6. Catch and Release

After an American aid worker is killed in Syria by the first known American ISIS leader, Elizabeth recalls all aid workers stationed there, including her brother, Will (Eric Stoltz), and makes it her mission to get justice for the victim. Also, Henry is conflicted when Dmitri asks for help saving Ivan (Dennis Staroselsky), who has been called back to Moscow,

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An American-born ISIS leader kills an American aid worker. The State Department evacuates American NGO workers, including Elizabeth's brother, a surgeon. Elizabeth's staff identify the ISIS leader as the son of a State Department employee. Elizabeth uses information that she gains from the employee and from her brother to identify a courier providing black-market medicine to the ISIS leader. The military follow the courier with a drone, and kill the ISIS leader and the courier with a missile.

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