The tailor appeared to fall on some kind of spike or stake sticking up out of the ground.
Nice timing for Brody to pull up right as Jessica and Mike are walking arm-in-arm into the house. Still rooting for those two to end up together. And how great was her off the cuff speech? Now I’m thinking Jessica should be the politician.
I liked it. Two main reasons, in which my expectations were subverted.
The chase scene – I didn’t see it playing out the way it did until the very end, right before it actually happened, when Brody was on the phone with his wife. I started to get a Alan-Alda-with-a-chicken vibe, and I thought he was going to inadvertently kill the tailor while trying to keep him quiet. I didn’t see it being intentional, until it was.
I was pretty sure they were going to have Brody’s recording confiscated, or otherwise destroyed, and I was feeling scared they were going to have to kill Saul (to keep the Brody-as-secret-terrorist angle going). I was surprised that they did not, and that not only did Saul make it back to the US safe and sound, he had the recording, and showed Carrie. I’m not sure where they’re going to go from here, which is a good thing.
This last ep was very frustrating. The main storyline just didn’t work for me and I am kinda surprised it isn’t generating more discussion here.
They put an asset like Brody - one step away from being a potential VP candidate - at huge risk to alert a contact about a blown cover? If the only other Middle Eastern Terrorist around was the woman reporter, she still would’ve been a better choice to go to the tailor than Brody.
It felt contrived. Not quite Jack’s daughter caught in a trap and facing down a cougar contrived, but they are showing 24’s willingness to get silly. I’m okay with talking myself into buying Brody’s ability to text from a secure area, but this crossed more of a line for me. Won’t stop me from watching, but certainly put this episode in the meh category…
Loved Morena Baccarin’s acting as she gave her speech - scared-but-courageous Mrs. War Vet. And loved Carrie getting a moment of satisfaction. Interesting to see where it goes.
I agree with you. I haven’t been impressed at all with the writing for Brody this season. Everything with Carrie, though, is still fantastic.
The day bin Laden was killed.
Fwiw, i’m pretty convinced now this is smart, well-considered drama.
The leads are effectively complex ciphers, the juxtapositions, contrasts and overall shapes as between characters and ideas is clever.
Interesting, definitely worth sticking with, imo.
I took “May 1” to mean “MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Danger, Will Robinson!!”
May 1 is May Day.
Imo, the ref was most def ObL.
Except, as has been pointed out in this thread, Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2.
No. MAYDAYin radio operators’ lingo means “emergency!” It is used universally as a distress signal.
May 1 is known around the world as “May Day.” So texting “May 1” would translate (in fewer characters) as “MAYDAY!”
Brody was warning Abu Nazir. He was saying, “You’re in immediate danger!” What would OBL’s death date have to do with anything in that context?
Maybe for motivation and actions consistent with her character the writing has been okay, but I can’t get over her walking through the hallway and multiple doors into a classified debriefing at the CIA without a badge.
She was already cleared to be in the building, and had a visitor’s badge allowing her to be in that part of the building. In fact, she was waiting in another office area for the debriefing to start at 6p. They moved the meeting to 4p without telling her. She took the badge off and then just went to where the inner offices were. I doubt there are multiple security checkpoints inside once you’ve been cleared to be in that area of the building already. She took off her visitor’s badge and just looked like she belonged (she obviously knows her way around the place). Even the people around that know why she was fired (which is probably everybody given how fast that kind of gossip would spread), they’re not going to confront her if she acts like she belongs there even if they suspect she might not.
Then why waste time; just text OBL instead? The wording of the text might be being over-analyzed just a tad.
May 1 = MAYDAY = “Distress!”
That is perfectly clear and not subject to further analysis.
It was clearly referencing MAYDAY. The ObL idea is just silly.
At the time of death, it was May 1 in the USA.
Precisely because it is ambiguous.
But since “May1” means “May Day” to almost everyone but you, it fails in the ambiguous department. It is clearly a warning.
If she is in a space that can have a classified briefing and she doesn’t have a “no escort required” visitor badge then she can’t go anywhere without an escort, period. Not in the hall, not to the restroom, not anywhere. The lady at the desk never would have let her leave alone in the real world.
A also completely agree with earlier points about Brody being way too valuable to risk going to notify the tailor.
The end of last season also bugged me. Brody had the bomb strapped on, but they don’t even check to confirm whether Carrie is correct or not? Just the whole premise of sending all these other people into a bunker with the VP seems pretty ridiculous to me.
I think the acting in this show is quite good, but the writing is overrated. The writing is better than many shows, but I think it has a lot of holes.
Holy shit, that was amazing. The first two-thirds of the episode were good, but the last ten minutes or so were on a different level. It’s funny how I was worried that they were going to be dragging out the “Saul knows about Brody” storyline, but they’ve completely blown it up in three episodes. It’s probably not ideal that Carrie completely blew the operation by confronting Brody in his hotel room, but you have to admit that she totally owned it, and she finally got her moment:
“You’re a disgrace to your nation, Sergeant Nicholas Brody. You’re a traitor, and a terrorist, and now it’s time you pay for that.”