As CIA section chief in Kabul, Carrie ignores warnings about major collateral damage to sanction a drone strike on a hard-to-find Taliban leader, resulting in mass killings at a wedding in his family in Pakistan, which she calls their own risk. Orphaned moderate med student Aayan Ibrahim, the target's cousin, recorded the attack on video, which his relative Rahim posted on Internet behinds Ayyan's back. CIA informer-handler Sandy Bachman's identity becomes public and he's lynched by a mob, Quinn shoots two assailants during a disastrous attempt with Carrie to extract Sandy. CIA director Andrew Lockhart recalls both during the scandal investigation and orders Carrie to stay in the US, but Quinn gives her a tip to question archive-buried collaborator Hank Wonham. Written by KGF Vissers

While conscience-wresting Quinn works out his frustration in a bar fight, landing him in jail for a night, heartless Carrie spends only one day actually caring for her baby daughter before dumping Brody's kid back on her unamused sister. Jordan Harris's secret, being archive-buried for trying to expose the illegal exchange of secrets, allows Carrie to blackmail careerist director Lockhart into returning her to the field, now as Islamabad section chief, to investigate. Dar Adal suggests Saul should seize the scandal to bid for the director seat again, but he prefers to remain in private security and accepts an offer from Carrie to modernize her new Pakistani post. Med student Aayan Ibrahim hides chemicals with his girl friend and is abusively intimidated by Taliban supporters. Written by KGF Vissers

Blackmailed, the director had to give Carrie the post of Islamabad station chief, passing-over John Redmond, hence a near-hostile deputy. Peter Quinn is depressive, fleeing in alcohol and the chubby arms of his doting landlady, resisting therapy and Dar Adal, but his endless reviewing the footage of Sandy's lynching yields a distressing new theory. The ambassador to Pakistan ordered a lock-down, which Carrie shamelessly circumvents, dragging unamused security staff along. Saul gets a far from warm welcome, yet helps overturning the lock-down, being the ambassador's ex-fiancé. Aayan still shivers after abusive Taliban intimidation, so he refuses sell his drone-decimated family's story to CIA novice Fara Sherazi, who poses as a London-based reporter. Ayaan finds his medicine stash trashed by his girl friend's father, who even falsely reported him as a thief to see him expelled as med student. Written by KGF Vissers

Quinn reluctantly accepts joining Carrie's Pakistan team to examine his theory that Sandy's lynching was orchestrated by a Pakistani intelligence officer, or as turns out their thug 'subcontractor' Farhad Ghazi. Now Ayaan is without prospect, he considers and accepts a proposal from Carrie, posing as Fara's London editing chief, to sell his family's story for a safe scholarship in London, which doesn't even exist. Following him, the team discovers his uncle, Taliban commander Haissam Haqqani, wasn't killed by the drone. The ambassador's husband, a politics professor, is blackmailed and laves Islamabad feigning a dream job. Saul calls markers on retired Pakistani military intelligence general Bunny Latif but the incumbent is impressed nor amused. Written by KGF Vissers

To Quinn's disgust, Carrie shamelessly seduces innocent virgin Aayan Ibrahim into bed to win his trust. Saul tails criminal ICI-henchman Farhad Ghazi at the airport, but ends up his captive without any CIA staff noticing. Quinn and Fara's stakeout meanwhile yields the imam who accompanied Ayaan's most-wanted uncle. Ambassador Boyd's husband Dennis finds her neither pleased nor surprised when he announces he's staying, indeed having missed out on an academic new chance, but does well as ICI spy. Written by KGF Vissers

Carrie continues her ruse with Aayan, going through such time consuming measures as going over and confirming a back story with him for his new identity in leaving the country. In part because Aayan wants to retrieve a few personal items before leaving, Carrie sees some potential problems and other opportunities for Aayan to lead them directly to Haqqani before long. In the planning, Carrie has to decide who she considers acceptable collateral damage, including Aayan, who she has come to know as a sensitive, young man, and who has inadvertently fallen in love with her. With Quinn still angry with her, Carrie has to find other associates to assist in her latest covert mission. Also butting heads are Carrie and Fara, the former who accuses the latter of not doing her job by botching the co-opting of Aayan, while the latter reminds the former of her role in discovering that Haqqani is still alive. Nick, one of the agents in the Islamabad section, had been tasked with following both Saul ... Written by Huggo

After coldly shooting his cousin Ayaan, Taliban commander Haissam Haqqani enjoys his human shield Saul, now he can finally visit his family openly, even gets a triumphant welcome in their home town. Pakistan's military intelligence ICI provides the ambassador's husband with pills to substitute for Carrie's, so as to enhance rather the suppress her extreme emotions and loss of self-control. CIA director Lockhart arrives personally to scold Carrie's utter station failure and take charge of efforts to recuperate Saul. As a military operation seems hopeless, he resorts to demanding Pakistani government help, by blackmail on presidential authority, threatening to cancel the annual $2 billion aid. Written by KGF Vissers

Carrie arrogantly accuses the ICI of sabotage all investigations but finds perfect gentleman general Aasar Khan cooperative enough to completely convince even Quinn. Hoping to avenge Ayaan she tries to track the medicine he was to bring to Taliban uncle Haissam Haqqani trough the knave's nurse-girlfriend, but the pills wreck her memory and self-control. ICI can easily have her arrested for armed street frenzy an brings her to the general's home, where the illusion to find Brody alive, to good to be true or ignored, mentally breaks her. Meanwhile Saul makes a failed escape attempt. Written by KGF Vissers

Now that Aasar Khan has identified Dennis Boyd as the American mole without giving up who Dennis' handler within the ISI is, Carrie has to decide how to proceed now that the Taliban have recaptured Saul. At this point, Carrie isn't willing to let Saul die, especially after an unexpected telephone call she receives from the States. She and the team have to decide how best to play Dennis with what scant hard evidence they have on hand as to his activities. Carrie and the team also have to be careful about Martha finding out that they know he is the mole, Martha who may support her husband despite their problems. Regardless of Dennis, Carrie may have no option but to proceed with the prisoner exchange, despite knowing that Saul did not want to be used as a pawn for negotiation. Through it all, each side may have cards up their sleeve to manipulate the situation to their desired end goal, which on one side may not be all it appears on the surface. Written by Huggo

The marines being recalled too late, Haqqani's Taliban commando force succeeds in taking over the US embassy, taking most staff hostage and threatening to kill them one by one unless the key staff, who took refuge in the 'vault', hands him the vital contacts list. Director Andrew Lockhart panics after seeing an execution and obeys, Haqqani escapes. The White House decides to break off diplomatic relations, transfer the CIA operations to Kabul, evacuate all staff and suspend Carrie. Only Peter Quinn slips out hunt Haqqani down without Pakistani permission, Lockhart 'informally' grants Carrie five days to get Peter back either way. Written by KGF Vissers

Following Haqqani's siege on the US Embassy in Islamabad, the US Government decides to cut all diplomatic ties with Pakistan due to the ISI being complicit in the attack, meaning that all surviving staff at the embassy will be heading back to the States with Ambassador Boyd, Lockhart and Carrie's futures uncertain. Because of his actions following the siege, Quinn, who has gone missing as a rogue agent, has a shoot to kill order against him by the Pakistani military. With what few embassy staff are left in Islamabad which includes Max, Carrie lays down the order that her sole mission now is to locate the rogue Quinn and bring him back to the States, as she knows he is on a mission to kill Haqqani, which in its very nature is a suicide mission. Carrie receives some information from the States, both of a personal and professional nature, which may color how she views her current life and her imminent return to the US. Meanwhile, Quinn believes the keys to locating Haqqani are the ... Written by Huggo

After Carrie is able to convince Quinn not to detonate the bomb that would have killed Haqqani, she knowing that there is no way Quinn would have made it out of the situation alive, she loses track of him and currently has no idea of his whereabouts. Now back in the States, Carrie wants to put the recent events of Pakistan behind her, instead focusing on reestablishing her mother-daughter relationship with Franny while helping Maggie prepare for their father's funeral. Two people show up unexpectedly for the funeral, both who want to establish or reestablish as the case may be a personal relationship with Carrie. Although reluctant to begin either of those two relationships on initial thought, Carrie decides at least to talk to the two individuals in question to gather more information on the situation. One discussion may provide greater insight on what she should do with the other. Meanwhile, Carrie has informed only Saul of seeing Dar Adal in the back of Haqqani's vehicle in ... Written by Huggo