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Tony and NOT-Patty arrive outside the apartment of Jibraan Al-Zarian...some 27 year-old Muslim patsy with no ties to a known terrorist organization that they plan to frame for their evil deeds. The poor dude is a loner illegal-immigrant who's parents were killed by US air strikes on the Pakistani border back in the day. Perfect! They're going to create a bunch of fake emails making it look like he's behind everything because he fits the "psych profile". Cold!

In the apartment, Jibraan is watching the news and preparing a nice early-morning breakfast for himself and his little brother. They share a nice little moment together in the kitchen where big brother Jibraan tells his little brother to hurry home after work, it's not a "good day to be a muslim" because of all the terrorism funny business. The little brother laughs at this, since Muslims weren't involved in the attack and most of his colleagues assume he's "Puerto Rican" anyway. Haha.

Back outside, a couple more Baddies arrive and impatient Tony notes it's about time. The gang of four, all decked out in Baddie Black (technically NOT-Patty would be in Bitchin' Black?) saunter purposefully toward Jibraan's apartment, as we cut to break!

Five minutes later, in the White House, Ho-Livia is pouting in her office and reading something when Aaron comes in. The Attorney General is waiting for her to "sign off" on something, and everyone is looking for her. Ho-Livia wonders aloud if Aaron knows what's up, and then answers her own question by noting it's all highly classified and he wouldn't be in the loop. She loops him in anyway, because she's a stupid little brat, and tells him all the super-secret inside scoop stuff regarding Hodges being alive and being offered a witness protection agreeement. She's got her pissy-pants on because all of the sudden she's revenge-hungry for her brother (oh yeah...and those other innocent victims too, I guess). Aaron does his best to paternally offer some advice to the little brat. The gist of it: Life isn't always fair, Your Mom is a great lady, STFU and do your job. She seems to accept the advice, and on his way out Aaron asks if there's anything else he can do for her. She sorta half-jokingly wonders aloud if he could klll Jonas Hodges for her. Aaron doesn't appreciate the humor and looks at her sternly/wordlessly. She apologizes and tells him she's just venting.

When Aaron leaves, Olivia has some kind of internal debate with herself and nervously picks up her cell phone. She calls an attractive, fit, half-naked middle-aged dude named Martin who is asleep is his tastefully modern bedroom. They exchange a few pleasantries about being woken at 4AM and getting fired from jobs. Martin describes his tactics as too "hardball" for his most recent employer. Some younger half-naked dude rolls over in the bed next to Martin when he hears the word "hardball". It's probably a member of his softball team that lives all the way across town, or something? It was sweet of Martin to let him crash at his pad instead of driving all the way home after the big game.

Martin gets out of bed to speak with Olivia in the privacy of the hallway, lest he wake his sleeping teammate. Ho-Livia and Martin reminisce about fun times on the campaign trail. Specifically, they discuss a fun drunken conversation they had shortly after Ma Taylor picked VP Hayworth as her running mate. Apparently, Hayworth had a nasty little prescription drug habit and a local reporter was getting to be a problem. Martin mentioned something to Olivia about how there was no problem that couldn't be fixed or "eliminated". Oooh. She clearly wants to discuss said "tactics" in relation to her Hodges problem. They both agree that this is a conversation best had in person and not over the phone, so Martin agrees to toss on some clothing and meet her at the White House in 15 minutes. When she hangs up, Ho-Livia shudders and looks nervous some more. She's wading further into the deep end of hardball tactics! Sleeping with reporters was all well and good, how about a little murder thrown in the mix?

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