Emma's Highlight....Homeland in addition to Billions:-) memories..

Homeland – Season 1 episode 7
The Weekend

I have watched Homeland season 1 and 2 around 4/5 times now and season 3 twice.  Out of every season I have several favourite episodes but always go back to “The Weekend” which is season 1 episode 7.  

In this episode we see Carrie and Brody spend the weekend together.  After Brody takes his polygraph test at Langley and passes with flying colours, which Carrie cannot get her head round after the question she had asked “have you ever cheated on your wife”, knowing he has, with her, he says no and the polygraph does not flinch.  As Carrie leaves Langley Brody stops in the car and asks her to get in, they drive for a while and after a close shave with a Nazi in a bar they drive, drunk to her family cabin in the forest.  

I love this episode for two reasons, the first is we see Carrie and Brody for who they are, two people lost and no one understands them anymore except they get each other, they share intimate conversations and moments  together about being away from home, watching people they were once close to be killed, and people back home don’t really know them anymore.  And then we see them after a whole weekend loose the trust when Carrie confronts Brody about being a terrorist.  The sudden loss of trust is almost upsetting, when watching it you want so badly for them to be together that you can feel her pain when she truly believes she has screwed up and got Tom Walker mixed up with Brody being the American prisoner of war who was turned.  After a good interrogation outside the cabin, close to a shot gun, and after admitting he did know Abu Nazir and had turned to the Muslim faith,  Brody gets up and drives away from Carrie, leaving her all alone in the woods.  Alone once again with no answers that make sense and no Brody.