Never thought I'd be rooting for the CIA, but ...

Catching up after a long gap with the great Showtime series Homeland, and finding Season 5, in which Carrie has (apparently - no one quite believes her) left the CIA to work for an international foundation based in Berlin, but never the less gets entrapped in a complex web of assassinations and attempted abductions - can't she just stay out of danger, for once? The plot is hard to unravel, but is something like this: Some hackers stumble upon a cache of CIA communications and leak them to a reporter (who works for the human-rights foundation where Carrie also works); reporter publishes, setting off a series of CIA head-rolls and sending her old boss, Saul, to Berlin to try to straighten things out. For reasons not at all clear to us, yet, Saul is using the super-agent Quinn to conduct some off-the-books (it seems) assassinations aimed at collaborators w/ the Hezbollah. Somehow, Carrie is on Quinn's hit list - we don't know why. Carrie figures out she's in danger, though, and in trying to determine who's after her she goes off her meds; as we've seen in other seasons, doing so gives her great energy and insight but makes her so unstable that those around her refuse to believe her - in this season, it's her German boyfriend, in a rather hapless role, who can't get the message straight. As always, Claire Danes and Many Patinkin are terrific in their roles (some others, not so much) and the series keeps your attention and keeps you guessing start to finish. Never thought I'd be "rooting" for the CIA , but the combo this week of Homeland and DJT idiocies at CIA hq in in Va have brought me around to the dark side, too.