Meantime, Carrie was monitoring at the 2nd base with Fara and Max looking into what drugs Aayan got from that nurse a few episodes back in an attempt to find any clue that will lead them to Saul. Carrie feels guilty about Aayan's untimely death and she spoke aloud what she felt Fara was thinking. But Fara did not want to argue and just conceded they were all responsible for Aayan's death. Quinn, goes to her apartment to track her down on behalf of Lockhart but she's not there. She tells him she'll meet with him soon and as he leaves Carrie's apartment, Dennis was there to swap out several of Carrie's pills for the mystery pills that were given to Tasneem.
Back at the CIA station, Lockhart met with the members of the team and expressed his displeasure with the recent series of events that has fallen on the Islamabad station. Carrie arrives late further infuriating Lockhart but she somewhat redeems herself when she indicates that she has a lead on Haqqani, they just need confirmation on what the medicine was and what disease Haqqani is grappling with. She also stresses that the rest of the station will be working 24/7 to find Saul. Lockhart seems slightly contented to hear this and they proceed to the meeting with the Pakistani delegation. Haqqani is obviously enjoying his time outside and he says so during the car ride with Saul. Saul tells him that he is of no intel value but Haqqani makes it abundantly clear that he's not planning on getting rid of Saul as he is the shield Haqqani needs to be able to go out in public unharmed.
Back at the embassy, the ambassador, Lockhart, Carrie, and other embassy officials meet with the Pakistani delegation -- a group that includes Tasneem and Aasar Khan, the ISI guy who met with Saul. From the start, the ambassador lays out that the United States simply wants Saul back and wants to know how he got to be taken in the first place. Lockhart disbelieves the Pakistani minister and says that he knows they were all a part of the plan to take Saul. The minister gets angry and urges him to stop but Lockhart takes it a step further and tells the delegation that he will pull the federal aid given to Pakistan if they don't release Saul. The Pakistani delegation leaves in a huff after this and the ambassador is not happy with Lockhart, saying that threats will not help in this situation and that Lockhart doesn't have the ability to pull the funding. But Lockhart says that he indeed has the president's permission.
Carrie runs after the delegation as they leave, calling Aasar Khan and berating him about Saul. She's intent on proving that the delegation cannot be trusted and that the ISI had something to do with Saul's disappearance. She convinces Aasar Khan to let her see the security footage from the airport that would implicate Farhad Ghazi in the kidnapping and they agree to meet at the airport a half hour later. She goes back to her apartment to take her 'pills' and freshen up before going to the airport with Quinn. Dennis meanwhile heads into his wife's office at the embassy and finds her drafting a resignation letter. She's obviously infuriated by Lockhart's ability to undermine her foreign relationships and hates that Lockhart is using the federal aid package as leverage. Dennis calmly convinces her to not give up on her life's work and this made Martha wonder a bit as she thought Dennis wanted them to leave Pakistan.
Quinn and Carrie head to the airport to meet with Aasar Khan and it's clear that Carrie's medication is not working at all. She's talking fast and her eyes are way shiftier than normal. Quinn expresses concern but Carrie says she's fine and they continue to the airport to watch the footage from the evening of Saul's disappearance. They find out that the cameras on the terminal that Saul was in were down that night...well HOW CONVENIENT! Carrie thinks that Aasar Khan is hiding information and footage but her 'new meds' just made her seem out of control and paranoid.
Haqqani drives through the streets of Islamabad and gets a hero's welcome as he continues using Saul as shield. The embassy monitors his movement and they are not at all pleased at all with the fanfare and almost-hero worship. Haqqani heads to his compound, with Saul in tow, and greets his family for the first time in ages. As the entire station watches, they try to work on how they are going to rescue Saul. Carrie suggests an absurd rescue mission and everyone is looking at her like she's got nine heads because her mania is out in full force. She retreats to her room to regain control and she is shown overwhelmed with dizziness, confusion, and complete inability to handle what's happening in her brain.
At Haqqani's compound, a huge welcome feast is happening and Saul is sitting at his right hand, like an old friend. The two discuss the Pakistani-American relationship and their discussion heats up as Saul dares to talk to him on radical Islam, 9/11, and cultural confusion. Then, Carrie wakes up from a nap, still disoriented, with a call from Max. It seems they have tracked down the nurse and will be conducting an operation for her. Carrie takes her pills again, but she's still nowhere near normal when she leaves her apartment. Every sound, person, color, and movement is intensified in her world at present yet she leaves for the hospital and finds Kiran almost immediately after entering. Carrie verbally assaults Kiran, physically assaults a nurse who she believes is Quinn, vomits in the street, shoots two civilians, and gets arrested by Pakistani police. I guess Carrie has indeed been fucked up by the meds given her.
The ambassador confronts Lockhart about what he said to the delegation that morning. She told him he just wasted four years of diplomatic relations she painstakingly built and tried her best to reconcile with the foreign minister. She shared that they may have "positive news" for them the following morning at 7am. Lockhart insists that he be there for the meeting and the ambassador counters that if he comes, they're playing it her way. Haqqani continues to keep Saul prisoner and told him his plan to use Saul in a trade with the United States. Saul insists that the United States won't go for it, but Haqqani has done his research and assures him that they will have to. Carrie is being held in a jail cell with bugs, wet floors, dirt, and fear. Several men come in to the cell, take Carrie, and put her into a car. They drive her to an undisclosed location, which ends up being a pretty swanky house and leave her there. A man approaches to find her and she instantly attacks before she stops and realizes that man she's attacking is BRODY. For a while there I really thought Brody was alive but it seems to be Carrie's hallucinations were in overdrive when it was actually Aasar Khan who saved her...it just wasn't clear what his intentions were.
*** photo grabbed from Showtime ***
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