EPISODE

19. Global Relief

When warring rebel groups threaten Elizabeth's Somalian food relief efforts and kidnap an American aide there, she reluctantly considers asking a notorious Russian arms dealer for help. Also, Henry is blindsided when he is taken off the VFF doomsday cult case, and Alison and Stevie await their college acceptances.

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The family anxiously awaits news on which college accepts Ally and whether Stevie gets into Harvard Law. A severe drought in Somalia is exacerbated by violence between two opposing rebel groups who are both claiming the last arable land in the region. An ex-State Department employee who now works for an NGO delivering food to the area tries to broker a ceasefire between the two groups and is taken hostage. Elizabeth makes a deal with an arms dealer to get a ceasefire so that the region can receive food supplies and a security group can retrieve the hostage. The plan is ultimately successful, but the weapons that the security group captures indicate that that arms dealer is the one who stole the weapons from the US. Henry hypothesizes that the militia leadership may be planning to bomb Al-Aqsa Mosque. The FBI learns that several of its members have already left the US.

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