I have mixed feelings about this episode. I loved the suspense built around Brody's operation. That got me sitting on the edge of my seat. But at the same time, the sudden/convenient appearance of Javadi and some of that shuffling going on in the CIA office and the White House was slightly off-putting. It felt a little too pseudo-dramatic. Anyway, shooting that other guy in the cell was surprising at that point only because I thought he would've been shot earlier by the Iranian border security guards. I guess that kinda cements Javadi being dedicated to making this plan fail-safe. I think.

Looking forward to the next episode.

Pretty fucking unexpected end to the season. After seasons 1 and 2 I was expecting the finale to be full of fireworks and some massive cliffhanger, but it was really low-key (despite killing off Brody). It seems like they're really pushing to write Brody and his family and that whole saga out of the show to focus on other things, which I think is really the best course of action at this point since his character arc pretty much had a limited lifespan after his actions in season 1 anyway. So, better than I expected, I guess.

I felt the same about the episode. They're looking for new viable plots to take the series further. The episode wasn't disappointing but definitely low key and everything (apart from Brody) about the episode made it seem like it was business as usual ie. mission was a success and people have moved on with their lives.

Though now that they've revealed that these returned folks may be immortal in some way, it has the potential to become something more interesting. I guess?...

The lake! What the hell is the lake thing! My theory for a while was that there was some sort of gas buildup in the lake that seeped out and killed the whole town overnight and that they're all in some sort of purgatory, with just the previously dead people seeming out of place because everyone else died all at once and without knowing that they died. But then that reveal at the end of the season with the flooded town and the strangeness of the zombie faction thing wanting the returned to come back to them definitely shat all over that theory.

Mark: Jeremy, what is Super Hans doing?
Jeremy: [observes Super Hans] He's honking on his crackpipe.
Mark: Crack! Jeremy! I have company!
Jeremy: Relax Mark, everyone does drugs nowadays. "Look at Me, I'm Mark. I'm dying on a street in an Advert in the 80s."
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Mark: [voiceover] It's OK, he doesn't have any feelings. Racists don't have feelings, they're subhuman.
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Jeremy: Aren't we supposed to be living in a multicultural democracy? And isn't that the point? You know, the Jews, the Muslims and the racists all living together happily side by side, doing and saying whatever the hell they like?
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Super Hans: What we really need to do is create a powerful sense of dread.
[he presses a key on his keyboard and holds it, playing a deep bass note]
Super Hans: See, the longer the note, the more dread.
Jeremy: [voiceover] God, that's terrible. It's worse than Darryl's bloody cor anglais. Oh, they're useless. I wish they were all robots. I wish I was a robot. Maybe I could punch through a wall.