The Little Drummer Girl
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And while Charlie is a talented actress, this isnt quite as simple as faking it.
Mens hands chopped off, women raped, children blinded.
Charlie has spent at least as much time with Becker-as-Salim as she has with the actual Becker.
When youre living in so many realities simultaneously, how can you ever find firm footing?
And as Kurtz warns her, the stakes literally couldnt be higher.
Charlie learns that firsthand when Khalils representatives finally make contact.
At gunpoint, Charlie is interrogated by Helga and Anton, who reveal that Salim has been killed.
And this is where Kurtzs unconventional methods begin to bear fruit.
All the preparation paid off; Charlie is in.
But Khalil isnt naive enough to give up all his secrets at once.
Fatmeh wants proof that Charlie was intimately involved with her brother.
So what have we learned as the episode ends?
For starters, Fatmeh seems to be running the show in Lebanon.
Maybe Khalil doesnt even exist.
It would certainly fit the M.O.
Given Charlies ever-more-fractured mental state, it probably wouldnt take much to shift her sympathies to the other side.
And maybe that was the plan all along.
Either way, Charlie will eventually return from Lebanon with a head full of new information Kurtz can use.
And if, at that point, she refused to talk?
Well, weve also seen the methods Kurtz would be willing to employ to change that.
Your mileage may vary.
The poem Charlie reads is Now, As You Awaken, by the Palestinian resistance poet Mahmoud Darwish.
you could read it (and many of his other poems)here.
Charlie revises a casually hedonistic statement she made early in the season.
As it turns out, pleasure isnt the antidote to death; love is.
He said to fight, we must love.
Becker tells Charlie to wear her bracelet on her right wrist so hell know shes okay.
So its probably not agreatsign that she spends the rest of the episode wearing it on her left wrist.
