Madam Secretary had to battle both foreign and domestic enemies in its latest two episodes. First, Elizabeth had to prevent a photo scandal involving her own daughter, and then she had to deal with Russia again.

Episode 2.04 Waiting for Taleju
Elizabeth has quite a few problems in this episode. Her main problem is preventing nude photos of Stevie and Harrison to become public. Harrison apparently lost his phone and now someone is threatening to go public with these photos. Despite the couple's break-up, these photos are still on Harrison's phone. It's really all a nightmare and becomes even worse when Henry does a TV interview about his latest book and he gets a question about Stevie's photos. Henry subsequently loses it on live television. …show more content…
From there, he's trying to run against Maria for Russian President. However, the UK has frozen his funds so he calls Elizabeth to help him make a deal with Britain. While Maria has the Russian generals behind her, there are plenty of Russians that want peace and could be potential Gorev supporters. Bess comes up with a plan to lift the UK sanctions by allowing Gorev to sell his British properties. However, President Dalton and Craig Sterling are not that wild about the plan since the US has nothing to gain from it. So Sterling proposes that Gorev spills some Russian secrets to the US. Of course, Gorev is unwilling to do that. In the meantime, Henry orders Dmitri to talk to General Doroshevich at the Russian embassy. There, Dmitri overhears that Maria wants to bring Olga Gorev to the embassy to use her as leverage for the elections. He tells Henry, who subsequently resuces Olga just in time and brings her over to the McCord mansion. After Gorev tells Elizabeth some important information, he receives the money to run against Maria. However, before he can even leave London, Gorev is shot and killed. Olga later travels back to Russia to bury him. Maria Ostrov is now certain to win the