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Fictional character on the American idiot box/drama thriller Homeland

Nicholas Brody
Homeland character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"The Star" (live) "Redux" (hallucination)
Created by	Alex Gansa Howard Gordon
Portrayed past	Damian Lewis
In-universe information
Total name	Nicholas Brody
Nickname	Brody, Nick
Occupation	War Hero Double Agent Fugitive Terrorist CIA Assassin Onetime: U.S. Congressman, Former: Gunnery Sergeant, USMC
Spouse	Jessica Brody
Children	Dana Brody (with Jessica Brody) Chris Brody (with Jessica Brody) Frannie Mathison (with Carrie Mathison)

Nicholas Brody (frequently simply called "Brody"), played by thespian Damian Lewis, is a fictional character on the American television series Homeland on Offset, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Brody is a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who is held every bit a prisoner of war by al-Qaeda terrorists for 8 years. Following his rescue and return habitation, Brody is hailed every bit a war hero and promoted to Gunnery Sergeant. However, a CIA officer, Carrie Mathison, suspects that Brody was turned by al-Qaeda, and tries to stop him from potentially committing a terrorist act. Between the first and second flavor, he is elected to Congress, but at the end of the 2d season he is framed for committing a terrorist bombing. In the third flavor, he is executed by Iranian authorities after completing a CIA plot against the Iranian Revolutionary Baby-sit.

Character biography [edit]

Background and personality [edit]

Born in the Mojave Desert, when his male parent was stationed in the MCAGCC, Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody was a United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance Scout Sniper deployed during the Iraq War. On May 19, 2003, both Brody and a beau Lookout man Sniper, Thomas Walker (Chris Chalk), were captured about the Syrian edge by forces loyal to Saddam Hussein. The two men were sold to al-Qaeda commander Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) and held captive in Damascus for the next eight years. Brody's guards tortured him for much of his captivity, but Nazir treated him with kindness in order to gain his trust. Brody converted to Islam while in captivity. Under Nazir's direction, Brody severely trounce Walker and believed he had killed him.^[1]

Nazir ended Brody'southward torture in 2008 and invited him into his home, asking him to teach his son Issa English. Brody soon grew to love the boy every bit his own son. In 2009, however, Issa was killed in a drone strike while attending school. Brody helped Nazir bury Issa and joined him in reciting an Islamic prayer over the kid's grave. Shortly thereafter, Brody watched an interview with Vice President William Walden (Jamey Sheridan), who falsely claimed that no children were killed in the drone strike. Brody swore revenge on Walden and agreed to kill him in a suicide attack.^[2]

Season 1 [edit]

Brody is rescued by Delta Force troops during a raid on a terrorist compound in Afghanistan. He is flown back to the The states, where he is reunited with his wife, Jessica (Morena Baccarin), and his children, Dana (Morgan Saylor) and Chris (Jackson Pace). He as well meets Walden during a press conference at Andrews Air Strength Base of operations. During his debriefing, Brody finds himself interrogated by CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), who had been told by an informant that an American Pow had been turned by al-Qaeda. All the same, the interrogation is stopped past Carrie's superior, Counterterrorism Center manager David Estes (David Harewood). Even so, Carrie sets up a slipshod intelligence operation and bugs Brody's house.^[ane]

As he settles back into civilian life, Brody struggles with posttraumatic stress disorder and has nightmares about his captivity in Damascus, all of which takes a toll on his family. The situation is worsened when he finds out that Jessica and Mike Faber (Diego Klattenhoff), his all-time friend and fellow Marine, had been in a relationship while he was in captivity. Brody initially shuns the spotlight, physically assaulting a reporter who enters his backyard. He as well rebuffs a suggestion from Faber that he re-enlist in the Marine Corps and seek a promotion. However, Brody eventually changes his listen and addresses the press in full uniform outside of his house.^[3]

Carrie watches Brody'due south Tv appearances and notices that he taps his fingers in a repeated blueprint, believing that he is giving a coded message. This observation convinces her CIA mentor, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), to help her obtain a FISA warrant for Brody'due south abode. Carrie continues surveilling Brody after the warrant expires and breaches CIA protocol past budgeted him at a support group for veterans. They bond immediately over their shared experiences in the Eye Due east.^[four]

The simply survivor of the al-Qaeda group that held Brody for eight years is captured. Carrie summons him to consult about the interrogation of Afsal Hamid, her torturer during captivity. Brody meets Estes and demands an opportunity to confront Hamid, confront to face. And it is later discovered that Afsal killed himself in his cell using a razor blade. Carrie suspects that Brody slipped the blade onto Hamid during the fight. (Blind Spot (Homeland))

Carrie comes up with a mode to get Brody to accept a polygraph exam. The two eventually commence on a relationship. Carrie and Brody farther complicate their relationship when they head to the countryside for the weekend.^[five]

Brody considers leaving Jessica for Carrie until he figures out that Carrie suspects him of being a terrorist. Afterward it is revealed that Walker is alive and was as well turned, Brody angrily rejects Carrie and goes back to his family unit.^[half-dozen] He tells his Saudi contact, Monsour Al-Zahrani (Ramsey Faragallah), to tell Nazir that he volition not go through with their planned set on – a suicide bombing at a State Department policy summit that he and Walden volition be attending.^[vii] However, Brody reconsiders and records a suicide video, intending for it to be released after his attack. The video is collected in a drop by Nazir's men.^[2]

Brody retrieves a bomb vest from i of Nazir'due south men and prepares to kill himself.^[eight] As Walker opens fire on the height, Brody and his targets are sent to a safe room inside the State Department. Equally Brody prepares to detonate the vest, however, he finds that it does not work. Later on he fixes it in a restroom, Dana calls and asks him to promise he will come home; unbeknownst to Brody, Carrie had shown up at his house and told Dana what he was about to practice. Brody decides not to detonate the flop and later kills Walker to reassure Nazir of his loyalty. He tells Nazir via phone that he plans to run for a seat in Congress, which volition allow him to influence the U.Southward. military as a double agent. He and then tells Carrie, who has been fired from the CIA, to leave him and his family alone.^[nine]

Season 2 [edit]

Six months subsequently the State Department attack, Brody has been elected to the Firm of Representatives, representing Virginia'south 7th congressional district.^[x] Walden approaches Brody and offers to tap him equally his running mate during his planned presidential campaign.^[xi] Meanwhile, Brody meets Roya Hammad (Zuleikha Robinson), a journalist who gives an assignment from Nazir instructing him to retrieve a list of potential set on targets from a safe in Estes' part. Despite his initial reluctance, Brody procures the listing. Roya tells him to help an al-Qaeda bomb maker go to a safe business firm, just Brody ends up killing the homo when he tries to escape. The incident causes him to miss a speaking date that Jessica had arranged for him. When he returns home, she tells him that she has had enough of his lies and that she is no longer sure of their marriage.^[12]

When Dana admits at school that her father is a Muslim, an angered Jessica confronts Brody and throws his Quran to the flooring. Later, Dana helps Brody bury the desecrated Quran. Meanwhile, Berenson finds Brody's suicide tape in Beirut and gives information technology to Estes. Carrie is reinstated, and an operation is gear up up to monitor Brody'south deportment.^[12] They meet in a hotel bar, where she intuits that he is on to her and arrests him.^[13] During the ensuing interrogation, new team leader Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) stabs Brody in the hand. Carrie takes over, and convinces Brody to get a triple agent for the CIA. Brody uses this as an excuse for his strange beliefs to Jessica.^[14]

Dana is involved in a fatal hitting and run committed by Walden's son Finn (Timothée Chalamet), her new boyfriend.^[13] Brody takes Dana to the police force department to report information technology. Carrie stops him, stating it volition affect his cover. Angered, Dana runs away and goes to stay with Faber, who past now has discovered that Brody killed Walker.^[15] Carrie tells Faber to terminate his investigation into Walker's death, which he reluctantly does. Under pressure, Brody meets Hammad and says he wants out of the plot. During a tryst at a hotel, Carrie convinces Brody to return to Nazir so they can prevent his adjacent assault. During a rendezvous with Hammad the next morning, Brody is taken abroad in a helicopter. In a warehouse, he is confronted by Nazir and reaffirms his loyalty equally part of his cover.^[16]

Brody makes expert on his pledge to help stop Nazir's attack.^[17] Later, he receives a telephone call from Nazir, who is holding Carrie hostage; he threatens to kill her unless Brody helps him kill Walden. Brody goes to Walden's function and texts Nazir the serial number of Walden'southward pacemaker so Nazir can remotely tamper with information technology. Brody so demands that Nazir let Carrie go, which he does. Every bit Brody meets with Walden and tells him he cannot take a place on the ticket, Nazir causes Walden's pacemaker to malfunction. Brody refuses to call an ambulance and taunts Walden as he dies.^[18] That night, afterward learning that Nazir has been killed, Brody leaves Jessica and reunites with Carrie.^[19]

Dana finds Brody's explosive belong and asks him if he had been planning to utilize it; he replies that he inverse his mind. He goes to Walden's funeral with Carrie, who tells him that she has decided to leave the CIA and exist with him. Just then, however, a bomb hidden in Brody'southward car detonates and kills 219 of the funeral's attendees, including Walden'south family and many CIA agents and authorities officials. Brody realizes that Nazir had planned the attack in advance of his own death and reassures Carrie that he had naught to practise with it. As she smuggles him into Canada, al-Qaeda airs his suicide tape, and he is branded as the mastermind of the set on. At the border, Brody and Carrie tearfully part ways, with Carrie promising to clear his proper noun.^[twenty]

Flavor three [edit]

In the aftermath of the Langley bombing, Brody becomes ane of the globe's almost wanted fugitives. In Caracas, Venezuela, he is shot twice and about dies before he is establish by a grouping of drug dealers. They take him to a drug house, where Dr. Graham (Erik Dellums), an underground surgeon, saves his life. When Brody recovers, he asks the head of the drug ring, El Niño (Manny Pérez), why he is protecting him; El Niño replies that he knows Carrie. Anxious to keep moving, Brody convinces El Niño'southward daughter, Esme (Martina García), to have him exterior. He approaches an imam and asks to be given sanctuary in a mosque. Instead, the imam reports Brody to the police. El Niño and his men make it and kill the incoming law, besides as the imam and his married woman. El Niño tells Brody that he will spend the rest of his life in the drug house. Despondent, Brody injects heroin into his arm.^[21]

Saul goes to Caracas and finds Brody in a heroin-induced stupor. Brody is taken dorsum to the US and weaned off of the drugs with ibogaine. Berenson and Carrie offer Brody a chance to redeem himself by seeking political aviary in Iran and assassinating the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Baby-sit Corps, General Danesh Akbari (Houshang Touzie), so that CIA asset Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub) can accept his place. Brody refuses, saying he wants to die. Carrie takes Brody to a motel where Dana is working as a maid simply does not permit him see her; she says that he must first atone for what he has washed by taking part in the operation. Brody undergoes sixteen days of rigorous Special Operations grooming, until he is once again in height physical status. On the nighttime he is set to ship off to Tehran, Brody asks Carrie to take him to run into Dana. He tells Dana he is innocent, but she replies that she never wants to see him over again. Equally he gets ready to depart, Brody pledges that he will survive the mission and return for Dana and Carrie.^[22]

A team of Special Ops soldiers drives Brody to the Iranian border, where they are stopped by Iraqi police force; when i of the officers recognizes Brody, the soldiers are forced to open burn. Brody panics and tries to run, but squad leader Azzizi (Donnie Keshawarz) calms him downwardly. Moments later, they hit a country mine, severely injuring Azzizi and alluring enemy fire. From Langley, Saul calls off the mission, but Brody is determined to cross the border. Carrie tries to dissuade him, saying that he will die if he goes in alone; Brody replies that she will accept to recollect of a way to get him out safely. He identifies himself to the Iranian edge guards and asks for asylum as planned, and the guards have him and i of the soldiers, Turani (Jared Ward), into custody. They are met by Javadi, who kills Turani in front of a horrified Brody.^[23]

Afterward three days of interrogation, Brody is taken to encounter Akbari, secretly armed with a cyanide-filled syringe. Akbari does not get close plenty for Brody to inject him, yet, and has his men send Brody to Nazir's widow Nasrin (Naz Deravian) to vet his propaganda value. Over the next few days, Brody gives a series of interviews on Iranian telly denouncing the U.s., leaving Saul no selection merely to order his death. Carrie calls Brody, warns him that he is in danger, and pleads with him to come with her. Brody refuses, withal, instead going to encounter Akbari and telling him about the CIA's plan. In one case he has Akbari's trust, Brody overpowers and suffocates him.^[24]

Brody escapes with Carrie to a safe house, where she tells him she is pregnant with his child. While thinking a CIA extraction team was on the fashion, Javadi's men arrive and take Brody into custody, part of a deal the CIA made with Javadi to help him advance to greater ability within the Iranian regime. Brody is found guilty of being an enemy of the State, and sentenced to decease. Carrie calls him in his cell to reassure him that she volition save him, only he replies that he has accepted his fate and just wants it to be over. The next morning time, Brody is hanged in a public foursquare every bit Carrie tearfully looks on.^[25]

Four months after, Carrie — who has decided to keep Brody'south child — tries unsuccessfully to persuade new CIA Managing director Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts) to give Brody a star on the CIA Memorial Wall. Lockhart refuses. She after draws a star for him with a mark pen.^[25]

Flavour 4 [edit]

In the quaternary-season episode "Redux", Brody appears in Carrie's drug-induced hallucination. She breaks down crying in his artillery, and admits that she had been willing to let him dice.^[26]

Reception [edit]

For his portrayal of Nicholas Brody in the premiere season of Homeland, Damian Lewis received the Primetime Emmy Accolade for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was as well nominated for the Golden Globe Accolade for Best Role player – Television Series Drama and Critics' Pick Boob tube Award for All-time Drama Actor. For the second flavor, Lewis won the Satellite Award for Best Histrion – Idiot box Series Drama and the Golden World Honor for Best Actor – Boob tube Series Drama. Additionally, he was nominated for the Screen Actors Social club Award for Outstanding Operation by a Male person Actor in a Drama Serial and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Role player in a Drama Serial for the second season.

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Pilot". Homeland. Flavor 1. Episode 1. October 2, 2011. First.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Crossfire". Homeland. Flavor 1. Episode 9. Nov 27, 2011. Offset.
3. ^ "Grace". Homeland. Season 1. Episode ii. October 9, 2011. Showtime.
4. ^ "Semper I". Homeland. Flavor 1. Episode iv. Oct 23, 2011. Showtime.
5. ^ "The Good Soldier". Homeland. Season 1. Episode 6. November 6, 2011. Offset.
6. ^ "The Weekend". Homeland. Season i. Episode 7. Nov 13, 2011. Outset.
7. ^ "Achilles Heel". Homeland. Season i. Episode viii. November 20, 2011. Offset.
8. ^ "The Belong". Homeland. Flavour 1. Episode 11. December 11, 2011. Showtime.
9. ^ "Marine One". Homeland. Flavour 1. Episode 12. December 18, 2011. Start.
10. ^ "The Grin". Homeland. Season 2. Episode 1. September 30, 2012. Kickoff.
11. ^ "Beirut Is Back". Homeland. Season 2. Episode 2. Oct 7, 2012. Showtime.
12. ^ ^{a b} "Country of Independence". Homeland. Season 2. Episode 3. Oct 14, 2012. Commencement.
13. ^ ^{a b} "New Motorcar Smell". Homeland. Season two. Episode iv. Oct 21, 2012. Showtime.
14. ^ "Q&A". Homeland. Flavour 2. Episode five. October 28, 2012. Showtime.
15. ^ "The Clearing". Homeland. Season ii. Episode vii. November eleven, 2012. Showtime.
16. ^ "I'll Fly Away". Homeland. Flavor two. Episode viii. November 18, 2012. Showtime.
17. ^ "Two Hats". Homeland. Flavor 2. Episode 9. November 25, 2012. Showtime.
18. ^ "Cleaved Hearts". Homeland. Flavor 2. Episode 10. December 2, 2012. Showtime.
19. ^ "In Memoriam". Homeland. Season 2. Episode 11. Dec 9, 2012. First.
20. ^ "The Selection". Homeland. Flavor 2. Episode 12. December 16, 2012. Showtime.
21. ^ "Tower of David". Homeland. Season iii. Episode three. October 13, 2013. Offset.
22. ^ "I Concluding Thing". Homeland. Flavour three. Episode 9. Nov 24, 2013. Showtime.
23. ^ "Good Night". Homeland. Flavor three. Episode ten. December one, 2013. Beginning.
24. ^ "Big Man in Tehran". Homeland. Season three. Episode eleven. December 8, 2013. Kickoff.
25. ^ ^{a b} "The Star". Homeland. Flavor three. Episode 12. Dec 15, 2013. Start.
26. ^ "Redux". Homeland. Season iv. Episode 7. November 9, 2014. Showtime.

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