https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
Sarin is an organophosphorus compound with the formula (CH3)2CHO]CH3P(O)F. It can be lethal even at very low concentrations, where death can occur within one[7][8] to ten minutes after direct inhalation of a lethal dose, due to suffocation from lung muscle paralysis, unless some antidotes, typically atropine and an oxime, such as pralidoxime, are quickly administered.[5] People who absorb a non-lethal dose, but do not receive immediate medical treatment, may suffer permanent neurological damage.
Whatever non drug related symptoms Quinn is experience are a result of asphyxia. As I said before, asphyxia related symptoms don't just go away.
And to the other poster who mentioned meth, meth wouldn't cause this. I recall, towards the end, Farah Fawcett having trouble communicating, but, as far as I know, that was chronic prescription drug use over a long period of time.
No, the sky isn't going to fall over a TV show not doing their homework, but I do hold Homeland to a slightly higher standard, and, in this instance, they let me down. They wanted their Midnight Cowboy performance, and then, later, a fully restored Quinn. I'm sorry, but you can't have both in a Sarin/meth storyline.
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leader-7
7 years ago
Well, we're all holding Homeland to a higher authority certainly.
As for Quinn's recovery -- he did receive atropine; he did get medical attention, though obviously not immediately; and again, since this is fiction (well, not really, but we do have to allow for some degree of poetic license, as it were) we can't expect the pathology to follow an exact path. maybe.
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