An agreement between a U.S. mining company and Chile goes awry.
Plus, Blake was pretty much in the entire episode, which is always an added bonus.
Meanwhile Henry, Jane and Jose are still trying to track down Jibral Disahs third wife, Hijriyyah.
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Lets start with the situation in Chile, shall we?
The show opens in the Andes mountains in Chile.
There is a group protesting an American company, Hercutel, for mining gold in their mountains.
The protest gets ugly, and someone throws a rock at the American driver.
So why is this the State Departments problem?
Regardless, its all Bess problem now, and shes got the college tour to deal with, too.
Not exactly the under-the-radar trip they were hoping for.
Between that and the protests, Chile temporarily shuts down the mining.
Nothings that simple, though.
That means that the Chilean government had no right to make an agreement with Hercutel.
At this point, I think every single person watching probably rolled their eyes.
Luckily, Bess had a plan, as she normally does.
In the morning Bess marched over to the kids dorm room with his parents on Skype.
His parents flip out and tell him to drop the lawsuit or they would stop paying his tuition.
Bess interrupts with a classic one of her speeches.
On to the next.
In the end, the company just moved to a different mountain in the Argentine Andes.
Although its not ideal, its a win-win.
Hugo was also rescued after a terrifying avalanche that almost left him dead.
Meanwhile, in a totally different world crisis, Henrys group is still trying to track down Hijriyyah.
They have two ideas for how to find her.
Option one is to work with Disahs enemies to help track him and take him down.
Jose says most of them are militia leaders in Libya vying for power.
Of course, those men are super untrustworthy and could turn on them at any moment.
They opt for the second one, obviously.
Seriously though, Henrys charm could win over a war lord.
He promises to help get her family out of Libya if she helps them.
As it turns out Hijriyyah is responding to emails, so thats cool.
She quotes a line fromOne Thousand and One Nights.
They could turn her into the asset that would bring him down for good.
Ohh boy, things are getting crazy!
According to the description for next week, theres a plane crash.
Of course, because theres always a plane crash onMadam Secretary.
