It's that Homeland time of year again

[Hassled]

It feels so long ago that poor Weaselly Quinn met his maker that I had to Wiki what happened last season. We were left with an easily-led Madame President, an assassination plot, Saul in prison, Quinn dead in a Jeep and Carrie's distraught face working on overtime.

But it's back! Feb 11th US which I reckon means Feb 18th UK (although last year Channel 4 didn't tell us till about a minute before kick-off, despite my pathetic emailing). . Yay!

So for the 2nd consecutive episode we are left wondering if Dante is dead.

Or is he definitely this time, due to pillow talk...?

How did Benny from Abba just stroll into Dantes room and sit down? Surely the guard would have clocked him closing the blinds and not appearing back out.
Do you think the men in white coats will be coming for Carrie?
I think we can agree that she won't be getting poor Frannie back .
Btw Virgil has joined the LAPD, I saw him in Bosch the other night.

It does slightly stretch credibility that there would be no constant guard / nursing presence in his room. But hey!

ZilphasHatpin just to remind you. Goes off to google what he's been in recently.

So is Dante dead, the monitor he was attached to at the end had no readings. Was strange there was no guard outside his room. So if he can't obviously evidence that totally messes things up??
Love Saul but have to put subtitles on when he speaks!
That brought back memories of poor Brodie, I honestly had nightmares about that.

*give evidence

Dante's death could have been one of Carrie's hallucinations?

Not only improbable that there was no guard on the room, also highly unlikely that Yevgeny would have given Dante his phone to call Carrie - opening himself up to huge risk - and that his phone would have been in the room anyway.

The phone was a burner though wasn’t it? He had thrown his own out the car window when the financial advisor guy called him on it from an open line when the fbi came for him. Then he got one from his friend in the car before he shot him in the stomach

I'm late to this, got a lot of reading to do!

It was Dante 's phone he called Carrie on though - it came up on her phone as Dante. So you have a guy in FBI custody, without a guard on the door or in the room, who has his own phone with him? Nah - not buying it.

Oh of course it was Dante’s phone!

it really is hard to believe there was no guard on the door...of all the people to leave ungaurded after Simone was taken from th safe house

Yep - very careless of the FBI/CIA to lose both their main suspects due to insufficient security.

Welshcake - you're right; that was bloody hard to believe. Yevgeny probably didn't even need to shoot Benny from Abba (thanks, Cocolepew) - he could have just swiped any random HCA's card and strolled in. You increasingly need to suspend disbelief with Homeland and think of it as magic realism or summat.

Omg that was SO EXCITING! I right rofled when Edward from The Americans was called the UI. Which is what Boris called Corbyn. Maybe Boris does read some papers after all

Hmm maybe the fbi gave Dante a burner phone to use in case he remembered any useful Russian info/play Snake on - rather than it being his actual phone. I'm going with that or else I'll not be able to enjoy the rest of the series!

Hmm maybe the fbi gave Dante a burner phone to use in case he remembered any useful Russian info/play Snake on - rather than it being his actual phone. I'm going with that or else I'll not be able to enjoy the rest of the series!

Carefully programmed with Carrie's number? I'm thinking there's something dodgy about that whole scene. Perhaps the entire episode was in Carrie's head.

Ygevney will have had some reason to get Dante to call Carrie. He was there to kill or remove Dante. Why alert Carrie to his presence before doing either of those things? Why get Carrie to ‘put the hospital on lockdown ‘? He has lured her there.

Yes auntie so he could call.her with any info

Amazing episode

I thought the UI was a Russian spy after his visit to Simone. How wrong was I?!

Also got the weird feeling about the bil.

Maybe it's as simple as BIL doesn't like Carrie. Her total lack of mothering skills and instinct has a has a pretty big impact on his life and particularly his wife.

@Octave777 Me too. On both counts.

How did Franny manage to run out of school and into the car park? My children's school has a high-up button that you have to press to open the door, and given that US schools are always on the alert for mass shooters I'm sure they'd have even more security.

Also why did Dante tell Carrie that Yevgeny was there. Could he have played along with Yevgeny so he didn't get smothered? (Maybe one episode we'll have a terrorist not being able to go through with their evil plans because the police pull them over for using their mobile phone at the wheel).

ha, yes i kept expecting him to be stopped for using a phone when driving!

Times 2 today has an interview with Mandy Patankin, which includes plot speculation.