Homeland: Season 8

Following her release from captivity in Russia, Carrie recovers at a hospital in Germany. Her poor performance on a polygraph test stirs concern among CIA officials that she may have betrayed her country during her months in captivity, most of which she cannot remember. Saul leads the U.S. effort to end the war in Afghanistan, but negotiations collapse when Vice President Abdul Qadir G'ulom refuses the proposed terms. Saul recruits Carrie to join him in Kabul to help salvage peace talks. Carrie

Carrie receives an anonymous tip regarding Samira Noori, an activist against G'ulom's regime whose husband died in a car bombing likely intended for her. Carrie searches Samira's apartment and finds evidence Samira collected on G'ulom's embezzlement of military funds. She uses this to leverage G'ulom to reverse his stance and release 1,000 Taliban prisoners per the peace deal. Carrie is later met by Yevgeny, who reveals himself as the source of the anonymous tip. Max intercepts Taliban communica

Saul convinces Haqqani that the ISI was responsible for the ambush on his convoy, determining that a traitor in Haqqani's camp must have leaked information about the meeting. Haqqani learns that his last living son, Jalal, betrayed him to Tasneem over his opposition to the peace talks. Haqqani exiles Jalal from their household, and agrees to the terms of the peace deal during a meeting with Saul. Jalal is later picked up by Tasneem. Carrie agrees to a meeting with Yevgeny, which her CIA superior

President Warner arrives in Kabul, heeding Carrie's advice on announcing the end of the war in person. He departs to make the announcement alongside Afghan President Daoud at Combat Outpost Steedley, where Max is stationed. Meanwhile, Carrie and her team save Samira Noori from being kidnapped by her Taliban brother-in-law, who seeks to forcibly marry her after her husband's death. On its way back from the military outpost, the helicopter carrying Warner and Daoud disappears off the CIA's radar;

Troops from Combat Outpost Steedley arrive at the site of the helicopter crash and confirm that Presidents Warner and Daoud have both been killed. General G'ulom inherits the Afghan presidency and unilaterally declares martial law until Haqqani – who he blames for the presidents' death – is apprehended. Saul warns Haqqani, who is unable to flee Kabul. Carrie learns that Warner's helicopter was switched at the last minute, but soon determines that it was a routine swap, leading her to speculate t

Max is captured and held prisoner by a Taliban soldier, who sells off the contents of Max's backpack including the flight recorder from Warner's helicopter. Carrie asks Yevgeny to use his Taliban connections to help locate Max, and discreetly suspends the CIA's surveillance of the region to allow Yevgeny to call his contacts. President G'ulom threatens to execute 300 Taliban prisoners if Haqqani does not surrender, and manipulates the inexperienced President Hayes into sympathizing with his stro

Carrie and Yevgeny find Max, who discloses the flight recorder's whereabouts to Carrie before being taken to a different compound. Carrie and Yevgeny follow the Taliban to the second compound; Carrie calls Mike to request a special ops team to extract Max, but decides to go in herself when they fail to arrive. She spots Jalal Haqqani forcing Max into a prisoner uniform before Yevgeny stops her from intervening. With the senior Haqqani's trial approaching, Saul convinces Tasneem to help him prove

Jalal threatens to execute Max unless Haqqani's death sentence is revoked. Hayes requests a stay of execution from G'ulom until Max is rescued, but John Zabel, Hayes' brash new foreign policy advisor, convinces Hayes to reverse course. Haqqani is ultimately executed by a firing squad. Upon receiving word of his father's death, Jalal executes Max. He returns to Kabul and assumes command of the Taliban, making a speech where he falsely claims responsibility for shooting down both American helicopt

Pakistan begins moving its mobile nuclear arsenal towards the Afghan border in response to the United States' threats. Tasneem attempts to convince Jalal to go into hiding, but Jalal, empowered by the bolstered ranks of the Taliban, refuses. Tasneem decides that the ISI's best course of action is to protect Jalal. Carrie and Yevgeny search bazaars in Kohat looking for the flight recorder, while evading a CIA search team. Carrie dupes her young coworker Jenna Bragg into giving her the location of

Carrie calls Saul to report that the helicopter crash resulted from a mechanical failure, and that the Russians are now in possession of the flight recorder. Saul reaches out to his contacts in Russia, but realizes that they have no interest in trading the item. Carrie is brought to meet Yevgeny, who offers her the flight recorder in exchange for the identity of Saul's deeply-embedded asset in the Kremlin. Carrie then turns herself in at the CIA's Kabul station, where she is arrested and put on

Back in Washington, Carrie faces nearly a dozen federal charges, but Saul has her released into his custody. Searching for Saul's Russian asset, Carrie tracks down Andrei Kuznetsov, a man Saul had exfiltrated from East Berlin in 1987. Kuznetsov informs her that Saul used red leather books to communicate with him. Flashbacks reveal that Saul's asset is Anna Pomerantseva, a former English teacher for the KGB who volunteered to turn against the Kremlin after her entire class was executed because th

Carrie admits her deal with Yevgeny to Saul, who refuses to name his asset. Carrie has GRU agents sedate Saul, then flies to the West Bank and tells Saul's sister Dorit that Saul is dead, as a ruse to enact Saul's "legacy plan" to pass his asset onto Carrie in the event of his death. Dorit gives Carrie a USB drive containing a video message from Saul identifying Anna as his asset. Carrie shows it to Yevgeny, who reports it to his superiors at the UN summit. Anna kills herself to avoid capture by