Carrie (Claire Danes), now facing almost a dozen federal charges, is released on bond into Saul's (Mandy Patinkin) custody.
Saul flies to New York and storms in as the meeting concludes, confronting Ambassador Makarov (Elya Baskin) and loudly demanding Russia's asking price for the flight recorder.
She discovers their method of communication (notes tucked in the bindings) and constructs a timeline of American intelligence coups from the collection of books.
She arranges a call with Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) to report her findings, but not having yet nailed down the asset's identity, Carrie is unable to make a deal for the recorder.
Yevgeny demands that his price must be met one way or another: by unveiling the asset’s identity or by eliminating the conduit by which the information is passed to the United States, which is Saul.
Crow also reacted to Yevgeny's proposal to Carrie: "this twist makes the heavy handedness of last week’s ultimatum seem chillingly logical and tactically brilliant".