After a long 10 episodes of soap opera, this show has finally came back to what it does best: depicting domestic political struggle. What I have learned from season 3 is the writers don't even have the basic understanding of foreign affairs, or they are just too afraid of pissing off the military–industrial complex. The entire Jordan Valley plot is hilariously ridiculous, I know this show is very far from reality, but at least most of the plots are still plausible even though they can be far fetched at times, lets just assume an absurd event like Jordan Valley can happen, I still just cant handle the idiocy and hypocrisy of Claire, she sabotaged decades of relationship progress between the 2 most powerful nations on earth for one suicidal delusional protester, thats just not how the real world works, on top of that she destabilized the most sensitive region in middle east.... As an ambassador all she did was intimidation, is this how the writers think diplomacy works? This episode finally shifted away from the asinine foreign affairs plots, the debate is masterfully delivered, Jackie and Dunbar have evolved into great characters with such depth, meanwhile Claire and Doug turned into more and more one-dimensional typical TV stereotypes, Francis is still the best thing in this show, overall this episode gives me hope on the future development of the show, I just hope they can hire a writer with a deep understanding of geopolitical issues, if not they should avoid writing about foreign affairs.