Introduction

The seventh season of the American television drama series Homeland premiered on 11 February 2018, and concluded on 29 April 2018, 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

Saul (Mandy Patinkin) apprises Wellington (Linus Roache) of the situation with Simone Martin – that she intends to implicate Wellington in the plot to assassinate General McClendon, and that she’s in league with Russian interests. A stunned Wellington sends a letter of resignation to President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel). Keane pays a visit to Wellington to inform him that she does not accept his resignation, as he is needed more than ever with her administration under attack.

Carrie (Claire Danes) and her crew leave Dante’s apartment with as much evidence as they can collect, though they don’t find anything immediately incriminating. The next day, an argument with Maggie (Amy Hargreaves) leads to Carrie taking Franny and moving out, albeit with no other place to live. Dante (Morgan Spector) offers to let them temporarily stay with him. Carrie snoops around Dante’s apartment some more and learns that his ex-wife, Audrey (Tricia Paoluccio), works for the Department of the Treasury.

She tracks down Audrey and poses as FBI, claiming to be doing a background check on Dante for a job. Carrie learns from Audrey that some things Dante had said about his past – having a drinking problem, his wife being bipolar – were lies, and also that he had harboured resentment for “a CIA station chief” in Kabul, which was Carrie. Meanwhile, Dante goes to Maggie’s house to search Carrie’s room, under the pretence of fetching some of Franny’s belongings, and discovers research that Carrie had been compiling on him.

Using his knowledge of Max’s surveillance cameras as leverage, Saul forces Max (Maury Sterling) to join his task force, with the stipulation that all findings are to be reported to him, not Carrie. Saul is unable to convince a federal judge via a writ of mandamus to gather information from Simone Martin ahead of her hearing with Senator Paley, and decides to focus on Dante instead when Max deduces that Dante and Simone travelled to five European cities at the same time. That night, Carrie and Dante tease each other with the knowledge that they were spying on one another. As the tense confrontation transitions into sex, they are interrupted when agents charge in and take Dante away in handcuffs on Saul’s orders.

Homeland Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Lesli Linka Glatter.
• Writer(s): Patrick Harbinson and Chip Johannessen.
• Original Network: Showtime.
• Release Date: 25 March 2018.
• Running Time: 46-48 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.