Zero Day

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George.

Everything I told you last night,

it's true.

We were right. That's the key to all of it.

- -

Are you someplace you can talk?

You need to write this down.

-Yeah, I can talk now. - George!

Did you get it?

No, say it again.

Make sure you listen carefully, George, because…

- - What?

I can't understand.

Goddamn it.

National tensions remain high since the Zero Day attack,

and the overall mood remains cautious, with the country slowly emerging.

Many offices and schools are reopening or planning to shortly,

but air traffic remains limited.

And many commuter rail systems will remain running on reduced schedule.

In the meantime, the Zero Day Commission's work begins behind closed doors

with most experts insisting

only a nation-state could execute an attack on this scale,

and one suspect at the top of every list, Russia.

I've been trying to reach you assholes for two days!

- -

President Mullen, sir.

Signal switchboard. President Mitchell wants to speak with you.

We're gonna patch her through now.

All right.

Madam President.

The Joint Chiefs came to see me.

Seventy-two hours.

That's the recommended window for retaliation.

Against who?

All signs point to Moscow.

Wait, we… we don't know that. We can't know that.

Madam President, do we want someone to blame, or do we want the truth?

Of course I want the truth,

but I want it before it's too late to do me any good.

I hear you. I'm on it.

I know.

And I'm grateful.

Hand, sir.

Good to see you again, Mr. President.

The team's waiting.

We have the facility on loan from CIA,

along with the hotel across the street.

I've arranged the same satellite uplinks you'd have in the situation room,

and you'll find secure hard lines to DOD, CIA, NSA,

and White House already set up.

-Thanks, Carl. -

Please.

So, from here on, we'll convene an all hands at 0700 and 1900 hours

seven days a week.

It's Melissa Kornblau, PR.

It hasn't been that long, Roger.

Appreciate you coming back.

It'll be an honor to once again keep the jackals at bay

while you save the country, sir.

Let's keep moving.

Maybe a few words for the foot soldiers first.

I think it's best we do that briefing first,

get everyone up to speed.

Sir, I think it'll be a good idea.

They're all here for you.

It'll only take a second.

- Melissa, let's keep it moving. -Hey, let me just go here for a minute.

Hi, everyone.

Well, you're all here because your country needs you.

And…

you're the best at what you do,

and right now, your country needs the very best.

So let's get to work.

Yes, sir!

Good morning.

First, some housekeeping.

For those of you who don't know, I'm Carl Otieno from justice.

I'll be coordinating the investigation.

-This is Roger Carlson. -Thank you, Carl.

All documents, scheduling requests for President Mullen

will go through me.

All of you should have met Melissa Kornblau.

You get a phone call, text, WhatsApp or door knock from a reporter,

you do not answer, and you immediately tell me.

Is that clear?

Now that we have that out of the way…

All right. Mr. President?

Okay, so, what do we know?

FBI, sir. I run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force.

Within an hour of the attack, we deployed 56 rapid response teams

to run in-person forensics on the impacted systems.

Sir, I'm Tim Pennington, in charge of cyber forensics.

A coordinated cyberattack of this scale against multiple systems is unprecedented.

Devices operating on Windows, Android,

Mac OS, iOS, Industrial SCADA systems and PLCs,

they were all impacted at the same time.

What is really frightening is that none of the systems

that failed show any evidence of how they were controlled.

It's like an army invaded,

sacked the country, and retreated without a trace.

That's actually optimistic.

Most likely the malware is still in place. It's just gone dormant, sleeping.

-So, someone could just wake it up? -Whenever they choose to.

If I can interrupt to state the obvious.

No one better breathe a fucking word about this.

People are terrified,

and from what I'm hearing so far, they're right to be.

Silence isn't exactly reassuring.

People need to know that we have everything under control.

Well, I need results I can share.

Or barring that, leads I can spin

until they bear a vague resemblance to actual progress.

We're not gonna spin anything.

The American people need to know the truth, nothing but the truth.

Well, we may have something no spin required.

These images were just collected

from CCTV cameras outside of a loft in the Bronx.

It's the headquarters of a known hacking collective,

one of hundreds in the city.

But the only one someone went to the trouble to wipe out execution-style

early this morning.

Facial recognition hasn't identified this man yet.

We're still running him through the system.

But this one, this is Alexi Lebedev, known GRU officer.

Works out of the New York consulate.

As you know, sir, this is consistent with the Pentagon's view

that Russia's most likely the responsible party.

Thank you, General.

Uh, Melissa's right. Not a word of this leaves this room,

not until we have the full picture.

That means not until we find this mystery man.

All right? Thank you.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

Hey, Carl. Carl.

So, you gonna pick the real bad guy or just find any old innocent bystander?

Alexandra, please, just a minute!

Hello, Richard.

You're a difficult woman to reach.

I'm sorry.

Now is not a great time to be avoiding me.

Yeah, I know. The whole thing is… a disaster.

It is,

and I'm sure you'll agree it needs to be resolved quickly for the country's sake.

Yes, I do agree.

Have you spoken with your father?

Nope. Not since I told him not to take the job,

and we see how that went, so…

You know, we don't talk very often.

You need to let all that go right away, Alex.

This needs to be handled properly. Managed closely. A lot at stake.

I know.