State of Affairs Half the Sky (2014–2015) Online
- Original Title :
- Half the Sky
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Drama / Thriller
- Year :
- 2014–2015
- Directror :
- Sarah Pia Anderson
- Cast :
- Katherine Heigl,Alfre Woodard,Adam Kaufman
- Writer :
- Alexi Hawley,Kim Clements
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 43min
- Rating :
- 7.5/10
Charlie has flashbacks of her arrival at Midnight City where she first met Nick and witnessed him brutally interrogate Fatah. When members of the militant Islamist movement Boko Haram kidnap 21 Nigerian girls, President Payton tasks Charlie with the logistically impossible -- to find and save the girls without Nigeria knowing the U.S. was ever involved. Meanwhile, President Payton hosts the Chinese president at Camp David and realizes that she can use their trade talks to get something she really wants.
| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Katherine Heigl | - | Charleston Tucker |
 | Alfre Woodard | - | President Constance Payton |
 | Adam Kaufman | - | Lucas Newsome |
 | Sheila Vand | - | Maureen James |
 | Cliff Chamberlain | - | Kurt Tannen |
 | Tommy Savas | - | Dashiell Greer |
 | David Harbour | - | David Patrick |
 | Nestor Carbonell | - | Raymond Navaro |
 | James Remar | - | Syd |
 | Imani Hakim | - | Mara |
 | Courtney B. Vance | - | Marshall Payton |
 | Tzi Ma | - | President Chu Jian |
 | Christopher Michael Holley | - | Earl Givens |
 | Chris McKenna | - | Nick Vera (as Chris L. McKenna) |
 | Farshad Farahat | - | Omar Fatah |
Title reference: the book with the same name by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The book argues that the oppression of women worldwide is "the paramount moral challenge" of the present era, much as the fight against slavery was in the past.