Line of Fire
A group of Christians lock themselves in a cabin during a forest fire to pressure the government to release the child of one of their members from the hospital, because the hospital wants to do open heart surgery with a blood transfusion to treat her congenital heart deficit.Meanwhile, First Lady Alex Kirkman is facing the threat of indictment and the Attorney General tries to offer her a plea deal.
Provides examples of the following tropes:
- AB Negative: Literally the blood type of Mrs. Morgan and her daughter Grace.
- Character Death: Alex dies.
- Cult: Lyor calls the Christian group a cult, because they are willing to die to oppose blood transfusion.
- Foreshadowing: Alex tells Kendra "I can't live like this anymore!" and adds that "one way or another, this ends today". By the end of the episode, Alex is dead.
- Loophole Abuse: Emily convinces Mrs. Morgan to let them operate on Grace using artificial blood. Then when the surgeon finds it won't do, Mrs. Morgan balks at the idea of giving her her own blood, but Emily argues that she gave her life, so why not blood?
- Running Gag: The girl choir that tries to sing psalms to the White House staff, only to be told "not right now" because White House staff is busy.
