Aayan goes to his old dorm at the medical school to get his limited possessions and he chanced upon his girlfriend, Kiran, demanding to know where he's going. Aayan refuses to answer while he haphazardly throws things into a bag. Kiran is heartbroken when finally Aayan admits leaving for London and asks Aayan to take her with him. But Aayan refuses and when she learns that the "journalist" helping him is a woman she asks just knows he has feelings for Carrie. He leaves the dorm but on his way out he saw some guy looking like an ISI operative stationed directly outside the exit. So he heads back and uses a different exit but the guy still follows him back to the safe house.
Dennis Boyd goes to the embassy under the guise of delivering a "thank you" bottle of booze to Redmond for that night at the bar. Quinn takes Dennis to Redmond's office to drop off the bottle and Quinn seems a bit suspicious when he starts asking about Carrie then he gets distracted by another embassy worker who briefed him that Ghazi, the guy Saul was following was not on the plane to Johannesburg so he told the guy to contact Saul when he touches down at DC.
Carrie returns to the safehouse and we see the same man that followed Aayan at the medical college just outside their apartment hideaway. When Carrie learned what happened to Aayan she started freaking out over everything, particularly the fact that Aayan told Kiran where he's going. Aayan tries to cool Carrie down and insists that his uncle, Haqqani, will help him with safe passage to England. So Carrie gives him the passport and money when suddenly intruders break into the apartment. They attack Carrie and chase Aayan out onto the street. But when Carrie gets thrown into a car and her mauling is followed by casual conversation with the attackers we realize that they're not attackers but rather fellow embassy members and the whole thing was staged. It seems Carrie has convinced Aayan that she's been kidnapped by the ISI and he is now officially on his own so he can now lead them straight to their real target - his uncle.
Fara, Max, Redmond, Carrie, and the "attackers" all convene at the embassy to discuss the operation with Aayan. Fara asks Carrie what's going on and Carrie takes the opportunity to berate Fara for failing in her mission to get information out of Aayan. Both Fara and Quinn seem to be unhappy about her behavior with Aayan so she defends her actions by saying that what she did saved their country. She then makes Fara go back to the safehouse. to clean out any remnants that might implicate either of them. All the while, Dennis has been secretly looking on from a secluded corner and followed Fara without her knowing.
The team now settle in to watch Aayan on cameras situated at the bus terminal and they watch him get on a bus to Goza, the first leg of his journey to London. Then they encounter a glitch mid-trip when the bus stops so that papers can be checked. Aayan panics as the men harass him on his identity, but ends up getting out of a potentially fatal situation by offering them the only money he has on him. Carrie tries to hide the smile on her face knowing she has taught Aayan well. The journey continues.
Back in Islamabad, Fara cleans the apartment and is unaware that Dennis has been lurking around. After creepily looking through a few windows, he disappears and Fara is unaware that he stole something from Aayan's bag. Back at the embassy, Quinn gets an inkling that Saul is missing as he can't be located at D.C. but he refuses to consider yet the possibility that he may be kidnapped since he asked the guy to try asking Langley first to contact the wife ...oh please Quinn! Do something to save Saul.
Carrie and the group continue their monitoring of Aayan via video feeds from a drone. In his last stop, Aayan calls his uncle on a pay phone and the two arrange a meeting place. After hanging up, Aayan calls Carrie and tells her he loves her and that he can't wait to see her again. Carrie replies that she loves him too knowing that her entire team is listening in...well, she has to encourage the boy to go on, right? . Afterwards, Carrie asks Redmond what everyone thinks after hearing the phone call and Redmond essentially says he's pleased with her for getting the appropriate intel to get to Haqqani. But in the same breath, he tells her without telling her that he doesn't particularly agree with how she went about it...
Dennis meets with Tasneem, right outside Carrie and Aayan's lovenest, to show her the photos he took at Carrie's apartment, evidence that Carrie is bipolar. Dennis informs her that the apartment building they're across from was a CIA safe-house then he gives Tasneem a bag of Aayan's personal stuff that he got from the safehouse. Tasneem seems pleased with everything Dennis gave her and quickly leaves to report her find. Meanwhile, Quinn sees a message on his desk that Saul never boarded his plane...that means he never left Islamabad as he planned. Alarm bells suddenly started ringing in his head and he goes off looking for Carrie.
After Aayan has crossed mountains and streams, he settles in to wait (like a happy child) on a white slab of marble under the sun until armed men arrive to take him. They walk towards three cars, one of which opens up to reveal Haqqani. At that moment, Quinn enters the monitoring room to inform them about Saul missing. Carrie and the rest of the embassy watch as what should be a quick bombing operation of their target suddenly turns sour when Haqqani pulls the kidnapped and bound Saul from the car. Haqqani then tells Aayan that his friend is a member of the CIA, a daughter-figure to the man (Saul) who stands in front of him. He also tells Aayan that there is a drone overhead watching their every move. Aayan is reeling from the information and, before he even has time to process, Haqqani thanks him for all the medicine he gave that saved his life then just SHOOTS HIM IN THE HEAD. Oh NO!
Everyone was shocked by the appearance of Saul and the death of Aayan, but they all remain relatively composed... except for Carrie who insists that they continue the attack and take out Haqqani, even if that means they also take out Saul. It isn't until Quinn shakes her and says to her face "Are you out of your mind? That's Saul down there...Saul!" Haqqani leaves the scene in a car, with Saul, and disappears. Aayan's body is left lifeless in the middle of the desert as Carrie desperately cries and throws a tantrum inside her office. I’m sad about Aayan's death but moreso that all their efforts to get Haqqani were nullified because of Saul's capture...which made Aayan's death all the more in vain. But it seems Carrie feels no guilt or emotion at all...not for Aayan who she sent to his own slaughter nor for Saul who was like a father to her.
*** photos grabbed from Showtime ***
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