Tonight on Showtime their Emmy Award winning drama series, HOMELAND returns with an all new Sunday October 12, season 4 episode 3 called, “Shalwar Kameez.” Tonight, Carrie [Claire Danes] recruits a key asset; Quinn locates a potential lead.
On the last episode season 4 began with Carrie, the CIA Chief of Station in Kabul, making a critical decision when her counterpart in Islamabad delivered urgent intelligence on a high-value target. Back in the U.S., Saul struggled to adjust to the private sector. Meanwhile, Quinn spiraled out of control; and a disgraced former case officer revealed disturbing new information. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode Fara fails to recruit a key asset, causing Carrie to intervene; Quinn focuses on a potential lead.
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In Islamabad, Pakistan, Carrie tells her driver she needs to make a stop on the way to the embassy. She tells them it’s not a request when they try to refuse. She asks them to pull over and she asks them why Sandy was right there without protection and asks wasn’t it his job. They tell her that he wasn’t easy to work for and never let them drive him. She puts on her head scarf and asks them to unlock the door. She says she won’t go farther than the corner and gets out to look around.
She thinks back to when she, Quinn and Sandy were attacked and Sandy dragged out to his death. She looks around and is startled when a car honks at her to get out of the street. She gets back in her car and says – let’s go. At CIA HQ in Langley, Quinn waits on the therapist to come in. She says last year she remembers he was looking to leave the agency. He says last year was about shooting the kid and he says now he just wants out.
She says they have to make sure he’s not a danger to himself or others and reminds him of the diner brawl and the damage he did. He says he controlled himself for 12 years and only lost it once. He says it won’t happen again. She asks about his nightmares about his first kill. He says he just snapped. The says they have to talk about what happened in Islamabad. She asks about the two men he killed that tried to took Sandy. He says he thinks only about Carrie and Sandy.
She reminds him that Carrie was one of the reasons he wanted out of Dar’s group. She says the agency worries that one day he’ll talk. He says he knows he can’t. She asks about Carrie and why he chose her over Sandy. She asks if they’re romantically involved. He says he doesn’t see what that has to do with anything. He looks around and says – f- this. Dar watches this all on a monitor. Quinn walks out.
Carrie arrives at the embassy and heads inside. Her guards and driver follow. She sees the car they were in when Sandy was taken, parked in a quarantined area. She goes in and goes through security. The guard checks her bag and hands it back. He thanks her. She badges herself into her offices and looks around. She hears men talking and asks where everyone is. They ask what she means and she says they have a full staff meeting for 9:30.
They tell her it should be easy to get them together since they are on lock down. She asks where Redmond is and they tell her he’s in with the Ambassador Boyd. Redmond says he canceled her staff meeting she requested since there wasn’t much to catch up on and she says to do it her way and get them together. Boyd tells her that Redmond is feeling blindsided and says they were all surprised she got Sandy’s job.
Boyd says US-Pakistan relations are at their lowest point and Carrie asks how the lock down is helping. Carrie says she needs to be able to put her guys back on the street. Boyd says it won’t be that easy. Carrie asks her staff to tell her about Jordan Harris. No one says anything. She reminds them they worked with him for 18 months and asks if they share his suspicions about Sandy sharing intelligence with the other side.
Redmond says Sandy’s intel was consistently good and she says maybe it was too good. She asks how he could get precise coordinates on high value targets. She says no one wants to admit he could have been spying under their noses. Redmond stands and says – young lady, let’s have a chat. She tells him to sit down. He goes to pour coffee. She says she wanted to believe Sandy and based on what Jordan told her, they have to retrace Sandy’s steps and find out if he was trading secrets.
Hensleigh tells her this won’t be easy with the lock down and she says she hopes to have it lifted by tomorrow. She tells John now they can have a chat and takes him into her office. She tells him his directive is to be useful to her. He says that’s no license to come in and take a dump on his station. She says it’s her station and she can boot him with a word. He says he was told by Lockhart that he was the one to run it and then she got the appointment.
She asks if he really wants to know how she got it and tells him she asked nicely. She tells John to clean himself up and says she can smell the booze on him from here. He leaves. Quinn ignores a call and his landlady gal pal asks who he’s avoiding as they booze by the pool. He says it’s a guy from work. She asks if it’s his boss and he says ex-boss who still thinks he’s the boss. He says he’s quitting his job and she asks if something happened.
Quinn says a lot of things happened and she says he seems worried. He says his job doesn’t like quitters. She says he’ll need them for a reference but he says he’ll be happy if they don’t kill him. She asks what will he do next and he says – something different. She asks if he has marketable skills and he says he doesn’t know. She asks if he has a degree and he says no to that too. She says she’s shocked and that he seems sophisticated. The phone rings again and she asks if he’s going to get it. He throws his phone in the pool.
Carrie heads to her apartment in the Embassy and looks around. There’s little in the fridge. Wonder if it was Sandy’s place. She gets a text that says simply “landed.” She tucks a gun into her slacks and says she has to run to a hotel. The driver and security guys tell her they’re on lock down but she says limited pouch runs to cleared hotels are okay so they relent and take her. A motorcycle pulls out behind them. They tell her it’s ISI that wait outside all the time for a car to leave.
She says to dump her at the Sadirah and drive on. She says she won’t be more than 10 minutes away and says she’ll be an hour. She heads inside and they watch the ISI tail as she goes in. She walks out another door and hops into a cab. Someone sees her and radios it in. The guy hops on a motorcycle to follow Carrie. They get away from him at a crowded crosswalk and then Carrie holds out money to draw a crowd of beggar children. The motorcycle tail tries to see what’s going on.
She uses this diversion to slip into an alley and he drives on by still after the cab. Carrie walks through a market and then crosses a street. She goes into a building and up some stairs. She knocks on a door
and is let in by Fara. She greets Carrie who asks how their flight was. She says she can tell she’s been working on her accent. Max is there and she asks about Parvez and Cadir. Max says they’re working on the van. She asks about the kid and he says Aayan is back in class trying to act normal.
Fara says they are going to approach him in his adviser’s office at school. She says it’s perfect and says she’s nervous like she always is at the start of an operation. Fara is posing as a journalist. Carrie advises her to make light physical contact with him and says all she has to do is get him to agree to another meeting. Fara leaves and Carrie asks Max if Fara will be good. She says to watch out for ISI since they have no official cover.
Quinn finds Dar pounding on his door and lets him in but refuses Dar’s guard. He reminds Dar that he told him to f- off. Dar says he’s concerned about him. Dar looks at the empty bottles and cans and Quinn says he doesn’t belong to them anymore. Dar then reminds him that he invested a lot of time and money in Quinn. Dar says once a scalp hunter, always a scalp hunter. Dar says the morons in the diner didn’t deserve what he did to them.
Dar says Quinn needs to convince him he can keep his shit together or he’ll have to go through retraining. Dar says the issue is his feelings for Carrie and says if she wasn’t in the car, Sandy would be alive. He says he let Sandy get beaten to death to save Carrie. Quinn chokes Dar then lets him go abruptly. Dar struggles for breath and then tells him well done. He says he knows he wasn’t that far gone but Quinn tells him to get the f- out. Dar tells him to have a nice life.
Eden asks if he’s all right as she stands wrapped in a sheet. She asks who that was and Quinn says no one. Carrie is jogging and listening to jazz – doing laps on Embassy property. She sees some guys bringing in bags and glances at them as she walks in. She finds Saul laughing with Boyd. She greets him and asks what’s going on. He asks if she saw her new security team. She says she didn’t expect him to hand deliver them and Boyd leaves them to talk.
Saul tells Carrie she’s lucky and says Boyd is one of the good ones. She asks why he’s there and he says he’s only there for a few days, a week tops. She says it looks like she called him for help and he offers help but she says she doesn’t need it, then relents and says yes. She says he can do one thing and then go home. She asks him to have the lock down lifted with the Ambassador so she can put her case officers to work. He says done.
Fara waits on Aayan and her team sits in a van listening. His advisor introduces her as a journalist from London and leaves them to talk. She thanks him for meeting her and he says his advisor insisted they meet. He’s ready to walk out and he says even if she is who she says she is he can’t talk to her. She asks if he’s in trouble and asks him to stay She touches him and says they don’t have to do this now. She says they can meet later but he begs her to leave him alone. He walks out. She’s disappointed in herself.
Quinn drinks and watches the YouTube video of Sandy’s death. He recalls him yelling to Carrie about the gun being under the seat and her saying it wasn’t there. He sees Carrie trying to get out to go after Sandy and him holding her back. He starts freaking out and panting. Fara tells Carrie that Aayan was terrified. Carrie says he’s more valuable and his fear means that there is something. Max asks if they can pull a snatch and grab but she says since he’s the only survivor of a botched kill mission, it’s not likely. She tells them she’ll think on it.
Carrie is on the roof when Ambassador Boyd finds her. She asks why she wasn’t at dinner and she says she got busy. She says she knows she violated the lock down order and Carrie asks who told her. She asks if it was Redmond and she says no. Carrie asks for a fresh start and Boyd says Saul recommended that. Carrie says Saul likes her and doesn’t like a lot of people. Boyd says they almost got married in Beirut a long time ago.
Carrie says Saul never said a word and Boyd says he’s discreet. She tells Carrie she’s lifting the lock down but not for Saul, so she can improve their relations. She makes Carrie promises to deliver daily updates in person and she agrees. They have a smoke together to seal the deal. Quinn wakes to the sound of cans and bottles. He finds Eden cleaning up his place.
He comes out and asks what she’s doing. She asks if he’s okay and asks again what he’s doing. He asks her to stop talking. She grabs the trash bag and tosses it down then asks if she did something wrong. He tells her she should leave now and she says okay. She says she needs to get her stuff and goes to the bedroom. Quinn sighs and she says she has one thing to say before she goes.
Eden says she knows this has to do with the CIA guy on the news. He says she doesn’t know what she saw and he says she should be scared because these people don’t f- around. She says nobody should have to go through what he went through and says if that guy shows up again, she’d say it to his face. He says he’d really like to see that. She says she left roast chicken in the fridge and eggs and cereal to go along with his liquid diet. She says whoever Carrie is – she’s a lucky girl. She leaves.
Carrie is dropped off by her drivers to have breakfast with Saul. He says he heard the lock down was lifted and asks what else he can do for her. She tells him to go home. She asks about Boyd being his fiancee and he reminds her they haven’t talked much lately. She says she’s sorry and wanted to pick up the phone but says she can’t talk about what she needs to talk about. They discuss the tyranny of secrets. He asks what she’s doing today. She says she can’t tell him.
Saul says he can guess. He says she needs to get Sandy’s networks up but she doesn’t know who to trust so she needs to set up a second station independent of the Embassy. He says he knows she’s done that already and says that was quick. She asks when his plane leaves and he says tomorrow morning. She thanks him and he wishes her happy hunting. She leaves.
Aayan sits at a cafe studying. A woman comes out calling for a doctor and says a woman is in pain asking for help. Aayan follows them upstairs to the women’s room. He knocks on the door dpushesd pushes his way in. He says he’s a doctor. It’s Carrie. She tells him he’s in trouble and says she’s Fara’s London bureau chief. He tells her to let him go. She shushes him and they listen at the door. She says she thought she heard someone.
She tells him he’s part of an important story and says she wants to tell the story of all his family he lost. She asks who he’s scared of and says she can help him, even get him out of Pakistan if he wants. He asks in exchange for what and she says just his story. She says he can continue his studies in the UK or US. She says she’s putting her card in his pocket.
She touches him as she slides it into his pants. She says he doesn’t have to ever see him again if he doesn’t want to. She tells him he should want to though, especially if he’s in trouble. She tells him to tell the others she had female problems and was cramping. She says she’s sorry for what he’s been through and wishes him luck. He leaves.
Quinn watches the YouTube video again. He pauses it and puts it in slow motion a few times and sees something that catches his eye. He sees a bearded guy looking down at the ground. He watches several different versions of the video and sees one from right behind the guy. It looks like the guy had an ear piece. Quinn says f- me.
Carrie pours a glass of wine and takes her pulls. Her microwave beeps and she pulls our her food. She sits at the table when her phone rings. She sees it’s Quinn and asks him to not says she pocket dialed him. He tells her they never had a chance. He says it was per-meditated and saw a guy in the crowd with an earpiece orchestrating it. He sent her the video link and tells her to watch it. He points out the guy that’s wearing a comm.
She curses and he says they never had a chance. His face turns to the camera but neither recognizes him. They wonder if he’s Pakistani intelligence and she says why would they do it. She says Sandy’s cover was blown so he’d have to leave anyway, so why kill him? She says this changes everything. She says she needs him but he says he can’t. She says there is no one there she can count on. She says not to make her beg, but he says no, so she does beg
He says she’s the hardest person in the world to say no to and she asks if that’s a yes. She tells him she f-ing loves him and he says yeah, he knows. Quinn sits staring after they ring off. Carrie smiles and goes back to her boxed dinner. Quinn doesn’t look happy about going back.
THE END!
