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[bugle playing "The Last Post"]
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If this was Tehran,
I will rain hellfire upon them.
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A lot hinges
on whether we believe this is Iran
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or we believe it's someone else.
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When it's Hal,
you have to be really fucking sure.
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- You're getting divorced.
- No, we're not.
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The ambassador says your marriage is over.
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You ever been married?
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[Carole] There was a call
the day of the approach on a burner.
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I called Niccolo. He called Shahin.
That's the whole story.
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- Is it?
- Yeah.
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My husband snuck out and called Iran?
And then lied to me about it?
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They kidnapped my husband
and called off a hit.
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The prime minister
has to stop saying it's Iran.
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It wasn't Iran.
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Ambassador,
Number 10 will walk back nothing.
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If you're concerned, I urge you
to speak with President Rayburn,
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who clearly has a great deal of influence
over the prime minister.
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As soon as this lunch is over,
get on some plane and not be here.
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You have so thoroughly fucked
with my head,
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I can't do the fucking job
if you are within a 100-mile radius.
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Katie, the vice president's gonna resign.
They want you to replace her.
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You can't be divorced.
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{\an8}Thank you, guys.
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Ambassador Wyler.
More time with me than you ever wanted.
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And you. Like a bad fucking penny.
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- Welcome to Blighty, sir.
- [Rayburn] Yeah.
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Looking good.
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[Rayburn] That's because
nobody lets me eat a carbohydrate.
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- Well, it's working.
- I'd rather be dead.
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[man] Welcome, Mr. President.
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Ma'am. You got this.
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Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
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Mm-hm.
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Sharon? Where's the necessary?
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Pardon me. May I show you, Mr. President?
This way, sir.
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- [man] The PM is ten minutes out.
- [Billie] Great.
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Are we your first guests?
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We're a real nightmare.
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I just told her.
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- Now?
- Seemed the time.
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- Did it?
- May have been a miscalculation.
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- Welcome to Winfield.
- [Billie] You have time to think about it.
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You are on a short list.
Doesn't mean you're forced into anything.
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- I just told her.
- Just now.
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Really?
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Cancel the press avail.
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He can have lunch, no photos, and then...
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- Does she need to lie down?
- "Hellfire on Tehran"
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got Nicol Trowbridge
the bump of a lifetime.
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If he's standing next to the president,
he's gonna say it again.
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- [Frances] Thank you, Mr. President.
- Okay.
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Now, that's a nice powder room.
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Mr. President.
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The ambassador wants
to cancel the press avail.
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She's concerned
it'll look like an endorsement.
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Of a military strike on Tehran.
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I'm not sending him MiGs.
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His Navy got hit.
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I show up and stand next to the guy.
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Sir, you're gonna be
pinned like a butterfly
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- while the PM is quoting Leviticus.
- Maybe we don't take questions.
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- The visual is enough.
- The visual is also not okay.
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The British government
still thinks it's Iran.
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- Contrary evidence is having no impact.
- [Rayburn] Why would it?
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We've got pictures
of an Iranian boat leaving a port in Iran.
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- And what on the other side? Some guy?
- A compelling guy.
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They're not saying they're still
gathering facts. They're saying it's Iran.
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- It's not Iran.
- Because of the compelling guy?
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- Yes.
- Not sure you get out enough.
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Let's go.
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Hal?
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Sir...
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it's me.
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I'm the guy.
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They kidnapped me.
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So, first of all, it was a pull-aside.
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They kidnapped me and put me on the phone
with the deputy foreign minister of Iran.
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Fucking hell.
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He stuck his neck on the line
and his wife's and kids',
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of which there are five.
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They didn't do it.
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- Let me shake your damn hand.
- It's fine. He's a friend.
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- Not Iran. That's a fucking relief.
- It hasn't moved the Brits.
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- Tell them it was Hal Wyler.
- She did. She told the foreign secretary.
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- She told Dennison?
- Didn't move the needle.
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[Kate] We should look at Russia
and Saudi Arabia
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and unexploded marine ordinance.
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- Trowbridge won't get off Iran.
- We should've canceled the trip.
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Kate asked the secretary of state
to cancel.
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- He wouldn't do it. He knew it was me.
- I swear, that man can hold a grudge.
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He thinks I'm the only reason
there's no peace in the Middle East.
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- It's not about that.
- I find it flattering.
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The secretary made a reasonable decision
in the moment.
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State and CIA
can't give unprocessed intelligence
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to a president at an inflection point.
That's gone badly for them in the past.
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Forty cameras are on their way
and the prime minister is off the rails.
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You can't stand next to the guy.
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[knocking on door]
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[door opens]
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Ambassador Wyler,
the prime minister is here.
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Don't know why
we don't do this more often.
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If I knew we could have you in
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and dispense with you an hour later,
we'd have done it all the time.
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- If I could have a quick word.
- Of course.
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Can you...?
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[Hal] Gentlemen.
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Three courses.
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Light, but still, it's a lot.
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The press availability
might be gilding the lily.
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The press event is the lily.
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The president is uncomfortable
with the optics.
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The prime minister is uncomfortable
with 41 dead. Perhaps we call it square.
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He's had two days to shade that comment.
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Shading's not what brought Mr. Trowbridge
to Number 10.
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Anything.
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"I didn't mean hellfire on Tehran.
I meant hellfire on whoever.
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And we don't know who 'whoever' is,
but we are trying to figure it out."
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Oh, you're right.
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It has a ring.
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They can take candids of the lunch.
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Then it looks like a delegation of 12
come to scold the prime minister.
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How about a couch, conferring
in the sitting room after lunch?
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- No.
- They'd look like equals.
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He has a short torso
and looks like a troll on a couch.
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- If they were to dine, the two of them--
- Then it really looks like a scolding.
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Looks like everyone else was kicked out
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so my guy could whack your guy on the nose
with a newspaper.
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I think we should tuck in. Hm?
You must be starving.
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- They're still horse-trading.
- I'm producing sound.
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I'd always have a sandwich
before every state dinner.
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That way I wouldn't land at the table
like a rabid animal.
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That's not a terrible idea.
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Frances?
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[Frances] Sir?
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- If it was just the two of them...
- [Kate] Yes?
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If. And if the president
is convinced it's not Iran--
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- That's not an if. He's convinced.
- I'd like to reach the end of my thought.
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Sorry.
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If the president
is convinced that it's not Iran,
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a lunch for two would provide him
with the opportunity
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- to persuade the prime minister.
- Exactly.
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To persuade him
that we're all served by a cooling.
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Yes.
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- Like I asked you to do yesterday.
- I'm not president of the United States.
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- On that, we agree.
- He's persuasive in a way I can't be.
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Especially if you don't try.
This is good. I think this is good. Yes?
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[door opens]
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[indistinct chatter]
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What if it was just the two of them?
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- And me.
- Or just the two of them.
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- William Rayburn, off script, no staff?
- I realize--
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Shooting the shit
with Nicol fucking Trickle?
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- The alternative is--
- It's a terrible idea.
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I've been floated for VP. There are
a lot of bad ideas on the table today.
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- Okay, so we're taking a breath.
- Know what?
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Maybe listening
to the evolution of the thought.
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It is an opportunity for Rayburn
to explain to Trowbridge slowly
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why a human source
on a well-established back channel
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is more compelling than a fuzzy drone shot
of an Iranian fast boat.
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I understand the thinking.
I just don't agree with it.
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It was the least bad idea, so I said yes.
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[Frances] Thank you. Just the two.
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[Hal] He loved the English language.
He loved idiom. He loved the poetry of it.
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So I taught him a phrase a day.
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The mission wraps.
I'm leaving Zagreb and I say:
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"Pasha, we've been like brothers,
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but from now on, we're not gonna see
so much of each other,
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just fleeting glimpses
like ships in the night."
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So the next day, we're at the palace,
he says to the president:
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"Hal Wyler is leaving us.
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We have been brothers,
but now we are only lambs in the dark."
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Lambs in the dark.
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- "Sheeps."
- In the night.
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Right? The man's a poet.
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[Trowbridge] Sheeps in the night.
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- On my best day, disoriented livestock.
- Right on the nose.
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- Katherine.
- [Trowbridge] Oh, dear.
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He call you that when you've deployed
your schoolmarm glower?
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[Rayburn chuckles]
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Lunch is served.
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Ah.
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At last.
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- I met John Gage. Do you know him?
- [Rayburn] Oh, no.
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He's a motherfucker.
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- Pardon me. He is a motherfucker.
- Yeah.
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- I'm beginning to get that impression.
- He was a neocon in '03.
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Now he's an isolationist.
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If you don't like his fundamental values,
wait five minutes.
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Prime minister.
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Oh, here we go.
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- This is a message of import.
- Of course.
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He has to drop the Iran thing.
He can't even say the word again.
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- Yeah.
- They didn't do it.
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- Yeah.
- Don't "yeah" me.
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People are throwing rocks
at the Iranian embassy.
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If we were home,
they could sidle up with an AR-15.
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Right, it's the perfect time
for American sanctimony.
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- Don't know why I bother.
- [Trowbridge] I abandoned a drink.
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Perhaps a fresh one.
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No, for the good of the planet, waste not.
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Toss it out, and I'll have
radical hausfrauen torching my home.
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[Kate sighs]
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I'm so sorry, sir, your deputy is asking
if you can join him...
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Do you know the last time
he was alone in a room with anyone?
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- I don't.
- [Billie] I don't either.
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The secretary of defense
is gonna lose his shit. Find Leiber.
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You know, if you wanna have a talk
with the ambassador
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about the vice presidency...
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now is not a terrible time.
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Grace Penn recently learned her husband
misplaced a $6.3 million NIH grant.
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We tried to keep a lid on it,
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but some relentless ferret
from The Wall Street Journal
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is putting it together,
and when he does, she's done.
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The list of people
who can replace her is very short.
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It features
four identical-on-paper female legislators
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who'd all kill for the job and use it to
launch their own presidential campaigns.
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It's something
that makes the president extremely ornery.
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You're not cut out
for campaigning, clearly,
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but governing is something you've managed
to pull off under live artillery fire,
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which is not unlike a chat
with the U.S. Congress.
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It's entirely possible
that you could be a reasonable lieutenant
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to help a lame-duck legacy-build overseas,
which is the only way possible
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given the polarized deathmatch
that is today's Washington.
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That is the worst marriage proposal
I ever heard.
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Sorry. Ms. Park's looking for you.
Can you step out?
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I'd love to.
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Any idea why some CIA base
in ass-fuck northern Iraq
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is making NSA requests
about cell calls in London?
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I don't.
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- Did she ask you for an NSA search?
- No.
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Nothing about SIGINT? Or GCHQ?
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Can you just talk about
what you're talking about?
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A request was filed by Carole Langetti,
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a CIA analyst in Iraq
who worked with Kate Wyler in Baghdad.
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She put in an order for a signals
intelligence collection from GCHQ.
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- That's not normal?
- No.
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Why was the ambassador
14 inches up my ass about vetting a tip
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that came in through her husband?
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She just got here.
She wants to be careful.
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She ambushed the foreign secretary
yesterday. Is that careful?
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- It wasn't my favorite.
- Yeah. She's careful with my work.
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- But not her own.
- We do the same thing.
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All the time. We know people
in other countries, we ask for favors.
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[Hal] You've got six months.
That's plenty of time.
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[Billie] If the story breaks,
we don't have plenty of anything.
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Hi.
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Quite a day, huh?
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- Eidra would like to speak to you.
- Which one is that?
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CIA.
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When you're done.
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You knew.
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About the VP? Yeah.
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That she was leaving or that I was
on a shortlist to replace her?
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Both.
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Anyone else around here know more
about my life than I do?
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[Stuart] I don't think so.
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A handful in Washington.
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Five.
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Actual hand.
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It's been a busy few days
since you touched down.
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My introductory briefing
on the intelligence relationship
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between the U.S. and the UK
hasn't made it onto the schedule.
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- I'm sure we'll get there.
- The relationship is unique.
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We share almost everything.
More than with any other country.
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We don't spy on them,
they don't spy on us.
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MI6 and CIA share intelligence.
We run ops together.
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- Mm-hm.
- NSA and GCHQ share hardware.
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There's a traffic control system
for information the NSA swaps with GCHQ.
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It's called Sorting Hat.
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- Like from Harry Potter.
- Cute.
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When you request intelligence
from your friend in northern Iraq,
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and your friend orders a collection
from GCHQ about a target in London,
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MI6 gets an alert from the Sorting Hat.
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And then MI6 is confused,
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because when CIA London makes
a request of GCHQ, we tell them.
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So now MI6 wants to know
why I'm keeping things from them.
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Which is tough to answer.
Because of course there are,
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between ourselves,
a number of things I'm keeping from them.
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Managing them isn't easy. It's even
less easy when I don't know what they are.
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I'm sorry.
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- You should've come to me.
- I did.
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You acted like I was the nosy neighbor.
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- If you don't trust me enough to tell me--
- I trust you.
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I'm sure you don't.
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I don't trust my spouse.
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It's worse, right?
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- Wanna give me some context?
- I really don't.
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Hal contacted Shahin first.
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Not the other way around.
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He started it.
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He hates all the ideas.
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He liked Grace Penn.
Doesn't wanna be married to somebody else.
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But it's not gonna be nobody.
At some point, you gotta pick a horse.
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Yes. Go.
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What was that?
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Salt.
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- The president would like more of it.
- If he hears anything
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substantive...
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Sometimes the president
mutters something like, um,
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"Find out what bric-a-brac means."
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From country to country,
it can mean different things.
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Okay.
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I'm wasting my breath.
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- The vice presidency.
- I think you sold it.
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- It's supposed to sell itself.
- How about you try again with enthusiasm?
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- After this debacle?
- You said you wanted a doer.
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I changed my mind.
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[Pensy] Sir?
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The ambassador was hoping
you could join her and Ms. Park.
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In the library.
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Iran has moved an infantry battalion
from the Pakistan border to the coast.
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God.
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So it was one call to a contact in Italy,
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a nation that does have
diplomatic relations with Iran.
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I asked my contact
to tell Shahin that I was in London.
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Information he could have gotten
from a newspaper.
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But he didn't.
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You offered yourself up,
and then lied about it.
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She can't corroborate this
with anyone else. She has one source.
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This thing has legs
because of your reputation,
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and once you've established yourself
as a liar, liar, pants on fire,
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you undermine game-changing intelligence.
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So I'm the first guy ever
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to make clandestine contact
without reporting sources and methods?
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You aren't a member
of the clandestine services.
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- You don't work for the U.S. government.
- If this falls on friendly ears--
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But if someone wants to fuck with you,
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like the secretary of state
because he hates the fucking sight of you,
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it's a 951 violation,
and they can put you away for ten years.
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Even Ganon doesn't want me in jail
for ten years.
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- Yeah, but I do.
- You should go.
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- I'll stop.
- [Eidra] We're okay without you.
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No, it's-- She's had a tough day.
Let her stay.
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Okay, this is new to me,
this both of you at the same time.
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I could use less of it.
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I'll stop. I'm sorry.
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The ambassador is correct.
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You making contact with Shahin first
changes the entire analysis.
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Yeah.
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Your story is the best tool we have
to de-escalate a situation
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that is quickly spinning out of control.
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It'd be great if it held water.
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Here to help.
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Write down every word of your conversation
with the deputy minister
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and his interlocutor.
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He was an assassin. The interlocutor.
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On the paper.
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- You don't wanna just talk and record it?
- I don't.
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Okay.
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You tried to tell me yesterday.
A bunch of times.
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Yeah.
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I'm really sorry.
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Ma'am, coffee has been served
to the gentlemen.
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Okay.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Billie] ...step up UAV surveillance...
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They're wrapping up.
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I'll have the defense secretary
give you a call.
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Okay, thank you.
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- They're on coffee. Won't be long.
- Mm-hm. Tea, right?
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Uh, they serve coffee. It's not great.
But if you ask...
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- Did he?
- Who?
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- Did the president order coffee?
- I don't know. She served coffee.
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- Motherfucker. Andrew!
- What's wrong?
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He can't have coffee.
It sets his heart in A-fib.
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He fucking sneaks it. Coffee.
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- Should we get--?
- [Rayburn] What did I tell you?
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- Sir, put it down!
- You see?
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- That's extraordinary.
- Isn't it?
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[sniffs]
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It's tea.
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Unbelievable.
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My cardiologist is sure
I'm gonna die on his watch.
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- The list of things I can't ingest.
- This one is serious.
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I ordered a cup of coffee in Madrid,
it came in this 400-year-old porcelain,
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which they had pilfered
from the Chinese in 1882.
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He batted it out of my hand.
It hit the ground, turned to dust.
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Incredible. I can't get a rise out of my
lot unless I strike a child with my car.
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- I only do it because I love you.
- I don't want your love.
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Tehran has sent an infantry battalion
to the coast.
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He'll back off Iran
once his guys are out of there.
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We're gonna send a carrier group
to the Gulf, give them a ride to Bahrain.
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His ship is sinking.
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- [Trowbridge] There it is. See?
- What am I looking at?
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The hags tell the Scottish king,
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"You shall ne'er be vanquished till
Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane." Macbeth.
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The play.
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Some sneaky Winfield groundskeeper knew
Barbara Hutton loved the Scottish play,
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so he lopped a cutting off the last
Birnam Oak and planted it in the garden.
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Did he say "sinking"?
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- It's sinking?
- Sorry?
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The president said he's sending
a carrier group to the Gulf
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to rescue your crew before they drown.
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How do you not tell me
the ship is sinking?
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Because it isn't.
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Where can we speak privately?
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- Ah, we could go in--
- [Austin] Not in the house.
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- Walls are pretty thick.
- Not... in the house.
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- Is it bugged?
- Can we choose an outdoor venue?
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I moved in five minutes ago.
I haven't scouted the grounds.
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- What's that over there?
- The garden?
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00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:32,453
- Yes.
- It looks like a garden.
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00:23:32,453 --> 00:23:34,414
Okay. Let's meet on the other side of it.
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You go that way,
I'll cut through the house.
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00:23:58,605 --> 00:23:59,981
[whispering indistinctly]
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A couple M48 Patton tanks
outfitted with Russian smoothbore guns.
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00:24:09,908 --> 00:24:14,412
I'm so sorry to interrupt, ma'am.
Could I--? Just for a moment?
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Ambassador Wyler asked if you'd ask the
secretary of defense for a keel report.
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From the carrier.
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- A keel report.
- Yes. Thank you.
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And it's an honor to meet you.
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00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:34,682
What the hell is a keel report?
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The carrier is taking on water,
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which is not unexpected
given the yawning gash in its hull.
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HMS Courageous is designed to take fire,
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seal off the debilitated compartment,
and remain afloat.
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Why does the president think it's sinking?
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Presumably someone told him.
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00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:57,789
Because...?
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What did the president pledge to send
on this rescue mission?
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A carrier group.
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Warships.
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Had the prime minister asked
for an American show of force in the Gulf,
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the president would have refused
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because it could launch both our countries
into a catastrophic regional conflict.
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00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:19,894
But a distress call...
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He's luring a strike force
into the Persian Gulf.
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00:25:23,273 --> 00:25:24,941
- Yes, he is.
- And you're okay with that?
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00:25:24,941 --> 00:25:28,778
- What suggests I'm okay with this?
- Tell him to fucking stop it!
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00:25:28,778 --> 00:25:30,905
What do you think I've been doing
for three years?
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00:25:30,905 --> 00:25:33,366
Telling Nicol Trowbridge
to fucking stop it!
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00:25:35,702 --> 00:25:38,788
I begged you to have Rayburn intervene.
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00:25:39,414 --> 00:25:40,248
You-- When?
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00:25:40,248 --> 00:25:42,500
Yesterday. And today.
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00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,127
You didn't.
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00:25:44,127 --> 00:25:48,589
Uh, "If the president could share
his perspective, his wisdom
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- with the PM, perhaps--"
- That's what begging looks like to you?
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00:25:51,551 --> 00:25:55,263
- I didn't drop to my knees.
- If the house is on fire, tell me.
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00:25:55,263 --> 00:25:57,640
The house is on fire!
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00:26:05,231 --> 00:26:09,819
You know, Iran is the best thing
that ever happened to Nicol Trowbridge.
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00:26:09,819 --> 00:26:13,281
- Iran didn't happen to him.
- Does that matter?
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00:26:13,281 --> 00:26:14,449
Did you tell him?
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00:26:14,449 --> 00:26:17,285
About your husband's tale?
Of course I did.
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00:26:17,285 --> 00:26:20,913
If you call it a tale,
it kind of undermines the intelligence.
446
00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:23,750
He believes
Mr. Wyler provided interesting evidence,
447
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:26,961
but not incontrovertible
and nowhere near actionable.
448
00:26:26,961 --> 00:26:28,921
We have to stop trying
to prove a negative.
449
00:26:28,921 --> 00:26:31,382
We need to figure out who it was,
not who it wasn't.
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00:26:31,382 --> 00:26:32,425
What an insight.
451
00:26:32,425 --> 00:26:36,929
I mean, really like a bolt
from the heavens.
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00:26:37,972 --> 00:26:39,307
You're kind of an asshole.
453
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,102
Something about your charmingly foul mouth
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00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:46,647
makes me feel like
you appreciate the unvarnished.
455
00:26:48,816 --> 00:26:50,568
Are you saying that you like me?
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00:26:52,570 --> 00:26:55,073
I'm saying that I would like to trust you.
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00:26:58,701 --> 00:27:01,204
I thought I could manage this,
but I can't.
458
00:27:11,923 --> 00:27:12,757
What?
459
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:17,011
I drank the Kool-Aid,
like a fucking child.
460
00:27:20,556 --> 00:27:21,391
The husband.
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00:27:21,391 --> 00:27:22,433
Ah.
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00:27:23,059 --> 00:27:24,018
Was it bullshit?
463
00:27:24,018 --> 00:27:26,646
No. It was incomplete.
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00:27:26,646 --> 00:27:28,314
And she tried to warn me.
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00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:33,027
- Well, look, even you can make mis--
- No, this is not a small mistake.
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00:27:35,947 --> 00:27:39,242
By the way,
I asked you to come to Cairo...
467
00:27:39,992 --> 00:27:41,577
It's a terrible idea.
468
00:27:41,577 --> 00:27:44,580
Being a tandem couple
has fucked both of them.
469
00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:45,581
But mostly her.
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00:27:46,290 --> 00:27:48,126
- Well, how?
- He lies to her,
471
00:27:48,126 --> 00:27:50,420
regularly enough that she expects it.
472
00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:51,838
It's fucked her career.
473
00:27:51,838 --> 00:27:54,424
Well, I think her career's going okay.
474
00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:56,676
She doesn't wanna be here.
475
00:27:57,635 --> 00:27:59,846
Why is she here? She's frontline material.
476
00:28:01,639 --> 00:28:03,099
Yeah. Exactly.
477
00:28:03,724 --> 00:28:06,144
Ma'am? Could you join the ambassador?
478
00:28:06,144 --> 00:28:07,395
Of course.
479
00:28:08,563 --> 00:28:10,648
[man] No concrete intel on Riyadh...
480
00:28:10,648 --> 00:28:13,568
[indistinct chatter]
481
00:28:19,657 --> 00:28:21,284
[Billie] We can't afford to piss them off,
482
00:28:21,284 --> 00:28:24,662
but at this point, there isn't
a credible threat to our interests.
483
00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:27,999
[sighs] In the meantime, what's
the secretary of defense saying?
484
00:28:27,999 --> 00:28:30,293
I asked. Says it's time-sensitive.
485
00:28:31,836 --> 00:28:33,463
Find me when NSA weighs in.
486
00:28:33,463 --> 00:28:37,508
We have to come to some agreement
with the Saudis not to make this worse.
487
00:28:38,843 --> 00:28:42,096
Were you able to get the report?
Keel report.
488
00:28:42,096 --> 00:28:45,016
- Still working on it.
- Can we--? For a minute?
489
00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:00,406
Rayburn can't send ships to the Gulf.
490
00:29:00,406 --> 00:29:02,742
Trowbridge played him.
He lied to his face.
491
00:29:02,742 --> 00:29:05,745
He wants the visual
of American warships buzzing Iran.
492
00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:09,373
- The aircraft carrier is not sinking.
- How do you know that?
493
00:29:09,373 --> 00:29:13,753
I'd know for sure if I had a keel report,
but I have it on very good authority.
494
00:29:13,753 --> 00:29:15,087
Shit.
495
00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:19,342
We're getting flares from the Brits.
They can't shut Trowbridge down.
496
00:29:19,884 --> 00:29:23,304
The president needs to say
our ships can't get there in time to help.
497
00:29:23,304 --> 00:29:25,056
He won't renege on a rescue mission.
498
00:29:25,056 --> 00:29:28,309
This is a distress call
coming from a senior government official.
499
00:29:28,309 --> 00:29:29,477
Named what?
500
00:29:30,603 --> 00:29:32,063
We can't do anything.
501
00:29:32,063 --> 00:29:36,859
When we had a dangerous head of state,
we relied on our allies to respond
502
00:29:36,859 --> 00:29:38,861
when we made distress calls.
503
00:29:43,324 --> 00:29:45,159
You know why I didn't want this job?
504
00:29:45,159 --> 00:29:48,412
I spent a decade
building a reputation in a community
505
00:29:48,412 --> 00:29:52,834
such that when I say something,
people fucking listen to me.
506
00:29:52,834 --> 00:29:55,253
- I have none of that here.
- Not none.
507
00:29:57,964 --> 00:29:59,131
Not none.
508
00:30:04,095 --> 00:30:08,683
The prime minister is setting the stage
for an attack on American hardware
509
00:30:08,683 --> 00:30:09,976
and American troops.
510
00:30:09,976 --> 00:30:12,812
He wants this to be our problem
as much as his.
511
00:30:13,771 --> 00:30:15,606
We need to talk to that source.
512
00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:16,732
- Shahin?
- If we have to.
513
00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:18,234
- You talked to...?
- Yeah.
514
00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:20,194
You wanna go back to Shahin?
515
00:30:20,194 --> 00:30:23,239
If you think the president should renege,
we need more to bring to the Brits.
516
00:30:23,239 --> 00:30:25,491
You can't. It's too dangerous.
517
00:30:25,491 --> 00:30:27,326
[Rayburn] That's a Birnam Oak.
518
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,162
From Shakespeare.
519
00:30:30,872 --> 00:30:31,789
Go take a look.
520
00:30:31,789 --> 00:30:32,832
We will.
521
00:30:35,209 --> 00:30:36,460
It's Iran's backyard.
522
00:30:37,003 --> 00:30:38,379
If we wanna know who did this,
523
00:30:38,379 --> 00:30:40,464
they'll have better intelligence
than anyone.
524
00:30:40,464 --> 00:30:43,426
Shahin's own regime will go after him.
He will be killed.
525
00:30:43,426 --> 00:30:47,096
If we go to war with Iran,
a lot of people will be killed.
526
00:30:47,722 --> 00:30:49,974
Shahin wants to modernize his country.
527
00:30:49,974 --> 00:30:52,101
He's one of the only people in the regime
528
00:30:52,101 --> 00:30:55,438
who gets along with the reformists
and the military and the mullahs,
529
00:30:55,438 --> 00:30:59,108
because his father rode bikes
with the supreme leader when they were 10.
530
00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:02,028
And inexplicably, he doesn't believe
we're the great Satan.
531
00:31:02,028 --> 00:31:04,447
- I understand he's valuable.
- You don't.
532
00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:06,908
An Iran Deal can be revoked.
533
00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:07,825
Clearly.
534
00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:12,330
What we're really doing when we
negotiate with them, or with anyone,
535
00:31:12,330 --> 00:31:17,084
is looking for one or two friends we can
call when the world is truly fucked.
536
00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:21,047
It is a flimsy web of relationships.
537
00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:22,506
But sometimes it holds.
538
00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:24,467
Do not tear it.
539
00:31:25,051 --> 00:31:28,304
Do not be an infinitely ravenous American.
540
00:31:28,304 --> 00:31:30,222
Use what he already gave you.
541
00:31:33,267 --> 00:31:34,101
Danny?
542
00:31:34,894 --> 00:31:38,689
Get me Stuart Hayford.
Can we get the president out of the woods?
543
00:31:40,566 --> 00:31:43,194
- Tell Langley to go at it another way.
- Okay.
544
00:31:45,863 --> 00:31:46,989
I need a drink.
545
00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:18,980
- That was moving.
- What?
546
00:32:19,689 --> 00:32:20,564
A spiderweb.
547
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,986
You gotta have a couple of those in
your pocket when things get existential.
548
00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:25,903
[chuckles] Yeah.
549
00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:28,739
We're waiting for someone.
550
00:32:28,739 --> 00:32:30,116
[knocking on door]
551
00:32:35,246 --> 00:32:37,498
- We doing this?
- Maybe.
552
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:42,712
I sent you here to be with him.
553
00:32:42,712 --> 00:32:46,382
For a lot of reasons,
but he's checking you out.
554
00:32:48,843 --> 00:32:50,553
That's creepy.
555
00:32:51,512 --> 00:32:55,474
Five U.S. presidents were
formerly ambassadors to this country.
556
00:32:55,474 --> 00:32:59,353
It's the right place to learn.
You'd melt on a campaign trail.
557
00:32:59,353 --> 00:33:02,106
You'd call your donors corrupt
to their faces.
558
00:33:03,357 --> 00:33:04,775
But there's no campaign.
559
00:33:05,985 --> 00:33:08,988
Imagine if your... frankness
560
00:33:09,655 --> 00:33:11,323
were actually a plus,
561
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:15,536
if your only goal was to keep
the president relentlessly on track.
562
00:33:16,579 --> 00:33:18,414
[Billie]
The president needs someone to stop him
563
00:33:18,414 --> 00:33:19,874
from rambling about chicken tariffs
564
00:33:19,874 --> 00:33:21,584
when he needs an arms deal.
565
00:33:22,293 --> 00:33:25,796
The VP spends more time in the Oval
than anyone who doesn't have a desk there.
566
00:33:25,796 --> 00:33:29,675
- First in, last out of every meeting.
- Guys...
567
00:33:30,468 --> 00:33:33,387
- You wanna know why you're on the list?
- Uh, I have a uterus.
568
00:33:33,387 --> 00:33:35,431
That's not-- Not the only reason.
569
00:33:35,431 --> 00:33:37,850
You spent seven years building a ticket
570
00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:41,270
where an elderly guy could
hand the baton to an electable woman
571
00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:44,482
and deliver us the first female president.
572
00:33:45,232 --> 00:33:49,195
Now you want someone with
no voting record, no baggage, no opinions.
573
00:33:49,945 --> 00:33:52,615
Clean me up, put me in a dress,
and hope I never speak.
574
00:33:53,324 --> 00:33:54,492
Yeah. I had a plan.
575
00:33:55,785 --> 00:33:56,702
Turned to shit.
576
00:33:56,702 --> 00:34:01,123
But as far as rebounds go,
you don't have to survive a campaign.
577
00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:04,293
We air-drop you in to govern,
maybe you catch fire.
578
00:34:04,293 --> 00:34:06,045
She thinks you'd be good at the job.
579
00:34:06,045 --> 00:34:10,007
I called nine people and said,
"If it looks like the apocalypse is now,
580
00:34:10,007 --> 00:34:11,467
who's your first hire?"
581
00:34:12,259 --> 00:34:13,302
Five said you.
582
00:34:14,595 --> 00:34:16,013
What you did in Lebanon.
583
00:34:17,014 --> 00:34:19,850
What I'm not supposed to know
you did in Baghdad.
584
00:34:20,518 --> 00:34:23,646
Makes a great poster.
"Iraq. Could have been worse."
585
00:34:23,646 --> 00:34:26,565
No campaign. No posters.
586
00:34:27,691 --> 00:34:30,194
We'd put you in the lead
on foreign policy.
587
00:34:30,194 --> 00:34:33,489
You get the Middle East. You can deal
with Russia without freaking out.
588
00:34:33,489 --> 00:34:34,907
You know cobalt is the only thing
589
00:34:34,907 --> 00:34:37,201
we're really gonna be talking about
for the next 25 years.
590
00:34:37,201 --> 00:34:39,495
You'd be doing it for the country,
not the power.
591
00:34:39,495 --> 00:34:41,122
[Billie scoffs] If I'd thought about it,
592
00:34:41,122 --> 00:34:42,748
- I'd have planned it this way.
- Mm-hm.
593
00:34:43,874 --> 00:34:47,753
Really. It's almost embarrassing.
Never even occurred to me.
594
00:34:47,753 --> 00:34:50,005
Pick someone good at the job,
not the interview?
595
00:34:50,005 --> 00:34:54,760
[Billie] I mean, it's bad for the guys,
but for the women? Fuck me.
596
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,722
Is she pretty but not too pretty?
Appealing but not hot?
597
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,726
Confident but not bitchy?
Decisive but not bitchy?
598
00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:04,770
Cute bitchy, but not "bitchy" bitchy.
599
00:35:07,982 --> 00:35:09,150
We had to come to an agreement
600
00:35:09,150 --> 00:35:11,443
about how many days a week
the VP would wear a thong.
601
00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:14,864
She doesn't like them.
Her team doesn't like panty lines.
602
00:35:16,031 --> 00:35:17,741
Weeks of my life.
603
00:35:17,741 --> 00:35:20,995
And then an agreement.
Yes, she will wear ass-floss,
604
00:35:20,995 --> 00:35:24,707
but only two days out of seven,
and days cannot be banked week to week.
605
00:35:26,709 --> 00:35:29,128
Can you imagine hiring someone
for a key governing position
606
00:35:29,128 --> 00:35:30,880
just because you think
they'd be good at it?
607
00:35:32,381 --> 00:35:33,632
[door opens]
608
00:35:36,886 --> 00:35:40,097
Don't say anything.
She's actually thinking about it.
609
00:35:40,097 --> 00:35:41,473
- Are you?
- Shh.
610
00:35:43,142 --> 00:35:44,101
Are you?
611
00:35:48,105 --> 00:35:49,106
That's progress.
612
00:35:53,736 --> 00:35:57,198
Give it time. When Hal and I first spoke,
it sounded ridiculous,
613
00:35:57,198 --> 00:36:00,576
but a month later...
it seems kind of brilliant.
614
00:36:02,453 --> 00:36:03,412
[door opens]
615
00:36:03,412 --> 00:36:06,332
[Andrew] Ma'am, he's asking for you.
616
00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:08,542
[clears throat]
617
00:36:17,259 --> 00:36:18,093
A month?
618
00:36:20,429 --> 00:36:21,555
Listen-- Let--
619
00:36:22,264 --> 00:36:23,807
Let me just tell you how--
620
00:36:28,854 --> 00:36:31,065
Kate. Kate.
621
00:36:35,819 --> 00:36:37,446
Kate. Katie.
622
00:36:38,322 --> 00:36:39,365
Kate, stop.
623
00:36:39,365 --> 00:36:40,741
I'm going for a walk.
624
00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:42,910
- Can I come?
- I don't think that's a good idea.
625
00:36:43,953 --> 00:36:47,039
- When Billie called me--
- She called you a month ago.
626
00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:50,459
Yeah, and at that point,
it was talk, that's all.
627
00:36:50,459 --> 00:36:52,962
She wanted advice, the Grace Penn thing--
628
00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:54,588
- The vice president.
- Yeah.
629
00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:57,007
You should call her the vice president.
630
00:36:57,007 --> 00:36:59,635
The issue with the vice president
and her husband,
631
00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:04,098
and the $6 million NIH grant
that went missing had just surfaced.
632
00:37:04,098 --> 00:37:05,849
So Billie called you.
633
00:37:05,849 --> 00:37:09,478
Uh, yeah. As a friend of the--
Friend of the court.
634
00:37:09,478 --> 00:37:11,522
At that point, she wanted the VP to stay.
635
00:37:11,522 --> 00:37:13,565
She was just trying out ideas
for damage control.
636
00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:18,821
So the notion that the vice president
might be replaced didn't come up.
637
00:37:18,821 --> 00:37:20,906
We tossed around a couple names.
638
00:37:20,906 --> 00:37:22,032
Including mine?
639
00:37:22,032 --> 00:37:25,452
- Who else, your mom?
- There aren't a lot of names, Katie.
640
00:37:25,452 --> 00:37:28,122
I mean, they need a woman.
They need someone clean.
641
00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:32,209
Abby Shotkin's too old.
Stella can't keep her mouth shut.
642
00:37:32,710 --> 00:37:35,754
He promised the first lady
he wouldn't pick Rachel Beer,
643
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:37,381
'cause he fucked Rachel Beer in college,
644
00:37:37,381 --> 00:37:40,634
and he told his wife she wasn't the best
lay of his life, Rachel Beer was.
645
00:37:40,634 --> 00:37:43,220
And if he picks Laurie Davis,
we lose the House.
646
00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:46,223
Okay, so at that point, someone says...
647
00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:47,891
You.
648
00:37:48,475 --> 00:37:49,310
Who says me?
649
00:37:50,144 --> 00:37:54,481
Uh, me, Billie, I can't remember.
It wasn't a plan. We were spitballing.
650
00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:57,276
You were on your way to Kabul.
You weren't ready for prime time.
651
00:37:57,276 --> 00:37:58,861
It wasn't realistic.
652
00:37:58,861 --> 00:38:00,112
Definitely not.
653
00:38:00,821 --> 00:38:03,115
- But now...?
- Well, once the London thing happened,
654
00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:05,826
it was like, maybe she could spend
six months in a more public post,
655
00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:09,330
get your sea legs,
get used to the spotlight, you know.
656
00:38:09,330 --> 00:38:11,290
So at that point, you called Billie.
657
00:38:11,290 --> 00:38:13,000
- Billie called me.
- Like Shahin did?
658
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,004
- Katie, Billie called me.
- Was there a point at which you thought
659
00:38:17,004 --> 00:38:18,797
I should come into this conversation?
660
00:38:18,797 --> 00:38:21,342
What would you have said? I'm serious.
661
00:38:22,009 --> 00:38:24,261
One month ago, on your way to Kabul,
662
00:38:24,261 --> 00:38:27,681
would I have got halfway through
the sentence trying to pitch this to you?
663
00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:30,517
Fair. That is a fair point.
664
00:38:31,060 --> 00:38:34,813
- So the London thing happens.
- Yeah. And it didn't matter.
665
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:37,232
This place is a shit show.
VP or no, it's good you're here.
666
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:39,151
We figured, you know...
667
00:38:39,985 --> 00:38:41,779
- What? What did you figure?
- Well...
668
00:38:42,905 --> 00:38:46,325
Listen, I was trying
to find the right time to tell you.
669
00:38:46,325 --> 00:38:47,242
And...
670
00:38:48,786 --> 00:38:49,620
I--
671
00:38:50,746 --> 00:38:51,955
I didn't find it.
672
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:55,542
Now, two weeks ago--
673
00:38:55,542 --> 00:38:59,296
- I swear to fucking God.
- Two weeks ago you said, "Call Rick."
674
00:39:05,094 --> 00:39:05,928
Yeah.
675
00:39:06,970 --> 00:39:08,514
- And I...
- You called Rick.
676
00:39:08,514 --> 00:39:10,140
- I did.
- Katherine.
677
00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:14,645
You know the chessboard,
you are undaunted by complexity--
678
00:39:14,645 --> 00:39:16,105
I called our attorney.
679
00:39:16,105 --> 00:39:20,150
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance
to get someone into the White House
680
00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:23,362
with a preternatural ability
to un-fuck clusterfucks.
681
00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:25,739
I called Rick and said,
"Get us a mediator.
682
00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:30,702
Because this is gonna be the cleanest,
loveliest divorce anybody ever had."
683
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,204
You have an orchard.
684
00:39:32,204 --> 00:39:35,165
The president of the United States
is in it.
685
00:39:35,165 --> 00:39:39,336
You need to have a conversation with him.
Hear what he's thinking.
686
00:39:39,336 --> 00:39:44,341
You need to, in a chill way,
get to know the guy before he leaves,
687
00:39:44,341 --> 00:39:46,844
- which is in ten minutes.
- You didn't tell me a lot of things.
688
00:39:46,844 --> 00:39:48,804
- Katie--
- You had your reasons. It's okay.
689
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,973
But when you said...
690
00:39:51,890 --> 00:39:54,810
- "Yes, we can be done..."
- Yeah.
691
00:39:54,810 --> 00:40:00,149
"...we had ten good years, we're done,"
you were crying.
692
00:40:00,149 --> 00:40:01,692
There was snot.
693
00:40:01,692 --> 00:40:03,861
Kate, it's the vice presidency.
694
00:40:03,861 --> 00:40:05,946
- You want me to think about it, right?
- Yeah, I do.
695
00:40:05,946 --> 00:40:07,448
- Can you?
- Yeah.
696
00:40:08,615 --> 00:40:09,616
- Really?
- Yeah.
697
00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:13,912
- Katie--
- If you answer one question, truthfully.
698
00:40:14,455 --> 00:40:16,331
Really truthfully.
699
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:19,126
Sure, okay. Yeah, anything.
700
00:40:21,378 --> 00:40:25,632
When you said, "Call Rick,"
when you said, "We're done,"
701
00:40:27,259 --> 00:40:28,886
did you think we were done?
702
00:40:37,144 --> 00:40:37,978
No.
703
00:40:39,605 --> 00:40:40,772
[shouts]
704
00:40:42,274 --> 00:40:43,442
What the fuck?
705
00:40:44,151 --> 00:40:45,360
[grunting]
706
00:40:47,863 --> 00:40:50,157
Kate. Kate, take a breath--
707
00:40:50,157 --> 00:40:52,367
- [shouting]
- [grunts] Jesus!
708
00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:54,036
- Fuck.
- [Kate] Shit!
709
00:40:54,036 --> 00:40:55,454
What the fuck? Kate!
710
00:40:55,454 --> 00:40:56,663
Jesus.
711
00:41:03,462 --> 00:41:07,216
- You are killing me!
- [Martin] Huh.
712
00:41:07,216 --> 00:41:10,219
- Thoughts?
- We're not his detail. We're hers.
713
00:41:10,219 --> 00:41:12,095
Not going well for him, is it?
714
00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:13,347
[Kate shouting]
715
00:41:14,014 --> 00:41:16,099
[panting] Kate.
716
00:41:16,099 --> 00:41:20,145
- Kate, put it down.
- Shit. Stop. No!
717
00:41:20,145 --> 00:41:23,106
- Fuck! You fucking shit!
- I swear to God--
718
00:41:23,106 --> 00:41:25,734
Fucking-- Kate. Ow! Stop.
719
00:41:26,652 --> 00:41:27,945
Okay. Okay.
720
00:41:35,911 --> 00:41:38,956
- This marriage is...
- Jesus! Kate, stop!
721
00:41:38,956 --> 00:41:40,290
...killing me!
722
00:41:40,290 --> 00:41:43,710
- You are killing me!
- Yeah, I'm trying, it's not working.
723
00:41:43,710 --> 00:41:45,796
- Fucking shit!
- [Byron] Ma'am?
724
00:41:47,839 --> 00:41:50,175
The chief of staff
would like you to speak to the president.
725
00:41:50,175 --> 00:41:52,261
[panting]
726
00:41:57,891 --> 00:42:00,852
- What the fuck happened?
- I tripped. Where's the president?
727
00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:03,105
- Forget it.
- [Hal] She can change.
728
00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:04,731
Her clothes.
729
00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:07,109
President's not budging on the ships.
It's a rescue mission.
730
00:42:07,109 --> 00:42:09,319
I thought maybe you could turn him around,
731
00:42:09,319 --> 00:42:11,113
- but this isn't gonna--
- [Kate] No.
732
00:42:11,989 --> 00:42:13,824
- This is perfect.
- Kate.
733
00:42:21,707 --> 00:42:22,749
[Kate] Okay.
734
00:42:25,210 --> 00:42:26,670
Is she gonna be okay?
735
00:42:27,963 --> 00:42:28,797
I don't know.
736
00:42:46,189 --> 00:42:48,150
They could've rerouted to Diego Garcia.
737
00:42:48,150 --> 00:42:51,653
Everybody wants to know why I didn't
warn them we were going after the tanker.
738
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:54,489
Give me a minute.
739
00:43:03,165 --> 00:43:06,126
Marla Dane has a lot of experience.
740
00:43:06,126 --> 00:43:09,921
She took a year off to take care
of her dying mother who is now dead.
741
00:43:09,921 --> 00:43:11,715
- So--
- She's available.
742
00:43:11,715 --> 00:43:14,593
She can be ambassador.
She will love this...
743
00:43:15,677 --> 00:43:17,721
whatever this is on the walls.
744
00:43:18,764 --> 00:43:21,058
And she's the one you want
for the other thing too.
745
00:43:21,058 --> 00:43:22,184
Where are you going?
746
00:43:23,018 --> 00:43:25,646
I am not cut out for this.
747
00:43:25,646 --> 00:43:27,356
I'm stepping down.
748
00:43:27,356 --> 00:43:31,401
Good news is,
that makes me the one person in the world
749
00:43:31,401 --> 00:43:36,948
who isn't trying to kiss your ass,
but still knows a lot about Iran.
750
00:43:43,455 --> 00:43:45,832
A man named Saman Karimi
751
00:43:45,832 --> 00:43:49,169
was removed from the command
of a Quds Force unit in Syria
752
00:43:49,169 --> 00:43:52,631
when even Bashar al-Assad said
he was a guy who took things too far.
753
00:43:53,507 --> 00:43:56,009
- But you can't fire a Saman Karimi.
- No.
754
00:43:56,677 --> 00:43:59,846
So they gave him command
of a Fishing Industry Safety Regiment.
755
00:43:59,846 --> 00:44:03,475
Complete with 14 boats and a lot of RPGs.
756
00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:05,602
You think
they're gonna swarm the Fifth Fleet?
757
00:44:05,602 --> 00:44:08,355
I think they're gonna load an RPG
onto a fishing trawler
758
00:44:08,355 --> 00:44:10,357
and see what they can hit.
759
00:44:12,275 --> 00:44:15,070
A couple of Americans die,
and then we're in it.
760
00:44:16,196 --> 00:44:17,614
Not rescuers.
761
00:44:17,614 --> 00:44:18,949
Combatants.
762
00:44:19,825 --> 00:44:22,244
- I told Billie--
- You told her Russia's watching?
763
00:44:22,244 --> 00:44:24,496
That everyone's watching?
That it's a litmus test?
764
00:44:24,496 --> 00:44:25,622
Because it is.
765
00:44:25,622 --> 00:44:26,748
Of course it is.
766
00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:30,752
The minute Russia savaged Ukraine,
every NATO state's been waiting to see
767
00:44:30,752 --> 00:44:34,673
if I meant it when I said,
"An attack on one is an attack on all."
768
00:44:34,673 --> 00:44:36,091
One just got attacked.
769
00:44:36,091 --> 00:44:38,468
This is not the straw
that will break the alliance.
770
00:44:38,468 --> 00:44:41,471
Why not? An alliance is nothing.
771
00:44:41,471 --> 00:44:45,475
It's a pinkie promise like I made
with Jason Slavick when I was 10.
772
00:44:45,475 --> 00:44:47,853
- "You get hit, I show up."
- You're here.
773
00:44:48,645 --> 00:44:50,647
In this case,
I show up with a carrier group.
774
00:44:50,647 --> 00:44:52,232
Or judgment.
775
00:44:54,151 --> 00:44:58,613
Fifty thousand British soldiers marched
on Baghdad because we asked them to.
776
00:44:59,114 --> 00:45:00,323
And we chased that with an era
777
00:45:00,323 --> 00:45:02,993
defined by a profound lack of interest
in anybody but ourselves.
778
00:45:02,993 --> 00:45:07,664
Sir, you're not doing this
to restore our reputation in the world.
779
00:45:09,124 --> 00:45:11,543
This ought to be good. Why am I doing it?
780
00:45:11,543 --> 00:45:14,588
You're scared your enemies think
you're too old and frail
781
00:45:14,588 --> 00:45:16,548
to put Americans in the line of fire.
782
00:45:19,092 --> 00:45:20,469
Do people like you?
783
00:45:21,970 --> 00:45:23,555
You're right to worry about it.
784
00:45:24,097 --> 00:45:30,228
That smug Brazilian guy who kept offering
you pee breaks every 15 minutes at the G20
785
00:45:30,228 --> 00:45:35,233
revived all the rumors about incontinence
your team spent six months trying to kill.
786
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:39,279
And it's not nothing, particularly when
you're dealing with Russia and China.
787
00:45:39,279 --> 00:45:42,657
Any leader who looks at you
and sees his own age,
788
00:45:43,283 --> 00:45:45,452
it makes them wanna crush you.
789
00:45:46,036 --> 00:45:48,955
But that is like 49 percent disastrous.
790
00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:52,209
And potential for war with Iran is 51.
791
00:45:53,043 --> 00:45:54,544
Which means I win by two.
792
00:45:57,797 --> 00:45:59,299
A wise man once said,
793
00:46:00,091 --> 00:46:04,346
"Decisions don't get to the desk
of the president unless they're 49-51.
794
00:46:04,346 --> 00:46:09,142
I spend my days splitting hairs,
but that's the job I raised my hand for."
795
00:46:09,976 --> 00:46:11,102
I said that.
796
00:46:11,102 --> 00:46:12,103
Did you?
797
00:46:13,563 --> 00:46:16,650
I thought you were the only one
in the world who wasn't kissing my ass.
798
00:46:19,319 --> 00:46:20,153
Billie.
799
00:46:23,698 --> 00:46:26,409
- President would like the chief of staff.
- I'm here. His voice carries.
800
00:46:26,409 --> 00:46:29,496
- How are we doing?
- [Rayburn] No ships. Bring the car around.
801
00:46:29,496 --> 00:46:30,956
[Andrew] We're wheels up in two.
802
00:46:30,956 --> 00:46:34,084
- [Billie] Give me more on "no ships."
- She wins, I lose.
803
00:46:34,084 --> 00:46:36,920
And someone should wash her.
She looks ridiculous.
804
00:46:37,837 --> 00:46:39,214
Find the secretary of defense.
805
00:46:39,214 --> 00:46:40,799
Tell him no ships go to the Gulf.
806
00:46:40,799 --> 00:46:44,094
Make sure he doesn't fly back with me.
He's gonna be a real turd about this.
807
00:46:44,094 --> 00:46:47,097
I need a car for the secretary of defense
going back to Heathrow.
808
00:46:52,602 --> 00:46:53,979
This one tried to quit.
809
00:46:54,479 --> 00:46:55,939
Tell her to sack up.
810
00:46:59,776 --> 00:47:00,986
Hey.
811
00:47:05,657 --> 00:47:08,868
Call me on Tuesday.
We'll talk about the other thing.
812
00:47:08,868 --> 00:47:11,454
Ma'am, I'm sorry, it's not gonna work out.
813
00:47:11,454 --> 00:47:12,372
What?
814
00:47:12,372 --> 00:47:14,499
I have to say no.
815
00:47:14,499 --> 00:47:15,417
Yeah. I know.
816
00:47:17,210 --> 00:47:18,336
[Rayburn] You're doing great.
817
00:47:18,336 --> 00:47:22,299
Just knock off that "I resign" shit.
It really pisses me off.
818
00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:25,135
I don't have that kind of time.
819
00:48:03,423 --> 00:48:05,425
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