Homeland series finale: Goodbye to you, America
Maggie Mathison gracing our presence for the very first time this season? Just when I had convinced myself that 's writers' room had forgotten all about Carrie's family — she must have read last week's recap. Maggie was tipped off that Carrie is "back from Germany," which means she and Franny are, er, behind on their Carrie gossip.
Saul waits for her, creepy classical music blaring, knowing that something is up. Carrie wouldn't ignore Franny and Maggie unless she had a sinister plan readied. They argue, like always, about what matters — Carrie wants to turn over the Russian asset in exchange for the flight recorder, Saul thinks that keeping a line of intelligence to the Russians is worth it all.
She shows Yevgeny the video that a much younger and less gray Saul recorded as his handover in the case of his death — a video in which he drops the line "In the end, who we trust in this life is all that matters" like some kind of heartbreaking fortune teller. Yevgeny sends a message to the man with the flight recorder where the stale bagel should have been, and in an instant, decades of Saul's secret-keeping is undone.
Carrie and Yevgeny are in a fancy apartment play-acting a couple: She delicately puts on makeup, he gifts her a necklace. The camera follows her to an office, covered from wall-to-wall with remnants of the old Carrie, Post-It notes, and article printouts tacked across the wall. Except this time, the paranoia centers on the United States and its many atrocities: Abu Ghraib, the drone program. In Washington, D.
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