Homeland
Sundays 9:00 PM on ShowtimeCarrie Mathison Quotes
What I need to believe is that you're protecting Franny. OK? Because that's what I asked you to do when I left here this morning, that's what I told everybody here. I shouldn't have left you alone here with her, and I'm so sorry. But I, I had such a good feeling seeing the two of you together, really, it was, it was the best feeling I'd had in a really long time. So, it's my fault, OK?
QUINN: I never should have let you come in here.
CARRIE: Why's that?
QUINN: We know too much, they'll never let us go. Do you hear me?
CARRIE: Why do you do it? Why do you post all that ugliness up online? […] Photos of fallen American soldiers. Links to suicide bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why do you do that?
SEKOU: It’s meant to shock people. Wake them up to what’s happening in the Middle East. If someone breaks in your home, logic dictates you do whatever it takes to get them out.
CARRIE: Would it surprise you that I sympathize with what you just said about defending your home?
SEKOU: Except for when that home is in a Muslim land and the invader is the U.S. military. Then it’s terrorists killing Americans.
CARRIE: No, I get that argument, too. But I also have friends who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, so those images you say are meant to shock, they deeply offend me.
EMMONS: Anything we can use to leverage [Dar Adal]?
CARRIE: Leverage him?
EMMONS: You said he ran black ops at the Agency for over two decades; there must be something.
KEANE: It’s a big ask, I know.
CARRIE: It’s more than that. It opens me up to prosecution for breach of the agreements I signed when I left the Agency. […] I was an intelligence officer for over ten years; even Dar Adal had my back sometimes.
KEANE: You’re loyal to people. I get that. I admire it. Nobody wants to be a whistleblower. […] Look at the stakes here, Carrie. We’re talking wholesale reform of the CIA, not for the faint of heart. […] Your reforms, Carrie. Your ideas.
CARRIE: I know.
KEANE: What is the use of being in power if you can’t correct things that are demonstrably bad for America and wrong for the world?
CARRIE: I’m an ex-spy, Dar. I don’t pretend to be anything more than that.
DAR: I came to you as a friend, Carrie. An admirer, even. And I’m telling you this in the same spirit, stand down.
CARRIE: No, you stand down! You had your turn, fifty fucking years of it, and look where we are now. You stand down!
Reda: This isn’t the arrangement we made, Carrie.
Carrie: What do you mean?
Reda: Our partnership. You were supposed to secure funding, investigate, advise. What you weren’t supposed to do is take matters into your own hands, break the law.
Carrie: I’m sorry, Reda. I fucked up.
Reda: Yeah, you did.
Carrie: You think I'm advising the next president of the United States?
Saul: I think her entire national security platform came right out of that head of yours.
You weren't going to tell us, were you? That this big threat to national security is just another Muslim kid you entrapped?
Carrie: It's not nice to snoop.
Franny: But who's down there?
Carrie: I told you. Peter Quinn.
You worry about the fate of the world, I've got more important things to do.
Carrie: The FBI is saying it's material support for a foreign terrorist organization.
Sekou: It's what?
Reda: You're taking five thousand dollars in cash to the Islamic State in Nigeria, that's what they're claiming.
Carrie: There's a video. It was all over the Internet. You've never seen it?
Quinn: No. I didn't want to.
Carrie: Of course...
Quinn: But I do now.
