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KeithTalent said:
Quick question
on the memory card in the backpack; I don't remember from last season; do we know how that card got in the backpack and into that apartment in the Hezbollah part of town? Just seemed a bit weird and random, but maybe we are just forgetting where the card went last year.

KT
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I strongly feel if anybody's reading this, they better expect spoilers, but since you put this within spoiler tags, I'll follow...

That memory card was what Brody had video-recorded on just before he went out wearing the bomb-jacket (last season), and he hid it under a particular stone n a particular place that he marked with chalk.

I guess the idea must have been that somebody else was supposed to pick the card up and send to Abu Nazir for broadcasting after the expected mayhem wreaked by Brody. Well, that card did get picked up even though the massacre did not happen, and got transferred to Nazir's henchman in Beirut. Brody actually goes back to the spot to retrieve the card after the failed mission, but the card is missing and the single stroke of chalk mark is now a double stroke, signalling the card was picked up.

I have a different beef about this : if their machinery is so nicely oiled with trained agents around, then how come they don't have anybody else to pick up the tailor in Gettysburg? Brody should be a valuable asset for them, and they are risking him to rescue a minor player? I'd have thought they'd send somebody to blow the tailor up just like they did to that Rakim Faisel (the professor who ran from the CIA but was shot to bits thru the motel door)!
 
radhak said:
I have a different beef about this : if their machinery is so nicely oiled with trained agents around, then how come they don't have anybody else to pick up the tailor in Gettysburg? Brody should be a valuable asset for them, and they are risking him to rescue a minor player? I'd have thought they'd send somebody to blow the tailor up just like they did to that Rakim Faisel (the professor who ran from the CIA but was shot to bits thru the motel door)!
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Yeah, I thought that entire plotline with the tailor was incredibly hackneyed and silly. Obviously someone in Nazir's organization had directed the tailor to make the (faulty) explosive vest for Brody, so it made no sense to me that personally sending Brody, a US Congressman, to courier the tailor around was the best/only way to get him out of harm's way. I did think the show took a great and momentous turn this week, though.
 
Another great episode this week. Love this show. Only Game of Thrones gives it a run for its money for best drama on TV. Claire Danes is so believable in this part. I'm starting to think she may be the next generation's Meryl Streep.
 
i wonder what it feels like to be stabbed through the hand?

any long term damage and issues with using your hand normally after the wound heals?
 
Printer Bandit said:
any long term damage and issues with using your hand normally after the wound heals?
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Potentially, sure. Tendons and/or nerves can be severed and heal weird, or not at all.

I was having fits until Saul started showing the video to other people. I was just sure that the card was going to be damaged or lost, with no backup created.

Good season so far. I didn't think they'd bust Brody out and turn him (maybe) so early.
 
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blankslate said:
He went after Nazir and got capped in the head in the middle of nowhere by Tom Walker.

but not before he was on the bad end of a re-enactment of the sniper scene from Full Metal Jacket.
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😀

I think they are losing it this season. The one with the tailor showed the bad guys in extremely poor light, and this one really takes the wind out of CIA. Or maybe they want to show the reason why this story line will take a few seasons to resolve - because both sides are so bad.

So what's the idea of tailing somebody walking on the streets - you don't expect them to meet somebody and talk to them, that you have to scramble at the last moment to get the audio, and then lament it when you fail? Or you raid a terrorist place with just - accountants?

I really hope the real CIA is better than this.
 
Regarding this week's episode:

I thought the handling of the tailor shop was great - that sudden mass slaughter by the Nazir death squad was a a real punch in the stomach. That being said, it seems implausible that the bad guys would undertake something as risky as a mass killing of CIA agents, then leave a survivor. I'm glad he didn't die because he seems like a really interesting character, but that felt like a false note to me.

It will be very interesting to learn what's in that black metal case. Dirty bomb? Nuke? Certainly something bad.
 
I watch very few television shows, and at this point more of them are out of habit, but I actually get excited about new episodes of Homeland coming out at this point. What do you guys/gals think of the 2nd season so far? I was afraid of a let-down with how quick some things were discovered, but the writers for this show are absolutely awesome.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
Regarding this week's episode:

I thought the handling of the tailor shop was great - that sudden mass slaughter by the Nazir death squad was a a real punch in the stomach. That being said, it seems implausible that the bad guys would undertake something as risky as a mass killing of CIA agents, then leave a survivor. I'm glad he didn't die because he seems like a really interesting character, but that felt like a false note to me.

It will be very interesting to learn what's in that black metal case. Dirty bomb? Nuke? Certainly something bad.
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They already said it wasn't a nuke do to no radiological readings in the taylor shop. They are theorizing it's a bunch of C4.
 
I thought this episode was kind of lacking. Nothing much happened and there was way too much Dana. Felt like a filler episode.

KT
 
I know he's a jerk and I hate him but I am starting to feel sorry for Brody. I mean I was sort of putting myself in his shoes and the end of the last episode was just so overwhelming with everything going on with the raid in Gettysburg and being a double agent then his daughter and the accident.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Show has definitely jumped the shark but still intriguing to watch.
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At least it hasn't jumped the manatee like Dexter. Nor is it riddled with more holes than a zombie like The Walking Dead. Both of which, it must be noted, suffer an excess of annoying babies.
 
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