The Blueprint – the album “Girls, Girls, Girls” was on – was released on the infamous day of September 11, 2001

#“I never want to go back… to this plotline” – every Homeland viewer

#Homeland, you got a lotta ‘splainin to do
Does this revelation that Carrie’s hospitalization was part of a grand plan with Saul to get a meeting with Javadi make any sense to you? What guarantee did they have that Javadi would send someone to Carrie to get her out of the hospital, and then set up a meeting with her? Unless we learn more next episode, this seems like it was a pretty speculative plan!

The Revolutionary Guards – technically called The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution – is a branch of Iran’s military, founded after the Iranian revolution on May 5, 1979. Whereas the regular military defends Iran’s borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country’s Islamic system.

In point of fact, it is extremely corrupt – hence Fara’s suspicion that they’d do bad things to anyone Iranian making money outside their purview. The Revolutionary Guard is described by one NGO as “like an amalgam of the Iranian CIA, Marines, Mafia and Fortune 500. Controlling hundreds of shell corporations, billions in assets, and an ideologically aligned army.”

As we later learn, these documents are meant to keep Carrie locked up in the mental hospital… which is part of Saul and Carrie’s ruse. Does it make sense that Saul would involve Dar Adal (albeit unwittingly) in his ruse? To keep up appearances perhaps. Leave your thoughts in the comments

This is all real! Nasser Hejazi was an actual goalkeeper, and he actually played on Iran’s 1978 World Cup team – its first ever to qualify. He is considered one of the best goalkeepers in Iranian soccer history

Del Paraiso FC is a made-up team. But the real Caracas team, Caracas FC, is the winningest soccer team in Venezuelan history with eleven First Division titles

Finally the Caracas connection is becoming clear. We were wondering why Brody was in Caracas and how that would tie into the goings on in Washington

Hmm I wonder which bank HLBC is based on…

This scene had shades of the horrific mental hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest