After Keane resigns and her vice president, Ralph Warner, takes over, Wellington remains on as chief of staff. His measured approach to his job often clashes with Carrie's drastic, impulsive methods. She is best remembered for her role as Gwen French in Some Came Running (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Played by Martin Donovan, Leland Bennett is a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm who represents a bank that has ties to Iranian terrorists. Nick Brody, a POW who was recently rescued after long captivity. He and Carrie work to exfiltrate a key witness in the case from Russia so that she can testify about the conspiracy before Congress. Saad was pressured into helping the FBI entrap Sekou on false charges. Dar also informs Saul that video evidence of his capture by the Taliban will not be publicized, preserving Saul's chances of becoming CIA director. Her suspicions ultimately being correct, she loses her job when her investigation is exposed by Brody. Carrie regularly visits Quinn, and receives a heartfelt letter he wrote for her. Read more. While deployed in Iraq, Carrie receives information leading her to suspect rescued American POW Nicholas Brody of being a terrorist. Played by Mandy Patinkin, Saul Berenson is a veteran intelligence officer at the CIA, initially introduced as the agency's Middle East Division Chief. However, he dies from poisoning as soon as he enters custody, and is later found to have been assassinated by the Russians in an attempt to sabotage the Keane administration. Carrie and Saul ask doctors to revive Quinn to query him for information on the impending terrorist attack, but Quinn is unresponsive and goes into respiratory arrest. They later move to West Bank. Saul later visits Ivan in Wyoming, where is staying under witness protection, to inquire about possible Russian interference with the administration of President Elizabeth Keane. The two begin a relationship and eventually run off together until Dana learns that Leo was possibly involved in the death of his own brother, which Leo told her was a suicide. As CIA director, Lockhart oversees the Islamabad crisis during the hunt for Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani, and goes to the Islamabad CIA station himself after Saul is captured by the Taliban. Saul is fired from the CIA once Lockhart takes office, and then begins work in the private sector. Allison is shown to be cunning, materialistic and manipulative, initiating a sexual relationship with Saul following his divorce to gain trust within the upper echelons of the CIA. Played by Waleed Zuaiter, Asfal "Affie" Hamid was an al-Qaeda fighter who was the sole survivor of the compound Brody was rescued from. His plans are eventually thwarted when it is revealed that Warner's helicopter crashed due to a mechanical failure rather than an attack by the Taliban. Upon leaving the store late at night, the police catch up to him but rather than arresting him they tell him that they can take him somewhere safe. Carrie helps him escape and go into hiding in Canada while promising to clear his name. Saul investigates Iran's possible violations of their nuclear treaty (based on a false lead planted by Dar), visiting his sister Dorit in the West Bank as cover to secretly meet with Majid Javadi. Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924 - May 31, 2014) was an American actress. Mary Boyd, Actress: The Ford Television Theatre. Nazir oversees the captivity of prisoners of war Nicholas Brody and Tom Walker, and over a period of years is able to groom them both to turn on the U.S. and align with al-Qaeda. Lockhart complies, but Haqqani nonetheless stabs Fara to death before escaping. In the aftermath of the fiasco, Lockhart attends the wake of Carrie's late father at her home, and informs Carrie, Saul and Quinn that he expects to be removed from his post as CIA director. Known to be an aggressive, strongman leader, G'ulom's first act as president is to publicly blame Haissam Haqqani for the deaths of Presidents Warner and Daoud, then round up hundreds of Taliban prisoners in a stadium and threaten their execution unless Haqqani turns himself in. Psychologically ruined and disillusioned, she ends up cleaning motel rooms, seeing Brody one final time before he goes to Iran. Later, when Haqqani and his men storm the U.S. embassy, Lockhart takes refuge with the U.S. ambassador and other officials while safeguarding a package of highly classified CIA intelligence. Played by Sarah Sokolovic, Laura Sutton is a dissident American journalist at the Dring Foundation. Haqqani and his men slaughter several CIA personnel before retrieving the package and escaping. He has a tense relationship with Carrie, partly due to a past affair with her which led to the end of Estes' marriage. Saul arrives weeks later with $10 million in cash for Brody's release, finding him in a catatonic state. Saul is first placed in charge of the manhunt for provocateur Brett O'Keefe, and unsuccessfully attempts to deescalate a standoff between the FBI and O'Keefe's supporters (which ultimately ends in a deadly shootout). Christine later testifies at a custody hearing between Carrie and her sister Maggie regarding who should take care of Frannie. At the hospital, she lies about the location of the attack to mislead the authorities, then escapes while unattended. Played by Andrea Deck, Jenna Bragg is a young, novice CIA agent stationed in Kabul. This episode is just three weeks after Josh had captured another Richard Anderson character in 'Three for One'. It was 1986 when the Archers team sent me the script, and at that time everyone was watching Dallas and Dynasty, and we all loved to hate J.R. and Joan Collins. He is listed among those killed when a bomb goes off outside his father's memorial service. They later bring him to Iraq's Kurdish regional government region near the Iran-Iraq border, and when approached by Kurdish police, they open fire when his cover story is not believed. Played by Morena Baccarin, Jessica Brody is the wife of Nicholas Brody and mother of Dana and Chris. Played by Talia Balsam, Cynthia Walden is the wife of Vice President William Walden. Laura later makes contact with one of the hackers, Numan, who promises her the remainder of the documents. Dar, distrustful of Keane's antiwar platform and anticipated overhauls of the intelligence community, plots behind Saul's back to undermine the Keane administration. However, Youssef is killed on his way out of Germany in an airplane explosion engineered by the Russians. Hey, it happens. Dar is arrested and put in federal custody for his role in the conspiracy. Brody agrees to provide the pacemaker's serial number for Nazir in exchange for releasing Carrie as his hostage. Chris is too young to remember Nicholas before he went into service, and struggles to connect with his returned father at times. Carrie attends Brody's execution despite his pleas that she not be there. Being one of the eight Jewish families in the entire town, their parents tried not to offend anyone with their Jewishness by asking them to exchange Christmas gifts with neighbors. Two years later, Carrie lives in Berlin, working as a security consultant for the During Foundation and staying with her daughter Frannie as well as her coworker and boyfriend Jonas. Played by Costa Ronin, Yevgeny Gromov is a lieutenant colonel in the GRU, Russia's intelligence directorate. Estes makes plans to have Brody assassinated once Abu Nazir is neutralized, and when Saul opposes this action, he threatens Saul's job. Turani is shot in the head by Majid Javadi. Saul is doggedly committed to his job, often at the expense of his personal life: he has a wife, Mira, who resents his absence at home (which ultimately results in their divorce), and a sister, Dorit, who lives in the West Bank and has not seen him in years. About a year later, Max joins a military unit in Afghanistan, still seeking justice against Haqqani and the Taliban for Fara's death. He is implied to be a pedophile who lives in the slum due to social ostracism. Carrie allows Quinn, who is recovering from a stroke, to stay in the lower floor of her apartment. Bennett attempts to convince Carrie to inform on the CIA for a client of his (who turns out to be Majid Javadi), which she agrees to in order to lure Javadi out. Walker, like Brody, becomes loyal to al-Qaeda after several years as a prisoner-of-war. Read more. At the same time, Saul clashes with Senator Andrew Lockhart, who is soon to replace him as director, and he discovers that his wife is having an affair with a man named Alain Bernard. As his behavior becomes increasingly bizarre, Jessica suspects further infidelity. In the eight years her husband is gone and presumed dead, Jessica does not remarry but does engage in a serious relationship with Brody's best friend Mike Faber, which is abruptly ended when Brody returns home. Carrie later tracks down Ellen in Nebraska (where she works as a schoolteacher) and demands to know why she abandoned her family. After discovering that someone ordered a hit on her, Carrie has Frannie sent back to the U.S. for her own safety. Max, implied to have had romantic feelings for Fara, is left devastated by her death, and later chastises Carrie for being a harsh and ungrateful mentor to her. She shares years of on-again, off-again sexual history with Peter Quinn, for whom she has unrequited romantic feelings. However, Carrie later learns that Haqqani was not present at the blast site and is instead in hiding, receiving deliveries of medicine from his nephew Aayan Ibrahim (who survived the blast). Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. When the elder Haqqani is wrongly sentenced to death for causing the helicopter crash that killed Presidents Warner and Daoud, Jalal takes Max Piotrowski as a hostage to negotiate his father's release. Carrie steamrolled her way into the Islamabad embassy, and it made sense that Martha. The good sheriff who was seduced into robbing a bank by his beautiful but deadly girlfriend, convinces Josh to let him assist in her capture. Brody is ultimately captured and executed by the Iranian authorities, and Carrie attends his public hanging. Only months into his tenure, Warner dies in a helicopter crash alongside Afghan President Daoud while returning from a combat outpost in Afghanistan where he announced the end of the war. He clashes with Carrie as she is not very willing to take orders from him, but they come to respect each other's skills. Lockhart unsuccessfully attempts to negotiate with the ISI for Saul's release. Judy Farrell (1938-2023), M*A*S*H actress. During the Taliban's attack on the embassy, Carrie calls Khan to send in backup, but Tasneem stops him, revealing to him her allegiance with the Taliban. Quinn is later discovered by Saul to be a black ops officer hired by Estes to assassinate Brody once Abu Nazir is neutralized. Khan later learns from ISI agent Tasneem Qureishi that the poisoning was engineered to get Carrie transferred out of Islamabad, but that his intervention foiled their plans. This leads to Saul, Carrie, and Estes forming a task force attempting to use Brody as a re-doubled agent against al-Qaeda. Played by Patrick Sabongui, Reda Hashem is a lawyer and the head of Fair Trial, a New York City nonprofit defending the civil liberties of Muslims. While searching for the flight recorder from President Warner's helicopter, Carrie has Jenna disclose the location of a safehouse used by CIA operatives hunting Carrie and Yevgeny Gromov, lying to Jenna that she plans to turn herself in. Martha helps Carrie entrap Dennis; while in custody, he reveals to Martha that he leaked information about the embassy's secret underground entrance to the ISI, which they realize enabled Haissam Haqqani and his Taliban soldiers to storm the embassy and steal a package of top-secret CIA intelligence. Brody reveals to Akbari that he was sent by the CIA to kill Akbari and replace him with Javadi; a stunned Akbari thanks Brody for telling him the truth, only for Brody to then bludgeon him with an ashtray and smother him to death with a pillow. Carrie and Saul hatch a plan alongside German intelligence to lure Allison into being arrested alongside Ivan. The following is a list of recurring characters who have appeared in at least three episodes of a season or in at least two episodes of two different seasons. She is introduced as an antagonist, aiding Haissam Haqqani and the Taliban's takeover of the region in effort to drive out the Americans. Etai has Saul extracted from CIA custody under the guise of defection after the CIA unduly suspect Saul of working against them. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name . That night, a rogue assassin from Dar Adal's black ops group ambushes the cabin and kills a defenseless Astrid. Under his leadership, the ISI helps the Taliban undermine U.S. presence in Islamabad, which culminates in an attack on the American embassy that results in the U.S. pulling out of the region. Played by Mackenzie Astin, Bill Dunn is Maggie Mathison's husband and Carrie's brother-in-law. Played by Catherine Curtin, Sandy Langmore is a former CIA officer who was demoted to teaching at the academy after the leaked documents scandal in Berlin. Carrie and Saul send in a decoy lawyer to poison him in a manner similar to McClendon; believing the Russians are responsible, Dante admits that Wellington's girlfriend Simone Martin is a Russian asset involved in the plot to kill McClendon. After this, Dana changes her last name to disassociate herself from her father and moves out of the house. This is a list of characters appearing in the Showtime drama television series Homeland. Despite his lack of experience in the military, Zabel is a brash and ardent advocate for war, and works to manipulate Hayes into escalating tensions with the Pakistan government in hopes of launching an invasion in the area. Jalal eventually forces Balach to carry out a suicide attack on the Americans, threatening to murder his family if he does not comply. Played by Mickey O'Hagan, Clarice is a prostitute that Quinn befriends while recovering from his stroke in New York. When tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan nearly culminate in a war, Saul and Carrie work to obtain the helicopter's flight recorder, which proves that the crash occurred due to mechanical failure, but is in the hands of the Russians. Balach reluctantly drives to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where a number of CIA operatives are being released from custody, and detonates a bomb rigged to his car, killing all the operatives as well as himself. Walden. However, she declines. Saul, Carrie and Quinn secretly conduct an operation to convert Javadi into a CIA asset and send him back to Iran to be replaced as IRGC chief in hopes of regime change; though Dar only learns of the plan after its first stage is complete, he immediately supports Saul (unlike Senator Lockhart, who the two of them overstep to ensure the plan succeeds). He is responsible for sharing valuable intelligence that allows the CIA station in Kabul (led by Carrie) to target key sites belonging to Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani. Seven months later, Saul negotiates her release. A friend of Josh's - a sheriff, no less - is now wanted for stealing $10,000 at a bank and a fellow lawman who knows Josh asks him to find the man before other bounty hunters kill the guy. Brody came to develop a fatherly love for Issa, and later witnessed Issa's death in a drone strike ordered by V.P. Saul, with the help of Fara Sherazi, finds that Javadi embezzled millions from his own nation to fund the attack, making him an enemy of the Iranian state should this ever be revealed. The night of the wake, Quinn and Carrie kiss, and he proposes that the two of them leave the CIA together. Played by Amy Hargreaves, Margaret "Maggie" Mathison is Carrie Mathison's sister. Played by Damian Lewis, Nicholas Brody is the husband of Jessica Brody and father to Dana and Chris. Played by Clara Khoury, Fatima Ali is the wife of Hezbollah district commander Abbas Ali, and a former asset of Carrie Mathison. In Berlin, Allison puts out a hit on Carrie after leaked CIA documents mention a connection between Carrie and Ahmed Nazari, one of Allison's high-value assets in Baghdad who was also working for the Russians. He is one of Carrie's few friends. Martha reluctantly complies, but later finds that Dennis did not kill himself and has instead been detained by the CIA. Saul recruited a young Carrie Mathison into the CIA, and is a close friend and mentor to her. She is assassinated by Tom Walker during the attack on the State Department. Having returned to the US, Quinn is treated for PTSD at a hospital in Brooklyn, and suffers severe impairments to his speech, memory and motor capabilities as a result of his stroke. When the BND detain Faisal Marwan, a suspected jihadist who was released after the documents scandal, Laura goes on air threatening to release the remainder of the documents unless Faisal is released from custody, claiming that his civil liberties have been violated. After Numan is arrested by the BND, Astrid threatens Laura with his deportation unless she gives the documents and goes on air denouncing Faisal as a terrorist. She was the tenth of 12 children born to the late Samuel and Roxie Daniel. Played by Brianna Brown, Lynne Reed works as a consort to Farid bin Abbud, a Saudi Arabian prince. The jihadists hold Quinn prisoner and use him as a test subject for their sarin chamber. When Quinn is captured by a jihadist cell and used as a test subject for a planned sarin gas attack, Astrid helps Carrie track down the location of the compound where Quinn was being held, ultimately rescuing him. For a time, Astrid is stationed in Islamabad, where she helps Quinn track down Haissam Haqqani (and meets Carrie along the way, repeatedly referring to her as Quinn's "girlfriend"). He meets Dana in private school and goes on to date her. He then upholds Russia's end of the deal by announcing at a United Nations summit that the helicopter crash that killed Presidents Warner and Daoud was due to mechanical failure. When he and Bennett are led to believe that the CIA has discovered the Langley bomber, Franklin arrives at the motel where he had been hiding out, and kills him. 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