Homeland Episode 8 recap: Better save Saul

“There are only wrong choices,” Carrie realizes at the end of “Halfway to a Donut,” the eighth episode in “Homeland’s” fourth season. “How can saving someone’s life be the wrong choice?”

Wrong choices are the name of the game as the tension surrounding Saul’s captivity in Pakistan continues to escalate. Haqqani plans to use Saul as a bargaining chip in a prisoner exchange with the Americans, but the prisoners Haqqani is asking for — several key men from his troop — give the Americans, including CIA head Lockhart, serious pause

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Saul refuses to be a pawn in Haqqani’s strategy, imploring the Americans to not give the Taliban anything they ask for in exchange for his life. For Saul, death is a better option than aiding Haqqani in any way. Read more...

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