This episode begins the morning after the previous one finished with Carrie meeting her contact after Friday prayers; she is told that Abu Nazir will be in Beirut the following day to meet with a senior member of Hezbollah. This could be the opportunity the CIA has been waiting for
assuming Carrie's judgement about her contacts reliability can be trusted. Saul give the operation the green light but it doesn't go according to plan; not because of faulty information but because somebody warned Nadir at the very last moment. That person was none other than potential Vice Presidential candidate Congressman Brody! After the operation Saul and Carrie retrieve the contact with the intention of extracting her from the country; Carrie decided she must search her house for clues as to what her husband was up to first though
and in the process she nearly gets them all killed. It may turn out to be a justified risk though when Saul discovers a memory card hidden in the bag she picked up to carry various items from the house.
Two episodes in and the pace is starting to pick up; the tension rose nicely in the run up to the ambush when we didn't know whether the mission would succeed or whether it was all a trap so unfriendly forces could eliminate or capture the US personnel. Likewise the scenes of Carrie escaping from the house while being shot at were pretty exciting even if we did know it was unlikely that the series protagonist would get killed! As always there were solid performances from everybody involved and the action moved along fast enough that we don't think of potential plot holes while watching such as why did Carrie's hair return to being blonde after she said she'd dyed it dark?; surely keeping it dark would be more discrete in the Middle East and would Brody really be able to back a call from a mobile phone in an operations room deep in the Pentagon? These little questions didn't distract from my enjoyment though and the revelation at the end of the episode left me dying to know what happens next!
Two episodes in and the pace is starting to pick up; the tension rose nicely in the run up to the ambush when we didn't know whether the mission would succeed or whether it was all a trap so unfriendly forces could eliminate or capture the US personnel. Likewise the scenes of Carrie escaping from the house while being shot at were pretty exciting even if we did know it was unlikely that the series protagonist would get killed! As always there were solid performances from everybody involved and the action moved along fast enough that we don't think of potential plot holes while watching such as why did Carrie's hair return to being blonde after she said she'd dyed it dark?; surely keeping it dark would be more discrete in the Middle East and would Brody really be able to back a call from a mobile phone in an operations room deep in the Pentagon? These little questions didn't distract from my enjoyment though and the revelation at the end of the episode left me dying to know what happens next!
