Even in the epilogue, there were strange choices, like Lockhart — who, remember, hated and mistrusted Carrie even more than he felt that way about Saul, and who was witness to so many of her refusals to follow orders — not only keeping her on, but promoting her to one of the choicest positions in the Agency. You can't hand wave it away by saying, "Well, Carrie was right, so he let the other stuff go," because Saul was even more right, and he was less insubordinate than Carrie (when the initial border crossing went awry, for instance, Saul knew when it was time to admit defeat and put the military in charge), and he's out.
Season 3 of "Homeland" did such an impressive, if unintentional, job of establishing why Carrie should never, ever be allowed to work for the CIA again that even the buttoned-down, melancholy tone of the epilogue, and the success of Saul's operation, couldn't sell me on this major plot point.
UND:
"The Star" begins with another of those "Homeland" sequences where you have to nod and smile and mutter, "Just go with it" for it to make any damn sense at all, as Brody somehow walks out of Akbari's office while his secretary and bodyguards are all on a simultaneous coffee break and makes it practically to the outer gate of the most secure complex in all of Iran before somebody notices that he murdered the head honcho. Previously, "Homeland" has presented a version of Iran so dangerous, intractable and impenetrable that Saul would have to resort to this crazy plan to make any headway. In these last two episodes, they've presented a version of Iran where Lt. Dangle and company from "Reno 911" apparently designed all the security measures.
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