Are you a bad enough dude to save the president? Of course by "save" I mean "read the self-insert Homeland fanfic written by".

Our short stories for this episode are Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain by Yoon Ha Lee and Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever.

A good chunk of this episode is dedicated to Andrea explaining The President is Missing, a novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. A good chunk of this episode is dedicated to Nate struggling to comprehend the existence of The President is Missing, a novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.