8. Threnody(s)

Complete story — includes the ending

Jalal threatens to execute Max if Haqqani dies. President Hayes requests and obtains a 24-hour stay of Haqqani's execution from G'ulom so that an attempt can be made to rescue Max first, but John Zabel, his hawkish new foreign policy advisor, convinces Hayes to reverse course. Haqqani is executed and Carrie sees Jalal shoot Max. Jalal attends a Taliban leadership council meeting in Miranshah, Pakistan and sways the other participants to support him by making a speech in which he falsely claims to have shot down both American helicopters. Zabel obtains a video of Jalal's speech and uses it to persuade Hayes to threaten Pakistan: if it does not arrest Jalal and turn him over, U.S. forces will come to get him. Saul arrives with a special ops team to retrieve Max's body; Carrie informs him that Max gave her the flight recorder's location, and he says he will work with her to find it. After the special ops team tries to arrest her despite Saul's intervention, Carrie leaves with Yevgeny.