'Homeland' Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: The Best And Most Shocking 'Homeland' Episode In Years! Here's Why ...

In this week's Homeland episode recap, "There's Something Else Going On," the Tabilan prisoners are getting ready to be exchanged for Saul. Quinn signs off on them, while Carrie is with CIA Director Lockhart, telling him the prisoner swap is not Haqqani's real plan — it's just a bonus for him. Professor Boyd, the ambassador's husband, comes in John's office where John grills him about who passed off secrets to Sandy before he was killed. Boyd keeps saying it wasn't him and then leaves. John goes into Carrie's office, where they lament that they almost had him, but they'll wait a little longer to press him again.

Saul is taken and cleaned up before he is transported for the prisoner exchange.

The Taliban prisoners arrive at the U.S. embassy, where Carrie tells Quinn that getting Saul back's the right thing to do.

Boyd's brought to a private room with Carrie, where she tries to get him to confess, even bringing proof. He still denies any of it. so she leaves him locked in there until he decides to talk.

Saul is brought to a room where Haqqani greets him again in front of a camera. Haqqani talks about the indignities the Americans have done to them with Saul next to him. All of the Taliban soldiers leave including Haqqani, but one boy stays there staring at Saul.

Carrie is watching Boyd on cameras in the room when she gets a call from Mira, Saul's wife. Mira talks to Carrie to make sure Saul comes back home alive, especially under Carrie's watch.

Saul sees the little boy's having a nightmare in his sleep, so he tries calming him.

Carrie comes back to interrogate Boyd by showing him the video of Sandy getting killed. Carrie still presses him about giving up whom in the ISI/Pakistani Intelligence he's working for and what else they want him to do. The ambassador rushes in to stop the interrogation and take her husband with her.

Back at their house, Boyd tells his wife why Carrie brought him there. She keeps asking him if there was anyone he was in touch with or came in contact with who could've led them to think he was passing secrets, but he still kept denying. The ambassador leaves and goes downstairs, where Carrie and Lockhart are waiting for her in a conference room. She tells them he's still denying everything, but she'll keep trying. Carrie leaves to go to the prisoner exchange and Quinn tells her he wants to go, too.

She tells him she needs him to stay back and check if Haqqani has other plans up his sleeve because she thinks the prisoner swap is not his main goal.

Saul's woken up by the little boy, who gives him tea to drink.

Boyd leaves the house, but is stopped by one of the guards. He tells the guard he is going to grade papers at his office. His wife comes swooping in, telling him she doesn't believe him and starts checking his bag. She finds clothes, money and a passport, so she has him locked up until he starts talking.

Carrie and John arrive at a hangar where they go over the details of the exchange with the ISI. Carrie seems suspicious of the whole planning and calls her ISI contact Aasar Khan who is standing right near them. She asks him if there will be a double-cross, but he doesn't know because he wasn't filled in on the planning.

Saul is taken into a van, where he sees the little boy putting on a suicide vest. Saul asks one of the soldiers why doesn't he put it on instead, but he says that while Saul was CIA director, a drone killed the boy's father and brother, so he is happy to wear it.

At the prisoner exchange site, everyone is waiting until the van arrives. It finally comes and they bring out Saul and the boy. They say the boy is there to make sure everything goes smoothly with the swap. In one of the most amazing and intense scenes in Homeland history, Saul sits down on the ground, refusing to go.

The whole prisoner exchange scene's so riveting that my writing can't put into words how captivating it was. Carrie goes to Saul to plead with him to come with her. In Emmy-worthy scenes for Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, Saul finally agrees and the prisoner swap's done.

The ambassador goes to visit her husband in the cell to tell him the good news about Saul. He's still keeping to his story that the CIA has nothing on him.

Saul's in the car with Carrie when Saul's wife Mira calls. He takes the phone to talk to her, but then their convoys get hit and blow up. Lockhart sees this in the control room and orders the Marines to go to the site. The ambassador is told about this when she's with her husband.

Once Boyd hears what has happened, he spills the beans and says his contact was the ISI woman Tasneem, who wanted to know how Carrie got in and out of the embassy. He says he told her it was through the underground tunnel. We next see Haqqani and his men go through the tunnel with guns.

This episode was amazing! Homeland's definitely back to being one of the best shows on TV. A definite Emmy-worthy episode from the writing to the directing to the performances.