[s7e11] God Bless America -

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.

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

Should this episode focus more on the in the capital, or should we cut to a boots-on-the-ground perspective of the blockade? Vance finally looks up

MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias. They aren’t asking anymore. He looks at it with pure loathing

VANCE(Without looking up)Did you know the anthem has four stanzas, Marcus? Everyone stops at the first. We sing about the "glare" and the "bombs," and then we pack up and go home. We never get to the part about the desolation of war.

On the television (muted), news banners scream: and THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE: DAY 14.