My son-in-law's theory that the better episodes don't have Franny in them is starting to gain traction once again. But will Carrie return from Russia? The next episode previews give you an indication that there might he a hiccup. Oh my. Is Carrie going to he held by the Soviets and thrown into the basement of Lubyanka prison to await a prisoner spy swap? Will Tom Hanks be involved standing on a bridge lit by powerful search lights?
And Saul! Kick ass Saul. That after Sunday's episode we're not at war with Russia is due to something. What? They've all got money stashed in our banks? And they did all they did without mentioning Putin! Only referred to as "The Kremlin." Amazing.
Short on play details? Here you go.
We know Saul, Carrie and a commando team have landed in Russia to exfiltrate Simon Martin. They're not going to ask nicely. They're going to take her by force from the dacha lover-boy Yevgeny has got her stashed at.
Dar Adal, the imprisoned F. Murray Abraham who led a military attempt to overthrow President Keane, gets a visit from Senator Paley. Jerk Paley tries to get Dar's sympathies by telling him that a new administration will get him sprung. In the scruffy prison yard, surrounded by fences and bad barb wire, a bitter, cold Dar in a watch cap gives Paley some obtuse advice: find someone who knows how the Russians operate. There aren't many to choose from.
Plan A goes badly. The Russians have been tipped by that traitor Senator Paley and his Chief of Staff Janet Bayne. They want to see President Keane go so they can what...? Shack up better in the Maryland woods? Disgusting!
Paley's Chief of Stuff, Janet Bayne, gets the hacker Clint in the cellar living with Mom (of course) to cough up details. Jerk! Can't take the heat about a threatening phone call to the Attorney General? He probably won't even answer the phone. Asshole. You are only as strong as your weakest link, and this guy is a weak link.
Commando team fails with Plan A. Saul gets even tougher with the Russians at the delegation's meeting in a sumptuous ballroom. When General Yakoshin of the GRU visits Saul in the power breakfast restaurant to tell him his bank accounts have been emptied he immediately suspects Saul has something to do with it. He tells Saul, in very good English, "Fuck you Saul."
"Fuck me? Okay, but this is what you get when the gloves come off while you're cursing me..." We want Saul as our N.S.A. director for real. And our Secretary of State. And the head of our C.I.A. Think President Trump is tough telling Kim Jong-Un that his nuclear button is bigger than his nuclear button? Saul's the real deal. Saul's got more cojones that a chamber full of Senators.
Saul puts Carrie's Plan B into motion. Seems you can get the Soviet general's attention by seizing the money he's stolen and parked in the United States. What's the general going to do in his retirement? Buy a condo at 432 Park Avenue, live with the Saudis and shop on Fifth Avenue when he's not entertaining the ladies at the Russian Tea Room, or Petrossian, ordering vodka and exotic caviar? Go to Disney World?
No matter now. Funds are on hold. Do as Saul says. Tell him where Simone Martin is. Well, that's one pissed off head of the SVR, General Yakushin. He hates the GRU, the counterpart intelligence agency, all of which have replaced the KGB. More is always better, right?
This general is so mad he assembles an attack team with heavily armed Balaclava-wearing commandos armed to the teeth in a parade of black vehicles to pull out or kill Simone, who is being held in an ultra-secure penthouse in the GRU building by Yevgeny. And all this is visible on hacked computer feeds to Carrie in Russia, and her buddy Max back at he safe house stateside. Talk about watching Russian television! It would seem if anyone wants to, they can get you taking a shit.
Max introduces fake news to the Russian people. He feeds all the computers he can get access to the scene of commandos taking over the GRU building. It seems they too have Chicken Little the-sky-is-falling news outlets as well. Thank God for fake news. In a word, chaos.
And Carrie? She's out on a ledge, literally, making her way to Simon's aerie. What happens next? Drama. Wigs, (Carrie thinks of everything, and brings it with her.) decoy vehicles, and an abrupt ending that has you begging for the next episode.
While Saul and the gang are in Russia that asshole vice president played by Beau Bridges has removed President Keane from office under articles contained in the 25th Amendment, the one that said Alexander Haig is not the president just because President Reagan underwent surgery with general anesthesia. Sorry Al. A civilian Seven Days in May has occurred.
A stunned President Elizabeth Keane after hearing the Supreme Court ruled against her 5-4, leaves the Oval Office without her purse and without changing her shoes. No sexist trappings in the script there. She goes out like a man.
My daughter tells me in real life, Claire Danes, who plays Carrie Mathison, is pregnant. What this will do to the script is unknown. Probably won't play into it because the finale is coming up, and then the hiatus till Season 8. I don't think we're going to get another Franny.
Meanwhile, expect Carrie to be "detained" in Russia. Saul and the boys will make it back to the states with Simone, and Keane gets to keep her job.
What happens to Senator Sam Paley, Janet Bayne, and that doofus vice president Ralph Warner is anyone's guess. Separate cells in Federal prison? Dar Adal gets Sam as a roommate? Ralph?
Will Carrie be like Jason Matthew's character Dominika Egorova, who when suspected of being a double agent, is tethered to an air conditioner in Lubyanka's basement in an attempt to make her talk?
Carrie's tougher than all of them. As long as she gets her meds, she's unstoppable. Stay tuned. I know I will.
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