The host prays for the fortitude to defeat the enemies of the Jewish people.
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With pressure mounting in Berlin, Saul is starting to look like a peak-omnishambles Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It.
After dinner, they share a conversation about the upcoming regime change in Syria. Saul continues to bluff, but his Israeli friend knows that something is afoot.
Allison tells Saul that they need to leave. They have an operation going down, shortly.
Carrie awakens from her syringe-induced slumber, unsure of her surroundings. “You must have crossed the line somewhere”. Quinn is then seen cutting his own hands and Carrie screams, “Please, no”. He smears the blood across Carrie’s face. Quinn at least has a kill count to match Carrie’s, and Jonas is so boring that anything seems like a good alternative – even Quinn, who ends this episode by choking Carrie out in the woods and injecting her with a mysterious substance. “Saul put your name on a list”. It was a death that was supposed to be perpetrated by Quinn, who instead spared Carrie and helped set up the camera for this final message. Tonight, answers elude Carrie; (Cllare Danes) Laura (Sarah Sokolovic) asks Jonas (Alexander Fehling) for help. They both admit to being anxious about her.
Carrie and Quinn also have a uniquely “Homeland” discussion about parenting while he forces her to come to grips with the idea that she may never see her daughter again.
Half of Homeland’s third season went by before Carrie Mathison and Nicholas Brody found themselves in the same room, but when it happened, it was kind of magical even if most of what led up to it in that muddled season was not.
“I wanted a better life”. She slips up a few times when she says, “I’m doing everything I can to get back to you” when Peter reminds her that “getting back to Frannie” isn’t much of a possibility.
Not to be cynical but rather in the spirit of praise, this was Claire Danes’ Emmy submission clip. (Nobody undercuts Saul, Allison.) What then looked like general incompetence now looks like a calculated takedown. The Central Intelligence Agency has lured him to Switzerland with family in tow and the promise of a life-saving operation for his daughter. Quinn notes that she kept her old fallback plan in place, even after moving to Berlin and forging a different existence with Frannie and Jonas.
Saul and Allison (Miranda Otto) had a brief run in over her call to Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham).
I especially enjoyed Carrie’s determination in the video. “The fact that I’m still alive proves it”.
Carrie insists that Quinn take her to his drop at the post office.
After it turned out someone had tried to kill Carrie by bombing her, she realises someone wants her dead. Had she been involved with the explosion? What we don’t know is whether Allison ordered Carrie’s murder, whether somebody else ordered her to order the murder, or whether she will ever stop sleeping with Saul. You know what gives you freedom? Hacker Krupin gets in way over his head in trying to score big bucks by selling copies of those documents to the Russians – and pays for it with the his life and that of his girlfriend.
The Russian contact doesn’t trust Hacker B, and has taken precautions. I did NOT see the ending coming and Saul’s reaction tells me he didn’t have the slightest clue he might be betrayed either. I know that I was anxious about his mental well-being, but he appeared to be somewhat normal around Carrie. Your country has suffered so much already. This was Saul’s response when he watched Gen. Youssef’s plane explode. Their meeting ends without resolution. Quinn goes inside to make the drop, while Carrie waits in the auto.
Inside, the postal clerk texts a nearby gunman that Quinn has arrived. Sometimes Homeland dialog just sounds like the writers forgot to go back and edit their first draft. “Yes, you could. But we’re betting that you’re smarter than that”, Allison tells Youssef. “Hang on Quinn”, she says. Jonas does come back to Carrie in the morning after their fight, but her lack of concern for his missing son, Stefan, might have driven him away for good.
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Later, they pull out the gunman’s phone. In a moment of quick thinking, Carrie steals the now-dead Russian’s cellphone, and later, calls its only saved number.
