We time jump four months into the future where Saul is in a seaside town and enjoying a well-earned, extended vacation with Mira. Over breakfast, Mira reads a news report revealing that “Iranian diplomats have offered International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors full and unfettered access to the regime’s nuclear sites in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.”
“Saul. This is you,” she tells him. “You did this. It’s unbelievable. It’s your whole life. It’s your crowning achievement.”
Saul laughs. “It only cost me my career.” He tells her that he’s going back to America for the commemorative ceremony to honor those who have died.
Pregnant Carrie meets with CIA Director Lockhart, and they talk about the news Mira just discussed with Saul. Lockhart is impressed with Saul’s master plan and has a new job for Carrie: She’s offered a job in Istanbul to run Javadi. She’ll be the station chief and the youngest in the agency.
On her way out the door, she asks that Brody be one of the people who receives a commemorative star. Lockhart disagrees that he be honored, and it’s the final word on the topic.
Saul and Dar Adal meet at a coffee shop, and the latter congratulates Saul on the Iran news. Dar Adal thinks Saul is missing the CIA, but he insists he’s not.
At home, Carrie is visited by her sister and father. She reveals that she wants to put the baby up for adoption because she can’t feel love and won’t be a good parent. Carrie is scared and positive that she won’t be able to do it. Her father says she cannot leave the baby like her own mother did to her, and Carrie’s father offers to take her. In a heartbreaking moment, Carrie admits she’s still incredibly sad about Brody.
At the commemorative ceremony, Lockhart is reading each of the names of those who served and died. Afterward, Saul and Carrie talk for the first time in months and say goodbye to one another. Saul is heading to New York, apparently for good.
Later that night Carrie is leaving the CIA and draws her own star for Brody on the wall where the others were memorialized earlier in the day. The episode ends.
‘Homeland’ finale analysis
Tonight’s Homeland season finale is one of the biggest and best episodes of the season for obvious reasons.
Brody’s death was inevitable. You may remember that showrunners have publicly acknowledged that he had to die at some point. There were several memorable scenes, but the two that stood out most to us was Carrie and Brody’s final peaceful discussion in the safe house and the goodbye between Carrie and Saul at the CIA. She lost her two men.
The big questions:
– Will Saul ultimately return to the CIA? There seemed to be a hint of that happening when Dar Adal asked him if he would ever come back. Saul acted like he wouldn’t, but Dar Adal was on to him.
– Will Carrie remain in Istanbul for the season? And what will she do with the baby? Having her over there with a new terrorist to fight would be a big reboot for the show.
Homeland season 4 will premiere in late 2014.
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