Homeland

Previously on Homeland...

- What's wrong with you? - I'm bipolar.

And my drug protocol is fucked up.

Apparently, I've developed a lithium tolerance.

Dr. Meyer told you this?

Basically, she wants me to...

sedate myself into a coma to break the manic cycle.

Okay, stop. This is far enough. Stop.

Hello. I'm looking for Brett O'Keefe.

Must be a slow week in Washington

if the President sends her new

National Security Advisor down here.

Saul!

Get out of there! Run!

Run!

There's no need for this to end badly.

Well, it won't be without a fight,

I can tell you that.

I ran down that photo you sent me.

Simone Martin.

Met David Wellington in Budapest four years ago.

They've been involved on and off ever since.

A vehicle registered to this woman

was issued a parking ticket in Hazelton, West Virginia,

where General McClendon was sentenced to spend

- the rest of his life. -

It's also the day before he died.

We have a time-sensitive matter

we need to bring to your attention.

We have fresh intel that Assad is mounting an offensive

against the Free Syrian Army.

Excuse me, General, this is the same briefing

I got last week.

What makes you think I've changed my position?

That arms shipment to the Assad regime?

The window's still open for an air strike.

I am not gonna blow up a convoy in Syria

in order to control the news cycle.

- Rossen here. - General, it's David Wellington.

The President's come around.

She just approved the Syrian mission.

You say the President authorized the strike.

You have my word.

He saved our lives.

Yeah.

What was his name?

Carrie, you're not yourself.

But you don't have my condition.

I'm dealing with it. I-I've been dealing with it since I was 22.

She said no one at work could know. She's bipolar.

The mood of the country, it's not great.

Civil... war.

Madam President, please!

You have to put a stop to this!

It's only getting worse.

Is there no fucking line?

Ridiculous lies and accusations.

The White House is in crisis mode.

I'm talking about information warfare.

Our country is under attack.

The time to rise up is now!

I swore an oath to protect it.

Just think of me as a light on the heavens,

a beacon steering you clear of the wrongs.

[vehicles approaching, siren whoops]

- - Fuck.

- Madam President. - Wait here, please.

- - Close it.

You heard?

I heard. I was waiting for you to call.

So all the intelligence services listening in could hear

that my presidency's just been hijacked?

I don't think so.

Those fucking generals sat there

with their stars on their shoulders,

nodding their heads like they were actually listening.

Then went ahead and did whatever the hell they wanted.

It wasn't the generals, Elizabeth. It was me.

- What? - It was me.

I authorized the air strike in your name.

I tried telling you last night,

you're on track to be the first president since Harrison

not to make it through a hundred days.

We needed to put one up in the win column.

The win column?

Are you out of your mind?

Have you seen what they're saying about you

- on the morning shows? - I don't care

- what they're saying. - Well, you should. It's all

about how you just announced yourself

on the world stage, how you're learning on the job.

Between this and releasing the 200,

I think we finally turned a corner.

So I should be grateful that a mission I said "no" to

gets a thumbs up from the morning talk show crowd?

You should be grateful you get to

wipe the slate and start over.

Very few presidents are so lucky.

I should have you arrested.

Elizabeth?

A long time ago,

you asked me to run your first campaign for state office.

I was doing national races at the time, but I said "yes"

because I had this feeling

we'd be here someday in the White House.

You want my resignation, I'll resign.

You want me in jail? I'll go.

But all I care about, all I care about is

you having a chance to show them you can be a great president,

a great president, and you have that in you,

and I've known it from the beginning.

- -

- - Carrie?

You're not gonna believe what just happened.

- What? - Wellington and Keane.

She was just lambasting him in his house,

'cause the air strike in Syria? She said no way.

- He authorized it anyway. - What?

He authorized it. That's what he said.

And then he got all weird, how she's got it in her

to become this great president.

I mean, it's crazy town. Anything is possible.

So if we were wondering if that guy's capable

of taking out McClendon, I'd say it's a big fucking yes.

- We've gotta tell Dante. - Forget it.

- He needs to know. - There's no way you'd know

what you just told me without the surveillance,

and the surveillance leads right back to me.

- Fine. - No one can know.

- That was the deal. - I said fine.

So you said you had something you want me to look at.

Yeah. Not as mind-blowing as that.

But I did get a download from his girlfriend's computer.

She was up in Hazelton, where McClendon died,

just hours before it happened.

- And you know this how? - Dante.

The guy you don't trust to tell about the surveillance?

He found a parking ticket she got while she was there.

I'll take a look.

- - What are you doing?

While you're unlocking her e-mails,

I'm gonna go to Hazelton.

Maybe I can figure out what she was doing there.

I thought you were grounded.

So you can rest.

I need to borrow your car.

Could use some help out here!

[indistinct conversations continue]

Got it.

That's a lot of firepower.

Better safe than sorry.

I didn't know it was gonna get to this.

I'm glad that somebody does.

You probably think twice now,

a stranger asks to spend the night.

Someone should've told me what you all were planning.

Wasn't really a plan, ma'am. More like a Hail Mary.

You should've said. I could've gotten the children out.

So the Feds can use them against us?

- They're not safe here. - Okay, wait, wait, wait.

I know this situation I have dragged you into

is less than ideal, but I want you to know,

before any of you good people comes close to getting hurt,

especially the children,

I will be walking down that driveway

and handing myself over to the federales.

Okay?

In the meantime, though, the way I see it,

we hold all the cards.

- What cards? - Me. They don't want a fight.

They just want me. So if you're willing,

how 'bout we just leave their whole big,

ugly battalion out there a while?

So the whole world can see.

- There we go. -

- - Yeah!

[men all speak indistinctly at once]

Get the kids to the barn.

[dog barking in distance, baby crying]

Killed my drone.

Son of a... Back it up. Back it up. I wanna see.

Yeah. There, there, there, there.

All right, tell me what I'm lookin' at here,

the guy with the gun.

His name's Andy Burke, sir. A local survivalist.

Ah. There. Who are they?

Uh, that's Bo and Mary Elkins.

They own the place with the Van Dusens.

And that's Brett O'Keefe.

Yeah. Yeah, him I know.

All right, so we got, uh, 40 people,