COBRA airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous episode.
Anna is reading Dostoyevsky in bed, telling her daughter about his persecution. After her daughter leaves her in her bedroom, even though it’s the middle of the day, she desperately checks the news before turning away just as quickly.
It’s not good. The press is musing on chaos in the government following Robert’s panic attack during a press conference—and it’s worse than the media knows. With a massive cyber attack on the UK’s infrastructure coming—it’s nicknamed Cerberus—he’s pushing for increased retaliation against China and Russia, whom he believes are behind the offensive. But the Americans won’t step in, and Britain is not strong enough to stand on its own.
Archie suggests that Robert should have kept Anna around and defends the erstwhile chief of staff, leading Robert to threaten both him and Fraser when the latter agrees with Archie. Get a grip! Archie demands of Robert, who walks out of the briefing.
Eleanor follows Robert while Joseph takes over the briefing. She offers Robert a retaliatory option: malware called Heracles that would disrupt missile defense systems around the globe. It would be risky.
The Americans are against such an escalatory action, but Eleanor continues to apply pressure. She is worried about Robert, however, and calls Archie to tell him that the Prime Minister is getting worse. He’s even missing from a briefing on the continuing cyber attack: GPS and traffic control systems have started to malfunction. Joseph tells Archie he should step in as acting PM, but Archie suspects that Joseph just wants him to clean up this mess and then take leadership once things ..
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