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We have these food aid rules for a reason.
Yes, to, uh, subsidize US farmers so they can sell off their grain overages.
Now, that's a very simplistic...
...And to give US shipping companies the monopoly so they can overcharge and underperform on delivery. It is a...inefficient and wasteful system.
Welcome to the United States government.
So the whole arms smuggling thing -- was that Vesuvian or just Brennan?
He was the only one on the take. Apparently he was massively in debt, thanks to our skill in solving conflict with diplomacy instead of shooting wars.
Go us.
[about Piper] You know, this is good. She's going against her instincts. Jason's got to get in there and build on the friendship.
That's not exactly what I told him.
So where'd you land? Good cop or bad cop?
Grounded for lying, pancakes for broken heart.
Okay, I've got to say something. Two things, actually. One, we're never going to be able to compete with Kuwaiti royalty.
I know.
And two, which is way more important, Piper's gonna like who she likes, and it may not make sense, and it might seem like she's betraying who she really is, but you're not gonna change her mind by trying to compete.
I did underscore the seriousness of the situation, right?
He's concerned we're not all sufficiently terrified.
Nope. Message received. I'm deeply, deeply scared.
[watching Henry and Elizabeth bicker] Bet you don't miss that part of being married, huh?
Sorry, what?
Hmm, yeah, that was insensitive.
On the other hand, if we don't engage --
We've potentially let a respected journalist, not to mention an American citizen, die in a foreign prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Which is a bad look for us.
Fine, I like you, Nadine. I like you, and I would like to go out with you.
You sound like a teenager.
Americans have an underdeveloped language for romance. Yes or no?
I'm sorry that you felt ambushed.
I'm sorry that I called you out in front of the leader of the free world.
So you have anxiety about running into old colleagues?
Not unless you count waking up at two am in a cold sweat from stress nightmares where I'm back there and all the doors are locked and I'm naked, but...[Nadine laughs] not really.
Matt [in a bad Italian accent] Ah, Roma...city of carbs-ah.
I have to admit, I've been dreaming about the stracchi for the past week. [high fives Matt, receives glare from Nadine] And the deal with Russia on tax avoidance.
You ambushed me!
I would have told you, but we were a little busy trying to prevent a bioterror attack.
If only there were some method of communication where you could send messages almost instantaneously.
This was a really hard week. I'm sorry if I wasn't entirely myself.
Yeah, I was meaning to talk to you about that. When you're saving the world, could you be a little more cheerful, please?
Have you at least, you know, trolled him?
Oh....that's...stalky.
Yesterday's stalky is today's getting to know you. Take it from the girl who got knocked up by a guy with a false identity.
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