HOMELAND SEASON 4 EPISODE 5 – ABOUT A BOY

The episode started with another ewww moment showing Carrie in bed with Aayan...then he sneaks a peek at her naked body and it was then that I realized that it was Aayan’s first time – oh, I just can’t believe Carrie did this to him! Carrie catches him watching her and she gets up naked nonchalantly then kisses him on the arm before going out to get them some food. Quinn and Fara, meanwhile find a new stakeout spot near where Fara saw Haqqani in the hopes that they might see him again. During the stakeout, Fara shared that she feels uneasy doing what they are doing as she thought she would just be posing as a journalist but Quinn assures her that she is quite good at her job. They start talking about Quinn’s friendship with Carrie and he says that Carrie can train her well - manipulating people and exploiting their weaknesses, but that it can get ugly sometimes.

Carrie meets up with Saul when she went out to get breakfast and asks Saul to relay the info about Haqqani and Aayan to Lockhart but that Lockhart should keep quiet about it. Saul asks about her progress with the boy and Carrie shares she only has three days before he starts wondering why they are not yet leaving for London. He wishes her luck on her mission and promises to call her when he gets home to D.C. When Carrie gets back to the safehouse, she finds Aayan getting his things ready to leave because he changed his mind. Carrie tells him that he has nowhere safe to go and can’t go back to his girlfriend and school as he had been expelled. Carrie deduces that Aayan feels guilty about what happened the night before and so she assures him that it won’t happen again.

Professor Boyd talks to his wife again and tells her that he changed his mind about leaving but Martha doesn’t seem too pleased and informs him that she knew he was lying all along and that he should just tell her the truth if he wants to really leave. Then, we see that the woman who approached Boyd is working with the guy who met with Saul at the restaurant since both work for the ISI. They know about Saul’s itinerary and that he changed his plans after talking with Carrie and meeting with the ISI guy. Boyd tries to sneak into Carrie’s apartment, pretending to bring something for her from the ambassador, but miserably fails.

Saul is at the airport leaving for D.C. and suddenly spots Ghazi. He calls Carrie but reaches only her voicemail and so he proceeds to follow the guy. Back with Carrie and Aayan, Carrie starts the ‘pretend-interview’ and starts at once with the question about his relationship with his Uncle – Haqqani. Aayan shares stories that suggests he idolizes the guy and treats him like a father. Until Carrie suggests that some may believe he is still alive – this angered Aayan and so they stop the interview. Saul takes a seat when he sees Ghazi settle in to wait and he calls Quinn to relay Ghazi’s flight information so they can have someone else tail him when he lands.

Martha goes to the embassy to look for Quinn but he was out at the stakeout with Fara so she had no choice but to ask for Redmond’s help to get her husband who was out at a bar acting up. Redmond just shrugs and proceeds to the bar. Aayan and Carrie wash dishes in silence and Carrie admits she may have gone overboard and made him angry so she switches gears and ‘opens up’ to Aayan about her baby, Frannie and about Brody...she gets emotional about it and I guess she was just her being her manipulative self and they end up in bed...again.

Redmond drinks with Professor Boyd at a bar and Redmond asks him what the problem seems to be...Professor Boyd was about to tell him about the current mess he was in when suddenly, Tasneem, the ISI agent who forced him to stay walks in on them and this leaves Boyd obviously shaken and so they get up to leave. I guess that means, someone is listening in on Boyd and watching his movements. Redmond and Martha put Boyd down to sleep after bringing him home from the bar and Martha tells Redmond that Dennis had changed a lot from the time she first met him and had deteriorated even more. Dennis hears everything as he was not really sleeping at all.

Meanwhile, at the airport, Saul sees Ghazi getting up and heads to the restroom. He watches as two suspicious men soon follow then quickly go out. After a bit of waiting and Ghazi still hasn’t emerged, Saul walks in to the restroom to look for Ghazi and is instead stabbed in the neck with a syringe (to make him sleep) The same two guys who entered the restroom were seen taking Saul out in a wheelchair. Ghazi calls Tasneem and tells her, ‘It’s done.’ Fara and Quinn start to move as they see the cleric with Haqqani go out. They follow the car into the Taliban territory which scares Fara so they try instead to put a tracker on the cleric’s car but they fail to get near it. A checkpoint guard drove her away and so she failed to see Saul bound and gagged behind the trunk of the cleric’s vehicle. The two had no choice but to turn back to the stakeout headquarters empty-handed. They were trying to contact Carrie to get permission for a drone operation to track down the car but she was unreachable by phone.

Professor Boyd gets up and proceeds with his mission to enter Carrie’s apartment using the key Tasneem provided. Boyd photographs Carrie’s meds and other personal items in her apartment, to give the ISI something to use against her. The next morning, a very angry Quinn goes to Carrie’s safehouse and makes her come outside, breaking protocol. He angrily confronts her about missing his call about the cleric and Saul’s call about Ghazi then gets angrier at her for ‘messing with a child’. Carrie angrily asks why he had to care...but Quinn did not take the bait and the two separate in a huff. Carrie returns to the apartment and finds Aayan on the roof, looking out at the world below. He is obviously unguarded now and finally reveals to Carrie that his Uncle is indeed alive...way to go Carrie! You got what you wanted...but at what cost??? Please don’t let it be Saul...

***photo grabbed from Showtime***