Carrie Mathison quotes from Homeland

Virgil

Well, well, well. Carrie Mathison was right about the red-headed menace.

Carrie

It only took a year for people to believe me.

Max

I believed you. Right from the start.

Carrie

Thank you, Max.

Max

Of course - no one ever asked me.

Virgil

Brody spoke to four people on Capitol Hill, and 12 more at the Virginia Businessmen's Reception.

Max

Plus a guy at a newsstand on K Street.

Carrie

They all go up.

Carrie

How come I've never heard of this guy?

Virgil

Who, Quinn?

Carrie

He was on the floor like me, six years? I never met him.

Virgil

That's because you were in the Middle East!

Carrie

I don't know. Look into him, would you?

Virgil

Oh, sure, I'm not busy.

Carrie

Virgil, just check him out. - Please.

Max

Sweet hardware!

Virgil

Yup. CIA has the best shit.

Quinn

So, who are these guys?

Carrie

Uhm, the same guys who've already watched Brody for 300 hours. Who are you?

Quinn

The guy [who's] running things.

Carrie

[surprised] Is that right?

Saul

[resignedly] Yes. It is.

Quinn

And I don't like surprises.

Carrie

Err, I'm not crazy 'bout them, either.

Quinn

[mockingly] Crazy? Interesting word. --- [shaking hands with Carrie] Peter Quinn.

Carrie

Uh, Carrie.

Quinn

Mathison.

Carrie

Yes. I know.

Quinn

I like your work.

Carrie

[warily] Uh, Peter Quinn from where?

Quinn

Same place as you.

Carrie

Officer?

Quinn

Analyst.

Saul

Estes brought him in.

Carrie

Ah.

Quinn

So. Let's talk shop.

Carrie

[unwilling to take the information for granted] What... How many years?

Quinn

Six at Langley, four on the Venezuela desk.

Carrie

The cartels?

Quinn

Like that. --- Are we done with the meet and greet?

Saul

Yes. Moving on?

Quinn

So, we run a small team on Brody twenty four-seven. My team already hooked into the security cameras in the Rayburn building, tapping his home phone and cell. Anywhere else he goes, we have a man on him.

Virgil

And what team is that?

Quinn

You'll never see them.

Carrie

Saul and I already have a plan.

Quinn

[patronizing] Hold that thought --- Brody has a meeting this morning at the CIA, and we want to throw him a jolt. So we figured go for his Achilles heel. --- Which is you.

Carrie

So I'm in the building. I... I run into him?

Quinn

Let it drop you're back at the CIA. That should trigger his fear that your theory about him is now back in play. And that should send him to his handlers, where you guys... will be there with cameras.

Max

Roger that.

Carrie

Yeah, OK.

Quinn

So, you want to tell us your plan now?

Carrie

Uh, actually, it was the same.

Quinn

The same plan?

Carrie

Same plan. So...

Quinn

[ironically] So... I'm only half a moron.

Quinn

You were fucking him, huh?

Carrie

What?

Quinn

Brody.

Carrie

Who are you fucking?

Quinn

An ER nurse. I'm not that into her.

Carrie

You're pretty mouthy for an analyst.

Quinn

I'm just saying, if he did to me what he did to you, got me fired and made me think I was crazy when I wasn't, sent me off to get my brain zapped, I'd fucking rip his skin off.

Carrie

Well... that's the plan.

Carrie

It reeks, you know.

Brody

My confusion?

Carrie

Your bullshit. We only have a few more minutes alone.

Brody

You still have your twisted theories about me, don't you?

Carrie

Not theories anymore.

Brody

Look, I'm sorry I called. I guess I thought we could be friends.

Carrie

Friends?! Oh, yeah. Do I want to be friends with a demented ex-soldier that hates America? Who decided strapping on a bomb was the answer to what ailed him? Despite his daughter, his son, people who loved him in real life, not in the mind-fuck world of Abu Nazir, who in the end, didn't have the stones to go through with it, but had no problem sending me to the nuthouse. Yeah. No, thanks. I don't think I need a friend like that.

Brody

Okay. Not friends.

Carrie

So what are you going to do now? Are you going to kill me? You going to blame it on rough sex maybe? I mean, how long can you get away with something like that?

Brody

I've had a pretty good run so far.

Carrie

That's true.

Brody

I seem to be good at this, if nothing else.

Carrie

You're special.

Brody

I liked you, Carrie.

Carrie

I loved you.

Carrie

If only the circumstances had been wildly different. You're a disgrace to your nation, Sergeant Nicholas Brody. You're a traitor and a terrorist, and now it's time you pay for that.

Carrie

Hi, Brody.

Brody

How does my wife know about Tom Walker?

Carrie

I... I don't know.

Brody

I'll tell you how. Mike Faber. How the fuck does he know? You tell me.

Carrie

Okay, Brody, calm down.

Brody

You came to me, accusing me of lying about Gettysburg. Maybe it's you who's the one that's lying, hmm? Puttin' some bullshit on me.

Carrie

I'm not.

Brody

Why should I believe you?

Mathison

I'll take care of Faber.

Brody

How? How? Have you really got this under control? Because it doesn't seem like it. And what the fuck happened in that shop? How did you lose those six agents?

Carrie

We're investigating that.

Brody

Great. So you're hedging, Roya's hedging. This thing is on, I'm at the center of it, and I'm in the fucking dark!

Brody

Will you visit me in prison?

Carrie

I'll probably be in the cell next to you.

Carrie

You're never gonna leave this country alive.

I know, and I don't care.

Saul

[On Brody] He's a man who put on a suicide vest, Carrie. That's who he is, that's who he always will be.

Carrie

I know everything he is, but it's...it's complicated.

Saul

No, it's crystal clear. You cannot be with him.

Carrie

[Angrily] Who are you to say that to me?

Saul

You can do whatever you want. An intelligence officer can't.

Carrie

Don't you think I know that?

Saul

So you're choosing him over us?

Carrie

[Nervously thinks for a moment] I don't know.

Saul

You're throwing your life away.

Carrie

Or maybe I'm just not giving it away to this place. Maybe...Maybe I want other things.

Saul

Like a terrorist in your bed.

Carrie

[Angrily] Maybe I don't want to be alone my whole fucking life!

Saul

Like me?

Carrie

Like you! Because it doesn't look that great, Saul! How does it feel?!

Saul

You don't know a goddamn thing. You're the smartest and the dumbest fucking person I've ever known.

Carrie

I'm not going to jail.

It seems to me you're already there.

Carrie

Don't you dare do anything to harm him.

You misunderstand me.

Carrie

Do I?

You have - from the very beginning. I think you of all people will understand that no-one is just one thing.

Carrie

Where's Brody?

In Evin prison

Carrie

I need to see him.

You can't. No-one can. He appeared this morning before a military tribunal where he was sentenced to death by hanging.

Carrie

What?

I'm afraid so - declared an enemy of the state.

Carrie

Well you're insane if you think that's going to happen. You have to stop it.

It's out of my hands Carrie, the public execution is scheduled for tonight.

Carrie

Tonight!

Tomorrow to be precise - at 4am just before the call for morning prayer.

Carrie

Well you find a fucking way!

Or what? What will you do Carrie? Burn it all down? Everything you worked for? And I don't mean what the CIA has worked for, I mean YOU. The plan is a success. You and Brody pulled it off.

Carrie

Not if he dies.

More so if he dies. I ask myself over and over from the moment I knew what you've gone through. The hardships, self-abnegation to lure me in. Why? Why would anyone do that to themselves? Why would you? But I think I know now. It was always about him. That's what you care about. Maybe the only thing. Who Brody is... that's for Allah to know. But what he did - there can't be no debate. It was astonishing and undeniable, and what you wanted which was for everyone to see in him what you see. That has happened. Everyone see's him through your eyes now. Saul, Lockhart, The President of the United States, even me!

Carrie

Take me to him.

I can't.

Carrie

Please

He's at peace in his cell. A kind of peace. Let that be.