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Homeland Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Separation Anxiety
Sun, Oct 4, 201551 mins
Two and a half years after the previous episode, Carrie seems to have built a new life for herself and her daughter in a new city (Berlin) away from the CIA. Then the CIA Berlin get hacked and lose 1,361 important classified documents. One of the documents is sent to Carrie's colleague, Laura, who wants to publish it. In the meantime Saul and Quinn get comfortable in Berlin.
Episode 2
The Tradition of Hospitality
Sun, Oct 11, 201550 mins
Otto Düring visits the Beirut camp to announce his foundation is going to fund it generously for in-flowing Syrian refugees. Despite the Hezbollah council invitation, Carrie can barely avoid their car being blown up, but the guilty local commander is arrested, yet died under torture without betraying the enemy, just that Carrie was the target, not Otto. Peter continues 'freelance' eliminating jihadist recruiters in Germany. Saul accepts director Dar Adal's agreement with the German secret service to sacrifice Berlin CIA chief's head, but she suggests recalling Saul to Arlington instead. Jonas defends the reckless reporter who is arrested and questioned by the CIA for making public the hackers-provided CIA files, and gets her out without bail. .
Episode 3
Super Powers
Sun, Oct 18, 201558 mins
Otto covers, gratefully, for Carrie who decides to work out who is after her in a homely forest retreat, alone with Jonas, who accepts with growing horror to let her interrupt psychiatric medication to 'be sharp', only to find her resisting him administering her a new dose, as agreed, after hallucinations of her victims, especially Aayan Ibrahim, leading to the useless . Quinn keeps eliminating Jihadists and is determined to locate Carrie, even if he must kidnap Jonas's kid son. Saul blames the Berlin station chief but arranges with Adal that Washington 'sacrifices' the US ambassador instead. When Jonas rushes home, hearing his son is missing, Quinn moves in, gets shot by Carrie but overpowers her. Turkish master hacker Numan delivers the CIA files to reporter Laura Sutton, but his vexed mate offers them for sale to a Russian diplomat.
Episode 4
Why Is This Night Different?
Sun, Oct 25, 201549 mins
Peter stuns Carrie by revealing he was ordered to execute her in Saul's exclusive way. Before staging her death, even for daughter Franny, she insists to check up on the order, which leads to Peter barely surviving a shootout. After consulting Israel, Saul's team abuses Syrian general Youssef's stay in Lausanne for his daughter's surgery to recruit him as Alawite alternative for monstrous president Assad, but his plane has a shattering end destination. Activist Numan is horrified to discover his CIA files didn't reach the reporter because his cahoot Korzenik stole the memory stick to sell to the Russians, but they tortured him to get to the copy before executing him and the witness.
Episode 5
Better Call Saul
Sun, Nov 1, 201551 mins
Peter Quinn is badly wounded by the unidentified Russian hit-man he killed, but can't go to hospital. Carrie calls Jonas, whose sister is a doctor, but he ends up sneaking out rather then putting them in extreme danger, only to be saved by a passerby. After the Syrian general was killed aboard an exploding Swiss airplane, Berlin post chief Allison Carr makes lover Saul suspect the Israeli ambassador Etai, and Dar suspect Saul. Hacktivist Numan and Laura try to understand the murders on his CIA-files-selling cahoot and his stripper girl friend, while the Russian killer confers with his surprising co-conspirator.
Episode 6
Parabiosis
Sun, Nov 8, 201546 mins
Further tension arises between Carrie and Jonas, who's definitely not cut off for a spy life. Saul realizes he's being tailed and confronts Dar Adal about it. Seeing that his own agency is against him, Saul steals the same classified documents in order to do Carrie a favor.
Episode 7
Oriole
Sun, Nov 15, 201550 mins
Carrie looks over the CIA files and finds a connection. Alison continues to play both Saul and Dar Adal and finally learns that Carrie is in fact alive. Laura joins Carrie and Otto in order to find an old contact of Carrie. Quinn further infiltrates the Muslim group of people that saved his life.
Episode 8
All About Allison
Sun, Nov 22, 201552 mins
SPOILER: Carrie lets Alison in on her plan, thinking Alison could help her but she doesn't know Alison is a double agent. We are shown how Alison and Carrie first met, when Carrie was supposed to take over an informant named Acrobat from Alison in Baghdad. This is also the time when Alison became a double agent. Carrie misses Jonas. Quinn is taken prisoner. With Numan's help Carrie eventually realizes what Alison is.
Episode 9
The Litvinov Ruse
Sun, Nov 29, 201555 mins
Saul accepts that Alison is a double agent. He and Carrie make a deal with the Germans to unmask Alison. Saul is using his personal relationship with Alison to set up surveillance on her. Alison is being followed on her way to the Russian safe house where is arrested. There is an attempt on Quinn's life.
Episode 10
New Normal
Sun, Dec 6, 201552 mins
Now Carrie finally starts the search for nine days missing Quinn, the Jihadists post a video of his Sarin nerve-gas test-execution, with an ultimatum for the UN to recognize ISIS or a European city will be targeted. The CIA and hastily informed German counterpart BND realize it must be Berlin and do an amazing job analyzing the video and racing against time. They find Peter alive after the terrorists have left on their mission to a major train station, and the corpse of innocent Faisal Marwan, whom the deputy emir's cousin Zaheer executed, set-up for the 'sabotage' in stead of kinsman Qasim. Dar waves Saul's objection to Allison being allowed, instead of immediate deportation to Langley, to help with the search, while her 'prime asset' Ivan seems to spill the beans on NSB secrets.
Episode 11
Our Man in Damascus
Sun, Dec 13, 201560 mins
After Carrie and Astrid locate Peter, he is brought to hospital. Saul argues with the doctor who induced Peter's coma; Saul is adamant he and Carrie get the location of the next sarin attack. Moscow has a final job for Allison, which, if not completed, will risk both her "retirement" money, dacha and life. Moscow wants the sarin attack to take place in Berlin and wants Allison to protect the perpetrator. Carrie gets one of her brilliantly tenuous ideas and decides to investigate.
Episode 12
A False Glimmer
Sun, Dec 20, 201557 mins
Alison's real identity is officially uncovered. Jonas tells Carrie there is no way they will ever get back together. Quinn undergoes surgery. Saul makes Carrie a job offer but she says she's not CIA material any more. Otto makes Carrie a different kind of offer.
