Homeland: Season 4, Episode 4 “Iron in the Fire” (B+)
There’s no CIA agent quite like Carrie Mathison. This episode demonstrates that she believes that literally sleeping with the enemy is always the best course for getting the job done. It was shocking enough when she seduced Brody back in season one and then when she willingly went back to him knowing full well what he was after that, but this was something wholly different. Maybe it’s because Aayan looks so young and doesn’t seem like a fitting match for Carrie, but I think it’s more because there was nothing about that situation that called for Carrie to put the moves on him. That’s what makes this show a blast to watch, since Carrie is so unpredictable and it’s impossible to know what she’ll do next even and especially if things seem like they’re headed in the right direction without her throwing a major curveball. We already got two big bombshells in the episode before this, both of which have enormous implications. The first is that Aayan’s uncle didn’t die in the drone strike, and that it was all a set up to make the Americans look bad for killing innocent civilians. The second is that the leak isn’t hard to find – it’s the Ambassador’s husband. Mark Moses is great at playing long-suffering husbands living in the shadow of their wives, and therefore he’s the perfect fit to portray a man in way over his head as he’s now in debt to a group that is surely going to have him transmit more damaging information than ever before that will lead directly to the deaths of Americans.
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