It looks as though Aayan Ibrahim will accept Carrie's offer of a place at a London teaching hospital in exchange for information but before that he claims to need some money for reasons he won't explain. Carrie has him followed and is shocked to discover who he meets; none other than his supposedly dead uncle who was the target of the drone strike! Meanwhile Saul is asking questions of Pakistani intelligence to try to find out why the previous station chief was killed and the ambassador's husband is revealed as the source of information being leaked from the embassy.
This was a solid episode with some nice twists; most notably the revelation that Aayan's uncle is still alive it seems he is going to be the chief bad guy of the current series given how much trouble somebody went to to make the Americans think he was dead. The revelation about the ambassador's husband was also a bit of a surprise and hopefully that plot thread will go somewhere interesting in the upcoming episodes. On the down side the final scene where Carrie seduced Aayan seemed somewhat forced and rather unlikely; even for somebody as dysfunctional as her. As always the cast did a solid job and it was nice to see Art Malik appear as a Pakistani general; he is still the go-to guy when producers want a South Asian with an Oxbridge accent.
This was a solid episode with some nice twists; most notably the revelation that Aayan's uncle is still alive it seems he is going to be the chief bad guy of the current series given how much trouble somebody went to to make the Americans think he was dead. The revelation about the ambassador's husband was also a bit of a surprise and hopefully that plot thread will go somewhere interesting in the upcoming episodes. On the down side the final scene where Carrie seduced Aayan seemed somewhat forced and rather unlikely; even for somebody as dysfunctional as her. As always the cast did a solid job and it was nice to see Art Malik appear as a Pakistani general; he is still the go-to guy when producers want a South Asian with an Oxbridge accent.