Introduction

The fifth season of the American television drama series Homeland premiered on 04 October 2015, and concluded on 20 December 2015, on Showtime, consisting of 12 episodes

The series is loosely based on the Israeli television series Hatufim (English: Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff and is developed for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.

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Outline

Quinn and the group of jihadists make a stop in Kosovo. Saul is now detained with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, while it negotiates with the CIA for the return of Saul.

Meanwhile, Carrie engages Numan’s help to look into the laptop she seized from Ahmed’s house in Amsterdam. Carrie meets with Allison at a public place requesting information on Nazari. Quinn gets suspicious when the group is loading boxes onto another truck. He tries to check the boxes but is knocked unconscious, waking up in the back of the truck tied up with canisters of chemical weapons. Bibi reveals that they are going back to Berlin with the chemical weapons, not to Syria.

Etai helps Saul escape when he gets word that a deal was made to turn over Saul back to the CIA. Carrie notices a photograph of Ahmed on his laptop and remembers about a plan of Allison’s to take a vacation to the same place. Carrie finally realizes that Allison is the Russian mole. In a flashback, Carrie is shown arriving for the first time in Baghdad in 2005. She is there to replace Allison as a CIA case officer.

An asset of Allison’s, Ahmed Nazari, is to be handed over to Carrie. Ahmed is reluctant to work with Carrie. It is also revealed in this flashback how Allison became a Russian spy and how she was blackmailed by Ivan Krupin who has caught her on video accepting a cash bribe from Ahmed.

Homeland Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Dan Attias.
• Writer(s): Ron Nyswaner.
• Original Network: Showtime.
• Release Date: 22 November 2015.
• Running Time: 46-48 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.