Homeland Ep. 8, 9, 10, 11, And 12 Notes

Episode 8

• Tom Walker on the streets being for food
• Tom Walker planning to turn on the country
• At the party everyone is nice to Brody and Jessica
• In pursuit of Tom Walker the FBI kills two innocent victims
• Walker finds a sniper gun in a safe

Episode 9

• In pursuit of walker three agents invade a mosque and gun two innocent prayers down
• The CIA have to lie about the events to protect their own backs and say they shot first
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Episode 10

• Brody gets approached by the Vice President for him to run in office
• Carrie interviews one of Abu Naziers associates and they persuade him to locate Tom Walker
• Brody askes Mike to try and persuade Jessica that Brody running for president is not such a bad idea
•  Tom Walker has a look-a-like who goes down to meet up with the other person and they have a bomb
• After the bomb explodes all of the people on the floor are involved, Carrie included

Episode 11

• Saul knows about Carries Bi-polar
• Brody, whilst on a weekend holiday with his family, has help stepping a bomb to himself as a vest
• Brady runs into a member of the public who says how he would vote for Brody as he feels that the country needs him
• Saul, when staying over with Carrie pins up a timeline for Abu's activity 
• David raids Carries timeline

Episode 12

• Tom Walker gets into the back of a strangers car, without them knowing
• Tom Walker ties up an old woman and lines up a shot from her flat
• Carrie thinks that there is a chance of a terror attack happening at the event Brody and most politicians will be at
• Dana tries to warn her dad about the threat posed
• Walker shoots someone whilst tying to shoot the vice president
• Brody flips the switch to activate his bomb but nothing happens 
• Saul tries to get Carrie away from the action and sends his men out to tie her down
• Carrie goes to Brody's house, Carrie tells Dana how her dad is most likely working with Tom Walker
• Dana calls the police and Carrie gets arrested
• Dana convinces Brody to promise her that he will come home and he doesn't flip the switch again
• Tom and Brody meet up and Tom is questing what happened with brody's vest.
• Brody talks on the phone to Nazir. 
• Brody shoots Tim walker in the head

Homeland Ep 4, 5, 6 And 7 Notes

Episode 4 Notes

• Episode is the further story of Sargent Brody an his spotlight in the media
• His erratic behaviour draws attention to himself
• Jessica feels suspect toward Brody and his behaviour. She thinks he knows about the affair
• Carrie feels like the necklace given to Lynn was a transfer of money

Episode 5 Notes

• One of Brody's Hamid was being interrogated and was asked to list a few names and emails down in
• Brody comes face to face with his Hamid
• The Hamid kills himself whist held in integration with a razor blade

Episode 6 Notes

• Funeral of Thomas Walker takes place
• An argument takes place between Carrie and Saul in his house
• Carrie forces a polygraph test on all the people showing Brody's torturer in, Making sure known is a mole
• Carrie thinks Brody will fail the polygraph
• Saul acts suspicious in his polygraph test
• Brody looses it at the funeral and beats up Mike, he knows about the affair
• Carrie drinks with Brody and tells him about the razor blade and the fact that Hamid is dead
• Carrie and Brody sleep together
• Brody passes the photograph test despite lying about being faithful to his wife
• Rhkeem nearly dies when they where meant to be in a "safe place", he doesn't thanks to his partner
• Rhkeem gets shot whilst he try to convince his wife to turn themselves into the police, the wife runs away

Episode 7 Notes

• Rhkeem's wife tries to go to Mexico
• Saul's legal wife feels its best if they split a part. When he asked for how long, she shrugged 
• Saul meets the wife of Rhkeem in Mexico
• We learn that Carrie has not taken her medication for at least two days
• Carrie takes Brody to a cabin place to stay fro the weekend
• Carrie sneaks into the cabin and loads a gun.
• Carrie and Brody sleep together at the cabin
• The next morning Carrie accidentally asked him about the tea he drinks, he gets suspicious
• Carrie asks Brody lots of questions about his time in captive
• Brody tells Carrie everything to Carrie
• We find out that Tom Walker was the turned spy and is still alive. Carrie was wrong about Brody.
• Brody is a muslim

Essay (Ep.1 Homeland)

How does Episode 1 Season 1 of Homelands follow or disrupt Todorov's narrative theory?

The first episode of season one of Homeland instantly disrupts Todorov's narrative theory, by placing a leading character on a desert land trying to bribe people to be able to talk to a prisoner. This is in before she gets taken away by the guards and the title sequence opens. This then cuts to black and a "Ten Years Later" sign appears to give the audience a timeline of the events taken place. This would suggest that the start of the episode one gets off on a disruption before cutting to, ten years later, the equilibrium. Todorov's theory states that all engaging films and series follow the order of Equilibrium, then disruption, formerly the attempt to repair the damage, and finally a new equilibrium. Something not followed by start of episode one of Homeland.



The disruptions start in this episode right at the beginning with the bribery and the confrontation in the prison. The equilibrium starts after the "ten years later" graphic. And then the disruption is when Carrie finds out about how a missing soldier has been found, the disruption toward Carrie is clear from a visual point of view with how everyone else acted happy and joyful upon hearing the news that a soldier, tortured and hurt, has finally been found. Otherwise, Carrie had almost a concerned look on her face when hearing the same news before rushing out of the initial briefing, we find out later why. The disruption could also be the wife of Sargent Brody, Jessica, finding out her husband is not dead after having an affair with Brody's best friend. In relation to the first episode as a whole, there was no resolution or new equilibrium when it ended. It seems like in relation to Carrie, her resolution is the fact that she was able to spot a tick whenever Sargent Brody was on camera and used this as evidence aimed toward Saul that he was a double agent trying to send a message out there to someone, and therefore getting Saul on board with the situation.

The episode involves a smaller plot twists that may not continue throughout the series and may not be all that important toward the end of the series. The episode comes up with disruptions right the way through and don't really come to a resolution all the time. This would suggest the first episode disrupts Todorov's narrative theory by having the episode end without a resolution or new equilibrium.

TV drama series compare drastically in relation to films. Whilst a TV drama will throw plot twists into a series and try to confuse their audience until the very last episode where they make sense of it all, a film will come to some level of closure and most ordinarily a new equilibrium. When you watch a film there are no real plot twists toward the end, because the writers know they would have to covey the new equilibrium in a shortened space of time and would have to have it all make sense. This TV drama and many more will probably have two or three major plot twists toward the end of the series before the new equilibrium. Rarely TV dramas will follow the theory due to the way that the functions of dramas differ from those of mainstream cinema. The series doesn't have to end on a new equilibrium, if the producers are confident in having another season commissioned they could end on a disruption right at the end and leave the audience wanting more, again this would disrupt Todorov's narrative theory.

In conclusion, I feel like Todorov's narrative theory doesn't apply toward the first episode of Homeland and I predict that episode two won't follow Todorov's narrative theory either due to the fact that this is a drama series and its meant to be disruptive toward throwing the audience off the sent of the truth.

Homeland Ep 2 And 3 Notes

 Episode 2

• Starts with Brody being effected by the PTSD from his time held captive
• Brody grabs his wife's arm, wont let go in his sleep
• Brody keeps on hallucinating, waking up with night terrors
• Carrie runs out of blue pills helping her bi-polar mental state
• When Brody is left alone all he does is find shelter in the corner of the room and weeps all day
• Brody hits a reporter in his back garden in front of his child, then disappeared into the woods
• Mike tries to convince Brody to "go public" with his story and do the interviews news channels want
• Brody doesn't want to "go public" with his story and decides to keep quite for now
• Carrie goes to her sisters house in order to get her blue pills she needs to stay stable.
• Carrie gets her medication from her sister because if her work knows of her illness she could get fired
• At night, Brody gets up and starts to pray in the garage. Something he picked up whilst he was in captivity.
• Episode ends with Brody coming out of his door to face the cameras and public. So he takes the family interview

Episode 3

• Linn downloads the princes phone, giving Carrie all the information
• In Brodys house, people are setting up for the interview, messing around with chairs and photographs
• The daughter seems fed up as Jessica struggles to talk to her, Brody follows her into her room and she starts laughing
• Linn thinks because prince Abbud  got her a necklace he seems genuinely nice
• The daughter knows about Jessica and Mikes affair
• The interviewer gets to know a little bit about the family before the interview
• Linn downloading the phone gives no additional information on the suspicions of Carrie
• Jessica feels guilt about her affair and might want to talk things over with Brody sooner rather than later
• Linn gets a call about how she needs to get a lift in order to provide a service for one of prince Abbud's clients
• Linn calls Carrie to make sure she has protection on her, Carrie lies saying yes and provides "protection" herself by following Linn.
• Linn gets shot outside the nightclub, the whole things looks to be a set-up and nobody knows who the killer was
• After she dies the murderer steals the necklace and it went down as a robbery, this way was best for the FBI, it keeps them out of it
• The family then gets interviewed in there home, after one question Brody freezes up and his daughter takes over, answering the question