The Best Episodes of Homeland
Last Updated: May 23, 2019
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
#1 - There's Something Else Going On
Season 4 - Episode 9
Carrie improvises to salvage her mission. The CIA closes in on a leak.
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#2 - The Choice
Season 2 - Episode 12
Carrie is faced with a pivotal decision, while Brody meets with Faber to contemplate the future of the family. Meanwhile, Saul undertakes a secret assignment; and Quinn has a decision to make that may prove to be a game-changer.
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#3 - Big Man in Tehran
Season 3 - Episode 11
Brody's loyalty to the mission wavers when he meets a ghost from his past. As Lockhart's confirmation looms, Saul stares into the precipice between success and failure.
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#4 - Marine One
Season 1 - Episode 12
While Carrie is near catatonic and confined to bed, Saul investigates the unsettling implications of her timeline; Walker secures a perch for his mission; Brody makes his final preparations for the Vice President's policy summit at the State Department.
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#5 - 13 Hours in Islamabad
Season 4 - Episode 10
The security breach at the Embassy has far reaching consequences.
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#6 - The Star
Season 3 - Episode 12
Security forces close in on Carrie and Brody. As Saul plans a last ditch rescue operation, Brody struggles to find redemption.
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#7 - Good Night
Season 3 - Episode 10
Brody embarks on a high stakes mission, but his fragile condition threatens the entire operation. Quinn makes an uncomfortable discovery about Carrie, while a sudden crisis forces Fara to rejoin the team.
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#8 - Beirut Is Back
Season 2 - Episode 2
Fatima tells Carrie about a meeting her Hezbollah commander husband will be having in Beirut with Abu Nazir and Carrie and Saul request a special forces team to capture him.
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#9 - Halfway to a Donut
Season 4 - Episode 8
Carrie organizes a last-ditch operation. Lockhart and Martha stall the ISI.
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#10 - Krieg Nicht Lieb
Season 4 - Episode 11
Carrie puts her life on the line to get her team out of Pakistan.
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#11 - Q&A
Season 2 - Episode 5
Brody is a prisoner again. Carrie plays second fiddle after her rash judgment call at the hotel as Estes is busy keeping Jessica off their trail. Dana and Finn's date night turns deadly serious.
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#12 - Our Man in Damascus
Season 5 - Episode 11
Carrie follows a lead.
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#13 - New Car Smell
Season 2 - Episode 4
Estes authorizes a covert operation to investigate intel recovered in Beirut. Brody gets a shock when he runs into Carrie at Langley. Dana discovers she has something in common with the Vice President's son.
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#14 - Two Hats
Season 2 - Episode 9
Brody makes a necessary phone call. Saul teams up with Virgil and Max to dig up some information on one of their own. Carrie finds herself preparing for the most important meeting of her career.
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#15 - All In
Season 7 - Episode 11
Saul's mission is a go. The clock ticks on the Keane administration.
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#16 - Broken Hearts
Season 2 - Episode 10
Saul catches up with an old friend and discovers evidence of covert activities by Estes. Brody and Vice President Walden find themselves at odds over the future of their political relationship, while Dana and Finn come to terms with their own differences.
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#17 - A Red Wheelbarrow
Season 3 - Episode 8
After new information comes to light, Carrie and Quinn pursue a key suspect in the Langley bombing. Saul deals with political backlash while Fara discovers the toll an intelligence job can take. Meanwhile, the Brody family gets startling news.
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#18 - R Is for Romeo
Season 6 - Episode 11
Carrie and Quinn make a discovery while Keane makes a decision and Max finds trouble.
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#19 - The Weekend
Season 1 - Episode 7
The relationship between Carrie and Brody becomes more complicated when they head into the countryside for the weekend, while Mike and Jessica face the fallout of the truth about their relationship, and Saul catches Aileen on the run to Mexico.
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#20 - In Memoriam
Season 2 - Episode 11
Dangerously close to exhaustion, Carrie continues her hunt for Nazir and begins to suspect there is a mole in the CIA. Roya reveals her true colours under interrogation and Saul finds himself fighting to save his career under unexpected circumstances. Meanwhile, the Brodys struggle to maintain anything close to a state of sanity.
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#21 - The Vest
Season 1 - Episode 11
In the wake of the explosion, Saul finds Carrie hospitalized and manic, but realizes her chaotic theories have merit; before his congressional campaign begins, Brody takes his family on a weekend trip to Gettysburg, where he retrieves an important item.
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#22 - From A to B and Back Again
Season 4 - Episode 6
Carrie puts her operation in motion, staging an attack on herself and Ayaan.
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#23 - Achilles Heel
Season 1 - Episode 8
As Carrie and Saul reel from the news that Walker is alive, the intelligence community clashes on the best way to capture him; Brody learns a shocking truth about his captivity.
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#24 - One Last Thing
Season 3 - Episode 9
Carrie reunites with Brody, but the circumstances are more difficult than either of them could have imagined. Meanwhile, Saul gets a win from an unlikely source, and Dana grapples with her new life away from home.
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#25 - The Flag House
Season 6 - Episode 10
Dar plays his hand. Quinn revisits his past.
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