Homeland S2E6 - A Gettysburg Address
Whoa! Talk about your wham moments.
Brody is increasingly at sea. He's got the Sword of Damocles held over him by the CIA, and now he has to play the dicey double agent game with Abu Nazir and Roya on the one hand and Carrie and Quinn on the other.
It's obvious in this episode that unlike in the past two seasons, where he basically had everything under control (excepting his home life as he readjusted), he's now isolated and alone, kept out of the loop and unable to find out anything useful.
I was thinking about Walter and Jesse, and in some ways I think Brody has become Carrie's "Jesse". Someone to lord it over and be a useful sidekick at the same time - someone she can berate as needed as well as seek comfort from, because only the two of them really grok each other, even if verbally they do a pretty lousy job of it sometimes. We've seen that Walt and Jesse need each other, even if they don't "get" each other (especially after Season 4).
I wonder if this means Brody will become Carrie's Gale-killer, as Brody mindlessly goes to kill Abu Nazir (if the show's writers take it that way :) ).
What bothers me, though, and Quinn raises this good point, why hasn't the CIA pushed Brody a lot harder than they have? Carrie could have Estes's ass for breakfast the instant she learns Brody was tasked by Roya to grab confidential stuff out of Estes's safe. Hell, she could have the Vice-President's ass in a sling the instant she finds out Brody texted Abu Nazir from inside the Mission Control for the assassination team.
Carrie is on the one hand intensely driven to atone for her imagined and real mistakes in the past, but on the other she has an odd softness for Brody, and this makes me wonder if Brody will try and capitalize on this to escape being wrung dry in Carrie's quest to nail Abu Nazir for good.
I liked that Saul looked obviously embarrassed and uncomfortable, having to take Brody's friend Mike behind the woodshed, metaphorically speaking. Estes is clearly in damage-control mode, because his career hangs in the balance should it be discovered that he let a major intelligence failure happen on his watch. Could Estes even go so far as to sabotage the use of Brody as an intelligence asset to save his career? :O
And the mole! I have to wonder if it was Galvez, because he was the one who called Estes out of the office when Brody was about to raid his safe. Convenient, that. In that case, he was collateral damage for the new unnamed assassin/terrorist operating the equivalent of SWAT teams on American soil.
Lastly, Finn.
Jesus, what a self-centered douchebag that kid is. His dad taught him a little too well, I think. Instead of wondering how to help a woman he hurt, he's busy thinking about covering his own ass. Poor Dana. :( She wants to do the right thing and Finn is busy showing her how to do the wrong thing. :(
I think it can safely be said that Finn is now on everybody's "hiss, boo" list. :P
I can't wait to see the fallout from this ep next week!
Also, new icon! :D That angry face Carrie made at Estes was awesome.
Brody is increasingly at sea. He's got the Sword of Damocles held over him by the CIA, and now he has to play the dicey double agent game with Abu Nazir and Roya on the one hand and Carrie and Quinn on the other.
It's obvious in this episode that unlike in the past two seasons, where he basically had everything under control (excepting his home life as he readjusted), he's now isolated and alone, kept out of the loop and unable to find out anything useful.
I was thinking about Walter and Jesse, and in some ways I think Brody has become Carrie's "Jesse". Someone to lord it over and be a useful sidekick at the same time - someone she can berate as needed as well as seek comfort from, because only the two of them really grok each other, even if verbally they do a pretty lousy job of it sometimes. We've seen that Walt and Jesse need each other, even if they don't "get" each other (especially after Season 4).
I wonder if this means Brody will become Carrie's Gale-killer, as Brody mindlessly goes to kill Abu Nazir (if the show's writers take it that way :) ).
What bothers me, though, and Quinn raises this good point, why hasn't the CIA pushed Brody a lot harder than they have? Carrie could have Estes's ass for breakfast the instant she learns Brody was tasked by Roya to grab confidential stuff out of Estes's safe. Hell, she could have the Vice-President's ass in a sling the instant she finds out Brody texted Abu Nazir from inside the Mission Control for the assassination team.
Carrie is on the one hand intensely driven to atone for her imagined and real mistakes in the past, but on the other she has an odd softness for Brody, and this makes me wonder if Brody will try and capitalize on this to escape being wrung dry in Carrie's quest to nail Abu Nazir for good.
I liked that Saul looked obviously embarrassed and uncomfortable, having to take Brody's friend Mike behind the woodshed, metaphorically speaking. Estes is clearly in damage-control mode, because his career hangs in the balance should it be discovered that he let a major intelligence failure happen on his watch. Could Estes even go so far as to sabotage the use of Brody as an intelligence asset to save his career? :O
And the mole! I have to wonder if it was Galvez, because he was the one who called Estes out of the office when Brody was about to raid his safe. Convenient, that. In that case, he was collateral damage for the new unnamed assassin/terrorist operating the equivalent of SWAT teams on American soil.
Lastly, Finn.
Jesus, what a self-centered douchebag that kid is. His dad taught him a little too well, I think. Instead of wondering how to help a woman he hurt, he's busy thinking about covering his own ass. Poor Dana. :( She wants to do the right thing and Finn is busy showing her how to do the wrong thing. :(
I think it can safely be said that Finn is now on everybody's "hiss, boo" list. :P
I can't wait to see the fallout from this ep next week!
Also, new icon! :D That angry face Carrie made at Estes was awesome.