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| Written by: | Alexander Cary & Chip Johannessen | |||
| Directed by: | Clark Johnson | |||
| Production number: | 4WAH11 | |||
| Running time: | 44 minutes | |||
| Original airdate: | December 14, 2014 | |||
| Viewers (millions): | 2.11 | |||
Krieg Nicht Lieb is the eleventh episode of Season 4 of Homeland. It aired on December 14, 2014.
Synopsis[]
Carrie Mathison puts her own life on the line to get her team safely out of Pakistan.
Episode guide[]
Carrie walks with Aasar through the streets, which have been decorated with posters of Haqqani's face, and talks tensely about what is happening. She tells Aasar that she will not leave Islamabad without Quinn. Aasar replies that Quinn kidnapped one of her men and is therefore an assassin. Carrie makes it clear to him that she will make sure that he gets out of Pakistan as soon as she finds him, so they have the same goal.
After the interview, Carrie hurries back to the embassy, where she tells the remaining CIA personnel, including Max, that finding Quinn is the top priority. She wants to stop him before he is killed. Max doesn't doubt that Quinn can get hold of Haqqani and suggests supporting him, but Carrie doesn't have the option.
At the same time, Quinn shows up at the apartment of a blonde woman who is startled at first but then recognizes him. He shows her the phones of Haqqani's followers and explains that he suspects the phones are a series and there must be more owned by Haqqani's men. The woman agrees to help him because she works at an embassy herself and has the resources to do so. She advises him to take a shower in the meantime and notes that he still has some clothes in her apartment.
Max goes to a safe in the embassy and takes money from it. Carrie joins right away because as the station boss, she gets a notification as soon as the safe is opened. She demands that Max look in his pocket and finds the money there, as well as a passport from Quinn. She asks Max where Quinn is and then wonders why he won't cooperate, prompting Max to blame her for Fara's death. Carrie finally replies firmly that she can't bring Fara back and doesn't want to lose anyone else, so Max should help her find Quinn so that he doesn't have to die too.
A short time later, Carrie knocks on the door of the embassy woman's apartment. When Carrie gets home, she claims she hasn't heard from Quinn lately, but lets Carrie into her apartment so she can write down her number in case she does hear from Quinn. Carrie discovers a small puddle on the floor that Quinn left after taking a shower. After Carrie disappears, the woman shows Quinn several maps of cell phones she has located. On a map, all points are in one place. Quinn is certain that Haqqani is there. He asks for her car keys and shortly thereafter meets Carrie in the garage. She quickly finds out that Quinn now knows where Haqqani is hiding and tries to convince him that trying to kill him would be suicide. But Quinn is convinced of his plan. Carrie expected him to fight back and gets two men to take him away. But Quinn knows how to defend himself and even shoots one of the men in the leg. Then he disappears. Carrie immediately takes the man who was shot to the embassy infirmary. Max shows up there and tells her that her sister called and that she should definitely call her back.
Quinn stealthly watches the building where Haqqani is hiding. In front of it he sees a grid lying on the street. He walks past it and takes photos of it unobtrusively. Meanwhile, Carrie calls her sister. She tells her that her father died the night before. She tells her not to worry about her not being there as there was nothing she could have done about it anyway. Carrie is shocked and quickly hangs up. She then goes to Max, who already knew about it, and hugs Carrie. At the same time, Quinn builds a bomb. The woman from the German embassy asks how he's going to get her to Haqqani, to which Quinn replies that Haqqani will come to the bomb. Later, Carrie calls Maggie again and asks if she can see Franny. Maggie then brings Carrie's daughter, who is starting to look more and more like her father, in front of the laptop camera and Carrie is happy to see her.
The next morning, Carrie phones Lockhart, who asks her if she heard anything, as he feels something is going on and he is no longer being kept up to date because they are trying to replace him. In the hospital, Kiran, who is being trained as a nurse there, receives an envelope containing pictures of Aayan's murder as well as a note telling her to go to a certain room. Scared, Kiran goes there and meets Peter Quinn. After convincing her that Aayan was actually killed by his uncle, he explains to her that he has also lost many friends because of Haqqani and that with her help he can make him pay for it. Kiran is willing to listen to his plan.
Carrie is waiting in front of the woman's apartment again and wants to speak to her. When she refuses, Carrie threatens to tell the German embassy about her association with Quinn, at which point the woman lets her in. She wants to know why Carrie is so keen to stop him from his plan, whereupon Carrie explains to her that Quinn actually wanted to leave the CIA. The woman replies that he's said that before, but always came back. Then a man arrives, who meanwhile has searched the woman's car and found out that Quinn is planning to build a bomb. The woman then throws Carrie out of the apartment. Meanwhile, Quinn finishes his bomb and hides it in a thin tube, which he in turn attaches to a large picture of Aayan.
Max tells Carrie that a film of Aayan's murder has been released online. It was uploaded by medical students who once studied with Aayan. The video also calls for a demonstration at the location where Haqqani is currently located. Carrie can be driven there immediately. The demonstration has already started. In the middle is Peter Quinn with the picture of Aayan. Tasneem and Aasar, meanwhile, have already launched a counter-demonstration and are telling the Pakistani police to join them, but to hold back. Once the area is safe again, Haqqani is scheduled to be moved elsewhere. After the police leave, Tasneem asks about the current status of the search for Peter Quinn and makes it clear to Aasar that if anything happens to Haqqani, she will hold him responsible.
While the two demonstration groups meet, Carrie has to approach the site on foot because cars can no longer get through. When the police show up, the protesters start to scuffle, but Quinn still manages to get the bomb under the bars. The Kiran then announces that it is time to leave. She tries to get Rahim to leave as well, but he stands in the front row and protests loudly, leading to a scuffle with the police. Meanwhile, Carrie runs with the demonstrators of Haqqani and soon discovers Aasar, who is also watching what is happening.
Quinn makes his way to a hideout from where he watches the demonstration through binoculars. The demonstrators against Haqqani have now disappeared, but his supporters stand in front of the building and call out his name. Quinn watches as Haqqani, now temporarily confined to a wheelchair, is put into a car. Shortly thereafter, Carrie makes herself visible in the crowd. Quinn calls her upset and tells her to leave. Carrie doesn't think about it though, as the ISI will know it was Quinn and would kill him. Since she doesn't want to lose him, she won't fulfill his wish and stay. At that moment, the car with Haqqani drives over the grate, but Quinn doesn't have the heart to pull the trigger for the bomb.
Carrie then follows the car with Haqqani greeting everyone through the car's sunroof. She thinks of Aayan's murder and reaches for her gun. Aasar follows her and just in time stops her from shooting. He points out that Dar Adal is also in the car.
Quotes[]
- "I thought, we were shutting down?
- We are. Soon."
- "I cannot lose anyone else."
- "All you need to do now, is get out of my way."
- "Something's up."
- Carrie Mathison: [about Quinn] A month ago, he wanted out. He was done with the Agency, all of it.
- Astrid: And six months ago. And a year. And two years. Christmas of 2008, we drank the bar of a small hotel in Copenhagen completely dry, just the two of us, toasting his retirement. He will never get out. But every so often, it makes him feel better to say he will. And then he goes back to doing what he does best.
- As Asar Khan explains to Carrie: “It wasn’t an attack, it was a god damn coup.”
- “God damn you, Carrie,” says Quinn.
- “Look who’s in the car, Carrie!” Asar Khan says. [Carrie looks. And through the window, unmistakable, is the bald-pated silhouette of Dar Adal.]
Reviews[]
“Carrie and Quinn prove unable, even unwilling, to accept the failure protocol for what it is: a surrender. ‘He will never get out,’ Quinn’s German ex says of him, and, by extension, of Carrie. ‘But every so often it makes him feel better to say he will, and then he goes back to doing what he does best.’ Not love, but war.” —Matt Brennan
HOMELAND
What Was Broken: Too much emphasis on Brody's daughter Dana and ex-wife Jessica, and the struggle to find something for them to do. Did we learn nothing from 24's Kim storyline, with the infamous mountain-lion chase? Sometimes, teenage daughters just need to vanish off into the ether when they are starting to make the whole show feel low-stakes and ridiculous...Plus, the idea of Carrie Matheson being pregnant seemed at first to be a show-killer. How could the stakes possibly remain high with nannies, poopy diapers and feeding times in the mix? Of course, joke was, untimately on us...And we feel terrible for ever doubting.
Moment That Lost Us: Dana's "Romeo and Juliet" road trip with depressing love interest Leo made us want to flip the channel to anything else, in any language.
How They Fixed It: Luckily for us (and unfortunately for sweet baby Franny, who clearly has a lifetime of therapy ahead of her), Carrie is a fully terrible mother, who specifically chose to implant herself in a deeply unstable terrorist location (Pakistan) in order to avoid having to see her offspring. "We knew we were going through a reset," executive producer Alex Gangsa told THR, "and we knew we were taking Carrie [Claire Danes] overseas. The journey really began on the writers' annual field trip to Washington to sit down with former and current intelligence officers. That's where we began to think about what the season was going to be about and, more basically than that, where to set the damn thing." The location change—along with the shocking death of Brody and a farewell to Dana and Jessica—breathed serious new life into the series. "We were all a little terrified about it," Gangsa admitted. "There were so many voices to find and casting decisions to make."
Moment That Totally Won Us Back: Carrie sleeping with Aayan. Though at first we were horrified and appalled, it ultimately was the moment that made us feel again as if ANYTHING could happen on Homeland, and ANYTHING did happen with the subsequent death of Aayan, capture of Saul (our hearts still haven't recovered from that scene where he wants to shoot himself by the fountain), Embassy takeover and full-fledged Quinn bad-assery, as he went rogue and tried to take down Haqqani by himself.
Keep Doing This: More. Quinn. Just… more, more, more.
Avoid This: More Brody hallucinations. The card was played so insanely well the first time, but obviously can't be done again, even though Damien Lewis is everything and we miss him every day. By Kristin Dos Santos, Tierney Bricker
After Homeland’s freshman season sank its hooks into viewers with an extraordinarily tense cat-and-mouse game involving a bipolar CIA analyst (Claire Danes) and a former POW (Damian Lewis), and two subsequent seasons in which the writers seemed to lose their grip on the intricacies of the plot, many wrote off Showtime’s counterterrorism drama for good. Too bad. Homeland didn’t simply recover, it was reborn, this time as a sharp, muscular reconsideration of America’s so-called “War on Terror,” alive to our own strategic flaws and moral compromises. In particular, the fourth season traces the outlines of the series’ new structure—a long, slow burn to expose the nerves, followed by two remarkable episodes, “There’s Something Else Going On” and “13 Hours in Islamabad,” that suggest the true terror at hand: war without end. —Matt Brennan
"Consider this: Homeland rarely utilizes point-of-view filmmaking, meant to place us literally inside a character’s head. But it does here. Carrie looks down at her baby. What would it be to be the mother of this child? And then we switch to the infant’s point of view. What would it be to be the child of this mother?" [x]
Trivia[]
- Krieg Nicht Lieb (S04.E11): What the Hell Was Quinn’s Job in Season Four?
When Carrie describes Quinn as her “Chief of Support” in “Krieg Nicht Lieb,” we all laughed and assumed it was some cruel joke the writers were playing. At that point in the season (and thereafter), Quinn seems to do whatever serves Carrie and by extension the story. I remember watching and wondering if the “Chief of Support” was actually a real job.
Turns out it is!
The Director (not Chief, let’s chalk it up to Homelandian hand-waving, plus “Chief” just rolls off the tongue better, right?) of Support is a real and high-ranking position in every foreign station. And it’s not related in any way to Black Ops (which would actually fall under Paramilitary Operations).
According to the CIA’s careers website (yes, this exists, and yes, Howard Gordon [or Alex Gansa] once perused it more than casually):
“He [or she! –ed] is a member of the Directorate of Support, whereas the work a station chief or an agent in a foreign station is doing is part of the Directorate of Operations. The Directorate of Support (DS) provides everything the CIA needs to accomplish its critical mission of defending our nation. DS officers are often among the first CIA officers into difficult operational areas. They are responsible for getting key support functions – to include security, supply chains, facilities, financial and medical services, business systems, human resources, logistics and others – up and running. They are present throughout operations, providing ongoing support for each mission component. And, at the end of the operation, they ensure that people and equipment get out safely. The Director of Support enables the intelligence mission”
The work we see Peter Quinn doing in the Islamabad station, however, is actually closer to that of a high ranking Operations Officer with (para-)military background (e.g., Peter Quinn overseeing the preparations for the prisoner exchange) :
“Directorate of Operations (DO) Operations Officers (OOs) focus on clandestinely spotting, assessing, developing, recruiting, and handling non-US citizens having access to foreign intelligence vital to US foreign policy and national security decision-makers. OOs build relationships based on rapport and trust using sound judgment, integrity, and the ability to assess character and motivation.”
This is what a former Operations Officer (and probably station chief) wrote about his job in an online forum:
“… You must deal with all sorts of locals, ranging from high government officials to assets (informants), many of whom are of extremely low integrity and trustworthiness. You must be a keen judge of human nature and previously skilled at recruiting and managing assets in the past. You must have demonstrated that you can maximize the usefulness of valued assets, but that you can also detect fabricators, double agents, or ineffective assets. You must be able to supervise, direct, coach, and guide Agency case officers to do the same.”
As for the station woman he supported, I think it’s safe to say she appreciated it.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
- Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn
- Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson
- Tracy Letts as Andrew Lockhart
- Laila Robins as Martha Boyd
Guest Starring[]
- Raza Jaffrey as Aasar Khan
- Maury Sterling as Max
- Nina Hoss as Astrid
- Shavani Seth as Kiran
- Numan Acar as Haissam Haqqani
- Nimrat Kaur as Tasneem Qureshi
- Amy Hargreaves as Maggie Mathison
- Akshay Kumar as Rahim
- F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal
Co-Starring[]
- Aidan Whytock as Brian Chase
- Kevin Otto as Doctor
- Kenneth Fok as Contractor
- Shahir Chundra as Infantry Major
- Nicole Sherwin as Nurse
- Craig Macrae as PMC
- Nazli George as Staff Nurse
- Gary Green as Tech #1
Note[]
- Although credited, Mandy Patinkin and Laila Robins do not appear in this episode
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