from what i could understand, theres a new family in the mix, very powerful, the shepherds, brother and sister. francis had made some deals with them before dying, that claire will not honor. claire has secretary durant, the newspaper guy tom, and another lady (can't remember her name, older lady who spoke russian) taken out. durant had left the country and faked her death, but still got found and killed. the vice president teamed up with the shepherds against claire, even showing her the body of the guy she killed. francis left everything he had to doug in his will, including an audio diary that implicates claire in some of his crimes. turns out doug is the one who killed francis. claire is pregnant, and is about to drop a nuke in syria. someone inside the white house is supposedly going to assassinate claire, so she gets rid of everyone out of the white house. doug confronts claire at the end, and she ends up stabbing him with the letter opener francis gave him, and he dies