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Having physically seduced young Aayan Ibrahim Carrie sets about trying recruit him as an asset while still letting him think she is a journalist who can give him a new life in London. Unfortunately while she is busy with Aayan she neglects other important aspects of her job; most notably when Quinn needs her to authorise a drone to follow a cleric who met with Aayan's terrorist uncle but as she doesn't answer her phone the man is lost… something that may have serious repercussions as unbeknownst to Quinn a major character has been kidnapped and is hidden in the boot! Meanwhile the ambassador starts to worry about what her husband is up to; although she fears an affair rather than him being blackmailed into treason.

This was another solid episode although the main interest was Quinn and Fara's story as they try to follow the cleric and Saul's sighting of a person of interest at the airport rather than series protagonist Carrie. Her plot may be important for the overall season arc but it didn't have the excitement of the side plots… they leave the viewer worrying about the safety of a main character and as major characters have been killed off before we can't guess how it will work out. Overall a gripping episode than left me wanting to know what will happen next.

'About a Boy' the title itself is self explanatory. This episode showed the hard effort done by writers in building the characters. Carrie showed again that when it comes to the job done she can go to any limits , in this scenario seducing the boy to get to a Terrorist.

Well if you think all this is not pragmatic then think again. I read some reviews about this season and its really weird that some viewers have shown frustration about the Carrie's relationship with Aayan, well she is not doing some stupid melodramatic show, this is intelligent show with some real writing.

For those who thinks writers are out of the ideas then I feel sorry for you because Season 1-3 was OK and this season the writing has actually raised the level by capturing the evil world we live in. So feel good type seasons like before though please you much but they ain't real.

Suraj did a great job, also Quinn and Fara are getting along. I am really excited for what comes next.

What is scary about Homeland is that the show has survived a tremendous setback and has actually improved. The episodes so far has been quite excellent and I assume it's because the personnel associated with the production of this show,must be very good. They must do great research and portray the characters and technology faithfully.

This is where my fearfulness, escalates. If the characters are being researched so well, then the operatives depicted, who all appear to be deeply flawed and sociopathic, essentially become bogeymen. Surely,these cannot be the type of people we have representing us. They are so subjective and reactive,it's a wonder they haven't started more wars than we are already engaged in. It's scary that people of this caliber walk the earth, no wonder we are so destructive and utterly ruthless!

A show like this highlights the reason for us to seriously get our heads out of our bums and monitor these dangerous people occupying our Govts' and police forces. They cannot be allowed to make any decisions whatsoever being as flawed and compromised as they are!

Carrie's bit where she emoted pride when he bribed the policeman was just brilliant acting or directing? I'm really beginning to respect Claire Dane's skills or if the director is responsible, theirs.

But then, maybe it's just a great TV show and it's all make believe. I really hope so, because anything else,we are surely in deep deep kaka!

OK I need to get this straight:

1. so CIA female operatives have one thing in their arsenal when it comes to recruit male assets half their age- Sexuality? 2. You want to tell me that an ex CIA director ? 3. and seriously who calls someone Mam after spending the whole night with them? 4. Who the hell tells a journalist just after a couple of times of banging that his/her uncle who is a wanted man believed to be dead is actually alive.... seriously if it was so easy, why have intelligence services at all, please send a hooker for every interrogation from now on.

Homeland season 4 has added another feather to Carrie's cap after being a maniac,a pathetic mother and sometimes a slut... that is COUGAR...

The writers are completely running out of ideas, and honestly they have made the i s i look like the best intelligence agency in the world . This was one of the worst episodes in the whole series and mind you season 3 had given us some really pathetic ones..

I am absolutely disgusted by the storyline that has Carrie sleeping with this vulnerable young man. She did it with Brody first and now Aayan; it's repellant and surely not the only way to turn someone. I simply can't bear to watch those sex scenes at all.

Somehow the soundtrack of "The Graduate":is running through my head (what can I say? I'm old) as I've watched these two really unfortunate ham-handed shark-jumping eps of a series who first three seasons were mostly brilliant & tragic.

The interesting things about the series relate to the humanity, the blunted hopes and dreams of the central characters, and the way they have to thread the ethical mazes in which their profession lands them. These themes were the stuff of the great Cold War spy thrillers of John le Carre, Len Deighton, and others. Carrie's insight, her desperate inventiveness, were constantly challenging in the first three seasons. She does not seem to possess them here. She too easily got hold of the Islamabad station as Director Lockhart proved to be a paper tiger who folds at Carrie's Bluff a couple episodes ago. Saul somehow thinks he can manage to navigate through an intricate ISI plot without a scintilla of protection from the Agency or from the Embassy & is easily taken prisoner.

Ehen Carrie started to lure Aryan at the end of the previous ep, she asked, incredulously, "Is she seducing him?" The sex scenes between the two are cringe to the nth degree.