Homeland: Season 4

Carrie, now operating as the CIA station chief in Kabul, authorizes an airstrike on an Islamabad farmhouse believed to be the whereabouts of Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani. However, reports soon emerge that the airstrike occurred during a wedding, killing Haqqani and 40 other civilians. Among those killed were the family of medical student Aayan Ibrahim, who survived the airstrike and has a video of the wedding he was filming on his mobile phone at the moment of the strike. One of Aayan's friend

Carrie and Quinn return to Washington; Lockhart recalls Carrie from her posting in Afghanistan as punishment for the botched airstrike. Carrie struggles to form a bond with her infant daughter Franny, who has been under the care of Carrie's sister Maggie in her absence. Quinn, meanwhile, lapses into alcoholism while coping with the events in Islamabad, for which he feels responsible. He has a sexual encounter with his landlady and is later arrested for beating two men at a restaurant. When Carri

Carrie arrives in Islamabad as the new station chief and learns that it has been placed on lockdown under Martha's orders. However, Carrie has set up an alternate base of operations with Fara and Max, aiming to establish contact with Aayan (who has been threatened out of talking to the media). After Aayan refuses to speak with Fara, Carrie makes contact herself, posing as a journalist, and offers Aayan protection as well as safe passage to London where he can continue his medical studies. Saul a

Aayan discovers that he has been expelled from his university for stealing medicine samples. With nowhere else to go, he accepts Carrie's offer. Carrie receives confirmation from Aayan that the man who threatened him was ISI agent Farhad Ghazi, the same man Quinn identified as having coordinated the attack that led to Sandy's death. Carrie and her team begin surveillance on Ghazi. Dennis Boyd, the ambassador's husband, is approached by ISI agent Tasneem Qureishi, who has discovered that Dennis w

Carrie interviews Aayan about his relationship with Haqqani, his uncle, but he panics when she broaches the rumor that Haqqani may be alive. On his way back to the United States, Saul spots Farhad Ghazi at the airport, but is captured by Ghazi's men, who are working with Tasneem. Fara and Quinn follow a cleric who was seen to be accompanying Haqqani, but are unable to proceed past a checkpoint, unaware that a kidnapped Saul is being transported in the cleric's car. Quinn confronts Carrie over he

Carrie gives Aayan his new passport and rehearses him on the details of his identity. He and Carrie are attacked by several men at the safehouse, but Aayan is able to escape. The break-in is revealed to be a ruse engineered by Carrie to prompt Aayan to seek refuge with his uncle, Haqqani. Dennis Boyd later tracks down the safehouse and reports back to Tasneem that Carrie has procured a new identity for Aayan along with evidence of Carrie's bipolar disorder. Quinn learns that Ghazi never left Isl

News of Saul's capture reaches the United States, prompting Lockhart to travel to Islamabad. With Saul's presence protecting him from an airstrike, Haqqani holds Saul captive at a compound near the Afghanistan border, where he plots to negotiate Saul's release in exchange for several prisoners. Dennis breaks into Carrie's apartment using a key given to him by Tasneem, and replaces her medication with a hallucinogenic substance. Carrie unwittingly takes the replacement drugs and begins suffering

Carrie awakens in Khan's house with no memory of how she got there. She surmises that she has been poisoned, but Khan denies his involvement. Khan later learns from Tasneem that the poisoning was engineered to remove Carrie from Islamabad, and that his intervention foiled the ISI's plans. Over live video, Haqqani presents a captured Saul to the U.S. embassy and names the prisoners he wants released, but Saul begs the U.S. to refuse Haqqani's demands. That night, Saul escapes his captivity, and i

Carrie has Dennis detained at the embassy with Martha's help. During the prisoner exchange, the Taliban use a young boy wearing a suicide vest as leverage to ensure the release of the five prisoners. Saul refuses to move, hoping to prevent the exchange from succeeding, but Carrie convinces him to get up. However, their convoy is struck by two RPGs on the way back to the embassy, prompting Lockhart to send the embassy's security forces to the scene. Dennis realizes that the security personnel are

Carrie and Saul escape the Taliban's assault on their convoy; Carrie phones Khan for help, but Tasneem forces him to stall his backup, revealing to him the ISI's allegiance to the Taliban. Haqqani and his soldiers storm the embassy, slaughtering numerous personnel. Lockhart, carrying a package detailing the CIA's informant network in Pakistan, joins Martha and Dennis in a secure room. Haqqani and his men begin killing off survivors of the attack until the package is handed over. When Haqqani thr

Quinn visits his former lover Astrid, a German intelligence officer stationed in Islamabad, and receives her help in locating Haqqani's current whereabouts. He has Aayan's ex-girlfriend upload a video of his execution to the internet, prompting public protests intended to draw Haqqani out of hiding, and assembles a bomb that he plans to detonate during the demonstration. Tasneem sends a group of pro-Haqqani counter-protesters to the scene in response. While searching for Quinn, Carrie is devasta

Dar Adal informs Saul that he made a deal with Haqqani, who agreed not to harbor terrorists in Afghanistan in exchange for being removed from the CIA's kill list. Dar assures Saul that the video evidence of his capture by Haqqani will not be publicized, preserving Saul's chances of becoming CIA director. Carrie returns home from Islamabad for her father's funeral. She and Quinn reunite and share a kiss later that night; Quinn suggests to Carrie that they leave the CIA together, but Carrie believ