Carrie loses Abu Nazir in the tunnels, convinces Quinn that the Muslim Galvez is helping him escape, gets him taken down and all messed up physically, heads to Langley so she can fuck up Roya's interrogation real quick -- and if you wondering what it would ever be like to see Roya Hammad lose her cool, it's about three times scarier than you even thought -- and then drags everybody back to the tunnels...
At which point, reversing her shitty luck lately, she actually manages to capture Abu Nazir. There's not a lot of time to discuss their vexed relationship, much less the fact that Brody just murdered the Vice President of the US for her, but he does manage to beat the shit out of her some more. No matter: After he commits death-by-SWAT, Carrie -- who's been awake for like two days -- can't manage to do much more than say goodbye to him and head home to have every emotion at once.
Estes calls in a lie detector team (the always excellent James Urbaniak and always intriguing Chance Kelly) to intimidate Saul into quitting the CIA, which is fine since now he's the only person who knows about the plan to assassinate Brody. All of this takes a lot of time, it's very suspenseful, but the end result is that Saul is out, while somehow they have still not yet remembered that Carrie should not even be working there.
A cooped-up Dana blows her top, in a scene for Dana-haters to end all Dana-hating scenes, and not a moment too soon: Once Nick hears about Nazir's death -- which causes him to do his Craziest Thing You Ever Have Seen -- they all head home, and Nick and Jessica don't even make it into the house before they've agreed to get a divorce. It's a fairly beautiful scene, made even more touching by the fact that you're pretty sure Quinn's going to pop up at any time and take out Nick. But, grossing Quinn out, he doesn't stick around: Heads on over to Carrie's, so they can keep each other awake just a little longer.
Worth it for the gamechanging twists, and Carrie's complicated feelings -- about the morality and status of her relationship, the assassination of the VP, and whether or not dating a terrorist makes you a terrible person, compared to just dating married guys -- but all-in-all, the overwhelming end impression is mostly just a lot of running around in the dark. Tightly suspenseful and plotwise very satisfying, with a conclusion to the Brody stuff that you'd never thought you see. Of course, he's still a terrorist who just lost his best friend and his marriage and family, and she's still a crazy who needs a nap, and this is all definitely going to end in tears and bloodshed, but I guess all happy endings are more a matter of where it is you stop talking, so...
Week: Based on the fraught preview, it would seem that everything happens. Everything you can think of, it happens in week's episode. A body gets buried, people drink by a fireplace, Quinn runs around being amazing all over the place, somebody prays in a forest, Saul and Carrie disagree about her dating choices, gunfire rings out, the whole nine.