Out of everyone, Sauls the only one making level-headed, rational,believablechoices.
Yes,Homelands always required some suspension of disbelief, but this episode pushed it to the extreme.
I guess youcouldgive an explanation for each of these circumstances if you do some mental gymnastics.
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Maybe Wellington has been blinded by love of Simone.
Maybe Keane was too focused on Lucasville to worry about Wellington.
Maybe Krupin had more faith in his countrymen than he should have.
Or maybe Im like Carrie, unwilling to accept the story unfolding before my eyes.
(Max, you may join Saul in the Rational Corner.)
But Carrie just cant help herself.
Simone immediately plays defense, and Wellington believes her, but Carrie cant stop pacing around in her bedroom.
She decides to call Janet from Paleys office and asks to be allowed into Simones session.
Janet and Paley question Simone, but Simone stays silent, letting her lawyer speak for her.
Paley, of course, already thinks that anonymous official must be Wellington, but Simone doesnt budge.
(She does, however, let slip that her contact is a man.)
Carrie backs down after that but only so much.
With no one left to turn to, Carrie (finally!)
She catches him up on everything thats happened so far, and Saul immediately notices the patterns.
She was in a vulnerable place and now shes more vulnerable than ever.
But Saul advises her to take a breath.
She agrees…sort of.
Besides, Sauls being careful, keeping his suspicions to only himself and his two partners.
Krupin, on the other hand, goes too far.
An online front, that is, with Wellington being the next casualty.
That encounter, though, spreads like a virus, as Saul learns roughly an hour later.
By then, the video has made rounds online and become national news.
Not that Saul has any evidence just yet.
But when Saul goes to meet Krupin that night, his old friend is nowhere to be found.
Its a cruel move on Gromovs part and a flawed one.
Why couldnt Gromov simply convince Krupin another way not to divulge anything to Saul?
And Saul may soon have Carrie on his team.
Though his former mentee had agreed to take things easy, shes come up with a plan.
But when they do head to his apartment Im assuming thats his apartment?
that night, he ends up feeling faint and collapses on the couch shortly after they start making out.
Someone drugged him just enough at the bar for him to make it home and pass out.
And Carrie, acting quickly, has the rest of her team come in and sweep Dantes place.
She sits and watches him warily while Max looks on and the episode ends there.
So,isDante a double agent?
Why didnt he play ball with Senator Paley the first time they met?
And is itthatmuch of a stretch for two former colleagues to run into each other in D.C.?
After everything shes done, maybe what Carrie really needs is a little jail time.
