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Season 3 is coming to an end in a truly spectacular fashion. If the previous episodes of the show rocked, I didn't see this one coming. This is a truly masterpiece of storytelling, tension, shocking turns and cliffhanger. Everything I hoped for since a while. I'm brave and daring but I would say that this was the best episode of the entire series for me. I was without blink from the start to the amazing end.

Damian Lewis gives his best performance of Brody in this season for me yet. He surpasses himself and his role every week. Claire Danes is strong as Carrie. The rest of the cast make a truly talented job.

This episode finally crosses the line with Brody killing his target in a shocking ending. But how everything will end next episode? This question rises meanwhile the show has raised its own bar sky high with this episode. These last four episodes are one of the best comebacks of any show I've ever seen. If the Season Finale is nearby as perfect as this one, I will forgive the first episodes of this season and the third series of Homeland will be remembered as a very good one.

See it next week!

The previous episode saw Brody crossing the border into Iran and meeting CIA asset and senior Iranian intelligence agent Majid Javadi… now he just has to get close enough to the head of the agency to kill him. This won't be easy; first he has to convince the Iranians that he is genuinely seeking asylum then he must actually meet the man who is notoriously paranoid. At first it looks as if the meeting is going to go ahead and Saul enlists Mossad assistance to assist in supplying a weapon and then extracting Brody. Unfortunately things don't go as expected; Brody doesn't meet his target and soon he is making statements on Iranian TV condemning the United States. Back in Washington everybody is furious and fear that he may blow the whole operation by telling the Iranians about Javadi… perhaps Brody has outlived his usefulness! Carrie, who flew into Tehran shortly after Brody entered the country to help organise the extraction is determined to protect Brody; something that could be a serious mistake if he does betray the operation.

As the third season reaches its penultimate episode the tension is rising nicely. I liked how it looked as though Brody would accomplish his mission quickly only for everything to go somewhat wrong in a way that left his loyalty in doubt once again. One thing that did seem unlikely was Carrie's presence in Tehran; it doesn't seem possible that the authorities wouldn't spot her; after all she stands out due to her blonde hair and her public appearances early in the season would make her known to Iranian Intelligence… still while watching I was too caught up in the story to worry about that and Claire Danes does a fine job in the role. The ending, which I won't describe in detail, was great and set things up nicely for the final episode… I can't wait!

The little bits of panic and worry by Brody are quite interesting. He decides to use truth ( something he would waver on once his life went wild ) to earn the general's trust, then picks the only object within reach that looks solid enough to hurt the general: an astray.

See how dangerous tobacco related products can be to you? Then after finishing the job with a lovely pillow he puts the ashtray back really quietly, as if the noise will be more noticeable than the moment the general fell on the floor.

Cleaning up the blood? Couldn't the general have a box of facial tissues nearby? Good thing that water was there, and that the secretary had left her desk.

As this all played out I realized it was the second big-wig that Brody has killed in his own office. He's not bad for an amateur assassin.

I liked the story. it was good and catchy somehow. but soooo many mistakes about Iran.

almost everything they showed about Iran is wrong. the streets are not like this. darvazeh ghar is not even close to this in the looks, people in this episode spoke stupid farsi - I'm Iranian and I assure you none of these actors where speaking fluently. some sentences were not even understandable. and also, a very big goof. in the scene that javadi and akbari are talking together about brody, javadi repeats this question twice, right after the other: "potentially, with huge propaganda value"...

and the last, but not least, in Farsi, breaking news is "خبر فوری", not "خبر عاجل". the latter is Arabic. like many other sentences that "Iranians" were saying.

I'm not saying this to say that it was bad. but they could at least try a little harder to use real Iranians. most of the Iranian cast were Arabs. I hate it to see that Iranians sunk so low that they are represented by Arabs. we have more than enough Iranians in America to help them.