Homeland season 4

Homeland
Season 4
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Starring	Claire Danes Rupert Friend Nazanin Boniadi Laila Robins Tracy Letts Mandy Patinkin
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	October 5 (2014-10-05) – December 21, 2014 (2014-12-21)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The fourth season of the American television drama series Homeland premiered on October 5, 2014, and concluded on December 21, 2014, on Showtime, consisting of 12 episodes. ^{[1] [2]} The series started as a loosely based variation of the two-season run of the Israeli television series Hatufim (English: Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff and is developed for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. ^[3] The fourth season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 8, 2015, ^[4] and became available for streaming on Hulu on August 1, 2016. ^[5]

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Homeland characters

Main

Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin and Rupert Friend (left to right) portray lead roles Carrie Mathison, Saul Berenson and Peter Quinn, respectively.

• Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA intelligence officer assigned to the Counterterrorism Center
• Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn, a CIA SAD/SOG (black ops) operative
• Nazanin Boniadi as Fara Sherazi, an intelligent, young, and professional Persian analyst
• Laila Robins as Martha Boyd, the United States ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Tracy Letts as Andrew Lockhart, the new director of the CIA
• Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, Carrie's old boss and mentor, now working in the private sector

Recurring

• Suraj Sharma as Aayan Ibrahim, a Pakistani medical student
• Amy Hargreaves as Maggie Mathison, Carrie's sister and a psychiatrist
• Sarita Choudhury as Mira Berenson, Saul's wife
• Alex Lanipekun as Hank Wonham, a CIA officer at the Kabul station
• Akshay Kumar as Rahim, a Pakistani medical student
• Shavani Seth as Kiran, Aayan's girlfriend and fellow medical student
• F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal, a retired black ops specialist
• Michael O'Keefe as John Redmond, a CIA deputy station chief in Pakistan
• Maury Sterling as Max Piotrowski, a freelance surveillance expert
• Mark Moses as Dennis Boyd, Martha's husband and a political science teacher at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University
• Raza Jaffrey as Aasar Khan, the counter-terrorism chief of Pakistan's ISI
• Nimrat Kaur as Tasneem Qureishi, a member of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
• Art Malik as Bunran "Bunny" Latif, a retired Pakistani general
• Numan Acar as Haissam Haqqani, a high-priority target and Taliban leader

Special guest

• Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, who appears in a hallucination of Carrie's.

Guest

• Patrick St. Esprit as Aaron Gage
• Corey Stoll as Sandy Bachman, the CIA station chief in Pakistan
• Adam Godley as Jordan Harris, a CIA case officer
• Emily Walker as the landlady Eden, with whom Quinn has a brief relationship
• Nina Hoss as Astrid, Quinn's former lover who works for the German embassy
• Victoria Clark as Ellen Mathison, Carrie's mother
• John Getz as Joe Crocker

Episodes

See also: List of Homeland episodes

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External links

• Official website
• Homeland at IMDb

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
37	1	"The Drone Queen"	Lesli Linka Glatter	Alex Gansa	October 5, 2014 (2014-10-05)	4WAH01	1.61 [6]
Carrie, now operating as the CIA station chief in Kabul, authorizes an airstrike on an Islamabad farmhouse believed to be the whereabouts of Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani. However, reports soon emerge that the airstrike occurred during a wedding, killing Haqqani and 40 other civilians. Among those killed were the family of medical student Aayan Ibrahim, who survived the airstrike and has a video of the wedding he was filming on his mobile phone at the moment of the strike. One of Aayan's friends uploads the video online against his wishes, creating a rift between the United States government and Pakistani armed forces. Carrie travels to the Islamabad embassy to meet with its station chief, Sandy Bachman. Before Carrie arrives, Sandy leaves the embassy unprotected to meet with the secret source of his intelligence on Haqqani. At the same time, Sandy's identity is leaked to the Pakistani press as the one responsible for the airstrike. Carrie and Quinn attempt to pick up Sandy, but a violent mob surrounds their vehicle and beats Sandy to death. Carrie and Quinn narrowly escape.
38	2	"Trylon and Perisphere"	Keith Gordon	Chip Johannessen	October 5, 2014 (2014-10-05)	4WAH02	1.61 [6]
Carrie and Quinn return to Washington; Lockhart recalls Carrie from her posting in Afghanistan as punishment for the botched airstrike. Carrie struggles to form a bond with her infant daughter Frannie, who has been under the care of Carrie's sister Maggie in her absence. Quinn, meanwhile, lapses into alcoholism while coping with the events in Islamabad, for which he feels responsible. He has a sexual encounter with his landlady and is later arrested for beating two men at a restaurant. When Carrie bails him out, he gives her the name of Jordan Harris, a former Islamabad case officer who was removed from his posting despite an exemplary record. Carrie tracks down Harris and learns that Lockhart had him transferred out of Islamabad after Harris reported that Sandy was buying information using state secrets. Carrie uses this information to leverage Lockhart into placing her in charge of the Islamabad station, taking over for Sandy.

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Episodes	Season 1 "Pilot" "Grace" "Clean Skin" "Semper I" "Blind Spot" "The Good Soldier" "The Weekend" "Achilles Heel" "Crossfire" "Representative Brody" "The Vest" "Marine One" Season 2 "The Smile" "Beirut Is Back" "State of Independence" "New Car Smell" "Q&A" "A Gettysburg Address" "The Clearing" "I'll Fly Away" "Two Hats" "Broken Hearts" "In Memoriam" "The Choice" Season 3 "Tin Man Is Down" "Uh... Oh... Ah..." "Tower of David" "Game On" "The Yoga Play" "Still Positive" "Gerontion" "A Red Wheelbarrow" "One Last Thing" "Good Night" "Big Man in Tehran" "The Star" Season 4 "The Drone Queen" "Trylon and Perisphere" "Shalwar Kameez" "Iron in the Fire" "About a Boy" "From A to B and Back Again" "Redux" "Halfway to a Donut" "There's Something Else Going On" "13 Hours in Islamabad" "Krieg Nicht Lieb" "Long Time Coming" Season 5 "Separation Anxiety" "The Tradition of Hospitality" "Super Powers" "Why Is This Night Different?" "Better Call Saul" "Parabiosis" "Oriole" "All About Allison" "The Litvinov Ruse" "New Normal" "Our Man in Damascus" "A False Glimmer" Season 6 "Fair Game" "The Man in the Basement" "The Covenant" "A Flash of Light" "Casus Belli" "The Return" "Imminent Risk" "alt.truth" "Sock Puppets" "The Flag House" "R Is for Romeo" "America First" Season 7 "Enemy of the State" "Rebel Rebel" "Standoff" "Like Bad at Things" "Active Measures" "Species Jump" "Andante" "Lies, Amplifiers, Fucking Twitter" "Useful Idiot" "Clarity" "All In" "Paean to the People" Season 8 "Deception Indicated" "Catch and Release" "False Friends" "Chalk One Up" "Chalk Two Down" "Two Minutes" "Fucker Shot Me" "Threnody(s)" "In Full Flight" "Designated Driver" "The English Teacher" "Prisoners of War"
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