After she called her dad was already after the discharge review, so yes. It’s the only thing that makes sense, or at least the closest to making sense is the better way to put it because this show often makes little sense. How’d the lawyer’s representative find her at that guy’s house where she crashed for the night? Why was she trying to leave the country or at least go into hiding after she got out of the hospital if she was working with Saul? Why did the police say Dana wasn’t a missing person, implying they can’t really look for her very intensely, but then say her boyfriend was a fugitive? Shouldn’t they be looking for him and even be getting an arrest warrant since he broke his plea agreement?
Part of the TV cop bible states that you can’t file a missing person report until the person has been missing for 24 hours. Dana hasn’t been missing for 24 hours yet.
The boyfriend is a fugitive because Dana busted him out of the psych hospital.
Can anyone explain to me why the Venezuelans are so intensely committed to keeping Brody? I do not understand that even a little.
Their leader owes Carrie a favour, apparently a big one since there’s a several million dollar bounty on Brody’s head.
I know, but she is with someone that should have a warrant out for his arrest. He escaped from court-mandated treatment that was part of a plea bargain to avoid a murder charge. Even though they were not looking for her, they should be looking for her boyfriend.
I’m really liking this season. I like to pride myself on seeing the plot twists in these shows well in advance, but they caught me completely off guard last week with the whole deal about Carrie and Saul working together all along. But I really wish they would ditch the teenage love story angle. It’s verging on 24 territory, and I’m about to start calling the daughter Kim.
I thought the plot twist was cheating, since there are earlier scenes where Carrie is in character as thinking Saul betrayed her, when in fact she knew that it was part of the plan.
For example, her sitting at home, alone, and acting all shocked and betrayed when she saw Saul on TV give her up at the Senate hearing. That was the plan! She would’ve had a crazy smirk on her face.
But why would Carrie be so determined to keep him in Chez David, esp3cially at such cost? (In human lives…)
See my post above, and TheR’s reply…the plan would have had to have been arranged after the hearing, otherwise they’re really pulling our chain.
And they established last night with the early scene between Saul and Quinn that Carrie had, in fact, planned it from the very beginning. So yes, pulling our chain.
Wait, did it? My reading was that it was planned between those two; Carrie may not have been made aware of the plan until later.
Quinn had no idea. He only found out it had been planned when Carrie told him about it in the parking garage. She & Saul had planned the whole thing from before he spoke about her to the senate committee, which yes now causes several scenes where Carrie is alone in her own home to make no sense.
They actually say the State police “have a description” of the boyfriend, which presumably means they are looking for him. They just won’t launch a separate search for Dana until she’s been declared missing.
The Iranian Intel agency is made of idiots. The ploy seems transparent and they are falling for it.
By the way, did any one get the Romeo and Juliet allusion?
Saul told him it was a play in his house, after which he met with Carrie in the parking garage.
I can possibly fanwank her freaking out alone during Saul’s testimony on TV. Either she knew she would be discredited, but didn’t know HOW and Saul took the opportunity to use the hearing to discredit Carrie (which does genuinely hurt her feelings)…
Or, a less probable scenario was for Carrie to assume she was being watched or her house was bugged at every possible moment after the plan was made so no one could see her slip out of character.
It’s a little harder to fanwank Saul coming to visit her in the hospital, leaning in close and whispering “I’m sorry” and her mumbling “Fuck you, Saul!” Certainly a “hang in there, kid!” or something would be more realistic.
And what about Saul? They show him in the opener barely able to make any decision about anything as acting director, but apparently he had already made the super-risky decision to discredit Carrie and dangle her as bait? He’s so careful that he almost calls off the hit on the six terrorists b/c one of them wasn’t in the exact right place, but at the same time he’s running the way less careful Carrie plan?
Basically if they’re willing to cheat like that to score a cheap gotcha, who knows what else they’ll do - maybe Javadi will open a door in that room and Brody will shockingly walk in and say “We’ve got you now!”, then he’ll pull out a gun and kill everyone, saving Carrie, while she says “What took you so long?” and he’ll say “Saul just told me where you were an hour ago!” and they’ll both smile at each other, then turn and smile right into the camera. Wouldn’t surprise me.
They should just call Jack Bauer…but hang up if the daughter answers.
That wouldn’t be at all probable given all the phone calls she makes in her house, any one of which, if heard by the bad guys, would blow her cover.
Okay, I’m still confused by this whole thing…I was under the impression this “setup” was made after the fact, only when Saul meets Carrie in the hospital (when she tells him to fuck off). Basically, a way to make the best of a shitty situation.
It’s entirely possible I missed something disproving this, but do we know for sure this was all a setup before that event transpired?
If so, then yes, none of anything we saw before this episode makes any damn sense.
Despite being idiots, somehow they can deploy more resources to the United States than the US government can.