Written by Alex Gansa (executive producer) and Howard Gordon (other executive producer, also of 24)
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
- I noticed James Yoshimura is a producer on the show, writer and producer on Treme and before that, Homicide: Life on the Street, so...I guess he's buds with David Simon. Credited in one way or another on a lot of the most memorable Homicide episodes
- Peter Quinn is feeling the effects of shooting a kid
- I wonder if Saul sees a bit of his wife when Ubara (?) walks in
- He really goes off the deep end about her head scarf. It seems un-Saul
- Or maybe it's a bit of a motivator for her. I don't understand why she was apparently holding back because she immediately gives more information and I don't understand the reason for the delay
- It does give Saul a chance to later explain it all to us using the Board of Exposition
- Is the guy at the top of the Board of Exposition the new Big Bad. If he doesn't appear, is he just a Macguffin? Or some combination of the two? (MacBad? Biguffin?)
- Saul's a lot like Leo in the "Issac and Ishmael" episode, also known as the 9/11 episode of West Wing. It all seems very out of character to be weird and mean about ethnicity
- Speaking of Saul's weird reaction, they are really playing up big meanies having distaste for this women. "...In this country...." as though whatever she asked or however she asked it would make a difference. It's like the Tea Party pretending that if only the president would finally be reasonable, they could end this shutdown
- Not to mention the eyeballing the guards give her until she shows her ID
- I am finding the Opium Wars reading fascinating
- The sign on the reporter's desk says "Too much of a good thing is wonderful"
- Which is often attributed to Liberace but appears to be from Mae West originally
- Imagine hearing this from Carrie. Some bug eyed woman comes into your office spouting off about how the CIA is out to get her
- I thought for sure it was going to turn out Carrie's father was committing her, which would make Carrie's whole CIA thing out to get her seem even more crazy
- Nope, not her father. Just her father figure.
- Nothing like sitting around a sterilized room in a hospital gown or hanging around other crazies in their pajamas to make you feel less crazy
- Chicks be crazy man...Dana's going through her own thing, which is driving her mom nuts.
- When Mrs. Brody says she replaced the tile because the blood wouldn't come out there's a tinge of mom-guilt in there about how Dana ruined the nice tile
- Dana finds a photo from back when her mom was a companion aboard the Firefly class ship Serenity
More and more it seems like Saul is stepping into Estes shoes. Though a bit more conflicted about it, he's doing what he needs to cover the agency and move forward. Saul committing Carrie can be compared to Estes employing Quinn to take out Brody. The big difference is that while Brody's threat was probably benign by that point, Carrie is absolutely out to take the CIA down with her.
Next week: Brody's adventures abroad!
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