Homeland

Previously on Homeland...

Pakistan did not blow up our convoy.

- Jalal Haqqani did. - They killed our president.

They killed our operatives.

What calamity has to occur before you finally admit

it's time to do something?

Not a full-scale invasion

of a nuclear power that has said

they will not tolerate our crossing their border.

I should be back in Islamabad preparing for an invasion.

There's only one thing that can defuse this right now.

- Give us Jalal. - We don't know where he is.

Just give us a target. Any target.

Plausible coordinates. That's all I'm asking.

Good hit, good hit.

Target destroyed.

- Well, fuck yeah. -

Saul is running an agent inside the Kremlin.

You must know someone who can help...

An asset in the Kremlin.

- I don't. - If there were ever a time...

I don't. Did you hear me?

You sure you wanna do this? Betray Saul.

It'll get us the flight recorder.

So one of them was a woman.

She was a teacher in English.

- What was her name? - There was no name.

Just "Comrade Instructor."

This is our signal to meet in the bookstore window.

A Tauchnitz edition in red leather.

Very Saul. He liked things hidden in plain sight.

The black box from the president's helicopter.

I know you have it.

There must be a price. What is it?

- Mr. Berenson? - Yes?

We have a package here addressed to your room

to a Professor Rabinow.

"It's Yevgeny Gromov's play."

Carrie Mathison? I'm Charlotte Benson,

a friend of Yevgeny's.

Did you arrange the call?

Just give me the name.

I don't have it. Not yet.

If you can't find the asset,

you can still take Saul out of picture.

He'd have a legacy plan in the event of his death.

- An arrangement. - An arrangement

to pass the asset on to someone else.

And that someone else would be you.

You fucking knew it would come to this.

I hoped you'd find another way,

but like you said...

you've tried everything.

What's left?

Kill Saul.

My name is Nicholas Brody, and I'm a sergeant

in the United States Marine Corps.

I have a wife and two kids...

who I love.

By the time you watch this,

you'll have read a lot of things about me,

about what I've done.

That's why I wanted to explain myself

so that you'll know the truth.

People will say I was broken,

I was brainwashed.

People will say that I was turned into a terrorist,

taught to hate my country.

I love my country.

What I am is a Marine,

like my father before me and his father before him.

And as a Marine, I swore an oath

to defend the United States of America

against enemies both foreign and domestic.

Saul?

Saul?

The welcoming committee.

- This can't be good. - It's not.

This about my outburst at the Security Council?

- It's not. - It's about Jalal Haqqani.

Apparently, he was nowhere near that farmhouse.

The coordinates the ISI provided were bogus.

No shit.

The president is furious, Saul.

Does he know I was involved?

I didn't know you were involved.

That's so you can plausibly deny it.

Give us a minute.

I'm afraid Hayes is past the finger-pointing stage.

What do you mean?

He's been on the phone with the prime minister.

Gave Pakistan 48 hours

to stand down their battlefield nukes

or we take them out.

- Take them out? - Take them out.

We're already flying round-the-clock sorties

over their positions along the border.

What did the prime minister say?

Not much. Listened, mostly.

Well, I guarantee he's talking now

to his top military advisors.

One thing they're talking about is delegating launch authority

to lower-level commanders in the field.

Christ.

You get me on the president's schedule this morning.

Alone.

I can try.

Tell him the chess he's playing

is about to get three dimensional.

How so?

Russia's gonna jump in.

Come, I'll tell you what I know on the way.

Good morning.

Three days ago, at 4:52 a.m., Pakistan Standard Time,

radar installations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

detected aircraft identified as American F-16 Falcons

violating our airspace and directly threatening

defensive positions inside our country.

And just last night, as diplomats all over the world

worked to ease tensions,

President Hayes placed a private call

to Prime Minister Kayani

during which he delivered an ultimatum:

Withdraw your mobile missile launchers,

or see them destroyed on the ground.

Hear us loud and clear:

Today, the United States of America left us no choice

but to arm our tactical nuclear weapons.

Our hope is still for peace.

But our response to war will be swift...

and terrible.

- -

- - I'm sorry.

No more questions. Thank you.

speaking Russian

Wait.

Speaking Russian.

This way.

Thank you, Valery.

Valery is hand-picked.

Yevgeny wanted you to have the best for your operation.

Can we just get on with it, please?

Red is reactant, clear is catalyst.

Red goes in first, clear second.

The resulting compound, Kolokol-1

behaves a lot like ketamine.

The same K-1 used by your security forces

during the Moscow theater hostage crisis?

That was aerosolized. This is in its gel form,

meant to be absorbed through the skin.

Here or here.

And obviously, use the glove.

How soon does it start working?

Almost instantly, inducing the loss of motor skills,

but not consciousness.

- Will he be able to speak? - Some.

But the drug does wear off quickly

so you wanna signal the kill team

as soon after it takes effect as possible.

And they'll be where?

Down the street.

- John. -

The president's asked me to take this meeting.

Where is he?

Busy. You can imagine.

Well, I'll come back, then.

What's the matter? You afraid to talk to me alone?

No.

What, then?

What's the point of arguing with someone

when you're past the point of changing his mind?

That goes both ways, Saul.

Maybe, but you're the only one

willfully ignoring the facts on the ground.

- Your facts. - The facts.

I told you Pakistan wouldn't lie down.

How many different ways you think you're gonna find

to call me dumb?

I wasn't.

But playing chicken with the lives

of 20,000 American soldiers is worse than dumb.

It's... it's unconscionable.

And round and round we go.

The Russians have the flight recorder, John.

What flight recorder?

From President Warner's helicopter.

Aren't you at all curious what it says?

Who shot down that Black Hawk?

Who?

Nobody.

- What do you mean, nobody? - It was a bad turbine blade.

An accident.

Yeah.

You have the recording with you?

I'd like to listen to it myself.

I told you, the Russians have it.

But you've heard it, right? With your own ears?

You're missing the point, John.