Homeland
There's Something Else Going On
TV Flash files “There's Something Else Going On” as hour 45 of 96 in the TV Flash guide — Homeland (2011–2020) on Showtime, season 4, episode 9, aired 2014-11-23, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E09: listed hour 45 of 96 in the Homeland guide, hour 9 of 12 in season 4. It aired 2014-11-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Halfway to a Donut” (S04E08). Next is “13 Hours in Islamabad” (S04E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Carrie improvises to salvage her mission; the CIA closes in on a leak
Viewer FAQ
Where does There's Something Else Going On sit in the Homeland guide?
S04E09 is listed hour 45 of 96 — hour 9 of 12 in season 4, season 4 episode 9.
When did Homeland S04E09 air?
There's Something Else Going On aired 2014-11-23 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season one — the Brody suspicion loop is the tightest craft. Later seasons shift missions and regions; the early run is the rewiring of cable espionage people still mean.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Claire Danes's bipolar CIA officer as the camera's heartbeat: Brody suspicion, Saul's counsel, a decade of wars and administrations. Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa's Showtime flagship dominated early-2010s Emmys, then went roving. Post-9/11 prestige as long-form nerve damage — watch the first loops of doubt, then the foreign-policy anxiety tour.
October 2, 2011, Showtime: a bipolar CIA officer suspects a rescued POW has been turned, and trust collapses into geopolitics. Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa developed *Homeland* from the Israeli series *Prisoners of War*. Claire Danes's manic intelligence is the camera's heartbeat — multiple Emmys as Carrie Mathison — with Damian Lewis's Brody as the early cat-and-mouse, Mandy Patinkin as Saul, Rupert Friend as Quinn. Rex's beat is not the app. It is the long nerve: **eight seasons as a national anxiety diary.**
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