<Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Pilot" </Td> <Td> David Semel </Td> <Td> Barbara Hall </Td> <Td> September 21, 2014 (2014 - 09 - 21) </Td> <Td> 14.75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="7"> Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst, gets recruited and trained by the current POTUS . Due to the death of the current Secretary of State in a plane crash, the President asks her to become the new Secretary of State, because she can think outside the box . Two months later, McCord is faced by an issue of two American children held hostage in Syria . The POTUS's Chief of Staff plays a game to damage her reputation and then advises the President to not do anything about the kidnapping . But McCord convinces the President to get the boys out through back - channel sources . Meanwhile, one of her former CIA colleagues warns her that her predecessor may have been killed by the CIA . He is later found dead in a car crash, which McCord believes was not an accident . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Another Benghazi" </Td> <Td> David Semel </Td> <Td> Barbara Hall </Td> <Td> September 28, 2014 (2014 - 09 - 28) </Td> <Td> 12.72 </Td> </Tr>

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