3. The Essentials — Episode — Madam Secretary

3. The Essentials

With a government shutdown looming, Elizabeth must think outside the box to help fund an electrical grid in a Syrian refugee camp, before riots break out in the country due to the lack of electricity and water. Also, Henry searches for Dmitri when he goes missing.

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Elizabeth negotiates with the Lebanese ambassador and an Israel solar power company to get a solar grid installed at a refugee camp. Henry's boss at the CIA gets Dmitri admitted to an agency-approved rehabilitation facility. Budget negotiations between Conrad and the adversarial Senator Morejon are unable to prevent a government shutdown. Nadine, learning that she is going to be a grandmother, gives Elizabeth her notice as she prepares to join her son and his partner in California.

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