Homeland
13 Hours in Islamabad
TV Flash files “13 Hours in Islamabad” as hour 46 of 96 in the TV Flash guide — Homeland (2011–2020) on Showtime, season 4, episode 10, aired 2014-12-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E10: listed hour 46 of 96 in the Homeland guide, hour 10 of 12 in season 4. It aired 2014-12-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “There's Something Else Going On” (S04E09). Next is “Krieg Nicht Lieb” (S04E11).

Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The security breach at the Embassy has far reaching consequences.
Viewer FAQ
Where does 13 Hours in Islamabad sit in the Homeland guide?
S04E10 is listed hour 46 of 96 — hour 10 of 12 in season 4, season 4 episode 10.
When did Homeland S04E10 air?
13 Hours in Islamabad aired 2014-12-07 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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