Tonight on Showtime their Emmy Award winning drama series, Homeland returns with an all new Sunday November 16, season 4 episode 8 called, “Halfway to a Donut.” Tonight, Carrie [Carrie Mathison] organizes a last-ditch operation; Lockhart [Tracy Letts] and Martha stall Pakistan’s Inter-Services-Intelligence.
On the last episode, Carrie learned that Majid Javadi had placed a significant asset aboard an aircraft carrier, with the intent of intercepting valuable and marketable 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 as per the Showtime synopsis, Carrie organizes a last-ditch operation. Lockhart and Martha stall the ISI. Carrie tells everyone that there is a breach in the embassy.
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 8 — tonight at 10PM EST!
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Carrie wakes in a bed that’s not hers. She sits up and looks around. She sees a man outside her window and struggles to pull herself together. She sees shoes by the bed and tries to grab them. She can barely stand and clings to the poster of the bed. She struggles over to a sofa then goes to look outside. There’s a patio with a table and she sees a guard nearby. She walks further out then staggers and catches herself on a chair.
Aasar is there and asks how she’s feeling. He says she was in quite a state. She looks around and asks if this is his house. He says it is. She asks how she got there and he says – you don’t remember? He says his men brought her there because she was causing a commotion in the street and the police locked her up. He asks if she really doesn’t remember and he says she told him some things last night about herself because she thought he was someone else.
She goes back inside and almost falls. He tells her she needs to rest but she says no. He picks her up and puts her in the bed. She’s shivering and he wraps the blankets around her. He leaves her there. Lockhart asks if they’ve found Carrie and Quinn says they are still looking. They are headed to meet with the Pakistanis. Aasar shows up as part of the Pakistani group and runs into Tasreem. He says he had an unexpected guest and she says she knows and asks why he intervened.
He says she was out in the street acting crazy and they didn’t need another incident. She asks why he thinks Carrie was acting like that. She says she would have been on plane, relieved of her post if he hadn’t intervened. She’s angry and stomps away. They all head into the meeting.
Saul is woken up and put in chains. He’s hauled out and put in front of a flag so that he can be seen on the video screen at the meeting. He looks at the camera and says don’t do a f-ing thing they ask. They drag him out of sight. Lockhart says to tell them if Saul is hurt, all bets are off and Tasreem says she’ll try to convey that message.
Haqqani is there then reading off a list of names. Lockhart asks if they are prisoner names and Tasreem says they are being held at Bagram. Lockhart reminds them that Haqqani also killed Pakistanis and Tasreem says those are Haqqani’s demands, not theirs but Lockhart isn’t buying it. They agree to meet tomorrow after talking to each of their governments.
When Saul is taken back to his cell, he fights his captors, is knocked to the floor and takes that opportunity to steal a nail he saw there earlier. He hides it and then once they leave, begins to work on his chains. Carrie is up and about at Aasar’s. She sets out a couple of pills to take. She pops one in her mouth then spits it out into her hand.
Aasar comes in and asks if she’s feeling better. She asks why his men were following her and he says they weren’t. He says the police were called on her because she was acting crazy. She says she thinks someone tampered with her medications. He says nothing and then asks if she thinks he did it. He says he didn’t do it and she asks who did. He says he has no idea. She asks if he’d tell her if he knew.
He says he saved her and she needs to rest. She says she’s leaving and he offers to drive her back to the Embassy but she says she can get herself there. She goes to see the doctor and has blood drawn and a nurse brings her new medications. Quinn comes in and Carrie says they have a breach because someone got in and swapped her meds.
She meets with Lockhart and Quinn. He asks who could do it and wants to tell the Ambassador. She doesn’t want to tell anyone. They tell her about the prisoner exchange demands to get Saul back. It’s all of Haqqani’s command structure. She asks what the plan is and Lockhart says there is no plan. He says no one wants this, not even Saul but can’t have Saul’s head in a basket. He asks her what to do.
She says they need to find another way and he says he needs something more specific. He also says he needs to tell the Ambassador what happened to Carrie. He leaves and Quinn asks what happened to her last night. She says she has no idea what happened and she wound up at Khan’s house who says he picked her up from police lockup. She says they exploited a weakness but Quinn says they poisoned her.
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Saul works on his handcuffs. He’s in pain and trying to hurry. He hears noises and has to stop. He lies down and coughs as a guard peers in through the window on his cell door. He goes back to work on the cuffs once the man moves on. He got one hand loose. He hears voice again but keeps working. Lockhart goes to see the Ambassador about the breach. Lockhart says this feels like a war.
He tells Boyd he doesn’t know how she sits across from the Pakistanis every day and she says that’s what being a diplomat is about. He says they hate us. Dennis comes in and says Lockhart didn’t look happy. He’s brought her a treat that’s about halfway to a donut. She tells him to stay inside for a while and says to find someone else to cover his class. She says it’s not safe.
She tells him there was a breach at the Embassy and he can’t tell anyone. He agrees. Great. She told the breacher about himself. What a moron. She tells him to be careful. A guard hears a noise and goes into Saul’s cell. He finds the man has hung himself. He grabs a bucket and stands up to cut him down. He does and then Saul attacks. He was only faking suicide. He chokes the man to death.
He rolls the guy over and then searches him. He takes the guy’s cell phone. He calls Carrie as he runs outside. He tells her it’s him. She runs to wake Quinn and says Saul escaped but doesn’t know where he is. She says he’s calling back in 11. She has Redmond and the others ready when he calls. He asks what to do and he says they have to locate him. He says it’s pitch black and they work to track the cell signal.
They pull up a map and Quinn tells him to calm down. Saul says he’s just in bad shape. They tell him to be quiet since sound travels. He says – just tell me what to do. Redmond says he’s near Makin where they have an asset. Quinn tells him to go up to a ridge line. He makes it there and tells them to get him out of there. They tell him to look for lights on the valley floor and tells him they have an asset there.
It’s 20 miles away. They give him the asset’s name and tell him it’s a grocer and that Special Forces will extract him there. Quinn tells him it will be radio silent until the extract him but Saul asks to talk to Carrie alone first. She steps out to take the call. She says it’s just them. He says he won’t be recaptured. He says he won’t be a pawn in the prisoner exchange. He tells her no one can suffer for his mistakes.
He asks if she hears him and she says she does. He makes her promise to drop a bomb on the whole mess if anything goes wrong. He says escape or die and tells her to promise. She says okay but he makes her say it out or else he’s walking off a cliff right now. She says escape or die and promises. He repeats back the extraction information to her and ends the call.
Dawn finds him still walking toward the village wrapped in the guard’s cloak. Carrie says he’s almost there and they tell her Special Forces is 90 minutes away. Quinn asks Carrie what Saul said to her and she says he made her promise escape or die. Quinn says it won’t come to that and she says she hopes not. Lockhart says the Pakistani group is there and the Ambassador has been told to stall.
They wonder if they know Saul has escaped. Dennis approaches Tasreem and says they know about the pills and that Carrie is on a rampage to find out who poisoned her pulls. She says she has something for him to do but he says it’s too hot. She hands him a napkin and Aasar sees the exchange. The Ambassador starts the meeting with a daily proof of life demand.
She next says one of the names on your list and the Pakistani rep Bunny says that it’s not our list. She says one of the men has in infection. Carrie slips a note to Lockhart that the Pakistanis don’t seem worried. Saul lurks in the alley across from the grocer’s. He sees the man open up his shop and then walks in and calls out to the man. The guy pulls a gun on him and asks who he is.
Saul says didn’t they say and he tells Saul to shut up. Saul says if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about shoot him, otherwise, he’s come for help. Carrie watches Tasreem as Boyd works through the list. Carrie steps out of the meeting and Lockhart follows. Tasreem smiles as they go. Carrie tells Lockhart they know where Saul is.
Carrie comes in and says they don’t have to find Saul, all they have to do is find the drone. She says they know where help is coming from. Lockhart says that’s why they’re being so smug and says they have to give the team a hand up. Carrie calls the Special Forces team but then they lose their radio signal. Carrie tries to warn them. They are in an old VW bus.
They curse and try to call in and tell her the Taliban are everywhere. They have to reroute and Carrie says it will take them forever. The grocer tells Saul that Haqqani is Taliban and came there shutting down the school and pushing for Sharia no one wanted. He says they killed his father and then everyone else backed down. He says he called the Americans the next day.
Carrie calls just then and asks Saul how he is. He says he’s ready to go but she says there’s been a change of plans. She says she wants to move him to the South edge of town for pick up. She tells him to take an alley to the hospital. She says there is a park behind the hospital and says to take the phone and keep it on. The grocer also gives Saul a gun to take with him. They watch him leave via drone.
The grocer steps outside and sees a truck full of armed men roll into town and disburses. Tasreem gets a text during the meeting. Boyd says she’s sorry about the delay and Tasreem says it’s okay, she’s sure Lockhart and the others will be back soon. Special Forces calls in and says they have been stopped by Taliban. The Taliban approach and then open fire. They return fire and throw it in reverse.
Carrie wants them to press on but they have to back away because of the Taliban presence. She sees on the drone that Taliban are all over and calls Saul. She tells him there is Taliban all over. They are tracking him. Saul says there’s too many of them. She tells Saul to hang tight. He says he can’t get through. He sits down and says no. She says to keep moving. He says he won’t go back to those people.
He tells her they had a good run and that they’re everywhere. He says there are too many. He puts the gun to his head but she says she’s in the ops room and can see that it can work. She tells him to do exactly what she says. Quinn tells her they can’t get Special Forces there. She tells Saul they’re waiting for him at the rendezvous. He’s crying hard now. He still has the gun in his hand.
She tells him to exit the courtyard. He stands and tucks the gun into his pants. She tells him to take a right at the alley. He says that’s the way he came. He rushes out and she sends him down a few buildings and left. He sees more Taliban and she directs him to a door. He says it’s locked and tries the next few then ducks into a building. She says to look for an exit across the building.
He sees one and she says it will take him to a street where there’s a park. He’s surrounded. She sent him directly into their hands and he screams out that she f-ing lied to her and he curses her and calls her a f-ing whore. She tells them to turn off the sound. Lockhart says he’s going back to the conference room. He says he was really looking forward to telling the Pakistanis to go f- themselves but that can’t happen now.
He goes back in and sits. He tells them to tell Haqqani they’ll meet his demands. Tasreem does not look surprised. The Pakistanis stand and leave. Carrie tells Quinn she was trying to do the right thing and may have steered him to his death. She says she betrayed Saul and asks how saving his life could be the wrong choice but it was. She says there was nothing but wrong choices.
She says nothing good can happen in their world. Quinn says they’ve been up for two days and says they need some rest. He tells her goodnight and leaves. Carrie puts in her earplugs and goes to her bed with her sleep mask. She climbs under the covers and turns off the light. Her phone rings. She takes the call. She leaves the Embassy in the rain to meet someone.
It’s Aasar. He approaches and she says – you won. He asks – did we. She asks what he needed to tell her. He says he didn’t tamper with her drugs. She says he already said that and he says he needs her to believe him. He says she makes everything so hard. He says she complains about distrust and she says what they did to her was f-d up. She says maybe it’s fair and what we do to each other but it didn’t feel fair.
She says she believes him. He walks back over closer and she says she knows he’s telling the truth because she remembers some of it now – enough. She says the part at the end, with him, is part of what she remembers. He tells her it was Dennis Boyd that switched her pills. He says – he’s working against you, that’s all that I can say.
THE END!
