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By uggsbootoutlet, 12:19The prince, he tells the room, comes to America at the same time every year “to top off his harem, not to fund terrorism.” To which we have to add, he comes to DC to top off his harem? DC? Not New York, or LA, or one of the myriad cities with a plethora of underemployed women with fake boobs and a penchant for diamonds? #Showtimefail. Carrie thinks Saul’s giving her a hard time, and she asks him later if he’s ever going to forgive her for the illegal Brody surveillance screwup. “You destroyed [my trust] when you lied to me and treated me like every other schmuck in this building,” Saul replies.
Carrie meets with Lynne in a posh swimming pool locker room, where she picks up the chip from Farid’s phone. “What are you looking for?” Lynne asks, presumably torn between loyalty to her country and loyalty to her boss/boyfriend/giver of diamonds. “I’ve been right beside him for a year, and all I’ve seen is a nice guy with a few sexual quirks.” There’s a nice moment where we see the similarities between the two women: both unconventional professionals, both married to their job, both women in a man’s world. Carrie gives the chip to a cryptologist, who unfortunately fails to find anything of significance, leaving Carrie understandably frustrated. She returns home to join Virgil (David Marciano) on Brody surveillance watch, which again entails watching Brody have an extremely unconventional sexual encounter with his wife.
In his first of two interviews Brody does with O’Donnell during “Clean Skin,” the MSNBC host asks him about the two-page report on his “scars and identifying marks.” “You were beaten,” O’Donnell says. “Tortured. To what end?” We see flashbacks of Brody in incarceration, being kicked and punched, before Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) arrives with a bowl of grapes and figs to feed the starving captive. In the present, Brody pauses. “They want you to lose faith,” he says. “In your country, which they say is the devil. In your fellow Marines, who aren’t coming for you. In your wife, who they say has her arms wrapped around someone else.” But you survive, he says, by having faith. “Semper fi,” O’Donnell responds. Yes, this Latin expression has cropped up before, and is almost certainly going to appear again in the future.
Lynne, meanwhile, is going out to a club with the newest member of Farid’s harem, who almost immediately makes the faux pas of coveting Lynne’s necklace and getting sloppy drunk on champagne (we told you looking for professional whores in DC was a bad idea). “I’m not so sure about that one,” Lynne tells Farid’s main assistant, the omnipresent, oh-so-creepy Latif Bin Walid (Alok Tewari). Bin Walid tells Lynne that the prince has requested she “visit” a new business acquaintance of his to sweeten an upcoming deal. Alarm bells ringing, Lynne calls Carrie, who assures her she’s being monitored, before rushing into a van with Virgil and trying to trace her source’s whereabouts. Only it’s too late for Lynne, who’s shot twice by a friendly seeming driver who tells her he’s merely taking her to the Hay-Adams. Lynne also has her fancy necklace purloined. Carrie and Virgil find the body, but Virgil’s professional instincts compel him to drive away before they’re seen. “Carrie, there is nothing to be done here. They made her,” he says. Carrie cries in response.
Carrie meets with Lynne in a posh swimming pool locker room, where she picks up the chip from Farid’s phone. “What are you looking for?” Lynne asks, presumably torn between loyalty to her country and loyalty to her boss/boyfriend/giver of diamonds. “I’ve been right beside him for a year, and all I’ve seen is a nice guy with a few sexual quirks.” There’s a nice moment where we see the similarities between the two women: both unconventional professionals, both married to their job, both women in a man’s world. Carrie gives the chip to a cryptologist, who unfortunately fails to find anything of significance, leaving Carrie understandably frustrated. She returns home to join Virgil (David Marciano) on Brody surveillance watch, which again entails watching Brody have an extremely unconventional sexual encounter with his wife.
In his first of two interviews Brody does with O’Donnell during “Clean Skin,” the MSNBC host asks him about the two-page report on his “scars and identifying marks.” “You were beaten,” O’Donnell says. “Tortured. To what end?” We see flashbacks of Brody in incarceration, being kicked and punched, before Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) arrives with a bowl of grapes and figs to feed the starving captive. In the present, Brody pauses. “They want you to lose faith,” he says. “In your country, which they say is the devil. In your fellow Marines, who aren’t coming for you. In your wife, who they say has her arms wrapped around someone else.” But you survive, he says, by having faith. “Semper fi,” O’Donnell responds. Yes, this Latin expression has cropped up before, and is almost certainly going to appear again in the future.
Lynne, meanwhile, is going out to a club with the newest member of Farid’s harem, who almost immediately makes the faux pas of coveting Lynne’s necklace and getting sloppy drunk on champagne (we told you looking for professional whores in DC was a bad idea). “I’m not so sure about that one,” Lynne tells Farid’s main assistant, the omnipresent, oh-so-creepy Latif Bin Walid (Alok Tewari). Bin Walid tells Lynne that the prince has requested she “visit” a new business acquaintance of his to sweeten an upcoming deal. Alarm bells ringing, Lynne calls Carrie, who assures her she’s being monitored, before rushing into a van with Virgil and trying to trace her source’s whereabouts. Only it’s too late for Lynne, who’s shot twice by a friendly seeming driver who tells her he’s merely taking her to the Hay-Adams. Lynne also has her fancy necklace purloined. Carrie and Virgil find the body, but Virgil’s professional instincts compel him to drive away before they’re seen. “Carrie, there is nothing to be done here. They made her,” he says. Carrie cries in response.


