Nicholas Brody quotes from Homeland

Nicholas Brody

There's nothing wrong with me.

Brody

[to Dana] I have this feeling things are going to get pretty wild soon. Your mom's going to need you. When I'm not around. Promise me you'll watch out for her.

Brody

[in a recorded message] My name is Nicholas Brody and I'm a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. I have a wife, and two kids, who I love. By the time you watch this, you'll have read a lot of things about me, about what I've done, and so I wanted to explain myself, so that you'll know the truth.

Brody

I'm more alone than I was in the bottom of that hole in Iraq.

Brody

If that's the last thing I see before they lock me up, it could be worse.

Jessica

You punched a reporter.

Oh, he'll live.

Jessica

In front of Chris.

He'll live, too.

Brody

They want you to lose faith. Lose faith in your country, which they say is the devil. In your brother marines, who they say aren't coming for you because you have no military value. In your wife, who they say has got her arms wrapped around someone else.

How do you resist that?

Brody

You can't. Except by believing that those people they want you to renounce, that they're keeping the faith in you and you owe it to them to do the same.

Semper fidelis.

Jessica

Is that right? You barely sleep, you turn your back on your friends, you scare your children. I mean, you won't even...

Say it.

Jessica

You can't even fuck your wife!

Carrie

[Carrie and Brody are drunk] Oh, Jesus, we drank too much.

Brody

Yeah, we did.

Carrie

Oh, I hope I don't puke.

Brody

You're gonna puke?

Carrie

No.

Brody

You all right?

Carrie

I'm half Irish.

Brody

The Irish don't puke?

Carrie

Nah. Only when we have to salute the British. [Carrie snorts with laughter]

Jessica

Was there really a union meeting in your district today?

Yes.

Jessica

Where? What town? Don't answer that. I don't want to hear another lie.

I'm not lying.

Jessica

They just roll off your tongue, don't they? One after the other. I really thought we turned a corner this morning. You're hiding something. I can see it in your eyes. Now either you tell me what's going on --

There's nothing going on --

Jessica

Or I suggest you start looking for a hotel room! And while you're at it, you give this marriage some serious thought, because I don't think I can do this anymore.

Carrie

You're not in Beirut?

Saul

Came straight here from the airport. I hear you were turned away from the debrief at Langley today.

Carrie

I was the one who recovered that intel. He wouldn't even let me present it!

Saul

Well, I can only imagine how shitty that must have felt. Still feels.

Carrie

Before the Beirut trip, I really thought I'd finally found a way to cope with being out of the company.

Saul

Before you dig that hole any deeper, I have to show you something. Is this your computer?

Carrie

Yeah.

Saul

[removes a flash drive from his breast pocket] Here. I'll only fuck it up. That's the one piece of intel recovered in Beirut that Estes and his men haven't seen yet. I came straight from the airport because I think you deserve to see it first.

Brody

[pre-recorded video] This is Nicholas Brody and I'm a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. People will say I was broken, I was brainwashed. People will say I was turned into a terrorist.

Carrie

Oh my God.

Brody

Taught to hate my country. My actions this day is against such domestic enemies. The vice-president and members of his national security team, who I know to be liars and war criminals --

Carrie

[quietly] I was right.

Brody

-- who are responsible for atrocities they must be held accountable for.

Saul

[whispers] You were right.

Brody

This is about justice for eighty-two children whose deaths were never acknowledged and whose murder is a stain on the soul of this nation.

Carrie

[crying] I was right.

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.

[gasping] Call... an ambulance!

Brody

No.

What are you doing?

Brody

You still don't get it, do you? [fierce whisper] I'm killing you.