<P> Claire relocates to Dallas and runs for Congress in her home district . The incumbent, Doris Jones, plans to retire and endorse her daughter Celia as her successor . Claire offers them federal funding for a key Planned Parenthood clinic in exchange for stepping down, but they refuse the offer . Frank wins back Claire's support by promising not to sabotage her campaign in Texas, but he later publicly endorses Celia in his State of the Union address . Frank and Claire travel to South Carolina for a primary, but a series of scandals causes Frank to narrowly lose the state to Dunbar . Frank discovers that Claire had been leaking information to Dunbar, and she threatens to continue unless he names her as his running mate . Frank refuses . </P> <P> Lucas is released from prison and seeks revenge against Frank . He explains his story to Dunbar, but she turns him away . Desperate, he attempts to assassinate Frank, wounding the president in the abdomen and killing bodyguard Edward Meechum, but not before Meechum kills Lucas . While Frank remains comatose, Donald Blythe is sworn in as acting president . Blythe is indecisive during a military crisis involving Russia, and turns to Claire for guidance . Claire goes against Frank's wishes by convincing Blythe to involve China and secure a meeting with Petrov, where she brokers an ambitious peace deal . Doug leaks information about Dunbar's secret meeting with Lucas and forces her to suspend her campaign . Frank recovers and resumes his position as president, agreeing to put Claire on the ticket for the upcoming election . </P> <P> Tom Hammerschmidt, Zoe and Lucas's former editor, digs deeper into the latter's claims of Frank's misdeeds . He approaches Remy and, with his help, starts to piece together Frank's corruption . Tom also meets with Walker, convincing him to help by appealing to his anger for being forced to resign . Danton and Jackie Sharp also decide to go on the record against Frank to lend credibility to the story . </P> <P> An American family is kidnapped in Tennessee by two supporters of a radical Islamist group called the Islamic Caliphate Organization (ICO), who agree to negotiate only with the ambitious Republican nominee, Governor Will Conway . Frank invites Conway to the White House to assist in the negotiations as a publicity stunt, and Conway helps buy critical time in locating the suspects . However, tensions between the Conways and Underwoods lead to the governor ending his role in the crisis . Frank and Claire allow the kidnappers to speak to the deposed leader of ICO, Yusuf al Ahmadi, after successfully obtaining the release of two of the hostages . Instead of defusing the situation as he agreed, al Ahmadi urges the kidnappers to kill the remaining hostage and broadcast the killing to the public . </P>

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