Species Jump

Homeland 7×6

Carrie: Anything?
Max: He's out of yogurt.

Sandy: And then something happened that blew our collective minds. October 4, 1957-- can anybody tell me what that was?... I'll give you a hint. America's strategic bomber force was suddenly deemed vulnerable, sitting ducks on the ground. Anybody?.....
Saul: Sputnik.

Sandy: No one's gonna understand how we fucked up terrorism if they don't understand that we fucked up the Cold War.

Sandy: Why should I?
Saul: Anybody else would be my second choice.

Saul: You understand the position this puts me in?
Carrie: Yes, I do! In a position to save the President and possibly the republic.

Carrie: A breath? Are you kidding?! Jesus Christ. ...the truth is ringing in my fucking ears!

Saul: I know how this goes. I'm CEO of that club. You have to calm down now, pretend we never had this conversation.

Saul: ... A Russian intelligence operation involving active measures against the President of the United States.

Saul: How does it get from tapas bar spat to national network news in an hour?
Clint: Well, that's the end of the journey. The species jump.

Clint: Really, we should start here.
Saul: What's that?
Clint: Well, that's a node, an identity.
Saul: What's it do?
Clint: Well, that's the tweet with the frame grab and the caption. I mean, that's-- that's the meme. All right, so these are the nodes that respond. They're actually mostly automated accounts. They light up red when they retweet messages, which they do sporadically over time so that it looks natural.
Saul: What about the green ones?
Clint: Yeah, no, those are real people, those are verified accounts. So, like, like a real person might send a meme to a friend or two or ten or maybe everyone they know. In epidemiology, that's called a replication rate. And every meme has one.
Saul: So that's the real people passing it on.
Clint: Mm-hmm. Each green node represents a thousand people... So that-- that's what it looks like on a national scale.

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