Homeland

Bipolar CIA officer Carrie Mathison risks her career and sanity to prove a returned Marine POW has been turned by terrorists. The series tracks her obsessive counterterrorism work with mentor Saul Berenson across shifting global threats. Homeland follows Carrie Mathison, a gifted CIA counterterrorism officer whose bipolar disorder sharpens her instincts even as it makes her volatile and hard to control. When Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody comes home after years held captive by al-Qaeda, Carrie becomes certain he was radicalized and now poses an inside threat to the United States. She convinces her mentor Saul Berenson to back an off-books surveillance of Brody, his wife, and their children while she hunts for proof. Carrie’s unauthorized methods clash with agency rules and her own medication regimen, pushing her toward professional ruin and personal collapse. Early episodes interweave he
