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Carrie and Saul’s plan to save Keane’s presidency took a sharp turn in Homeland‘s Season 7 finale… but then, it wouldn’t be a Homeland finale if everything went according to plan, would it?
We pick up where we left off, with Carrie posing as Simone in a brunette wig and hightailing it out of there with Anson at the wheel. He pulls over just short of the U.S. embassy, though, when police cars form a blockade to box them in. Carrie wants to distract them to give Saul time to put Simone on a plane back to D.C. to testify, so she ditches Anson’s car — “If things go wrong, this is the plan,” she tells him — and heads out on foot. When a Russian cop car starts to follow her, Anson hits the gas and smashes into the cop car head-on. Well, that certainly qualifies as a distraction.
Meanwhile, Saul gathers his U.S. entourage to head home — with Simone stashed in the back of his van, sporting a very fetching blonde wig. (She should really try that look sometime when she’s not running for her life.) Saul gives her a passport with Carrie’s name on it to get out of the country, and Simone pointedly asks him: “You’re just going to leave her here?” Back at home, VP President Warner confronts Keane when he sees the chaos in Moscow on TV, and Keane tells him it’s because Simone is alive — and yeah, she admits she wasn’t too keen (ha!) on looping him in.
