Anna and her brother Noah struggle to protect her daughters in France. Alexander Said, who led the team in Tehran, arrives in London to see White.

Leyla investigates links between Iran and the US. In France, White and his second-in-command, Khalid Walker, use Anna to leverage pressure on Max.

Max travels to London and finally manages to get to White, but the danger is not over. In Tehran, Leyla meets a US envoy who provides her with yet more clues related to the orders her unit were given.

In London, Max's digging stirs the attention of a sniper with a fatal point to make. In Washington, Jones sends out a crack team to recover scientific evidence.

Max heads to the US and may have finally discovered the real reason why the Tehran unit found themselves on The Section's hit list.

In Mali, four US Special Forces soldiers and a translator are supposedly killed in an ambush.

Nathan Miller and Amanda Jones fly to Mali to contain an increasingly unstable situation.

Aïcha tells Harry and Leyla that the case they're looking into concerns arms smuggling within the Mali government.

True to her word, Aminata Sissoko reunites Aicha with her family, but as she does, Harry and Leyla are arrested on murder charges.

Harry, Aicha and Leyla are chased out of Bamako and find themselves returning to Al Moctar's camp out of necessity. Aicha is taken away to be hanged for a past crime.

With Aïcha being dragged to a scaffold, Harry must plead his case, and quickly. He convinces Al Moctar to hold off, putting his own life on the line in the process.