Well, she WAS telling the truth, but first and foremost, she was interrogating him. No holds barred, anything goes, etc. I think eventually he did buy it judging by the tears in his eyes.
Isn’t Body going to need surgery for that hand? The knife went into the table top, didn’t it? He didn’t even get real medical attention.
Also the teen car thing was a purely gratuitous complication and quite tiresome. I’m losing interest in the show. I don’t like Brody and don’t care about his fate anymore. Carrie just makes me nuts.
P.S. Did we ever find out what he did with the vest?
Meh, say what you will, but I realized something while watching this episode that I’m not sure I can say for any other TV show. And that is that I feel sympathetic towards every single main character, and even some minor ones. Okay, maybe some more than others, but they’re all pretty realistically nuanced, and I always want to see more of all of them.
Usually, there’s just one or two main characters I care about seeing develop, and I couldn’t care less about all of the other supporting “filler” characters and what happens to them, or even if we get to see any scenes with them. But there’s just something about the way the writing/acting/directing in this show meshes together that makes me thoroughly enjoy every performance in every scene. Again, maybe some more than others, but I seldom find myself going “Yeah, yeah, get this character out of here and get this scene over with, already” like I do in almost every other show - even shows that I really, really like.
(I’m a tad sleep-deprived, so I dunno if I’m expressing myself well, but basically, this show just has this certain je ne sais quoi, is what I’m sayin’.)
Don’t assume the Hit and Run is just to give Dana something to do (even though she deserves it - I think she’s the most sympathetic character other than Saul).
One thing that could easily tie it to the main plot is that it might provide blackmail material for Brody against the VP, and there are other possibilities.
Fucking up and killing innocent people seems to be hereditary in the VP’s family.
No way Saul is the mole. He’s screwed Nazir’s plans half a dozen times so far, and almost gotten Nazir killed at least once.
He fails the lie detector test on the “Is Saul is your real name” question, they never get around to asking him about the razor blade. So he may have some “hidden past” type thing going, but its not him being the mole for Nazir (though the polygraph tech seems to buy that he fails simply because he’s worked up, so that could be the explanation as well).
New theory: Carrie never thought Brody made her. She confronted him in the hotel room so the CIA would be forced to cut him a deal to get information, thus saving him from prosecution or getting disappeared into Gitmo for the rest of his life.
Also, Brody is still lying, isn’t he? He knows the terrorists are targeting something on the list he stole from Estes office, but he doesn’t tell Carrie that.
Brody is an asshole. And the fact that Carrie is in love with him just shows how screwed up she is. Jessica needs to dump his ass and move in with Mike.
Without knowing who the leak(s) is in CIA how can they hope to keep Brody’s secret? Do they have a monitoring chip on him? They didn’t show that. Too loose a tether on a known terrorist.
Dana will confide to Brody about hit and run because of their relationship and that will add nuance to the whole VP agenda.
Jessica is such a bitch. She is constantly reversing her attitude with Brody. Come home. Leave. Come back, but only if … Blah blah blah. And what’s with calling him Brody. What wife calls her husband by his last name, especially since they dated in high school?
I agree with voltaire re acting and writing. Far superior to what’s available on TV these days.
I think they’ve kept the number of people that know about it small. Carrie, Saul and new-guy were doing the monitoring themselves and they used the outside contractors to help place the bugs. Note they’re also keeping it secret from the VP, who seems to be pretty well connected in the CIA.
But even with that, you’d think they’d be a little more concerned about figuring out who the mole is.
I sure hope so. Not just to stick it to the VP – who is not a nice guy – but because it’s the realistic thing to do. Also because I’m tired of plot points in books and film that hinge on a kid keeping a huge secret, without a good reason to keep quiet.
I’ve known guys who were called by their last names by everyone, including their wives. Also guys who were called by their first and last names by everyone, including their wives. Can’t 'splain it.
Did anyone else catch Saul’s line, “[Carrie’s] forgotten more about Brody and Nazir than we’ll ever know”? I literally laughed out loud at that, cause it’s actually true in this case.
Great episode, and worthy of another Emmy or three. The two of them are such great actors, and played that scene in the interrogation room perfectly. Truly amazing. I’m still basking in the afterglow and haven’t thought about plot direction yet. The actor who plays the daughter has a good career in front of her if she doesn’t become another statistic like Lohan.
I’ve read in several other places that this is more common in military families, particularly if the man went into service before they were married. After all, she would have started calling him Brody before her name was Brody as well. By the time they got married, it would have been habit.
That would make sense if they hadn’t started dating in high school. Who calls their boyfriend by their last name when they’re teenagers? It just sounds weird to me.
So do you think Peter planned to bring Carrie into the interrogation the whole time? That knife stabbing was totally unexpected.
I think the list he stole from Estes office was a list of targets in the Arab world that the US was considering hitting, unrelated to Nazir’s attack on the US.
I think he did give them the name- at one point they asked who who would know about the attacks and he said her name (I think). Then, she was one of the few people they kept up on the board.
