Homeland (2011–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - Better Call Saul - full transcript

Peter Quinn is badly wounded by the unidentified Russian hit-man he killed, but can't go to hospital. Carrie calls Jonas, whose sister is a doctor, but he ends up sneaking out rather then putting them in extreme danger, only to be saved by a passerby. After the Syrian general was killed aboard an exploding Swiss airplane, Berlin post chief Allison Carr makes lover Saul suspect the Israeli ambassador Etai, and Dar suspect Saul. Hacktivist Numan and Laura try to understand the murders on his CIA-files-selling cahoot and his stripper girl friend, while the Russian killer confers with his surprising co-conspirator.

Previously on Homeland.

Your name's on a kill list.
Saul put your name on the list.

Saul?

Now play fucking dead.

You got to disappear.
This picture buys you time.

Quinn, the last two years, I tried to find
you. I never stopped thinking about you.

Well? How do I look?

Korzy?

What did you do
with those documents?

KORZENIK (on phone):
We're going to be rich.

My Russian friend paid big. I caught
a diplomat fucking Katia on tape.



So, you have something
for me.

You don't know
what you are doing.

One of my ambitions in life
is to be a trusting person.

I want to trust you.
Unfortunately, I am cynical.

Take me to your drop.
No, I'll handle it.

CARRIE: You are telling me that someone I
trust more than I've ever trusted anyone

is trying to kill me.

If you had a plan
to replace Assad,

we understand that I would
be with General Youssef.

You have a loyal following
among the high-ranking officers.

We believe they will support you
to lead your country.

To lead my-

When you replace Assad.

CARRIE: There's only one number
in the memory. QUINN: Call it.



Da?

(explosion)

(woman speaking German)

CARRIE: Christ, I really thought
I left all this behind.

MAN: The Islamic State,
ISIS, proclaimed itself

to be a worldwide caliphate
with authority over-

Redraw the map
in the Middle East.

WOMAN: The soldiers are hackers, the battlefield
is online, and ifs not a matter of-

Edward Snowden is a coward.

...extremely disappointed that the
Russian government would take this step.

LAURA: It's against the law.
It's against the fucking law.

CARRIE: All that suffering
and nothing changes.

MAN:
Is our strategy working?

(phone recording: German)

{wrong number tones)
{phone recording: German)

(man speaking Russian)

SAUL:
I actually convinced myself

we were gonna change the world.

QUINN:
Carrie will never be free.

CARRIE: Spend my life on the
run, give up my daughter?

JONAS: 1 don'! know how
you live with yourself.

AL-AMIN:
I will fight you forever.

CARRIE (whispering):
Who's after me?

JONAS: So many people, so
much blood on your hands.

ADAL:
Mm-hmm, yeah.

I don't know.
I'm trying.

- Yeah.
-(phone beeps)

The Swiss Federal Police
are 10 minutes out.

We kept them away
as long as we could.

How much do they know?

It was an intelligence operation.
There was an accident.

- What about who was on the plane?
- Not yet.

Well, we're gonna have
to tell them sometime.

My feeling is,
they'll be patient.

We have kept them
in the loop-

at least nominally.

Frankly my main concern
is what went down here.

- You have a working theory?
- Somebody betrayed us.

You think?

ALLISON: I have every
member of the medical team

who operated on General Youssef's daughter
in an interrogation room right now.

What if the breach was back
in Berlin, or at Langley?

I'm not going there yet. Let's
hope to hell you don't have to.

Give us a minute.

Scheme.

(car alarm chirps)

Astrid.

It's me.

Carrie Mathison.

Nice wig. Very retro.

You look like one of
the Baader-Meinhof gang.

Do you mind
if we talk in the car?

Little paranoid, are we?

Please. I've- I've got
no one else to turn to.

What about
your former employer?

They've been looking
for you anyway-

I imagine to discuss your
recent adventures in Lebanon.

I don't know who I can trust there.
But you trust me.

Peter Quinn does.

(keys jingle)
Be my guest.

(car door opens, closes)

I need your help.

Yeah? Well, I'm not sure slashing
my tire is the best way to ask.

Do you know
who this man is?

Was.
Well, yes.

How did he get dead?

It's a long story. Does it
look like I'm in a rush?

This is not a joke.

No one can know about this.

I'm literally putting
my life in your hands.

The assassination attempt
in Lebanon-

During was not the target. I was.

And you know this how?

That's not important.

What's important is that the people
who targeted me think I'm dead,

but who knows how long
before they realize that's not true?

Who are “they”?

It's unclear.

Whoever they are, they are
connected to this man.

I don't recognize him.

He tried to kill Quinn.

(inhales)
Why doesn't that surprise me?

What's that supposed to mean?

Peter does his own legwork.
Always.

You wouldn’t be here unless
he got himself hurt somehow.

Is he okay?

He'll live.

I want to see him.
Now is not a good time.

(Scoffs)

Wait.

Give me the picture.

I'll see what I can find out.

Thanks. I'm not
doing this for you.

Yeah, I think we're clear on that.

No one can know that you've seen me.
No one.

You said.

(Sighs)

(Sighs)

(groans)

(outer door opens)

(labored breathing)
(door closes)

(inner door opens)

(exhales)

He rises.

You were gone a long time.

Well, apparently
Astrid likes to sleep in.

I waited for almost an hour.

Was she able to ID our guy?
Not off the top of her head,

but she said she'd do some
looking, for your sake.

She likes me.
What can I say?

Her one redeeming quality,
as far as I can tell.

(sharp groan)

Jesus, Quinn, you're burning up.

I'm fine.
No, you are not.

(groans)
Let me see.

No.
Let me see!

(groans)
That does not look good.

I'm first-stage septic.

Fuck me.

Tell me what to do.

How do you feel
about armed robbery?

There's an emergency room about a mile
down the street on Ritterstrasse.

(sighs)
What're you doing?

What I should've done
last night. Calling Jonas.

His sister's a doctor.

(line ringing)

♪♪ (speakers: dance)
(crowd chattering)

♪♪ (man singing in German)

Where have you been?

Katia's dead.

Yeah, I know.
It's horrible.

Police were here.

They wanted to talk
to Korzenik.

- Has he been in today?
- No.

Shit.

Why?

You think he killed her?

Who, Korzenik?
Of course not.

Look, Katia had a regular who
worked at the Russian embassy.

- Do you know who he is?
- Boris.

Not his real name, probably.

Would you recognize him
if you saw him again?

Yeah. A real pig.

Come with me.

(woman speaking German)

When was the last time
he was here?

Four days ago, I think.

There!

(typing)

Thars him? You sure?

Yeah.

NUMAN: Put it high enough.
It has to cover everything.

I don't understand. Anything they
see- even the paint on the wall-

they'll use it to try
to find me.

I meant, if this
is so dangerous,

I don't understand why
you're doing it at all.

I owe it to Katia
and Korzy.

Hello, citizens of the world.

I am Gabe H. Coud.

The following video
shows a man- a pig-

who works at the Russian embassy
in Berlin, Germany,

who murdered Katia Keller,
an innocent person,

and who disappeared
her partner, Armand Korzenik.

This is a call to arms.

Meeting place is
the Russian embassy

tomorrow at noon
to demand answers.

It is only when our voices
are united

that we become
too loud to ignore.

How was that?

Good.

Quinn?

Quinn?

(labored breathing)

(knocking)

(keys jingling)

(knocking continues)

Come in. Quickly.

You don't look hurt.
You said you were hurt.

Please.
lt's not safe out there.

You said this was for you.
Well, it's not.

Hey!
(sighs)

Last time I saw you, you were running
into the woods with a rifle,

screaming about assassins
and-and avenging angels,

and then- nothing.

Three days, nothing. And then you
call and tell me you're injured.

Seriously injured.
What the fuck, Carrie?

You're right.

On top of everything else, I'm putting my
sister's medical license at risk here.

Okay. There is a guy in the next room.
He's been shot.

If we don't get an IV into him
now, he's not gonna make it.

- Who is he?
- He's a friend.

He's a colleague, okay? I'll-l'll
explain later. I promise.

(sighs) Why should I
do anything for you?

I don't know.

You have the antibiotics?

Wash your hands.
I need your help.

You've hardly said 10 words
since we left Geneva.

Still in shock, I guess.

It's shocking.

I actually convinced myself
we were gonna change the world.

Yeah.

Wasn't the Syrians though.

No? How do you figure?

If the Mukhabarat
had even a whiff of this,

that plane never would've gotten
off the ground in Damascus.

Who then?

The Iranians?
The Russians?

Someone who had
a vested interest

in keeping Assad in the presidential
palace, that's for sure.

Or keeping General Youssef
out of it.

What do you mean?

Mossad.

They're hardly fans
of the general.

And didn't Etai send up
a flare the other night?

He did.
So?

I don't buy it.
Why not?

The simple answer
is usually the correct one.

Nothing simple about Israel
sabotaging one of our operations.

What? Aren't we going
to your place?

I won't be able
to sleep tonight.

I thought I'd go in and get a
head start on the OPSEC review.

Don't forget your bag.

What if he doesn't get better?

He will.
What if he doesn't?

Will you take him
to the hospital then?

Would your sister come
and examine him first?

(scoffs)
She might, if I ask her to,

but I won't involve
my family in this anymore.

Okay. I gel that.

I won't be involved
anymore either.

You've done more
than enough, Jonas.

Thank you.

I mean that.

No one should have
to live like this.

I just said you don't have to.

I'm not talking
about me.

Well, I don't have a choice.
Yes, you do.

Well, I wish that were true.

(Scoffs)

This is insane.

Assassination attempts,
gun battles in the street.

You've got to find a way
to stop all this, Carrie.

This-

(Sighs)

I don't want to lose you.
I can't lose you.

I thought I had.

Allison.

I was beginning to think
you weren't coming.

Yet here I am.

How are you?

How am I?
Mm-hmm.

How the hell do you think I am?

Oh, I think
you should be satisfied.

Look. All went as planned.
Ticktock. All is good.

It did not.
How so?

I got a call from Vasily
on the tarmac.

Except it wasn't Vasily
on the other end of the line.

(inhales sharply,
clears throat)

I was afraid of that.

What do you mean,
you were afraid of that?

Hmm? Not your problem.
Don't worry about it.

Not my problem somebody got ahold
of Vasily's cell phone?

I have to assume it was Saul
Berenson's hit man. Exactly.

And-And what happens when
he and Saul compare notes

and realize that it was me who put
Carrie Mathison's name in that kill box?

A conversation like this
might lead to the SVR.

Might even lead to me.

It will never, ever lead to you.

Okay?

As I told you, my problem.

- You better be fucking right.
- You better fucking relax, Allison.

(cell phone beeps)

This was your problem.

As you can see,
that problem was solved.

Jesus Christ.

(Sighs)

My nerves are shot.

Hey.

Just a little farther now,
okay?

Almost there.

Easy for you to say.

(chuckles)

Don't be scared of him.

Who? Dar Adal?

He's a pussycat.

We've put out the milk.
He will lap it up, believe me.

It's gonna take a lot more than that
to turn him against Saul.

Wait and see.

Saul's weakness is Israel.

Dar Adal knows it.

So when he comes to you-
and he will come-

play hard to get.

Then go to Saul
with the passenger manifest.

Okay?

Okay.

Hey.
(clicks tongue)

Ciao, cacao.

(engine starts)

Ivan, please.

Stay with me a little longer.

(engine stops)

Sure.

(lighter flicks)

(typing)

(knocking)
Come in.

I thought you were
still in Geneva.

Somethings come up.
Tell me.

Is Saul still in the building?

He put his head in
about five minutes ago.

The two of you had dinner at Etai
Luskin's home on Friday night.

We did.
It was a Passover seder.

Saul invited me.
As his guest?

YES.

Your contact report said the
conversation was casual, friendly.

It was.

The bomb that took down General
Youssefs plane was magnetic.

You're kidding.

Set to go off
at 20,000 feet.

It was a malfunction apparently.

We were lucky to recover it
is what you're saying.

Very.

The techs claim
ifs virtually identical

to what Israel's using against
lran's nuclear scientists.

I assume you know that Saul
and Etai go way back.

Africa, wasn't it?

Nairobi.

They were young
and idealistic together.

A bond was formed.

Surely you don't think Saul-
I don”: know what to think!

But ifs not something
we can ignore.

Put a team on him.

Just to be clear, sir.
On Etai, right?

No, on Saul.
Eyes, ears, the works.

I want to know who he's meeting
with and what he's saying to them.

(door closes)

(printer whirring,
clicking)

(door opens, closes)

ALLISON:
What's all this?

Just trying to reconstruct a list of anyone
at Langley who had operational clearance.

You should take a look
at this first.

What is it?

Passenger manifest
for Lufthansa Flight 667

leaving from Berlin to
Geneva on Saturday morning.

Saturday, as in the day before yesterday?
Th 81,8 correct.

Third page.

Seat 23-C,
the highlighted name.

“Petrich, Michael.

Professor of applied sciences
at Beuth University.”

Do I know this man?

I'm afraid so.

CCTV from the security line
at Tegel.

Etai.

He was there, Saul,
in Switzerland,

the day General Youssefs
plane went down.

Petrich is one of
his many known covers.

(Sighs)

Tell me about it.

Do we know where he went?

Or who he met with?

I've only just found out
about the flight myself.

Have you told Dar?

No, I came to you first.

Good.

Keep it between us
for the time being.

Okay.

Where are you going?

(door closes)

(Sighs)

(door opens)

(German)

Ja.

(Sighs)

(German)

(Sighs)

...where hundreds of people
have gathered

in response to a video,
posted anonymously online,

accusing a Russian consular official
of murder and possible kidnapping.

In fact, the embassy Web site-
Carrie, have you seen this?

You should see this.

...for almost two hours
this morning,

replaced by footage of the alleged
official having sex with two prostitutes.

The authenticity of the footage
cannot be confirmed,

but the hack on the Web site
went on to include allegations

that the SVR, Russia's
external intelligence agency,

killed a young woman
named Katia Keller

in an attempt to buy
classified CIA documents.

- What does this mean?
- Give me a minute.

REPORTER: The Russian diplomatic
mission in Germany has released-

(cell phone ringing)

Hello? CARRIE: It's rne.

What the hell's happening
at the Russian embassy?

You heard about that already?
Yeah, it's all over the Internet.

They keep mentioning
classified documents.

Are they the same ones Laura Sutton
was writing about last week?

One would assume. He said
as much on the video.

- Who did? - The hacker who
crashed the embassy Web site.

The same guy who
cyber-penetrated Berlin Station?

Apparently.

Uh, what about the photo I gave you?
Any luck there?

Actually, yes.

His name is Vasily Kovas.
Chechen born.

Formerly a contract killer for Russian
organized crime here in Berlin.

The Tambovskaya?

- Among others.
- Formerly, you said.

Before he went out on his own.

Any way to connect him to
what's going on at the embassy?

Well, I can think of
at least one way.

What's that?

He's done a bunch of freelance
jobs for the SVR lately.

What?

Yeah.

Real tough guy.

Astrid, I'm gonna
have to call you back.

What is it?
What did she say?

God, I've been such a fool.

It's been staring me
right in the face.

What has?
Quinn needs to hear this too.

She get a name?

She got more than that.

Thai guy who tried to kill you
worked for Russian intelligence.

That's who got in the middle
of your operation.

Saul didn't put my name in that
kill box, the Russians did.

Why?
Well, think about it.

The stuff Laura Sutton
published last week

was only part of what was hacked
out of Berlin Station.

So there was something in the additional
documents the SVR didn't want you to see.

Correct.

What are you doing? If you're going
back out there, I'm coming with.

No, hey, hey, hey. Quinn, lie back.
It's too dangerous.

It's not. No one's after me
at the moment, thanks to you.

(sighs)
Where's Laura?

Last I heard, she was
reaching out to her source.

The hacker? Yes. Not sure
if they ever connected.

Well, I need to see those
documents, whoever's got them.

Let me call her.

Hey, you gonna be all right?

I'd be better
if you'd get the hell out of Dodge.

I can't do that, not now.

We'll talk about it
when I get back, okay?

Okay, yeah. Danke.

(sighs) The office says she's
at the Russian embassy,

covering the demonstration there.

I'm gonna need you
to look after him for a while.

Carrie, listen to me.
I'll just be a few hours.

It's the last thing
I will ask you to do, I swear.

(labored breathing)

(door closes)

SAUL: Private plane went down
near Geneva this weekend.

I assume you're aware.

I heard rumors.

What about?

A near-epic operation
gone south.

Family members, not just
principals, among the dead.

Matter we discussed
at the seder the other night-

I need to know the source
of your intel. Hmm?

You know, a man
with a paranoid cast of mind

might think that you think we had something
to do with bringing down that plane.

Maybe your source was shopping
his wares to someone else.

Maybe you should grow a pair
of tits and go fuck yourself.

Let's talk about where you
were the day before yesterday.

You mean Saturday?
Yes, I mean Saturday.

Yeah, but if you already know,
what's the point of asking?

Well, what were you doing in Switzerland?
I can't tell you.

I was recruiting
a potential asset, okay?

Who?

That I won't tell you.

Anyway, it was a waste of time.
He never showed.

So it's just a coincidence
you were there?

Yeah, a troubling one, I admit.
Troubling?

The night before you were giving me an
earful about regime change in Damascus.

Another coincidence, I'm afraid.

I'm sure you can see how this looks
from where I'm standing.

We didn't do it, Saul.

We didn't murder
the general you never met

to discuss the coup
that you weren't planning.

Well, somebody did.

(camera shutter clicking)

(shouting)

Just as you cannot be
a little pregnant,

so you cannot be
a little totalitarian.

Our entire youth is being
monitored- everything we do-

and we don't know what that might mean,
how it might be used against us.

So what are you guys?

Chaos Chess Club, Pirate
Party, Tactical Tech?

- None of the above.
- Do you consider Gabe H. Coud

to be the most dangerous
man in cyberspace?

He is now.
ls he here?

Do you know?
Of course.

Where?
Right here.

I'm him.

So am I.
Me too.

Je suis Gabe H. Coud.

(chanting) Je suis Gabe H. Coud!
Je suis Gabe H. Coud!

(chanting continues)

Do you guys
speak English?

- I'll give you 20 euro for your mask.
- Make it 50.

Done.

Thanks.

(chanting continues)

LAURA:
Hey!

-(line ringing)
-(cell phone ringing)

- Hello?
- Laura, it's me, Carrie.

Carrie? What the hell?

You should probably
get out of here.

Police are about to move in
and break up the protest.

- How do you know that? - Because I'm
watching them get ready right now.

I really need to talk to you.

What about? Meet me at
the Ostbahnhof station.

Lose your cameraman.
Walk, don't run.

(protesters clamoring)

(shouting in German)

- This happened when?
- About 45 minutes ago.

I take it we didn't
have ears on it?

No way to get
a parabolic mic close enough.

Plus the water feature
in the garden.

I'll be damned.

(Sighs)

lt's hardly
a smoking gun, sir.

Excuse me?

I mean, there's probably
another explanation.

This could be about something
completely unrelated.

(Sighs)

(woman speaking German on PA)

You don't know me.
Sit down and take out your phone.

- What's going on? - Take out your phone
and make like you’re talking on it.

Okay, good.
Thanks for coming.

Another phone trick.

I'm gonna have
to remember these.

Jonas told me you were looking
for your hacker friend.

Did you ever track him down?

Why?

I need to see the rest of the
material he got from the CIA.

Not gonna happen.

Laura, look, I know
we're not best friends,

but you got to believe me, we are on the
same side here. You don't understand.

People are dying because of what's in those documents.
Let me finish.

I don't have them, Carrie.

- What?
- Numan doesn't either.

Numan? Apparently a buddy
of his double-crossed him,

sold them to someone
inside the Russian embassy.

He's got to have
a backup somewhere.

Unless he's a really good liar,
I don't think so.

Fuck.
Hey.

Hey!

Can I make a suggestion?

Numan didn't have
the only copy.

What do you mean?

He downloaded the shit,
right?

But it's not like he deleted
it from the server.

Files are still
at the CIA someplace.

Maybe you can get
one of your friends there-

They are not my friends.
Do you not get that?

Jesus, I'm poison to them.

Yeah?

It's not like you got
a ton of options right now.

God, you're shaking.
I'm just cold.

Okay, come on.
Don't.

(labored breathing)

(groans)

Jesus.

I'm okay.
No, you're not.

You call an ambulance,
you condemn her to death.

I can’t just sit here
and watch you die.

Then fuck off
somewhere else.

That's not a choice either.

If I'm found like this, in
a hospital or in a morgue,

Carrie will never be free.

Oh, you people are out
of your fucking minds.

You'd do the same if you were me.
I would not.

For her, you would. No. I would
never put myself in that situation.

(chuckles)
What?

- What's so goddamn funny?
- You're already in that situation.

(cell phone vibrating)

Hello?

Hello?

Laura didn't have the documents. I'm
gonna be a little longer than I thought.

- How much longer?
- A couple hours.

That's not gonna work. Your
friend's in really bad shape.

Tell me.

He lost a lot of blood.

Jonas, you're gonna have
to call your sister.

She's just gonna say he needs
to go to the emergency room.

- You don't know that.
- Carrie, he is dying!

Okay, then.

Call an ambulance.
Do what you have to do.

C-Carrie-
(groans)

Damn it.

(line ringing)

(woman on phone speaking German)

(Sighs)

Quinn!

(labored breathing)

(exhales sharply)

WOMAN:
Enjoy your stay here.

Hello. Can I get
a wake-up call at 6:15 AM?

(man, indistinct)
SAUL: 600.

(bell dings)

(bell dings)

(beeps)

(labored breathing)

(groaning)

(speaking German)

(exhales)

Go away.

“Only God is permitted to
give life and to take life.”

I said

90 away,

I won’t.

I cannot.

God has sent me
to help you.

Un-fucking-believable.
Un-fucking-believable.

You are injured.

Please, I will take you
to a hospital.

No hospital.

Just leave me the fuck alone.

(groans)

(engine idling)

You're a runner now, huh?

Yeah.

Since when?

Since Mira filed for divorce.

(panting, groaning)

(clattering)

(coughing)

(groans)

(groaning continues)

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(crickets chirping)

(animal howls)

(keys clack, bell dings)