Whenever Carrie gets up from the desk, slings her bag over her head, goes through the C.I.A. station's kitchen, takes the sheet off the motorcycle and roars out of the building, you know she's on a mission.
Things are really bad since the two presidents, Afghan and U.S., have been killed. The ascending U.S. vice president, Benjamin Hayes (how's that for picking a name!), is a complete asshole, with no idea of how to do anything. It's a good thing his administration can't go beyond this season. This season is the last.
A power negotiating vacuum has occurred since the helicopter went down killing all aboard. All scenarios point to the Taliban leader, Haqqani, but there's also the F.B.I. coming into Kabul and starting their investigation at the C.I.A. station. After all, a U.S. president has been killed.
Carrie has already floated the possibility that the plane went down not because an RPG hit it, but rather because there was an equipment failure. The black box (it's really orange) is pivotal to knowing what happened.
Max, good old nerdy Max, risked life and limb to get into the downed bird and extract the black box (it's really orange). Unfortunately, a Taliban insurgent has captured him and the black box (it's really orange).
But in fact, it may not even be the Taliban who's got Max now handcuffed to a bed. Haqqani ordered a cease fire to honor the peace agreement. There are other forces at work here.
Is it General G'ulom, now the Afghan president, who's playing games to get the war going again? He really doesn't look like he could be trusted to tell you what day it was.
But the kicker for Carrie is now it is known that she lied in her report about her contact with the Russian intelligence officer Yeygeny Gromov, played by Costa Ronin, who is now typecasted as the benevolent Russian you're supposed to trust. And maybe you should.
The C.I.A. tech team has cleaned up the tape they made when Carrie met Yevgeny outside a mosque. Carrie reported that Yevgeny might be getting ready to "turn." Nothing's further from the truth. Yevgeny saved Carrie from hanging herself when she was in the Russian prison. They shared a conversation of what she did, but doesn't remember, since Yevgeny was there. It's alluded that perhaps they slept together, since Carrie does seem to get around, even if she doesn't remember you the next day.
In one of Carrie's motorcycle trips shes' contacted Yevgeny at his home and asked for assistance in finding Max and the black box (it's really orange). Yevgeny needs a window of two minutes when there is no electronic surveillance active in the sector he's going to make contact with his guy. He can't have his source become known to the Americans.
Carrie agrees. Carrie eludes Jenna, the C.I.A. newbie who's cute and cunning and assigned to follow Carrie, but who is absolutely no match for Carrie's ability to spot a tail. Carrie goes into the Intelligence monitoring room, manned by a single, harried person who is looking at multiple screens. Carrie distracts this individual with a printer problem that Carrie of course caused. Meanwhile, Carrie has pulled the right cable cord and taken the surveillance off for the sector Yevgeny needs to make contact. Two minutes lapse, and she plugs the cord back in and all's well because the schnook left his viewing post to un-jam a printer! Were the dots not connected for 9/11 because someone went to the bathroom at a critical time?
Yevgeny has a lead because of Carrie's derring-do. But Mike, the C.I.A. station chief has informed Saul about the tape. The Berenson beard starts to quiver. Carrie was not supposed to make contact with Yevgeny. Not only did she, she lied about the narrative of the meet. and now has lied to him as he confronts her in her room.
With the F.B.I. crawling around trying to get a timeline on who knew what when about the president's trip, it's going to look like Carrie called Yevgeny as soon as she heard he was coming. Saul orders Carrie back to Germany and the rehab.
Meanwhile, Max wakes up handcuffed to a Taliban? bed with a guard holding an automatic weapon nearby. But the knapsack with the black box (it's really orange) has been taken by one of the Taliban? bearded brainiacs into the market place and sold at their version of a phone store because it's a piece of American electronics. They have no idea what it represents.
There is a scene of the black box (it's really orange) stuffed as cargo being transported with other goods by a stream of pack animals headed for the mountains somewhere. Now try and find it.
Carrie is driven to the airport with Jenna riding shotgun, and gets on a plane just like you or I, luggage, boarding pass, tight-lipped smile at gate agent,
But on the way, Carrie observes Haqqani, the Taliban leader, giving himself up at the American embassy. Haqqani can't get out of Kabul because General G'ulom has closed all the exits and rounded up 300 Taliban insurgents, plopped them in a soccer stadium, and is all set to kill them if Haqqani doesn't give himself up.
Haqqani tells anyone who'll listen that he didn't order the helicopters to be shot down. (If even the one with the presidents was shot down, or just fell down due to mechanical failure.) he is counting on Saul to get him a fair trial. Talk about trusting someone.
Carrie makes her way onto the jetway, but you know, you just know, she's not going back to Germany for more psycho mumbo jumbo. She makes a sharp right through an exit door that doesn't sound an alarm, bounds down a set of stairs and meets Yeygeny driving a Range Rover like a getaway car, who then picks her up. Carrie's in the wind.
Another cliff-hanger ending.
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