'Homeland': All the Times Quinn Has Escaped Certain Death

Warning: This article about the “New Normal” episode of Homeland contains spoilers.

That saying about a cat having nine lives? Well, it seems that Peter Quinn might be part cat.

The agent was poisoned with sarin gas last week, and despite getting a secret inoculation from a sympathetic terrorist, Quinn looked like a goner. He was foaming at the mouth as tears poured out of his eyes. He collapsed in convulsions and appeared dead.

But as we saw this week on Homeland, he survived! Carrie found him barely alive, still in that gas chamber the terrorist cell built, and took him to the hospital.

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This is not the first time Quinn has miraculously survived what should’ve been a death sentence. Let’s look back:

In Season 2, Episode 6 (“A Gettysburg Address”), Quinn was shot in the stomach at a tailor shop that the CIA was investigating. Other agents were shot and killed, but Quinn was taken to the hospital and managed to recover by the next episode.

Earlier this season, in Episode 4 (“Why Is This Night Different?”), Quinn was shot again in the stomach, this time by a Russian assassin. Carrie dragged him to a safe house, where she dug out the bullet. But Quinn was in very bad shape and ran off to die alone. Fortunately (or unfortunately, as we later realize), he’s saved by a doctor who happens to live with some Syrian jihadists.

That benevolent action would turn out very badly, as Quinn embedded himself in the cell, only to have them use the sarin gas on him as a test. He was lucky that one of the jihadists, Qasim, was actually a decent guy and gave him a dose of antidote.

So Quinn escaped death a third time. Guess he’s got just the six lives left now.

Homeland airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Showtime.