| Trylon and Perisphere | ||||
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| Written by: | Chip Johanessen | |||
| Directed by: | Keith Gordon | |||
| Production number: | 4WAH02 | |||
| Running time: | 49 minutes | |||
| Original airdate: | October 5, 2014 | |||
| Viewers (millions): | 1.61 | |||
Trylon and Perisphere is the second episode of Season 4 of Homeland. It originally aired on October 5, 2014 alongside The Drone Queen as a special two-hour premiere.
Synopsis[]
Carrie Mathison returns home to do something. Meanwhile, Peter Quinn loses control while Carrie tries to get more information about what is happening in Islamabad. At the same time, she has to deal with her motherhood.
Episode guide[]
Two days later, Carrie and Peter shipped Sandy Bachman's body back to the United States. At a military base in Maryland, they meet CIA Director Lockhart and Sandy's wife. When Peter hears that Sandy is leaving behind three young children and that they can see the video of Sandy's murder on the internet, he apologizes. Lockhart would like to see the two of them for a meeting in his office the next morning.
Carrie then drives to her sister's house but hesitates to go inside. When she hears her child crying, she runs away, but Maggie hears her and opens the front door. She offers to hold her daughter, Franny, which Carrie reluctantly accepts. Carrie is surprised at how much hair the little one has now and then goes into the house with Maggie.
Meanwhile, Peter Quinn gets drunk at the pool in his apartment block and then throws the bottle into the water. A woman, Eden, comes up to him and accuses him of polluting her pool. She introduces herself to him as the manager who he paid six months' rent in advance, but Peter can't remember meeting her before. She realizes how drunk Peter is and ends up in bed with him shortly thereafter.
Aayan and Rahim talk again about the fact that Aayan has now gained notoriety through the video. Ever since Sandy Bachman was murdered, Aayan feels like he's being watched all the time. Then a camera team approaches him and wants to do an interview, but Aayan dodges the questions and flees. From his apartment he then watches how Rahim conducts the interview in his place. Aayan quickly packs his bag with a number of drug ampoules.
The apartment manager wakes up the next morning when Peter comes out of the bathroom. She lets him know that she doesn't expect anything from him now, but Peter offers to take her to breakfast. At the same time, Carrie is getting ready to go to work. However, Maggie wants her to give the bottle to Franny and asks her how long she will be staying. Carrie explains that it's only for a few days and that she hadn't planned on coming. Maggie says they need to talk about Franny's future since her father isn't going to help out as much as she thought and nannying isn't a long-term solution either. Carrie promises to talk to her that evening and then leaves.
Arriving at the office, Lockhart is watching the interview with Aayan. Carrie explains to Lockhart that she wants to take the job in Islamabad to clear up what went wrong. However, Lockhart doesn't see that and emphasizes that he needs Carrie in Washington to clarify the matter before the Senate. She wants to know how long she would stay in the US and Lockhart says it will be forever and sarcastically adds that she now has time for her child. She leaves the office shocked and disappointed.
At the same time, Quinn is having breakfast, enjoying what seems to be normal life. But then the woman draws his attention to his whining in his sleep and wants to know if he is okay. Peter puts it down to the fact that he's had a difficult week, but he can't tell her anything about it. Meanwhile, at the next table, some guys make fun of his companion because she is overweight. Provoked further, he attacks the two men, but is held back by his escort before injuring the men even more severely.
At home, Carrie watches the nanny do the diapering for Franny. She receives a call from Peter from prison and goes to pick him up. Carrie wants to know what's wrong with him, and Peter confesses that he thought he was okay until he lost control. Meanwhile, Carrie tells him that Lockhart is forcing her to stay in the United States. They continue to talk about the events in Islamabad and Carrie wants to know more about a CIA officer who has been demoted and sent back to the US.
Aayan goes to Kiran to visit her. At the door he is questioned by her parents about the attack and his connections to the murdered terrorist. Afterwards he talks to Kiran about how his life is ruined. He asks her to let her hide his bag so that nobody can get hold of the things inside if someone comes for him. Kiran confesses that she would like to go out with him, but is then interrupted by her father, who calls her back into the house. Aayan leaves the bag and leaves.
Meanwhile, Carrie asks CIA case officer Jordan Harris what he knows about the events in Islamabad, but Harris refuses to talk to her about it. When Carrie asks again, he gets angry and leaves her. Back home, Carrie is met by an angry Maggie. She explains that she counted on her to take care of Franny today, but Carrie was gone. Maggie has had to cancel two patients and is angry that Carrie is putting her career ahead of her sister's and that she is not taking responsibility for her daughter. Carrie defends that she now has to stay in the US permanently and she can take care of Franny the next day. The next morning, Carrie feels overwhelmed at first, but then loads Franny into the car and drives to Brody's old house, where she tells her daughter a bit about Brody. Later, Carrie bathes her daughter, when she slips out of her hand, she is startled, but then she considers drowning her baby, which she doesn't have the heart to do.
Dar Adal and Saul talk about Carrie. Dar tells Saul that Lockhart wants to keep her in the US, leading Saul to rant about Lockhart's way of running the CIA. Dar explains to Saul that this is an opportunity for him because the CIA's doubts about Lockhart are growing. Saul explains that he's officially very happy in the private sector.
Carrie waits for Jordan Harris in the parking lot to question him again. As he gets in the car, she joins him and he threatens to take her away and leave their baby alone in the other car if she doesn't get out, but Carrie doesn't let him off that easily. This time she finds the right way to get Harris to talk and stresses that she will need the information when she returns to Pakistan to clear things up. In return, she promises to get him another field assignment. Harris says Lockhart arranged for his demotion after telling him about an information leak in Islamabad. Carrie wants to know more about it. In the evening Maggie comes home and asks about Carrie's day.
The next morning, Carrie and Saul meet at Sandy Bachman's funeral. Carrie is happy to see Saul as she would like to discuss something with him. Then Carrie goes to Lockhart and talks to him about Sandy and what she found out. She knows Lockhart knew Sandy was giving up classified information in exchange for the locations of wanted terrorists. For these achievements, Lockhart overlooked the data leak. Carrie accuses him of complicity in treason and that this information is not good for him in the context of the Senate investigation. She blackmails him into letting her run the CIA base in Islamabad. In the church, Carrie then tells Saul that she can return to Islamabad. She confides in him that something has gone wrong there and that she needs some of Saul's people to clear things up and prevent it from happening again. After the funeral, Peter joins Carrie in the empty church. She tells him what she learned from Jordan Harris and that they now need to find out who Sandy has been swapping information with. When she explains to Peter that they must return to Islamabad, he says he will not go there again. Carrie doesn't want to accept that because she needs him, but Peter tells her that it's not all about her.
In the evening, Carrie tells Maggie that she is going back to Pakistan, which leads to an argument. Maggie refuses to accept that Carrie will abandon her daughter again. Afterwards, Carrie says goodbye -"I'm so sorry"- to her baby and apologizes to her before leaving. At the same time, Peter comes to his apartment to find a note of his affair, thanking him for fighting for it.
In Islamabad, Aayan hears noises in his apartment in the middle of the night and is soon attacked by two men who tell him not to give interviews or post videos anymore. They also take his laptop with them. When the men are gone, Rahim comes to Aayan and sees that he is wounded. At the same time, Carrie is on her flight back to Pakistan.
Trivia[]
- The title reflects the two modernistic structures—Trylon and Perisphere, together known as the "Theme Center"—at the center of the New York World's Fair of 1939–1940.
- A case officer is an intelligence officer who is a trained specialist in the management of agents and agent networks. Case officers manage human agents and human intelligence networks. Case officers spot potential agents, recruit prospective agents and train agents in tradecraft.
In Season 4 Episode 2, what does Lockhart mean by the statement "It's not even a real country. It's a f* acronym!" in an argument with Carrie?
Pakistan: The name of the country was coined in 1933 by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym (“thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKISTAN”), and referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.
Quotes[]
- Carrie: "I was arrested on that lawn".
- Mathison says: "He would have been a terrible father,"
- Carrie drives Frannie over to her father's house, the now deceased Brody, telling her how she met her dad and how much she loved him: "He was happy to hear that you were on the way though," Carrie adds. "He was. It was the last thing he was happy about. And I, I tried ... to hold onto that and feel it too ... happy you're here. But, with his being gone, I can't remember why I had you. I loved him so much."
- NO ONE EVER FOUGHT FOR ME BEFORE.
- “There’s not even a diagnosis for what’s wrong with you.” - Maggie for Carrie
Reviews[]
"Consider this: Homeland rarely utilizes point-of-view filmmaking, meant to place us literally inside a character’s head. But it does here. Carrie looks down at her baby. What would it be to be the mother of this child? And then we switch to the infant’s point of view. What would it be to be the child of this mother?" [x]
They originally planned to kill off Brody at the end of Season 1 and send Carrie out on a new mission in Season 2. "It's just taken us three seasons to get there instead of one," Gansa notes. But he says it still won't be easy for Carrie to move on from Brody: "I think she's got a period of grieving to do."
Appearances[]
Main Cast[]
- Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
- Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn
- Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson
- Nazanin Boniadi as Fara Sherazi
- Tracy Letts as Andrew Lockhart
- Laila Robins as Martha Boyd
Guest Starring[]
- Suraj Sharma as Aayan Ibrahim
- Amy Hargreaves as Maggie Mathison
- Adam Godley as Jordan Harris
- Emily Walker as Landlady
- Akshay Kumar as Rahim
- Shavani Seth as Kiran
- F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal
Co-Starring[]
- Tal Raviv as Josie
- Lee Raviv as Ruby
- Riaz Solker as Kiran's Father
- Kira Wilkinson as Kiran's Mother
- Bhavna Singh as Interviewer
- Jo Dee Butler as Nanny
- Armand Aucamp as Frat Boy
- Barbara Marie Immelman as Wdow
- Dennis Benneyworth as Priest
- Tamer Burjaq as Figure
- Stephen Jennings as Admiral
- Adam Neill as Sergeant
Note[]
- Although credited, Nazanin Boniadi and Laila Robins do not appear in this episode
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