Hands up who felt like crap for Brody in this one? One second he's experiencing the first peace he's felt in a long time, connecting with someone who seems to 'get him' and who he can relax around and be himself, and the next his whole world comes crashing down around him. Turns out the girl who he's already falling for has another agenda and everything he's been feeling is based on a lie about who she is - or is it? What Brody doesn't understand yet is that Carrie is both the people he's seen, there is no act here, just a woman who's permanently on very thin ice.
It appears that Carrie can be perfectly in control, whilst at the same time careering off the rails. Either that or she has a unique ability to flip between Work!Carrie and Emotional!Carrie - genuinely connecting emotionally with Brody one second and then baldly accusing him of being a traitor the next. Maybe, as she said herself though, she's "always working!" and there is no separation for her between what she feels and her duty as an intelligence officer.
Another great sidebar was Saul roadtrip with Aileen, where we learned a little bit more about who he is and what made him Saul (and shame on us for even considering the possibility that he is the traitor!). He really is a master of intuitive interrogation and it isn't hard to see why he's come so far in his particular field, or how he managed to persuade Aileen to give up her present course.
And I'm pretty sure no-one saw the denouement coming did they? So the guilt and pain Brody has been carrying with him for killing his buddy is based on a shaky premise. Not only is Tom alive, but he's the traitor - a role no doubt easier to cast him him after having his best friend betray him.
And now my big questions are not 'how will they catch Tom' or 'what will Brody say when he finds out he's alive' but 'how will Brody and Carrie work together going forward' as their partnership is surely going to be at the centre of the drama moving into the later and next season.
