I know Carrie tends to fall hard and fall fast, but using Child Services to push her into this corner felt like a bizarre, conspicuous twist for Homeland, and an especially risky move by a top spy . There was a moment toward the end of Season 5 where we all just looked at ourselves in the mirror. [65] Showtime eventually secured the rights to the show and embraced the more unstable version of the character. Saul finds his advice falling on deaf ears in the White House after the brash and inexperienced Vice President Benjamin Hayes takes over the presidency. Played by Maury Sterling, Max Piotrowski is Virgil's younger brother, who works with him on freelance security consulting operations. She goes anyway, however, and calls out his name as he is hanged in a public square. However, at a critical moment, she tips off Tom, allowing him to narrowly escape. Lockhart also gives the order to have Brody eliminated after he becomes a liability for the U.S. during his mission in Iran. Reed also is a CIA informant recruited by Carrie Mathison. She does not answer him, and he gives her time to think about it. . Once Carrie gives birth to her daughter, Frannie, Maggie is largely responsible for taking care of the child, given Carrie's enduring commitment to her intelligence work. Carrie gives Brody an ultimatum: either be exposed and sent to prison, or help the CIA in exchange for immunity. The Best Shows and Movies to Watch This Week. Carrie's fate wasn't sealed on the page until 24 hours before "Homeland" shot its final scenes. Carrie and Saul send in a decoy lawyer to poison him in a manner similar to McClendon; believing the Russians are responsible, Dante admits that Wellington's girlfriend Simone Martin is a Russian asset involved in the plot to kill McClendon. Carrie has her doubts, however, and meets with Saul to discuss the matter; the two of them figure out that Dante is in fact a Russian agent and had orchestrated the entire affair in order to bring down Keane. The effect of that all happening was, Carrie was able to avert a war between the U.S. and Pakistan from happening, but the relationship with Saul was severed. When she also wonders aloud why Brody betrayed her by turning her in, leading Saul to realize that Carrie really loves Brody. Carrie and Frannie move in with Maggie after Carrie is fired from her job at the White House. He is publicly named as the perpetrator of the attack, but Carrie and Quinn discover that Jamie McClendon's group planted the bomb and framed Sekou. The plan nearly succeeds until the American and Afghan presidents die in a helicopter crash. Carrie subsequently helps derail Saul's bid for the directorship, forming a rift between them that lasts over two years. Due to the influence of Allison Carr, Dar and Saul come into conflict. Walden capitalizes on Brody's political value following his return from captivity, offering him a seat in the House of Representatives in a special election. He sends Brody and Walker back to the U.S. with a plot to kill Vice President Walden and many other officials, but it is thwarted by the efforts of Carrie Mathison. He loses his leg in an IED explosion that hits his and Brody's car; Brody rescues him from the wreckage. Faisel is killed, and Morgan is arrested in Mexico by Saul Berenson. Haqqani later storms the U.S. embassy in Islamabad alongside a troupe of armed soldiers in search of a package containing highly classified intelligence about the CIA's network in the region. For a show initially built on characters' wild decisions and misdirects, the episode played out in relatively straightforward beats, picking up where the last few episodes have left off. And the decision to turn Carrie into a whistle-blower had been a last-minute stroke of inspiration. [21] In retaliation, Carrie leaks classified information to a reporter, leading Saul to have her temporarily committed to a mental hospital. When Brody is about to detonate his suicide vest at the State Department, Carrie convinces Dana to call him and "talk him down", which convinces Brody to not go through with the attack, though Dana is left not having any clue what Brody was planning to do. When Brody is elected as a U.S. Representative, Cynthia befriends and takes Jessica Brody under her wing. During Carrie's captivity, Yevgeny "saves" her from attempting to commit suicide by hanging. She learns that the hitman worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and realizes that Russia wants CIA intelligence that had recently been stolen by hackers. Played by Taylor Kowalski, Xander is the former boyfriend of Dana whom she broke up with when she met Finn Walden. That would be a great story. Carrie Anne Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series Homeland on Showtime, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Damian Lewis takes the Emmy for his role of Marine POW-turned-traitor. TV & Movies 'Homeland' Cheat Sheet: What You Need to Know for Season Two Catch up on major players and plot twists in Showtime's thriller By Sean T. Collins September 27, 2012 Claire Danes. Brody says "no", beating the polygraph. He stages several encounters with Carrie to get close to her, and reveals during a conversation that the two of them developed a "close" bond during her captivity (which she cannot remember), which led to her divulging various personal secrets to Yevgeny. [69], In November 2011, The Atlantic named Carrie Mathison as one of the best characters on TV, calling her "the thinking man's Jack Bauer", and going on to say "We both root for Carrie's assuredness and are turned off by her brash, erratic, and occasionally reckless behavior". Saul and Wellington disclose their findings on the Russian infiltration plot to a stunned Paley, who initially believes them, only to reverse course after Dante's death, believing Keane is using Russia as a scapegoat to cover up her own crimes. After they end up taking refuge with some followers, they are tracked down by the FBI and Saul Berenson, newly appointed National Security Advisor to the Keane administration. Christine is later revealed to have received a tip regarding Frannie's safety from Dar Adal. The following is a list of recurring characters who have appeared in at least three episodes of a season or in at least two episodes of two different seasons. After Keane's inauguration, Max continues aiding Carrie in Washington D.C., installing surveillance in Chief of Staff David Wellington's apartment, and assisting in the investigation of Simone Martin. After Simone is successfully exfiltrated and testifies regarding the GRU's plot to bring down Keane, Paley is arrested as a co-conspirator for his attempts to stop the exfiltration. There were Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul (Mandy Patinkin), two people who experienced their own traumas, including some inflicted on one another, communicating halfway across the world via slipped messages in the spine of a book. Carrie convinces Brody to take up the mission, and helps him escape to a safehouse after he completes the plan. He has a daughter named Esme (played by Martina Garcia) who accompanies Brody on an attempt to escape the tower. Saul recruited a young Carrie Mathison into the CIA, and is a close friend and mentor to her. Played by James Rebhorn, Frank Mathison is Carrie Mathison's father. About a year later, Max joins a military unit in Afghanistan, still seeking justice against Haqqani and the Taliban for Fara's death. Played by Patrick Sabongui, Reda Hashem is a lawyer and the head of Fair Trial, a New York City nonprofit defending the civil liberties of Muslims. At the beginning of its series finale, Homeland reminded viewers about the show it used to be. She instead has Yevgeny arrange the operatives' arrest. But there is also lots about Taylor's . Khan continues to help Carrie afterwards, providing her the name of Dennis Boyd as the ISI's mole inside the U.S. embassy. She and Saul wake Quinn from his coma in an attempt to learn the jihadists' plot, but it is unsuccessful and results in Quinn suffering a major stroke. Dante calls Carrie, who is picking up Frannie from school early. Carrie eventually moves Quinn into the ground floor of her apartment. However, the meet ends in disaster when Walker detonates a briefcase bomb carried by a double, killing al-Zahrani and three bystanders. When Quinn uncovers a homegrown conspiracy against the President-elect, Max goes undercover in Brett O'Keefe's shadowy private company, which he learns is a troll farm whose services are being solicited by Dar Adal. Carrie initially avoids taking care of her daughter, leaving the infant Frannie to stay with Maggie while away in Kabul, and nearly drowning the child in a bathtub while spending a day watching over her. Carrie, Russia's star defector, lives with Yevgeny in a god-tier apartment in Moscow. After Numan is arrested by the BND, Astrid threatens Laura with his deportation unless she gives the documents and goes on air denouncing Faisal as a terrorist. After this, Dana changes her last name to disassociate herself from her father and moves out of the house. By the time Carrie convinced Saul of the true nature of the president's death, the Russians revealed their true plan: get Carrie to convince Saul -- with force if necessary -- to reveal his decades-long asset (Tatyana Mukha) deep within the Russian infrastructure in exchange for the flight recorder. Saul and a team intercept Allison's car and kill her. Played by Amir Arison, Prince Farid Bin Abbud is a Saudi Arabian prince who Lynne Reed was a consort for. Don DeLillo said in White Noise, In a crisis, the true facts are what other people say they are. Played by Costa Ronin, Yevgeny Gromov is a lieutenant colonel in the GRU, Russia's intelligence directorate. [55], Meanwhile, Quinn suffers a massive brain hemorrhage. Dante, Max, and former CIA officer Thomas Anson (James D'Arcy) kidnap Martin and get her to confess her complicity in MacLendon's death, which leads to her testifying in Paley's hearings. She is forced to divert her attention from the plot in order to rescue Peter Quinn from a jihadist compound where he was subjected to a sarin gas attack. Saul brings Brody back to the U.S. so that he can enact the second stage of the plan: assassinate the IRGC chief in Tehran so that he can be replaced with Javadi. Played by Zainab Jah, Aby Bah is the mother of Sekou Bah and his sister Simone. El Nio and his men take him to the Tower of David, an aborted housing project in Caracas, where Brody is nursed back to health and given heroin to make him dependent on El Nio's men, forcing him to stay with them. Saul soon calls her back to Kabul to help negotiate a peace agreement that would end the war in Afghanistan. 3) How come she always get what she . Played by Jaylen Moore, Eric Baraz is among a team of US Army Special Forces soldiers assigned to train and assist Brody on his mission to Iran. [11], Six months later, Carrie is working as an ESL teacher and living with her sister. As Carrie prepares for a custody hearing, Saul asks her to lead an operation in Russia to exfiltrate Martin, but she refuses. As part of an al-Qaeda plot, Morgan and Faisel are assigned to purchase a house within sniper range of a Marine One landing pad. Quinn additionally had a son with a Philadelphia police officer named Julia Diaz, who knows Quinn only by his alias, "John.". When his father's behavior becomes more erratic, Chris finds comfort in the familiar presence of Mike Faber. Played by Alok Tewari, Latif Bin Walid is the majordomo for Prince Farid who was an agent for Abu Nazir. Saul assures her that Brody will be safely extracted, but his successor as CIA Director, Senator Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts), betrays their location to Javadi, who arranges their capture. Carrie and Quinn manage to escape. Carrie would never go that dark. Hayes then hires John Zabel as his advisor on Afghanistan, but Zabel, eager to send the U.S. into another war in the Middle East, uses a leaked video of Jalal Haqqani claiming responsibility for President Warner's death to persuade Hayes into antagonizing Pakistan. He oversees the operation to eliminate Majid Javadi's terrorist network in Iran, as well as the operation (led by Brody) to assassinate IRGC Chief Danesh Akbari. Brody is captured by the CIA and forced to work with them against al-Qaeda. Some time after the Taliban's assault on the U.S. embassy, Saul learns from Dar Adal that Haqqani agreed not to harbor terrorists in Afghanistan in exchange for being removed from the CIA's kill list. When Brody returns, Lauder is antagonistic towards him. Mike and a fellow Marine, Lauder Wakefield, feel that Brody may have had something to do with the murder of Tom Walker and investigate the matter. He and Virgil help Carrie throughout the Brody investigation, installing surveillance in the Brody family's home and monitoring his activities after he becomes a CIA asset. Carrie often enlists him to help her with surveillance operations, including that of Nicholas Brody's household. Not only has Franny been abandoned by her mother, but her mother is now like Edward Snowden and is considered a traitor. Two years later, Astrid helps Carrie and Quinn uncover a Russian conspiracy to infiltrate the CIA's Berlin station. Bill and Maggie eventually take custody of Carrie's daughter Frannie. However, Youssef is killed on his way out of Germany in an airplane explosion engineered by the Russians. Jenna, feeling betrayed, nonetheless implores Carrie not to disclose her aiding and abetting of Carrie's evasion of the CIA. [29], Carrie travels to Tehran to make sure the assassination goes smoothly, and watches as Brody is taken to meet with the head of the Revolutionary Guard, General Deshan Akbari (Houshang Touzie). Played by Walid Amini, Josh Modares is in the car when Carrie decides to take Brody to see her daughter, Dana Brody. Brody is soon arrested by Iranian authorities, who sentence him to death by public hanging. Saul formally agrees to end the program but continues it independently, enlisting Peter Quinn to assassinate known targets. That goes back to Franny. Played by Peter Vack, Clint Prower is a young but capable analyst from DARPA that Saul recruits to his task force to investigate Russian interference in the Keane administration. 2) Why did they make her hair exactly the same style of her mother's and sister's - like just in order to make them seem relatives? He and Saul negotiate Carrie's release in a prisoner exchange; after months without being medicated, however, Carrie is barely lucid and doesn't even recognize Saul. He initially spies on Carrie from an apartment across the street from her. [57], When her client Sekou Bah (J. Mallory Cree) is killed in and framed for a terrorist attack, Carrie begins to investigate. Carrie meets with a contact named Behruz (Mousa Kraish), who tells her that she, not Dring, was the target of the attack. Carrie, Saul, and Estes set up an operation to capture Nazir, but Brodywho has been elected to Congress and is observing the operation with Walden in the White House Situation Roomtips him off and allows him to escape. This is a list of characters appearing in the Showtime drama television series Homeland. [40], Carrie oversees a prisoner exchange: Saul for five Taliban members. Fara later joins Carrie in Islamabad alongside Max Piotrowski as part of an underground task force assembled to track down Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani. [18] After Brody kills Walden at Nazir's instruction,[18] Nazir releases Carrie, who leads the search of the abandoned mill where she was held. briefing room and telling people what it looks like on the ground in Syria. Carrie Anne Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series Homeland on Showtime, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Saad later helps Conlin confirm that Sekou was not responsible for the car bombing in which he and two other civilians were killed. Walden is killed during a meeting with Brody when Nazir's associates tamper with his pacemaker. Suspecting that Aayan is involved in terrorism, she sleeps with him in an attempt to recruit him as an asset. And there is just a litany of our overreaction to 9/11 on the wall. However, Saul's team bursts in and captures Dante. Played by Linda Purl, Elizabeth Gaines is Chief of Staff to Vice President William Walden and his most trusted advisor. Having already discussed the major twist that relates to our main character, Carrie, let's turn our attention to the assassination of the wrong Syrian leader. During the meeting, Carrie intuits that he is onto her and blows her cover by confronting Brody about his treason, forcing Saul and Quinn to arrest him. Additionally, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. [33] She leaves Frannie with Maggie, reasoning that her daughter is better off without her. She meets with her former colleague Allison Carr (Miranda Otto) to assess the security situation there; Allison refuses to help unless Carrie gives her inside information on the Foundation, a request Carrie refuses. As his behavior becomes increasingly bizarre, Jessica suspects further infidelity. Carrie begins investigating Dante and learns from his ex-wife that he harbored resentment for Carrie in Kabul after her botched drone strike, which resulted in her promotion and his career decline. Cast Main Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patinkin (left to right) portray lead roles Carrie Mathison, Nicholas Brody and Saul Berenson, respectively. Carrie attends Brody's execution despite his pleas that she not be there. Senator Sam Paley, who is leading a Congressional investigation into the Keane administration, visits Dar in federal prison for insight regarding Saul's sudden trip to Russia. Carrie Anne Mathison was an Arabic language student at Princeton University, where she was recruited into the CIA by veteran officer Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin). The relationship is abruptly ended when Brody returns. Played by Jared Ward, "Yousef Turani" is the doctor for a special operations team (US Army Special Forces) recruited by Saul to perform the drug detox procedure on Brody. For its final scenes, the Homeland series finale jumped forward to two years later. Saul manages to bring Brody, now a heroin addict after his captivity in Caracas, back to the United States to help carry out the second phase of his plans for the Middle East. She spends over two decades passing state secrets to Saul while rising the ranks of the Kremlin, using handwritten messages hidden inside the bindings of red leather books to communicate with Saul under an alias. The effort ultimately succeeds in preventing a war between the U.S. and Pakistan, at the cost of Anna committing suicide to avoid capture by Russian authorities. [65] Once it wasn't picked up and they moved on to the cable channels, they were able to experiment with more complex and flawed main characters. During her testimony, she states that Brody had nothing to do with the attack. Played by Mackenzie Astin, Bill Dunn is Maggie Mathison's husband and Carrie's brother-in-law. He was devastated by that. Well, Franny got sacrificed. Played by Mandy Patinkin, Saul Berenson is a veteran intelligence officer at the CIA, initially introduced as the agency's Middle East Division Chief. Jessica, in turn, learns of Brody's affair with Carrie. Martha reluctantly complies, but later finds that Dennis did not kill himself and has instead been detained by the CIA. When Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon learned after Season 5 that their political thriller, Homeland, would end after eight seasons, they chose not to shape the remaining installments into one long and complex arc. Max spends the next two years in a deep depression, and claims to have developed a methamphetamine habit to cope with his grief. Saul later recruits him for an off-the-books operation to target ISIS terrorists in Berlin, an operation that is complicated when Carrie's name ends up on his list. Played by Alexander Fehling, Jonas Hollander is a lawyer at the Dring Foundation and Carrie's boyfriend in Berlin. March 5, 2017 6:59 pm Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Patrick Sabongui as Reda Kazem in HOMELAND (Season 6, Episode 07). [13], Carrie, her obsession with the case renewed, ransacks Fatima's apartment and comes out with a satchel full of documents. [35] Carrie stages her own kidnapping to scare Aayan into leaving the country. The next day, Sekou dies in an explosion from a bomb planted in his work van. She ultimately decides not to use them, however, after Maggie helps her realize that she will never leave the CIA and thus cannot give Frannie the attention she needs. One brought the story full circle, in a way, to its beginnings, which centered on a returning prisoner from the Iraq War, Sgt. Khan later learns from ISI agent Tasneem Qureishi that the poisoning was engineered to get Carrie transferred out of Islamabad, but that his intervention foiled their plans. Maybe the final result was Carrie's plan all along and maybe not, but it doesn't matter. He is discovered by the CIA and then killed in a bombing attack engineered by Tom Walker. Do I wear a mask? Carrie was given bipolar disorder and made more of an unreliable narrator. Quinn ultimately sacrifices himself to save Carrie and Keane, driving through a barricade of armed soldiers sent to kill the President-elect and dying from his bullet wounds.
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