Carrie Lawyers Up

Before anything like the title suggests, Carrie awakes from her beauty sleep,caused by Yevgeny's hypodermic injection into her neck We don't actually see Carrie wake up, since the episode starts by her walking quickly down an alley—apparently with no headache—(Yevgeny injected her with the good stuff) wearing her hijab and looking to make contact with her truck driver friend, Aram, a helpful fellow who Carrie has known since he was a boy kicking a soccer ball on a gravel patch.

Aram's truck is big, and seemingly free to roam about. His cab is decorated a bit like an Arab bedroom with lots of tassels hanging down from embroidery inside the windshield and door windows. Aram will fit right in when he gets his NYC hack license and gets to wait for fares at JKF airport, with a bottle of scent squarely placed on the dashboard and a beaded backrest for the driver to sit and lean on.

Where to Carrie? How long will it take to get to Bagram Air Force Base? (See, Aram is already dropping fares off at the airport and looking for fares to take back to Midtown.) Five to six hours, depending on how it goes at the border, which of course translates to how bad it is at the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

After a few slanted questions by the FBI at the Kabul C.I.A. station, Carrie decides it's time to lawyer up.

Jamal has backed his father's pacifist adviser into a corner by threatening his wife and children with extinction if he doesn't become the suicide bomber who drives an explosive laden car into the bus carrying the just-released special ops soldiers at he Afghan-Pakistan border.

To say how this goes might be giving away too much, but it is amazing how many bullets can be aimed at the heap the poor guy has to drive and still see the heap motoring toward the busload of special ops guys yelling and trying to get out.

Things do not look good for peace.

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