Saul makes inquiries via the Russian ambassador Victor Makarov (Elya Baskin) as to what is Russia's price to give back the recorder.
A disastrous meeting between President Hayes (Sam Trammell) and Ambassador Rashad (Samrat Chakrabarti) from Pakistan only increases the likelihood of nuclear conflict between the countries.
Wellington (Linus Roache) takes Rashad aside and, in order to de-escalate the situation, suggests that Pakistan release the U.S. special ops team that was arrested in Kohat.
Yevgeny makes her an offer: the only thing more valuable to Russia than the flight recorder is the identity of a double agent that Saul has placed very highly inside the Kremlin.
Brian Tallerico of New York magazine rated the episode 4 out of 5 stars, and placed into context the episode's climactic car bombing: "the brilliance of this very strong season has been in how the writers have captured that events like suicide bombings don’t exist in a vacuum as a singular event — they are the culmination of dozens of decisions on both sides".