| In Full Flight | ||||
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| Written by: | Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon | |||
| Directed by: | Dan Attias | |||
| Production number: | 8WAH09 | |||
| Running time: | 49 minutes | |||
| Original airdate: | April 5, 2020 | |||
| Viewers (millions): | 0.81 | |||
In Full Flight is the ninth episode of the final season of Homeland. It aired on April 5, 2020.
Synopsis[]
Hayes has ideas. Carrie goes shopping. Tasneem has problems. The US government remains convinced that Jalal was responsible for the death of the US President and has threatened Pakistan with war if the new Taliban leader is not extradited. While Saul tries in vain to dissuade his superiors from their course, Carrie and Yevgeny are looking for the flight recorder of the crashed helicopter. They finally stumble upon a lead at a market in Kohat.
Episode guide[]
In Full Flight begins with the Kabul station monitoring Carrie and Gromov. They and Saul are clearly on much different pages. Now, Saul will have to work from Washington D.C. as he was called back. Meanwhile, the quest for the flight recorder continued as Carrie and Gromov scoured the markets for it (Kabul station lost them). There was a surprising amount of sharing going on between the two of them (he was all she had which was probably what he wanted).
Carrie eventually found Max’s bag and a lead on the flight recorder (of course it wasn’t in the bag). The flight recorder was recently sold but she offered to buy it at a much higher price. However, she the U.S. was looking for her nearby. Carrie bought herself some time by convincing Jenna to tell her the location of the safehouse of the squad looking for her (Gromov put the local authorities on them to buy some time). Meanwhile, Once Saul arrived in D.C., he tried to set Hayes straight but it didn’t work. He and Wellington were all alone.
Qureshi was wanted by Pakistani authorities for losing control of the Taliban but was busy arranging a meeting with Jalal Haqqani. Suffice it to say that the situation was much different than she expected. Jalal refused the ultimatum Qureshi delivered to either go underground or face the consequences. Little did she know, he had managed to rally the Taliban into quite a force (wow that was quick). Maybe the Americans can help?
With a million dollars from Saul, Carrie attended a late night meeting to buy the flight recorder. After some quick negotiating, she got her hands on it. As she was about to listen to it, Gromov showed up as they both heard what seemed like mechanical issues leading to a crash. This was quite some intel so suffice it to say that Gromov would not be as forthcoming to help Carrie with it. She tried to play the imperfect relationship angle and play to his ego which appeared to work until he drugged her and took the flight recorder. Meanwhile, as U.S. troops were approaching Pakistan, they were getting ready themselves with their own nuclear weapons.
The episode ended with Gromov placing Carrie on a bed.
Quotes[]
- Yevgeny: Sorry, baby!
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
- Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson
- Linus Roache as David Wellington
- Costa Ronin as Yevgeny Gromov
- Nimrat Kaur as Tasneem Qureshi
Guest Cast[]
- Sam Trammell as Benjamin Hayes
- Tim Guinee as Scott Ryan
- Art Malik as Bunran Latif
- Cliff Chamberlain as Mike Dunne
- Andrea Deck as Jenna Bragg
- Elham Ehsas as Jalal Haqqani
- Jason Tottenham as Alan Yager
- Seear Kohi as Balach
- Narinder Samra as Youseff Afridi
- Ismail Bashey as Major Zulfikar
- Rikin Vasani as Saleem Sinai
- Adnan Jaffar as General Aziz
- Hugh Dancy as John Zabel
Co-Starring[]
- Kemaal Deen-Ellis as Urchin
- Jennifer Armour as Pentagon Spokesperson
- Mohamed Attougui as Saad
- Benjamin Hicquel as Victor
- Alex Brock as Special Ops Parker
- Mariam Haque as Pakistani News Anchor
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