Homeland (2011–…): Season 6, Episode 11 - R Is for Romeo - full transcript

Previously on Homeland...

Astrid!

No!

Somebody
is paying O'Keefe to build

a massive
domestic propaganda machine.

And if this somebody is DoD
or NSA or Dar Adal,

- he's breaking about 10 federal laws.
- I'm aware.

Mr. Piotrowski!

Yes?

Mr. Piotrowski, did you bring
a phone onto this floor?

I don't think so.



Come with us, please.

What's this?

A work in progress.
It's not ready yet.

I am the next president
of the United States.

Who the hell voted for you?

Nobody.

That's right.

Don't go to war with your own
national security establishment.

Are you threatening me now?

Some men run towards the fight.

Andrew Keane just ran away.

Cowardice runs in the family.

We have to respond.

That is my son



they are dragging
through the mud!

Quinn, what are you doing?

Look.

My God.

That's him, Carrie.

The m-man who was... watched you,

put the bomb in the van.

The first revolution
is when you change your mind

about how you look at things

and see that there might be
another way to look at it

that you have not been shown.

The brutality
against protesters,

the para-militarization
of law enforcement.

That's why
we have to keep trying.

We don't need
a police state in this country

to fight terrorism.

We need a new strategy.

The revolution
will not be televised.

The system
of indefinite detention...

FBI and the CIA
targeting Muslim communities...

Security. Got an
agitated non-compliant patient.

- Get away from me! Aah!
- What's his name again?

- Peter Quinn.
- Peter Quinn.

You will not be
able to stay home, brother.

You will not be able to
plug in, turn on, and cop out.

It's a very alarming charge.

The Russians hacked
our committees.

The continuation of endless war.

Can't you get that
through your fucking skull?

The revolution will
put you in the driver's seat.

The US continues to engage

in a covert war
with very, very high stakes.

I made promises
and didn't keep them.

This world began
right after 9/11.

The revolution will
not be televised,

not be televised.
There will be no rerun,

brothers and sisters.
The revolution will be live.

Which agency?

I can't say that
here in an open hearing, sir.

You saved me.

Yes.

Why?

Quinn.

Is this why I'm here?
To watch you shoot him?

Because I can't let that happen.
You know that.

That's not why
I brought you here.

Why, then?

Shh.

Lights out.

Nothing till tom... morning.

Good. Then maybe you can tell me
what the hell is going on.

Last time I saw you,
you were being hauled off

by orderlies at Bellevue.

You want to tell me
how you ended up here?

He blew up the boy in the van.

Sekou Bah.

I have proof.

Yeah, thos...
Those photos you took.

- I-I know. I've s... I've seen them.
- No, no, no. Proof.

The... The real van

is in the garage in the house.

The real van? What do you mean?

S-S-Swapped.

Switched.

You're saying it's... it's...
It's in that garage right now.

I saw.

Holy shit.

Q-Quinn... Quinn, you don't have
to shoot him.

I know the solicitor general.

I met him
through the president-elect.

He can make things happen,
secure the evidence,

get that guy in there arrested,
the whole bunch of them.

Don't... call anyone.

The van is from me to you.

The guy is mine.

And can you tell me why?

It doesn't matter why.

It will when you're tried
for murder.

I don't care.

You... You don't care?

I don't care.

Yeah, well, I do.

What is that supposed to mean?

What, I don't care?

I don't care so much I visited
you in the hospital every day?

I don't care so much
I took you into my home?

I lost my daughter?

I don't care so much
I fucking dropped everything

when your hooker girlfriend
showed up out of the blue

and said you needed me.

You had no choice.

- Believe me, I did.
- You owe me.

- And why's that?
- Because you made me this way!

In Berlin, you woke me
f-from a coma

f-f-for answers.

I don't have them.

You keep saying
you saved my l-life.

You killed it.

You made this stroke.

Who told you that?

You only care because
you got f-found out.

No. Quinn...

Y-You did this to me!

It's always your mission,
y-your mission, the mission!

That is not true.
That is not true.

- You made me a fucking monkey!
- Quinn, listen to me...

There were thousands of people
who were gonna die.

- Not my president!
- Not my president!

Excuse me. Excuse me.

You have ID?

Okay. Come on.

I'm sure each president
can remember a time

not that long ago when there
was this consensus...

You are entitled
to your own opinions,

but you are not entitled
to your own facts.

This video of my son
is not political speech.

It is not someone's
protected opinion.

It is a knowing lie,
perverting the meaning

of the last moments of his life.

The video says
he was running away.

That is not true.

He was running toward a fallen
comrade to save that man's life.

That act, which was attested to
by six soldiers

who were actually there...
That act cost my son his life...

and won him the Silver Star.

Whoever made the video
is not only trying to undo that

and damage him personally,
but to damage my presidency.

I call on the actual cowards,
the people who made it,

to come out of the shadows
and show their faces.

Madam President-Elect,
are you calling this

a conspiracy against you?

I am asking the people who made
the video to acknowledge it.

But you are calling the men
in the video liars?

Yes, I am.

And I'm calling on the media

to do their jobs
and check their facts.

Are you aware of the petitioning
to have your son's body

removed from Arlington Cemetery?

- That's ridiculous.
- Well, they've collected

a quarter-million
signatures online.

What about the rumor
that your nominee

for Secretary of Defense
has withdrawn his name?

As far as I know, you are
starting that rumor yourself

- right now.
- So, you're not aware.

Are you planning to resign?

Who asked that?

I was elected by the people
of this country

to be their next president.

I will represent them.

That's all.

Have you heard
veterans groups are threatening

to boycott your inauguration?

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.

We're now going to talk about
the president-elect's schedule.

Is it true?
Johnson's withdrawing his name?

He has concerns.
I'm dealing with it.

You should have told me.

What's he doing here?

He has something important
to talk to you about.

What?

I think you should hear it
from him.

Did you see that in there?

Just the end.

And?

Ugly business.

Rob says you have something
to tell me.

The video of your son

causing you so much grief...

I know where it came from.

So do I... Dar Adal.

It's more complicated than that.

Quite a bit more.

Where are you going?

Where they go.

Not by yourself.

Well, they're leaving.

I left you a thing
to find the key, the door code.

You can get in.

It's true what you said
last night... about Berlin.

I told myself...

I was doing what you would want
me to do, preventing an attack.

- Look, I-I...
- And I should have told you.

I know.

And it's not just the mission.

It never has been.

You got to let me go.

You talk to him yet?

I've been waiting for you.

Well, I've been listening

to the president-elect...
Her press conference.

She's calling on the cowards
spreading these deplorable lies

about her son to come out
of the shadows.

You're not thinking
of doing that.

Somebody calls me "deplorable,"

I think they should say it
to my face.

You've got bigger issues...

Our friend here shooting videos
of the two of us together.

He says the whole thing's
a misunderstanding.

It's not.

I know who he is.

Hello, Max.

Hi.

You know who I am?

You were here yesterday.

But nothing before that?

No.

I'm told you took a video
while I was here

of Mr. O'Keefe and me.

I didn't.

Where is it?

Nowhere.

You deleted it from your phone.

Did you...

send it somewhere?

How could I? I never took it.

How's Carrie?

Fine.

So you know who she is?

Yeah. So?

- Did she tell you to get a job here?
- No.

- Did she tell you to take that video of me?
- I said I...

Did she tell you
anything about me?

- No.
- Nothing at all?

No.

You have no idea who I am.

I'm just some guy
who was here yesterday.

How can you be so sure?

Look, I needed a job.

This...

I want a lawyer.

What?

I want a lawyer.

All that tells me is
you have no idea

the shit you've landed
yourself in.

You have anything to say to me?

Fine.

Shut it down.

This place, this boiler room,

whatever it is, shut it down.

- How?
- You tell me.

I think we might have a way.

According to Saul,
this location,

the Office
of Policy Coordination...

Which, by the way,
I've never even heard of...

Sorry.

This site is well-funded,
employing hundreds of people

using special-access
security protocols,

where Dar Adal was spotted.

Meaning it's Agency.

Let's follow the money
and find out.

Because if the Agency
is financing

a domestic propaganda campaign,
they're way outside the law.

Could be just the leverage
we've been looking for,

put them down for real.

Maybe something good
can come of this.

- Madam President-Elect.
- Just a minute.

You'll want to hear this.

That was Brett O'Keefe
on the phone.

He says he made the video.

He admits it now
when we already know?

He says he's responding to
your call to come out of hiding.

He wants to discuss it with you
on his show this afternoon.

No debate, no prep,
just two people talking.

His words.

Which, obviously,
you don't want to do.

Of course she doesn't.

He's a freak show,
completely irrelevant.

Irrelevant how?

His website gets
15 million visitors a day.

Each one of them crazy as he is.

So, we just let them

keep screaming at us
without a response?

Here's a response...
The man is insane.

Saul.

We wouldn't be aware of any
of this if it weren't for you.

So?

Honestly...

it's hard to listen
to what's said in this room,

'cause what I'm not hearing
is a plan.

"Follow the money," which...

believe me, will be much harder
than you think.

That's what you'll be doing when
the world rolls right over you.

'Cause you're missing it,
all of you.

It's happening right now
in front of your faces.

We have O'Keefe.

We have a
disinformation campaign

designed to discredit
the president-elect.

And as of today, we have boots
on the ground...

like the protesters I had
to wade through to get here.

That seem familiar
to any of you?

Because it does to me.

It's what we did
in Nicaragua, Chile, Congo,

a dozen other places, all the
way back to Iran in the '50s.

And it does not end well
for the elected regime.

You're fighting for your lives
here. Do you get that?

You can't afford
to stay silent...

And I don't mean
press conferences.

What do you mean?

You said, "Show your face."

He did.

You have to take him on.

Yeah.

Don't!

Don't!

I'll be back in 15 mutes
to pick that up.

Hey.

They're going to kill me...

The people who are
keeping me here.

Then why were they
so concerned you got lunch?

You've got to help me.

Be sure to drink your milk.

Let's go! Drive.

It's good.

I just got off the phone
with George Pallis,

the solicitor general.

He's excited about the van.

Law enforcement's
already on the way.

Plus, he's coming personally

to handle the immunity
situation with you.

I told him I was being attacked.
You saved me.

The assailant died
in the process.

I didn't really get into detail.

I thought it would be better
in person.

You want to talk about it?

We should.

I don't even mean
the immunity part.

I mean, you know,
what's going on with you.

Did I say "yes"?

Fine.

Do yourself a favor, though, and
change out of that bloody shirt

before they get here.

He killed Astrid.

What?

She came all the way from Berlin

to take care of me, and...

And what?

I'm so f-fucked up...

up here,

I thought she came to hurt me.

I took the bullets
out of her gun,

and she couldn't
defend herself when he came.

I killed her.

No, you did not.

You did not.

That guy did.

Listen, okay?

When Pallis gets here,

you need to tell him
what you just told me.

I-I know...

I know it won't be easy, but...

at least I understand,
now, what happened here.

You don't.

- Quinn...
- You don't.

This is what I do.

Don't even say that.

It's all I can do.

No.

Because there's nothing here.
There never was.

Shut the fuck up!

And you...

you...

changed...

after the stroke.

We both know it, and... and

I am so, so sorry,
what I did to you.

You didn't do anything.

I've always been this way.

Madam President-Elect,
this is an honor.

Mr. O'Keefe.

And a surprise,
I'll have to say.

We're on a tight schedule,
Brett.

Of course.

My word.

You brought an army.

Really, ma'am, you're safe here.

Why don't we start?

Let him go. Let him go.

We have a friend in common,
you and I.

Yeah, you said.

I don't mean Carrie.
I'm talking about Peter Quinn.

Nod your head
if you've heard of him.

Yeah, I know him.

So do I.

I've known him a very long time.

He's developed quite an
online presence recently...

A website... which worries me.

You want to know why?

This is getting tiring, Max.

If I wanted to hurt you,
you'd be hurt by now.

You must know that, right?

So, tell me your thoughts.

A website doesn't sound
like Quinn.

Okay.

At all.

And it's not just that
he's always so secret

about everything.

I've never seen him online.

I don't even think
he uses e-mail.

Which means?

Maybe someone's
impersonating him.

Who would do that?

It's exactly what that place
where I've been working

is set up to do.

Only, why have I never
seen this thing?

Because the only place
it exists so far

is on your boss's computer
in his office.

Then why not ask him about it?

He'd rather I didn't know.

Can you get into his computer?

No.

Not even for Quinn?

There's a daily backup
ported offsite.

I may be able to get into that.

Good afternoon, ladies and
gentlemen, friends and enemies.

Welcome to a very special
edition of "Real. Truth."

Special because my guest

is the next president
of the United States,

Elizabeth Keane.

Welcome, Madam President-Elect.

Thank you.

So, let me ask you

what everyone is asking
right now...

Why are you here?

Because you invited me.

Well, I've often invited you,
but, usually, you prefer

the loving arms
of the mainstream media.

Trust me, I have taken
some beatings

from the mainstream media.

I'm here because a video
was released last night

which viciously slandered
my dead son.

I challenged the people
responsible for making it

to show their faces,
and you did.

So, here I am.

You do know it's not slander
if it's true?

It's not true.

Not true.

Have you seen it?

I have... more than
a dozen times.

Perhaps I can remind you.

Captain Keane do?

He ran past me.

He was shouting...

"Out of the way!
Get out of the fucking way!"

Some men ran towards the fight.

Andrew Keane just ran away.

Cowardice runs in the family.

As I said, I have seen it.

And I have to ask, why would
you want to make a mother...

Any mother... watch the last
moments of her son's life?

I know it must be painful
for you

and I-I'm sorry.

But I want to be clear
about this.

You say... You say it's not true.

Are you accusing these men
of lying?

Yes, I am.

Either they're confused
or they've been suborned.

What about the footage?
Is it lying?

Why does it end there, on a shot
of my son running away?

Because that's what he did.

But what happens next?

Six eyewitnesses testified
Andrew was killed

pulling a wounded soldier
out of enemy fire.

So, what happens next?

Where is the original footage?

You produced the video.
You must have it.

You know why I produced
the video?

To destroy the memory of my son,

to hurt me, and to damage
my presidency.

No, no, and no.

I produced the video
because some people...

People you call cowards, though
every one of them's a veteran...

Came to me with a story
of injustice.

No one believed them because
it involved a powerful person

with an even more
powerful mother.

They were voiceless.

They were hurting.

Well, thank God they had film,

and thank God I could do my bit

to make our democracy
a little more equal.

Creating false stories doesn't
make democracy more equal.

It harms it deeply.

Let people see all of the film.
Let them judge.

They already have.

Five million views
in the first hour,

more than two million posts.

One-and-a-half million of those
posts came within a minute

of the video being released.

How is that possible?

People were angry.

They felt that you tricked them,
stole the election

on the back of your son's fake
war record, so they responded.

People didn't respond.

That is a physical
impossibility.

Those numbers exist

because a vast majority of
those posts were made by bots...

Digital entities
pretending to be people.

Dig into those identities
and you find no one...

No real names,
no Social Security numbers,

no addresses, no jobs,
just a stream of hate.

Dig deeper, you find many of
these bots are run in a place

called the Office
of Policy Coordination,

which is in a building
off of I-95,

with a control center
six floors underground.

Underground.
An underground bunker?

- Yes.
- Really?

Yes. Run out of this studio.

You didn't just produce
the lying video.

You faked the hate and the lies
that accompanied it.

People hate you,
Madam President-Elect.

No one's faking that.

Boy, are they angry.

You know what would make them
even angrier?

If they learned
how your operation was funded.

- Excuse me?
- If they learned you were financed

by the same establishment
you claim to despise.

That is an outrageous lie!

You are not a free voice
speaking truth to power.

You're a government shill.

- Now we are talking slander.
- I have evidence of collusion

with serving members of
the intelligence community.

It will go
to the Attorney General.

You will be prosecuted.
You will be shut down.

Because in my government,
truth will have a value,

and you will have no place.

Wow.

Just wow.

I don't even know
how to respond.

You've even got my
switchboard going crazy.

Let's take a call.

Hi. You're on "Real. Truth."

Hey, there. This is Bill.

I just want to say...

Hang on, Bill.

Are you real?

What?

Are you real?

Because the president-elect
doesn't think you are.

What the fuck?
Yeah, man, I'm real.

You're not a-a fake, a-a-a bot?

No, I'm fucking not.

She's just trying to dodge
the issue.

What is the issue, Bill?

Andrew Keane is.

I was in Iraq, okay?

Everybody knew
he got special treatment

because his mama was a senator.

It didn't keep him
from getting killed.

He was killed
because he was a coward.

He should be dug up
out of Arlington

because that's for real heroes.

And I'll tell you
something else, for free...

Your son runs
like a fucking girl.

Like I said, people...

people are angry.

A random caller?

I don't think so.
I've noticed this about you.

Whenever you are trapped
in a lie,

you raise your voice
and change the subject.

Not today.

We're done here.

- Carrie.
- Hello, sir.

So, what exactly is this place?

According to Quinn,
it's a briefing post

for special-ops teams
heading to the Middle East.

He staged out of here himself
for almost a year.

I got a call
from the agent in charge.

He said there's some issue
with the body.

What's his name?

The license says Porteous Belli.
I doubt it's real.

You want to tell me
how this happened?

He was trying to kill me.
Quinn stopped him.

Things got a little crazy.

I guess so.

He was choking me out.
Quinn saved my life.

It never occurred
to either of you

this guy could have been
a major witness?

We still have the van.

Show me.

Incredible.

There's a photo of Sekou with
his mom and sister on the visor.

It's what
you've been asking for...

An actual prosecutable case.

Quinn handed it to us.

His immunity deal
covers everything, right?

We'll make it work.

I met power today.

Power came to my place of work,

surrounded by goose-stepping men
in long coats.

And I'll be honest...

I was afraid.

Afraid.

I felt the weight of the state,

that jackboot on my neck

when I heard these words
from the president-elect...

"You will be prosecuted."

You will be shut down.

"Because in my government,
you will have no place."

For a moment there, I thought
I might have changed some minds.

You did.

Just don't expect to change his.

Whatever happened to government
of the people,

by the people, for the people?

I'll tell you what happened.

- Whether by fraud or deceit...
- Turn it off, please.

Or our own collective...

I want you to know how grateful
I am you came forward.

It couldn't have been easy.

'Cause you're about to throw me
under the bus to get Dar?

Yes.

That and because I know
how protective you are

of the Agency.

Whatever is going on here,
it's not the Agency.

Not mine, anyway.

Well, they're out
in the open now, thanks to you.

Excuse me, ma'am.

The... The protest has grown
in front of the hotel.

We can go in the back.

No, the front.

Big Apple is coming in.

I have to say... you did well.

- Not my president!
- Not my president!

15 seconds, ma'am.

Once we stop, we move fast.

No!

No!

Abort drop-off. Go to nest.

- Close up.
- Roger that.

Ma'am?

Madam President-Elect?

Hey.

The solicitor general's here.

He wants to talk to you
about what happens next.

I know you say you don't care,

but please,
at least listen to him.

He confirmed the immunity deal.

You're gonna get out of this.
We both are.

What are you looking at?

You want to tell me?

What do these letters
look like to you?

"P," maybe?

Which?

I-I don't know.
What does it mean?

Local time, where they're going,

the guys who left here
this morning.

What if it's that?

Bravo time.

Syria, Jordan.

What if it's "R"?
Where are they then?

Romeo, East Coast.

East Coast? Where?

Here.

Don't move.

Where's George Pallis?

A call came in for him.

There's some situation
with the president-elect.

What situation?
You'll have to find him.

He's around here somewhere.

Hello? Rob Emmons.

Rob, it's Carrie.

I can barely hear you.

I'm at a house in Queens.

Yeah, we heard, from George,
the good news.

But... Hold on. Excuse me.

You there?

Rob?

Yeah, I'm here.

What's going on?

There was an incident
with the president-elect.

Some demonstrators got
out of hand, but she's okay.

We got reinforcements
on the way.

What do you mean
"reinforcements"?

What kind of reinforcement?
Who are they?

Fuck. Sorry.

Look, Carrie, I got to
call you back.

No, no, no. Wait.
This is important.

Ho... Okay, hold on.

Wait. What reinforcements?

Rob?

Rob?

No! Wait! Aah!

Okay. I'm with you. What is it?

Hello?

- Copy, traffic control.
- Hello?

Hello?

Copy that.

- Who was that?
- Carrie Mathison.

- What did she want?
- I don't know.

The line was bad.

Could you sit down?
You're making me nervous.

Are you even in yet?

I've been in for 20 minutes.
There's a lot of stuff here.

For fuck's sake.
Did you find Quinn?

Not exactly, but I found this.

Toxic Soldier? That's Quinn?

That's his handle, supposedly.

He started posting on conspiracy
sites about four months ago.

Is any of it real?

Quinn was in lockup for a lot
of this, so what do you think?

World government, deep state,
the usual stuff,

except that's not
his main preoccupation.

What is?

Elizabeth Keane.

So, you want to tell me
what's going on?

Quinn?

Quinn. Quinn, you're okay.

Thank God you're okay!