3.09 One Last TimeWoah. For all the dragging Homeland did in its first four episodes, I suddenly got
3.09 One Last TimeWoah. For all the dragging Homeland did in its first four episodes, I suddenly got whiplash for this week’s pacing. There was even a Sixteen Days Later and everything! By the end of the episode, Brody was leaving American soil again and the preview for the next one already has him engaged in a pretty eventful encounter with the locals.But let’s rewind for a bit. We last saw Saul in Caracas, picking up a herion-laden Brody. They’re both back in the US where Brody is going through withdrawals cold turkey, and Saul is urging the Ops team to get Brody clean and healthy for his ‘play.’ Not the easiest task since Brody is a violent patient, where three big guys need to hold him down and keep him from hurting himself. At one point, when Brody was given a nasty drug that causes creepy-ass hallucinations, he broke apart a wooden chair and cut his own arm with it. D: (Surprise appearance by Abu Nazir right there) When they dropped him in the water, he made no effort to keep himself from dying - very telling since he had to overcome his body’s physical and primitive survival instincts.This compelled Saul to pull out his secret weapon: Carrie. Despite Lockhart’s taunts at Saul being untrustworthy, Carrie still went along with Saul’s plan. Mostly because it’s Brody, partly because the plan is insane enough to maybe actually work. But Brody is in a deep hole and is not willing to climb out so this forces Carrie to pull out her secret weapon: Dana. Just like when Brody chickened out of the vest, it’s Dana that brought Brody back to his senses. Seeing his daughter for the first time since the bombing cleared Brody’s head enough to listen to Saul and Carrie’s offer for 'redemption.’So Brody had nothing to do with the bombing, he’s very insistent about that. Dana doesn’t believe him, Saul kind of does, and Carrie wholeheartedly does. She uses that to convince Brody to work with them and clear his name. The plan is to approach the Iranian Revolutionary Guard where they assume Brody will be accepted as some kind of war hero for bombing the CIA. There he will get close enough to the head honcho… and take him out. Javadi is next in line and boom. The CIA has control of one of their oldest enemies. The plan could end right there because obviously it’s a suicide mission and there’s very little chance Brody will get out of Iran but they come up with an extraction plan anyway.Brody gets into shape while Saul buys them a little more time. Because in a week’s time Lockhart will be confirmed as CIA Director and no way in hell is he going to let this operation see the light of day. And there’s no way Brody will be ready in a week’s time so Saul needed something to delay Lockhart’s ascend to the throne. Conveniently enough, Mira’s not-stalker ex-boyfriend turned out to be an Israeli intelligence officer who bugged Saul’s house under Lockhart’s orders. Virgil and Max discover this while the two met up in a not-so-secret location and voila! Saul has his leverage to hold off Lockhart for the time being.So there. Brody and the team are off to Iran to pull off a very ambitious plan. Carrie never told Brody she was pregnant with his child (and apparently no one else knows except for her doctor). But right before he left, Brody hinted that he still cares about Carrie, like, a lot. What are the chances Brody will get out of this in one piece? I say very slim. -- source link
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