"Halfway to a Donut" | |
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Homeland episode | |
Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 8 |
Directed by | Alex Graves |
Written by | Chip Johannessen |
Production code | 4WAH08 |
Original air date | November 16, 2014 |
Running time | 49 minutes |
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"Halfway to a Donut" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Homeland, and the 44th episode overall. It premiered on Showtime on November 16, 2014.
Carrie (Claire Danes) wakes up in Aasar Khan's house (Raza Jaffrey) with no memory of how she got there. She correctly suspects that she was poisoned by means of her medicine, but Khan denies involvement.
In a live video, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) pleads that his country must not negotiate with terrorists. Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar) appears and announces a list of prisoners that he wishes to be released. While Saul is taken back to his cell, he secretly grabs a nail. Being left alone, he uses the nail to free himself from the handcuffs, and pretends to hang himself. When a guard comes to rescue him, he kills the guard, flees, and calls Carrie. Quinn (Rupert Friend) guides Saul to a shop in Makeen where a CIA asset gives him refuge. Saul makes Carrie promise that, if Saul is recaptured, Carrie will kill him and the terrorists together using an airstrike.
Immediately before a meeting between the Americans and the Pakistanis, Khan notices Tasneem (Nimrat Kaur) talking to Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) and passing him a note. During the meeting, Carrie is confused by the Pakistanis' sense of confidence, seeing that Saul got away. She suddenly realizes that the Pakistani military can simply detect the flying drone that is watching over Saul, and give Haqqani those coordinates. As she rushes to the operations room, the Taliban surround the town. To her dismay, they open fire on the extraction team, a disguised van with U.S. Special Forces soldiers. The van is outnumbered and forced to turn back.
Saul, feeling that he is surrounded, prepares to shoot himself. Carrie lies saying that there is another path. She directs Saul out of a building and into a group of Taliban, where he is recaptured. Saul screams and curses at Carrie, realizing that she lied. Faced with such a scene, Lockhart (Tracy Letts) declares that the United States is accepting Haqqani's terms for the prisoner exchange.