In my own recaps, I've discussed the possibility of Dar being behind this, but given just how damn obviously the episode was telegraphing it, I'm both hopeful that someone else is setting him up and worried that I'll be disappointed with whatever that twist is.

The tension of the scene has nothing to do with Carrie being out of touch with Quinn. It's not as if Quinn couldn't have called Carrie himself, had he wanted to. It's that Quinn believes that there's a conspiracy to harm Carrie either directly or through Franny, and he goes to potentially too-extreme lengths to…

(1) Very questionable as to whether 24: Legacy is actually any good.

I'm actually not entirely sure they knew who Quinn was. He wasn't a registered occupant of the house, and nobody ever really got a good look at him. They seemed surprised when Carrie told them that he was a war hero, and I'm not sure they were even listening, because they were woefully unprepared for him. The one SWAT…

I'm not exactly sure what the police would be searching for in that situation, but yeah, you're probably right. I did get the impression, however, that Quinn had hidden the phone as best as he could before being taken by the cops, and that time *did* pass between the arrest and Carrie finding the phone. I can handle a…

What exactly do you think the protocol is if there's a hostage situation involving a suspected terrorist?

Reaching Quinn by phone was never the issue (and it's unlikely Quinn would've picked up, given that he's reluctant to let her into the apartment when she shows *and* that he destroys Latisha's phone when she tries to call Carrie).

If she'd been kidnapped, Dar Adal would not have shown his face there, and certainly wouldn't have given her a phone that was capable of calling certain people (of which her chief of staff *wasn't* one of). What's reassuring (given that Trump is our president) is just how little power our chief executives seem to have…

You're forgetting how quickly everything was happening. Yes, I've no doubt the media would eventually connect the dots about Carrie's connection to multiple suspected bombers (and they probably still will!), but this episode takes place shortly after a devastating attack in the middle of Manhattan. Even the…

Saul could carry this show without Carrie. But I agree that it would be a different show.

Who conveniently forgot that cell phones existed? That's literally the first thing Quinn does: disabling Latisha's.

Especially if they've been leaked this information by someone with an interest in having the media gather a crowd outside her home, someone who wants to make sure Carrie is either discredited or too busy to piece together the truth behind the attack.

"The creative license would be forgivable were it not for the fact that the rest of the episode grew out of that one little indulgence."

They *have* to be saving that for their final season. It's how they bookend the whole damn thing.

Sure, but Carrie already knows these things, as does Quinn. She's going to have to struggle against a system that's designed to doubt her, and Reda might find himself having to defend *her*, but while that might be dramatic irony, I'm not sure that it's annoying or frustrating.

Too early to say, but I enjoyed this episode of Homeland more than I have in several seasons.

Austin, hate crimes are systematically underreported or simply treated as regular crimes, but I suspect you know that already and are now just ruffling feathers. Rather than the two of us bicker about things we don't have knowledge of, you can just refer to this article (https://www.nytimes.com/201… or, if you're one…

Austin, you're the one who made broad claims about both the viewers and makers of this program. You're also the one intentionally misreading something meant as an insult against you as a factual comment about your intelligence. That said, the fact that you believe that your expertise in cardiothoracic vascular trauma…

Did I stutter? ;)

I'm not sure how else the show could've handled the aftermath of a bomb exploding in Manhattan, unless you're suggesting that television avoid anything with the vaguest connection to reality, in which case, Homeland wouldn't exist.