Again, I have to say I enjoyed the latest episode. It shows that the NSA/CIA possess poison ink that can induce a fatal/near fatal heart attack on a subject. This means, that like the suspected Russian who slathered a doornob with a nerve agent that infected a former Russian spy, Colonel Sergei Skirpal and his adult daughter Yulie in Salisbury, (like the once upon a time Salisbury steak at Schrafft's) England and sent them both to a hospital in serious condition, the USA is capable of similar tactics.
Nerve agent on a door knob. It's a wonder a British Fed Ex carrier wasn't infected, or their postal carrier. How about a Jehovah Witness? Talk about getting who you aim at.
In Homeland, Carrie and Saul (always call Saul) cooked up a sting scenario to get Dante Allen, the FBI agent they suspect who is acting as an agent of Russia to hold a pen from a bogus lawyer they sent in that leeches poison onto Dante's skin. Up to that point, Dante's been holding firm and not talking. Is the pen mightier than the sword? Ask Dante.
Now that he's writhing on the interrogation room floor and basically dying, Carrie rushes in and gets to hear enough from the "dying" Dante to allow Saul to get a warrant to interrogate Simone Martin, a Russian agent who is going to lie in front of a Congressional committee with testimony that implicates the president's Chief of Staff, and therefore the first female president Elizabeth Keane, in the murder of a general who led a coup attempt against President Keane.
It's a well-thought out plot to unravel the freshly elected administration. Talk about Russian influence! Egods! They're basically trying to get President Keane to resign and promote Beau Bridges as vice president into the presidency, guaranteeing Beau more acting work. There's only so much we as Americans can stand for.
But the wheels start to come off when Russia gets a little nervous with the firmness President Keane shows when she, through diplomatic channels, makes the Russians aware in no uncertain terms that trouble lies ahead if they continue with the plot. Your imagination is left to supply the penalty the Russians will pay for their deceit. No more jeans, DVDs? No more Russians in the NHL?
Russia scrambles. They've got to get Simone Martin out of the "secure" sequestered site she is being held at before she completes the plot and hurts what Russians will be wearing and viewing in their homes. Everyone knows we've got he best jeans, (probably the best underwear as well) and the best entertainment on earth.
Enter Costa Ronin, as Yevgeny Gromov, the master Russian operative who easily gets Simone Martin's lawyer to cough up Simone's guarded whereabouts when he slyly informs the lawyer that her mother, who is being cared for in a nursing home on the Medicaid dole when mamma's sizable assets have been cleverly hidden from the government in pass-through financial entities. The lawyer swallows hard, and certainly answers the phone when Yevgeny calls. Location coughed up. Those goddamn sneaky lawyers. Only loyal to the almighty dollar.
And if you also watch The Americans you can also catch Costa Ronin playing a Russian, but one who is more reflective and less a hard-liner, who is trying to see that reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev gets to stay in power.
Mr. Ronin has now been cast in two shows as "The Russian," one nice, one hardly nice. The hope is that in public Mr. Ronin doesn't get accosted for his hard-line portrayals. Might he hard to eat out.
Simone Martin's location is hardly secure, guarded by two U.S. Marshals, who fall prey to commando Russians, one in the front, one in the back of the house in the woods of Virginia. If they were better at their jobs, or if the government thought Simone should be kept somewhere really secure rather than in a bucolic cabin near squirrels, Episode 8 would of course be in jeopardy.
How Carrie gets Saul to allow her to interrogate Dante Allen is a stretch. She's a civilian allowed into Saul's NSA safe house with access to all the information there is. Okay, Carrie's been supplying Saul with some "intel," but she's still not a government employee. Minor point. She's Carrie. Get over it.
And what about Franny, Carrie's kid played by twin actors? Franny's a mess. Crying, confused. mom's always somewhere other than home. Talk about a rough childhood. Carrie's sister threatens a court battle over Franny, but Carrie is duty bound, "she swore an oath." Carrie plows ahead. suppressing any motherly instincts she might have to live a little more quiet life with her daughter.
Will Carrie's and Saul's plan to trick Dante into meeting with a bogus lawyer who poisons him with a leaky fountain pen backfire if Dante goes flatline? Will Carrie run out of bootleg meds that are leaving her one swallow away from another full-blown manic attack? Will Franny recover and get to settle down and play soccer, eat ice cream, and have playdates with her classmates?
Don't bet it on as long as ever-ready Carrie can gain Internat access somewhere.
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