Fall TV Preview: Homeland Season 2 Puts Brody -- and Carrie's Newfound Sanity -- to the Test
When last we tuned into the electric first season of Showtime's Homeland, Marine Sgt. and recovered POW Nicholas Brody (played by Damian Lewis) set out on a mission to avenge the drone strike that killed most wanted terrorist Abu Nazir's young son Issa, with whom Brody grew close during captivity. Brody, however, at first failed, and then opted not to, pull the trigger on the suicide vest that would have killed Vice President Walden and his cabinet.
