Separation Anxiety

Homeland 5×1

& Hacker: Word of advice, retards... if you declare yourself the Cyber Caliphate, change your system password.

& Joe: Assad is still in power. ISIL is still growing. Are we really getting anywhere in Syria? ... You said a program should be renewed. I’m asking, is our strategy working?
    Quinn: What strategy? Tell me what the strategy is. I’ll tell you if it’s working.

& Quinn: See, that right there is the problem. Because they, they have a strategy. They’re gathering right now in Raqqa by the tens of thousands. Hidden in the civilian population. Cleaning their weapons. And they know exactly why they’re there.
    Joe: Why is that?
    Quinn: They call it the end times. What do you think the beheadings are about? The crucifixions in Deir Hafer? The revival of slavery? You think they make this shit up? It’s all in the book. Their fucking book. The only book they ever read. They read it all the time. They never stop. They’re there for one reason and one reason only. To die for the caliphate and usher in a world without infidels. That’s their strategy. And it’s been that way since the seventh century.

& Joe: Well, what would you do?
    Quinn: You offering me a promotion?
    Joe: I’m offering you a hypothetical.
    Quinn: .... 200,000 American troops on the ground indefinitely to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors and elementary school teachers.
    Joe: Well, that’s not going to happen... What else? What else would make a difference?
    Quinn: Hit reset.
    Joe: Meaning what?
    Quinn: Meaning pound Raqqa into a parking lot.

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& Laura: Oh. You can take the girl out of the CIA, but... you know.

& Carrie: Today started out so well. It’s like my old life came back.
Ω You bet.

& Saul: You turned your back on your entire life.
    Carrie: I’m just trying to do good work.
    Saul: Well, you’re not. You’re being naive and stupid. Something you never were before.

& Allison: What’s wrong with them, these new Germans?
    Saul: I know, they used to fight like hell.

& Quinn: I see you like to use potassium chlorate. I know it detonates more reliably than ammonium nitrate, but... the smell reminds me of freshly mopped hallways. And hospital toilets...

& Quinn: Two minutes to prepare yourself for paradise... Well, two minutes more or less. It’s not a very good timer.

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