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So to prevent a war with Pakistan...


We need a flight recorder containing the records of an accidental malfunctioned downing of 2 powerful people from 2 countries, give up a safe house location housing a spec op team (whom were all killed later on), and oust a very critical Russian asset within Russia... All the while okayed and influenced by an out of control rogue agent who wants to do things her way or the highway... How is she an agent again? With this many blunders you'd think she'd be recalled, fired, demoted, jailed, etc. yet somehow a certain Saul guy keeps reinstating/freeing her after some time. Yeah, they deserve what they get.

That and the fact that Carrie was approached by some Russia chick working for Yevgeney which shows they have agents in the US. How crazy is it that they're basically giving Russia the upper hand in the spy game? Meanwhile Yevgeney roams free when Carrie could've found way to lure him out and have a capture team on standby or even that chick that approached her in the trial hearings as a trade/leverage of sort but nope.

Glade this tv show is finally ending. As much as I enjoyed it to some extent, they could've done better with a more competent agent than a bipolar, emo, and horny subconscious double agent traitor. It came off with the feeling that Russia has the upper hand in all of these things now and can influence or wage battles at the cost of more American lives with a clear advantage. If Yevgeney gets to have another op going, whose going to stop him now?

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What Carrie did to Saul and that informant is horrible. Her betrayal is brutal. I already had low respect for the character and on this final episode it's a new low. And now we're supposed to believe that Saul respects her as the new Russian informant? No way.

It wouldn't matter if a flight recorder stated this or that, especially weeks after an event when it could very easily have been tampered with. Would anyone in the world actually believe the US President and the Afghanistan Prime Minister were both killed on the same helicopter due to mechanical failure because of a Russian press conference? Not a chance.

Takes me back to 24 Season 2 and Season 5 (also Howard Gordon) where audio recordings are the obsession with a good chunk of each season, and for some reason world leaders put their trust in recordings that can be fabricated and faked and would not be believed by the majority of the American people.

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