About a Boy (Homeland)
| "About a Boy" | |
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| Homeland episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Charlotte Sieling |
| Written by | Meredith Stiehm |
| Production code | 4WAH05 |
| Original air date | October 26, 2014 |
| Running time | 47 minutes |
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"About a Boy" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Homeland, and the 41st episode overall. It premiered on Showtime on October 26, 2014.
The morning after they sleep together, Aayan (Suraj Sharma) announces to Carrie (Claire Danes) that he's changed his mind and prepares to leave the safehouse. To get him to stay, Carrie has to warn him that both the CIA and ISI are actively hunting him. Later that day, Carrie conducts her first interview of Aayan. She delves into Aayan's relationship with his uncle, Haissam Haqqani. When Carrie floats the rumor that Haqqani is still alive, Aayan gets very disconcerted, maintaining that Haqqani is dead and that he saw the body himself.
En route to the United States, Saul (Mandy Patinkin) sees Farhad Ghazi at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. Following Ghazi into a bathroom, Saul is attacked by two other men and given an injection which renders him unconscious. Saul is taken out of the airport in a wheelchair. Ghazi phones Tasneem (Nimrat Kaur), telling her "It is done".
Carrie opens up to Aayan by telling him about her baby. She veils the truth by saying the baby's father was a fellow journalist who was killed when Carrie sent him on an assignment that was too dangerous. The two have sex again that night, during which Aayan notices Carrie starting to cry. Aayan worriedly asks if he's hurting her or doing something wrong, to which she covers her tears with a lie that he just makes her happy.
On a stakeout, Fara (Nazanin Boniadi) and Quinn (Rupert Friend) spot a cleric who had been seen accompanying Haissam Haqqani. They follow him to a checkpoint and are unable to go any further. Quinn calls Carrie in order to summon a drone to track the vehicle, but she doesn't answer her phone, causing them to give up the pursuit. A guard at the same checkpoint discovers Saul bound and gagged in the trunk of the cleric's car, but takes no action and just waves them through. Fara and Quinn are unaware that Saul is bundled up in the back of a car just meters ahead of them.
Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) breaks into Carrie's apartment using a key given to him by Tasneem. He takes photographs of various items, including Carrie's family photos and her medication bottles.
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