Carrie Mathison, a CIA operations officer, is on probation after carrying out an unauthorized operation in Iraq. As a result, she has been reassigned to the Counter terrorism center. Whilst in Iraq, she was warned that an American prisoner had been turned by Al-Qaeda. When Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Sergeant, is rescued after being held hostage since 2003, she suspects that he is the one. While Brody is received home as a war hero, Carrie goes to any lengths necessary to catch him out. Written by Kad

Carrie returns home to the US with Franny to work as an advocate for Muslim Americans. Dar and Saul brief President-elect Keane. Quinn struggles with his new circumstances.

Quinn is out of hospital, released into Carrie's care, but too hostile even to accept his medicine. She gets Max to mind him, which works better, but he still ends up in an ambulance after a seizure in a grocery store. Carrie lies to Saul who asks her if she advises clueless president-elect Keane and chief of staff Rob Emmons, whose critical questions must stem from an expert. Dar is committed to the Israëli claim that Iran is breaking the nuclear agreement terms, she convinces Keane otherwise. Meawhile she and lawyer Reda Hashem find the defense of terror suspect Sekou Bah hopeless, so Reda advises him a plea bargain, Carrie would rather take on federal informer Saad Mahsud, who was set up himself. Written by KGF Vissers

Now Quinn remembers his near gas-poisoning, the nightmares get even worse, and his lust for unresponsive 'nurse' Carrie. Dar briefs the president-elect and chief of staff Rob Emmons on nuclear security, notably Iran and North Korea. At an Abu Dhabi conference, Saul gets to question Mossad-caught rogue Iranian arms buyer Farhad Nafisi, open to blackmail on his affair with an Isreali agent, who convincingly claims there never was an actual Iranaian nuclear program, just a deal to stop the sanctions, but Saul spots an oddity and goes check in the West Bank. Sekou is desperate and furious when Carrie admits her intervention wrecked even his change at a plea bargain. Written by KGF Vissers

Peter is recovering and takes a sharp, or in Carrie's eyes paranoid, interest in a neighbor who seems to be spying. Dar tricks the president elect by tipping off the press, to moderate effect, but fails to scare Carrie into giving or even just admitting being her secret counsel. Saul's nightly blindfolded meeting with Muslims on the Westbank not only disappoints his sister, a Zionist colonist who realizes even after twelve years he didn't really visit for her sake, but suffices fro the Mossad to kidnap him for questioning, suspecting contacts with the Iranians on the nuclear deal. However he's urgently released home after a bomb explodes in the delivery van driven by Reda Hashem's client Sekou, who compromised his freedom deal and antagonized his Jihadist friends by putting the FI informer online. Written by KGF Vissers

After the explosion of Sekou's delivery van, the press turns on the president-elect who warned against 'overreacting' as if this were an second 9/11 and blames her for cowardly evacuation, actually imposed by Dar's team while he keeps her isolated and confers with Saul, who reports the Iranian deal-breaking may well be staged, plausibly by Mossad. Agent Thoms not only joins the blame game to shred responsibility but convinced Carrie the FBI recording used to free Sekou was not from him after her blackmail but was delivered sneakily by a manipulative third party. Ignoring Quinn's warning their home is watched, Carrie asked him to babysit daughter Frannie, who adores him, unaware the press would soon trace them down and lay siege to the house, which also becomes a vandalism target. Peter puts up a one-man defense, grabs an invading reporter, even fights back an entire ESU which invaded the 'kidnap site' without wounding anyone. Written by KGF Vissers

Carrie follows a lead. Saul meets an old friend. Keane takes a stand.

Carrie gets bad news. Saul makes a plan. Quinn accepts his situation.

Memory-challenged Quinn duly mistrusts his minder and ex Astrid, seeing her talk to the 'stalker' and disarms her, but that backfires doubly. Saul arranges for Iranian key witness Majid Javadi to meet president-elect Elizabeth Keane, but the defected ex-asset resumes the Mossad lies. The press publicly discredits Keane's son Andrew, an Iraq war victim they portray as ambition-obsessed coward and hypocrite. Carrie is preoccupied with her foster-placed daughter Franny due to being la belled a bad mother. Written by KGF Vissers

Carrie catches a break. Keane makes a plan. Max goes undercover.

Dar plays his hand. Quinn revisits his past.

Carrie and Quinn make a discovery. Keane makes a decision. Max finds trouble.

While Dar tries to get his plan back on track, Carrie and Quinn make an effort to save the President-elect