A brother, Marcus (Brian Noons) visits his sister, Nicole (Jessie Lande) in Yemen on Spring Break and can't help but bring out the drugs. A convoy of military approach and arrest the two of them. Later the two publicly apologize and ask for forgiveness. The State Department Official, Peters (Rick Hoffman) shows this to Gillian (Kelli Williams) and Eli (Brendan Hines) who are hired to see the reactions of the Yemeni officials in negotiations for the pair's release. Gillian notices the reaction of Nicole.
Cal (Tim Roth) has a case of his own - close to home - when an old friend, Jeffrey (DW Moffett) whom he knows from Oxford wants him to find out who stole the formula for their groundbreaking drug, Priox. A man is in a coma after taking the drug and suffered a stroke. Jeffrey introduces Cal and Ria (Monica Raymund) to Erica (Alexa Fischer) who pioneered the drug and they believe the inferior version of the drug is the cause. Jeffrey tells Ria that Cal used to be a pathological liar. Cal talks with three suspected employees and tells them they have found fingerprints after the computer was accessed. The two men protest but the woman, Aisha (Deidre Henry) freely volunteers her prints. Cal immediately knows she's lying since she used gloves and so she knows no prints will be found. She then confesses she didn't want to take the formula or give it away but there's a cover up and Priox is causing the deaths. She's turning whistleblower.
Cal shows Jeffrey an analysis done by a lab showing Priox is not safe. Jeffrey prefers to believe Erica, having an ulterior motive for putting so much faith in her, well he has to. Either he knows about the drug or there's something more personal involved. Gillian shows up at Alex's (Tim Guinee) office and his secretary appears flustered at seeing her there, telling her he's out. Gillian monitors the Yemeni along with the negotiators and notices that Ambassador Hassan (Nick Hodaly) is just a puppet. Ambassador Rafik is the only one holding the real power, since in Arab culture, the most powerful person enters a room last. They show Peters a tape of Arafat with another man and they both want the other to enter the building first. Eli looks over Marcus's tapes.
Ria and Cal have that same old conversation about knowing Alex is lying to Gillian and again Cal replies it's none of her business. He asks her how many people she trusts and she says 6. By the time she reaches Cal's age that number will be reduced to 3. When Gillian wants to talk, she'll come to him. Aisha has been arrested and Jeffrey tells Cal he's fulfilled his part in finding the thief. He tells Cal she has a large amount of money deposited in an offshore account, after selling the formula. She again admits she did sell it but she had a change of heart when she found what the drug was doing to people. Cal thinks turning whistleblower is a convenient way to keep the money. She sends Cal to the original lab that tested Priox. Their contract has been withdrawn but the drug wasn't any good.
Gillian shows Cal the videos of Nicole and Marcus and Nicole is slurring her speech on purpose. Gillian then shows the tape of a soldier from the first Gulf War to her parents showing the military are trained to speak in a certain way. Nicole is communicating in that way to show she hasn't been broken. She's a spy which her mother knows nothing about. Peters tells Gillian one person will be released and they want Nicole back, she's the most important with all the info she knows about CIA safehouses. A Red Cross worker shows their father, Rob (Lou Richards) photos of Marcus smuggled out by a nurse who attended him, showing bruises when he was beaten up after an attempted escape. He has been denied medical treatment and will be executed.
Cal cunningly tells Erica reporters are interested in the drug and want to meet with him. Erica bit her lip everytime Cal mentioned the drug. He meets with an FDA official, Jim (Marc Vann) who has no evidence to pull the drug. Cal wants to be certain Jeffrey didn't know about the drug. Ria shows him a video of Erica speaking about the drug and each time she bites her lip and turns to look at Jeffrey, who lowers his head in guilt. Which Cal thinks is a sign he knew about the effects of the drug. When confronted Jeffrey admits he was having an affair with Erica and Cal warns him to keep away from Erica.
Gillian and Peters tell Rafik he will be invited to an important event at the Whitehouse where he will sit next to the President and shows him an invitation. The US will honour every humanitarian demand from Yemen. Jeffrey goes straight to Erica, as Cal knew he would which is one reason why he said not to go there. They talk about the drug unaware Cal has planted a bug on him. Erica was in a hurry to release the drug and needs more time. Erica is arrested and Jeffrey is angry. He tells Cal he could count the number of friends he could trust on one hand and Cal was one of them - thus Cal telling Ria that the number of people she can trust will be reduced to only 3: the number counted on one hand.
Gillian tells Cal Jeffrey will get over it eventually and is disappointed Alex cancels dinner. She comments she was at the State Department during the day and he spends his nights there. Cal takes a rain check on dinner as he's got something to do, spying on Alex with a blonde. An episode that's personal for Cal and for Gillian. He loses his best friend who was there for him when his mother died and as he said to Ria, they all have secrets which they don't want anyone to know about in the workplace and she must respect that.
Cal: "Yeah, congratulations. Once again you've earned the apparently foreign destination of 'none of your damn business.'"
Ria: "I don't get you."
Cal: "Good. Stop trying."
Gillian is still oblivious, maybe she's in denial about Alex's cheating. Wonder if that started when their baby was taken from them, or is he just no good? Jeffrey is also having an affair with Erica which Cal didn't pick up on. How did he miss that? Cal says if they're one of them, then it's different, they don't talk about it. Obviously he's got secrets he doesn't want to share as Ria found out in an earlier episode he was hiding something, as she also finds Gillian was hiding something here. Let's hope this doesn't continue for too long for those of us who haven't seen the show in its entirety yet. Gillian doesn't eat anymore, not her junk food and not much of anything really, did someone forget?
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