Things continue to heat up in Elizabeth McCord's (Tea Leoni) professional and personal life as she tries to juggle both at the same time.
In a synopsis for the CBS political drama, Elizabeth is poised to go a head-on collision with her husband Henry (Tim Daly) after an American CIA agent is captured by the terrorist group Taliban in Afghanistan. Henry calls for the release of the CIA agent and goes to Elizabeth and President Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine) to help facilitate her freedom. He later finds out that Dalton and Elizabeth are not sold on the idea. In a promo trailer for the episode, Dalton reminds Henry that they will not negotiate with terrorists. Henry counters that this government cannot let an American citizen die in the hands of terrorists without doing anything. The two men's opposing views place Elizabeth in a precarious position.
Elsewhere on the show, Elizabeth turns on her maternal side as she tries to be there for her daughter Stevie (Wallis Curie) after ending her engagement and relationship with her British boyfriend Jareth (Christopher O'Shea). Stevie took a couple of days before she told her parents the truth about the breakup as it Elizabeth worries that Stevie might be blaming herself entirely for the breakup. Elizabeth rallies her entire family to show their support for Stevie during this difficult time.
In the show's last episode, Elizabeth had to deal with the illicit affair of one of her ambassadors which derailed the progress they were making in addressing the human trafficking situation in Central Asia. As she and her team tried to salvage the situation with Jay (Sebastian Arcelus) becoming her new Chief of Staff, they discovered that Henry's current intelligence work might have some connection with the problems they had been dealing with in Central Asia.
"Madam Secretary" airs every Sunday at 10 p.m. EST on CBS.
