Homeland · Season 1
The only reason to kill Brody now is for you. Cover your ass. And the collateral damage will be you wreck a woman you've already wrecked once before. And I ain't doing that.
Fine. If you're not up to the task...
Nothing happens to Brody.
Or?
Or you'll find me back in this bedroom one night. Right back in that chair. Because I'm a guy who kills bad guys.
[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.
I know everything he is, but it's...it's complicated.
No, it's crystal clear. You cannot be with him.
[Angrily] Who are you to say that to me?
You can do whatever you want. An intelligence officer can't.
Don't you think I know that?
So you're choosing him over us?
[Nervously thinks for a moment] I don't know.
You're throwing your life away.
Or maybe I'm just not giving it away to this place. Maybe...Maybe I want other things.
Like a terrorist in your bed.
[Angrily] Maybe I don't want to be alone my whole fucking life!
Like me?
Like you! Because it doesn't look that great, Saul! How does it feel?!
You don't know a goddamn thing. You're the smartest and the dumbest fucking person I've ever known.
[Saul walks away]
If you're asking 'did he outsmart me?' Yes he did.
Everywhere you go, other people die, but you always manage to survive. Have you noticed that? You're like a cockroach, still there after the last nuclear bombs go off. You belong here.
I'm not going to jail.
It seems to me you're already there.
She's on her own, Saul.
She's always been on her own.
Saul should have instructed you to treat me with more respect than that.
This is just the fucking beginning.
Don't you dare do anything to harm him.
You misunderstand me.
Do I?
You have - from the very beginning. I think you of all people will understand that no-one is just one thing.
Where's Brody?
In Evin prison
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.
What?
I'm afraid so - declared an enemy of the state.
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.
Tonight!
Tomorrow to be precise - at 4am just before the call for morning prayer.
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.
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!
Take me to him.
I can't.
Please
He's at peace in his cell. A kind of peace. Let that be.
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