Listen, I know you've been through hell, but I-I need to know what I'm dealing with here. Do you have any idea why you were expelled?
It's much simpler if I offer my resignation.
No. Not a chance.
But the Human Trafficking Summit...
I am not going to let Nogoyev abuse my diplomats. It's humiliating. And he is cruel and arbitrary.
It isn't arbitrary ma'am. I, uh, I was... I was involved with Feliks Karimov, the Minister of Health and the president's brother-in-law.
What?!
He runs a series of clinics for indigent children.
Oh, my God.
At the time, the-the embassy was involved with health care diplomacy. One thing led to another, and... Nogoyev must have found out. I know it sounds crazy, but we had plans. It made sense.
Yeah, this is the part that I'm struggling with. How did you allow it to make sense?
Feliks isn't like his brother-in-law. He's-he's patient, funny.
Oh, Julia, this is, this is bigger than you. I mean... (sighs)... We got here on the backs of decades of women who worked their whole lives to be trusted and taken seriously and you just... (takes a deep breath) ... Our mistakes are magnified. It's not fair. We owe it to each other to remember that.
I know. And it sickens me.
I'll take that letter now.
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