Homeland, Season 1

Saul:
What were his exact words, please?

Carrie:
An American prisoner of war has been turned.

Saul:
He said this in English?

Carrie:
Yes, he whispered it into my ear right before the guards pulled me away.

Saul:
Why would he use the expression "turned"?

Carrie:
He mentioned turned, working for Abu Nazir.

Saul:
Why am I just hearing about this now?

Carrie:
Because until ten minutes ago, I didn't know there were any POWs alive in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Saul:
So you're suggesting that Abu Nazir planted intelligence on his own safehouse just so we could recover Sergeant Brody?

Carrie:
I realize it sounds like a reach.

Saul:
To say the least. Why not just drop him near a checkpoint and make it look like he escaped? Why would you sacrifice thirteen trained fighters?

Carrie:
Because Abu Nazir is playing the long game. This way no one suspects a thing.

Saul:
Except you.

Carrie:
Yeah, except me!

Carrie:
I-I'm just making sure we don't get hit again.

Saul:
Well, I'm glad someone's looking out for the country, Carrie.

Carrie:
I'm serious. I-I missed something once before, I won't... I can't let that happen again.

Saul:
It was ten years ago. Everyone missed something that day.

Carrie:
Yeah, everyone's not me.

Jessica:
You punched a reporter.

Brody:
Oh, he'll live.

Jessica:
In front of Chris.

Brody:
He'll live, too.

Saul:
Everyone lies in this business, I accept that. But we all draw lines somewhere, and the two sides of that line are us and them. And whatever we had you and I, whatever trust we built up over a decade of me protecting you and teaching you everything I know, you destroyed it when you lied to me and you treated me like them. Like every other schmuck in this building. So when you say you understand, is that what you mean? Is this interesting?

Brody:
They want you to lose faith. Lose faith in your country, which they say is the devil. In your brother marines, who they say aren't coming for you because you have no military value. In your wife, who they say has got her arms wrapped around someone else.

O'Donnell:
How do you resist that?

Brody:
You can't. Except by believing that those people they want you to renounce, that they're keeping the faith in you and you owe it to them to do the same.

O'Donnell:
Semper fidelis.

Mathison:
[following suspect] Guy hasn't broken the speed limit once.

Galvez:
Does that make him more, or less suspicious?

Mathison:
It makes him boring as shit.

Mathison:
Why are you being nice to me?

Estes:
Do I need a reason?

Mathison:
Not unless you want me to believe a word you're saying.

Estes:
So tell me what's so important that it couldn't wait.

Berenson:
Abu Nazir, David. Remember him? Two horns, long tail, a strong scent of sulfur? I think we found out how he's financing his attack.

Jessica:
Is that right? You barely sleep, you turn your back on your friends, you scare your children. I mean, you won't even...

Brody:
Say it.

Jessica:
You can't even f*** your wife!

Saul:
It's been a very complicated day.

Mira:
Your life is a very complicated day.

Carrie:
[Carrie and Brody are drunk] Oh, Jesus, we drank too much.

Brody:
Yeah, we did.

Carrie:
Oh, I hope I don't puke.

Brody:
You're gonna puke?

Carrie:
No.

Brody:
You all right?

Carrie:
I'm half Irish.

Brody:
The Irish don't puke?

Carrie:
Nah. Only when we have to salute the British. [Carrie snorts with laughter]

Wakefield:
Here's my question. How come Walker died and you came back alive? What's that about?

Mira:
I don't want you to come with me.

Saul:
What?

Mira:
I want to go alone. I need to go alone.

Saul:
Why?

Mira:
I just do.

Saul:
For how long?

Mira:
I don't know.

Saul:
A week? A month? What?

Mira:
I don't know.

Saul:
The new job was just a ploy. Your way of letting me down gently.

Mira:
Saul... we're like good friends, sharing a house. You do the dishes, I water the garden. You are watching football, I watch cooking shows. You play golf, I do yoga.

Saul:
Sounds perfect.

Saul:
Mr. Al-Zahrani, I'd like you to go back to your house now. Put that drawing in your window tonight. Tomorrow afternoon, I'd like you to proceed as you normally would to meet Tom Walker. Okay?

Al-Zahrani:
So I'm bait?

Saul:
You're bait. You're free to go now.

Al-Zahrani:
What happens to me after all of this?

Saul:
Go about your business. Live your life. We say nothing to Saudi Intelligence about your connections to Abu Nazir, you say nothing to Abu Nazir about our little get-together. You work for us now. Welcome to the CIA.

Galyean:
Al-Zahrani's got diplomatic immunity. That may not mean much to you people, but to us mere mortals in the State Department, that's a serious issue.

Saul:
We're not dragging him to Tunisia. We're not waterboarding. We'll be very polite and gentle. I just want to ask him some questions during his lunch hour.

Galyean:
CIA's not even supposed to be operating on American soil. It's against your own charter. This is the FBI's job.

Saul:
Al-Zahrani's running a terrorist cell out of the Saudi embassy. He and Tom Walker are planning an attack on the United States. F*** the charter.

Estes:
He doesn't mean that.

Saul:
Yes, I do.

Brody:
[to Dana] I have this feeling things are going to get pretty wild soon. Your mom's going to need you. When I'm not around. Promise me you'll watch out for her.

Carrie:
Somewhere down there, there's a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.

Brody:
[in a recorded message] My name is Nicholas Brody and I'm a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. I have a wife, and two kids, who I love. By the time you watch this, you'll have read a lot of things about me, about what I've done, and so I wanted to explain myself, so that you'll know the truth.

Estes:
The world changed, Saul, right under your nose.

Carrie:
"[After Saul sends a team of agents to contain her]" Virgil, am I crazy?

Virgil:
Look, you know you are.

Semper I [1.04]:
Nicholas Brody: There's nothing wrong with me.