"Posing like you are in a men's catalog is a sign of strength."--David Estes (Showtime)

These questions regard last night’s episode of Showtime’s Homeland. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from SUNDAY’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and sample responses.

1. In last week's episode, Dar Adal expressed nostalgia for the Cold War, when it was obvious who the enemy was. Conventional wisdom has it that militarized societies will turn on each other in the absence of a clear antagonist. And yet it is only now, when Nazir is right before them, evident and nearly in their grasp, that the CIA is really attacking itself, from Carrie tackling Galvez to Estes discrediting Saul "The Bear" Berenson. What does this self-hatred express and why is it all coming out now?

Look, we've all suspected Galvez as the mole from like, the fourth episode of the season. His sudden "reemergence" last week was the perfect red herring. Didn't his appearance  front and center of the FBI's firing squad in the opening of this episode ring some "Aha" bells for anyone else? The fact that Carrie was sure enough to go off the hunch (that I've been screaming at her to listen to since he became this over-eager little ass-licker,) makes me think that this isn't the last time he'll find himself in her cross-hairs.

As for the whole "enemy within" theory, it's always been Homeland's take that everyone is simultaneously  paranoid and clueless. Like:
A) Why has nobody in the FBI watched Spike Lee's Inside Man, because Nazir's "fake wall" act was coined by Clive Owens in 2006?

B) Why does Saul suddenly care so much about Brody? It can't be because of Carrie's feelings, and it's not "just" about assassinating a U.S. congressman. I mean, not even Estes knows for sure that Brody killed the VP (though if he did, he'd be even more justified in taking Brody out). Saul's actions strike me as more of his obsession/blind spot when it comes for saving lost causes than of some deep-down belief that Brody is not a threat.

C) How has Carrie been able to intuit any and all malfeasance towards Brody, but has entirely missed Quinn and Estes sniper-tracking her boyfriend? Especially when she was the one who put Virgil and Max on Quinn detail in the first place? Did she just forget that was a thing?

2. Compare Carrie's two interrogations, of Brody and of Roya. Did she really think her Good Cop routine would work again, in these very different circumstances? Did Quinn know she would slip in and question her and let it happen anyway?

Aww, Roya! I so wanted her empathy with Carrie to be a "real" moment, but of course it couldn't be. Roya knows all about Carrie's affiliation with Brody, which is why she set her up to take the fall when she asks ,"Have you ever met somebody who takes over your whole life (and) makes you do things you'd never thought you'd do?...Well, I've never been that stupid."

Quinn always acts like he doesn't want Carrie to get involved, but I'm starting to believe him. Unlike with Brody, he doesn't use Carrie as an emotional bargaining chip this time around. (Then again, maybe he knows he can't.) She wasn't supposed to be in the room, but he knows how much it would undermine her already wavering confidence if he had to drag her kicking and screaming out of the room, so he lets her take a shot of it.

My creepy question...what was he letting those guys with the big hypodermic needles do to Roya when Carrie finally called?

3. This episode placed a lot emphasis on the literal meanings of words and expressions. Not only did Nazir literally not run away, but Dana literally cried over spilled milk, and a light literally turned green for Carrie. Assuming that Homeland, like any riddle, is tracing some sort of trajectory from ignorance to understanding, what is the nature of the endgame in which this too-emphatic stress on the literal places us? (Things to consider: Saul getting trapped by the yes/no limitations of the polygraph, Jessica realizing that she doesn't even need to know the truth anymore.)

The strategy of Homeland's endgame--or the answer to the riddle to the show's literalness—is simple: It is not real life and never will be. Visual metaphors and wordplay rarely coincide with epiphanies. (Though I have literally cried over spilled soy milk, which struck me even at the time as being too obvious to be anything but a coincidence.)

In reality, terrorists don't accidentally give away the location of their leader by slipping on their verbs, and inmates are rarely running the asylum, as Carrie seems to be doing with heading up the detail on Nazir. When it comes to the polygraph bit (which, by the way, can we give James Urbaniak his own spin-off now?), I find that part literally believable, sadly. Out of all the C.I.A. strategies for neutralizing a threat from within, making  them take a polygraph test with questions that in a court of law would be nothing short of entrapment might be the first one that actually works.

4. Picture yourself watching Homeland when you were Dana's age. Which would you find more romantic: Jessica's "If you don't have to lie to her, you must really love her" or Brody's "I would gladly and without hesitation assassinate a head of state for you"?
The second, and I'd go with it today. But that's less about my age and more to do with the fact that I am a woman with irrational LADY FEELINGS that tell me that honestly is less important than someone killing the Vice President for you. I would have made a great Jody Foster.

5. As should be clear by now, Carrie is somewhat less fallible than the pope. Can the CIA really afford to burn her, as Estes/Quinn seem determined to, if she is the most intelligent, most forward-seeing, most capable agent in the whole building? Wouldn't that be like smashing your crystal ball on the ground because it is a little too shiny for your tastes?

See, I don't read Estes and Quinn trying to burn her; in fact, they are trying to keep her by getting rid of the two people in her life that she relies on for structure outside of Langley. Estes seems to have a personal grudge against Brody this season, and I don't think it's because the United States "doesn't make deals with terrorists," because obviously…they did. I think deep down he still harbors some feelings for Carrie that go beyond doubting her reasoning. He was always Walden's go-to guy, and if things had gone according to plan, there would have been no way Quinn could have killed the new vice president. (Though they do seem much easier to kill than congressmen.)

The way I read Quinn is pretty similar, except he's cracking a bit. He feels a sort of protective love for her, maybe it's a big brother instinct, maybe it's more. But whatever it is, he couldn't go through with killing Brody on her doorstep, which is basically what Estes instructed him to do. With Carrie being almost level-headed this season, I wonder if next week will end not with her breaking point, but his. Can he go through with shooting Brody in the woods? If he can't, what good is he to Estes and the C.I.A.? But if he kills Brody he will lose Carrie for good…right before she destroys his face with her teeth or something.

BFFs for the next ten minutes. (Showtime)

1. Homeland is known for asking from its viewers a heroic amount of suspension of their disbelief (except for the parts which looked semi-plausible after the Petraeus scandal broke). But this episode may have taxed even the most engrossed fans. Out of the following plot developments, which was the most balls-out absurd and why? Please phrase your answer in the form of an under-medicated conspiracy theorist.

a) That the next guy in line to the presidency has a Pacemaker--no Cheney jokes, wait for it--that is easily hackable and can be accessed remotely via its serial number;

b) That The New York Times—sans a report fromWikileaks-- would reveal to its readers the precise location in VP's office of said device;

c) That the head of the only terrorist organization in the entire world (at least in Homeland reality) would concede to hostage negotiations with a triple-crossing traitor because the guy swears (cross his heart and hope to Isa!) to still murder the vice president of the United States once the terrorist lets go of his only bargaining chip.

d) That Brody would not only go through with giving Abu Nazir the deadly code once Carrie is freed, but do some extra credit work by strangling the VP to death in his own office;

e) That it is apparently possible to strangle the VP in his own office, as long as you trick the Secret Service into thinking you just need to go to the bathroom;

f)That Finn would still be interested in a Debbie Downer like Dana long after the rest of the world has lost interest.

1. We must have room in our understanding of the world to admit things that mainstream culture cannot admit is true, even when it sees it with its own deluded eyes. And in that light, one I suspect Nazir sympathizes with a great deal, all of these things are equally likely. Well, except for Finn's behavior. That doesn't take much suspension of disbelief at all: he's a teenage boy, who cares more about getting laid than anything else, and here is a girl who may yet let him in her pants without him having to diverge much from his carefully curated mopey emo persona. ("I feel really emotional and stuff, because we killed that lady, remember? And you're the only one I can talk to now. Also, remember when we made out in a giant metaphor for my penis?") Honestly, the most heroic feat of suspension of disbelief in this episode was none of the above: it was believing Brody wouldn't tell the CIA that Nazir had contacted him. Sure, he hates Walden, but if he cared enough about Carrie, his play is to involve the agency with resources, not hope that known liar and manipulator Nazir is true to his word. Brody is a duplicitous bastard, but that was just weird, dumb and reckless.

2. After a marathon of the first season of Walking Dead this weekend, I was struck by the similarities in the leads. Not only is Andrew Lincoln as British as Damian Lewis, but there's that whole "presumed dead husband stoically reappearing to family, inadvertently thwarting best friend's attempt to steal his family" plot line. I guess what I'm asking is: In a fight between Sheriff Rick Grimes and Sergeant Nick Brody, who would win? Shane Walsh vs. Mike Faber?  How about the dispensable children, Carl Grimes and Chris Brody? Zombies v. terrorists?

I don't want to spoil the next seasons of Walking Dead for you, so suffice it to say that two of these are no contest once you've seen a bit more. Carl over Chris any day, that kid is hard-core, not dispensable at all. Chris may be able to cheat at hearts, but that's about it. Same with Shane over Mike. Mike can steal your woman, but he isn't a patch on Shane. But Rick vs. Nick is a tossup. The edge would go to Rick, though. Nick was a soldier, but I'm sure he never machete'd anyone's skull. Trial by zombie will battle-harden you more than trial by sitting in a hole without water or a good barber any day.

3.    There is a lot of contention around the use of bipolar disorder-as-insanity-plea in criminal court. As Ronald Kuby once told The New York Times, "The problem with using bipolar disorder as an insanity defense is that you can be extremely crazy but still not legally insane... "the insanity defense focuses on cognition, and reckless behavior isn't an insanity defense." If Homeland ended up somehow as material evidence in a Supreme Court case on the issue, how would Carrie's decisions this episode affect the judges' verdict?

What decisions? Trying to escape? Plucking some trucker's cell off his dashboard? Carrie continues on her trajectory of seeming more and more sane the more trouble she is in. If it was Brody on trial, I think he'd have a pretty good defense, as he doesn't seem to know the difference between up and down, much less right and wrong. And Saul, if he didn't realize cursing out David Estes and antagonizing Salieri was a bad idea, his lawyer may have some grounds for such a plea. Carrie could be the least bipolar character on the show right now. Just wait until nothing immediate is happening to her; once she starts spinning her wheels, that's when she brings the crazy.

4. A portion of Confucianism has been interpreted to mean that any one person's life has no value, beyond what good they can provide to society as a whole. This belief was essential to the teachings of Chinese Muslims during the Qing Dynasty, who were trying to understand Islam through Confucianism. How then should we judge David Estes this season ... as a Confucian, or a dogmatic terrorist on par with Abu Nazir? Is it possible to be both? Neither?

This is a distinction without a difference. Everyone on Homeland (well, everyone except the rest of the Brody family) appears willing to kill (or die) for what they believe in. The reason Carrie and Brody can see eye to eye, despite everything, is that they agree that it is not okay to kill innocent people for such a cause. Brody, of course, believes Walden to be guilty. But Estes, not without cause, sees Brody to be guilty as well. Whether his Machiavellian plans extend beyond this we have not seen. I suppose it depends on what awaits Saul in the basement of the CIA: a pension or a firing squad.

5.  If you were a politician who lived by the lessons of Homeland, what would be your first order of business Monday morning: Pushing through an extra round of funding for MedMon, or demanding an increase in your Secret Service detail?

My first order of business: security cameras in my private office. And in the offices of anyone who keeps classified documents. I mean, seriously, how many times can Brody rifle through sensitive materials unobserved? It's like half this show takes place in the 19th century.

Brody finds a payphone! (Showtime)

These questions regard last night’s episode of Showtime’s Homeland. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from SUNDAY’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and sample responses.
1. The only personal item in Quinn's bare-bones apartment is a copy of Great Expectations in which he keeps a picture of his newborn son, John Jr. There is a character named John in Great Expectations: Mr. Wemmick, the man with "a post-office of a mouth" who serves as the go-between for Pip and his lawyer, Jaggers. How may Quinn be comparing himself (John Sr.) to Wemmick here? What other similarities might he see between his current situation and the plot of the Dickens novel?

The most obvious comparison between Quinn and Wemmick, besides the aforementioned "go-between" status, would be that they both go by their last names, as a way of protecting themselves against the world. (That's why his baby's mamma waits for Saul to give John X a last name and isn't forthcoming with one.)

Additionally, Wemmick builds himself a replica of a castle with a moat to live in to protect himself from the outside world; Quinn lives in a secure fortress of solitude and apparently spends more money on security measures devices than decor.

Wemmick's split personality is revealed with his love for his fiancé, which humanizes him in Pip's eyes. The only link Quinn has to the outside world is the mother of his son and his child.

So even while we hate Quinn for trying to kill Brody, we must remember what Pip says of Wemmick, "there were twin Wemmicks and this was the wrong one."

2. The title of the episode, "Two Hats," refers to Quinn's two jobs (analyst/assassin), but several characters conspicuously wear hats over the course of the episode: Nazir, Quinn, Quinn's real boss (F. Murray Abraham!) and, of course, the oft-behatted Saul. We have many expressions involving hats in English beyond the titular one: we do something at the drop of one, talk through one, keep things under one, etc. Which of these or other idiomatic hats are evoked by the characters' various chapeaux?

It struck me watching this episode how the writers have finally found a use for Mike, who now wears "two hats": He is both a source of comfort/security for Jess and the Brodys, and is the apparent go-between for the CIA and the family. (How good is he laying down the law as Dana's new daddy? So good!)
"Keep it under your hat" could be the alternate name for this entire series, while "I'll eat my hat" is usually what I find myself saying in regards to the realism of Homeland. As in: "If it turns out that Carrie is the last person to know that Estes and Quinn have a hit out on Brody, I'll eat my hat." I've eaten several hats this season, BTW.

3. It is clear from Estes comments and Quinn's actions that CIA brass still considers Brody a terrorist and a threat. In light of the two details that Brody apparently chooses to leave out of the retelling of his abduction--Nazir thanking him for saving his life in Beirut, and the two of them praying together--how justified is such a judgment? Has Homeland tipped its hand, or do we still not know where Brody's true allegiances lie?

Ah, nope. We know where Brody's true alliance lies at this point: With Carrie and his family and the good ole' U.S. of A. Of the two things he leaves off his confession, Carrie knows about one of them (that Brody is a secret Muslim), and the second one seems more like one of those lapses that she would forgive him for once Brody becomes "a hero." We don't even know why the CIA would plan on killing Brody once Abu Nazir is dead, or why Brody's life is contingent on Nazir staying alive...a plot device that will inevitably lead Carrie into letting Nazir escape so Brody can live.

4. What is the significance of Nazir's CIA code name "Sandman"? Reference at least two of the following in your answer: "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, "The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, the Spider-Man villain The Sandman.
1. In many of the Spider-Man continuums, William Baker/Flint Marko commits some criminal act in order for his daughter, Suzie, to live a better life, and in doing so sacrifices his life for hers. While Isa ended up dying, it was the impetus for Abu Nazir to wage a more personal war on American soil.

2. The Chordettes sing: "Give him a pair of eyes with a come-hither gleam, Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX45pYvxDiA
In the Italian opera Pagliacci, the titular character is the iconic "sad clown" who sings to his audience that actors have feelings too. When his wife Nedda is unfaithful to him, he kills her. One could say that "Mr. Sandman" (in this case Nazir) created a "dream" for Carrie much in the style of the song; he has an unfaithful wife, and is constantly trying to convince Carrie and the CIA that he, too, is a human being. ("Do you believe me?" Brody asks Carrie. "Because that's the only thing I care about.") Although, unfortunately, Damien Lewis does not have "wavy hair like Liberace."

5. These days Carrie seems to be holding it together slightly better with each passing episode. On a scale from one to electroconvulsive therapy, how far off the deep end will she fall if the CIA succeeds in killing Brody off?

It depends on how you define "crazy." We saw what would happen if Carrie believes Brody is dead in the beginning of this episode ... she handles it with remarkable professionalism. However, if she knew Estes and Quinn were behind it, it wouldn't take much for her to go all vigilante on the CIA and start taking them out, one by one. Is that crazy? Maybe, but if Brody was gone, I doubt I'd watch the show either, which could effectively lead to them canceling the series and "killing" all the characters.

"It's not your fault." (Showtime)

These questions regard the second season premiere of Showtime’s Homeland. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from SUNDAY’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and sample responses.

1. Is there any way of justifying the fact that it has to be Brody who moves the bomb-maker? Is Abu Nazir simply not very good at being a terror mastermind--using possibly his most important asset, and one who has a very public and recognizable face for such a minor mission--or is there some deeper manipulation going on here? Nazir certainly has a history of such psychological tactics, but is it really Brody being manipulated here, or the audience?

Oh, the audience, definitely. This was like the Hezbollah episode of I Love Lucy … you know the one in which Lucy has to make it to the club in time to see Ricky's band play because it's their anniversary, but she gets held up with Ethel trying to eat all the pies on the conveyor belt at their secret job. Remember? And when Ricky calls her to see how far away she is, instead of not answering the phone and letting it go to voicemail, she answers it and then fucking snaps and kills Ethel because obviously that is the only option available to her. In fact, I'd go one broader: The only time that it is totally acceptable—and in some states encouraged--to murder someone is when they won't be quiet when you are trying to lie to your spouse on the phone about why you are going to be late to a dinner party. I think it's even legal in Texas.

This was what Alan Alda was talking about in the final episode of M*A*S*H, by the way. Except the chicken was a tailor.

2. How does Jessica's speech about "Homecoming" relate to Carrie's actual homecoming in this episode? They're both all dressed up, possibly with nowhere to go. Does Carrie mean to go out and then change her mind? Does Jessica think she's committing social/political suicide?

Well, if Jessica actually raised the money to open a facility where veterans could help teach families struggling to deal with a recently returned military officer, you know Carrie would be all over that. Between her bouts of crazy and her love of teaching ESL, she'd be the best teacher/patient that organization has ever seen! And she'd write a 18-page debrief every day as a homework assignment to herself! Yes! Staying up till 4 a.m. rocks!

3. Television has lots of recent examples of characters, often themselves mentally unstable, who "consult" with government agencies (The Mentalist, Monk, that terrible new TNT show Perception, etc.). Carrie's scene in the CIA evokes such characters, but certainly not in a positive way. Discuss.

I think you are forgetting about White Collar, Lie to Me, Elementary—actually, just all of the Sherlock Holmes canon—The X-Files, Twin Peaks (where the FBI let everybody in that Lynchian nightmare town of insanity help solve Laura Palmer's murder) … basically, if a TV show features a government agency in any capacity, they will have a certifiably crazy person consulting in a terrifyingly unprofessional way. Weirdly, TVTropes doesn't seem to have a name for this condition yet.

I mean, obviously, when screening for potential candidates to work on top-secret missions, you can't let every fanatic with a mood disorder get Level 10 debriefing clearance on an assignment they just carried out under your agency's orders. However, it is perfectly reasonable to let them 1) organize assignation attempts in the Middle East, 2) use their color-coded manic episodes to figure out why terrorists are sad (it's because of the yellow, no d'uh) and 3) give them vital intelligence pertaining to a U.S. congressman's attempt on the vice president's life before anyone else in the government, because they deserve it for guessing right.

In either scenario--Monk vs. Carrie--you're dealing with a fantasy of how the government employs people. So I don't think it's fair to say Carrie is a more realistic depiction (though it's certainly less positive), so much as just a sadder version of this make-believe concept.

4. Brody finds himself needing to "silence" the bomb-maker, first literally and then in the darker sense. The reporter, Roya Hammad, reminds Brody that the man "knows his face." How are Brody and the bomb-maker (whom Brody calls "the tailor") being aligned here?

Well, let's start with this: was the tailor acting rationally? I was a little confused why he wouldn't go to the safe house, or why he was so mistrustful of Brody. Did he think he would be murdered on arrival for being a loose end? Did he think Brody knew that? Did Brody know that? Actually, does Brody know anything? Like, has he considered the possibility that taking marching orders from a reporter who claims to have ties to Abu Nazir—a man whom the entire world knows was involved in his eight-year captivity stint—might end up blowing up his spot (so to speak)? I really hope the twist this season is that Roya Hammad is actually working for Matt Drudge.

5. Does anything that happens to Brody in this episode really matter at all, being that the chip Saul has is about to blow his life up? Related: is it really possible that Saul wouldn't tell anyone about the recording, allowing a man he now knows to be a terrorist to (as far as he knows) run around the Capitol and fraternize with the vice president for a whole day until Saul gets back, just so he can let Carrie have her "I was right" moment?

I mean, Brody killed a man instead of letting his phone go to voicemail, so that kind of matters, right? And since Saul didn't go straight to Estes, we can assume Homeland’s writers are going to make it a little more complicated than just having SWAT teams drive to Brody's house and take him away. Because that would be the end of the show! Actually, we know from the previews for next week that the way the feds deal with this Brody intel is super profesh: sending Carrie out in the field to rekindle her obsessive romance with the now-confirmed terrorist.

I would say "This is why other countries hate us," but since this would never actually happen, not even in an episode of Bones or Monk or whatever, the most I can do is shrug and let Carrie have her moment of total vindication/latest mental breakdown.

Completely normal, happy person Carrie Mathison. (Showtime)

These questions regard the second season premiere  of Showtime's Homeland. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from SUNDAY'S EPISODE, though supplementary material will be accepted as a secondary source. Please write legibly. No. 2 pencils only. You have an hour to finish this test. See below for questions and example responses.

Well, it's still in the opening credits, so I doubt the beleaguered jazz metaphor for Carrie's thoughts--They're free-form! Sometimes brilliant! Most people would rather claw their own ears off than listen to them for an hour! But old Jewish men get it!--is going anywhere soon. Ugh, but seriously. Enough with the jazz. Also, enough with the untouched chess games sitting on the VP's desk. What do you think you are, Homeland? Lost?

Completely normal, happy person Andy Bernard. (NBC)

3. Two shows took detours to visit Gettysburg last season: Homeland and The Office. Coincidence? What could the battlefield represent for the two shows? Who had a worse reason for making the trip, Sgt. Brody or Andy Bernard?

What was Andy's reason for going to Gettysburg again? Oh yeah, something about building team spirit. Which was kind of the opposite of Sgt. Brody's take on Joshua Chamberlain, which was all about sacrificing yourself for the common good. Also to pick up a bomb vest, which apparently could only be manufactured in Gettysburg? I guess  if someone came knocking about all those old-timey ballistics you were making in your Muslim-owned gun store in Gettysburg, you could say they were for Civil War re-enactors.

In conclusion, the hallowed ground in Pennsylvania where the seminal battle between the North and the South was fought is either a testament to the triumph of brothers-in-arms over adversity, or to how long a recognizable war hero running for office can stand creepily still at a national military park without his behavior being flagged as odd. (Good thing Dana had her secret surveillance app on. Who needs Virgil when you have a 16-year-old girl with an iPhone?)

4. Is the portrayal of Islam in Homeland, in which it is both a spur to violence and a source of beauty and comfort, subtle and nuanced? Or is the show just 24 with a superficial gloss of balance, trying to have it both ways—keeping our sympathy for Brody while still using Muslims as the show's scary enemy? Is the show now raising the specter of an actual "secret Muslim" in the White House to feed off conservative fears or to poke fun at them? (And if the former, does that make us sympathize more with Jessica Brody?)

5. The final scene, burying the Koran, seems beautiful and tender, but it also calls to mind Brody's burial of Walker last season. Unpack some of the resonances here between those early scenes of pain and humiliation on the one hand and Brody's deceit, Jessica's desecration or Dana's near-outing of her father on the other. Does the fact that Walker was in fact still alive at the time mitigate or deepen these connections?

Oh, mitigate, for sure. Fuck Walker. That was such a poorly written character, in my opinion, because we had no idea what was driving him. At least with Brody you had his deep connection with Issa and the knowledge that the Vice President Walden and the head of the CIA and the Secretary of Defense--not all of America, mind you--needed to be held accountable. But what was Walker's motivation? He was just this killing machine for Nazir, and we're given no explanation about why. Stockholm Syndrome? I don't buy it. He was just the T-1000 to Brody's Terminator, and I'm glad he and his total non-character are dead now. I think Brody would have happily taken out Walker even if Nazir hadn't told him to. Because in his mind, at least, Brody is not a terrorist. He doesn't believe in collateral damage the way Walker and Nazir do, at least assuming that everyone in the season finale was somehow involved in giving the OK to the drone strike.

As for Jessica, part of me wants to be like "Stop being so intolerant, lady!" And a second part of me wants to tell her to stop changing her hair because it's making me jealous how many looks she can pull off. And there's a third, small sliver that thinks I'd react in the exact same way, because this is the shit she was talking about when she was trying to convince Brody not to run for office.

Bonus question: How much does Damien Lewis look like Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore?