Full spoilers follow.

He will never get out, but every so often it makes him feel better to say he will.

No Saul this week!

I like that Dar’s reappearance also brings back his original dark edge. His playing Spock to Saul’s Kirk was always a bit too fluffy really.

Frannie returns…

Max has come a long way from just being Virgil’s goofy younger brother, hasn’t he?

Line of the week: “You really should have a shower.” I bet all the girls say that to Quinn.

This week we saw the lengths to which Quinn will go when he’s committed to his mission, which as it turns out is even further than Carrie or Saul or pretty much anyone else in the agency. With the exception of his old boss, perhaps.Yes, Dar Adal is finally back. When F. Murray Abraham showed up in the “previously on” segment, I figured Dar would reenter the scene at some point in "Krieg Nicht Lieb" tonight. But I could not have foreseen that he would be accompanying the hated Taliban chief Haqqani in the episode’s twist ending. What the what?!Of course, Director Lockhart sensed something was going on. The catastrophe in Islamabad has guaranteed that he’s out of the CIA now, and as such he’s being kept in the dark regarding what the White House is up to. But as he tells Carrie (who, by the way, seems to now be basically a trusted ally and friend to Lockhart after all those episodes of antagonism), he thinks something else is afoot. Is this what it was? Is the U.S. supporting or protecting Haqqani now for some reason? Or is Dar Adal just tending to his own agenda, which he presumably thinks is for the greater good somehow?We’ll find out more next week in the season finale, but I expect Dar’s return here tracks with Quinn’s own single-minded pursuit to do what needs to be done no matter the cost. Like his old mentor, Quinn is ready to make the sacrifices that need to be made. He can pretend that he’s a normal guy who wants to go back to an apartment with a swimming pool and a girlfriend and grocery shopping, but as his German embassy friend tells Carrie, in the end he always returns to doing what it is that he does best.Quinn does have a weak spot for Carrie though, and he was not able to pull off his master plan to take out Haqqani because of that weakness. (Sweet bomb making skills though, Quinn.) He was, apparently, willing to blow up a bunch of innocent civilians in order to get the job done, however. (He also had no qualms about showing Aayan’s old girlfriend photos of the kid’s murder, which seemed pretty cruel as well.)Meanwhile, Carrie’s search for Quinn and her need to save him from himself was intensified when she learned of the death of her dad back home. James Rebhorn, who had played Frank Mathison, died last spring and we knew this was coming. But it’s interesting how the Homeland writers used the loss of her dad to give Carrie an even stronger impulse to ensure that she not lose her friend too.Ultimately, this did feel like something of a filler episode, though. Quinn’s big plan didn’t pan out, and while I liked the refocus on Aayan, who had been all but forgotten in recent weeks, I’m not sure I buy Carrie’s sudden decision to shoot Haqqani after she had just convinced Quinn that killing the terrorist would be a suicide mission. Sure, she feels regret over what happened to Aayan, but this is still Carrie Mathison we’re talking about here. Carrie motherf#@king Mathison!So it fell to Khan to stop Carrie from making that big mistake, which means Khan has now saved our main character twice. His actions, unfortunately, have not done much to save any other American lives or interests as of yet, but he’s also aware of the bigger game that’s being played now as it’s he who pointed out Dar Adal’s presence to Carrie. We’ll see what happens in the finale next week, but it seems nothing less than America’s interests in the region could be at stake.Some notes: