Amid this chaos, Penn shows up in London, where he subtly manipulates British Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) into keeping the entire treacherous plan secret. She does such a good job charming Trowbridge that the Prime Minister appears to convince US President William Rayburn (Michael McKean) to reconsider his plan to remove Grace from the government and replace her with Kate.

But after Trowbridge makes things awkward at the fancy dinner attended by Kate, Hal, Grace and other dignitaries, Kate and Hal are forced to reveal to Grace that they know she was behind the attack. The Vice President takes Kate out of dinner and, using an inappropriately hilarious visual aid, explains that the attack was a plan to prevent Scottish independence, which would have resulted in the loss of a major US nuclear base in the North Atlantic means. So look, she didn’t bomb the British ship because she’s a bad person, she did it to save the world from nuclear destruction by Russia in a future hypothetical war.

Kate struggles with how to handle this new information, eventually realizing that she and Hal just have to follow the rules: Hal has to inform the Secretary of State and let someone higher up handle everything. Only Hal doesn’t do what he’s told.

No, he goes straight to his good friend President Rayburn, who finds the news so disturbing that he drops dead during the Zoom call. Hal runs screaming through the halls of the American Embassy in London in an attempt to reach Kate, who happens to be having a nice (read: super passive-aggressive) conversation with Grace at that moment about how Grace wants to keep Kate and Hal quiet.