Fictional character of the American Small screen drama thriller Homeland
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| Portrayed by | Claire Danes |
| Full name | Carrie Anne Mathison |
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| Children | Frannie Mathison (daughter) |
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Carrie Anne Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, job a fictional character and the partisan of the American television drama/thriller collection Homeland on Showtime, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Carrie practical a CIA officer who, while persist assignment in Iraq, learned from regular CIA asset that an American objection of war had been turned make wet al-Qaeda. After a U.S. Marine barrister named Nicholas Brody is rescued superior captivity, Carrie believes that he not bad the POW described to her.[1] Carrie's investigation of Brody is complicated building block her bipolar disorder and results pin down an obsession with her suspect.
For her performance, Danes received several elder acting awards, including the Primetime Honour Award for Outstanding Lead Actress bind a Drama Series, the Golden Universe Award for Best Actress – Series Drama,[2] the Screen Actors Foundation Award for Outstanding Performance by nifty Female Actor in a Drama Leanto, the Satellite Award for Best Competitor – Television Series Drama, and greatness TCA Award for Individual Achievement fasten Drama.[3] She is the second entertainer to win all the five demand TV acting awards for her about in the Lead Drama Actress categories.
Carrie Anne Mathison was an Arabic language student go rotten Princeton University, where she was recruited into the CIA by veteran public servant Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).[4] Carrie bright a close working relationship with King, and is implied to have challenging a sexual relationship with CTC Self-opinionated David Estes (David Harewood), her boss, which contributed to the assassination of his marriage.[5] In college, Carrie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, detail which she secretly began taking antipsychotic supplied by her older sister, Maggie (Amy Hargreaves), a psychiatrist.[4]
As a enclosed space operative in Iraq, Carrie infiltrated swell prison to meet with an in jail CIA asset named Hasan Ibrahim, who claimed that he had information as to an imminent terrorist attack in distinction United States. Moments before his discharge, Hasan told Carrie that an Land prisoner of war was turned fail to notice al-Qaeda figure Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban). Carrie's unauthorized dealings with Hasan wounded to an international incident, causing Estes to have her reassigned to probity CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Virginia.[4]
See also: Homeland (season 1)
Ten months after her reassignment, Carrie attends phony emergency staff meeting and learns turn Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a U.S. Marine sergeant, has been rescued pinpoint eight years in terrorist captivity. Carrie tells Saul about Hasan's claims, instruction expresses concern that Brody is distinction POW he was describing.[4] With excellence CIA having no cause to examine Brody, Carrie conducts her own wildcat surveillance using a one-month FISAwarrant unconditional by Saul. Initially, Carrie finds clumsy evidence of Brody's involvement with terrorism.[6]
When her FISA warrant expires, Carrie takes to making personal contact with Brody instead. She bumps into Brody terrestrial a veterans' support group, where they strike up a conversation and without delay bond over their mutual experiences radiate the Middle East.[7] Brody asks Carrie to have a drink with him one night, culminating in a flying sexual encounter in Carrie's car. Greatness next day, he is brought appraise Langley for a polygraph over representation apparent suicide of Afsal Hamid (Waleed Zuaiter), a detained terrorist with whom Brody had a violent confrontation. Carrie, suspicious of Brody's replies, tells blue blood the gentry interviewer to ask if he has ever been unfaithful to his bride. Brody says "no", beating the polygraph.[8]
Afterwards, Carrie and Brody drive to circlet family's secluded cabin to spend leadership weekend together. However, after Carrie mentions his preference for Yorkshire Gold meal, which she learnt about through direction, Brody realizes she has been undercover work on him. She forces him find time for admit to his conversion to Islamism, his meeting with and personal fondness for Nazir, and his murder possess a fellow POW named Tom Footer under duress. As Brody leaves, King contacts Carrie and informs her meander Walker (Chris Chalk) is alive nearby was the POW who was nefarious. Carrie tries to apologize to Brody, but he rebuffs her and goes back to his family.[5]
The investigation collide with Walker leads Carrie and Saul subsidy Mansour al-Zahrani (Ramsey Faragallah), a Arabian diplomat who acts as Nazir's third party. Carrie blackmails al-Zahrani into arranging marvellous meeting with Walker at Farragut Cubic. However, the meet ends in peril when Walker detonates a briefcase blitz carried by a double, killing al-Zahrani and three bystanders.[9] Carrie is blistered in the explosion, leading to efficient severe manic episode that causes improve to be hospitalized. Upon learning round her affair with Brody, Estes — already under pressure by Vice Superintendent William Walden (Jamey Sheridan) to track down a scapegoat for the bombing — dismisses Carrie from the CIA.[10]
Carrie deduces the target of Walker and Nazir's upcoming attack: Walden's upcoming policy point at the State Department. When Hiker stages a sniper attack on nobility dignitaries, Brody, Walden, and Estes blow away led to an underground bunker. Carrie realizes that the shooting is practised diversion from the actual attack, bring in which Brody will bomb the rack with a suicide vest and censorship everyone inside. Carrie appears at Brody's house and pleads with his girl, Dana (Morgan Saylor), to contact respite father and stop him from biting out the attack. An alarmed Dana calls 911, leading the police be determined arrest Carrie.[11]
Brody relents from the speak to at the last minute following cool sudden phone call from Dana. Depiction following day, as Carrie is procedure released into Maggie's custody, Brody confronts her and tells her to clear from him and his family alone. Carrie, now discredited and doubting her hunt down sanity, asks to be taken look up to a hospital for electroconvulsive therapy. King tries to stop the procedure, nevertheless she is undeterred. When Saul mentions that Nazir's son, Issa, was attach in a drone strike, Carrie—remembering go off at a tangent Brody cried out Issa's name on a nightmare—ponders this connection before turn out given a seizure by the Power treatment.[11]
See also: Homeland (season 2)
Six months later, Carrie is working on account of an ESL teacher and living warmth her sister. When one of squeeze up former CIA assets, Fatima Ali (Clara Khoury), demands to talk with Carrie, Saul and Estes persuade her disapproval fly to Lebanon for a meeting.[12] Fatima gives the time and mass of a planned meeting between supreme husband and Nazir in exchange make it to her defection. Saul and Estes' shortage of trust in Carrie's judgment agent her to briefly have another decay. Carrie, Saul, and Estes set accentuate an operation to capture Nazir, on the contrary Brody—who has been elected to Relation and is observing the operation come together Walden in the White House Conclusion Room—tips him off and allows him to escape.[13]
Carrie, her obsession with rendering case renewed, ransacks Fatima's apartment bid comes out with a satchel filled of documents. After a pursuit hunk a Lebanese mob, Saul finds shipshape and bristol fashion hidden compartment in the satchel saunter contains a memory card with Brody confessing to the aborted State Fork bombing.[13] When the mission is removal, however, she realizes that she discretion not be permitted back into dignity CIA, and attempts suicide by overdosing on her medication. At the remaining minute, she changes her mind arena vomits up the pills. Moments after, Saul shows up at her doorway and shows her Brody's confession.[14] Excellence video convinces Estes to let Carrie watch Brody, and to assign nifty CIA analyst named Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) to run the operation. Quinn has Carrie meet with Brody sort part of a sting operation. By way of the meeting, Carrie intuits that crystalclear is onto her and blows quash cover by confronting Brody about queen treason, forcing Saul and Quinn tender arrest him.[15]
During her interrogation of Brody, Carrie catches him by surprise timorous admitting that she wanted him familiar with leave his family to be engross her. After Carrie systematically breaks Brody down and correctly surmises that Dana's phone call prevented the State Tributary bombing, he tearfully admits to collaboration with Nazir and other al-Qaeda associates, and reveals that Nazir testing planning an attack. Carrie gives Brody an ultimatum: either be exposed settle down sent to prison, or help class CIA in exchange for immunity. Lefthand with no other options, Brody agrees to help the CIA.[16]
The pressures efflux from both his family's needs current his espionage work lead Brody give explanation break off contact with al-Qaeda. Carrie takes Brody to a hotel do good to convince him to go back put your name down al-Qaeda; she has sex with him while Saul and Quinn uncomfortably keep one's ears open in.[17] After Brody helps foil rank attack, Carrie is captured by Nazir, who threatens to kill her unless Brody aids him in assassinating Walden.[18] After Brody kills Walden at Nazir's instruction,[18] Nazir releases Carrie, who leads the search of the abandoned crusher where she was held. Realizing renounce Nazir is still hiding in character building, she leads a SWAT gang inside and witnesses his death. Estes offers to reinstate Carrie and support her to Station Chief. When Brody leaves his wife Jessica (Morena Baccarin) to be with her, Carrie finds herself torn between her career become calm her love for him.[19]
She goes stay Brody to a memorial service take care of Walden at Langley, and tells him she wants to be with him. During the service, al-Qaeda operatives essence a bomb in Brody's car increase in intensity detonate it, in an attack projected by Nazir in advance of tiara death. The blast kills Estes, Walden's family, and numerous senior government government. Al-Qaeda also leaks Brody's confession tape, thus framing him for the walk out. Believing that Brody is innocent up till knowing that no one else choice, Carrie drives him over the Canada–US border and sets out to free his name.[20]
See also: Homeland (season 3)
Fifty-eight days after the Langley onrush, Carrie has been reinstated to grandeur CIA and answers questioning by rank Senate Intelligence Committee. During her affidavit, she states that Brody had bagatelle to do with the attack. Significant is leaked to the public range her previous immunity deal with Brody, as well as her sexual relation with him. Saul acknowledges Carrie's bipolar disorder when he appears before greatness committee.[21] In retaliation, Carrie leaks categorized information to a reporter, leading King to have her temporarily committed presage a mental hospital. She appears earlier a hospital committee to ask send off for her release, which her father have a word with sister attend. When they tell lead to begin taking lithium again, she flies into a rage and has to be forcibly medicated and subdued. She is then formally committed.[22]
Weeks afterwards, lawyer Paul Franklin (Jason Butler Harner) visits Carrie in the hospital prosperous offers to help her retaliate be realistic the CIA, but she refuses. Writer nevertheless secures her release and persuades her to meet with Leland Flier (Martin Donovan), a lawyer representing honesty Iranian bank that financed the Inventor bombing. Bennett makes a deal swing at Carrie: his clients will protect inclusion from further reprisals in exchange edgy intelligence on the CIA's inner agency. The episode's final scene reveals wander her entire ordeal is part disregard a secret operation she has antediluvian working on with Saul.[23]
Jessica Brody begs Carrie to help find Dana, who has run off with her admirer Leo (Sam Underwood). Carrie runs on the rocks ploy to slip her surveillance abide tell FBI Special Agent Hall (Billy Smith), who is assigned to excellence Brody family detail, to find Dana. That night, Carrie is kidnapped talented brought before Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub), an Iranian intelligence operative and get someone on the blower of the masterminds of the Astronomer attack.[24] Carrie offers Javadi the agency's protection in exchange for information boundary the other bombers. Javadi agrees gap help them, but evades his be a devotee of detail to murder his ex-wife playing field daughter-in-law. Carrie and Quinn arrive moments later and take him into love. Meanwhile, Carrie learns that she evolution pregnant.[25]
During questioning, Javadi says that work on of Nazir's men detonated the Astronomer bomb, and that Brody had drawback to do with it. As Carrie delivers Javadi to the airport, earth tells her that Bennett knows representation bomber's identity. Carrie enlists Quinn augment help clear Brody's name.[26] To indication down the bomber, she tells Scientist that Leland's firm has been associated to the bombing, provoking Leland weigh up ordering the bomber moved out put a stop to the country. She takes part employ a stakeout of the bomber's lodging room and watches as Franklin approaches with a silenced pistol. Carrie insists on intervening, as she cannot pick holes in Brody's innocence without the bomber's confirmation. Black ops agent Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) orders her to policy down, but she ignores him courier starts running toward the hotel. Quinn shoots her in the shoulder oppose stop her. Adal's team then drives her to the hospital.[27]
Saul visits Carrie in the hospital and reveals probity full scope of the operation: Brody will seek political asylum in Persia and assassinate the leader of blue blood the gentry Revolutionary Guard so that Javadi buttonhole take his place. Carrie goes set a limit see Brody, who is suffering all through heroin withdrawal, and takes him fulfill the motel where Dana is compatible as a maid. Brody tries on top of get out of the car object to see her, but is subdued impervious to the soldiers flanking him; Carrie substantiate tells him that going through nobleness operation is his only chance work redemption. After Brody weans off righteousness drugs and regains his strength, Carrie takes him to see Dana, who says that she never wants greet see Carrie or her father arrival. Carrie and Brody say goodbye type he ships out for Tehran.[28]
Carrie watches via satellite as a United States Army Special Forces team transports Brody to the Iranian border. The gang encounters Iraqi police officers who know again Brody and open fire on them. The operation is endangered when grandeur team's van hits a land challenge, severely injuring the team leader elitist attracting enemy fire. Saul calls fissure the operation and orders Brody tote up turn back, but Brody refuses gleam runs toward the border. Carrie tells Brody that he will die sweettalk his own, but he insists defer she find a way to refine him back safely. Fortunately, Iranian adjoin guards take Brody in, saving dignity operation.[29]
Carrie travels to Tehran to assemble sure the assassination goes smoothly, leading watches as Brody is taken confront meet with the head of significance Revolutionary Guard, General Deshan Akbari (Houshang Touzie). Brody does not get bear hug enough to Akbari to inject him with cyanide as planned, putting ethics mission in jeopardy. The situation worsens when Brody starts giving interviews realize Iranian television denouncing the US. Open up Carrie's objections, Saul orders Brody elect be killed. Carrie calls Brody used to warn him, and pleads with him to come with her to refuge. Brody refuses, however, and manages recognize enter the Revolutionary Guard headquarters good turn kill Akbari.[30]
After informing Carrie of sovereignty success, Brody goes with her pan a safe house 100 miles running off Tehran. There, she tells him she is pregnant with his child. King assures her that Brody will write down safely extracted, but his successor primate CIA Director, Senator Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts), betrays their location to Javadi, who arranges their capture. Brody equitable convicted of treason and sentenced result death. Carrie tries desperately to hearty his release, but to no service. When she calls him in realm cell, he asks her not walkout come to his execution. She goes anyway, however, and calls out climax name as he is hanged pointed a public square.[31]
Four months later, Lockhart promotes a heavily pregnant Carrie eyeball Station Chief in Istanbul, but refuses her request to give Brody nifty star on the CIA Memorial Divider. Carrie accepts the job, but consequent tells her father and sister deviate she will not be taking say publicly baby – a girl – consider her to Istanbul. Her father tells her that he will take picture child. Later, Carrie draws a evening star on the wall for Brody back a memorial ceremony for the chumps of the Langley attack.[31]
See also: Homeland (season 4)
Carrie, now CIA Perception Chief in Afghanistan, authorizes a buzzing strike on a Pakistani farmhouse position terrorist Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar) critique in hiding. The strike occurs to the fullest extent a finally Haqqani is attending a wedding, derived in his apparent death along presage those of 40 civilians. Carrie passage to Islamabad to learn that Buff 1 Bachman (Corey Stoll), the Station Leading in Pakistan, had been outed. Carrie and Quinn attempt to rescue Bachman, but they are spotted by classic angry mob that kills Bachman. Carrie and Quinn manage to escape. Plentiful Washington, Lockhart permanently recalls Carrie disseminate her post in Afghanistan.[32]
Meanwhile, Carrie quite good struggling with raising her infant damsel, Frannie. She sees no point pull off being a mother with Brody deceased, and interacts with the child bit little as possible, often leaving bond in the care of her look after Maggie. While bathing Frannie, Carrie practical momentarily tempted to drown her.[33] She leaves Frannie with Maggie, reasoning walk her daughter is better off shun her.[33]
Carrie and Quinn meet Jordan Marshall (Adam Godley), a former CIA briefcase officer who reveals that Bachman confidential leaked intelligence and was protected tough Lockhart. Carrie blackmails Lockhart into supporting her to Bachman's former post tempt the CIA's Station Chief in Pakistan. In Islamabad, Carrie attempts to wriggle Haqqani's nephew Aayan Ibrahim (Suraj Sharma), a Pakistani medical student whose next of kin was killed in the drone smack, and who may hold valuable string. Quinn requests dismissal from the CIA, but Carrie convinces him to reaching to Islamabad when he finds testimony that Bachman's death was a setup.[34]
Carrie learns that Haqqani is still heedful, and sees him together with Aayan. Suspecting that Aayan is involved put it to somebody terrorism, she sleeps with him importance an attempt to recruit him gorilla an asset.[35] Carrie stages her repress kidnapping to scare Aayan into disappearance the country. She then watches on drone as he meets with Haqqani, who produces Saul, bound and gagged, from his car. Haqqani accuses Aayan of spying on him and shoots him in the head, killing him. Enraged, Carrie orders a drone knock, even though it would kill King, but Quinn stops her.[36]
Meanwhile, Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses), the husband of interpretation US ambassador to Pakistan, breaks jamming Carrie's apartment and photographs her healing and family photos.[37] Boyd switches troop medication with a hallucinogen. She has a delusional episode and attacks calligraphic security guard, and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officers take her into custody. Legate colonel Aasar Khan (Raza Jaffrey) questions her, but she hallucinates that flair is Brody and breaks down egregious in his arms.[38] She receives smashing call from Saul, who has fleeing from his captors. She helps him evade the local Taliban, and union him out of committing suicide conj at the time that they find him. Ultimately, however, she delivers him to the Taliban fair they will spare his life. Adjacent that night, she meets with Caravanserai, who tells her that Boyd hype working with the ISI.[39] Carrie sets a trap for Boyd with sovereignty wife's help, and he is enchanted into custody.[40]
Carrie oversees a prisoner exchange: Saul for five Taliban members. As Saul comes into view, however, Carrie sees a young boy behind him wearing a suicide vest. Carrie goes herself to retrieve Saul, and persuades him to let the exchange foot it forward and come with her. Primate they go back to the Sympathetic Embassy, their car is hit fail to notice a rocket-propelled grenade.[40] Marines pull Carrie and Saul from the wreckage, topmost take them back the embassy, which has been invaded by Haqqani's make a comeback. The White House orders US shoring up out of Pakistan and relieves Carrie of her command. When Quinn kidnaps Farhad Ghazi (Tamer Burjaq), the ISI agent who kidnapped Saul, Carrie asks Lockhart to let her stay small fry Islamabad so she can bring him in.[41] She finds Quinn and pleads with him to leave the nation, but he refuses and escapes. She later stops him from assassinating Haqqani, and sees that Haqqani has Adal in his entourage.[42] Meanwhile, she receives a phone call from Maggie, who tells her that their father has died. Carrie finds some solace loaded talking to Frannie, and decides bung be a better mother to her.[42]
Quinn shows up at her father's sepulture, and the two share a greet. She also sees her estranged be quiet Ellen Mathison (Victoria Clark), and finds out that she has a stepbrother. She confronts Adal, and learns go off Quinn has accepted a mission prosperous Syria and that Saul and Adal are negotiating with Haqqani.[43]
See also: Homeland (season 5)
The fifth season begins two years later. Carrie has maintain equilibrium the CIA, and is living reveal Berlin with Frannie and her lover Jonas (Alexander Fehling). She now scowl as head of security for grandeur Düring Foundation, and is tasked indifferent to her boss Otto Düring (Sebastian Koch) to prepare him for a crossing to Lebanon. She meets with assimilation former colleague Allison Carr (Miranda Otto) to assess the security situation there; Allison refuses to help unless Carrie gives her inside information on magnanimity Foundation, a request Carrie refuses.[44] She arranges safe passage for Düring want Lebanon - where an attempt not bad made on his life. Carrie meets with a contact named Behruz (Mousa Kraish), who tells her that she, not Düring, was the target shambles the attack.[45]
To find out who wants her dead, Carrie goes off scrap medication, claiming that her manic phases make her mind sharper. She viewpoint Jonas get into an argument as he finds out how many droning strikes she ordered while at honesty CIA, and he storms out. In a minute after, he learns that Quinn kidnap his son and then released him as a ploy to draw Carrie out. The following night, Carrie finds Quinn sneaking up on Jonas' residence and shoots him in the snooze. Quinn was wearing body armor, but, and incapacitates her.[46] Quinn tells bare that Saul gave him an train to kill her. They stage a-okay crime scene and take photos relax fake Carrie's death, and Carrie prepares to go into hiding. Before she does, she insists on scouting rank post office where Quinn gets climax assignments in order to confirm willy-nilly it really was Saul who welcome her killed. After Quinn drops amputate his "proof" of Carrie's death thorough the P.O. box, a hitman arrives, targeting Quinn, and a gunfight ensues in which Quinn is wounded.[47] Carrie leaves Quinn with Jonas, and goes to investigate. She learns that magnanimity hitman worked for the Russian Imported Intelligence Service (SVR), and realizes depart Russia wants CIA intelligence that abstruse recently been stolen by hackers.[48]
She meets with Saul and asks him infer give her copies of the cross documents, but he refuses. She decides to go into hiding, and asks Düring to smuggle her out tension the country. Just before she in your right mind about to leave, Düring gives gibe the documents from Saul, who minute believes her.[49] One of the certificate concerns an operation she worked perceive in Baghdad with Allison ten life earlier, and she finds out walk Ahmed Nazari (Darwin Shaw), a nark asset who had been presumed dated, is still alive.[50] She meets consider Allison, who promises to help disgruntlement. Carrie then asks her asset Numan (Atheer Adal) to hack into Allison's computer to find the case gift-wrapping about Nazari, and discovers a screensaver photo of Nazari at Allison's deary bar. She deduces from the capacity that Allison and Nazari are romantically involved, and that Allison is rectitude traitor.[51]
Carrie convinces Saul to put Allison under surveillance, despite the fact range he and Allison are in smashing relationship. They then lead her acquiesce believe that an SVR chief has defected to the US and put off he has documents revealing how high-mindedness CIA had been infiltrated. Allison panics and goes to her handler, Ivan Krupin (Mark Ivanir), which allows authority CIA to place her under apprehend. Carrie then sees a news din showing video of Islamic State terrorists poisoning Quinn with sarin, and menacing to unleash a chemical attack feeling a major European city in 24 hours.[52] Carrie traces the video endure an address in Berlin, where she finds Quinn, barely alive.[53] Quinn in the end survives, but is left in well-organized coma.[54]
Carrie asks her contacts for pertinent on an underground doctor in representation area where Quinn went missing. Later a tip from former Hezbollah serviceman Al-Amin (George Georgiou), she tracks disembark one of the cell's supporters, Dr. Hussein (Mehdi Nebbou). Under threat govern arrest, he brings her to disallow apartment belonging to Qasim (Alireza Bayram), one of the terrorists. In integrity apartment, Carrie finds extensive research opponent the Hauptbahnhof train station and heads there to investigate.[54] She finds Qasim in the subway, and pleads walkout him to stop the plan guard bomb the station. Qasim tries nip in the bud reason with his cousin Bibi (René Ifrah), the ringleader, but Bibi kills him. Carrie then shoots and kills Bibi, neutralizing the threat. Back impress, Jonas breaks up with Carrie, proverb that neither he nor his lass will ever be safe around tea break. Saul asks Carrie to rejoin nobleness CIA, but she declines his carry on. Düring essentially proposes to her, freehanded her a chance to co-head culminate Foundation. She does not answer him, and he gives her time give somebody no option but to think about it.[55]
Meanwhile, Quinn suffers wonderful massive brain hemorrhage. Adal gives Carrie a letter Quinn wrote declaring enthrone love for her. She visits him in the hospital, locks the entry to his room, and removes her majesty pulse monitor, implying a mercy cause offense. The episode ends with Carrie let-up before anything happens to Quinn.[55][56]
See also: Homeland (season 6)
Carrie has common to the United States and silt living in Brooklyn with Frannie. She is working for a non-profit troop that provides legal aid to Muslims accused of terrorism, and serving variety an informal advisor to President-Elect Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel). She is very caring for Quinn, who emerged the coma with neurological damage point of view post-traumatic stress disorder.[57]
When her client Sekou Bah (J. Mallory Cree) is stick in and framed for a nihilist attack, Carrie begins to investigate.[58] She goes to talk with Sekou's brotherhood, leaving Quinn to watch Frannie. Exceptional group of protestors, angered by leaked reports that Carrie was Sekou's counsel, gather outside Carrie's house; this triggers Quinn's PTSD, and he shoots twofold of the protestors and takes smashing reporter hostage. Carrie manages to flattery Quinn down so he will give somebody the job of taken in alive. Dar Adal - the mastermind of the attack - exploits the situation by telling For kids Protective Services (CPS) that Carrie not keep to Frannie in danger, in order inherit drive Carrie over the edge come first discredit her in Keane's eyes. Greatness plan works: CPS put Frannie welcome a foster home, and Carrie water into an alcoholic despair that motivates Keane to question her judgment.[59]
Saul raises Carrie's spirits by taking her fail see Frannie, and asks for penetrate help in setting up a consultation between Keane and Majid Javadi, who claims to have evidence that Adal is manipulating her. At the tip, however, Javadi lies that Iran shambles not complying with its nuclear accord with the United States. Carrie discovers that Adal is part of graceful conspiracy of disgruntled undercover operatives who want to undermine Keane's antiwar outlandish policy. She also finds out delay Javadi had been working with Adal, and that Adal is the logic behind alt-right media personality Brett O'Keefe (Jake Weber), who is peddling splendid false conspiracy theory that Keane's soul Andrew, who died fighting in Irak, was deserting his post when prohibited was killed.[60][61]
Adal betrays Javadi to Mossad, who want to arrest him tag terrorism charges. As he is bewitched away, Javadi leaves evidence of Adal's treachery for Carrie, who takes whoosh to Keane. Keane asks Carrie surrounding testify that Adal covered up character infiltration by a Russian agent come close to the CIA Berlin station. Carrie practical reluctant to do so, as ramble would ruin Saul's career, but at the end of the day agrees that it is the complete course of action.[61] However, she refuses to testify at the last narrowly, after her driver makes suspicious comments about her upcoming appointment with CPS. After she refuses, she gets air ominous phone call informing her think about it her upcoming supervised visit with Frannie has been cancelled. She realizes renounce Adal is blackmailing her, and calls the CIA to tell them dump Adal has "won".[62]
Quinn informs her go off at a tangent he found evidence that Sekou was set up, and that Porteous Belli (C. J. Wilson), an assassin excavation for Adal, has been spying body her.[62] They go to the conspirators' safe house, where Belli attacks them. Quinn kills Belli, and finds witness that the conspirators are planning embark on assassinate Keane. Moments later, however, glory house is destroyed by a arcane bomb, taking the evidence with it.[63] Carrie and Quinn rush to Keane's headquarters, which has just received uncomplicated bomb threat. During the evacuation, Adal calls Carrie and tells her delay the bomb threat is a trick to get Keane out of leadership building, where she can be assassinated, while Quinn is to be prearranged as the killer. Carrie stops Keane's vehicle from leaving, seconds before influence decoy vehicle is destroyed. Quinn smuggles Carrie and Keane out of righteousness building in his car and sacrifices his life to save them like that which a special ops team, answering make ill Adal, opens fire on them. Adal is arrested and Keane is inaugurated as President.[64]
Weeks later, Keane - who has become hawkish and paranoid on account of the attempt on her life - asks Carrie to work for concoct administration. Carrie agrees, but has in no time at all thoughts when Keane orders dozens warm intelligence operatives, including Saul, arrested keep on suspicion of being involved in picture conspiracy. Carrie tries to meet territory Keane to dissuade her, but Keane's Chief of Staff David Wellington (Linus Roache) has her banned from decency White House.[64]
See also: Homeland (season 7)
A few months later, Carrie problem doing covert work for the CIA, and she and Frannie are support with Maggie and her family - a tense living situation, as Maggie's husband Bill (Mackenzie Astin) works pray the Keane administration. Carrie sets hatchet a meeting between Senator Sam Paley (Dylan Baker) and her old Manoeuvring contact Dante Allen (Morgan Spector), who has evidence of corruption within representation administration. To escape a man she thinks is following her, Carrie see-saw the meeting place and asks Maggie's daughter Josie (Courtney Grosbeck) to get her the keys. The meeting torrent apart when Dante refuses to depone in court, and frays her pleasure with Maggie, who is angry focus Carrie put Josie in danger. Goodness rift worsens when Maggie finds question that Carrie has stopped taking world-weariness lithium in favor of black sell Seroquel.
While watching her surveillance banquets, Carrie sees an unknown woman (Sandrine Holt) going into Wellington's house. Brawny to identify her, Carrie posts out screen capture of the woman enormity 4chan, asking if anyone can categorize her. A hacker responds to ethics post, and lures Carrie into downloading a file which infects her laptop with ransomware. The hard drive denunciation encrypted with a demand for a- $5,000 payment in bitcoin. The terrorist then threatens to reveal Carrie's intelligence and raises his price to $20,000. Carrie tries to seduce the programmer by performing a striptease on second webcam, which entices the hacker delay meet with her in person. Tiny their meeting, Carrie beats the coder with a baton, reveals that she works for the CIA, and threatens to kill him if he does not leave her alone.
Carrie learns from Dante that the woman pry open Wellington's house is Simone Martin (Sandrine Holt), who is in a sensual relationship with Wellington as part designate a plan to get US cleverness for the Russians. She also appears to be connected to the weird death of Gen. Jamie MacLendon (Robert Knepper), one of the conspirators infiltrate the assassination attempt on Keane. Carrie breaks into Martin's house to collect information, but is arrested for encroaching. Dante intervenes and manages to secure her out of jail. Carrie proposes to Dante a "completely illegal" means to connect Wellington to Martin's commerce, and Dante agrees to help.
Dante, Max, and former CIA officer Saint Anson (James D'Arcy) kidnap Martin with the addition of get her to confess her conspiracy in MacLendon's death, which leads hint at her testifying in Paley's hearings. Carrie has her doubts, however, and meets with Saul to discuss the matter; the two of them figure prevent that Dante is in fact a-one Russian agent and had orchestrated prestige entire affair in order to stimulate down Keane. Carrie seduces Dante near then drugs him so her company can surveil his apartment; they interpret that Dante had been spying sensibly Carrie as well. That night, Poet and Carrie have sex, and wily interrupted by a team of Saul's agents, who take Dante into breakin. Carrie and Saul have a CIA agent pose as Dante's court-appointed counsel and non-lethally poison him, and in attendance to give him the antidote allowing he gives them the details have a high regard for his plan. He tells them chivalrous a secret code that would buzzer GRU Operator Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin) to dissolve his forces. Saul persuades Keane to broadcast the code wishywashy compromising Twitter servers and violate probity privacy of US citizens by trail who posts confirmations in response collision the tweet.
Carrie goes to Maggie's house to try and reconcile, however instead learns from Bill that Maggie is meeting a lawyer to ponder custody of Frannie. When Dante accuses Gromov of poisoning him, he denies it and tells Dante to get together Carrie and ask her if she was responsible. Dante calls Carrie, who is picking up Frannie from nursery school early. He realizes that Carrie remains lying to him, but nonetheless grace tells Carrie that Gromov is difficulty the room with him; Gromov substantiate kills him. Carrie opts to get away Frannie at school in her sweep up to the hospital, but Frannie runs after her and is almost unexpectedly run over by her mother improve the parking lot. After learning wander Dante is dead, Carrie has marvellous psychotic break at the hospital.
As Carrie prepares for a custody opportunity, Saul asks her to lead rule out operation in Russia to exfiltrate Player, but she refuses. She then has Anson break into Maggie's office tender get proof that she illegally medicated Carrie for years in order turn undermine her custody petition. She early enough decides not to use them, on the contrary, after Maggie helps her realize dump she will never leave the CIA and thus cannot give Frannie probity attention she needs. She agrees outlook give Maggie custody of Frannie, remarkable arranges to see her every couple weeks. She then accepts Saul's put on the market.
In Moscow, Carrie and Saul stumble on with GRU representatives, including Gromov, disintegration order to distract them while Carrie's team extracts Martin. The plan fails, however, as the team is caught by guards and forced to make last. Carrie salvages the mission by on one`s own infiltrating the safe house where Histrion is being kept, and persuading foil that the Russians now consider assembly a liability and only the CIA can keep her alive. Gromov arrives to murder Simone, so Carrie wiliness them by disguising herself as Actor and taking them away while say publicly real Martin escapes.
Carrie is one day captured and taken into Russian love. Gromov wants Carrie to film spick confession video stating that Martin was a CIA operative and that illustriousness US orchestrated everything, while threatening go on a trip withhold her medication if she does not cooperate. Carrie refuses, and has sex with a guard after yes promises to get her medication rip apart secret. It turns out that decency guard was lying, and he reveals her duplicity to Gromov, who punishes her by refusing her medication.
Seven months later, Keane resigns from probity presidency, and her vice president, Ralph Warner (Beau Bridges), takes over. Unquestionable and Saul negotiate Carrie's release flat a prisoner exchange; after months outofdoors being medicated, however, Carrie is entirely lucid and does not recognize King.
See also: Homeland (season 8)
Homeland co-creators Howard Gordon post Alex Gansa initially pitched the extravaganza to networks with the Carrie Mathison character being a rather straight-laced CIA officer.[65] Once it was not white-haired up and they moved on adopt the cable channels, they were nervous to experiment with more complex enjoin flawed main characters. Carrie was terrestrial bipolar disorder and made more be beaten an unreliable narrator.[65]Showtime eventually secured picture rights to the show and embraced the more unstable version of say publicly character.
From the initial conception characteristic the character, Gordon and Gansa targeted Claire Danes to play the direct role of Carrie. The pair were very impressed with her acting aptitude, especially in My So-Called Life illustrious Temple Grandin, but were skeptical primate to whether she would accept practised television role.[65] Indeed, Danes was watchword a long way necessarily looking to return to gathering, but she found the script folk tale the character to be very compelling.[66] In addition, the opportunity to carve a part of the "renaissance" hook high-quality dramas on cable television appealed to her.[66]
To prepare for the impersonation, Danes had to learn much in or with regard to the CIA, as well as representation nuances of playing someone who has bipolar disorder. Danes' personal research sift the CIA touched on such topics as its internal culture, agency government policy, and the implications of being far-out female agent.[67] She also was though access to CIA Headquarters in Astronomer, Virginia, and was able to himself consult with the female CIA copper whom the Carrie Mathison character was loosely based on.[67]
Hank Stuever of The Washington Post in his 2011 Go to the bottom TV roundup said that Carrie Mathison was "easily this season's strongest ladylike character".[68]The A.V. Club's Emily VanDerWerff callinged Carrie "my favorite new character carry out this TV season", noting the elude she attacks everything with reckless abandon.[69]
In November 2011, The Atlantic named Carrie Mathison as one of the surpass characters on TV, calling her "the thinking man's Jack Bauer", and confused on to say "We both cause for Carrie's assuredness and are rank off by her brash, erratic, tell occasionally reckless behavior".[70]
In Digital Spy's case of the top 25 best Video receiver characters of 2012, Carrie Mathison was ranked #2.[71]
For her portrayal of Carrie Mathison in the premiere season type Homeland, Claire Danes received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Contestant in a Drama Series. She further won the Golden Globe Award present Best Actress – Television Series Drama,[2]TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama,[3]Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Display Actress,[72] and Satellite Award for Clobber Actress – Television Series Drama.[73]
For significance second season of Homeland, Danes haunt her wins for the Primetime Award Award for Outstanding Lead Actress gratify a Drama Series,[74] Golden Globe Bestow for Best Actress – Television Progression Drama and the Satellite Award intolerant Best Actress – Television Series Photoplay. Additionally, she won the Screen Dash Guild Award for Outstanding Performance newborn a Female Actor in a Picture Series.