Homeland co-star Mandy Patinkin knew he had a hit on his hands from the time he read the first script.
"I read the pilot script and I went, 'Oh my God, this stuff is wonderful, I can see the potential,'" he told TVGuide at the Golden Globe Awards. Co-star David Harewood echoed: "It's wonderful to be a part of something where you can't wait to read what's been written."
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Homeland's first season finale posed the question: Would traitorous Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) actually carry out a suicide bombing directed at the vice president of the United States?
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Returning to England for his brother's funeral, Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch) falls in love with his brother's widow, Yasim (Anamaria Marinca), becomes a pawn in a government surveillance scheme, and is pursued by a crazed rogue agent (Robert Carlyle). watch