| Joe Crocker | |
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| Status: | Alive |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Profession: | Secretary of State to President Morse |
| Played by: | John Getz |
| Season(s): | 4, 5, 6 |
| First episode: | "Long Time Coming" |
| Last episode: | "America First" |
Joe Crocker is the United States Secretary of State to President Morse.
Biography[]
In Season 4, Saul meets up with Joe and asks him for a job at the CIA. Joe replies that he'd love to give him what he wants, but the video that Saul recorded will make waves once Haqqani releases it.
In Season 5, Crocker meet with Dar Adal and Saul and the other CIA directors at the meeting on the Syria situation. He has a tense conversation with Quinn who has returned to the United States after 28 months in war-torn Al-Raqqah.
In season 6, Joe Crocker appears in episode ''America First''.
Quotes[]
- Peter Quinn: Al-Raqqa - it's where I've been for the past few months. Our approach has remained constant- U.S. airstrikes prepare targets for surgical intervention by special forces, initially against Assad, then al-Nusra and most recently against the Islamic State. I've been heading up a team of special ops more or less continuously for the past 28 months. We've been busy.
- Joe Crocker: Doing what? What the hell is actually going on there?
- Peter Quinn: Well if you've read the after-action reports-
- Joe Crocker: I have. Every one of them. A handful of enemy dead here, another handful there. I honestly have no idea what it adds up to.
- Peter Quinn: The program has been effective sir, I think it should be continued.
- Joe Crocker: You do? Assad is still in power, ISIL is growing. Are we really getting anywhere in Syria?
- Peter Quinn: I just said yes
- Joe Crocker: You said a program should be renewed. I'm asking is our strategy working?
- Peter Quinn: What strategy?Tell me what the strategy is and I'll tell you if it's working.
- [Silence] The table of policy makers goes quiet, launching Quinn into a monologue about the gathering storm in Syria.
- Peter Quinn: See, that right there is the problem because they - they have a strategy. They're gathering right now in Raqqa by the tens of thousands, hidden in the civilian population, cleaning their weapons and they know exactly why they're there.
- Joe Crocker: Why is that?
- Peter Quinn: They call it the end times. What do you think the be-headings are about? The crucifixions in Deir Hafer, the revival of slavery? Do you think they make this s*** up? It's all in the book. Their f****** book. The only book they ever read - they read it all the time. They never stop. They're there for one reason and one reason only: to die for the Caliphate and usher in a world without infidels. That's their strategy and it's been that way since the seventh century. So do you really think that a few special forces teams are going to put a dent in that?
- Joe Crocker: Well what would you do?
- Peter Quinn: Are you offering me a promotion?
- Joe Crocker: I'm offering you a hypothetical.
- Peter Quinn: Two-hundred thousand American troops on the ground indefinitely to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors and elementary school teachers.
- Joe Crocker: Well that's not going to happen.
- Peter Quinn: Then I better get back there.
- Joe Crocker: What else? What else would make a difference?
- Peter Quinn: Hit reset.
- Joe Crocker: Meaning what?
- Peter Quinn: Meaning pound Raqqa into a parking lot.
- PETER QUINN DROPS THE MIC ON AMERICA'S 'STRATEGY' IN SYRIA
Behnd the Scenes[]
Appearances[]
| Season 4 | ||||
| "The Drone Queen" | "Trylon and Perisphere" | "Shalwar Kameez" | "Iron in the Fire" | "About a Boy" |
| "From A. to B. and Back Again" | "Redux" | "Halfway to a Donut" | "There's Something Else Going On" | "13 Hours in Islamabad" |
| "Krieg Nicht Lieb" | Long Time Coming | |||
| Season 5 | ||||
| Separation Anxiety | "The Tradition of Hospitality" | "Super Powers" | "Why Is This Night Different?" | "Better Call Saul" |
| "Parabiosis" | "Oriole" | "All About Allison" | "The Litvinov Ruse" | New Normal |
| "Our Man in Damascus" | "A False Glimmer" | |||
| Season 6 | ||||
| "Fair Game" | "The Man in the Basement" | "The Covenant" | "A Flash of Light" | "Casus Belli" |
| "The Return" | "Imminent Risk" | "Alt. Truth" | "Sock Puppets" | "The Flag House" |
| "R for Romeo" | America First | |||