Back at Langley, Quinn was shown talking with someone who seemed to be a psychiatrist, a process he needs to undergo before he can quit the CIA. The interviewer asks him about his last year’s attempt to quit then also about recent events in Islamabad. The interviewer tried to insinuate that something may be going on between him and Carrie but Quinn snaps and abruptly leaves. Meanwhile, Dar Adal watches the interview from a hidden room and shows no reaction even when Quinn left.
Carrie then proceeds to the embassy and she sees the busted car they used to try and save Sandy and upon arrival at the office, she wonders where everybody was and learns that the entire embassy is on lockdown after the Sandy incident. She told them that she asked for a full-staff meeting that morning and so heads to the ambassador’s office where she sees Redmond, station staff who looked obviously displeased to see her. The ambassador tells Carrie that the lockdown was necessary for the staff’s safety but Carrie argues that if they want to fix Pakistan-US relations, her men should be out in the streets.
Redmond calls the staff for a meeting with the new station chief, Carrie and she starts by thanking everyone for coming on such short notice then she asks them about Jordan Harris and why no one else seems to be suspicious of Sandy but her and Harris. She asks them to try to find out what happened to Sandy on that fateful day but they say they can’t due to the lockdown. Carrie and Redmond talk by themselves inside Carrie’s office and Redmond’s bitterness is revealed since it was him who was supposed to become station chief until Carrie came along. Carrie just condescendingly told him that she asked nicely, that was why she got the job and told him to clean up and stay sober.
Quinn drinks booze with her at the poolside and tells her about his frustrations about wanting to quit his job and having a difficult time doing it. His phone continues to ring and he ignores it so he throws it into the pool. Carrie arrives at her new apartment in Islamabad and was just about to settle in when she gets a text from a mysterious number that just says ‘Landed.’ So she goes out of the embassy, takes her drivers out on a drive to a hotel, goes out the backdoor and takes a cab to another location. She feels that she is followed by some members of the Pakistan Intelligence so she creates a diversion with kids and steps out the cab and walks onto an alley to a secret office where she meets with Fara, the face behind the text. In the office, Max is also there and they discuss plans about the operation with Aayan the next day.
Dar Adal goes to Quinn and convinces Quinn to stay on at the CIA. He too accused Quinn about having feelings for Carrie and that is why Sandy died. In rage, Quinn almost chokes and kills Dar and when he was able to stop himself from killing the man, Dar congratulated him as he knew he wasn’t totally out of control just yet. Dar leaves after telling him to ‘have a nice life’. Carrie jogs around the embassy and when she returns t the office, she sees the ambassador chatting with Saul. Carrie seems relieved to see him and at the same time shocked because she did not expect Saul to be the one to personally deliver the new security equipment. She doesn’t want it to look like she needs Saul’s help but actually she does, particularly to get the lockdown lifted as he seemed chummy with the ambassador. Saul even asked her to be good to the ambassador as she is ‘one of the good guys’.
The operation with Aayan proceeds with Fara posing as a journalist but Aayan rebuffs any of Fara’s attempt to talk with him. Quinn continues to drink and watch Sandy’s video on the day he died that was uploaded on youtube. Meanwhile, Max and Carrie discuss alternative courses of action on how to get to Aayan. It seems he seems afraid to make contact with anyone and so Carrie decides to think up more ways to get to him. While she smokes a cigarette at the rooftop of the embassy, the ambassador arrives to also smoke and the two discuss Carrie’s transgression earlier that day when she went out the embassy despite the lockdown orders. So the two decide that they may have gotten off on the wrong foot and so they decide to start over. The ambassador told Carrie that she almost married Saul when they were in Beirut together a long time ago but she admits that she is not lifting the lockdown because of Saul but because she knows Carrie is right. She just wants Carrie to update her periodically and they share another cigarette before Carrie leaves.
Quinn awakes to find the fat manager clearing up some trash inside the apartment and Quinn obviously upset asks her to just stop talking then asks her to leave. She gets her stuff but before leaving she asks about the CIA guy in the news the other day. She also tells him that she bought some food for him in the fridge and that whoever Carrie was she is a lucky girl. Saul and Carrie meet for breakfast and the two discuss the goings-on in the embassy although they are not actually discussing it since Carrie cannot divulge the agency’s secrets. So Saul starts guessing and he tells Carrie that she needs to get Sandy’s networks running again but she still do not have anyone yet that she can trust in the embassy and so she needs to set up a second station with her very own people. Carrie just smiles and Saul realizes that she’s done that already which makes Saul quite proud of her, much like a father to his daughter. Carrie gets up to leave and asks when Saul’s flight is and he says it’s tomorrow...he leaves her a message – Happy hunting! But I really wish Saul would stick around to help Carrie.
Carrie sets up another contact with Aayan, posing as a sick woman in the ladies room of the coffee shop where he just happened to be drinking coffee that morning. Carrie offers Aayan to be the one to tell his story in exchange she offers to get him protection and relocate him to the US. She slips her card into Aayan’s pocket and he leaves without agreeing to anything. Quinn continues to watch Sandy’s youtube clip and then suddenly spots a man with an earpiece in several of the videos. He realized that the entire attack was coordinated and rthat he could not have done anything to save Sandy. He calls Carrie and sends her a link to the video. Carrie begs Quinn to come help her resolve the issue and despite his qualms about working with the agency again, he agrees...so I guess he truly is in love with Carrie...just hope she doesn’t burn him too like what she did with Brody.
*** photo grabbed from Showtime ***
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