But I never got the sense that he was lying when he said how he felt about her - only about everything else surrounding their affair. He used her, misled her, or omitted bits of information from his various narratives. Brody was never a particularly likable or trustworthy guy, but he never conned Carrie about his feelings for her. Nazir would have died a thousand deaths to make this day happen.”Īs I’ve repeatedly said in these recaps, I always believed that (1) Brody truly loved Carrie, whose feelings for him were never in doubt, and (2) that their relationship was True North for viewers trying to figure out who and what to trust on Homeland. “What better way to get us to drop our guard? … It was always Walden with him.
“He played us all from the beginning …” “How, by letting himself get killed?” said Carrie. The “thwarted” plot to kill Walden in “ Two Hats” was, as I suspected, “a false climax … a chaotic distraction from some other, nastier plot that still gestating offscreen.” “It was Nazir who did this, it had to be,” Brody told Carrie as she held a gun on him in the explosion’s aftermath. His death last episode created a sense of complacency and set the stage for his posthumous checkmate of Walden and Estes, whose drone program killed his boy Issa years earlier. The explosion was the endpoint of a long con run by the late Abu Nazir. The scene of Carrie turning her beloved loose at the border had a mournful-grandiose Victor Hugo feel it was so haunting - especially the long close-up of Carrie’s face after he disappeared into the woods - that for a second I wanted to forgive the expedient plotting that got us there. In that formulation, Saul was Valjean now, in this drastically altered landscape, it’s Brody. The Brody bad guy/good guy flip was foreshadowed in Saul’s line ironically comparing Estes to Inspector Javert, the obsessed cop who pursued Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. “The strategy for season two, overall, was to get to that point where Carrie busted Brody and turned him against Abu Nazir, Gansa said, noting that while Season 1 had ended with Carrie being the only one who believed in Brody’s guilt, season two ended with her being the only one who believes in his innocence (at least so far as the attack on the CIA).”) (The morning after I posted this recap, the show’s executive producers, Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, said in a conference call with reporters that the season two finale was indeed meant to invert season one’s.
Rather than being constantly up to no good and trying to convince the world otherwise, he’s poised to become a Wronged Man figure, prowling the earth à la The Fugitive’s Richard Kimble in hopes of one day clearing his name, and helping out Carrie, Quinn, and Saul, who has taken over for the late David Estes. All in all, this episode felt like an inversion of last season’s finale, in which Brody was plotting a bomb attack against Walden but aborted it at the last second, and Carrie believed he was a terrorist and did all she could to expose/thwart/catch him.īrody’s narrative trajectory is now reversed. The killers framed Brody, hiding the explosives in his car, detonating them during the service, and releasing Brody’s suicide tape (which he recorded last season) after the fact, as “proof” that he did it. David Estes and the vice-president’s widow Cynthia are dead, along with 200 other people.
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The bomb that exploded at the memorial service * of Vice-President Bill Walden 40 minutes into “The Choice” rebooted the series through creative destruction. Photo: Kent Smith/Copyright: Showtime 2012