Homeland premiere recap Season 6, Episode 1. It would be impossible to talk about Homeland without talking about its ripped from the headlines MO, as our TV critic Jeff Jensen points out in his B review of the new season. Season 6 is set in the days between the presidential election and the inauguration, with a new PEOTUS waiting in the wings to enter the Oval Office, Carrie Mathison back in the United States, and a disconnect brewing between American intelligence and the White House. Watching Homeland. Even aside from the president elect story line, theres something odd about this season based on this first hour alone. Its because Carrie has nothing to do with Saul or the spy game at all. Homeland Episode 1 Season 3 Recap Downton' title='Homeland Episode 1 Season 3 Recap Downton' />Itll be very interesting to see where Homeland goes from here. You cant blame her for benching herself. In season 5, she re entered the CIA fray and stopped a terrorist attack in Berlin, but ended her arc watching Quinn suffer the consequences of sarin gas. Homeland Episode 1 Season 3 Recap BlackBy the time we meet her here, shes wracked with guilt and, Im sure, a mix of love and hurt and hope from Quinns letter and treks out to see Quinn every day. The former super spy woke from his coma but now spends his time teetering around a VA rehab center, ignoring physical therapy and lashing out at Carrie, unable to be the person he had been before his traumatic brain injury. The scenes between them are thoroughly uncomfortable, given how Carrie is practically smothering him in care and how hes physically and mentally unable to receive it or understand it. When she tries to encourage him to keep getting better, he yells at her to leave. She finally does when his doctor says his treatment team thinks shes only agitating him with daily visits. Carrie, hurt by this assessment, leaves and heads to her new job working for a foundation that does Muslim outreach and counseling. There, Otto During waits. Her former employer in Berlin is eager to see her again and asks to have dinner, but Carrie rejects both him and the offer she knows is coming He wants her to work for him again and to, as he condescendingly puts it, stop working in Brooklyn on small potatoes. Insulted, Carrie tells him to leave, but he has one last small potato to tell her He says hes met someone, and its a revelation at which Carrie can only laugh. Sitting on his bed in the rehab center, he shouts at a neighboring ward and stares, unseeing, at the door to his drab room. He finally lights up when a nurse picks him up and takes him outside to a woman who greets him warmly and makes sure he has the check. Watch She Came On The Bus Megavideo. But the check for what Oh, for. The woman drives Quinn to get cash and takes him to a hostess who asks for the money before allowing him to enter a brothel, where Quinn gets plenty of action and substances and, well, a reprieve from his days of being surrounded by doctors and machinery and therapy. And yet, even though hes happily drunk and dancing away the night like an extra in Across the Universe, trouble arrives for the wounded soldier Quinns female friend brings in Tommy, a gun toting associate who makes a false scene and takes the rest of Quinns cash after knocking him out. RELATED Breaking Down Homelands Strangely Relevant Season. Meanwhile, Saul and Dar Adal are getting a headache of their own in the form of President elect Keane House of Cards. Outside her suite, General Mc. Clendon Robert Knepper, a new recurring cast member greets the CIA pair and warns them of what theyre about to face. Keane skips ahead to what she wants immediately, asking whether they would consider simply not invading or occupying Syria to handle ISIS. Saul and Dar look vaguely shell shocked before Keane moves on to their classified briefing. The men present Operation Signpost, a covert operation against Iran that would exploit Iranian computers, but Keane interrupts to wonder how much she would even be able to influence this operation before becoming president. Saul says she has no authority over covert actions for now. Saul looks on the bright side, saying shell learn to work with them in time. Dar doesnt feel the same way He says hes concerned about her personal ties to foreign policy. After all, her son died in Iraq, and Dar theorizes Keane may want to hold us all accountable. Dar decides to act on what he wants, just in case. Watch Jabberwock Download here. He meets with an Israeli operative, reporting that the PEOTUS doesnt like the covert operation program and that they must move quickly on their operation before the inauguration. They dont go over specifics, but by the end of the episode, Dar is meeting behind closed doors with General Mc. Clendon and a senator with whom Saul had met earlier to discuss PEOTUS domestic agenda over homeland security. Theyre meeting without Saul but Dar isnt concerned. Watch The Id 4Shared.