Brody gave Saul a nod, then grabbed a map and laid it over the biggest table. Before speaking, he marked off the bombing locations and the meeting point Walker had picked. It was outside the radius formed by the explosions, which meant it had not been searched in the aftermath.

When Brody started speaking, he was looking at Saul, but addressing Carrie. The phone conversation had been short, but it had been heavy with information. He dispassionately described the argument he'd had, which had involved collateral damage and pointless showmanship. That Walker was willing to claim any sort of ownership, much less enough that he was upset with Brody for not appreciating it spoke to the other man's confidence in his mission and that he could bring Brody over to it.

Clearly, even now, Walker thought of Brody as an ally, which meant that Brody was being watched better than he would have liked. Walker knew he was getting back up to fighting weight and he believed that it was so that he could join his former partner in jihad. Brody knew that saying any of that put him right back in the suspected terrorist crosshairs, but there just wasn't time to fuck around.

"So, all that being said, he wants to have a chat, to see if I'm with him. And if I'm not, he's not going to let me walk out of there alive." Brody knew those were the rules of engagement. That was the business they were all in.