Plot summary
Henry and Dmitri travel to Afghanistan to recruit an old friend of Dmitri's as an asset, and he tells them of a plan to circumvent an upcoming military operation against the Taliban. He is later tortured and killed, leading Dmitri to worry that his friend may have been forced to reveal that Dmitri is still alive. Conrad must decide between proceeding with the military operation or agreeing to a diplomatic compromise that will give the Taliban a voice in Afghanistan's government, and he chooses the diplomatic route. Afghanistan's minister of education, who is in the US to speak at a women's conference, is dismayed, because the compromise includes a prohibition against women in the government. Daisy takes her daughter to meet her paternal grandmother.
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