Plenty of reason to keep Carrie out of the loop since she is a civilian (who works for Otto Fucking During). Dar also may not trust Saul in terms of him likely sharing with Carrie everything Dar tells him since Saul recently had one foot out the door after stealing the dox (although Saul was the one Dar told that…

I have a hard time seeing the ever pragmatic and ruthless Dar falling for her ridonkulous story, so think Dar knows what he is doing, and for him it is all about the SVR dude -
if Dar plays along with the Allison story or pretends to, he gets to keep the purportedly defecting Ivan, whom is (or should be) a much bigger…