Homeland Season 7: ReCrossing Paths

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Smartest in the room?

As part of the negotiations to have the 200 intelligence inmates released, Saul agrees to become head of the NSA. It is not long until Saul is back to asking the smartest questions in the room and getting closest to the correct answers.

Saul does run into a problem as POTUS Keane demands that O’Keefe is captured. A mountain is created from a molehill and it leads to catastrophe at the Elkins compound.

Carrie and Saul finally meet up again. Carrie does the exact opposite of what Saul asks, even after telling him the whole story. Even after realizing the implications of her actions. She was played.

When Saul catches her going directly against his orders, Saul shows her no mercy and gives no quarter. Just a disgusted look that probably meant, get dressed, you look like a fool. He was already upset at the illegal operation.

Saul threatens Max with everything but death because of the way Max gathered data for Carrie. What Carrie had done was well beyond the scope of any law. Showing that information is the most valuable commodity, Saul then demands to know everything Max can find. It’s the “Carrie” in his character.

Blanks are being filled in as Max decodes the hard drives. There are plenty of reminders not to forget your history if you ever knew the truth in the first place. As history professor Sandy points out, some of the same mistakes made in the modern terrorism war were made during the Cold War. And all along, there is Russia, lurking, sowing dissent.

That by trying to always angle as a calm voice of nonpartisan reason she has had to that the positions of a dictator.