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Senator Thwaite is jealous of the President, who he lost the election to previously - he engages Erik Sawyer because he wants to dig up dirt on Prez - knows he met with James Reece at Camp David and wants to know why Prez is meeting with an assassin so he can use any hint of scandal against him

Qassem meets Ali at a soccer game at Gillette Stadium and acts like he’s passing him some had sanitizer - it is one of the deadliest toxins ever developed

Iranian spy Qassem triggered 9/11 hijackers in Maine - he is housed in Pakistan embassy since no Iran embassy since 1979

now he knows of a “contingency” plan the US has with localized nuclear bombers within the US ready to contain any massive outbreak internally before it can spread - Qassem intends to turn the US against itself from inside using a pathogen he will pass along to a contact

Reece meets w/ Prez @ Camp David - President talks history and “the Deep State” (bureaucracy) - shows him more than 19 hijackers involved in 9/11 - gives Reece a list of people involved and wants Reece to tar them out because the job isn’t finished

Reece acknowledges being chosen b/c if caught, they can just say he was rogue again and all a big conspiracy- gives them deniability- tells Prez he will consider

Ali is an Iranian who’s family got devastated in the Iran / Iraq war in 1980s and he blames America for siding with Iraq, bringing devastation to Iranian troops - he works his way through Iranian intelligence and becomes head of research for BioDine - going to infiltrate US and cause some kind of mass devastation

Hezbollah operative has high hopes for a big operation in Angola, but one day is given an inhaler to spray in a marketplace which spreads an Ebola like disease in Angola, but he dies himself - disease is contained