambush.
Or an olive branch, depending on how it goes.
[door closes]
Sit, sit, sit, sit.
Okay.
Right now I am burning your mother to the ground,
but you and your team don't have to be singed.
Speak out against her.
Help me expedite the impeachment process.
And when I take office,
you will all be pardoned for your role
in the illegal task force you've been running.
As if I could ever believe a word you say.
See, that's the problem with your side.
You think that the truth matters to anyone,
but this is a post-truth world.
Nobody wants a boring fact. They want a good story.
And the better the story,
the more faith they have in the person who tells it.
And the American people never trusted your mother.
But they trust me
because they like what I have to say.
And you told me this was about more than the presidency.
It is. And don't twist my words.
Because you'll find, Mr. Haas,
the America I want and you want are not that dissimilar.
I think I've heard you speak enough for my lifetime.
Cut to the chase.
Why am I here?
To play your part, which you already did,
because when you walk out of here,
you'll be spotted by a reporter from the Journal
who was conveniently tipped off about our meeting.
And when they ask me, I'll tell them that
the president's son is working with me,
the opposition,
on the case against his mother.
And the part you'll like
is that you being here will help her hang.
Wait! I need to talk to you.
[cellphone vibrates]
Felix played me, and I fell for it.
We need to use him. Raina still thinks
Felix is the key to Nimah's freedom.
Well, then, we'll need to keep this between you and me.
I have a plan.
You can't surveil me in the Hoover Building.
I can on your way into and out of it.
You holding up okay?
[sighs]
My first day as a Collaborator,
I walked into Langley
and forced a man I deeply respect to resign.
He was nothing but good to me,
and that's how I repay him?
Just be thankful that's all they wanted.
How do you know?
How can you be so sure?
Maybe that was just to lower my guard.
I am about to walk into the FBI.
But you are one of them now.
There are no alternate plans.
No tricks, no secrets.
There's just you doing what it takes
to stay on the inside
and stop whatever their real endgame is.
Yeah.
You're right.
Okay.
[cellphone vibrates]
I thought you were taking care of the team.
He's still calling?
What do you want me to do?
He's not gonna stop.
He won't, or you don't want him to?
Did you ever question Helen Sharp's loyalty like this?
She didn't have an ex-boyfriend calling her
every five minutes.
Alex, in this van right now,
you can acknowledge weakness,
because you sure as hell can't out there.
I let go of Ryan,
and he hasn't let go of me.
And I hate that he's hurting so much.
Thank you.
Okay.
Time to be bad.
You sure she can be manipulated?
Yes.
We use Raina to bring down Felix,
and Felix to bring down Roarke.
How?
Raina likes Felix.
She won't willingly lie to him or set him up.
And you like Raina. Are you sure you want to do this?
I don't want to, but I don't see another option.
Raina will never get her hands dirty if we ask.
Hopefully we can get her to manipulate Felix
without knowing that's what she's doing.
What about your part?
Roarke chairs the Cyber-terrorism Committee.
Those reports are highly coveted by Russian intelligence.
And I'm gonna talk Ryan into giving me access
to Sasha Barinov's computer, get her contacts in Russia.
I'll send an e-mail to one of them
convincing them Felix wants to meet.
Offer them intelligence only Roarke will have.
Felix will be arrested for selling secrets,
and everyone will assume it's on Roarke's behalf.
Roarke will go home.
Your mother will stay president.
What?
Thanks for the coffee.
It's actually espresso.
And you're welcome.
When I started working with the team,
it was hard for me, too.
But the more I've done with them,
the more I understand
this is for the good of the country.
I made the right choice.
And I promise, so did you.
[cellphone vibrates]
Your ex-fiancé.
Ugh. He hasn't stopped calling since I left The Farm.
I'll deal with it later.
No, now is better.
I don't want you distracted in there.
Of course.
[sighs]
You've got to stop calling me.
Where the hell did you go?!
And what the hell are you doing?
I left, Ryan.
Yeah, I got that, Alex.
Look, if you're in trouble --
I'm not. I'm in control for the first time
since we started this whole thing with Clay.
I'm not interested in sitting in the bunker
and debating endlessly about what we should do
and then fail when we do it.
I want to win.
Oh, so you decided to join the winners?
Have you conveniently forgotten that they hate you
and everybody that looks like you?
Yeah, look, every time you have second-guessed me,
you got hurt. Don't make the same mistake a third time.
I'm done letting your doubts affect my decisions.
[cellphone beeping]
-Hey. -Good day.
What are you doing at the FBI, Alex?
Ma'am, no liquids past security.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know I had a water.
Mm, this article is old. I don't think it'll work.
We need something more recent, something undeniable.
If you want more, I can ask Felix.
No, I don't want to go around Clay.
And I definitely don't want to risk ruining
whatever it is Felix is doing for you regarding Nimah.
But it's not sabotage.
It's a chance for Felix to show us
what I believe is truly inside of him.
I can arrange a meeting.
He'll come through.
Tell him we need to meet somewhere private
so Clay doesn't know.
Okay, I'm calling him right now.
You really do know how to play someone.
Mm, you just need to know the song they like to sing.
I can speak very personally
about the failings of the FBI,
the struggles within the Bureau
to do what's best for our country.
I became an agent to find out
what happened to my father,
but during my time at Quantico,
it became clear to me that it was you that failed him.
And as I worked as an agent,
it became even clearer to me that...
What I'm trying to say is that you're failing us
as agents, but...
You're failing this...
What's worse is that you're failing us --
Jack, she's talking about you.
Roarke is going to be president,
and your legacy is one of hiding inconvenient truths.
This new administration is about transparency.
[cellphone vibrates] Come clean or resign.
Um, I'm sorry.
It must be an emergency.
It's Miranda Shaw.
She heard I'm here, wants to know why.
What should I do?
Go. Say hello to her.
Excuse me, gentlemen.
[cellphone vibrates]
-Hello? -I think Alice Winter put a bottle
of water in my bag.
I thought it was from the CIA and I put it there,
but I don't remember that at all.
I keep flashing back to this exercise we did
at Quantico, where I ended up
with a chemical agent in my backpack.
And the bottle was confiscated at security.
I know it sounds crazy when I say it out loud.
Maybe I'm just panicking for no reason,
but it's the same type of water that they give out here.
-Hold on. -I'm probably just being paranoid.
I should get back.
Alex, stop. Paranoid is a good thing.
Now, they could have used you to bring in anything,
Plastic degrades over time.
Hours, minutes, and...
a deadly agent goes airborne. It's what happened in Tokyo.
12 people died.
Yeah, but that was a subway.
Small space, mass panic.
This is a bottle that's heading down to recycling.
If it's a weapon and I carried it in here,
-what's the goal? -Hold on, hold on.
Got a floor plan here.
Uh...
Ground floor waste disposal has air connections
to the second floor east wing.
Do any of these agents' names mean anything to you?
Maulik Patel, Paula Reyes,
Mike Lowery, Donald -- Wait, wait, wait.
What? What happened?
Mike Lowery is the special agent
leading the investigation against President Haas
and the task force for the FBI.
The air vent from the waste room
goes right under his office.
They're not waiting for her to be impeached.
They want to make it look like Claire killed her enemy,
and I'm their Trojan horse.
If that's their plan, you have to let it happen.
[beeping]
Hey, Chris. Sorry, Mr. Booth.
We don't have you in the system for a visit today.
How about looking the other way for a six-year Bureau vet?
Go ahead.
I owe you one.
You have to help me.
Oh, now I have to help you.
You want to fight or you want to save people?
[groans]
I hate it when you say that.
Come on.
All I have to do is keep Felix busy
and no more than three feet away from me
while my phone transfers the files to his phone.
Along with the e-mails I wrote between Felix and Sasha
that I put on her computer.
Oh, you seem more into this than I expected.
All Roarke does is tell lies, and people believe him.
So now it's time we do some lying of our own.
Time to go.
All right, we're synced up.
You have to keep him talking.
Thank you for meeting me.
I'm surprised you left The Farm.
This was worth it.
Raina wants to talk to you,
but she thinks you may have been
spotted yesterday at the Gold Leaf.
So we had to find a private spot,
a coffee shop around the corner.
You're at 44%. Keep talking.
I don't know why she trusts you.
I don't know, either.
It's not like I've been kind to her,
but maybe she likes that at least I'm honest.
Well, I love Raina,
so if you plan on hurting her, you should know
I will come for you.
Are you threatening me?
Just warning you.
I should warn Clay about you, then.
65%.
I'm not going anywhere near Clay.
Good, because I don't want him to lose anything else.
He's lost enough, more than he should have.
We done here?
100%. Send him in.
It's a block north.
Dudley's, corner booth.
She'll be there.
Okay.
[cellphone vibrates]
He's getting a call.
Use the van's parabolic mic.
Make sure he's still on target.
Accessing it now.
[Felix] Hello?
It's Raina.
Are you running late?
I'm just calling you to tell you to call me later
after you talk to Shelby.
I just spoke to her.
She told me where to meet you.
Just up the road, right?
Damn it. Meet me?
Raina's blowing the op!
Here.
What?
You're looking for one water bottle?
[scoffs] Needle, meet poisonous haystack.
[sighs]
Oh, yeah. Phone a friend.
[ringing]
[cellphone vibrates]
You shouldn't be calling.
Owen, I don't know what to do.
There's too many bottles.
How do I find the right one?
You're still in the building?
Go to Alice. Leave.
You're not listening to me.
How do I stop this?
Pull a fire alarm, evacuate the building?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Call in a bomb threat!
Is that Ryan? Here. I'll do it.
I'm probably going to jail anyway.
No, just hold on!
Why is he with you?
You can't do anything now.
We can't let them kill more people.
Yes, we can.
More than that, we have to.
Whatever they brought you into the FBI to do
needs to happen.
And if you meddle, your cover's blown,
we're out in the cold, and we have no fight left
to stop what's coming!
But if we let them win now,
we have a chance to win later.
-Where are you going? -To pull a fire alarm, tell security!
Alex, walk away right now.
We're not letting that thing go off!
Alex! Alex! Okay, you're right.
We're not, okay?
[grunts]
I am.
Owen, pull around to 9 between E and D fast.
[engine starts]
[Shelby] I can't find Felix.
The Russians are waiting.
I'll go look for him.
Your spy van is cute.
Probably not a good idea to use it against friends.
Or ex-friends.
You really have no idea who you work for.
What was waiting inside that café, huh?
A Russian, the FBI?
No, you came after me first.
Don't pretend like you don't know how this works.
I just called Roarke. I gave him my resignation.
I told him I accidentally have spoken to the Russians,
and I will fully cooperate with any investigation.
Why would you do that?
You gave me no choice.
We just needed to get Roarke out of the way.
I would have found a way to have you exonerated.
And I will be
once they investigate me.
But at least I won't have been taken down
by someone else's misinformation and lies.
You of all people should know what that can do to someone.
All right, so it's okay for your boss to do it,
but it's not okay for me to?
[scoffs]
15 years I trusted you.
Even when we didn't agree,
I knew it was never personal
because I knew who you were inside.
If Roarke is the man you say he is,
then you are now no better than him,
which is why I resigned.
So I never have to see either of you again.
I'm so sorry.
You know, Miranda's so suspicious by nature
that I had to talk with her until she let it go,
but I handled it.
[Ryan] I keep waiting to hear an explanation,
but you know what? There is none.
You can't just explain away what you did!
Actually, you can.
You're insane.
That's the only explanation.
Calm down, Ryan.
Don't you ever tell me to calm down.
What you made her do goes against everything
-that I know about her! -Okay, you may disagree with my decisions,
but they were my decisions, Ryan!
No one made me do them!
Maybe you don't know her very well. She made the right call.
And you, can you stop talking about me
as if I'm not here?
Well, I don't know that you are here.
The Alex that I know would have pulled the fire alarm.
She would have saved people!
I did everything I could to make sure
everyone in that building was safe,
and I saved you.
So that evens the score?
The Collaborators are operating outside morality.
That is the field of battle.
You either fight or get run over.
[Shelby] Why would you warn Felix about what we were doing?
What were you thinking?
You ruined the operation.
And you ruined my only chance
to get my sister out of who knows where.
Our plan was for the greater good.
The greater good is what we're doing here.
Is this just a motto that you cling to, to justify what you do?
This is real, Shelby. They have my sister.
So that gives you the right to stop us from preventing
a truly dangerous man from becoming president?
When he stops all the Muslims from entering this country,
how is that helping you or your sister?
And selling yourself out
by framing an innocent man to take out a guilty one,
how is that a greater good?
So you're both out of your minds. That's...
Okay, how many people die
if the Collaborators reach their endgame?
We don't know what their endgame is!
Exactly.
Now I will, because I'm on the inside.
[scoffs]
I'll make sure I tell that to the families
of the people that might get hurt today.
[Raina] How are you able to sleep at night?
Because they are able to sleep at night,
because they fight dirty.
I am done pretending
that we have to be better than them to win.
You want to beat the bad guys with folk songs and hugs.
That has never worked.
[Ryan] No wonder you ran away with Owen.
You're ashamed to let me see what you've become.
[Alex] Ryan.
Thanks for the beer.
[door opens]
You want to take a minute?
Stop handling me.
I can't.
Owen.
[cellphone vibrates]
Hey.
Hello?
Thank you for helping to ensure a better tomorrow.
I did what I could.
You've done well.
Maybe next time you'll trust me enough
to tell me the full plan.
Well, I'm calling you now, aren't I?
Okay, then.
What's next?
We transition tomorrow.
Welcome to the team.
-[sighs] -Well, that didn't go well.
I took on this job
'cause I thought it was the high ground.
It doesn't exist anymore.
And we made sure of it.
We did what was needed.
I stand by our choice.
[scoffs]
After what happened at the FBI today,
my mother will be forced to resign.
Her and Nixon.
That's a great legacy.
I lost a friend.
Maybe my relationship with Maxine will survive, but --
Clay, the fight isn't over.
I had feelings for you.
I couldn't go an hour without thinking about you.
But that's not your fault.
It's only mine.
Where are you going?
Goodbye, Shelby.
We've completed our destiny.
[door opens]
Thank you all for coming.
These are the facts.
We are no longer under my mother's protection.
She is being framed for the terror attack at the FBI,
and it's only a matter of time
before someone sends the FBI
to arrest her and us for treason.
But it's none of your faults.
Only mine. I did this.
Completely sure that I knew what I was doing,
but I didn't.
I am why this did not work.
This should have been your task force.
You knew what needed to be done.
You wouldn't have flinched or hedged your bets.
You are the right man for a job that I just made obsolete.
If you think there's a move left to make
and you can make it,
this task force is yours.
Clay, don't.
Good luck.
Terrifying news out of the Hoover Building in D.C.,
also known as the headquarters for the FBI.
We have unconfirmed reports that there has been a terrorist attack.
All federal office buildings are in the process
of being evacuated as a precaution.
A source at the White House has confirmed
that President Haas has been briefed on the situation...
If I had a husband, they'd...
hang his portrait in here.
Of course, they don't hang portraits
for presidents who are impeached.
Did you write it?
I did.
And?
It's good.
You ready?
Not quite. [clears throat]
The, uh, the families
of the six people who were poisoned,
including Special Agent Mike Lowery.
The doctors at Bethesda are hopeful
there won't be any casualties,
but still, I feel like taking responsibility
and giving these families some peace.
It's the very least I can do.
Give me a minute.
Okay.
[sighs]
Well, that's gonna end soon.
Madam President.
And that.
You shouldn't be here.
I'm the reason this is happening.
You were just the last piece of an inevitable outcome.
I came into this job
because of violence you were trying to stop,
and I'm leaving because of violence you're trying to stop.
This is not your fault.
If you want to keep fighting,
you have all of us at your back.
People got hurt today.
And if I don't give Roarke the White House,
he will kill to get it.
Promise me that no innocents get killed on your watch.
You know I can't do that.
Well, then promise me that we will win in the end.
That I stake my life on.
That's my cue.
Don't stay for this. Don't listen.
You stay focused.
Madam President.
[sighs]
[Claire] When I took this office, it was during a period
of great crisis in our country.
♪ Baby really hurt me ♪
One hopes never to see America
plunged into the violence and chaos
that we saw in downtown Manhattan three months ago.
I'm not resigning because I believe I did anything wrong.
I'm resigning because this country is simply too fragile
to handle yet another scandal
when we're already in the middle of a real crisis.
♪ She's so hard to please but she's a forest fire ♪
Holding a president accountable
is one of the most patriotic things you can do,
so I ask each of you to hold our next president
to the same high account.
There is no perfect America.
I spent my time in this office trying every day
to make this country the best version of itself.
♪ Get you wild, make you leave ♪
I know in my heart that the mistakes I've made
were not because I wanted power but because I wanted peace.
♪ The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy ♪
You okay?
I don't know.
I just got confirmation a few minutes ago.
No casualties.
They're gonna be okay.
♪ Every perfect summer's eating me alive ♪
♪ Until you're gone ♪
[sniffles]
♪ Better on my own ♪
Effective at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow,
I will resign my post
as president of these United States.
[sobs]
As no vice president has yet been confirmed,
Speaker of the House Henry Roarke
will take the oath of office.
♪ I'm a liability ♪
♪ Get you wild, make you leave ♪
I thank you for the trust you placed in me.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
♪ You're all gonna watch me disappear into the sun ♪
[theme music playing]