This shouldnt come as a surprise given the episodes title. Yesterday at 1015 p. The Leftovers Series Finale Recap There and Back Again The Book of Nora shows us the journey that really matters. Yesterday at 1015 p. In tonights episode of Game of Thrones, we welcome Jon Snow back to the land of living and watch Bran dip into the past, in the aptly named Oathbreaker. What happened during Episode 9 of Nashville Season 5 Heres everything that went down. After meandering aimlessly for a few too many episodes at the beginning of the season through Danas teen runaway subplot and Carries. In other words, were back to the fun stuff. Eliot reference begins with Saul revealing the hand he has in store for captured Iranian terrorist Javadi. Keep in mind, this is the exact play that Saul has been spinning for at least the past two months. Javadi, still covered in his ex wifes blood, smugly outlines his conditions for trading intelligence. WKxY.jpg' alt='Younger Recap Season 3 Episode 11' title='Younger Recap Season 3 Episode 11' />If I talk, if I do that, I need protection. I need a secure compound in Miami, and I need my money, all of it. He is the Iranian Brody a one time hero of the United States turned against his own country. Theyre both cockroaches. But Saul has something even better planned for his one time friend He tells Javadi that he will be returning to Iran as an asset for the CIA if he doesnt, Saul will out Javadi for stealing 5. Iranian government. Do you think I care you also ripped off the Revolutionary Guard Im your case officer now. Javadi initially resists, then accepts his doomed fate in the only way he can by copious amounts of sighing. He sighs as he changes into fresh clothes in the bathroom. He sighs as he talks to Carrie. He sighs as he boards a ridiculously luxurious plane. Theres so much sighing and so much saudade to the man, Javadi is one minor key melody and a couple of soulful lyrics away from being a moderately convincing Portuguese folk song. After he sighs pre embarkation, he mumbles something threatening to Carrie that is meant to play with her already crazy emotions. But more on that later. In between interrogations, our transactions specialist hottie Fara Sherazi is growing agitated. First, she yells at Javadi in Persian, forcing Saul to eject her from the room. Then she pleads with Carrie for Javadi to be tried in the U. S., not Iran, because justice needs to be served for the 2. American lives hes taken. But is there something greater going on hereIs Fara who Saul once berated for wearing head scarf at Langley, because it was a Or does she have another, more secretive incentive to keep Javadi in the U. S., but far away enough from her that shell grip a knife in his mere presence IMDB says that Farrah Nazanin Boniadi will only be on the show for one more episode, so whatevers going to happen to her cant be too good. His asset secured, Saul prepares to drive back to Langley but pauses before getting into his car. He calls Mira and regales her with tales of their time in Tehran, a quaint little nostalgia jaunt for which her level of enthusiasm appears to be slightly inferior to his. But then shockNaughty, naughty Mira and naughty Alain For a show that strains to draw even its straightforwardly evil Muslim characters in such a subtle and balanced manner, it must be comforting for the writers to be able to take a breather from all the nuance by falling back on that handiest of character cliches the dirty dog Frenchie, charismatic and generous of breast hair, worming his way into the taken American womans bed with little more than a shrug of the shoulders, some middling field research in academic sociology, and a Gallic pout. Were excited to see what will happen to this character over the weeks ahead could Alain Bernard be Lets hope not. Thank god we were relieved of the sure to cumbersome backstory regarding Carries pregnancy. While were sure well be getting a juicy plot line in the future, so far Carries impending motherhood has only served to throw her off her game while visiting the double murder crime scene of Javadis ex wife and daughter in law. She vomits, then says to the police,. He demands an explanation for Sauls absence. What are we to make of this funny little man Is Dar a snake doing Senator Lockharts bidding, or a dedicated CIA man looking out for the integrity of the agency We get an answer a provisional answer, at least almost immediately, with Saul leading Dar back to his office, where Lockhart is also waiting, and explaining the whole story to them, from the set up with Carries detainment in the psych ward to the recruitment of Javadi as an asset. Lockhart is predictably furious that Saul has lured Javadi into the country and allowed him to escape again without trial, deriding the notion of recruiting Javadi as Vending machines, but his point on bringing Javadi to trial in the U. S. Saul counters that it would be. Saul takes Lockhart to a conference room to call the president then comes the most deliciously satisfying moment of the episode, with Saul and Dar exiting the room and Saul locking the door behind them via remote control. The thuggishly jowly senator is locked in with no way of working the conference phone. The marsupial is on the side of right. Outstanding stuff. Its worth taking a moment to reflect, once more, on the magnificence of the acting in these scenes, especially from the self important, pettifogging senator. Last week it was Lockharts nostrils and upper lip doing all the work this week his double chin steps manfully forward with its own small masterwork of quivering malevolence. The range of expression in Tracy Lettss skin folds is truly astonishing if the man doesnt end this season with a swag of honors in recognition of the emotive power of his facial muscles, well give up on TV for good. Javadi wont return back to Iran without a fight, of course. Between sighs, he makes some pretty ominous grumblings about the bombing at Langley and proffers to know more information about who was responsible for putting the bomb in the SUV. Javadi tells Carrie something to the effect of,. As far as I know, hes still in this country. What is his motiveIs he simply looking to manipulate Carrie, or is he looking for retribution to the law firm who was responsible for his own ensnarement Judging from next weeks episode preview, it looks like the Big Bad Law Firm owns a much bigger piece of this terrorist pie than we first thought. Sonic X Season 3 Episode 77. Meanwhile, the shows producers again gift us with the stunning vision of shirtless Peter Quinn showering, cameras panning leisurely on Rupert Friends bare chest and back as he pads around the house clothed only in a towel. Our favorite vigilante has been captured at the crime scene by the neighbors security camera, and he must now confront his moral dilemma with his job head on. After he fake confesses to murdering Javadis ex wife and daughter in law, the homicide cop shakes his head in contempt. This is therapy for Quinn, who has been attempting to wrangle with a deep guilt and conflict since accidentally shooting a child in Caracas earlier this season. For long stretches of last nights episode, especially on those moments where the camera lingered on his blank, disappointed and uncomprehending face, Quinn seemed less like a hardened special ops guy finally being broken by the inhumanity and brutality of his job than a robot struggling to become human, a kind of Bicentennial Man with pecs. But theres something else at work too Quinn is becoming vulnerable, but his vulnerability is almost exclusively a performance for Carries benefit. Carries one track mind leads her to crush the potentially romantic moment by banging on and on about Brody, and how she needs his help to go after Bennett, the compromised lawyer that Javadi identifies as the person who. If Carrie cant understand him, who willQuinn is quickly becoming the moral pulse of the show, and his late conversion to ethics is all the more convincing for being so painfully and plainly difficult for him. The episode ends with a sappy, sexy scene between Saul and Mira, who stare at themselves in front of the mirror like a bad, more hirsute scene from. Um, does Saul know that Mira just came back from having hot sex with her younger French lover Does he even care Theres something about Send him back to Iran and make him collect intelligence for the CIA as a spy.