Super Powers

Super Powers
Written by:	Alex Gansa & Meredith Stiehm
Directed by:	Keith Gordon
Production number:	5WAH03
Running time:	58 minutes
Original airdate:	October 18, 2015
Viewers (millions):	1.11

“It's all of them. They are the sum of my sins. Each one a brushstroke on a canvas. Avenging angels. Not all angels are good, you know? Sometimes they come to punish us. The damage is too great.” - After the vision Carrie had of Aayan saying that everyone actually wants to kill her.

Super Powers is the third episode of Season 5 of Homeland. It aired on October 18, 2015.

Synopsis[]

Carrie Mathison and Jonas Hollander (Alexander Fehling) revisit their past to find out who might be after her. Meanwhile, Peter Quinn watches over his newest target.

Episode guide[]

Carrie is back in Berlin and watches Frannie as she sleeps, who is to be flown to the US the next day for her safety. Jonas asks her if it's possible she lied, but Carrie is sure the man who said she was the target of the attack at the refugee camp was telling the truth.

Quinn watches a woman say goodbye to her son who is heading to school with two friends. Meanwhile, Saul meets with Otto Düring to talk to him about the attack on the refugee camp. He asks Düring if he thinks Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, to which Düring replies that he believes US foreign policy has caused most of the violence in the last 15 years. So Saul begins his real concern, which is finding Carrie. However, Düring does not give you any information about the whereabouts of its employee.

Carrie is looking at pictures of people she has known in the past when Frannie interrupts her. Shortly afterward, Jonas and Carrie drive them to the airport, where Düring's private jet, who arranged the flight for Frannie's aunt, is already waiting. Düring tells Carrie about Saul's visit and his interest in finding her. So Carrie says goodbye to her daughter and sheds some tears in the process. On the way home, Jonas says saying goodbye to his children when leaving home was also difficult for him, although he still sees them on weekends. When Carrie doesn't respond to him, the two get into a brief argument, during which Jonas remarks that she hasn't told him much in the last few days and that he really doesn't know what's wrong with her. But then Carrie has an idea of how he can help her. Over dinner, she tells him that the medication is helping her get sane. However, she often did a particularly good job when she didn't take her medication. So she hasn't taken it for a few days in hopes of finding out who's after her.

Allison and her colleagues monitor the Düring Foundation staff but have no trace of Carrie. Saul can't help either. He asks for a one-on-one conversation with Allison and immediately confronts her with the information that he is responsible for the vulnerability he received from Dar Adal. Allison expects her to be fired, but Saul tells her that despite his anger, he cannot fire her because of the current situation. Allison thanks him, to which Saul says she doesn't deserve it.

Meanwhile, Carrie educates Jonas about the signs when his bipolar goes too far and he needs to get her back on meds. Jonas remarks that she should have told him about leaving them sooner, to which Carrie apologizes. Then she shows him the countless pictures of her opponents that she has hung in her room. She wants to look back over the last few years to find out who might be responsible for the attack.

Quinn meets Astrid at a club. They have a brief conversation about the events in Lebanon, so Quinn asks if they should go out together, but Astrid refuses. At the same time, Carrie and Jonas have love... Without lithium, Carrie has mind-blowing sex with Jonas.

Numan and his friends spot Laura Sutton on her way to work, so they set off a fire alarm, forcing her to leave the building as soon as work begins. Allison hears this and immediately sends a team out into the street to look for Carrie. However, both Laura, who follows Numan, and Carrie escape them. Meanwhile, Laura and Numan talk in a corner of an underground passage. Numan reveals to her that he has other documents and trusts her enough to let her have them. Before they go their separate ways again, he gives her a flash drive with the files. When she bids him farewell and asks how to reach him, Numan replies that he cannot be reached.

As Jonas watches Carrie take caffeine pills after working all night, Laura tries to get in touch with him. She then throws the bat with the files at her laptop, only to realize that Numan tricked her. At the same time, he tells his friend Korzenik that he gave the files to Laura. Korzenik isn't thrilled that Numan has decided on this head on. At the same time, Carrie and Jonas relive their past from the time of Abu Nazir.

Saul talks to a man who not only insinuates throughout the conversation that Carrie will continue to work for him, but also believes he is planning a coup in Syria. Their conversation is interrupted by an ambassador who was fired to serve as a data thief instead of Allison. He has no chance of convincing Saul to reverse his resignation.

Meanwhile, Carrie shows Jonas a long list of dead from drone strikes and other operations while she was station chief in Kabul: 167 targets with drones, missiles and ground operations eliminated in 6 months by the Queen of Drones in Afghanistan.

Jonas then pauses, as he cannot believe how she can live with herself, even as Carrie tries to explain that she has left that life behind. After Jonas leaves the apartment, Carrie has trouble concentrating and turns to alcohol. Mathison and then begins to hallucinate with Aayan Ibrahim, whom she seduced and then let die last season, who accuses her of lacking self-control.

Korzenik meets a Russian ambassador at a club and tells him about secret US and German documents he has. Meanwhile, Carrie sees Aayan again. She tearfully asks him who's after her, and Aayan whispers the name in her ear.

Posing as a police officer, Quinn kidnaps the son of the woman he was watching over that morning. In the morning, Jonas visits Carrie, who tells him that she has discovered that it doesn't really matter who's after her because she can't make up for how many people have died because of her. Jonas immediately receives his medication, but Carrie initially refuses to take it. It's only when Jonas threatens to call the ambulance that Carrie gives up and takes the pills. At that moment, Jonas' ex-wife calls and tells him that her son Stefan has been arrested for theft. He's in Quinn's truck at the same time. Quinn tells him that he will surely be found at night and then drives off in another car. Meanwhile, Jonas asks the police and discovers that Stefan's arrest is not documented there. Carrie realizes that he was only arrested to trace the call and find out its location. She wants to flee immediately while Jonas worries about his son's safety. When Carrie leaves the house in a panic and hides in the woods opposite, Jonas searches for her for a short time, but then loses his temper and leaves alone. Carrie then takes a gun out of her bag.

Saul has a video call with Dar Adal. After a brief conversation about Allison, they discuss their plans for the weekend. Dar Adal also mentions Saul's conversation with Etai Luskin, who accused him of planning a coup in Syria. In fact, Saul and Dar Adal have plans to replace the current head of state, Assad. Later, Allison talks to her boyfriend about her day at work and then goes to bed with him, who turns out to be Saul.

Carrie is still hiding in the woods with her rifle and takes aim when a car approaches. When the man, Quinn, is sneaking into the woods, she shoots him. When she wants to approach the corpse, she sees that it has disappeared. Quinn, wearing a bulletproof vest, comes up behind her and suffocates her until she is unconscious. Then he squirts something on his arm.

Quotes[]

“Did I mention the sex is better, too?” - Carrie tells Jonas

‘I’ve already gone off them. Three days ago.’

“I took down an insurgent network in Iraq (Carrie's Run) and stopped an attack on the state department in DC (Marine One),” Carrie claims

‘My grandfather was a big-time Nazi’ - Otto

"I don't know if I can put her on that plane tomorrow,"
"Christ, I really thought I left all this behind." - Carrie

“One must always distinguish between legitimate revolt against occupation and outright terrorism,” Otto reminds Saul.
“Is firing rockets against civilian targets legitimate, in your opinion?” replies Saul

"You know I'm bipolar...""and that I take Lithium." - Carrie

“Nothing has made the world more dangerous than the foreign policy of the United States,” fires back Düring.

"I can monitor myself," - Jonas
"I've done it before." - Carrie

"Tell me there's another way to do this," Jonas says.
"I'm sure there is—just not for me," Carrie says.

"I don't know how you live with yourself," - Jonas finds out that Carrie killed 167 targets in Kabul.

"You can't atone for that much blood," Carrie tells Jonas

'Okay, where's the Lithium?' - Jonas

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Starring[]

Special Guest Star[]

Suraj Sharma as Aayan Ibrahim

Co-Starring[]

Luna Pfitzer as Franny Mathison
Lotta Pfitzer as Franny Mathison
Luise Heyer as Jana
Joshio Marlon as Steffan
Max Mauff as Greggor
Nikola Kastner as Lenya
Noemi Besedes as Düring Receptionist

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