Deflategate is finally here. 

Episode seven of 'The Dynasty: New England Patriots' followed one of the wildest scandals that dominated the media for a while. It all began on January 18, 2015. 

What happened afterward cast a dark shadow over Tom Brady but would also motivate him to dominate. 

Here are the meaningful moments from "The Dynasty: New England Patriots" Episode 7: Under Pressure

A Trip to Russia

The episode begins with Rupert Murdoch and Robert Kraft recalling their trip to Russia in 2005. 

“After the third Super Bowl, there was a lot of public media attention and I was invited on a trip to Russia,” Kraft recalled.

And when they got there, Vladimir Putin met with the two. Murdoch described Putin as a "Little guy, but frightening figure.”

“Putin was going out to speak to the media and asked us to stand behind him. Rupert Murdoch was standing right besides me and I was told, ‘Why don’t you show the President your Super Bowl ring,’” Kraft said. “I pulled the ring out of my pocket and I gave it to him. He put it on and then he looked at me, and he said, ‘I could kill someone with this ring.’

"He took the ring off and I had my hand out and he took the ring and put it in his side pocket. Three KGB guys come around him and he’s off,” Kraft added. 

And while Murdoch tried to get him to get the ring back, Kraft simple said, "Oh, I couldn’t do that."

The story went on to get picked up by national outlets. 

“And let’s just say somehow the story ended up in the New York Post. And it became a global, international story that Putin stole my ring," Kraft said. "A call came in from the White House and they said it would be good for U.S.-Soviet relations if you meant to give him the ring as a gift. It was unbelievable the attention it got."

Trying to Knock Them Down

“When you become No. 1, people are going to come after you every way they can.”

What Kraft said couldn't have been more true and in the AFC Championship game between the Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts on January 18, 2015 it showed. 

There was one former Patriot who had joined the dark side at that point. Adam Vinatieri was on the Colts after having won three Super Bowls with the Patriots from 1996 to 2005. 

“I was on the Indianapolis Colts since 2006. The Colts were probably New England’s biggest rival in the AFC. We had a huge hatred for the Patriots to say the least. The one thing that was stopping us from going to the Super Bowl were the Patriots," Vinatieri said. “We always felt like they can’t be this successful, so we spent a lot of extra time trying to figure out or see if they were doing anything special.” 

And they were given the perfect way to try and stop the Patriots. 

"But unbeknownst to the media, unbeknownst to the fans, unbeknownst to the Patriots, the Colts had been tipped off by the previous opponent, the Baltimore Ravens, that the Patriots had been tampering with footballs," NBC Sports Boston's Tom Curran said. "And then the Colts alerted the NFL by email that the Patriots were cheating. So the NFL was lying in wait and they were all looped in prior to the game. All the Colts needed was to get their hands on a football from the Patriots.” 

And they did just that after D’Qwell Jackson picked Brady off. He took the ball over to the sidelines where the Colts could finally see if what they had been told was correct. 

And from there it all spiraled. 

The Tweet That Started It All 

Chris Mortenson, who Curran described accurately as "one of the most respected writers," posted on Twitter about the investigation. And it made it seem that the Colts suspicions were confirmed. 

“NFL has found that 11 of the Patriots footballs used in Sunday’s AFC title game were under-inflated by 2 lbs each, per league sources,” Mortenson wrote. 

And it brought back the memories of the Spygate scandal.  

The First Press Conferences After The Report

Belichick walked to the podium after learning about these allegations against him and the team to address what had happened. 

And when he walked away, it seemed like he had taken the focus and the blame away from him, and instead put it on his quarterback. 

So it was Brady's turn, but as Kraft said, when he spoke to reporters, "he was not at his best."

“Early on, I kind of laughed it off. There was a lot of built up tension and hate from a lot of people was part of our success of the Patriots," Brady said. "I think if there was a hornets nest, man was I in it."

The Official Investigation 

Since it had become such a huge story, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL decided to step in. And so an investigation began. 

Goodell had two main questions that he aimed to answer

1. Why were some footballs used in the game that were not in compliance with the rules?

2. Was this the result of deliberate action? 

"The NFL is going to begin its independent investigation with Ted Wells… Ted Wells was the big gun. I mean, his law firm had been involved in defending tobacco companies, so for Roger Goodell to get a guy like Ted Wells to run an investigation added to the notion that maybe something had happened," Curran recalled. "And all of the sudden in the week leading up to the Super Bowl, this little conversation about deflated footballs kind of overshadowed everything. ”

Super Bowl XLIX

While all of this was happening, Brady was prepping for the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks. So as the world speculated if he was a cheater, he was still forced to have to turn his attention elsewhere. 

“The two weeks were very difficult on Tommy," Kraft said. "He was taking it very hard.” 

And he took a moment to talk to the team. 

“When the Deflategate happened and Tom was the headline of the whole situation, he addressed us as a team. You can tell he was distraught," Darrelle Revis said. "He said, ‘this is something I wouldn’t do. I would not ruin this season for us. The allegations are false.’ He was actually bawling his eyes out in front of us.” 

And it was also affecting his personal life. 

“Tom can be a very fiery person, but he can also be a very soft person, very emotional. It took a massive toll on him because of his kids," Danny Amendola said. "Just having to listen to his kids come home from school and talk about the things that they heard from their friends, their teachers, just whoever. I felt for him.”

His family all felt the same. 

“I felt very helpless as a mom," Galynn Brady said. "Usually when your kids are little you can hold them or you can fix their problems. And watching Tommy having to go through this and there is nothing that we can do about it. But for Tommy on the football field, that’s when he could prove to the world that he was calling the shots.” 

The Final Minutes

With just over two minutes remaining, Brady connected with Julian Edelman to put the Patriots up by four points. But Russell Wilson and the Seahawks were not giving up. 

Despite being a rookie, cornerback Malcolm Butler was getting a lot of playing time and there was one catch that snuck past him. And  he was beating himself up over it. 

“After the tipped ball, I come to the sidelines and nobody really saying anything, but you can feel it. It got kind of quiet. It felt like everybody's hope was gone,” Butler said. "Last year, I worked at Popeyes in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a rookie, my first year in the NFL, I got to the Super Bowl. I know I did the best I could do, but goddamn I feel like if we lose it’s my fault.”

“I’m thinking I’m not going to get another opportunity to go back in the game. But all the sudden they say, ‘go line three corners.’ And it’s like ‘Malcolm, go,’" he added. "I was looking at Russ and I was like, he is looking over here too much. He’s looking too much.”

Butler certainly read the play correctly and was able to intercept the pass. His reaction afterwards: “I started crying. It was meant to be. It was meant to be.”

"I lost my mind. I was jumping off six inches that I can jump,” Brady said. "We had gone 10 years before winning a Super Bowl. We had lost two in between. Without him, we don’t win that Super Bowl… That, in my view, was one of the greatest plays of any Super Bowl. It was so spectacular.”

The Wells Report

"More probable than not.”

The Super Bowl victory was overshadowed by the Deflategate controversy. And according to the Wells Report, they seemed to believe the Patriots cheated. 

“So when the Wells report is released, it’s hard to not conclude that there was a high interest on Brady’s part to make sure the balls were soft enough. Really the first thing the Wells report did was prove the Patriots ball boy had the opportunity to take pressure out of the balls. The investigation said that they had surveillance tape from inside the building that showed that,” Curran explained. "The tape showed the ball boy carrying the footballs into the bathroom. The fact that he made that stop creates that level of suspicion. Well why didn’t he just leave the balls outside? What did he do for 90 seconds? Is he emptying his bladder, is he emptying the bladders of the footballs? The Wells report alleged that in that period of time, he more probably than not removed air from the footballs. Contributing to the circumstantial evidence of perhaps that happening, were the texts.

“But that’s the things about the Wells report. Everything is inferred. There is nothing conclusive that really nails him. Ted Wells needed something that hung Brady. That said the ball boys aren’t working on their own and just randomly deflating football. Can we find something where Tom tells them to do this? So the investigation was dying to get its hands on Tom Brady’s phone.”

But in the end, Brady had destroyed his phone. And from there, he was deemed guilty at that point. 

The Four Game Suspension

Robert Kraft and Roger Goodell had a good relationship. But when this all happened, that was put to the side. 

“Every time there is a violation of the rules, my job is to approach these things without emotion and without a view of anything other than what truly transpired here and deal with it,” Goodell explained and was then asked about the outside world. “But I’m not living on the outside world. What I’m living on is what we have to do as a league to deal with this appropriately.”

And Kraft was not happy. 

“Once the NFL came out with their very harsh ruling, I realized the league was not our ally here," the Patriots owner said. "Because of this solid relationship I had with Commissioner Goodell, he probably had to go overboard to make sure no one could ever accuse him of equivocation or being soft.”

But the Patriots fans rallied behind their franchise quarterback. 

“By the time the Wells report had rolled around, New Englanders had basically been sharpening their knives and taking to the streets and losing their minds over Deflategate,” Curran said. “Patriots fans had galvanized and came to Tom’s defense.”

The Appeal

“I was wrong to put my faith in the league.”

This is what Kraft said in his press conference to the media immediately after Brady's four game suspension was upheld. 

And they were forced to deal with the fact that the Patriots were going to have to play without Brady for four games. 

“Obviously Tom, it took a massive toll on him. All Tom wanted to do was be a good teammate and be out on that field. But after training camp, he was going to miss four games," Amendola said. "And he was pissed. He was f****** angry. There was definitely the feeling of when he gets back after his suspension, he’s going to reign vengeance upon thy.”