Carrie meets up with Saul who is on his way to the airport, and she informs him about Farhad Ghazi and how he orchestrated Sandy’s death. She asks Saul to connect with old ‘friends’ in Islamabad because she needs intel on Ghazi. Saul advises Carrie to inform Langley or the White House but she disagrees as they would never get the truth on Sandy’s death if that happens. Then, finally Quinn arrives back at the safehouse ...Yahoo! Quinn is back! Aayan also unexpectedly arrives at Carrie’s ‘office’ and so Fara goes out to meet him but he says he will only talk to Carrie. Aayan agreed to wait for ten minutes inside Fara’s office. We also find out that Redmond has apparently sent someone to tail Carrie but he doesn’t seem to be quite good as Carrie was able to elude him and was only able to follow her until Carrie left Saul at the hotel. He then asks him to find out where Carrie got the photo image of Ghazi.
Carrie returns to the office and immediately talks to Aayan albeit acknowledging Quinn’s presence in the other room. Aayan is intent on getting out of Pakistan that’s why he was desperate enough to contact Carrie. He asked Carrie for 80,000 rupees but won’t tell her why he needs it so he turns to leave. But Carrie shows him a photo of Ghazi and tells him that his life is in danger if Ghazi is the man who had been threatening him. Aayan breaks down crying and so Carrie comes over to console him and asks him what’s wrong. But he still won’t say anything so Carrie relents and gets the money from the petty cash. Carrie asks him to return to her as soon as he has finished what needs to be done and he leaves, unaware that Max and Fara are tailing him. Quinn asks Carrie how she intends to get Aayan to a new med school in London but she refused to dwell on that and instead fills him in on the threats to Aayan’s life. She mentions here the title of the episode saying that Aayan is an iron in the fire...he knows something he’s not saying.
Meanwhile, a Pakistani woman approaches a professor at Aayan’s med school, Professor Boyd. The woman tells Boyd that they should keep the ‘relationship’ he had with Sandy Bachman despite Sandy’s death...that he should continue providing information from the ambassador’s desk. But the professor insists that she may be mistaken and abruptly leaves. Saul, apparently stayed on to give in to Carrie’s request and talk with an old friend, a retired general of Pakistani military. Saul asks the general if he can facilitate a ‘talk’ between Saul and a member of the ISI. The general tried to deter Saul saying he is a private citizen now and should lead a quiet life. But Saul insists and even alludes to an old debt that Bunny seems to owe him and so he concedes.
Carrie and Quinn manage to set up a surveillance operation into Ghazi’s apartment but fail to tap into his phone. But they need to get within five feet near his phone in order to clone it and so when Ghazi slept, Quinn breaks into Ghazi’s apartment and taps into his phone. Then it suddenly rings and wakes up Ghazi so Quinn hides in the other room. It was a friend asking Ghazi to come out to party but he declines and returns to sleep so Quinn hastily escapes. Fara and Max were able to follow Aayan to the teaching hospital and they saw him give the money to a girl who seemed to be wearing a nursing uniform. They all wait until the girl returns. Professor Boyd is seen next on the phone talking with someone as he seems to want to get back to the US at once. He is confirmed to be the husband of US Ambassador Martha Boyd and has relayed to Martha his plans to get his old job back in the US. He also reasons out their son, Toby needs them – yeah, flimsiest excuse I’ve ever heard! So he needs to leave within a week.
Quinn and Carrie get to talk while on a stakeout for Ghazi – about Quinn wanting to leave the agency – how he got seriously affected when he killed that kid in Caracas...but he’s there now, for Carrie. Carrie insists that he should look at the bigger picture, he may have killed some but only to save the greater good. She needs someone to help her, not someone to pull her back. Carrie leaves then to go back to the embassy. Fara and Max see the girl re-emerge from the hospital with an orange bag in her hand, full of meds which she gives to Aayan and they soon part ways. Fara and Max follow Aayan again. Back at the embassy, Carrie asks Redmond to call off the dogs tailing her but Redmond insists it is for her protection so she won’t end up like Sandy. Redmond tells her about the tunnel that they use so they easily could go back and forth to the embassy, hidden from the public view.
Saul meets with a member of the ISI and he starts asking about Sandy’s death. The man appears quite cold and even frisks Saul and refuses to give out any information. Saul questions him about the ISI operative on the ground that day, in the crowd...Saul wanted to know who gave the order to kill just Sandy and not the two other operatives with him. The ISI guy refused to budge saying he agreed to just a chat not an interrogation and leaves Saul feeling frustrated. Carrie returns to the Ghazi stakeout and tells them what transpired with Saul so she feels something ‘big’ may happen anytime today. Carrie takes Quinn aside to thank him for coming despite what she realized about him last night. Fara and Max get stuck in traffic so Fara sets out to follow Aayan on foot. Soon, she sees him giving the bag of meds to Haissam Haqqani – the target of the drone strike – but he is alive!
Back at the stakeout, they see Ghazi get a call telling him his laundry is ready and they see him packing up his things to leave hastily and they seem unable to trace the caller. Carrie says they need to grab him now but Quinn disagrees as they are not yet ready and the situation was dangerous. Then, Fara calls to tell them about seeing Haqqani alive. Carrie is flabbergasted and only believes when she sees the video. She tells Fara to get back to the office immediately and they soon realize that Sandy’s death was staged to save Haqqani and make it seem that he was dead, when he was not at the wedding they bombed at all...the big issue now is why?
Professor Boyd had started packing up his office but the Pakistani woman who visited him earlier was in his office with two other thugs and they refuse to let Boyd leave by blackmailing him. She tells him that if he leaves, the FBI would receive a package implicating him in all the documents he stole from his wife – making him liable for treason and his wife an unwitting accomplice. Terrified, Boyd agrees to conduct more treasonous acts with the assurance that he will be allowed home once it’s done. Fara is left in the office to wait for Aayan so that when he arrives she shall take the boy to Carrie at the safehouse. Fara wants assurance from Carrie that they would make good on their promise to Aayan for safe passage to London but Carrie disagrees since that was before they knew he was aiding a known jihadist. Carrie tells her that they plan to hide behind Aayan who will lead them back to his uncle.
Fara soon arrive in the middle of the night with Aayan at Carrie’s safehouse but Aayan thinks they leave for London at once. Carrie tells him they need to stay for three days while they get his passport and other documents ready. Carrie makes up the couch for Aayan to sleep in and proceeds to flirt with him – ugh! (she’s too old for him!) The flirting seem to work and Aayan tells her he was kicked out of med school ...he asks how it would affect his chances of entering a London medical school and it seems Carrie doesn’t have an answer for him so she just proceeds to make out with Aayan to make him stop asking questions....I just can’t believe Carrie! How could you do ANYTHING just to get what you want?!?! Sexually manipulating a boy???How could you??? One thing is emerging though, the reason why they seem bent on exposing the link between Sandy and the professor is to make Lockhart accountable...so that he would get the boot and Saul would be able to return as CIA Director – yippee!
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