Damn good episode until they ruined it at the end. Carrie needing retribution for the murder of her 12-year-old lover, to the point where she would obliterate Saul? Okay...
Agree. There are 20 other ways they could have written in Carrie wants revenge for the boy being killed. But to light up Saul, the Ex Director of the CIA is just poor writing.
It wasn't the boy - she was obsessed with killing the terrorist. Saul would have been collateral damage.
I thought about that also that it was all about the terrorists, but then I thought back to just seconds earlier the boy called her and they had their "I love you" conversation. Now you can argue that she was totally lying, but I felt her reaction after the boy wsa shot was revenge. If it wasn't, she would have told the trigger man to light him up right away when he stepped out of the car. But she waited until the boy was shot to give the order.
I could be totally off base, but that is how I understood the scene.