Die Carrie Kill Her Mentor Saul in the Series Finale of 'Homeland'?

Does Saul die in Season 8 of 'Homeland'? CIA operative Carrie Mathison is compelled to make an enormous decision in the series finale. Here's what went down!

[Warning: Major spoilers forward]

No, she won't do it... right?! Will Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) in reality go spoil ties with her best ally?

In the penultimate episode of Homeland, the CIA operative curious about discovering the flight recorder, which might prove that the Taliban was once now not accountable for the loss of life of President Warner (Beau Bridges) and likewise transparent her identify. 

To download the recorder, Carrie is compelled to make a maintain Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin). Yevgeny advised the officer that she should homicide her mentor Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) or to find the title of his Russian mole.    

So, does Saul die in Season 8 of 'Homeland'?

After 10 years, it all comes right down to this moment ...

The Season 8 finale forces Carrie to make the toughest resolution of her life. If she betrays Saul, she is going to save herself and in all probability save you World War III. 

In the end, Carrie provides up Saul's Russian secret agent Anna (Tatyana Mukha) to Yevgeny (Costa Ronin), and the flight recorder is "found." Though Saul survives, he lost both his prodigy and asset.

Fast forward two years later, audience see Carrie residing in Moscow with Yevgeny. Yes, they're in a "relationship."

In a shocking flip of occasions, we now perceive why the former CIA operative left her daughter behind... she is now Saul's mole. Surprisingly, Carrie went again to her roots as a spy and is now feeding Russian intel to her mentor.

So, did Saul forgive Carrie for betraying him and compromising his Russian asset?  

"I don’t think the other wound [i.e., Carrie’s complicity in Anna’s death] will ever be healed," showrunner Alex Gansa told TVLine. "But when Saul looks up at the camera at the end I think you get this sense that he is surprised one more time by this protégé of his and that relationship is on the way to being repaired at some level." 

'Homeland' superstar Sam Trammell teases finale episodes.

Ahead of the series finale, Distractify spoke completely with Sam Trammell, who plays U.S. Vice-President-turned-President Benjamin Hayes. Describing himself as the "villain" of Season 8, the actor teased, "There’s going to be a surprise with me." 

He added: "If you think you know me, I feel like you don’t really know Hayes yet, but you’ll know Hayes much better by the end. It’s sort of hard to get into his mind because he’s done a lot of contradictory things. He was listening to Wellington (Linus Roache) at first, and now he’s listening to Zabel. You’re going to learn a lot more about him and see more of his true colors by the end."

While fanatics anxiously waited to determine what determination Carrie would make, Sam published that the finale was rewritten "two days before" taking pictures. "Alex [Gansa] and Claire and Mandy, they were all so diligent about looking at every angle and making the end as satisfying and surprising and amazing as possible."

Well, it indisputably was!

Watch the series finale of Homeland on Showtime.

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