EPISODE

7. North to the Future

When a Russian dissident flees to the U.S. after contracting smallpox, Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord and retired U.N. Ambassador Kat Sandoval must work with Russian Foreign Minister Konstantin Avdonin to contain the outbreak

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A Russian eco-activist sneaks onto a diplomatic plane to the US, but when he arrives, it is discovered that he has smallpox. Elizabeth initially suspects the Russian government, but is convinced by former United Nations employee Kat Sandoval that the cause is most likely the thawing permafrost in Siberia. The US, Canada, Greenland, China, and Russia agree to a program of efforts to prevent permafrost thaw. One of Henry's team tells him that there is an investigation into multiple agents across different agencies being revealed, just like Nasifa. Henry suspects that the leaker must be someone in the president's cabinet. Elizabeth hires Kat as policy advisor. Worried by Jason's obsession with his girlfriend, Henry and Elizabeth attempt to caution him about sex.

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