So, yeah this was a pretty boring episode. Don't get me wrong, I more than appreciate the lack of Dana now, but this was clearly a placeholder episode for the season, with not a lot actually happening as far as events are concerned.
We pick up at the home of Javadi's murders from last week, with the local police finding out that a neighbor's security camera picked up Quinn as he was entering the house, which now makes him the main suspect. Whoops. Back at the CIA safehouse, Javadi is being told by Fara, with Saul standing by in support that they've got them nailed for embezzling all those funds, but Javadi brushes her off and snarks at Saul for trying to prove he can take him down with two "girls." Fara gets upset and is sent out of the room to go and watch from the monitor with Carrie, while Saul gets a crack at Javadi himself. Javadi surprisingly offers to give them everything he knows in exchange for a protected house in Miami and his money, but Saul won't bite, telling him he's going to send him back to Iran as a mole instead. Javadi is furious and refuses to go back but Saul says he has no choice and he goes as either an asset or a traitor to the Iranian government. Fara is upset about this from the next room, but Carrie is admiring of Saul's tactics.
Quinn is showering all the blood off of him when Dar Adal knocks on his door and spills out his own frustration, angry that Quinn was recruited by Saul and Carrie behind his back, when he's the one who pulled him in originally. Quinn won't give him any info though, so Adal tells him to fuck off and lets him know the local cops are on his case. Quinn brings the news back to Saul and Carrie, and Saul tells them both to reign in the investigation and protect Quinn from being identified. Saul goes back to Javadi, who's still nursing his bloody nose from Saul's knockout punch last week. He throws his wife's murder in Saul's face, who asks him why he did it, and he chalks it up to her being unfaithful, seemingly to get on Saul's nerves. Saul responds by showing him the picture of them from 30 years earlier, which Javadi has no real reaction to.
Carrie shows up at the crime scene to meet her local cop friend, but he won't get her off the hook with the detectives, who want to question her about Quinn. Carrie can't tell them anything, which makes them angry, but in the middle of her grilling she's suddenly attacked by a bout of nausea and has to go vomit in the bathroom (remember, she's pregnant!). Back with Javadi and Saul now, still talking as Saul confronts him with pictures of his other crime scenes. He brings up the CIA bombing Javadi's responsible for and tells him this is his way of changing things after that attack. He says Javadi's placed him in a position of power and tells him he can do the same for him if he goes back to Tehran (these conversations by the way, are long and fairly uninteresting, I'm sorry to say).
Carrie's cop buddy tells her to let them talk to Quinn since he can't help her out with this, and Carrie goes back to the safehouse to be confronted by an angry Fara, who doesn't want to send Javadi back to Iran and thinks they should try him in America instead. Carrie ignores her though, telling Saul and Quinn what the cops want and Quinn agrees to talk to them and admit to the murders himself, since they can't touch him anyway. Saul tells Carrie she has to escort Javadi back to his plane out of the country, which has to happen immediately before Saul has to confess about the operation to Lockhart, who wants an explanation for his absence. Before he sends him out, Saul asks Javadi who was responsible for the Langley bomb, and Javadi tells him it wasn't Brody, but one of Abu Nazir's guys. Saul seems to believe it (I actually forgot he thought it was Brody this whole time), and before he leaves to meet Lockhart he makes a last minute call to Mira. He calls to tell her he does love her and he does care that she had that boyfriend over, but as we see her on the other end, of course she's in bed with the guy and cautiously answers him with unease. Too late, Saul, too late.
Quinn shows up at the murder victim's house now to be questioned by the cops, as Javadi prepares to leave for his plane with Carrie. She gives him his cover story and last minute contact information, as he slowly walks by an upset Fara, who clutches a pair of scissors as he passes. Yeah, that was suspenseful. Saul shows up at Langley to meet an angry Adal, who wants in on his operation and is upset he's been stonewalled. Saul agrees to fill both him and Lockhart in on the details. As Carrie and Javadi drive, he tells her what Saul put her through is crueler than anything he's ever done (really dude, after we saw you kill our wife with a glass bottle?). Carrie calls him out on that, but Javadi reels her in by confirming to her that Brody didn't plant the bomb, that it was somebody else.
Quinn is questioned now by the detective in the most boring scene of the episode (and there's been some heavy competition for that tonight), as the guy pretty much just yells at him and Quinn can't tell him anything. The guy calls the CIA "shit" (twice) and elicits Quinn's "confession" to the murders. Quinn seems affected by his anti-CIA rant though, as the guy asks him if they've ever done anything except make things worse, and he looks doubtful about it himself.
Now we get Saul in his office as he tells Lockhart and Adal the details of everything that we, the audience already knows. Seriously, he essentially recaps the last few episodes and it takes about five minutes of screen time, admitting to the Javadi capture, the undercover op with Carrie, etc. and that he plans to use Javadi as a mole in the Iranian government. Lockhart is very upset and doesn't like being lied to. Back to Carrie and Javadi, still driving in another scene that's taking forever to unfold, as they're apparently still talking about Brody and the bomb, with Javadi teasing her with more information but Carrie witholding from asking the question, not wanting to trust him.
Back again, to Saul and Lockhart, as Saul continues to recap the events we just saw unfold. Lockhart gets more and more upset as he finds out Javadi is still in the country and currently on his way out by plane, and he threatens to call the president to keep Javadi here and fry him publicly. Saul defends his plan, but Lockhart tells him he sounds like he's "fucking high" (ok I admit it, I laughed at that) and tries to call the president from a room where Adal and Saul lock him in and shut off the lights, trapping him. He looks around to himself and wonders out loud "what the fuck," as he's all alone in the dark. My sentiments exactly, Senator.
Javadi and Carrie have finally made it to his plane now, and of course at the last second Carrie gives in and asks him about the bomb. Javadi tells her the guy who made the bomb is still in the country and that his lawyer, Bennett, knows who he is, and then he takes off. I have absolutely no idea why he would tell her any of this, unless he's lying, but I don't think we're supposed to think that- so I guess he's just inexplicably trustworthy about this.
Saul and Adal celebrate locking up the Senator and the plane's successful takeoff with drinks, so it looks like they're friends again, and then Carrie meets up with Quinn as he finishes up with his own phony interrogation. Quinn tells Carrie he's disillusioned about the CIA and all the damage they do, but Carrie just wants him to help her prove Brody's innocence now that Javadi's given her the intel. He sighs but agrees to do it, and the last scene of the night is Saul coming home to Mira and embracing her intimately, as she looks extremely wary about this reconciliation even though she hugs him back.
So that was it tonight and it was pretty darn uneventful, at least for me. I'm excited for Brody to come back in a couple of weeks, because at least he brings the promise of some real action with him (I think). As always, until next time!
