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A short time later, Raqim's home address is ascertained. Saul calls Carrie to inform her that Hamid is dead. He had somehow obtained a fragment of a razor blade and slashed his own wrist.

Saul is home with Mira, who is at the end of her rope. She says she is tired of her life revolving around Saul and his all-consuming work. As this conversation is going on, Carrie shows up.

She's learned of Brody's meeting with Hamid and has a tape of the camera footage with her. She is furious that Brody was allowed to have contact with Hamid, and points out that in the melee, Brody pulled Hamid into the blind spot of the camera, giving him ample opportunity to pass Hamid the blade.

Saul is also angry that Brody was permitted to meet with Hamid, but refuses to take Carrie's suspicions up the chain of command, as there is still no hard evidence. Carrie says she will take it up with Estes, whether Saul approves or not. Saul counters that if she does so, she'll be fired. Carrie storms out after a nasty argument.

Negotiations between Afghanistan and the Taliban fall apart when Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Qadir G'ulom Mohammad Bakri , announces he will refuse to honor the proposed terms. Saul recruits Carrie, who is still recovering from her imprisonment in Russia, to join him in Kabul to help salvage the peace talks, despite warnings from Carrie's caretakers at a military hospital in Germany that she is not ready.

In the aftermath, Saul is captured and delivered to Haqqani, who was not in the convoy but sent it as a decoy. Saul and Haqqani eventually agree to terms on a peace deal, which includes an immediate cease fire.

Their plans fall apart when the helicopter carrying the US president and the Afghan president goes down in Taliban-controlled territory. Carrie, already suspected to be working with the Russians, lies about her clandestine meetings with GRU agent Yevgeny Gromov Costa Ronin , and Saul is compelled to send her back to Germany.

Carrie goes on the run with Yevgeny in search of both a missing Max and the flight recorder from the helicopter crash.

She remains in contact with Saul, who tries to help her despite the CIA's pursuit. They believe they are successful, but Haqqani is immediately sentenced to death. Jalal claims responsibility for the crash, and Saul tries to prevent the new US president from escalating the situation further by threatening to invade Pakistan. Knowing that the recorder proves that mechanical failure caused the crash, Saul goes to the Russian ambassador, who denies any knowledge of it. Her priority remains the same: saving the world, no matter the cost.

But her psyche absorbs the collateral damage she racks up along the way. Mathison is vulnerable and dangerous when her meds fail, and tortured by abandoning her daughter, but nothing is more satisfying than watching her grab a head scarf and a motorcycle and hit the ground in Kabul.

This season, she chases down vital intel, even when the local CIA considers her unreliable and gets in her way, forcing her to get assistance from Yevgeny Gromov Costa Ronin , the respectful Russian spy who clapped her in prison. Even though they are on opposing teams, they are equally matched and believe in the same things. One of the most challenging scenes in the finale was the sexiest. It was always thought through in the writers room and ultimately on the page.

It was charted out. But it was fun to be able to take such big swings, to do something that was just so much. Somehow we were able to figure that out. We got more facile with it as we went along, we all found our rhythms.

He was sonorous, reflective, sturdy and careful. She was the opposite. In other words, he seems to approach his own life with the same thoughtfulness that Saul brings to his work. Patinkin also seems like a pretty great guy who obviously loves his wife and gets excited when an interview is interrupted with good news. With any luck, Saul will make it out of Homeland alive and Patinkin will finally win an Emmy for playing him after four previous nominations. But the best result of all would be a surge in characters on other shows who, like Saul, prove the dramatic power of decency.

People are talking about Homeland in our forums. Join the conversation. Tweet him at IAmBlankenship. Follow us:. By Cynthia Littleton. It gave stars Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin a final outing that was worthy of their eight years in the spy trenches as Carrie Mathison and Saul Berenson, the CIA prodigy gone rogue and her faithful mentor, respectively.

That attack never happened, but the video was later used to frame Brody for the bomb plot that ended Season 2. Now Carrie was the one about to face a CIA tribunal questioning her own patriotism amid suspicions that she was involved in the downing of the helicopter.

Season 8 revolved around a complicated effort to bring about a cease fire between the Taliban and other factions in Afghanistan and examined the realpolitik around the prospect of bad actors like the Taliban evolving into more pragmatic political organizations. The younger Haqqani was quick to claim falsely credit for the crash that killed Warner and his Afghan counterpart.

But to do that, she also had to tangle in more ways than one with Yevgeny. She decided to be a pipeline of valuable information for Saul — a key source of the intelligence coups that built his career — after a group of her student-comrades were executed in East Germany because one of them defected after becoming a spy asset for Saul.

It was also in that penultimate episode when Carrie made the decision to be the kind of person who attempted to kill her mentor — her closest human relationship — because she was hellbent on preventing a nuclear conflict from breaking out between the U.

Hayes sent troops to the Pakistani border to escalate the U. Saul explained the truth of the flight-recorder situation to Zabel for the first time and hinted at the clandestine efforts to get Russia to release the evidence. As he headed out of the White House for his home, Saul ran into White House chief of staff David Wellington Linus Roache and asked him to set up a discreet meeting the next day with two national security reporters from the New York Times and Washington Post, as a backup plan if they need help slowing the escalation of tensions.

The bag was full of stacks of cash in various currencies and passports. Carrie started to leave but turned back to grab the Franny picture. Saul, fuming since his meeting with Maggie, was sitting in his library with its wall of red-covered books, listening to opera at loud volume and waiting to confront Carrie. He had, after all, taken her in and got her a lawyer after she returned to the U. Not to mention his years of mentorship that preceded such a kind gesture. Saul let her have it, assuring her that he knew she was planning to skip out.

He pressed her about whether she cut some kind of deal with Gromov for the flight recorder. Carrie divulged that she was on a mission to find out the name of his longtime Russian asset. Saul was dead-set on protecting his asset at all costs, but Carrie was on a personal mission to stop a nuclear conflict from potentially killing millions.

Carrie ran upstairs and mixed her cocktail. Saul walked in at the exact wrong moment and soon he was on the floor in a fetal position. These scenes were the face-acting Olympics for Danes and Berenson.