The president Didn't Go to the memorial service for his own vice-president
Its quite common to not have all the VIP's in the same place at any one time for the exact reason of no attack being able to cripple the government in one hit. So I don't really see that as an issue.
My spidey sense thinks they should look at the CCTV of who parked the car, best not be an oversight!!!
It doesn't matter, if it was Brody behind it, which is obviously still very possible(could easily be not even decided by the writers yet), then it would be suspicious if he just stopped his car there before the ceremony. IE even if Brody is behind it, him driving it in and an inside man moving the car later is the best way to do it.
In terms of the car, if its someone who basically intends to die in the attack, then he could have driven it up and they saw it literally at the second it stopped before security would have had a chance to wonder why they stopped. CCTV showing anyone else doing it doesn't make Brody innocent basically, he's their number one suspect at this time and finding who is in the car might be difficult. If the person never left the car, they are dead, and the only person they know who is in country who is definitely alive and might be involved, is Brody.
Yeah that was complete garbage. Other annoying things were:
1. No sniffer dogs checking the cars for bombs.
2. Someone being able to move Brody's car and security not questioning them.
3. Someone being allowed to park a car right next to the big building with all the important people in it.
4. CIA immediately knowing it was Brody's car that blew up.
5. No mention of checking CCTV footage - there would definitely be cameras on that parking lot and the footage would not be stored on site for the exact reason shown.
And the whole "Nasir is dead so we don't need security anymore" excuse is nonsense. I don't believe Saul had anything to do with it either. The reason he wasn't there is that otherwise he would be dead. The writers had to give a plausible excuse for him not attending the VP's funeral, so they made him go to Nasir's.
1. Sniffer dogs can't find EVERY bomb, every terrorist knows they'll have sniffer dogs, so you can be damn sure terrorists put effort into sealing explosives so they don't smell.
2 and 3. Why, Brody is driven around all the time, he's a congressman, half the people coming to the funeral would have had drivers, and as said if the car was parked 4 seconds before it blew there wouldn't have been time.
Cars pull up to the white house all the time, so a car near a big building being something they wouldn't let happen... no.
4. Cctv would have said whose car it was, people are assuming no cctv has been watched seemingly under the impression that not seeing Brody drive it would mean he wasn't guilty so they couldn't have looked at them. Them saying its Brody's car basically proves they have done and his licence plate would be easily visible... could also easily check which cars are missing from the car park.
5. No need to, its assumed, because your local newsagents would check their camera if they were robbed, of course the CIA ruddy well did.
Nasir is dead so no security.... except they didn't say no security, just not expecting an attack, they believed they foiled the attack and captured the man. I thought the entire time the crew was very obviously set up to be caught, because it was too easy, and stupid.
As for Quinn turning, that makes sense as well. He's an agent, not a killer, he will kill people for his country if its the right thing. Carrie would be utterly destroyed by his death as he said, he's come to realise Carrie basically foiled(by then) a terrorist attack, turned an asset into a double agent, called Brody being a terrorist, captured Nasir, easily the best agent they have and its mental to brake her. He was likely also more convinced that Brody wasn't a bad guy at that point and more convinced that Estes was a bad guy.
IE when he started he had a mission to kill a terrorist and help his boss, weeks later he realises the guy was a tortured soldier who helped them catch a terrorist, he realise his boss was an ass, and he realise Carrie was an awesome agent who needed his protection. More than anything they realised he was a good character and they clearly wanted to humanise him and further re-enforce that Estes is a bad guy to the point a government assassin chose to not help him cover up a heinous crime.. before killing him. IE they made Quinn a "good guy" so the audience like him and so he can partner up with Carrie next season. But he is a good character and it was a good decision.
Decent episode overall, more of it made sense than people think and up till the actual boom I didn't really expect that to happen. I did think the camera crew being caught would lead to some other plan, but thought that was the VP being killed, so didn't really expect the next part of the plan. Saul is always awesome in everything he does, besides having a womans name, he's awesome in general.
I do feel they missed out on a HUGE chance though..... the daughter asks to go to be there for the kid she likes..... that would have been awesome, unfortunately she'll be back for season 3 now
