Homeland (2011–…): Season 3, Episode 11 - Big Man in Tehran - full transcript
While Brody starts his mission in Tehran intending to kill the grand general of Iran, Carrie tries to give local support and a extraction plan for him.
PRESIDENT REAGAN: Air and naval
forces of the United States
launched a series of strikes
against terrorist facilities...
REPORTER: Pan Am Flight 103 crashed
into the town of Lockerbie.
REAGAN: He has sanctioned
acts of terror
in Africa, Europe
and the Middle East.
PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH: This will not
stand, this aggression against, uh, Kuwait.
REAGAN: This relentless
pursuit of terror.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH:
We will make no distinction...
REPORTER:
The USS Cole was attacked
while refueling in
the port of Aden.
This was an act of terrorism.
It was a despicable
and cowardly act.
The next samba
we're going to swing for you
is one of the good old
favorites.
...until something stops him.
CARRIE: It was right
in front of my eyes,
and I never saw it coming.
MAN: A plane crashed
into the World Trade Center.
Thousands of people running.
We must and we will remain
vigilant at home and abroad.
(speaking Arabic)
SAUL: You're the smartest
and the dumbest fucking person
I've ever known.
CARRIE: I'm not the
one who got it wrong.
I'm the only one
who got it right.
SAUL:
Take 'em.
Take 'em all.
Homeland - 3x11
"Big Man In Tehran"
Previously on Homeland...
MIRA:
Saul, I didn't
expect you back tonight.
This is Alain Bernard.
SAUL: Alain Bernard
admitted to being an asset
of Israeli intelligence.
Put him in a dark fucking hole.
It's time we talk
about Nasser Hejazi,
whose named you used to
embezzle more than $45 million.
You are now an enemy
of your own state.
I got plans for you.
What plans?
I'm gonna play you back
into Iran.
From now on, you work for us.
I have a play.
It involves Brody.
What's your big idea?
Danesh Akbari.
Head of Iran's
Revolutionary Guard.
Right.
Javadi's boss.
Brody can get to him.
BRODY:
The guys get me to the border
where I surrender myself?
RYAN:
Correct.
CARRIE:
What just happen?
TURANI:
We are under heavy fire!
Fall back! Fall back!
I'm not going back.
You can't do this by yourself.
I'm 300 yards from the border,
Carrie! I can make it!
You will die over there!
No, you're wrong, Carrie!
'Cause you're gonna get me home!
No, don't say that!
Do not put that on me!
It's a fantasy!
You'll find a way. I have faith.
(panting)
(speaking Farsi)
...Nicholas Brody.
(grunts)
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(speaking Farsi)
Brody made it across.
And you, Saul,
are still in the game.
I'll be damned.
You have an uncle in Tehran.
(exhales)
Carrie, no.
Fara, we have a brother agent
in the field.
Soon to be in mortal danger.
Don't we owe him every chance
to get out alive?
(door opens)
Are you ready?
Ready for what?
To go with me to Tehran.
(footsteps)
(door clicks)
- Give us a few minutes.
- Yes, sir.
They let me out one hour a day.
To exercise.
In a room that's...
three feet bigger than this.
Well, you spy on us,
that's what you get.
I'm not a spy.
Well, we caught you red-handed.
You caught me with your wife.
You don't want to
be antagonizing me,
not when I'm here
to get you out.
What do you want?
I have an operation
in progress.
In Tehran.
Support team for that operation
was forced to pull out.
Mossad has agents
on the ground there.
I need two of them.
You can ask Tel Aviv yourself.
Well, they'd ask a lot of
questions about the mission,
questions I'm not
prepared to answer.
- But it won't be any different if I ask.
- It better be.
'Cause it's the only reason
I'm standing here talking
to the greaseball
who fucked my wife.
No one wants you here.
Not Mossad, not me.
Do everyone a favor.
Make this happen.
Abu Nazir arranged
my escape route for me.
I left Halifax in a container
on a freighter.
It took me to Colombia.
There I was taken
by Jeep to Venezuela.
There was trouble
at the border.
- That's when I was shot.
- By?
I don't know. Someone trying
to collect the reward.
And then?
I told you.
They...
they took me to Caracas.
To this... slum.
Where you became an addict.
What? Wait.
No. No.
I was shot.
Here and here.
They used heroin on me
for the pain.
It wasn't easy to stop,
but I did.
- How long did that take?
- A while.
- Do you have AIDS?
- No.
Have you been tested?
Why are we even
talking about this?
I don't have AIDS.
I left Caracas
because I was gonna die there.
An Imam helped me get out,
get here to Iran,
and I just want asylum.
I don't understand why you're
giving me such a hard time.
Is that what you think
we're doing?
Giving you a hard time?
I've...
(sighs)
I've traveled so far,
and I almost didn't make it,
and I just thought...
I just thought I'd be safe here.
I just...
I just thought I'd be welcome.
Why?
Because of what I did.
Bombed Langley.
Their heart.
You think what?
We like traitors here?
No.
- Who sent you?
- No one. I told you.
I just want asylum.
I just w... want rest.
Should we take a break?
Yes. Please. Please.
No.
Go over it again.
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Merci.
- Bonjour.
- Bonjour.
(speaking French)
Madame?
(sighs)
Voilà.
(speaks French)
Oh.
(exhales)
Merci.
Merci pour vous, madame.
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(speaking Farsi)
(buzz)
(buzz)
(speaking Farsi)
Masud Sherazi?
Yes?
I'm a friend of your niece.
You have something for me.
Where is it?
First you tell me
what's going on.
What did Fara say to you?
That she needed a favor.
For your own protection,
that's all you want to know.
And was this for my protection?
Sending contraband through
customs, here to my house?
- It never went through customs.
- It says!
No, those are our labels.
It came by diplomatic pouch
from Geneva.
You're CIA, aren't you?
I'm a friend of your niece's.
So she's CIA, too.
Working against her own country.
Working for her country.
She trusted you
to understand that.
She asked me to give you this.
She wears the hijab there
in America?
I think her heart is here still,
in Tehran.
And my brother,
does he approve
what she's doing?
My understanding is
he's grown to accept it.
Thank you.
Tell me, is there anything else
you need?
(speaking Farsi)
(knocking) MAN (over computer
monitor): You just said where?
BRODY:
I've traveled so far...
(speaking Farsi)
BRODY:
And I almost didn't make it,
and I just thought I'd...
I thought I'd be safe here.
I just thought I'd be welcome.
JAVADI:
Why?
Because of what I did.
Bombed Langley.
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MAN:
Should we take a break?
Yes. Please. Please.
JAVADI:
No. Go over it again.
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(sighs)
(dialing)
(sighs)
(phone ringing)
You got the phone?
Yeah.
How was the uncle?
He was dodgy at first,
then okay.
How did you make out?
Alain got Mossad to say yes.
Good.
I have two agents on the ground
there ready to meet you.
Both Iranian nationals.
What do they know?
I told everyone
as little as possible.
You need to decide
how much to let them in.
I did tell them
they'll be supporting
a close-quarters assassination,
and that you'll be needing
a weapon.
Expect them to bring some
options to the first meeting.
I'd like to make it
at the uncle's house.
You sure?
Yeah.
It's safe there. I trust him.
I got a satellite
over your hotel right now.
I'm on the balcony--
seventh floor.
Is that a head scarf
you're wearing?
You're kidding, right?
I can't see crap.
It's too dark.
We haven't heard much
from Javadi,
but we're taking that
as a good thing.
They got Brody stashed
at a compound near Azadi Tower.
Apparently,
he's holding together.
Well enough anyway.
He survived three solid days
of interrogations.
Carrie?
What?
You good?
Uh, I should probably go.
It's a...
it's a big day tomorrow.
Okay.
Good night.
(sighs)
MAN:
We didn't agree to this.
CARRIE: Yeah, well, I was told
we had two assets ready to go.
MAN:
No names, no places.
You will learn
when you need to.
I need to know now.
No, I need to know now
that I can trust you.
And so far, nothing you've said
is making me think that.
We asked Mossad
for the two best men in Iran.
They sent you and you.
Were they wrong?
This assassination
you need help-- where?
(sighs)
I don't know yet.
When?
I'm not sure, but soon.
This is not how we work--
everything wait and see.
I will tell you this.
The target is the head
of the IRGC.
Danesh Akbari?
No one can get close to him.
We can.
He'll be taken down
by an American already in place.
Our job is to get that man
to safety afterwards.
Can you do that?
They say no gun.
Is cyanide.
This, uh, American--
he will need to be
right next to Akbari.
(sighs)
I understand that.
And Akbari will be guarded.
Yes. He travels
with a full security detail.
(speaking Farsi)
We have C-4.
We can create a diversion.
But what about this?
Who will get this
to the American?
I'll take care of it.
Madame Bezieux?
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This way, please.
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Quiet! Quiet!
I liked you better as a blonde.
Was this really necessary?
What do you want,
drinks in the lobby?
You've got the desk clerk
wondering about me now.
Remember, I didn't
want you here at all.
The mission is Akbari.
That's the mission.
What you're here for, getting
Brody out-- strictly optional.
Are we agreed?
The mission is Akbari, yes.
Good.
(inhales deeply)
Good.
Something happened.
What?
Akbari never leaves his office
during the day.
Too risky, he says.
But he's requested
a secure convoy for tomorrow.
- He's heading out.
- Where?
No one's saying.
But I told him yesterday
that he should really talk
to Brody in person.
So, it's on?
(sighs)
Is that it? The device?
Yeah.
Israeli.
Can you get it to Brody?
I'll find a way.
SAUL:
Okay, listen up.
We have movement in Tehran.
We now expect closure
on our operation,
one way or another
at approximately 9:00 AM
tomorrow local time.
Intelligence suggests
this will take place
at a compound near Azadi Tower
where Brody is currently held.
The weapon, a cyanide needle,
is being delivered to him,
along with the plan
for his extraction.
Brody's job is
to position himself
in direct contact
with the target, Danesh Akbari.
- How does he get past the guards?
- He doesn't.
Target comes to him.
We're expecting a
personal encounter,
initiated by Akbari.
We have two Mossad
agents in place,
one with a direct sightline
into the compound
from this building here.
That agent will remotely
detonate a motorcycle bomb
in this alley at a moment
when Brody is proximal
to Akbari,
at the very least
in the same room.
The explosion should generate
sufficient confusion
to allow Brody to take out
the target and escape
through this doorway
at the rear of the compound.
It provides a clear exit
to the street
where our two agents
will be waiting in a vehicle.
If the rest follows plan,
Brody will be delivered
to a safe house outside Tehran
a few hours later.
Comments?
I'm aware-- it's a lot
of moving parts.
Where's Carrie in all this?
She's done her job
putting together
an extraction plan.
Shouldn't she be pulled out
before the event?
She doesn't see it that way.
Okay.
Let's get ready.
We have less than 12 hours.
(sighing heavily)
Get up. Now!
What's going on?
Get up and get
dressed... quickly!
Why? What's happening?
In these. Hurry.
(panting)
Where are my shoes?
Shoes.
(sniffles, clears his throat)
Shoes. Hurry.
(indistinct chatter in distance)
I think they're moving.
What do you mean?
They are taking him somewhere.
(speaking Farsi)
(engine starts)
Shit. Get back here.
Saul, are you seeing this?
Brody's being moved.
We see it.
Are they taking him to Akbari?
No. Akbari's convoy left
the IRGC six minutes ago.
We thought he was coming to you.
SAUL: So where the
fuck is Brody going?
Hey, we need to follow them.
Your assassin is
Nicholas Brody?
Yes. Can we get moving?
The most wanted
man in the world.
This was not important
for us to know?
Well, now you know.
Let's go.
Let's go.
(engine starts)
Look at this.
Akbari. Brody.
The convoys are converging.
Converging where?
QUINN: An area
called Darvazy Gar.
Akbari's stopping.
His men are locking
down the area.
QUINN:
They're on Rostami Street.
Where's Carrie?
Two blocks behind Brody.
What is this place?
Almost there.
SAUL: Akbari's gone
inside that house.
Find out who lives there.
Yeah. We're looking.
Don't just look.
Ask Javadi.
QUINN: The address is
421 Rostami Street.
Carrie,
Akbari and Brody
are 100 yards ahead of you.
Meeting is on.
CARRIE:
Stop here.
Stop! Stop.
This is not a good idea.
We are not set up.
We are. Brody's meeting Akbari.
The only thing that's changed
is the location.
Does Brody even
know we are here?
As soon as he hears the
explosion, he'll know.
Yousef needs to
find a place now.
The best thing is
for us to back away,
wait for a better chance.
There won't be a better chance,
do you understand?
Just do it.
Yousef...
(speaking Farsi)
(Yousef responds in Farsi)
(panting)
(speaking Farsi)
Diversion is set.
Your call, Carrie.
You're the eyes on the ground.
(indistinct chatter)
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Yousef...
(speaking Farsi)
(man yelling in Farsi)
(car doors shut, engine starts)
The fuck is happening?
CARRIE:
Akbari's leaving.
They never met. Akbari's gone.
I think he's going
inside the house.
SAUL:
For the last fucking time,
can we find out who lives there?
(speaking Farsi)
Nicholas.
Saul, a message from Javadi.
421 Rostami is owned
by the IRGC.
Current resident...
Nassrin Mughrabi.
Carrie, Brody is meeting
with Nassrin Mughrabi.
Nassrin?
Who is that?
(sighs)
Abu Nazir's widow.
Why did Akbari do this?
Brody lived in Nassrin's
house for two years.
Akbari's using her to vet Brody.
NASSRIN: When Akbari
told me you were here,
I couldn't believe it.
But here you are.
My Nicholas.
I had no idea you were
living in Tehran.
It's been my home
since Nazir died.
I'm sorry, Nassrin.
There was no one like him.
No one.
But I can see you have
been through a lot.
When I last saw you,
you were like a soldier
going to war.
Now I'm a soldier
back from war.
With a victory.
It's hard to see it like that.
I lost so much.
Your family.
My daughter, especially.
When I, um...
when I completed the...
the plan that, um,
Allah had set out for me...
it destroyed her.
She tried to kill herself.
I'm sorry.
It is hard when
you don't have faith.
She had faith.
She had faith that her own
father wouldn't betray her
and make her life unlivable.
Nazir prepared you for this.
He said that if you
were true to Allah,
you would find peace.
And you were true.
And so were you.
Have you found peace?
Sometimes... yes.
But sometimes I ask
why God had to take my son
and my husband instead of me,
and then I feel like
your daughter did...
life is unlivable.
But I survive.
It's what we do.
Yes.
We crawl out of the rubble
and we gather up the bodies.
Why did you come
to Tehran, Nicholas?
I had nowhere else.
What do you want here?
I want to stop running.
(crowd murmuring)
(door creaks open)
(crowd cheering, applauding)
(crowd shouting in Farsi)
(man speaks Farsi)
WOMAN:
What are you doing here?
(man speaking Farsi)
WOMAN:
Tell us what you are doing here.
What... what are you
doing here?
By the grace of God...
I am here to seek asylum.
This is the only place in
the world that I can find peace.
(crowd shouting in Farsi)
You're a big man
in Tehran, Brody.
A really big man now.
(speaking Farsi)
(excited chatter)
(speaking Farsi)
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In your famous videotape,
you said,
"I love my country."
Which I meant.
And yet America declares you
an enemy of the state.
BRODY:
There's a wide gulf
between what America says it is
and what it actually is.
What are you looking at?
The most recent insult.
INTERVIEWER: Does this explain
your actions on December 12?
BRODY:
It does.
Yes.
(speaking Farsi)
Brody learned enough
Farsi in one week
to denounce us
on state television.
Standard
"Death to America" fare.
(speaking Farsi)
But I'm told his delivery
is pitch-perfect.
The President is furious.
Just got off
the phone with him.
He demanded
"action."
Yeah.
I got the same call.
The Brody part of the operation
was always a long shot, Saul.
It was all a long shot.
LOCKHART:
And it worked,
until now.
Brody's never going to get
anywhere near Akbari.
I know.
ADAL: That's straight
from Javadi.
Brody's been handed off
to their PR department.
Our window is closed.
So we just discard him?
LOCKHART:
We tried to extract him.
Brody didn't even show up
for the rendezvous.
Now he's spouting off
all over Tehran.
Bottom line,
Brody's gone from asset
to serious liability.
I need to know
what he's thinking.
It's obvious
what he's thinking...
what he's saying on
all those YouTube videos.
Iran saved his life,
he loves them, hates us.
And you know what else?
Whatever he's thinking today,
who's to say what
it will be tomorrow?
He's spending his days
with the same people
who brainwashed him
in the first place,
and one thing
we know about Brody is
this is a guy
who changes his mind.
You placed a major asset
inside the IRGC.
Majid Javadi.
That's a huge victory
worth preserving.
Brody could expose
him at any moment,
and the simple fact is
we can't trust Brody.
We never could.
We need to end it.
You mean end Brody?
The President wants
this resolved.
ADAL: We know where
Brody prays every day.
Mossad has some men
on the ground there.
It's time.
Of course he's
bad-mouthing us.
What do you expect?
He's doing what he needs to,
to preserve his cover, Saul.
That's all.
Well, calm down.
I'm just asking.
CARRIE:
The plan changed,
so we do what we always do,
what he's doing-- we adjust.
SAUL:
We did adjust.
We tried lifting him
out of there.
He blew us off.
Because he still thinks
the plan can work.
Is that what he's saying?
That's what I'm saying.
So he hasn't reached out to you?
No. We said all along
any contact with me
was too risky, right?
What's going on?
It's time you got on a plane
and came back.
We can't just abandon him here.
Saul, I have been right
about him this whole time.
I know.
And we'll talk it through
when you're back.
Carrie?
Carrie, you hear me?
Yeah, sure.
Bye.
Bye.
She's not getting on any plane.
I know.
Let's get it done.
Do it now.
(sighs)
Masud. It's Carrie.
I need one more favor.
Salaam.
(speaking Farsi)
A friend will call you now.
(speaking Farsi)
Will you wait inside for me
a moment, please?
Thank you.
(phone ringing)
Yes?
CARRIE: It's me. I'm
across the courtyard.
Brody, I have a car.
I need to get you out of Tehran.
I told them already,
I don't want to leave.
I know,
and it made them nervous.
Nervous? What's that mean?
I'm not sure.
No one would tell me,
but I think they're...
they're cutting their losses
to protect Javadi.
Cutting their losses?
I said I'm not sure.
Meaning me?
That's him.
Looks like he's on the phone.
Where's Mossad?
Please, just come with me,
just get in the car.
And go where?
Anywhere. Please.
Please, just come with me now.
As soon as we're clear
of Tehran, we can regroup.
Regroup for what?
What? To make another
fucked-up plan?
No, we just need to leave.
Will you stop saying that?
Leave, leave. Leave where?
I have nowhere to go, Carrie!
I can't go back to the States.
We'll go somewhere else.
And do what?
Hide out?
So they're hunting us both?
I have contacts.
I've been through that
already, Carrie.
I won't do it again.
And I won't do it to you.
QUINN:
And there's the tag team.
Brody, please.
Shit.
It's happening.
What?
Behind you, from the mosque,
there's two men,
one in a dark shirt
and khaki pants,
the other in leather jacket.
Just stay on the phone
and I will talk you through.
He's moving.
- Brody?
- Just get out of here.
Someone warned him.
Who?
She wouldn't fucking dare.
(phone rings)
What?
You really fucked up this time.
He's working for us.
The plan failed.
So you send a hit squad?
We tried to recall him.
He said no.
Now thanks to you, he's loose
on the streets of Tehran
doing God knows what.
We got a major asset
on the line here.
You get yourself
on the next plane out of there.
Tell me you understand.
Salaam.
Salaam, salaam.
(speaks Farsi)
Please, tell her.
Tell her right now.
It's very important.
Nicholas?
I wasn't expecting you.
I'm sorry.
Nassrin, I need your help.
What happened?
Are you all right?
Somebody just tried to kill me.
My God.
I need to talk
to Danesh Akbari.
Danesh...
he is a very private man.
I have...
I have information
about Majid Javadi
that he absolutely
needs to know, okay?
It's very important.
Please, Nassrin, please, okay?
All right, all right,
I'll tell him.
(men speaking Farsi)
(speaks Farsi)
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We got a message from Javadi.
Brody just showed up
at the Revolutionary Guard
headquarters.
LOCKHART:
What's he doing?
Javadi said he was escorted
by Akbari's men.
He's going to Akbari.
Brody knows we just
tried to kill him.
He's gonna burn
the whole fucking thing down.
Nassrin told me you were upset.
That you wanted to talk to me.
Yes, sir.
You know, it was here
in this office
that I first heard your name.
Abu Nazir told me about you...
what a jewel he had found...
what a sword for Allah.
Why would anyone...
want to kill such a treasure?
To stop me telling you
about Javadi.
What about Javadi?
He wants your job.
You think I don't know that?
The CIA has planned it for him.
The CIA?
Even Javadi wouldn't work
with the CIA.
Well, he is.
They found out he embezzled
millions from the IRGC.
They own him.
You were on the run.
How could you know what
the Americans are doing?
Because I was part of it.
I was to come here to Tehran
to get close to you.
And when you got close?
They wanted me
to take you out...
so they could replace you
with Javadi.
Those were my orders.
But you don't want
to obey those orders.
That's why you came to me.
I came here to redeem myself.
And you have.
You have.
Thank you, Nicholas.
I will deal with Javadi.
You spoke with Abu Nazir
about me?
In this room?
Yes.
How he would send you
against America.
A sword to strike
the heart of our enemy.
Good.
It all started here.
(grunting)
(panting)
(dialing)
(door shuts in distance)
(phone rings)
Yes?
It's me.
I'm in Akbari's office.
Brody, what have you done?
I killed him.
Get me out of here.
forces of the United States
launched a series of strikes
against terrorist facilities...
REPORTER: Pan Am Flight 103 crashed
into the town of Lockerbie.
REAGAN: He has sanctioned
acts of terror
in Africa, Europe
and the Middle East.
PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH: This will not
stand, this aggression against, uh, Kuwait.
REAGAN: This relentless
pursuit of terror.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH:
We will make no distinction...
REPORTER:
The USS Cole was attacked
while refueling in
the port of Aden.
This was an act of terrorism.
It was a despicable
and cowardly act.
The next samba
we're going to swing for you
is one of the good old
favorites.
...until something stops him.
CARRIE: It was right
in front of my eyes,
and I never saw it coming.
MAN: A plane crashed
into the World Trade Center.
Thousands of people running.
We must and we will remain
vigilant at home and abroad.
(speaking Arabic)
SAUL: You're the smartest
and the dumbest fucking person
I've ever known.
CARRIE: I'm not the
one who got it wrong.
I'm the only one
who got it right.
SAUL:
Take 'em.
Take 'em all.
Homeland - 3x11
"Big Man In Tehran"
Previously on Homeland...
MIRA:
Saul, I didn't
expect you back tonight.
This is Alain Bernard.
SAUL: Alain Bernard
admitted to being an asset
of Israeli intelligence.
Put him in a dark fucking hole.
It's time we talk
about Nasser Hejazi,
whose named you used to
embezzle more than $45 million.
You are now an enemy
of your own state.
I got plans for you.
What plans?
I'm gonna play you back
into Iran.
From now on, you work for us.
I have a play.
It involves Brody.
What's your big idea?
Danesh Akbari.
Head of Iran's
Revolutionary Guard.
Right.
Javadi's boss.
Brody can get to him.
BRODY:
The guys get me to the border
where I surrender myself?
RYAN:
Correct.
CARRIE:
What just happen?
TURANI:
We are under heavy fire!
Fall back! Fall back!
I'm not going back.
You can't do this by yourself.
I'm 300 yards from the border,
Carrie! I can make it!
You will die over there!
No, you're wrong, Carrie!
'Cause you're gonna get me home!
No, don't say that!
Do not put that on me!
It's a fantasy!
You'll find a way. I have faith.
(panting)
(speaking Farsi)
...Nicholas Brody.
(grunts)
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(speaking Farsi)
Brody made it across.
And you, Saul,
are still in the game.
I'll be damned.
You have an uncle in Tehran.
(exhales)
Carrie, no.
Fara, we have a brother agent
in the field.
Soon to be in mortal danger.
Don't we owe him every chance
to get out alive?
(door opens)
Are you ready?
Ready for what?
To go with me to Tehran.
(footsteps)
(door clicks)
- Give us a few minutes.
- Yes, sir.
They let me out one hour a day.
To exercise.
In a room that's...
three feet bigger than this.
Well, you spy on us,
that's what you get.
I'm not a spy.
Well, we caught you red-handed.
You caught me with your wife.
You don't want to
be antagonizing me,
not when I'm here
to get you out.
What do you want?
I have an operation
in progress.
In Tehran.
Support team for that operation
was forced to pull out.
Mossad has agents
on the ground there.
I need two of them.
You can ask Tel Aviv yourself.
Well, they'd ask a lot of
questions about the mission,
questions I'm not
prepared to answer.
- But it won't be any different if I ask.
- It better be.
'Cause it's the only reason
I'm standing here talking
to the greaseball
who fucked my wife.
No one wants you here.
Not Mossad, not me.
Do everyone a favor.
Make this happen.
Abu Nazir arranged
my escape route for me.
I left Halifax in a container
on a freighter.
It took me to Colombia.
There I was taken
by Jeep to Venezuela.
There was trouble
at the border.
- That's when I was shot.
- By?
I don't know. Someone trying
to collect the reward.
And then?
I told you.
They...
they took me to Caracas.
To this... slum.
Where you became an addict.
What? Wait.
No. No.
I was shot.
Here and here.
They used heroin on me
for the pain.
It wasn't easy to stop,
but I did.
- How long did that take?
- A while.
- Do you have AIDS?
- No.
Have you been tested?
Why are we even
talking about this?
I don't have AIDS.
I left Caracas
because I was gonna die there.
An Imam helped me get out,
get here to Iran,
and I just want asylum.
I don't understand why you're
giving me such a hard time.
Is that what you think
we're doing?
Giving you a hard time?
I've...
(sighs)
I've traveled so far,
and I almost didn't make it,
and I just thought...
I just thought I'd be safe here.
I just...
I just thought I'd be welcome.
Why?
Because of what I did.
Bombed Langley.
Their heart.
You think what?
We like traitors here?
No.
- Who sent you?
- No one. I told you.
I just want asylum.
I just w... want rest.
Should we take a break?
Yes. Please. Please.
No.
Go over it again.
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Merci.
- Bonjour.
- Bonjour.
(speaking French)
Madame?
(sighs)
Voilà.
(speaks French)
Oh.
(exhales)
Merci.
Merci pour vous, madame.
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(speaking Farsi)
(buzz)
(buzz)
(speaking Farsi)
Masud Sherazi?
Yes?
I'm a friend of your niece.
You have something for me.
Where is it?
First you tell me
what's going on.
What did Fara say to you?
That she needed a favor.
For your own protection,
that's all you want to know.
And was this for my protection?
Sending contraband through
customs, here to my house?
- It never went through customs.
- It says!
No, those are our labels.
It came by diplomatic pouch
from Geneva.
You're CIA, aren't you?
I'm a friend of your niece's.
So she's CIA, too.
Working against her own country.
Working for her country.
She trusted you
to understand that.
She asked me to give you this.
She wears the hijab there
in America?
I think her heart is here still,
in Tehran.
And my brother,
does he approve
what she's doing?
My understanding is
he's grown to accept it.
Thank you.
Tell me, is there anything else
you need?
(speaking Farsi)
(knocking) MAN (over computer
monitor): You just said where?
BRODY:
I've traveled so far...
(speaking Farsi)
BRODY:
And I almost didn't make it,
and I just thought I'd...
I thought I'd be safe here.
I just thought I'd be welcome.
JAVADI:
Why?
Because of what I did.
Bombed Langley.
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MAN:
Should we take a break?
Yes. Please. Please.
JAVADI:
No. Go over it again.
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(sighs)
(dialing)
(sighs)
(phone ringing)
You got the phone?
Yeah.
How was the uncle?
He was dodgy at first,
then okay.
How did you make out?
Alain got Mossad to say yes.
Good.
I have two agents on the ground
there ready to meet you.
Both Iranian nationals.
What do they know?
I told everyone
as little as possible.
You need to decide
how much to let them in.
I did tell them
they'll be supporting
a close-quarters assassination,
and that you'll be needing
a weapon.
Expect them to bring some
options to the first meeting.
I'd like to make it
at the uncle's house.
You sure?
Yeah.
It's safe there. I trust him.
I got a satellite
over your hotel right now.
I'm on the balcony--
seventh floor.
Is that a head scarf
you're wearing?
You're kidding, right?
I can't see crap.
It's too dark.
We haven't heard much
from Javadi,
but we're taking that
as a good thing.
They got Brody stashed
at a compound near Azadi Tower.
Apparently,
he's holding together.
Well enough anyway.
He survived three solid days
of interrogations.
Carrie?
What?
You good?
Uh, I should probably go.
It's a...
it's a big day tomorrow.
Okay.
Good night.
(sighs)
MAN:
We didn't agree to this.
CARRIE: Yeah, well, I was told
we had two assets ready to go.
MAN:
No names, no places.
You will learn
when you need to.
I need to know now.
No, I need to know now
that I can trust you.
And so far, nothing you've said
is making me think that.
We asked Mossad
for the two best men in Iran.
They sent you and you.
Were they wrong?
This assassination
you need help-- where?
(sighs)
I don't know yet.
When?
I'm not sure, but soon.
This is not how we work--
everything wait and see.
I will tell you this.
The target is the head
of the IRGC.
Danesh Akbari?
No one can get close to him.
We can.
He'll be taken down
by an American already in place.
Our job is to get that man
to safety afterwards.
Can you do that?
They say no gun.
Is cyanide.
This, uh, American--
he will need to be
right next to Akbari.
(sighs)
I understand that.
And Akbari will be guarded.
Yes. He travels
with a full security detail.
(speaking Farsi)
We have C-4.
We can create a diversion.
But what about this?
Who will get this
to the American?
I'll take care of it.
Madame Bezieux?
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This way, please.
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Quiet! Quiet!
I liked you better as a blonde.
Was this really necessary?
What do you want,
drinks in the lobby?
You've got the desk clerk
wondering about me now.
Remember, I didn't
want you here at all.
The mission is Akbari.
That's the mission.
What you're here for, getting
Brody out-- strictly optional.
Are we agreed?
The mission is Akbari, yes.
Good.
(inhales deeply)
Good.
Something happened.
What?
Akbari never leaves his office
during the day.
Too risky, he says.
But he's requested
a secure convoy for tomorrow.
- He's heading out.
- Where?
No one's saying.
But I told him yesterday
that he should really talk
to Brody in person.
So, it's on?
(sighs)
Is that it? The device?
Yeah.
Israeli.
Can you get it to Brody?
I'll find a way.
SAUL:
Okay, listen up.
We have movement in Tehran.
We now expect closure
on our operation,
one way or another
at approximately 9:00 AM
tomorrow local time.
Intelligence suggests
this will take place
at a compound near Azadi Tower
where Brody is currently held.
The weapon, a cyanide needle,
is being delivered to him,
along with the plan
for his extraction.
Brody's job is
to position himself
in direct contact
with the target, Danesh Akbari.
- How does he get past the guards?
- He doesn't.
Target comes to him.
We're expecting a
personal encounter,
initiated by Akbari.
We have two Mossad
agents in place,
one with a direct sightline
into the compound
from this building here.
That agent will remotely
detonate a motorcycle bomb
in this alley at a moment
when Brody is proximal
to Akbari,
at the very least
in the same room.
The explosion should generate
sufficient confusion
to allow Brody to take out
the target and escape
through this doorway
at the rear of the compound.
It provides a clear exit
to the street
where our two agents
will be waiting in a vehicle.
If the rest follows plan,
Brody will be delivered
to a safe house outside Tehran
a few hours later.
Comments?
I'm aware-- it's a lot
of moving parts.
Where's Carrie in all this?
She's done her job
putting together
an extraction plan.
Shouldn't she be pulled out
before the event?
She doesn't see it that way.
Okay.
Let's get ready.
We have less than 12 hours.
(sighing heavily)
Get up. Now!
What's going on?
Get up and get
dressed... quickly!
Why? What's happening?
In these. Hurry.
(panting)
Where are my shoes?
Shoes.
(sniffles, clears his throat)
Shoes. Hurry.
(indistinct chatter in distance)
I think they're moving.
What do you mean?
They are taking him somewhere.
(speaking Farsi)
(engine starts)
Shit. Get back here.
Saul, are you seeing this?
Brody's being moved.
We see it.
Are they taking him to Akbari?
No. Akbari's convoy left
the IRGC six minutes ago.
We thought he was coming to you.
SAUL: So where the
fuck is Brody going?
Hey, we need to follow them.
Your assassin is
Nicholas Brody?
Yes. Can we get moving?
The most wanted
man in the world.
This was not important
for us to know?
Well, now you know.
Let's go.
Let's go.
(engine starts)
Look at this.
Akbari. Brody.
The convoys are converging.
Converging where?
QUINN: An area
called Darvazy Gar.
Akbari's stopping.
His men are locking
down the area.
QUINN:
They're on Rostami Street.
Where's Carrie?
Two blocks behind Brody.
What is this place?
Almost there.
SAUL: Akbari's gone
inside that house.
Find out who lives there.
Yeah. We're looking.
Don't just look.
Ask Javadi.
QUINN: The address is
421 Rostami Street.
Carrie,
Akbari and Brody
are 100 yards ahead of you.
Meeting is on.
CARRIE:
Stop here.
Stop! Stop.
This is not a good idea.
We are not set up.
We are. Brody's meeting Akbari.
The only thing that's changed
is the location.
Does Brody even
know we are here?
As soon as he hears the
explosion, he'll know.
Yousef needs to
find a place now.
The best thing is
for us to back away,
wait for a better chance.
There won't be a better chance,
do you understand?
Just do it.
Yousef...
(speaking Farsi)
(Yousef responds in Farsi)
(panting)
(speaking Farsi)
Diversion is set.
Your call, Carrie.
You're the eyes on the ground.
(indistinct chatter)
♪ ♪
Yousef...
(speaking Farsi)
(man yelling in Farsi)
(car doors shut, engine starts)
The fuck is happening?
CARRIE:
Akbari's leaving.
They never met. Akbari's gone.
I think he's going
inside the house.
SAUL:
For the last fucking time,
can we find out who lives there?
(speaking Farsi)
Nicholas.
Saul, a message from Javadi.
421 Rostami is owned
by the IRGC.
Current resident...
Nassrin Mughrabi.
Carrie, Brody is meeting
with Nassrin Mughrabi.
Nassrin?
Who is that?
(sighs)
Abu Nazir's widow.
Why did Akbari do this?
Brody lived in Nassrin's
house for two years.
Akbari's using her to vet Brody.
NASSRIN: When Akbari
told me you were here,
I couldn't believe it.
But here you are.
My Nicholas.
I had no idea you were
living in Tehran.
It's been my home
since Nazir died.
I'm sorry, Nassrin.
There was no one like him.
No one.
But I can see you have
been through a lot.
When I last saw you,
you were like a soldier
going to war.
Now I'm a soldier
back from war.
With a victory.
It's hard to see it like that.
I lost so much.
Your family.
My daughter, especially.
When I, um...
when I completed the...
the plan that, um,
Allah had set out for me...
it destroyed her.
She tried to kill herself.
I'm sorry.
It is hard when
you don't have faith.
She had faith.
She had faith that her own
father wouldn't betray her
and make her life unlivable.
Nazir prepared you for this.
He said that if you
were true to Allah,
you would find peace.
And you were true.
And so were you.
Have you found peace?
Sometimes... yes.
But sometimes I ask
why God had to take my son
and my husband instead of me,
and then I feel like
your daughter did...
life is unlivable.
But I survive.
It's what we do.
Yes.
We crawl out of the rubble
and we gather up the bodies.
Why did you come
to Tehran, Nicholas?
I had nowhere else.
What do you want here?
I want to stop running.
(crowd murmuring)
(door creaks open)
(crowd cheering, applauding)
(crowd shouting in Farsi)
(man speaks Farsi)
WOMAN:
What are you doing here?
(man speaking Farsi)
WOMAN:
Tell us what you are doing here.
What... what are you
doing here?
By the grace of God...
I am here to seek asylum.
This is the only place in
the world that I can find peace.
(crowd shouting in Farsi)
You're a big man
in Tehran, Brody.
A really big man now.
(speaking Farsi)
(excited chatter)
(speaking Farsi)
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In your famous videotape,
you said,
"I love my country."
Which I meant.
And yet America declares you
an enemy of the state.
BRODY:
There's a wide gulf
between what America says it is
and what it actually is.
What are you looking at?
The most recent insult.
INTERVIEWER: Does this explain
your actions on December 12?
BRODY:
It does.
Yes.
(speaking Farsi)
Brody learned enough
Farsi in one week
to denounce us
on state television.
Standard
"Death to America" fare.
(speaking Farsi)
But I'm told his delivery
is pitch-perfect.
The President is furious.
Just got off
the phone with him.
He demanded
"action."
Yeah.
I got the same call.
The Brody part of the operation
was always a long shot, Saul.
It was all a long shot.
LOCKHART:
And it worked,
until now.
Brody's never going to get
anywhere near Akbari.
I know.
ADAL: That's straight
from Javadi.
Brody's been handed off
to their PR department.
Our window is closed.
So we just discard him?
LOCKHART:
We tried to extract him.
Brody didn't even show up
for the rendezvous.
Now he's spouting off
all over Tehran.
Bottom line,
Brody's gone from asset
to serious liability.
I need to know
what he's thinking.
It's obvious
what he's thinking...
what he's saying on
all those YouTube videos.
Iran saved his life,
he loves them, hates us.
And you know what else?
Whatever he's thinking today,
who's to say what
it will be tomorrow?
He's spending his days
with the same people
who brainwashed him
in the first place,
and one thing
we know about Brody is
this is a guy
who changes his mind.
You placed a major asset
inside the IRGC.
Majid Javadi.
That's a huge victory
worth preserving.
Brody could expose
him at any moment,
and the simple fact is
we can't trust Brody.
We never could.
We need to end it.
You mean end Brody?
The President wants
this resolved.
ADAL: We know where
Brody prays every day.
Mossad has some men
on the ground there.
It's time.
Of course he's
bad-mouthing us.
What do you expect?
He's doing what he needs to,
to preserve his cover, Saul.
That's all.
Well, calm down.
I'm just asking.
CARRIE:
The plan changed,
so we do what we always do,
what he's doing-- we adjust.
SAUL:
We did adjust.
We tried lifting him
out of there.
He blew us off.
Because he still thinks
the plan can work.
Is that what he's saying?
That's what I'm saying.
So he hasn't reached out to you?
No. We said all along
any contact with me
was too risky, right?
What's going on?
It's time you got on a plane
and came back.
We can't just abandon him here.
Saul, I have been right
about him this whole time.
I know.
And we'll talk it through
when you're back.
Carrie?
Carrie, you hear me?
Yeah, sure.
Bye.
Bye.
She's not getting on any plane.
I know.
Let's get it done.
Do it now.
(sighs)
Masud. It's Carrie.
I need one more favor.
Salaam.
(speaking Farsi)
A friend will call you now.
(speaking Farsi)
Will you wait inside for me
a moment, please?
Thank you.
(phone ringing)
Yes?
CARRIE: It's me. I'm
across the courtyard.
Brody, I have a car.
I need to get you out of Tehran.
I told them already,
I don't want to leave.
I know,
and it made them nervous.
Nervous? What's that mean?
I'm not sure.
No one would tell me,
but I think they're...
they're cutting their losses
to protect Javadi.
Cutting their losses?
I said I'm not sure.
Meaning me?
That's him.
Looks like he's on the phone.
Where's Mossad?
Please, just come with me,
just get in the car.
And go where?
Anywhere. Please.
Please, just come with me now.
As soon as we're clear
of Tehran, we can regroup.
Regroup for what?
What? To make another
fucked-up plan?
No, we just need to leave.
Will you stop saying that?
Leave, leave. Leave where?
I have nowhere to go, Carrie!
I can't go back to the States.
We'll go somewhere else.
And do what?
Hide out?
So they're hunting us both?
I have contacts.
I've been through that
already, Carrie.
I won't do it again.
And I won't do it to you.
QUINN:
And there's the tag team.
Brody, please.
Shit.
It's happening.
What?
Behind you, from the mosque,
there's two men,
one in a dark shirt
and khaki pants,
the other in leather jacket.
Just stay on the phone
and I will talk you through.
He's moving.
- Brody?
- Just get out of here.
Someone warned him.
Who?
She wouldn't fucking dare.
(phone rings)
What?
You really fucked up this time.
He's working for us.
The plan failed.
So you send a hit squad?
We tried to recall him.
He said no.
Now thanks to you, he's loose
on the streets of Tehran
doing God knows what.
We got a major asset
on the line here.
You get yourself
on the next plane out of there.
Tell me you understand.
Salaam.
Salaam, salaam.
(speaks Farsi)
Please, tell her.
Tell her right now.
It's very important.
Nicholas?
I wasn't expecting you.
I'm sorry.
Nassrin, I need your help.
What happened?
Are you all right?
Somebody just tried to kill me.
My God.
I need to talk
to Danesh Akbari.
Danesh...
he is a very private man.
I have...
I have information
about Majid Javadi
that he absolutely
needs to know, okay?
It's very important.
Please, Nassrin, please, okay?
All right, all right,
I'll tell him.
(men speaking Farsi)
(speaks Farsi)
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We got a message from Javadi.
Brody just showed up
at the Revolutionary Guard
headquarters.
LOCKHART:
What's he doing?
Javadi said he was escorted
by Akbari's men.
He's going to Akbari.
Brody knows we just
tried to kill him.
He's gonna burn
the whole fucking thing down.
Nassrin told me you were upset.
That you wanted to talk to me.
Yes, sir.
You know, it was here
in this office
that I first heard your name.
Abu Nazir told me about you...
what a jewel he had found...
what a sword for Allah.
Why would anyone...
want to kill such a treasure?
To stop me telling you
about Javadi.
What about Javadi?
He wants your job.
You think I don't know that?
The CIA has planned it for him.
The CIA?
Even Javadi wouldn't work
with the CIA.
Well, he is.
They found out he embezzled
millions from the IRGC.
They own him.
You were on the run.
How could you know what
the Americans are doing?
Because I was part of it.
I was to come here to Tehran
to get close to you.
And when you got close?
They wanted me
to take you out...
so they could replace you
with Javadi.
Those were my orders.
But you don't want
to obey those orders.
That's why you came to me.
I came here to redeem myself.
And you have.
You have.
Thank you, Nicholas.
I will deal with Javadi.
You spoke with Abu Nazir
about me?
In this room?
Yes.
How he would send you
against America.
A sword to strike
the heart of our enemy.
Good.
It all started here.
(grunting)
(panting)
(dialing)
(door shuts in distance)
(phone rings)
Yes?
It's me.
I'm in Akbari's office.
Brody, what have you done?
I killed him.
Get me out of here.