S8:E5 Chalk Two Down

"Haissam's mission now is to stay alive long enough to revive the peace process — and it's at this point, as his face falls with the realization that he is totally screwed over, that I first begin to actually feel bad for him. Should I call an emergency session with my therapist? Should I write an angry letter to Showtime for manipulating me into sympathizing with a terrorist?... Or should I simply congratulate Alex Gansa and his writers for successfully completing this 8-year-long mind f---?"

"Just as lean as “Chalk One Up” but a bit meaner, “Chalk Two Down” finds two men thrust into power and responding in very different ways. These back-to-back episodes bring Homeland as close to 24 territory as it’s been in a long time, with events occurring in close to real time and characters racing against the clock on all fronts. "