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.
MARCUSHistory is moving. If you don't sign the Executive Order by midnight, the "desolation" is going to be sitting on our front lawn. VANCEI took an oath to protect the people, not the map. [S7E11] God Bless America
MARCUSThe Joint Chiefs are in the Situation Room, Elias. They aren’t asking anymore. PRESIDENT ELIAS VANCE (60s, looking ten years older
The heavy oak doors creak open. CHIEF OF STAFF MARCUS REED enters. He doesn't wait for permission. MARCUSHistory is moving
On the television (muted), news banners scream: and THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE: DAY 14.
The room is silent except for the rhythmic thump-thump of a helicopter hovering somewhere over the Potomac.