re: Homeland

Here's my outlandish prediction


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- Jalal does not die in the strike but uses it as fuel to flame the nuclear war between Pakistan and the US. Add in bandages on his face and body for dramatic effect as he saws someone's head off

- Carrie confronts Saul with a cry face but they ultimately work a plan out where Saul lives out the rest of his years in Israel with the estranged wife

- Yevgeny's feelings for Carrie finally do him in and he agrees to a deal that gets him what he wants but doesn't work out in the end as Carrie attempts to sacrifice herself to save the asset and Saul. Jenna Bragg shows up to get Carrie to safety at the last possible moment.

- David Wellington suicides Zabel (Wishful Thinking)

- The President finally has a nervous breakdown and uses racial slurs on TV

- The Americans finally get the black box but Russia has pulled a bait and switch and there is no data on it. Maybe it's 10 hours of Rick Astley.

- Nuclear war starts

- Carrie somehow survives until the end of the episode and is chasing a lead to get to Yevgeny in Moscow before time runs out

- Carrie finally thinks she has him and calmly walks into the Kremlin to find that Saul has been captured and tortured

- Jenna Bragg is a double agent and Moscow's plan B and kills Carrie as the credits roll and someone pushes a big red button to send a nuke.

Bonus prediction: Saul is wearing flannel and has worked out a deal with Moscow to be a lumberjack in the end. (This is Showtime, remember)

Bonus prediction 2: The source in Russia is not the lady but is actually Yevgeny who was a student who survived in the 80's.

Well, since you're going the absurd route in reference to Showtime, it will need to include some gender angle.

Carrie definitely has a dick at the end, and Yevgeny and Carruce Jenner live happily ever after.

It feels like season 1 was ten years ago...oh wait..

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But why do they need the black box anyway

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This is what I keep asking myself. Why is Carrie willing to go to such extreme measures to reveal what's said on the blackbox. It changes absolutely nothing for all parties involved.

1. Jalal deserves a drone to the dome (which I hope he got).
2. We flexed our muscle and took out the terrorist organization that car bombed our men.
3. Pakistan relations are repaired.


Not to mention, a Taliban rocket launcher did take down the 2nd helicopter escorting the President. I feel like everyone on the show has overlooked this very important fact. And we know damn well they would have taken down the President's helicopter as well if given the opportunity.

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I didn't see where the secret notes were still there, just the space between the binder and cover.

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This is correct. But how in TF would Carrie reasonably conclude that that was the way Saul was communicating with his Russian asset . A space in the binder cover was the light bulb moment though. Lol gtfo.

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how in TF would Carrie reasonably conclude that that was the way Saul was communicating with his Russian asset . A space in the binder cover was the light bulb moment though. Lol gtfo.

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I don’t think she knows for sure but has a feeling that is the way messages were concealed. The defector Kuznetsov told her that books were the way Saul liked to pass messages; he liked to use simple everyday objects hidden in plain sight. So she took that nugget of info. Then she noticed Saul had several more of the books like the one kept by Kuznetsov, still hidden in plain sight on his bookshelves, mixed in with other books. She noticed some of them were from Moscow shops. She noticed he had written on the endpapers the dates he received them then realized they were around the times he made his intelligence coups (Gorbachev negotiations with Reagan, Chernobyl, Ames, etc). Then she smiled; that was the light bulb moment for her.

Okay, so she is convinced that the books are the way in which info is passed between Saul and his asset. But how? She looks through them, finds no marks or notes. She finds no concealed sleeves or hidden features. Then she examines further and notices that the binding is slightly separated from the spine cover. She notices that the other specific books have the same trait. They didn’t show us but we can assume that his other books did not have this characteristic; I know most of mine don’t, even the older ones.

So she reasonably assumes that this is the specific way that Saul and his asset conceal messages in the books.

Seems plausible to me.

LFG! I’m ready.

Ready too.

Looking forward to how they wrap up all these loose strings.

OUTSTANDING ending to this story...bravo! Bravo!

That was perfection.