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| Written by: | Patrick Harbinson & Chip Johannessen | |||
| Directed by: | Lesli Linka Glatter | |||
| Production number: | 7WAH07 | |||
| Running time: | 60 minutes | |||
| Original airdate: | March 25, 2018 | |||
| Viewers (millions): | 1.28 | |||
Andante is the seventh episode of Season 7 of Homeland. It aired on March 25, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Wellington's Letters, Carrie Mathison tries to find out more about Dante Allen. Meanwhile, Saul Berenson updates David Wellington on the latest news about Simone Martin.
Episode guide[]
Carrie and her people are searching Dante's apartment, taking photos and copying files when Dante sits up briefly but then falls asleep again. Carrie signals that they should hurry. They pack their things and leave, although they are actually not finished yet. Max hopes to find something and they want to have breakfast together to discuss how to proceed, but Carrie remembers that she has to get home quickly.
Saul visits Wellington and questions him about Simone. He explains that he met her at a conference four years ago. Saul asks Wellington to sit down. He explains to him that Simone will certainly claim that Wellington gave her the money so that McClendon dies. She is a Russian agent. Wellington can't believe it. Saul explains that it's just a theory as of now, but he really needs to know everything about her to be sure.
Carrie comes home and tries to pretend everything is fine. But Maggie is really angry and explains that things can't go on like this. She should consider whether she still wanted to be part of the family. Carrie is furious, packs up some things, takes Franny and leaves her sister's house.
Max comes home and is surprised by Saul, who wants to know where he's been. He makes it clear that he knows everything about Carrie and has him in his hands because of the illegal surveillance. Max admits what they did last night. Saul wants him to look at the files but stays with him so he could keep an eye on him. Saul leaves the apartment with Max.
Carrie arrives at a motel and wants to rent a room there with her daughter, but the first credit card is not accepted and the second has a different name on it, which the clerk complains about. Carrie is leaving and Franny wants to know where they are going now. Carrie angrily replies that she doesn't know either. Franny starts crying and wants to go home. Carrie apologizes for her outburst by saying that she worked all night and is very tired. Dante interrupts her with a phone call. Carrie answers and he wants to know what happened that night and if they had sex. Carrie denies it. Dante hears that Carrie seems to be in a bad mood, to which Carrie explains that she had a fight with Maggie and is now lost. Dante offers that she can come to him with her daughter.
Saul has taken Max to see Sandy and Clint, but doesn't explain further who they are. He should look at the data and if he finds something, he should not tell Carrie but tell him. He makes it clear to Max again that he has him in his hands and that he should do what he asks. Saul then gives Sandy and Clint all the information he got from Wellington so they can find out if Simone was in contact with the Russians.
Carrie is with Dante and he is taking care of Franny. He then explains to Carrie that he has to go to work but she can stay and there is a second key.
Keane meets with Vice President Ralph Warner, who wants to know what's up with Wellington and the Simone Martin immunity deal. Keane explains that Wellington has no idea what Simone might say. She believes him. Keane explains that it doesn't help if everyone thinks that something has to be. She makes it clear that he should take care that there are no rumours. She says goodbye to him and explains that he will not get her post.
While Carrie is searching Dante's apartment, Franny has found Dante's wedding book and asks who the woman next to Dante is. Carrie looks at this and realizes that his ex works at the Treasury Department. Meanwhile, Dante is at Maggie's house and explains that he wants to pick up some things because Carrie and Franny are with him first.
Carrie is at the Ministry meeting with Dante's ex-wife, Audrey Navarro. Meanwhile, Dante is in Franny's room talking to Maggie about the time they met. Since they are looking for Franny's rabbit, Dante asks if he could look in Carrie's room. Maggie shows him the way. He goes through Carrie's things and also finds documents about himself.
Carrie talks to Audrey, who informs her that Dante was very unhappy with his job and that it was the frustration that broke them up, not the alcohol. In Kabul he was accused of something and was sent home. His CIA boss, on the other hand, got a promotion for dropping a drone on a wedding party (The Drone Queen) He couldn't deal with this injustice and became obsessed. Later, however, he reoriented himself and had a few appointments overseas.
Carrie calls Max and tells him she has news about Dante that she wants him to check out. In addition, she now realizes that Dante lied to her. She wants to come to him with Franny, but Max ends the conversation that Saul overheard. Max says he should get Carrie involved, but he makes it clear that she just found out through him that she trusts the wrong people, so he shouldn't make any claims. Clint interrupts them both because he and Sandy found out something. Simone has received donations from various Russian oligarchs for her charity. During further research, it became clear that the organization was just a camouflage. Saul wants them to find all the evidence for him and maybe he can reach a judge today.
Keane has an appointment and is looking for Wellington, but he is not there. Rather, he sent her a letter announcing his resignation. He also explains that he was apparently tricked by a Russian agent. Keane is getting a little dizzy, but the vice president has already announced her and she has to go on stage.
Saul is with a judge and shows him what he has found out about Simone Martin. He wants him to question her before she testifies against Wellington in three days. The judge does not find the evidence sufficient and thinks that Saul was just trying to intimidate a witness because she could harm the government. He refuses Saul's request and makes it clear that he will not find another responsible judge either.
Keane awards badges to some soldiers. Then she calls Saul because she wants to know what was true about Wellington's resignation. Saul confirms the suspicion that the Russians are involved, but that he did not recommend resigning. He then updates Keane and explains that the judge denied his request. Keane is stunned. Saul explains that it is not an attack against them but against the land. She wants to help, but Saul explains that she cannot help at the moment.
Saul learns from Max that while researching Dante's trips abroad, he found five matches because Simone was also in town at the same time.
Carrie is mad at Dante for being with Maggie. He defends himself for doing this for Franny and her and doesn't understand why he's the bad guy now.
Keane calmly reads Wellington's letter again and reads that he was in a relationship with Simone because he was trying to suppress his true feelings.
Carrie and Dante talk, and Dante makes it clear that he knows Carrie met with Audrey because she called him after their visit. He wants to know what she said and Carrie explains that it was about Kabul and there was another woman there too, obviously her.
Keane visits Wellington because she wants to understand his letter. She makes it clear to him that he shouldn't step down because everything around her would fall apart and now she needs him to protect her. She does not accept his resignation.
Carrie and Dante share a kiss while Saul and his team prepare for his arrest outside. Saul is advised that Dante is not alone. Saul recognizes Carrie and says she was warned. Meanwhile, Mathison has sex with hate in Allen, who states that Carrie has not yet explained to him why she went to Audrey. Saul's men storm the apartment, capture Dante and take him away before Carrie can respond. Carrie hugs the frightened Franny. When everything is quiet, Saul stands briefly in the door and leaves without a word.
Trivia[]
The word "andante" means a slow progressive tempo or simply moving/progressing in Italian. There is the repetition of a recipe here: Carrie goes to bed with the enemy, literally. Repeated - and successful.
ANDANTE: In Italian it is the present participle of the verb ANDARE (to go). Andante literally means GOING. It's also a musical term and we might see that in the episode too. Do you think it could be a play on words?
ANDANTE MEANING: an·dan·te änˈdänˌtā/Submit
MUSIC
Adjective & Adverb = > Adverb: andante; Adjective: andante.
1. (especially as a direction) in a moderately slow tempo.
Noun => noun: andante; plural noun: andantes.
1. a movement or composition marked to be played andante.
Origin => Italian, literally ‘going,’ present participle of andare .
Reviews[]
“A lot of the drama here was derived from the fact that Carrie just couldn’t stop herself from making the worst decisions possible from the resolution of last week’s cliffhanger onward.” —Matt Dougherty
More to the point, “Andante” crystallizes the promise of ‘Species Jump,” and of the season’s progression so far: In deciding to focus on creating excitement rather than offering “profound” thoughts on the current political climate—by returning to the series’ bread and butter, which I’d gloss as “erotic espionage melodrama”—the minds behind Homeland have almost succeeded in writing themselves out of the deepest, darkest corner since Brody’s death, and possibly discovered, in the process, an important insight about what gets you promoted and what gets you treated as a pariah when it comes to the U.S. intelligence community. This is its map back to the realm of TV series worth watching, and I’m newly excited to see where it takes us. - Matt Brennan
“Andante” is an odd episode. The title refers to “a moderately slow tempo” (while also serving as a pun on one of the characters’ names), and in comparison to the last several weeks, this hour does feel a bit more subdued. And yet by the end of it, a lot has happened in terms of the overall arc of the season. I just wish we could have gotten there without yet another blowout between Carrie and her sister, a few more nuggets of precocious wisdom from Franny, and a couple more reasons to rescind Carrie’s nomination for Mother of the Year. (Huddling naked in the dark clutching your child after a strike team has forcibly removed the man you were just having sex with...I think that’s generally frowned upon by CPS.) We know by now that Carrie is always going to put the mission first, but the collateral damage to her daughter only gets harder to stomach. - Scott Von Doviak
That night, Carrie and Dante teased each other knowing they were spying on each other. As the tense confrontation turns into sex, they are interrupted by federal agents sent by Saul and, assuming Dante was alone, they break into the apartment and take Dante away in handcuffs on Saul's orders.
The true climax of the episode is the final shot of Saul, looking at Carrie like a parent beyond disappointed at his once favorite offspring. And after Carrie pulls a blanket over herself and calms a frightened — and definitely traumatized — Franny, she watches as Saul walks in and surveys the scene. He just looks disappointed in his former pupil. Carrie, then, almost looks defiant, even though she's the one who did the exact opposite of what Saul had told her to do. Now Carrie's never one to shy away from a problem — at least, any problems over national security.
Quotes[]
- “What’s his skill set?”
- “Irritant.”
- Audrey Navarro says: “You know what really bugged him? The sheer unfairness of it all. Because at the same time he’s over there, trying to bring some sanity to the situation, there’s this woman, this CIA station chief, who’s completely off the rails. Right around the time he’s sent home from Kabul, a total pariah, this crazy lady drops a drone on a wedding party, killing 40 people. And you know what she gets? A promotion." - Dante’s ex-wife’s description of Carrie is a supremely self-aware knife in the side.
- She said she worried about you, back then… - Carrie
- “In case you haven’t noticed, she isn’t the most reliable.”
- “She trusted the wrong people, used her considerable energies to help a foreign power undermine our government.” - Saul
- “Will the walls of this White House come tumbling down?” - Keane
- “Since what you’re really asking is whether you’ll sit in this chair anytime soon, the answer is no.” Elizabeth puts her vice-president Ralph Marlin firmly in his place.
- “She was warned to stay clear,” Saul says.
- Meanwhile, Carrie and Dante are full-on fucking on the couch. Dante asks (accompanied by much panting) why Carrie went to Audrey. Carrie gets as far as “Because I think you’re—” when Saul’s team storms in and takes Dante.
- Franny: I was just asking…
- Carrie to Dante: She said she worried about you, back then…
Comments[]
In the course of “Andante,” poor Franny:
— Likely overhears her aunt basically call her mother a hard-partying whore, and her mother tell her aunt to go fuck herself.
— Frets over her mother’s frequent absences, asking Maggie, “Why doesn’t she like to be here?”
— Finds herself dragged out of her home with nothing but the clothes on her back and brought to a cheap motel somewhere in the environs of Washington, D.C., where she sees that her mother is A) dead broke and B) occasionally uses the alias “Karen Harris,” like that’s not weird at all.
— Rather reasonably questions her mother about her plans, only to receive an unsettling (and very testy) answer: “Isn’t it obvious, Franny? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.”
— Finds herself at the apartment of her mother’s shady FBI agent / whistleblower / pharmacological monitor / possible Russian operative / friend, only for her snooping in the guy’s photo album to set in motion the series of events by which she’s awoken in a strange man’s apartment by a federal raid while her mom is fucking the dude.
This child hasn’t been neglected. This child has been scarred for life. And we haven’t even gotten to the fact that her father is a U.S. Marine turned prisoner of war turned murderer turned congressman turned accused terrorist publicly executed in Iran! Matt Brennan
I got the feeling he was interrogating her, testing her to slip or cover herself in preparation for sex. I had a violent vibe from that moment on, like he was threatening her, which she then deflected by offering sex, and even during the final question, and who knows what Carrie was going to say. I had a moment of total listening to that scene in the kitchen and living room. The same vibe, the whole scene was a weird mix of things. Carrie leaning over him was a mixture of violence and lust. Sleeping with him was a mixture of hate and lust. Carrie sleeping with him was a mix of using sex as a tool, as she always does, and being attracted to him before discovering Dante was a spy. I definitely felt a violent vibe from Dante in that scene too... Maybe sleeping with the enemy is their move and now none of them are sure who's winning? Well, he's definitely going to die. Everyone who sleeps with Carrie dies. It's a curse.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
- Elizabeth Marvel as Elizabeth Keane
- Maury Sterling as Max
- Linus Roache as David Wellington
- Morgan Spector as Dante Allen
- Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson
Guest Starring[]
- James D'Arcy as Thomas Anson
- Amy Hargreaves as Maggie Mathison
- Catherine Curtin as Sandy Langmore
- Julee Cerda as Reiko Umon
- Fredric Lehne as General Rossen
- Mackenzie Astin as Bill Dunn
- William Popp as Stein
- Clé Bennett as Doxie
- Ari Fliakos as Carter Bennet
- Peter Vack as Clint Prower
- Courtney Grosbeck as Josie Dunn
- Tricia Paoluccio as Audrey Navarro
- Julian Gamble as Federal Judge
- Beau Bridges as Ralph Warner
Co-Starring[]
- Claire Keane as Franny Mathison
- McKenna Keane as Franny Mathison
- Vickie Eng as Hotel Desk Clerk
- Robert Pralgo as FBI Commander
- Alan Boell as FBI Tech
- Kendrick Cross as Secret Service Agent
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