Paean to the People

In Moscow, Saul (Mandy Patinkin) and his team arrive at the airport, ready to fly Simone (Sandrine Holt) to the United States. Meanwhile, Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin) tracks the disguised Carrie (Claire Danes), still believing she is Simone. Carrie's car is cornered, so she runs away on foot in an effort to extend the chase until Saul's plane has taken off. Saul's vehicle is stopped at a checkpoint due to an outstanding warrant for Bennet's (Ari Fliakos) arrest for killing one of the guards at Simone's previous safehouse; Saul calls Acting President Warner (Beau Bridges) for assistance. Senator Paley (Dylan Baker), who is in the room with Warner, advises against this, as a successful retrieval of Simone would lead to Keane being reinstated as president. Warner angrily rebukes Paley and intervenes on Saul's behalf, demanding that Russian ambassador Viktor Makarov (Elya Baskin) allow Saul's group to leave Moscow. The plane takes flight as Yevgeny captures Carrie.

Saul's attempts to negotiate Carrie's release with Viktor go nowhere. Simone's testimony confirms a GRU conspiracy to undermine President Keane. Paley is arrested as a conspirator; Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) visits him in jail, where he begs her to allow his family to receive his pension, but she merely spits on him in spite. Keane is triumphantly sworn in as president once again, but in her first public address, she resigns. She explains that as Russia was able to exploit partisan discord in the U.S., that must be addressed and that events of her administration have left her as someone the American people as a whole will be unable to trust.

Yevgeny asks an imprisoned Carrie to film a confession video stating that Simone was a CIA operative and that the U.S. orchestrated everything, threatening to withhold Carrie's medication if she does not cooperate. Carrie refuses.

Carrie's release is finally secured in exchange for several Russian prisoners. Saul and Jim (Damian Young), the head of the CIA's Moscow station, oversee the prisoner exchange at the Estonia–Russia border. After seven months of receiving no medication, Carrie is barely lucid and even seems not to recognize Saul.

The episode was directed by executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter and written by showrunner Alex Gansa.