The Showtime drama launched in with an acclaimed season following Carrie Mathison Claire Danes and her hunt to discern whether Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody Damian Lewis had been turned by the al-Qaeda after being released as their prisoner.
However, if the casting had been left to executives at the network, the two leading characters would have been played by different actors altogether. Creators Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, though, thought Danes was better suited for the role and were granted their wish when she accepted. I remember our weekend — the famous episode of the first season, when we went out to the cabin.
Do you remember we talked and we talked? Oh, my God, and then you lost your s—t with me because I did a stupid walk, and you were still in the middle of the scene. That is not OK! But it was that particular nuance, trying to thread the truth. Who was playing who, was there real affection, and how were we going to parse it out in the most delicate and truthful way? They were a tense couple of days. Danes: It was really intense. Danes: It did. When you left, I was always looking back to you as Carrie to Brody.
She has other relationships, sort of, but that was the central one. I miss those days when she was more in the present tense. She was living with a ghost forevermore. She was haunted by a lot of things. But somehow she was more in the present tense — and she was more in her body — when she was with Brody. Lewis: You acted her without any sentimentality, any vanity. You were totally un-vain in that respect and were happy to be unlikable.
You must advocate for your character, offer the best defense for them, and then let the audience be judge and jury. You just play them to the hilt. That is in itself advocacy for them, and then the audience will decide. Home TV Features. Jul 2, am PT. See All. Hellovon for Variety. More From Our Brands. Those questions have only gotten more complicated. Did we make the world safer? And how did we compromise our values in the process? But, at the end of the day, as much as Homeland has always been about those big ideas, the heart of the show remains with the characters.
The idea. For Patinkin, what was written on the final pages gave him the ending he wanted. And we hopefully leave the series with some sense of closure. The next morning, Brody considers leaving Jessica for Carrie. After their long weekend together, Nick became suspicious of Carrie when she revealed her knowledge of her favorite tea, Yorkshire Gold.
He suspects she has been watching him and eventually discovers Carrie's gun. He confronted her and she revealed to him that she suspected he had turned against America by Abu Nazir. After giving her the gun and letting her question him about anything she wanted, he was angry that she still didn't believe in his innocence. As he was leaving, Carrie received a phone call from Saul that revealed that Thomas Walker is alive and has also been turned. Carrie tried to fix the situation by informing Brody that she was wrong, Brody angrily rejects Carrie and goes back to her family, leaving her sad in the cabin.
The Weekend. Brody and his family was invited to a party of notable people where he was treated with extreme kindness by the guests. The host expressed her interested in him replacing a disgraced Congressman. Not long after the party, Carrie revealed to Brody that Tom Walker was still alive.
Brody waited in the home of one of Abu Nazir's trusted men and informed him that he was done with Nazir for lying to him, revealing that he had in fact been tricked into working for Nazir. Not long after, he was beaten down and captured by Abu Nazir's men in the grocery store parking garage. After awakening in a room, he communicated to Nazir via video conference.
Feared dead far from at home, Brody was sold to al-Qaeda leader Abu Nazir, who converted him to the Muslim faith. They discussed the death of Issa and Brody's allegiance. Nazir ended Brody's torture in and invited him into his home, asking him to teach his son Issa English. Brody soon grew to love the boy as his own son. In , however, Issa was killed in a drone strike while attending school. Brody helped Nazir bury Issa and joined him in reciting an Islamic prayer over the child's grave.
Shortly thereafter, Brody watched an interview with Vice President William Walden Jamey Sheridan , who falsely claimed that no children were killed in the drone strike.
Brody swore revenge on Walden and agreed to kill him in a suicide attack. Nazir persuaded him to become an al-Qaeda operative. After Nazir ended the call, Brody was briefed by one of his men on his objective. Brody was to be offered to run for a political office by the Vice President, an offer which Nazir wanted him to accept. After returning home, Jessica informed Brody of a message from the Vice President's office left on the answering machine.
Not long after the message was left, Vice President Walden traveled to Brody's home to personally offer him the chance to run for United States Congress.
Brody told him that he'd have to talk about that to Jessica before deciding anything. Representative Brody. Brody talked to Jessica about the offer for a role in Congress and after she told him to not run, he decided to see Mike for help. Brody forgave Mike and thanked him for taking care of Jessica and the kids, telling him he did nothing wrong in his affair.
Brody asked Mike to convince Jessica to let him run for Congress and left. Mike visited Jessica and attempted to convince her of Brody's cause, but she realized that Brody had put him up to it and ended the conversation. Brody visited Carrie to discuss the weekend they spent together. He made sure that she hadn't told anyone about it and asked her to promise not to, which she did.
Afterwards, he bid farewell to her and left. She was upset about his reasoning for visiting her, as she had expected something more. After throwing out the wine she had prepared, she began to cry. Later, at home after the terrorist bombing that nearly killed Carrie, Brody conversed briefly with Jessica, who she revealed that herself and their children had agreed that he should run.
Brody eventually made plans to take his family to Gettysburg on a family trip. The true reason, however, for Brody to journey there, was to retrieve a suicide vest from a tailor under the employ of Nazir.
Making excuses to meet with the tailor, Brody was eventually able to try the vest on and learn how it worked. After receiving the vest, Brody placed it in the trunk of his vehicle, but was caught by Dana. As an excuse, he informed her that it was a gift for Jessica. When the family returned home, Brody was quick to hide the vest in his room, assuming no one would go looking for it. The Vest. In a plot masterminded by Nazir, Brody set himself up to be rescued by American forces.
As Walker opens fire on the summit, Brody and his targets are sent to a safe room inside the State Department. As Brody prepares to detonate the vest, however, he finds that it does not work. After he fixes it in a restroom, and as Brody was about to attempt detonation for a second time, Dana calls and asks him to promise he will come home; unbeknownst to Brody, Carrie had shown up at his house and told Dana what he was about to do.
After a brief conversation, Dana made Brody promise her to come home. After many tears and emotion, he agreed and gave his word. Brody abandoned this plan at the urging of his daughter. The door was opened and everyone was allowed to leave, securing Brody's failure. Marine One. After his failure, Brody went to retrieve his confession video.
After arriving, he noticed it had been taken and a second chalk mark had been drawn. He walked to a small drainage duct where he ran into Thomas Walker - the Marine Two - for the first time in years. Walker confronted him about failing his mission. Brody gave the excuse that the vest wouldn't detonate. Walker then revealed that Nazir was listening. Nazir then asked to speak with Brody.
Nazir asked Brody about the failure to which Brody stuck to his lie: the bomb did not explode due to a defect. He tells Nazir via phone that he plans to run for a seat in Congress, which will allow him to influence the U.
And he becomes a close friend of Vice President Walden to be able to influence decisions in higher office of the United States. Nazir agreed and asked Brody to kill Walker to prove his loyalty. Nazir told Brody to tell Walker that he wanted to speak with him privately. Brody reached the phone out to Walker, who prepared to speak to Nazir.
Brody then reached down and picked up the phone, informing Abu Nazir that he killed Walker to reassure Nazir of his loyalty. He then lowered the phone and looked back down at the corpse of Walker, staring at the lifeless friend before him.
After returning home and at rest after the events of the previous week, Brody and Jessica spent time together in the kitchen where Brody expressed a sense of heightened appreciation for having his family. He thanked Jessica as a sign of his appreciation for having her and held her in his arms.
Two days later, while working on the roof of the house, Dana visited him and the two began a conversation, spending more time together as father and daughter. After talking, Dana sat down and the two stared off into the distance together.
At a meeting with Vice President Walden, Walden announced his intention to have Nick as his running mate when he runs for President, with Brody at first being shocked and then showing his gratitude for the offer. Brody later had a meeting with an ally of Abu Nazir by the name of Roya Hammad. At the meeting, she informed Brody of her knowledge of Issa to prove his alliance with Nazir and informed him that Nazir wanted Brody to steal information from David Estes on potential targets for Nazir to attack.
Returning home from work, Brody was approached by Jessica with news that Dana told her fellow students that Brody was a Muslim. Although Dana informed them that the kids believed it to be a joke, Jessica was still angry and asked why she would say such a lie.
Brody interrupted Jessica, informing her that he is a Muslim. Angered that she had been lied to by Brody, she went to the garage in search for proof of his religion and soon found his Qur'an. Angered that he shares his religion with those that held him captive for years, she throws his Quran on the floor.
He quickly picks it up, only to anger her more.
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