Chain of Deals: She often has to set these up to get what she wants, which is deconstructed badly when the terms hit to close to home.It causes some friction with her in-laws in one episode when she's able to pay for Henry's father's funeral on her credit card without a second thought after it turns out the estate is insolvent. In New England, blood doesn't get much bluer than that. And if the 'Adams' in her name makes her one of those Adamses, she's a Boston Brahmin who's related to two Presidents and can trace her lineage straight back to the Mayflower. Among other things, she went to boarding school with the Crown Prince of Bahrain. Blue Blood: She's indicated to come from a privileged background.She needs her husband to act as her Morality Pet due to feeling she compromises her morals on a daily basis at her job. Anti-Hero: She does what she feels she needs to for national security but her decisions don't always make her popular, weigh on her sense of morality, and exhaust her mentally.All Girls Want Bad Boys: Inverted: she's commented to Henry that she finds his morals quite a turn-on.Prince Yousif (her friend from boarding school) calls her Lizzie. Henry calls her Liz, President Dalton (her boss at the CIA and an old friend) typically calls her Bess. Affectionate Nickname: She has several.After leaving the agency for academia, her former boss became president, and after the premature death of Secretary of State Vincent Marsh he taps her to replace him. The eponymous 'Madam Secretary', Elizabeth McCord was a high-ranking officer in the Central Intelligence Agency in the 2000s under then-DCI Conrad Dalton.

Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray