05x03 - Super Powers

[bunniefuu]

Saul: Previously on Homeland...

Holy sh*t, it's the CIA.

Mills: He's attacking us.

Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down!

Saul: We've had a data breach in Berlin.

Laura: I got an e-mail today from a hacker.

It turned out to be a top secret document.

Who was the source of the leak?

I have no idea.

And I will respect their trust whatever happens to me.

She's asking for the rest of it.

Korzenik: You send that, it'll be intercepted, traced back to us.

I had a meeting with the BND top brass.

Giving you 24 hours to leave the country.

But the Germans want a head on a spike.

So give them Saul's.

Welcome to Beirut.

It's good.

Shame I can't tempt you.

I'm nine months sober tomorrow.

Carrie: Hezbollah is cooperating.

Well, the situation on the ground is unpredictable, to say the least.

Get into cover. Get into cover.

(g*nf*re)

Look.

It was the CIA woman.

She was the target.

Six hours he was questioned.

Whoever paid him, he was more afraid of them than dying.

Someone wants you dead.

Saul: I want to be sure you understand.

All you get is that key, your next target in the box and operating money waiting there when you bring back proof-of-death.

Quinn: Put the names in the box.

I'll take care of anyone you put there.

(Woman speaking German)

Carrie: Christ, I really thought I left all this behind.

Male reporter: The Islamic State !sis proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with authority over...

...redraw the map in the Middle East.

Female reporter: The soldiers are hackers, the b*ttlefield is online, and it's not a matter of...

Edward Snowden is a coward.

...extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this step.

Laura: It's against the law, it's against the f*cking law.

Carrie: All that suffering, and nothing changes.

Crocker: Is our strategy working?

(Woman speaking German)

(Man speaking foreign language)

Saul: I actually convinced myself we were gonna change the world.

Quinn: Carrie will never be free.

Carrie: Spend my life on the run, give up my daughter?

Jonas: I don't know how you live with yourself.

Al-Amin: I will fight you forever.

Carrie: Who's after me?

Jonas: So many people, so much blood on your hands.

Homeland - 5x03
"Super Powers"

I don't know if I can put her on that plane tomorrow.

Why not go with her?

If I do that, she's no safer than she is here.

Christ, I really thought I left all this behind.

Once she's back in the States, I'll be able to think more clearly and figure this out.

What if that guy in Lebanon was lying?

Have you considered that?

What if nobody's after you?

He wasn't lying.

How do you know?

Not here.

(Door closes)

You've been holed up for four days, barely eating or sleeping, hardly saying a word.

You need to talk to me.

He was tortured, okay?

He finally admitted I was the target, but he was too scared to say who hired him.

I don't understand.

How does... how does that make him reliable?

He had two secrets-- one he could tell, one he was willing to die for.

And did he?

Die?

Yeah, he was ex*cuted.

He was sh*t in the face point-blank.

That's what makes me believe him.

Jesus.

You wanted to know.

Hi.

Hi.

Mr. Berenson.

Herr Düring.

Can Erna bring you anything?

Water, coffee, something?

No, thank you.

It's not every day I'm visited by a high-ranking officer of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It's not every day a leading German industrialist is the target of an assassination attempt.

Mmm.

I run a foundation, consider myself a philanthropist.

Have a seat.

And yet your company is thriving by all accounts.

(Chuckles) That's true.

The steel business is experiencing an unexpected upturn.

Any idea why someone would want to k*ll you in Lebanon?

None.

Might it be related to your Chief of Security meeting with a representative of Hezbollah the day you arrived there?

You'd have to ask her.

I don't know where she is, that's why I'm asking you.

I told you.

I don't know.

Wouldn't be the first time your family has collaborated with those on the wrong side of history.

(Sighs)

Mr. Berenson, it's hardly a secret my grandfather was a big-time n*zi.

I've devoted my whole life to atoning for that fact.

Your foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to Muslim charities all over Europe.

Also not a secret.

I don't have to tell you-- there are many points at which social and t*rror1st causes cannot help meeting.

Not in our case.

We account for every cent.

I take personal responsibility for that.

Maybe you don't consider Hezbollah a t*rror1st organization.

Is that a question?

Yeah, it is-- do you or don't you?

I deplore v*olence of any kind, but one must always distinguish between legitimate revolt against occupation and outright terrorism.

Is f*ring rockets against civilian targets legitimate, in your opinion?

I won't be put on the defensive just because you have managed to turn the conversation towards Israel.

Actually, I was curious what you think.

What I think is-- nothing has made the world more dangerous in the last 15 years than the foreign policy of the United States.

I'm not a statesman, Herr Düring.

I'm a spy.

Well, you are all great humanitarians, you Americans, when someone else is on trial.

I didn't come here to put anyone on trial.

I came here to find out where Carrie Mathison is.

I can't help you with that.

You can't or you won't?

I don't track her movements.

As far as I know, she's taking some time off after what happened.

It's imperative I speak with her.

She doesn't work for you anymore.

I know how frustrating that must be.

She's a remarkable person.

(Sighs)

♪♪

Mommy?

Hey, honey.

Hi.

So we should go.

It's time for your big adventure.

♪♪

I was just starting to worry.

We stopped for ice cream.

And then for a doughnut.

Yay!

Franny: Lenya!

(Lenya laughs)

Well, she seems fine.

She is, I'm the one that's a basket case.

Did you talk to my sister?

Yeah, I did.

I explained everything.

She's meeting the jet at Davis Airfield in Manassas.

She sends her love.

I don't know how to thank you.

Just get to the bottom of this.

And then come back to work.

I will, believe me.

Saul Berenson paid me a visit this morning.

He did?

What did he want?

To talk to you.

And to put the fear of God into me.

I told him nothing.

I'm sorry you had to lie for me, Otto.

It wasn't that hard.

I didn't like him much.

He seems like a man too used to getting his way.

Yeah.

Well, he is now.

He wasn't like that before.

Well, come on then.

It's time to say good-bye.

(Indistinct chattering, laughing)

Jonas: Franny-lein, I'm gonna miss you.

So Lenya's gonna be with you the whole way.

And then you're gonna get to see your Aunt Maggie and your cousins, Ruby and Josie, okay?

Come on, give your mommy a big kiss.

I love you, I love you, I love you...

So sehr, so, so sehr.

Thank you, Lenya.

You'll never know how much I appreciate this.

No problem.

We'll be fine.

Try not to worry.

(Sobs)

The worst day of my life was, uh, saying good-bye to my kids, moving out of the house.

You see them every other weekend.

You're gonna see Franny again soon.

Hey, of course you are.

You know what, I'd rather not talk about it.

I'm just trying to be helpful.

Well, you're not helping.

You are not letting me.

Is that right?

That is right.

Because you don't know the first thing about it, about any of it.

And whose fault is that?

If you don't want me to know what's going on, then don't get mad at me for not knowing what's going on.

I'm not a brain reader.

(Chuckles)

Or a mind reader either.

That, too.

Look, I know I haven't been myself the last few days.

You were in hiding, you just put your daughter on a plane.

I get it.

It's more than that.

What do you mean?

Maybe there is a way that you can help.

That I can see this better. I...

It would be asking a lot of you.

Tell me.

Listen, I'm starving.

Can we find a place to eat and talk about it there?

(Birds chirping, ducks quacking)

So... (Exhales) So... Um... You know I'm bipolar.

(Sighs) Yeah.

And that I take lithium.

Which is good for me.

It keeps me... safe and sane.

(Exhales)

What you don't know is what I'm like off of the medication.

No.

Well...

It can be scary as hell.

But also exhilarating.

(Laughing): I mean, you feel...

You feel elated.

You feel like you're flying down a ski slope with no chance of falling.

Ah, anybody would miss that.

Until you don't.

Until... you do fall.

Because you can't avoid falling; I've learned that.

You sure you want to hear about this?

You sure you'll still like me in the morning?

I love you.

(Footsteps approaching)

(Clears throat)

Danke.

The point is that the meds have saved my life.

Literally.

But something is lost, too.

The elation.

It's more than that.

There's this... this window, when you've got all that crazy energy but you're still lucid, you're still making sense.

And that's always when I did my best work.

Mm-hmm.

I took down a major insurgent network in Iraq.

I stopped an att*ck on the State Department in DC.

You want to go off your meds now?

Is that what you're saying?

To figure this out?

No.

No?

I've already gone off them.

Three days ago.

What have you got?

Tell me Carrie showed up for work this morning.

No such luck.

She hasn't been near the place for five days.

Not since she got back from Beirut.

Can we jack into the cameras inside the building?

Hi-tech firewall.

Thanks to her, no doubt.

Um, Laura Sutton is on her e-mail.

What did Düring say?

That he doesn't know where she is, either.

He's got seven residences in Germany alone.

No sign of Carrie at any of them.

We need to talk.

I've known Dar Adal for 30 years.

You don't think he's gonna pick up the phone, tell me that my Berlin Station Chief is looking to put a Kn*fe in my back?

Saul, listen to me...

Don't say a f*cking word.

I was desperate to save my job...

Oh, bullshit!

You were cold and calculating.

You bet on his ego and our rivalry, hoping that'd be enough to take me down.

You couldn't be more wrong.

Stop it.

Know what the worst part is?

You came up short, Allison.

If you aim to k*ll, don't miss.

Have I taught you nothing?

You taught me everything.

I treated you like an elite intelligence officer.

So start f*cking behaving like one.

Okay.

So when do you want me gone?

You're not going anywhere.

What?

You heard me.

Can't afford a shake-up right now.

Not with Carrie in the wind.

Not with what we got in the pipeline.

I-I don't understand.

So-so who's going under the bus to make it nice with the Germans?

I'm working on it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Saul.

Yeah.

You don't deserve it.

(Door opens)

(Footsteps receding)

(Sighs)

I can monitor myself; I've done it before.

But now that you're willing to help, I can push the boundaries a little bit.

Fly a little higher.

Okay.

Look, I know it sounds sketchy, but together, we can do this without a doubt.

Tell me warning signs again.

What to look for.

Um...

Incoherence, mostly.

I'm talking too fast, keep losing my train of thought.

If you're having trouble understanding me.

Or if I get belligerent or abusive.

(Laughs)

Abusive?

Well, I mean... not physically, but yeah.

It can get ugly sometimes.

Okay. And-and that's when I give you the pills?

That's when you give me the pills.

I'm not a doctor or a psychiatrist.

You'll know when it's time, believe me.

You should have told me before you went off the dr*gs.

I know.

I'm sorry.

What if there is an emergency?

We are out here in the middle of nowhere.

There won't be.

The sedative is fast-acting; it'll bring me back down to earth.

Then the lithium will kick in.

Tell me there is not another way to do this.

I'm sure there is, just... not for me.

It's a time line.

See? Beirut was my first tour, Baghdad my second. Didn't end so well.

Uh, then I was back at Langley for the next couple years.

And the plan is...?

Make an enemies list.

Who might want me dead, who had the means and opportunity to pull it off.

(Exhales) And where do we start?

At the beginning.

♪♪

(speaking German)

(Laughs)

Surprise.

I'll say.

You on a job?

What do you think?

Who's the guy?

A friend.

Yeah, right.

So what went down in Lebanon?

Otto Düring was in the sh*t and your girlfriend got him out.

She save him?

No question.

Any idea where she is now?

No.

And a lot of people are looking for her.

Including me.

Yeah?

Why?

Can't say.

I'm pretty sure she's back in Germany.

Okay.

I need to get ahold of a stingray.

I can get one.

Tomorrow?

The day after?

Good.

You want to get out of here?

(Laughs)

Ooh...

Uh, you can't do this, Peter.

It's Berlin.

Yeah, I know where we are.

I live here.

Can't just appear and interrupt my life, not like when we're in some odd city.

Handheld stingray, if you can swing it.

(Carrie moans in pleasure)

(Panting, moaning)

Did I mention the sex is better, too?

(Both laughing)

♪♪

(fire alarm ringing)

Boss.

What's happening?

Gregor: Fire alarm.

Allison: Where's Laura?

Don't see her yet.

Get our team out on the street now.

And tell them to keep an eye out for Carrie Mathison.

This could be how she makes contact.

(Sighs)

(Alarm continues ringing)

(Low chatter)

♪♪

Allison: Don't tell me they lost her.

Do you see the subject?

Do not tell me they lost her.

Any sign of Carrie?

Nothing.

f*ck.

(Sighs)

(Announcement over PA In German)

Are you who I think you are?

Ballsy move.

That alarm.

I was there, that day, when the BND picked you up.

What did you tell them?

That they were assholes.

Did they ask about me?

Do they know my name?

I don't know your name.

But are they after me?

Of course they are.

But you're smart.

And tricky.

And I'll protect you.

How can you be sure?

Look, you came to me, right?

Yes.

You must've had a reason.

I've read your stuff.

I'm a fan.

Thought I could trust you.

What's your name?

Call me Numan.

Well, Numan, I'm a fan of yours, too.

I have the rest of the documents.

I'll vet them, get them out.

Just like last time.

Don't you get scared?

Yeah, I guess, but what can I do?

Go home to America.

I have two warrants out for my arrest there.

I can't go back home, either.

To Turkey?

I'm guessing.

Yeah.

Thank you.

You're doing the right thing.

I hope so.

I'd better go.

How can I reach you?

You can't.

Is that really necessary?

Hey, I'm not the one who crashed last night.

But I made some good progress after you went to bed.

We can move on to Baghdad today.

I meant does it have to go up your nose?

I mean, caffeine is caffeine.

I could make you a really strong cup of coffee.

This gets me there faster.

(Numbers dialing)

(Line ringing)

Jonas, it's me again.

I've got something urgent. Where are you?

(High-pitched laughing)

You little fucker.

Dude, where have you been?

Meeting someone.

You got a girlfriend?

About f*cking time.

It was Laura Sutton.

I gave her the documents.

What?

You heard me.

So I don't want any more crap about selling them to the highest bidder or whatever.

It's done.

You just decided for the both of us, huh?

Yeah, I did.

What an assh*le.

Korzenik, it was the right thing to do.

Was it?

You're a fool, Numan.

You don't even know what a fool you are.

Ibrahim Hasan-- b*mb maker for Abu Nazir.

What about him?

I said I'd help his family in exchange for some sensitive information.

And I couldn't make it happen.

So it might be payback for a broken promise?

No, he's dead, but he had a son, Bassam.

Be 18 now.

Okay, checking.

Wait a minute, I know this story.

This is where you got kicked out of Iraq for bribing a guard at Khadimayah Prison.

How did you know about that?

Who do you think background-checked you for Otto?

(Chuckles)

Really?

I know all kinds of things about you, Carrie Mathison.

Oh.

Well, I got hired, didn't I?

(Clicks tongue) Barely.

Nothing on the son.

But the wife Sanaa blew herself up at a checkpoint in Mualameen, k*lling three American soldiers, wounding seven others.

Keep Bassam on the list.

Mm-hmm.

Next.

Man: Bad business down in Lebanon.

It's only gonna get worse.

Well, maybe you can explain exactly how it fits together.

How what fits together?

Carrie Mathison was the one handling security, right?

Right.

Where she met with Waleed Mer-Khamis, my sources on the ground tell me.

I wouldn't know.

Come on, Saul.

Your protégé, your golden child.

No one believes for a minute she's not still Agency.

You can believe what you want.

The thing is, Waleed is Hezbollah.

Is America making common cause with Syria and Iran?

We are not and if we were, Israel would be the first to know.

We're old friends, Saul, so you should know something.

My government will actively oppose any plans for regime change in Damascus.

First you accuse me of cozying up to the enemy.

Now I'm secretly planning a coup in Syria.

Getting rid of Bashar Al-Assad is not a bad idea in itself.

The danger is, uh, replacing him with someone worse than the original.

I'm telling you that option is not on the table.

Truly?

We're out of the business of overthrowing Arab dictators, Etai.

We have learned our lesson.

Man: Saul?

Mr. Ambassador.

I need to talk to you.

Excuse us, Etai.

Yes, of course.

I'm being recalled.

I heard.

You didn't hear, Saul.

You f*cking engineered it.

I presented the administration with a set of choices.

Well, just how dumb do you think I am?

You circled the wagons around your own people.

That's Allison's station.

It's her responsibility.

She's the one that should pay for it.

Well, Allison's a career intelligence officer.

What's your point?

You own a string of GM dealerships in Texas and Arkansas.

Well, I'm not going back.

I was promised four years here.

I spent a small fortune setting up my household.

All right, take it up with the State Department.

It's the President who owes me.

Well, not as much as you think he does, apparently.

You do throw a mean party, Scott.

I'll give you that.

Please say good-bye to Anne for me.

(Door opens)

Where'd you get this?

Freedom of Information Act.

There are hundreds of names here.

167.

All civilians.

According to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, yeah.

k*lled by drones.

Also m*ssile strikes and ground ops during my time as Station Chief in Kabul.

Um, so, let's cross-check the surnames and see if anybody from any of these families left to go fight jihad in Syria.

Yeah.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

You're tired. You could use a break.

I'm fine.

Well, we've been at it almost 14 hours.

If you need a break, just say so...

Hey, I don't need a break!

Something is wrong.

Maybe I... I'm gonna step outside for a minute.

You're appalled.

No, I just need some air.

No, you are-- you're appalled!

You think I'm appalling.

Leave it alone, Carrie.

What then?!

What, loathsome?

Repulsive? What, a w*r criminal?

Say something for God's sake!

(Door opens)

Jonas, don't!

This is not me anymore!

None of it!

I don't know how you live with yourself.

(Door opens)

(Door closes)

(Car engine starts up)

(Sighs)

(Breathing deeply)

(Huffs)

(Gasps)

f*ck it.

(Breathing deeply)

(Opens bottle)

Ah.

Aayan: So much for self-control, huh?

Over here.

Hey, Carrie.

(Indistinct chatter)

You are satisfied?

Yes, yes. Good night.

You're at the embassy, right?

Russian embassy?

What are you trying to do?

Nothing.

Huh?

You thr*aten me?

No.

Blackmail?

No.

There's a business opportunity for you.

Business?

You are a little street rat.

Something for sale.

Documents.

Top secret.

American.

Go on.

You, you are a loose end, you m*therf*cker.

You, I'd go back for in a heartbeat.

Chase you down, f*ck you up, drop fire on your head.

You hear that, assh*le?

Turn you into f*cking smoke.

Aayan: It wasn't him.

He didn't do it.

He doesn't even remember you.

You're nothing to him anymore.

Not even a name.

Aayan.

Who the hell is Aayan?

Aayan is done.

Aayan's... dust.

What do you want?

What do I want?

Go on, ask me.

I know you're dying to.

(Faintly): Who is it?

Who's after me?

Come closer, I'll whisper in your ear.

(Whispering indistinctly)

♪♪

(speaking in German)

Quinn: Polizei.

(Speaks in German)

(Speaking German)

Shut the f*ck up.

(Engine revs)

Carrie?

You hungry?

I figured it out.

What?

I did, yeah.

I figured it out.

It's all of them.

What do you mean?

They're the... the sum of my sins.

Each... each a dot on a-a canvas.

Avenging angels.

Carrie...

No, angels aren't all good, you know?

Sometimes... sometimes they come to punish, to tell you it's... it's too much, the damage.

So it doesn't matter if it's Haqqani or, you know, Nazir's people or Hasam's son.

Whoever it is does it for them all.

And it's... and it's right.

It's... it's-it's righteous.

Okay, okay, come on.

I mean, you can't... you can't atone...

Let's get you up...

...for that much blood, for that many souls.

It's futile, absolution is not available.

The angels are telling us that.

Here, sit down.

Do you understand?

Yes, I understand.

I'll be right back.

Is there a church nearby?

Uh, in the next village.

I need to see a priest.

Uh, you-you have to take these first.

Now.

Hey, hey.

You have to take these first.

No.

Come on.

Why?

You think I'm crazy?!

No, no, that was...

No, no, no! I am crystal f*cking clear.

I don't think you're crazy.

I think... I think you solved this thing so it's time to go back on your meds, okay?

(Scoffs)

I'm not a moron.

Nobody said you were.

You don't think I know what you're doing?

No, no! No!

I know exactly what you're doing.

I just want you to take your pills like we agreed.

"Like we agreed."

Yeah, we did.

So patient, so reasonable.

Jesus.

Don't you ever get tired of that Clark Kent routine?

Boring, boring, boring.

You know what, f*ck you.

You can either take these yourself...

Or what?!

What, you're gonna shove 'em down my throat?

No, I'm calling an ambulance.

You can't do that.

You know you can't do that.

They'll find us.

Yeah, watch me.

Take the pills right now, or I start dialing.

How about f*cking the bad girl instead?

Take the g*dd*mn pills!

(Scoffs)

You're a lousy lay anyway.

Show me.

I said show me.

Thank you.

Aw...

Poor little Jonas.

(Laughing): Bet you never had a girlfriend like me before.

Why don't you stop talking now?

Why? Why? You sick of hearing my voice?

As a matter of fact, yes.

Yeah, that's better.

That's good. Get mad. I like it better when you're mad.

At least I know you're alive. At least I know you have a f*cking pulse!

Come on.

(Phone ringing, buzzing)

Don't answer. Don't answer it.

It's the burner phone.

It's my ex.

Yeah.

(Speaking German)

Was?

(Speaking German)

Oh, my God.

(Speaking German)

(Jonas speaking German)

(Speaking German)

Jonas: Okay, um... okay...

(Speaking German)

(Jana speaking German)

Ja, ja, ja, ja.

What's going on?

Steffan's been arrested.

For what?

I don't know. Shoplifting.

(Speaking German)

(Door shuts)

(Engine starts)

(Speaking German)

Gut.

Okay. Gut. Danke.

Well, that's weird.

What?

Um, the police have no record of him at any precinct in Berlin.

That's because he's not in police custody.

What are you talking about?

sh*t, we have to go. We have to go right now.

They're already on their way.

Who?

Who is?

Steffan's arrest was staged to generate that call to you. We're blown.

Are you saying these people have Steffan?

No, I am saying that whoever is trying to k*ll me is coming here!

Do they have Steffan or not?

Steffan will be fine, trust me.

How do you know that?

You don't know. You don't know that.

We have to get back to Berlin.

No. No, no, no, no, Jonas.

Jonas, listen to me, okay? They won't hurt him.

He's just a pawn.

Just a pawn?

Are you f*cking kidding me?! He's my son!

(Panting)

Jonas: Carrie!

Come back!

(Panting)

I'm not chasing you!

Carrie, g*dd*mn it! Where are you?!

(Engine starts)

(Click)

The Ambassador's on his way home.

Not a happy camper.

The Germans, however, are appeased.

Yes, they are.

For the time being, at least.

And Allison Carr?

What about her?

Do we put an official reprimand in her file?

Well, she did wander outside the lines.

Way outside.

I have a different interpretation.

Which is?

She misplayed badly.

In the end got us to the correct decision.

Well, well, you're in a forgiving mood today.

Plus, I need her for the weekend.

Assuming we're still on.

In fact, that's why I'm calling.

Don't tell me. Cold feet.

I f*cking knew it.

Actually, the opposite.

What?

And just when you thought we'd lost our operational balls.

We have a green light?

We have a green light.

However, I did neglect to mention your conversation with Etai Luskin.

I'm sure you did.

How detailed is their intelligence, do you think?

They know Assad's in the crosshairs.

They know we have a likely candidate to replace him.

Screw 'em.

As long as they don't know the who and the when.

They don't.

They got back on her when she returned to her apartment... but they didn't have eyes-on for over two hours.

Two hours.

Can you believe that?

And these are supposed to be professionals.

For all we know, it's when she met with Carrie.

And that's just the sh*t that happened before lunch.

I thought my head was gonna explode.

I took a Xanax.

Yeah?

I hope you don't mind if we just go to sleep tonight.

Not at all.

I'm tired, too.

(Sighs)

(Crickets chirping)

(Rustling)

(Car door shuts)

♪♪

(panting)

♪♪♪♪

(Gasps)

(Groans softly)

m*therf*cker.