ELIZABETH AND PRESIDENT DALTON MEET WITH MARIA OSTROV IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND A PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE ESCALATED CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA, ON A CLIFFHANGER EPISODE OF "MADAM SECRETARY," SUNDAY, DEC. 13

"The Greater Good" - After they uncover a secret that could ruin Maria Ostrov's (Angela Gots)
reputation, Elizabeth and President Dalton head to Switzerland to meet with her and use the information as leverage to find a peaceful solution to the escalated conflict with Russia. Also, Dmitri requests to be released from his duties as a spy, on a cliffhanger episode of MADAM SECRETARY, Sunday, Dec. 13 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

Téa Leoni (Elizabeth McCord)
Tim Daly (Henry McCord)
Bebe Neuwirth (Nadine Tolliver)
�eljko Ivanek (Russell Jackson)
Patina Miller (Daisy Grant)
Erich Bergen (Blake Moran)
Geoffrey Arend (Matt Mahoney)
Kathrine Herzer (Alison McCord)
Evan Roe (Jason McCord)
Wallis Currie-Wood (Stephanie "Stevie" McCord)
Keith Carradine (President Conrad Dalton)

RECURRING CAST:

Chris Petrovski (Dmitri Petrov)
Jill Hennessy (Jane Fellows)
Sebastian Arcelus (Jay Whitman)
Angela Gots (Maria Ostrov)
Zenon Zeleniuch (General Vladimir Doroshevich)
Jordan Lage (General Kohl)
Clifton Davis (Ephraim Ware)

GUEST CAST:

Olek Krupa (President Pavel Ostrov)
Liba Vaynberg (Prostitute)
Elan Even (Yuri Dyachenko)
Will Abadie (Swiss Ambassador Claude Wuthrich)
Iolanta O'neill (Russian Counterpart)
Sean Dougherty (Driver)
David Vadim (Ukrainian Foreign Minister Luka Melnik)

WRITTEN BY: David Grae

DIRECTED BY: Eric Stoltz