Homeland Season 6: "A Flash of Light"

Posted: February 13th, 2017

By Michael Sulick

Michael Sulick is the former director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service and is currently a consultant on counterintelligence and global risk assessment. Sulick also served as Chief of Counterintelligence and Chief of the Central Eurasia Division where he was responsible for intelligence collection operations and foreign liaison relationships in Russia, Eastern Europe and the former republics of the Soviet Union. He is the author of Spying in America: Espionage From the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War and American Spies: Espionage Against the United States from the Cold War to the Present.

This season’s parallel plots begin to converge in episode four. Carrie’s houseguest, Peter Quinn, still recovering from his near-death experience, hasn’t been involved in the political machinations between the President-elect and the CIA or in the FBI terrorism case against young Sekou Bah. In this episode, he is subtly woven into the Sekou Bah storyline.

Quinn’s old instincts resurfaced in a previous episode, when he figures out an intruder in Carrie’s house is a man living across the street. Spying on the building from his basement window, Quinn observes the stranger leaving the building at 2am, carrying a sack, and hopping into a car. Quinn hastily jumps into Carrie’s car to follow and tracks his prey to Long Island City, where the stranger exits and enters a parking lot.

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