Lioness

All right, everybody hold on.

A congresswoman was kidnapped on American soil...

- -

- Congresswoman Hernandez? - Yeah.

...her family killed at the behest

of the Chinese Ministry of State.

We'd like to get a Lioness on the ground.

Do it.

What do you know about the Lioness program?

- Are you a Lioness? - I run it.

I don't know if I can trust this girl.

But I know that I can trust you.

What's your mission now?

To protect the mission. From everything. Including you.

We could choose not to fight. But choosing not to fight

is how warehouses fill up with children.

I took one in the field.

I'm hunting how to make peace with walking away for you.

For them. For me.

Well, I hope you find it.

Your father's the mission now.

- Why? - Because this is

how he survives.

- They know. - Who's "they"?

CIA

Special Activities.

- - The mission is to show Iran

and China that we aren't the only nation with an open border.

Do not get yourself caught.

Everyone's watching on this one.

Am I a part of this?

You're the part.

We're gonna find out how well you fly.

Two minutes to target.

I wasn't sure you were coming home.

I wasn't sure I still had one to come home to.

You always have one to come home to.

Look who's home!

Mom? Is that you?

- Mom? - It's me, baby. Oh.

The French government has said

it is considering all options,

including declaring a state of emergency

after a third night

of escalating violence and rioting...

Let's start with the Middle East.

The Times is reporting that Hamas

has denied reports that it has

ignored requests from the international community

concerning the crisis in Gaza...

A devastating scene, meanwhile, in Oaksville.

Several people dead and even more missing

from an explosion at an explosives plant...

Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight

border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan

in the most serious fighting between...

Ukraine's president said Russia

targeted the country

with 450 drones and 30 missiles

in a countrywide attack targeting the...

Well, Max, we've been on lockdown

here in these capitol buildings

for almost four hours now.

ATF, TBI, Homeland Security,

and several other agencies are currently...

The attorney general's office in Brazil

has filed an indictment

- against 39 people... - The Middle East is

the fulcrum of it all, we know this. But the thing

could spread like wildfire.

...Israel remains in Gaza

and still rejects a two-state solution,

so is this the dawn of a new Middle East?

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Oh, good God, it's freezing.

- It helps with inflammation. - Yeah,

so does Advil, honey.

I don't want a pill to do it.

I want my body to do it.

Well, I can think of a few things I want your body to do.

That window closed about an hour ago.

- There was a window? - Yeah, and you missed it.

No.

I thought you finished your homework last night.

Dad, what's the capital of Maine?

Uh, capital, uh... Honey, what's the capital of Maine?

Uh, Augusta.

Mm. That's Georgia.

No, the capital of Georgia's Atlanta, honey.

She's right. It's Augusta, Daddy.

Really? Hmm. Never heard of it.

- What about Vermont? - Vermont, that is Burlington.

Montpelier.

- It's weird that you know that. - How come

- you don't know it, Dad? - Okay, wise guys,

who can name the key nerves of the thoracic wall?

That's easy. It's the intercostal nerve...

- You're disqualified. -

Why am I disqualified?

You're-you're disqualified.

Okay, wait, wait, wait. Here's a question. Ready?

X cubed, minus 6X squared,

plus 11X, minus six equals zero.

- What? - I didn't hear a question.

Okay, question.

What are the variables that make the equation zero?

No, never in your life will that have a practical application.

I'm pulling you from that school.

- - Oh, my God. It's so easy.

- Easy? You're grounded. - Grounded? Really? Why?

I don't know yet. Are you back for dinner?

I should be.

Could get used to this nine-to-five thing.

Don't.

See you ladies tonight.

Ah, no love for Dad?

I'm saving all my love for you, Daddy.

- Ew! - All right. Gross.

- Gross. - Okay.

- Fine, fine, fine. - Oh, okay. All right, all right.

- Bye, Mom, love you. - Bye, Mom.

All right, all right. Finish up. We got to go.

- - Anything interesting?

I never thought the headline "End of Democracy"

would ring so hollow.

Can only cry "wolf" so many times.

Seems so shortsighted.

An entire industry rendering itself irrelevant.

Not if you think

about how they were trained and who trained them.

- Just follow the money. - Yeah.

Qatar alone has donated over $11 billion dollars

to U.S. universities.

China has donated $2.3 billion since 2012,

with $12 billion in tuition paid

for Chinese nationals at our universities.

And you're surprised that graduates of those schools are

espousing communist agendas

and declaring democracy is dying?

That's what they were trained to say.

Doesn't scare you even a little?

Fool's gold, honey.

You want to scare me, start talking about AI.

That's the real end of democracy.

- - Oh.

Hey, you on your way in?

I'll be there in 30. You?

Across town, security brief.

Am I needed?

No, not yet.

We're pretty close over here.

Well, you know the deal.

A lot of red tape

on this side of the fence.

- Oh, nice. - What's nice?

Shit! I'm blackjacked! I'm blackjacked!

Joe?

Joe?

Damn it! No!

Blackjack on Raven.

Blackjack on Raven, unfolding in real time.

Access beacon. Send all assets to last known location.

Where's the park?

Georgetown campus.

How'd this come our way?

Approached Kyle at a bar.

- What bar? - The Net. He thought he was

being honeypotted. She said she saw him in Kiev

with 46 and then at the Ukraine embassy last week.

She's FISU, worked her way into Russia's SVR 2018.

- Long time to double agent. - We reached out to Kiev.

- FISU verified it. - Okay.

So what does she have?

Pretty curious about that myself.

We good?

You're good.

It's not how we like to do things.

SVR watches their own more than they watch you.

We've been looking for a way since the war started.

An opportunity appeared, I took it.

Okay.

What are you gonna do about it?

Aleksi Yurimov.

I'm sorry. I'm not up on my Russian spies.

The Middle East is my theater.

- You know SSD? - Yes.

He runs it.

He's moved to the front. I have his location.

Okay. Yay for you.

We want you to have him.

Why would we want that?

Leverage. Maybe you trade him.

Why would you want that?