Oriole (Homeland)
| "Oriole" | |
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| Homeland episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | Lesli Linka Glatter |
| Written by |
Alex Gansa Patrick Harbinson |
| Production code | 5WAH07 |
| Original air date | November 15, 2015 |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
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"Oriole" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Homeland, and the 55th episode overall. It premiered on Showtime on November 15, 2015.
As Carrie (Claire Danes) reviews the hundreds of documents, she finds one outlining an incident where an informant named "Touchstone" attempted to contact "Oriole", which was a code name of Carrie's. Carrie phones "Touchstone" a.k.a. Samir Khalil (Makram Khoury), an Iraqi national. Samir reports to her that he saw Ahmed Nazari (Darwin Shaw), a corrupt Iraqi lawyer who was presumed dead, in Iraq five months prior. Carrie resolves to track down Nazari and find out what he knows. With the help of Numan (Atheer Adel), they discover that Nazari's supposed widow is living in Amsterdam.
Bibi (René Ifrah) asks Quinn (Rupert Friend) to guide his group to the Syrian border via Turkey. Bibi stresses that he can pay handsomely, as his uncle is Abu Al-qaduli, a deputy emir. Quinn reaches out to Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) and informs him of his opportunity to get close to Al-qaduli, a CIA kill target.
Saul (Mandy Patinkin), having been caught taking a copy of the leaked documents out of the station, is subjected to a battery of interrogations by Dar Adal. Allison (Miranda Otto) offers to take Saul back to his hotel room to get him to confide. In the room, Saul admits to Allison that he delivered the documents to Carrie. Allison excuses herself and has a panic attack. She then reports back to Krupin (Mark Ivanir) that Carrie is confirmed to be alive and likely headed to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, Carrie breaks into the house of Nazari, finding a safe she can't get into, and a laptop which she takes with her. Two men, sent by Krupin, enter the house and notice the broken window. Carrie watches as one of them takes something out of the safe; she then flees the house, managing to avoid their gunshots.
Jonas (Alexander Fehling) visits Otto Düring's compound to look for Carrie. As they talk about her, Düring (Sebastian Koch) reveals that he doesn't plan on renewing Carrie's contract at the foundation, due to her being "unbalanced".
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