Maybe Carrie should have stayed abroad after all. Maybe if she had, she wouldn’t be ending Homeland‘s sixth season staring warily at Capitol Hill the way Brody once did, unsure of whether her country’s turned its back on her.
So that’s what this season was all about, the fact that terrorism can be home grown — and not seen as terrorism, but a defensive mechanism to keep America, as the episode title says, first. Keane’s paranoia is what compels her to stay seated while Carrie pleads for her to stop the witch hunt; it’s also what drives her to “detain” innocent people like Saul. These arrests may not come equipped with explosives and IUDs, but they’re flashy and they’re a different form of spreading terror, at least through the Beltway.
And what of General McClendon, Brett O’Keefe, and Dar Adal? Their entire mission, which certainly overshot its initial goals, was borne out of paranoia as well, created and carried out within U.S. borders by the people who claim to protect it. So who was right all along? How can a country defend itself when its enemies believe themselves to be its heroes? Why shouldn’t the highest office simply rule with an iron fist instead, intelligence community be damned?
CONTINUED HERE: Homeland finale recap: Season 6, Episode 12
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