'Homeland' Season 4, Episode 5 Recap: Carrie Still Sinks Even Lower, You Won't Believe What Happens To Saul!

In this week's Homeland, titled "About a Boy," Aayan wakes up next to Carrie after she seduced him the night before. He looks under the sheets to get another peak at her naked, but she wakes up. Aayan is still freaked out about what happened, but Carrie puts his mind at ease. She gets dressed to go get breakfast for them. We still find this whole situation creepy and disturbing, but I'm hoping the writers come up with something better because I'm starting to hate Carrie again.

Fara and Quinn rent the place across the street from where she saw Haqqani and the cleric. They set up shop there in case they see him again or they have to kill him. Fara is ambivalent about it all because she was just supposed to be in an office playing a journalist but Quinn makes her feel better about it all.

Carrie meets Saul while getting breakfast for Aayan. He is going back to CIA headquarters in Langley to make sure everything is good with Lockhart. She tells him she only has three days to gain Aayan's trust to recruit him and Saul says that will be a tall order. Little does he know...

Back at the apartment, Aayan is packing his things to leave when Carrie arrives. They argue about him leaving when she tells him both the Pakistani intelligence and CIA will scoop him up if he leaves the apartment. He is also feeling badly about what they did due to his faith. Carrie tells him he needs to stay until they go to London and he agrees.

Professor Boyd tells his wife he decided to stay, but she doesn't seem too happy. She tells him she has friends at George Washington University too and that he didn't get a job offer, especially due to plagiarism. He tells her he wants to stay, but she still doesn't care.

Quinn and Fara are sitting in the stakeout position talking about he knows Carrie and Carrie's tactics to manipulate people. Quinn says she's the best and you need to do that for the job. Fara then sees the Muslim cleric that was with Haqqani so Quinn starts taking pictures of him.

We are taken to the ISI/Pakistani intelligence headquarters where we find the guy who met with Saul and the woman who is blackmailing the ambassador's husband talking about Saul's plans to go back to the US two days after he was scheduled to. They think some plan is in motion between him and Carrie. The woman says Saul can take his "self-improvement self back to America, good riddance."  

Professor Boyd, the ambassador's husband, goes to Carrie's apartment to try and get in when someone passes by he just says he brought a present for her from the ambassador. He puts a key in that fits her lock, but has second thoughts and leaves.

Saul is at the airport in Pakistan when he sees Ghazi there trying to get on a plane to leave. He calls Carrie and leaves a message. He tries to keep an eye on him so he doesn't lose where he's going.

Back the apartment, Carrie is interviewing Aayan as though she's a journalist. She asks him about his terrorist uncle and he tells her fond memories he has about him. He respected him because he felt he took down the Soviet Union and can take down the US too. Carrie then asks him about a "rumor" that he is alive, but Aayan gets very defensive and says that's not possible. Carrie says if he is alive that means he knew somehow the strike was coming.

Saul is looking around the airport for Ghazi and spots him walking around. He follows him to his gate where he sees he's going to Johannesburg, South Africa. Saul calls Quinn to tell him and to have people pick up Ghazi's trail there.

The ambassador is at the CIA station looking for Quinn, but the only one around is her nemesis, John. She tells him that her husband is drunk at the bar and he says he will go there to calm him down for her.

Aayan is barely speaking to Carrie after what happened before, but she keeps talking to him to regain his trust. She tells him she has a baby, which he knew already because of her scar. She tells him the father died after she sent him to do a story since he was a journalist too. Aayan is falling under her spell more and more when he tells her he wants to touch her again. He's very inexperienced, but she says she will help him with that. Later that night, they have sex, but Carrie starts crying in the middle. She tells him he's just making her happy, which he believes.

At the bar, Professor Boyd is telling John that he's gotten into a lot of trouble and can't get out of it. Right when he was going to tell him everything he did, the woman from Pakistani intelligence arrives to break up the party. Once she leaves, John tells Boyd she is in the ISI and she's probably working as they speak. The ambassador's husband gets freaked out and leaves, which it seems gets John suspicious.

Saul is keeping an eye on Ghazi when he sees him go to the bathroom. After he goes in, two men follow him and then leave. Saul gets suspicious so he goes into the bathroom where he sees Ghazi face to face, but all of a sudden Saul gets a shot to his neck that puts him to sleep. They wheel Saul out in a wheelchair as though there's something wrong with him so as to not arouse suspicion. The woman from the ISI gets call from Ghazi saying it's done, she says good.

Quinn and Fara see the cleric is on the move so she follows him where two guys that look like the ISI guys that took Saul are giving him something. He gets in a car with Fara and Quinn following him close behind. They say they need a drone to follow him, but Carrie isn't picking up her phone to authorize it.

John brings Prof. Boyd back to his wife where she laments he's not the same man he once was. The professor hears this and gets the keep to Carrie's apartment.

Quinn and Fara are still following the cleric, but they start going into the "suicide" zone where they're not safe anymore. They are at a checkpoint when Quinn tells Fara she has to go to the cleric's car and put a tracking device on it. She goes to try, but is told to go back to her car by a Pakistani officer, which she obliges. While this is happening, the cleric's trunk is opened where Saul is tied up. The officers let the cleric go without saying anything.

The ambassador's husband gets into Carrie's apartment where he takes pictures of a photo of her and her baby as well as her bipolar medication.

In the morning, Carrie is staring at Aayan creepily while he's sleeping when Quinn knocks on her door. Carrie runs out to talk to him and they yell back and forth about her not taking any calls - seemingly disappearing. He tells her what's transpired with Ghazi going to South Africa and them following the cleric. Carrie tells him she's working to recruit Aayan, but Quinn tells her the way he sees it she's "f***ing a boy." She says she only had two days so she had to do it, but he yells that there is no line that she won't cross.

She comes to the apartment and doesn't see Aayan. She gets scared that he left, but goes upstairs where there is a balcony outside. He tells her his uncle is alive and that he's been taking medicine to him because he is very sick. It's the only family he has left so he feels he has to. He tells her not to tell anyone, which she of course agrees to. They then have a long, strange embrace where she caresses his hair before the end of the episode.

We don't know how Carrie can redeem herself because she's sunk so low now. The Saul part of the storyline is very interesting and we can't wait to see what happens with that!