Yeah, first season. She was married to a Muslim man and they were assisting Nazir stateside. They had the house in the suburbs with a line of sight from the roof to the airfield where the VP was going to land. They realized the CIA were onto them (I think Brody warned them, maybe? I don’t remember) and they bailed.
The husband was murdered by Nazir’s men and she ended up in CIA custody.
Brody didn’t warn them - someone else did, which is why we’ve been talking about a CIA mole.
Thanks. I couldn’t remember where we’d seen her before.
Thanks for the correction. I guess a helicopter transporting a kidnapped congressman makes a bit more sense.
He hasn’t been kidnapped either. He’s meeting the boss.
One point at a time…
Anyone else really confused?
The cop that Saul visited, asking if she’d had contact with her baby’s father – why did she call Quinn? The phone call that Quinn took right after Saul left the cop – we only heard one side but everything he said sounded like a response to the questions she would be asking.
Quinn being on some other side would explain why he survived the shootout at the tailor shop.
Wheels within wheels.
“Quinn” is his false/cover identity, and he is the cop’s baby’s father; she called him to let him know that his cover is blown.
He’s obviously working for another shadow/dark-ops agency/taskforce, but he’s obviously not with the terrorists, so that’s not the reason he survived the shootout.
Is “abducted” ok?
What are we supposed to take away from his little get away? When they were grilling him about it somebody asked if there was “anything else” to which he replied “No”. But they cut to him praying with Nazir…is that supposed to be “something else”?
I got the impression that Quinn and Estes are planning on eliminating Brody because they don’t want to leave an admitted terrorist running around once everything is said and done. Which, wow, really makes you feel for Brody. He’s like the most put-upon man of all time. Poor guy.
She was the woman holding the baby in the photo that they found tucked between the pages of Great Expectations in Quinn’s apartment.
I still don’t see why killing Brody is so important that they have to have a super special secret agent to do it.
I think the big thing in having a “sooper-sekret” agent kill Brody is to keep Saul and Carrie out of it. Estes knows they wouldn’t put up with it, especially Carrie (of course). However, I don’t think they counted on Saul figuring out something was odd about Quinn.
Which now makes Saul a liability to whomever Quinn is working for (NSA?). Taking both of them out and making it look coincidental would be a real challenge, so perhaps they’ll put that part of the plan on hold.
I don’t understand how they knew about the policewoman in the first place and why she might be important in some fashion. Also, how did they find out about Quinn’s apartment? I must have missed something in the story line.
Carrie was suspicious of Quinn right away and talked with Saul about it. They were already planning to look into him.
And killing Brody is a huge deal, as a sitting congressman. I imagine someone like Quinn would be exactly the kind of person tasked with it, keeping the number of people knowing about it as low as possible even without taking personal feelings into consideration.
I think this is exactly the right kind of surprising but plausible, instead of Estes being the mole.
Does the CIA know that Brody is a muslim? He may feel that they might question his loyalties harder if they knew, so he didn’t mention that part.
They found Quinn’s apartment just by following him around. Once in there, they found a photo of a woman holding a newborn tucked inside a book. She was wearing some form of ID on her wrist that made it possible to track her down.
So, was this bomb plot actually a real bomb plot, or was it a ploy to throw the CIA off the “real” plot, sacrificing the little guys to do so?
Brody seemed pretty tight with head honcho terrorist at the end - and I think they are working on something bigger and better. Brody doesn’t want to hurt “innocent” civilians, but never said he wanted to save VP or some of the others.
Going out on a limb here - I think there is a much more sinister plot brewing, with a new contact for Brody and new plans for Brody.
Seriously - when you have a guy who might be VP and maybe even President someday do you think Nazir would be stupid enough to throw that ace-in-hole away on a single little plot to blow up 300 marines and their families? This was a huge red herring - let the CIA think they nipped it in the bud and relax a bit. Nazir knows he can do far more serious damage if he holds back a bit and waits - and Brody needs some time to catch his breath and get back into the fold; and his crumbling marriage is going to make it easier to do so.
Oh, and nobody else mentioned it yet, but AH-OOOO-GAH! I don’t find her all that attractive, but boobage must be acknowledged.
Maybe for the cover story? To get away with killing him, they’d have to say that he was a terrorist. Then it would be accepted that he’d be killed by a special agent.
I was quite proud of myself for finally figuring out where I’d seen the actress that plays Roya. She was in Rome - the woman slave with dreadlocks that poisoned Pullo’s wife so he strangled her while she confessed while dying. She had a couple of rough nude sex scenes - check her out in that for some serious AH-OOOO-GAH moments.