It's two years since Patty and Ellen worked together. Ellen investigates a Middle East contractor despite warnings from her boss and from Patty. Patty, still having the reigns at Hewes & Associates takes on a drugs firm.
Ellen presents the High Star case to senior partners while Erickson and Boorman take different approaches to make it disappear. After the gas explosion, Chris's paranoia heightens as he believes he's being targeted.
Ellen discovers Chris's secret after taking his deposition. Chris and Anthony, now back in Afghanistan, start interrogating and searching for the mullah who ordered the hit and Patty rejects Erickson's settlement offer.
Ellen meets the son of Chris' Afghan contact. Erickson decides to torture Chris for info about the possibility of an intelligence breach whilst Patty discovers that High Star extracts terror suspects for the CIA.
Ellen and Patty move Nasim to a safer place as they gather evidence against High Star. Boorman frames Nasim for an attempted bombing to prevent his deposition whilst Erickson struggles to maintain his CIA contact.
Patty and Ellen scramble to gain access to Nasim, while Boorman scrambles to keep that from happening. Ellen enlists a reporter to find Chris in Afghanistan and Michael surfaces in New York, looking for Catherine.
Patty uses her drug-company case to gain information on High Star and Ellen's journalist tries to embed with High Star mercenaries in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Michael seeks to reunite with his daughter Catherine.
Reporter Dean Gullickson heads to Afghanistan. Erickson orders his staff there to deal with Sanchez once and for all and also confronts Boorman. Meanwhile, the judge in the High Star case allows Ellen to depose Erickson.
Boorman tries to align himself with Patty. Meanwhile, Chris' life remains in jeopardy and the case becomes personal for Erickson.
Ellen is furious when Patty violates their agreement about the High Star case. Tempers come to a head between Erickson and Boorman while Chris' life hangs in the balance.