Plot summary
Elizabeth and Henry travel to New York City on their anniversary for what is supposed to be a romantic reliving of their courtship. During her absence, the Texas governor causes a stand-off with Mexico over the extradition of a drug lord. The Secretary's team tries to sort out this issue without involving her, but ultimately has to call her. The Secretary does some unique arm-twisting to make the governor stand down and resolve the issue. The scholar on whom Henry was spying reaches out to Henry and asks for asylum in return for revealing all that he knows.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Madam Secretary season 1. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.