If the stroke he gets comes from Carrie, I think he'd be OK with that trade off.

It's not explicit, and it's definitely possible that viewers are reading into that line based on their own biases. Dar fucked him up enough without having to literally fuck him up, too, but I guess we'll find out soon enough given how explicit Homeland has been getting about Dar.

I disagree with your reading of the line.

No, I'm pretty sure he died on Lost.

Is that a euphemism for his penis?

I agree that there's probably someone behind O'Keefe, but it was unsettling to have him show up as the one personally recruiting/interviewing people for this enterprise. It felt like they were recycling O'Keefe instead of introducing someone else, and that they were doing so largely for effect, which makes for bad…

I think it's far more likely that Javadi turned off the volume on his end.

I stand corrected. I still don't think it matters, though. The bullets thing is troubling, but I guess as long as you're stealing weapons, you might as well take as many as you carry. Maybe he wants to make a few stashes so that if he loses one or has one confiscated, he doesn't have to go about stealing more?

To be fair, if Dar is pulling something like that, it's because he already knows that Keane knows, in which case he probably doesn't care nearly as much about how "awkward" it looks. He's got several O'Keefe-edited videos ready to go and attack Keane with; if he loses his job over his improper attitude with the…

I think he took two or three close-range guns (one for each hand, and a spare in case one jams) and a long-range rifle. He took bullets for each type. I can understand him doing this. I just can't believe that it would be so easy.

I agree that *some* of those people were glorified call-center employees, but to have that operation up and running in the first place at all without any dedicated IT support? That's nonsense.

I don't really think "master spy powers" were necessary to tell that something was off. Granted, Keane is a terrible liar, but pretty much anybody who has studied acting can tell that *something* is going on with Keane—the amount of time that she has her back to him, refuses to meet his eyes, to sit near him, and all…

I don't know that he's *always* rude with the help. That scene existed to show the audience how much Keane had gotten to him, which might also explain why he was off his game and distracted to have not noticed that Quinn was in his apartment. It was a bad scene, precisely because it only *told* us something about Dar…

(A) My point is that there's no evidence of him messing around (sexually) with anyone of that age, whether it's a young child or a barely legal teen.

I know he mentioned a woman, but I also know that he was undercover. I sort of assumed he was hiding the truth behind a lie—that's how the best people do it.

It can be both, but it doesn't have to be. Dar is speaking from a place of apparently genuine tenderness and doesn't have a history of molesting other children (so far as we know), so I'm content to take him at his word that the role he played was as a father figure. If he were just abusing Quinn, I don't know that…

I believed Max about that M+M reasoning, but I thought he was actually referring to Virgil, since we haven't seen him in some time. Fara makes more sense, but I think that only reinforces how little we really know about Max. To have him suddenly take center stage is jarring.

Because the writers thought it would look cool to have Quinn turn Astrid into some sort of religious artifact at which he could worship and sanctify himself before rededicating himself to his spycraft. It's ridiculous. (Also, her blood would have congealed by then.)

Keane's body language is very telling, especially to someone like Dar. More importantly, however, is how she appears to give him *exactly* what he wants. Nobody is ever that agreeable that quickly, and the moment he puts away the envelope is when she reiterates that "nothing is off the table" about him potentially…

Sure, but the episode suggests that he *was* vetted pretty thoroughly, and that the only reason he wasn't shown the door immediately was because O'Keefe had personally flagged Max's resume. It's just one more inconsistency in an episode that, above all else, needed to hold up under scrutiny, since it was intent on…