MARCUSHistory is moving. If you don't sign the Executive Order by midnight, the "desolation" is going to be sitting on our front lawn. VANCEI took an oath to protect the people, not the map.
MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias. They aren’t asking anymore.
PRESIDENT ELIAS VANCE (60s, looking ten years older than the premiere) sits behind the Resolute Desk. He isn’t reading briefings. He’s staring at a small, chipped ceramic eagle—a gift from a campaign stop three years and a lifetime ago. [S7E11] God Bless America
VANCE (CONT'D)God bless America, Marcus. Because at this rate, nobody else is going to. Vance presses the pen to the paper. The ink bleeds. TITLE CARD: GOD BLESS AMERICA
On the television (muted), news banners scream: and THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE: DAY 14. MARCUSHistory is moving
Vance finally looks up. His eyes are bloodshot. He picks up the pen—the gold one used for "legacy" moments. He looks at it with pure loathing.
Should this episode focus more on the in the capital, or should we cut to a boots-on-the-ground perspective of the blockade? MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias
The room is silent except for the rhythmic thump-thump of a helicopter hovering somewhere over the Potomac.