Homeland Finale Recap: "not Every Choice We Make Is Blessed With Moral Clarity"

The best TV shows of 2014 [...] the answer to the big mystery on everyone's mind -- what the hell Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) was doing in the car with Haqqani at the end of last week's episode - was left murky at best. On what appears to be the next day, Carrie delivers the eulogy at her father's funeral, but gets more emotional upon seeing Quinn show up after the Mass than she ever does during the speech itself. After they share some laughs and a lasagna with Saul (Mandy Patinkin) and Lockhart (Tracy Letts) at the house, Carrie confesses to Quinn that she feels terrible about having a good time at her father's funeral. After seeing an old photograph of her parents while poking around the house at 3 a.m., Carrie experiences a change of heart and decides to road trip to find her mother rather than pondering Quinn's proposal, leaving Frannie with her sister. (Did anyone else, at this point, wonder if Carrie's mom was a cougar, or was that just me?) Turns out Carrie has a 15-year-old half-brother named Tim, which she learns after tracking her mom down at the school where she works. [...] a former associate guilt-trips Quinn into joining a covert assignment and Saul, desperate to get his job back - or any agency job, really - meets with Dar Adal in a diner. While pondering her new family dynamic, Carrie gets a call from Quinn, who's checking in for an update on his "let's live happily-ever-after" proposition. When Carrie and her mother finally have their heart-to-heart, her mother confesses that she was to blame for her marriage to Carrie's father falling apart - she cheated on him multiple times, with multiple men. Carrie, however, always assumed that it was her father's bipolar disorder that broke up their marriage, and thus believed that she, too, would never be able to be with someone long-term. View original Homeland Finale Recap: "Not Every Choice We Make Is Blessed with Moral Clarity" at TVGuide.com