While rehabilitating at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Carrie (Claire Danes) is interviewed by counterintelligence agent Jim Turrow (David Hunt).
Saul (Mandy Patinkin), having been retained as National Security Advisor by new president Warner, is leading the U.S. effort to end the war in Afghanistan.
Negotiations fall apart when Afghanistan's Vice President, Abdul Qadir G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri), announces he will refuse to honor the proposed terms.
Max (Maury Sterling) joins a platoon of soldiers in Korangal Valley with the aim of repairing a listening device near the Pakistan border which intercepts Taliban communications.
[2] Emma Fraser of Collider said of the episode "Setting the stage before the final curtain, Homeland and Claire Danes have reminded audiences why we were so enraptured when it first debuted nearly 10 years ago".