Having killed the head of Iranian Intelligence Brody manages to leave the building with surprising ease; he isn't safe though he still has to get out of Iran. He meets up with Carrie and they drive to a safe house near the Afghan border to wait for extraction. As expected Majid Javadi is made acting head of intelligence and his first task is to find Brody. To this end he contacts Saul and asks for his location; stating that if he is to be confirmed in his new post he must catch Brody
something not everybody at the CIA disagrees with. This leads to some shocking events. The action then jumps forward four months and we see Carrie back in the US being offered the position of Head of Station in Istanbul.
This, the final episode of the third series, has its highs and lows; Brody's departure from the Iranian intelligence offices was suitably tense and that tension remained high as he and Carrie headed to the safe house; especially when it became apparent that Javadi wanted Brody sacrificed. Over the course of the series there have been a fair few twists to enable key characters to escape so it came as a surprise when there was no twist after Brody was captured and sentenced to death. If the episode had ended there it would have been better but rather than ending at that shocking moment we get an extended and unneeded epilogue that seems there to set the scene for the next season. Given the amount of time given to showing how Brody's family was coping in the early part of the season I was amazed that there was no sign of them here. As always the acting was top notch; it will be a shame not to see Damien Lewis's Brody again but the end for his character was right for the story; how long the series survives without him remains to be seen.
This, the final episode of the third series, has its highs and lows; Brody's departure from the Iranian intelligence offices was suitably tense and that tension remained high as he and Carrie headed to the safe house; especially when it became apparent that Javadi wanted Brody sacrificed. Over the course of the series there have been a fair few twists to enable key characters to escape so it came as a surprise when there was no twist after Brody was captured and sentenced to death. If the episode had ended there it would have been better but rather than ending at that shocking moment we get an extended and unneeded epilogue that seems there to set the scene for the next season. Given the amount of time given to showing how Brody's family was coping in the early part of the season I was amazed that there was no sign of them here. As always the acting was top notch; it will be a shame not to see Damien Lewis's Brody again but the end for his character was right for the story; how long the series survives without him remains to be seen.