'Homeland' Season 4 First Trailer - Life Must Go On For Carrie Mathison Without Nicholas Brody
FIRST TRAILER: Life Must Go On For Carrie In 'Homeland' Season 4
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'Homeland's dramatic finale to Season 3 left viewers wondering how the multi award-winning series could possibly continue, following the tragic exit of its traumatised protagonist, Nicholas Brody.
The show's producers are intent on proving wrong any naysayers with their dramatic first trailer for Season 4.
We see Carrie (Claire Danes) try to carry on - with some mournful looks at a photo of what appears to be her baby with the executed Brody (Damian Lewis) - this time in Pakistan.
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Carrie must carry on, despite all that has gone before
As before, she has Rupert Friend for company, with stalwart Saul (Mandy Patinkin) keeping a beady eye. And, in Pakistan, she is greeted suspiciously by another agent - played by new cast addition, Raza Jaffrey ('Spooks' and 'Smash').
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Raza Jaffrey joins the cast of 'Homeland' for Season 4
Scriptwriters will also have to accommodate the loss of actor James Rebhorn, who played Carrie's father. The screen veteran died in March of skin cancer.
Judging by the feel of this first look, there could be life in the completely re-shaped dog yet. And if Taggart could do it...
Will you be tuning in for Season 4 of Homeland? Share your thoughts below...
Homeland Security Theater: 8 Feel-Good Measures That Experts Say Do Nothing To Make You Safer
Air Marshals(01 of08)
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Air marshals fly incognito to "detect, deter, and defeat hostile acts targeting U.S. air carriers, airports, passengers, and crew." But David Schanzer, co-director of Duke University's Institute for Homeland Security Solutions, knows of no studies that show they actually thwart attacks on planes. "Is there any proof that the marshals would do a better job stopping an attack than the concerted and spontaneous efforts of the crew and passengers?" he asks. (credit:AP)
Bioterrorism Early Warning System(02 of08)
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When the government started the BioWatch program in 2002 to detect trace amounts of potentially deadly biological organisms spread by aerosol, the idea was to gain enough time to react with antibiotics or a vaccine. But D.A. Henderson, a world-renowned scientist who led the effort to eradicate smallpox, calls the system unworkable. The system, he said, is ill-equipped to deal with the two main threats, smallpox and anthrax. It doesn't detect smallpox, and it takes too long to detect anthrax bacillus. "The bottom line is that control measures could not begin significantly earlier with the aerosol detection apparatus than would become apparent from having sick patients," Henderson said. "However, work goes on to produce more elaborate devices. Even if developed, there is the question of how many detectors would be needed to even modestly cover the country." (credit:AP)
Full Body Scanners(03 of08)
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The full body scanners that are popping up in more airports are not popular, although most travelers have accepted they may be here to stay. But Rafi Ron, former head of security at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport and a Transportation Security Administration consultant, said future bombers will elude the detectors just as the would-be assassin of a Saudi prince did when he hid explosives inside his body. "Right now body scanners obviously do not provide any solution to that," Ron said. (credit:AP)
Ocean Cargo Screening (04 of08)
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Government officials have said they will miss a July deadline to inspect 100 percent of all inbound ocean cargo. But as Randall Larsen, head of the WMD Center, notes, maritime security officials are already missing the boat. Larsen recalled how the chief of security at the Port of New York/New Jersey once told him that even if all containers were scanned, there would still be hundreds of thousands of automobiles entering the port without being inspected."The highly enriched uranium required to build a Hiroshima-sized weapon will fit in a one-gallon milk jug," Larsen said, "and the trunk of any one of those 600,000 cars."Photo credit: Business Insider (credit:Business Insider)
Turban Checks(05 of08)
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Sikh men, whose religion requires them to wear turbans at all times, have complained about extra screening at airport checkpoints. "While forcing turbaned Sikhs to go through an extra patdown may make people feel safer, it doesn't actually make anyone safer," Amardeep Singh of the New York-based Sikh Coalition has said. "This is security theater at its worst." (credit:AP)
Radiation Detectors(06 of08)
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The vast majority of nuclear material that could fall into terrorists' hands is outside the United States, said Randall Larsen of the WMD Center. As he wrote in his book, "Our Own Worst Enemy," he was mystified to see gamma radiation detectors outside the Capitol Building in Washington and asked a congressional committee why his tax dollars were being wasted on such equipment."Don't you understand that when a nuclear weapon gets that close, it's already too late?" he said, adding that similar detectors in the ports of New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles or San Francisco would be equally ineffective. "The ability to detect nuclear material inside our borders should be our last line of defense, not our first," he wrote. "Detection certainly falls under the category of 'the last two minutes and ten meters,' and in the case of a nuclear weapon, that's two minutes and ten meters too late." (credit:DomesticPreparedness.com)
Limited Carry-On Liquids(07 of08)
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After British security discovered a plot to blow up planes with liquid explosives hidden in carry-on bags, the TSA banned all but travel-sized containers of liquids, gels and aerosols from carry-on luggage. "It's not the target and tactics of the last attack that are important, but the next attack," security expert Bruce Schneier wrote on his blog. "If we concentrate airport security on screening shoes and confiscating liquids, and the terrorists hide explosives in their brassieres and use solids, we've wasted our money."Or, for that matter, in their underwear. (credit:Transportation Security Administration)
Dog Patrols(08 of08)
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A former big-city emergency manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he doesn't want dog lovers hounding him, said the now-ubiquitous canines sniffing for bombs around airport terminals and subways stations are a "good show" and a valuable asset. "But their attention span is like that of humans -- not forever," he added. (credit:AP)