Crack cia agent carrie mathison plays by her own rules when it comes to protecting the u s from terrorist attacks her uncanny intuition dogged determination and gift for persuasion helped her identify nicholas brody as a terrorist and convert him to an ally she also headed the operation to capture and kill al qaeda mastermind abu nazir and turned the man responsible for the cia bombing majid javadi into an invaluable u s asset along the way she fell in love with brody and became pre