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Somewhere down there, there’s a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.
— Homeland · 2011
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Carrie says it to Saul about the earth beneath her, but it is also about herself: a mind that looks spent and is storing something that will return. The episode is about to prove it by having her, ill and about to be fired, assemble the clearest picture of Abu Nazir anyone has. The speech endures as a line about patience and hope.
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In context
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In "The Vest" (season 1, episode 11, first aired 11 December 2011), CIA officer Carrie Mathison has spent a week in hospital after the Farragut Square bombing and is in the grip of a manic episode; her sister Maggie explains that she is bipolar. Saul collects her to take her home, but she gets out of the car in a burst of wonder and tells him that under the ground a sliver of green is biding its time. Saul then sorts her colour-coded papers into a timeline of Abu Nazir's movements, while elsewhere Brody collects his own secret package; by the end Estes has fired her.
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- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: Homeland S01E11Car scene after the Gettysburg dialogueReference checked
- Wikipedia: The VestPlot and ProductionReference checked
- Homeland Wiki: The VestTriviaReference checked
- Wikiquote: Homeland (TV series)The Vest [1.11]Reference checked
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