Homeland Recap: A Kidnapping! Season 4 Episode 5 “About a Boy”

Homeland Recap: A Kidnapping! Season 4 Episode 5 “About a Boy”

Tonight on Showtime their Emmy Award winning drama series, Homeland returns with an all new Sunday October 26, season 4 episode 5 called, “About a Boy.” Tonight, Carrie [Claire Danes] works a frightened asset; Quinn [Rupert Friend] and Fara stake out a new suspect.

On the last episode Fara uncovered a conspiracy that’s been going on for a while, a tip if given to Carrie and Saul ended up calling in a favor. 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 Carrie tries to earn a frightened asset’s trust; Saul spots a familiar face on his way out of town at the airport.

Tonight’s episode is going to be another action packed one, which you won’t want to miss. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of Showtimes’ Homeland Season 4 episode 5 — tonight at 10PM EST!

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Carrie and Aayan lie in bed and he stares at her sleeping in the morning light. He pulls the blanker down and peeks under it at her body. He lays the sheet back down and her eyes open. She tells him looking is okay. He’s embarrassed to be caught at it. She sits up naked and he asks if he should leave. She says she’ll get them breakfast. He offers to go but she says it’s best if he stays out of sight. She dresses and asks if he’s all right. He says yes and she lies down near him and says it must be overwhelming. He agrees and she asks what he wants for breakfast. She kisses him on the arm and says she’ll be back.

Parvez negotiates with a shop owner to rent out his shop. The guy says he’s respectable but he’s interested because they offer him a few hundred bucks. He consents but says no sex and Parvez agrees. Deal made, Fara and Quinn get out of the car where they were waiting and head inside. They set up their equipment to watch for Haqqani. Quinn has his sniper rifle in case the guy does show. He asks what’s Fara’s problem and she says Carrie promised her a desk job.

He reminds her she’s the one who found Haqqani trailing Aayan and says she’s in it now and is good. Carrie meets with Saul who says it’s odd to be leaving when things are just getting started. She wants him to talk to Lockhart about the ISI threat. He has the photo of Haqqani and asks what her plan is to find him. She says she’s working the nephew and it’s going well. He asks if he’s recruitable and she says he’s young and emotional. She says step one is getting him to admit Haqqani is alive.

She says she likely has three days to get him hooked and Saul says that’s a tall f-ing order. He promises to call her from DC. She gets out and they drive away. Aayan is packing when she comes back and asks what he’s doing. He says he’s changed his mind and has to go. He says he’ll got to Kiran’s or school and she says he’s a public figure now. She says the video has made him a CIA target and says they have a kill list. He says she told him yesterday the ISI was the issue.

She tells him if he walks out the door, he will be grabbed up and disappeared. She says she knows he must feel bad about them having sex. He says it’s against his faith and she says she knows. He says he doesn’t want to sin and she says they don’t have to do it again. She says his situation is very serious and he needs to stay put until they can leave for London.

Martha comes in complaining about shoes and her hubby asks if she has plans tonight. She says there’s a concert and he says he’s heard enough Pakistani music for a life time. He tells her he changed his mind about leaving and she says she has a meeting. She says she doesn’t believe he ever had a GW offer and says if he wants to leave, to say it to her face. He says he wants to stay and she asks why. He has no answer.

Fara asks Quinn how long he’s known Carrie and he says three years. She says Carrie told her she needs to become a professional liar to become good at her job and he says she’s learning from the best. He says lying, manipulating, exploiting are the keys to the job. She spots the cleric and they snap photos. He tells her good eyes. At ISI HQ, Tasneem gives orders to find out how Carrie is getting in and out of the compound.

A guy reports to her that Saul is flying out today. He says he met with Carrie and then changed his flight plan to DC. He says they are playing a strange game. He says Saul is still in the hotel gardens waiting on his flight. Tasneem says good riddance. Professor Boyd is looking for Carrie. He has a gift and is knocking on her apartment door. A woman confirms it’s the right apartment, but she’s not there. He’s sweating and nervous. The woman walks away and he decides not to use the key he was given.

Saul is at the airport and sees Ghazi there. He calls Carrie to leave a message about it. He rushes through security to keep an eye on him. Ghazi makes it through his security line and Saul is trying keep an eye on him. He bribes a guard to go faster and takes off after him. Carrie pours coffee for herself and Aayan and starts an “interview” with him. She says she won’t publish anything without his permission. She starts with his uncle Haqqani.

He asks what she wants to know and she says she knows he was the target of the air strike on his village. He says they were close and he was around a lot when he was young then he wasn’t. She asks where he went and he says – to the mountains. She asks to fight but he says to hide from the drones. She asks what kind of man he was. Aayan says he was guided by two things – Islam and Taliban bravery. She asks if he liked him and he tells her how he used to make him laugh as a child.

He says he would tease him and have fun with him. Carrie asks if he was a hero and he says he beat the Soviet Union and it collapsed. She asks how he felt about America and he says he knew how to beat you too. She says she heard a crazy rumor that Haqqani wasn’t killed in the attack. He says that’s not true and says he saw his body. She tells him to take it easy and it was just a spook rumor. He says f- them and says it’s insulting.

Carrie says if he is alive, she has to wonder if he knew the strike was coming and he says that’s not what happened. She says okay to calm him. At the airport, Saul checks the departures board to see where Ghazi may be going. He lurks in the gift shop then follows the guy out and down the terminal. He sees him in line for a flight and looking around nervously. Saul joins another line nearby. Ghazi takes a seat now and Saul calls Quinn.

He tells him that Ghazi is at the airport and boarding an East India flight for South Africa. He gives Quinn the flight info and says he’ll call back if the guy doesn’t get on the plane. He asks him to let Carrie know. The Ambassador shows up looking for Quinn and Redmond tells her he’s in the field. She says he helps her sometimes and he offers to assist. He asks if it’s Dennis and she asks how he knows. He says spies know shit. She says her hubby is drunk in the bar and he heads out to help.

Carrie and Aayan do dishes and she asks how long he’s going to give her the silent treatment. She says she has a habit of making people angry. He says it’s hard to talk about these things and she says she gets that. She says she wants to be honest with him and says she doesn’t want any surprises when they get to London. She tells him she has a baby and he says he knows – he saw the scar. She says she forgot his medical training. He asks what it is and she says a girl named Francis but says the dad died before she was born.

He asks what happened to him and she says he was killed in the line of duty and says he was a journalist too. She says he was on an assignment that was too dangerous. She says it was her fault because she sent him. She walks away and says they don’t have to talk about it but he says he doesn’t mind. She says she usually keeps it to herself. He asks if she’ll tell her daughter when she’s older and she asks how she can tell her that she’s the reason her dad is gone. He asks how can she not.

Aayan says he’s sorry about her husband and she says he wasn’t her husband. She tears up and says she would have liked it if he was. He steps closer and hugs her. The call to prayer begins and she says she’ll leave him alone but he asks her to stay. She asks if he wants to pray and he smiles shyly and asks if he can touch her again. He takes her hand and says he felt silly last night.

She asks why and he says he didn’t know how. She tells him he did and he says he took and didn’t give and she says he’s new at it. He asks how he gives and she says she’ll show him after prayers. She steps close and kisses him and puts her arms around him. Later, they’re in bed and he’s on top of her and she’s moaning and groaning but then starts to cry. He stops and asks if he’s hurting her or doing something wrong. She says no, she’s just happy. She says he makes her happy. He kisses her and they start up again.

Dennis talks about Sandy with Redmond in the bar. They were drinking buddies and Dennis says Sandy got him in a lot of trouble. He tells Redmond he’s in a world of trouble. He asks if it’s about Martha but he says worse. He says if he knew a way out, he’d take it. Tasneem shows up then and introduces herself to Dennis as if they are strangers. She asks if the Ambassador lets him roam free. Redmond asks why she’s there and she says meeting a friend then comments she didn’t know they were close. Redmond says she’s an ISI ball buster and is probably on the job now. Redmond asks what he was going to tell him but Dennis says to forget it.

[11:06:30 PM] Rachel Rowan: Saul watches Ghazi and notices when he gets up and gets in line for a flight. Saul then watches him leave the line and then walk off into the men’s room. He sits back down at the long area to wait. He notices two suited men walk purposefully into the men’s room then come out quickly. He watches the men’s room but still no Ghazi. Finally, he goes in to check for himself. He sees Ghazi there and then a man sticks a syringe in Saul’s neck. They take him out of the airport in a wheel chair.

Ghazi calls Tasneem and tells her it’s done. Parvez coaches Fara on her Urdu and then they see the cleric is on the move on foot. Quinn goes to get the car and she heads out on foot as well. She stays back a ways but keeps a close eye. He meets with a couple of guys and something is handed off to him. He walks back toward her and she turns to walk away but now he’s behind her. Looks like they gave him car keys because he unlocks a vehicle.

She hops in with Quinn and they follow. They decide they need eyes in the sky on this and they need Carrie to authorize the drone but she’s been out of touch all day. Redmond brings a drunk Dennis home and throws him on the sofa. She’s very embarrassed but he says Dennis isn’t a bad guy. She says 20 years ago he was dashing and says now that guy is gone. He tells her to get some sleep and then leaves. Dennis wakes on the sofa after she goes upstairs – he may have been faking it (and I think he heard her call him a loser). He looks at the key in his hand.

Fara and Quinn follow the cleric but realize they are heading into a no go area and agree they don’t have a death wish to keep going. The cleric stops and is questioned. Quinn hands her a tracker to try and put on the cleric’s car. He says he can’t get close enough since he’s white. She takes it and gets out after he explains how to install it. Quinn gets Carrie’s voice mail again and says she needs to answer her f-ing phone and says they need a drone ASAP.

Fara is stopped by a soldier and questioned and she is told to go back. The soldier’s check the trunk of the cleric’s car and see Saul bound and gagged but just shut the trunk because they’re Taliban. Fara gets back in the car and Quinn has to back out of the checkpoint before they get into trouble -that means they’ve lost the cleric and also Saul, although they don’t know about their former boss being kidnapped.

Dennis uses the key to access Carrie’s apartment. He looks around at her stuff, sees a photo of her with Francis and snaps a photo of it. He goes into her bedroom and sifts through the drawers then looks under her pillows. He goes into the bathroom and pokes around. He sees her medicine bottles and snaps photos of those as well. Next morning, Carrie watches Aayan sleep as she stands in the doorway. There’s a knock on the door and she goes to get it before it wakes the boy.

It’s Quinn and he waits across the street. She runs over and asks why he’s breaking protocol. He tells her she’s been AWOL. He tells her about Ghazi and the cleric. He says they lost him without a drone and says she crapped the bed. He asks what she’s doing and she says she’s recruiting. He says she’s f-ing a child then asks if there is no line she won’t cross. She asks what his problem is and he tells her to enjoy it. She goes back inside and sees Aayan is up. She doesn’t see him and then heads up.

She finds him on the roof and he asks who was at the door. She says it was a stringer – a freelancer. He’s watching the sunrise and says it’s beautiful. She pats his back and says it is. He says he has something to tell her before anything more happens. He says Haqqani is alive and says he takes him medicine because he’s very sick. He says he doesn’t want to lie to her but says it’s a secret and she can’t write about. She agrees not to tell anyone. He says he’s the only family he has left and she comforts him and hugs him.

THE END!