Homeland S3E5
WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
Homeland delivered the best episode of the season this week. Trouble is, the bar was set very low.
We continue down the path of the great Saul/Carrie operation. Carrie (Claire Danes) is in contact with the Iranian bad guy, Javadi, and she requests a face-to-face meeting. She is being followed by the CIA and the Iranians. But when the tails disappear, she and Saul are concerned that she has been compromised and the operation will not continue.
Meanwhile, Jessica (Monica Baccarin) is frantically searching for the missing Dana (Morgan Saylor), who has run away with that young potential brother-killer, Leo (Sam Underwood). So where does Jessica go for help? Well, of course to the home of the disgraced mentally ill ex-CIA agent who slept with her husband. Yeah, I'll buy that, that's where I would go.
Carrie risks her undercover operation with Saul to try to help Jessica find Dana. She involves Max and Virgil and together they pull the "Yoga Play," where Carrie goes to a yoga class, but sneaks out the back door and a lookalike takes the class. She is being followed by Quinn (Rupert Friend) and another guy, and Quinn helps her out when she is delayed because of her unsuccessful meeting with the FBI guy who is watching the Brody family.
If Showtime wants to spin off a Quinn/Virgil/Max drama series, count me in.
Meanwhile, Saul is busy running the CIA, or what's left of it after the bombing. He is invited to duck hunt with a group of Washington politicians/bigwigs, where he thinks he will be tapped for the permanent CIA Director position. But Saul gets surprised when Senator Lockhart reveals that the good senator will be nominated for the position, and that Saul needs to get in line with the Senator's philosophy on espionage, or find another job. So Saul dresses down the Senator in front to the Washington elite, and heads home. Where his wife is having a "friend" over for dinner. Saul is not having a good day.
But the highlight of the show is when the Iraninan, Javadi, has Carrie brought to him, after a humiliating strip search, for the face-to-face meet that Carrie requested. So the Saul/Carrie operation is still on.
This episode, while hopefully resolving the Dana subplot, delivered as we moved back to what has made Homeland a good show in the past. Spies and tradecraft, people. Hopefully, this once-great series can get itself back on track to salvage the season.
Random Thoughts:
- If your husband is a senior official at the CIA, I don't see how you can keep an affair a secret from him.
- A future Quinn/Carrie romance? I don't know how I feel about that.
- Awesome when Javadi was enjoyed the cheeseburger and dropped ketchup on his shirt.
What did you think?
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