- An official inquiry brings Carrie back to the States, where she struggles with her ambivalence towards motherhood. Quinn spirals out of control. And a former case officer reveals disturbing new information.
- While conscience-wresting Quinn works out his frustration in a bar fight, landing him in jail for a night, heartless Carrie spends only one day actually caring for her baby daughter before dumping Brody's kid back on her unamused sister. Jordan Harris's secret, being archive-buried for trying to expose the illegal exchange of secrets, allows Carrie to blackmail careerist director Lockhart into returning her to the field, now as Islamabad section chief, to investigate. Dar Adal suggests Saul should seize the scandal to bid for the director seat again, but he prefers to remain in private security and accepts an offer from Carrie to modernize her new Pakistani post. Med student Aayan Ibrahim hides chemicals with his girl friend and is abusively intimidated by Taliban supporters.—KGF Vissers
- Lockhart recalls both Carrie and Quinn to the US for them to debrief him on the Islamabad drone strike and Sandy Bachman's murder, which they both witnessed, in preparation for Lockhart's appearance in front of a Congressional hearing on the issues. On the professional front, Carrie is gearing to be sent back to the region, specifically as the new Islamabad section chief to find out exactly what was going on with Sandy, much of his life which was unknown to his colleagues in Islamabad. Carrie and Quinn believe that an agent named Jordan Harris, who was seemingly demoted from a field position in Islamabad to a clerical job in Washington, may be the key to finding out about Sandy. What Lockhart has in mind for them beyond the debrief may be totally different. On the personal side, both Carrie and Quinn are not functioning well. Sandy's murder hit Quinn harder than he let on, and for emotional support he turns to the one person who is there for him. And while she is in Washington, Carrie knows that she has to face both her sister Maggie and her daughter Franny, who Maggie has temporarily put her own life on hold to take care of for Carrie while Carrie was stationed in a war zone. Carrie may find that being Mom may be more difficult than any of her professional obligations. Meanwhile, Saul gets wind that Lockhart's position as Director may be in jeopardy and that he may have an in for the job if he wants it. And in Islamabad, Aayan, the face of the wedding video, believes the whole world is watching him, while he just wants to be left alone. He will find out if his beliefs are true or if he is being paranoid.—Huggo
- It is "Two Days Later" and Sandy's body is being returned to the United States in a flag-draped coffin. Quinn and Carrie offer Sandy's widow their condolences inside the private CIA hanger.
Carrie pulls up to Maggie's house and is about to knock when she hears the baby crying. She tries to bail but just as she starts back to the car Maggie walks out onto the front porch with Frannie in her arms. Carrie is ambivalent about being a mother and doesn't seem interested in seeing her daughter.
Quinn sits alone by the pool at his apartment complex drinking straight out of a bottle of booze. He casually tosses the empty bottle into the pool. The attractive but notably overweight apartment complex manager comes out to quietly admonish him for his actions. He is extremely intoxicated, however the two end up in bed together.
A TV reporter approaches Pakistani medical student Aayan at his school. He doesn't want to speak, but answers that while what happened to his family was horrible, he thinks what happened to Sandy was also wrong. He leaves, but looks back from his room to see Rahim giving an interview. In his room Aayan fills a bag with dozens of racks of some kind of injection vials.
The next morning the woman Quinn slept with wakes up and sees him come out of the shower. She seems to expect this was a one-night stand and looks pleasantly surprised when Quinn asks her if she wants to get breakfast.
Maggie and Carrie have another debate about Frannie. Maggie's not happy Carrie is only home for a few days and is open about her feeling Carrie's not fulfilling her responsibilities as a parent.
CIA Director Lockhart (Tracy Letts) tells Carrie he wants her to join him for Senate hearings related to the bombing. He says she's back in the U.S. permanently as part of a measure of "accountability."
Quinn and the apartment manager go to a diner. Two men at a nearby table snicker and make comments about her weight. Quinn takes notice and confronts the pair, one of whom is particularly crude. Quinn snaps, slamming his head into the table and headbutting the other one unconscious. He turns his attention back to the first who is barely conscious, and is about to ram a napkin holder into the man's head when the apartment manager grabs his arm and tells him to stop. He stands immobile, seemingly shocked by what he's just done.
Interrupting her continuing confrontation with her sister, Carrie gets a phone call that Quinn is in jail and leaves home. Quinn put one of the men in the hospital but "playing the PTSD card,"she's able to get him released with just a fine.
Aayan is on a bus, clutching his bag of injectable medications. He goes to the home of his girlfriend/classmate Kiran (Shavani Cameron) who receives him warmly while her father, greatly annoyed the he is the nephew of the terrorist leader who was the target of the aerial bombing, does not. He tells her he thinks Rahim has ruined his life and then asks her to hold "some things" for him, and leaves the valise of medications with her.
Carrie goes to see Jordan Harris (Adam Godley), an Islamabad case officer who had worked under Sandy but was shipped home and stuck in the basement, without apparent reason,stuck with managing the CIA archives. Harris is adamant that he has no interest in talking to her.
Maggie is furious with Carrie that she left the nanny with Frannie to attend to work stuff. Maggie had to cancel on several patients so the babysitter could pick up her own kids. Carrie tells her that it won't be a problem going forward since she's home permanently.
Carrie spends the next day alone with Frannie. She brings her to Brody's old home. She holds the baby and cries, telling Frannie that since Brody's death she can't remember why she had her. While bathing Frannie Carrie appears to consider for a frightening moment the possibility of letting Frannie drown.
Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) tips Saul that people are growing dissatisfied with Lockhart. He thinks there's a chance Saul could get back in the mix and asks if he's interested. Saul says that "officially" he's enjoying the private sector.
With Frannie in the car Carrie waits for Harris in the parking lot. She jumps in his car and demands he talk, jamming the transmission into Park as he tries to drive off. He reluctantly tells her that Sandy wasn't responsible for his situation. Harris had flown to DC to report an intelligence leak to Lockhart in person and found himself ressigned to a paper-pushing job.
Carrie speaks with Saul briefly before Sandy's funeral. She walks over to Lockhart, draws him aside and tells him what she learned... he immediately deduces that she's been in contact with Harris, and fulminates a bit, denouncing the that foreign station: "It's not even a real country. It's a f**king acronym." She uses this information to extort him into putting her back in the field as Sandy's replacement.
Inside the church Carrie tells Saul she wants his company to help her with security when she gets to Pakistan. Carrie asks Quinn to join him in Islamabad. He refuses.
Carrie tells Maggie she's going back into the field. She claims it wasn't her call but Maggie doesn't buy it. They get in yet another fierce confrontation about Frannie, with Maggie demanding that Carrie at least have the courage to say good-bye to her daughter. Carrie goes up to Frannie's room and tells the infant "I'm sorry."
Quinn comes home to find a note on his door from the complex manager with whom he'd had sex. It reads "No one ever fought for me before," and is signed with a lipstick kiss. Quinn sits down and begins drinking again.
Two men break into Aayan's room in the middle of the night. They rough him up, take his laptop and warn him not to speak to the press.
The episode ends with Carrie alone on a CIA executive jet bound for Islamabad.
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