| Dr. Graham | |
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| Status: | Alive |
| Nationality: |  Venezuelan
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| Profession: | Doctor |
| Played by: | Erik Dellums |
| Season(s): | 3 |
| Episodes: | 1 appearance |
| Appears in: | "Tower of David" |
“We’re here because the world outside can be judgmental and cruel. We’re here because this is the place that accepts us. We’re here because we belong here.” - As Dr. Graham tells Brody.
Dr. Graham is a resident of the Tower of David who treats Brody's gunshot wound and begins supplying him with heroin. He is implied to be a paedophile who lives in the slum due to social ostracism.
Biography[]
He is the surgeon who runs a rudimentary hospital in the Tower of David, and who lives and works for a criminal gang there, in part because he is a paedophile. He's the sort of guy who orders around Caracas criminals and performs crude surgery and dispenses heroin to non-compliant patients.
He is tolerated by the criminals who run the Tower of David because he’s useful to them, willing to perform surgery in conditions that produce risks that other physicians might consider unethical. He’s also willing to keep his mouth shut when one of his patients turns out to be a wanted terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. For these services, the criminals in question are willing to allow him to abuse his targets, as long as he confines himself to the Tower.
That his predations can continue are a reflection of the low morals and self-interest of the criminals who tolerate him, but understand that if he is allowed to offend in larger Caracas, he might bring negative attention to the community in place in the Tower. They’re also a symptom of the limits of the state’s reach in the city. In so much as he acts as a moral voice in the context of Homeland, he’s issuing his judgements of Brody from deep within the Pit, from a position of moral recognition rather than any sort of moral superiority.
Quotes[]
“Are you a doctor?” Brody asks him. “Interesting question,” Grahan responds before checking his wounds and patching Brody back up under some annoyingly flickering lights.
“What were you thinking?” Grahan asks him. Noticing Brody’s frustration (and incessant heavy breathing), he asks Brody what he thinks of the tower, “this abscess of living we call home” that’s named after the banker who commissioned it.
Brody skeptically peers at him. “Why are you here?” he asks. “That’s a dangerous question. Why am I here leads to why are you here, you see?” Grahan replies, before launching into his explanation about Brody’s apparent safe haven. “The world outside can be judgmental and cruel. We’re here because this is the place that accepts us. We’re here because we belong here.”
“You’re a naughty boy,” Grahan says in the shadows, his voice washing over the scene. “Naughty, naughty boy… Everywhere you go, other people die, but you always manage to survive, have you noticed that?''
Comments[]
"He's such a specific and disturbing creation that I was almost tempted to boost my rating for this episode by a star." // “He’s such an upsetting, specific creation that I was almost tempted to up my rating of this episode by a star.” // Sean Kennedy, who teaches as Lehman College felt differently — and he asked a question I felt was worth a response. “Actually, yeah: why portray pedophiles? What does the audience get out of that?” he wanted to know. “But if you’re going to insist on one, avoid the effeminacy & other ‘gay’ conflations.”- ALYSSA ROSENBERG
Behind the Scenes[]
Appearances[]
| Season 3 | ||||
| "Tin Man Is Down" | "Uh... Oh... Ah..." | Tower of David | "Game On" | "The Yoga Play" |
| "Still Positive" | "Gerontion" | "A Red Wheelbarrow" | "One Last Thing" | "Good Night" |
| "Big Man in Tehran" | "The Star" | |||