Full spoilers follow.
It seems that one needs to enter this third season of Showtime's Homeland fully aware that the series has long since deviated from its (relatively) realistic approach in Season 1. The show's spiral into more pulpish adventures was well documented and fretted about in the press as the second season unfolded a year ago, but now that we've put the Vice President's death by remote-controlled heart attack behind us and any number of other 24-esque scenarios, we need to accept that the veneer of realism has long since gone out the window for the continuing tale of Carrie Mathison and Nicholas Brody.
After one of the longest previously ons ever, "Tin Man Is Down" picks up about two months after last year's finale, which saw a devastating attack on CIA headquarters. Langley is still partially in ruins, over 200 hundred people are dead, and Carrie is facing a closed-door Senate Committee about the attack. Claire Danes, who just picked up her second Emmy for Homeland, is back in full Carrie mode, of course, off her meds and blaming herself for the incident even while she impossibly takes a stab at clearing the name of the chief suspect in the attack, the now on-the-lam Brody. That might be the right thing to do, but in this situation the right thing isn't really the right thing. As it turns out, she winds up being held in contempt of Congress as her exact whereabouts after the attack are called into question. (She was actually helping old Brody get across the border, don't ya know?)
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