Homeland s08e08 Episode Script

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[Saul] Previously on Homeland
[judge] speaking Dari.
Death.
[overlapping shouting]
G'ulom had a one-on-one with Hayes yesterday.
First thing this morning,
Hayes demands new voices on Afghanistan.
Guess who's in the Oval Office right now.
John Zabel.
Get in there before Zabel gets his feet under the table.
Make the case.
Haqqani dies, Afghanistan goes up in flames.
It took ten years to get Osama bin Laden,
but he avenged Ralph Warner's murder in, what, three days.
Well, I can hardly claim credit.
I think that you can, sir.
It's what that part of the world understands.
[chuckles] An eye for an eye,
a punch in the fucking nose.
I had it.
The black box.
[breathing heavily] He sold it to some other guy.
They took it somewhere, it was Koa or Kowa
- Kohat.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
It's Jalal Haqqani, I'm sure of it.
G'ulom has his father, he has Max.
This is a bad situation.
Where the hell is the extraction team?
They can't put together an operation
in a matter of hours.
I need a gun.
Tense music ♪
You get into trouble, I'm leaving you.
[grunting]
[groaning]
♪♪♪
[muffled groaning]
No.
No.
[breathing heavily]
- [siren wailing]
- [man] Get back, get back!
[indistinct shouting]
Disquieting music ♪
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[man] The World Trade Center, Tower Number One
is on fire!
[Carrie] I missed something once before. I won't
I can't let that happen again!
An American prisoner of war has been turned.
You're a disgrace to your nation,
Sergeant Nicholas Brody.
You're a traitor and a terrorist,
and now it's time to pay for that.
Are you accusing me of something?
[Yevgeny] You really do not remember?
[Carrie] Remember what?
[Jim] We may be dealing with a compromised officer here.
[Saul] You had a relationship complicated enough
to lie about.
[Carrie] Yeah, it's complicated.
I lost seven months of my life.
To my Russian handler?
[man] Is our strategy working?
[Saul] And you will become the focus of an investigation
that will define the rest of your life.
[Carrie] That not every problem in the Middle East
deserves a military solution.
Because this whole country went stupid crazy after 9/11.
[Jim] Carrie, you're not yourself.
[Carrie] I'm still putting the pieces together.
[Saul] Please, God, tell me you have it.
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[man] Is there no fucking line?
[Saul] I believe you.
No one else will.
Uneasy music ♪
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[man] speaking Dari
[keys rattle, lock clicks]
♪♪♪
[indistinct shouting]
[pounding, metallic rattling]
[overlapping shouting]
[door slams, lock clicks]
[shouting recedes]
Uneasy music continues ♪
♪♪♪
[cuffs click]
Mr. President, Ben Hayes here.
I need your help.
I've got a, uh, situation,
a video of an American held hostage
by Haissam Haqqani's son.
Now, the second you execute Haqqani, my guy dies.
[distant chatter]
Tense music ♪
Abdul, you there?
Yes.
Well, as we discussed, nerves are quite raw
in this country right now.
People are confused,
and I don't want to add to that confusion
by having even a single additional American death.
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General, we're asking you to
hold off on Haqqani's execution
until this hostage situation is resolved.
Haqqani was tried and convicted.
No one is disputing that.
A delay now will make me look weak.
Not to your partners, sir.
I'm meeting with my military
advisors as soon as we hang up.
We will devise a course of action to resolve this,
but until then, we need some time.
Fine.
Thank you.
[G'ulom] I can give you 24 hours.
[inhales sharply]
[phone rings]
When's Special Ops getting here?
[Saul] That's still in flux.
No what's that mean? Soon? Never?
I'm about to go into a meeting to discuss just that.
How are things there?
Quiet, to be honest. [Sighs]
[Carrie] Quiet but fucked.
[Saul] Well, I want you to know there's some good news.
President Hayes just got a stay of execution for Haqqani.
- For how long?
- Bought us some time,
which is what we need.
So stay put and let me see what I can come up with, okay?
Carrie?
Max situation is stable.
He's on the radar at the highest level of government.
[phone beeps]
[phone beeps]
[sighs]
Tell me we've got a plan.
- [door chirps]
- Beginnings of one.
A lot of question marks.
How's the situation at the compound?
Quiet, she said.
She still with the Russian?
I didn't ask.
[Hayes] Do they see us?
Hello.
Kabul, you there?
Yes, we're here, Mr. President.
[Hayes] Good, good.
If you haven't heard, I bought us some time.
We have a window.
So how do we resolve this situation?
Sir, if I may, this is Scott Ryan
for CIA Special Operations in Kabul.
We're marshalling resources in Jalalabad.
Good. When do we move?
Well, sir, uh,
this is the compound where Max Piotrowski
is being held hostage.
It's isolated and exposed,
which means any approach is easily spotted.
Uh, according to a source on the ground,
our target is held hostage by 11, possibly 12 Taliban
in this building here.
According to this same source,
he's partially incapacitated by a gunshot wound,
also restrained and heavily guarded.
His captors need only a second to defeat our mission
by putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger.
What does that mean?
It means we travel by night, sir, and by ground.
Even baffled helicopters are audible for several miles
in this landscape.
Last distance will have to be on foot.
What are the odds?
You must have thought about that already.
What are the odds?
Candidly, sir, at best 50/50.
[exhales deeply]
[door opens]
Fifty-fifty?
It's not terrible.
The United States versus a dozen punks, yeah, it is.
Sir
Bin Laden himself was 80 percent.
Sir, I wonder if we're looking at this all wrong.
What do you mean?
Ha, I mean, a return to first principles.
The United States does not negotiate with terrorists.
- Period.
- Okay.
The American people have to accept that.
Also, frankly, sir, who is this Max Piotrowski anyway?
- He's not-not a soldier.
- No.
The U.S. government can't be expected
to come to the rescue of every adventurer
who gets himself in trouble overseas.
A failed rescue can sink a presidency.
Yeah, Jimmy Carter.
Exactly.
And as for upside, I'm sorry but
[talking quietly] some guy named Max
is not the same as Osama bin Laden.
[Hayes] Yeah.
Uneasy music ♪
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gentle music ♪
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[woman] Excuse me.
May I help you, Mr. Wellington?
No, thank you.
John said he left a document for me,
but I found it.
[distant chatter]
[Saul] Open the door.
I was about to be shot. They stopped my execution.
Yes.
They won't tell me why.
Your son Jalal, he's taken an American hostage,
someone who was working for me,
which, terrible as that is, bought us some time
to stop this.
This will happen in a day
or a week, but soon.
So it's up to you to continue what we started.
Wait a second. Wait a minute, wait a
Hold on, hold on. What are you doing?
Where are you taking him?
Okay, okay.
Tense music ♪
♪♪♪
We had an agreement.
Twenty-four hours.
- Talk to your president.
- I will.
Do it.
You'll find he's come to his senses.
You kill him, there will be blood in the streets.
There's always blood in the streets.
No, the Taliban is divided now.
[Saul] This will unify them.
[G'ulom] And I will deal with them like I always have,
with or without you.
♪♪♪
[breathes raggedly]
[groans]
[overlapping shouting, metallic banging]
Dark music ♪
♪♪♪
[Carrie] Something's going on.
I can't tell what, but something.
Carrie.
Carrie.
What?
Oh, no.
- When did this happen?
- Just now.
[breathing heavily]
- [Yevgeny] What is it?
- [Carrie] It's Max.
It looks like they're taking him somewhere.
We gotta follow them.
Can you get a drone overhead?
Well, I'll call from the car,
but we gotta keep them in sight.
Eh let me see.
Okay, Jalal's outside.
Let's get ready. They're about to leave.
Speaking Pashto
[gasps]
Somber music ♪
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Carrie!
♪♪♪
[sobbing]
All yours. I got ten more.
[door opens]
You really wanna do this?
Well, hey, you're the one who invited himself in here.
[chuckles] After you stole that speech off my desk.
Oh, that's what you call this? A speech?
- President asked for it.
- For this?
- Uh-huh.
- Really? Uh
"Secure the Afghan/Pakistan border."
You know how long that is?
I know you can't crush the Taliban
when they escape into Pakistan every time they're attacked.
Fifteen hundred miles.
A quarter million men to secure it.
American blood.
No, we make the Pakistanis do it.
Oh, well, good luck with that after the president
calls them, um, "a failed and duplicitous state."
You know they're an ally, right?
[laughs] I'd say that's debatable.
Well, and I'd say for someone who's never been
in the military, you have way too many pictures
of tanks on your wall.
This isn't a speech. You know what this is?
It's-it's idiocy.
No, no, it's not just that.
It is idiocy that has already been rejected
by three previous administrations.
The world changes, and you, you do not.
How did you even get in here?
I was invited after you were stupid enough
to get two presidents killed!
[door slams]
[phone rings]
[beep]
[exhales]
[Saul] Carrie?
He's dead.
Max is.
I told you where he was. You did nothing.
Special Operations wouldn't move.
No, you didn't make them move.
You brought him to this country.
It was your job to protect him.
That was your fucking job.
You can tell Special Ops it's safe now.
The six Taliban teenagers they were so scared of are gone.
They can come pick up Max's body.
Will you do that?
Yeah.
Let me know when they're coming.
Don't hang up.
Carrie, you know you can't do this.
Do what?
Keep running around out there with a GRU officer.
That GRU officer was the only person
who gave a shit what happened to Max.
You gotta come in.
[sighs]
Well, I'm with Max. You know where to find me.
[phone beeps]
[phone beeps]
[vehicles approaching]
- We'll take him inside.
- No, wait.
I want to do it.
[groans softly]
Speaking Pashto
[man] speaking Pashto
[crowd murmuring]
[crowd murmurs]
[all] shouting in Pashto.
Allahu akbar!
[shouting continues]
- [Zabel] Mr. President
- [Wellington] Mr. President
- [Hayes] One voice.
- Sir, I
[Hayes] Both of you!
Now, I have got an important speech tomorrow
to tell the American people where we are
and where we're going,
and I have got to have something to say.
Sir, I've given you something to say.
It's what we talked about, strong, decisive action.
We've already got a war going with the Taliban.
Do we really want to start one with Pakistan too?
So what do you suggest?
A victory lap, plain and simple.
Haqqani is dead, the man who killed Warner.
If we can't find a major win in that fact alone,
there's something wrong with us.
Work it out.
Congratulations, you win. We do nothing.
- Nothing stupid.
- Doing nothing is stupid.
It's why we got an endless war on our hands.
Look
the president obviously wants some kind of
[scoffs] The president doesn't know what he wants.
We can at least agree on that.
Okay.
How 'bout we sit down, your office,
put something on paper for him,
try to find some common ground.
Give me five minutes. I need to get some coffee.
[phone clicks, beeps]
[line ringing]
- [Claudette] Yeah.
- Hey, it's me.
Can I call you back? I'm a little busy.
This will only take a minute. Listen.
Um, I got a new job.
West Wing, I heard. How is it there?
It's crawling with idiots, if you wanna know the truth.
The same people who got Warner blown out of the sky,
everywhere I turn, there they are in my way.
Who is?
- David Wellington.
- Uh-huh.
- Saul Berenson.
- Okay.
Some guy named Ryan.
Scott Ryan.
A cabal of fat-ass leftovers,
masters of the art of doing nothing.
- So what do you want?
- What do you think I want?
Kompromat.
On-on one of them, all of them, I-I don't care.
Anything I can use to, uh,
get them to back the fuck off.
- I gotta go.
- Hey.
Don't worry, I'll look into it.
If there's something there, I'll find it.
[phone clicks]
[phone clicks]
[indistinct chatter]
Speaking Pashto
[scoffs]
Uneasy music ♪
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[men] speaking Pashto
[doors close, engine starts]
My guys are wondering,
what's your plan?
Stay with Max.
Go back to Kabul with him.
[sighs]
You don't have to stay.
You've done so much, and
I'm sure you don't want to be here
when the Special Ops team arrives.
No.
But they don't seem to be in a hurry to get here,
so we have time.
[insects chirping]
Tell me about him.
Who is he?
Oh, this is Max.
Okay.
The one I've known forever. [Sighs]
I've told you about my whole life.
I must have said something about him.
No.
You never did.
Well, Max would do anything for me.
Absolutely anything.
Wherever I'd go, he'd
he'd end up there by my side.
And the reason I-I never mentioned him
[breathes deeply]
Is I took him for granted.
I
used him
all these years and
and now he's dead.
Somber music ♪
♪♪♪
[sighs]
I'm so sorry, Max.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so, so sorry.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- Shh.
I'm so sorry.
♪♪♪
- [sobbing]
- Shh.
"At 11:45 yesterday morning,
the terrorist Haissam Haqqani
was executed by his own government in Kabul,
following his conviction for the downing
of the helicopter carrying the presidents
"of Afghanistan and the United States."
[sighs]
"Let us not repeat mistakes of the past.
Let's take a pause
and savor our victory."
Et cetera, et cetera.
"Recommit to our own values,
our own cause, our"
You on board with this, John?
- Yes, sir.
- Good. Good.
Great stuff. Great stuff, thank you.
[indistinct chatter]
Great stuff. [Breathes deeply]
[phone buzzes]
Excuse me.
Claudette.
- Thank you.
- [man] Ma'am.
You look stressed.
I'm fine.
You don't look fine.
Wellington fucked me.
Appealed to the president's inner coward.
He's about to go on national TV
to announce victory in Afghanistan and move on.
So unless by some miracle you've got a big bucket of shit
I can dump on these people
I just might.
It's not shit exactly.
Maybe something better.
What is it?
From a friend in Saudi intelligence.
And remember, you owe me.
Fine.
- I mean it.
- Yeah. Fine.
[Jalal] speaking Pashto.
[Zabel] What is this?
[Claudette] A Shura Rahbaraan.
They're deciding Haqqani's successor.
When did this happen?
Last night in Miranshah. Pakistan.
I know where fucking Miranshah is.
Speaking Pashto.
[Zabel] That's Jalal Haqqani?
Yes, it is. Watch.
Speaking Pashto.
What's he saying?
"The Americans and their dogs in Kabul
just executed the wrong man."
His father didn't shoot down the president.
He did.
[men cheering on phone]
It's unverified. You can't use it.
Of course not.
Copy that.
[phone beeps]
[indistinct chatter]
[knocks gently]
Pakistanis have given us a window to fly in
and pick up Max Piotrowski's body.
Special Ops will be taking off in about an hour.
- I'm going with them.
- Why?
- Bring Carrie back.
- The team's been briefed.
They know they may be picking up a defector.
She's not a defector.
Okay, collaborator with a Russian agent.
That's what she is. You understand that, right?
Here's what I understand.
While you and this entire station were doing,
as far as I can tell, exactly nothing,
she went out to find Max.
She found him. Now she's coming home.
Uneasy music ♪
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- Sir.
- [mumbling softly]
Can it wait till after the broadcast?
No, sir, I don't think so.
- Will you give us a moment?
- [woman] Yes, sir.
[clears throat]
There's something I think you need to see.
Okay.
[Jalal] speaking Pashto.
Who is it? What language is it?
Why am I looking at it?
That's Jalal Haqqani. Haqqani's son.
And this is why you're looking at it, right here.
Speaking Pashto.
[Hayes] Is that an RPG?
[Zabel] The RPG.
He shot down the helicopters.
[Jalal] speaking Pashto.
Jalal did?
That's what he's saying.
[men cheering in video]
He killed the president?
- [video stops]
- [sighs softly]
[clears throat]
In 15 minutes, I am going to sit in that chair
and make an address to the nation
That is 90 percent horseshit, yes.
Where's Wellington?
No, sir, sir, he's the one who put you in this position.
- [Hayes] We have to cancel.
- [Zabel] We can't.
We have to.
We preempted every network for a major announcement.
We have to give them a major announcement.
What, that we killed the wrong guy?
No. This.
What I was working on before Wellington derailed us.
Sir, it's what you brought me to the White House for.
Break with the past. A paradigm shift.
John, this isn't the time to talk about paradigm shifts.
It's exactly the time,
thanks to Jalal Haqqani.
He makes it possible.
Seize the narrative.
Call out this murderous little shit
and his backers in Pakistan.
Give the American people what they really want.
Action.
Lightly tense music ♪
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[Hayes on TV] allow us to pause,
to draw breaths, and I would've been wrong.
We cannot relax our vigilance for one second
because the killer of President Daoud
and President Ralph Warner did not die in Kabul.
This I have decided to share with you
based on intelligence I have just received.
What is this?
Live footage of Jalal Haqqani,
son of Haissam Haqqani,
clear and incontrovertible evidence
that he shot down
the helicopters in Afghanistan,
that he murdered the peacemakers,
President Daoud and President Warner.
You believe this shit?
[Hayes on TV] on behalf of the American people.
And I have a message for the government of Pakistan.
We know Jalal Haqqani is operating
out of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of your country.
Oh, Christ.
We call on you now to arrest him
and hand him over,
or we will come and get him ourselves.
- [Cullen] Moving out!
- All right, let's move out.
Mr. Berenson, I understand we're picking up one KIA,
have to apprehend a former agent, Carrie Mathison.
We're not apprehending anyone. Carrie wants to come in.
Mission brief says she's working with Russians.
Not true.
She agreed to come in. Understood?
[helicopter blades whipping]
Whoa, whoa, he's on air.
[grunts]
[Hayes] And I want you, my fellow citizens,
to know that these are not just empty words.
I have called the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to the White House.
I will be giving the orders.
Our forces are already gathering
by land, sea and air.
We will not allow terror to triumph,
not anywhere in the world.
[whispered] What the fuck have you done?
[whispered] You weren't here. The intel came in.
We had to react.
By putting the country on a collision course
with a nuclear power.
Don't be so melodramatic. The Pakistanis will back down.
Not when you leave them no way out.
The way out is to give us Jalal Haqqani.
Yeah? Well, about that.
This was a nobody you just turned into a folk hero.
Even if they could find him, they can't hand him over now.
You are pushing us into a war
we don't want and can't win.
You know what your problem is, David?
You don't believe America can win any war.
[Hayes] Thank you.
May God bless you,
and may God bless the United States of America.
Very nice, sir.
[helicopter blades whirring distantly]
You know they will give you a hard time.
Saul will be there for me.
Saul was there before, but you came to me.
I can't stay out here forever.
Why not?
[sighs softly]
[birds chirping]
Thank you.
[helicopter approaching]
[Cullen] Let's hurry it up.
Come on, let's go!
[Saul] Carrie.
That's Max.
Don't know if you're aware,
but the world's gone to shit since you left.
Jalal Haqqani claims he shot down
the president's helicopter.
You believe that?
Doesn't matter. President does.
He just made a speech,
threatening to invade Pakistan if they don't turn him over.
So if you know anything that could help
I'd be grateful.
I have a lead on the black box.
I was hoping you'd say that.
It was taken from Max, but he knew where it went.
- He told me.
- Good.
We'll follow it up together.
Get to the truth.
Okay.
But no more bullshit about my loyalty,
not from Mike, the FBI, anyone.
I did what had to be done.
- I know, I'm on your side.
- Are you?
I am. You know that.
[sighs]
We need to go.
Pakistanis only gave us a small window.
All right, let's go.
Does Yevgeny know about the black box?
No, he thinks this was all about Max.
Ma'am, we're gonna need to search you.
- What?
- [Saul] What are you doing?
Tense music ♪
[Saul] The fuck is going on?
[Carrie] Restraints?
What the fuck?
[Saul] Hey, stand down, stand down.
- Back off!
- Put your weapon down.
Speaking Pashto.
Stop. What are you doing? All of you, put your guns down.
Sir, get out of the way.
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Don't do this. Come back with me.
What, so we can work together?
- Yes, I need you.
- In fucking handcuffs?
That was a mistake. I didn't know.
- You liar.
- Carrie.
♪♪♪
Whose fucking idea was that, guns and restraints?
Mike Dunne or did you dream it up yourself?
Don't say a fucking word.
Get your men back on the helicopter.
♪♪♪
Get in.
Somber music ♪
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dramatic music ♪
♪♪♪
You okay?
There's something I didn't tell you.
There's something else I need to find.
The flight recorder from the president's helicopter.
Max had it with him when he was captured.
I know where it is.
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gentle music ♪
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