Daaamn! Television shows just aren't the same when you understand what's going on!
I was watching The Blacklist tonight; the plot was centered around the President, who had apparently conspired with a foreign power to get elected and was about to be found out, so he's now laid an assassination plot - perhaps in order to go out in a blaze of glory as a martyr rather than be exposed.
Hollywood . . . dressing up a story line to push a concept, sneaky!