when i met with the show runner alex gansa, and howard gordon, it became really clear that they were incredibly skilled and they were experienced, skillful, and decent. they were not going to be jerks. >> it has also that elements of, you don't really know who is good or bad. >> you don't. everybody is flawed. everybody is trying their best. their ideas of what best is are often conflicted. it tries to capture a new kind of anxiety and insecurity that we as a nation are coming to terms with. i don't think there has been a representation of that in television. >> doesn't still surprising in the third season, what carrie does? >> it does. we just finished filming the finale of the third season five days ago. it is very raw. >> tell us. >> i have not seen any of the show in this third season. i filmed it, but i have not seen it played back. it is always different when it has gone through the editing process. >> is different in terms of watching it there. >> it is very different. we are actually filming it and i watched it and it like, oh, all right. it changes, it goes through a filteri

howard gordon spoke to me more than alex did and i just was very concerned that i was going to be asked to play an all-american boy who found allah and then became a terrorist and i thought these are slightly lazy associations and not something i would want to pander to given that there's a good chance there are people out there in the world who actually believe that's what happens. so i want to be careful that we don't pander to that level of ignorance and so what they tried to do-- and i think they honored-- was to try to find a nuance in his faith, in his personal belief. and i believe we achieved that and it means that abu nazir never successfully radicalizes brody. so brody doesn't come back to the united states in the name of allah in order to perpetrate some kind of terrorist act. >> rose: he comes back in order to find justice for what happened to this boy he loved:. >> he says he's a marine, he loves his country, he just cannot sit by and allow drone strike and the collateral damage of drone strikes to go by unremarkable upon and, of course it's because of his unstable damaged

that is the latest now live at the mall in columbia in howard county, chris gordon, news4. >>> we are learning more about the weapon use and where the gunman bought it. pat collins spoke to the clerk who sold the gun, and he is going to have details on that in the next half hour. >>> we are following the health of d.c. councilman marian berry. they say he is back home after spending 16 days at howard university hospital. the spokeswoman did not say what he was being treated for, but she says that he is fully recovered. he has battled prostate cancer and diabetes and he had a kidney transplant back in 2009. >>> in 90 minutes, florida congressman tray radel will stepdown from office. he sent a letter to house speaker john boehner today saying he will resign from congress effective 6:30 tonight. this stems from the cocaine conviction in november, and the freshman republican admitted to buying cocaine from an undercover officer in dupont circle. one month before, he checked into rehab and checked into congress later in the month, and many gop leaders have publicly and privately urged him

gordon. the columbia mall will remain closed tomorrow as investigators comb the crime scene. this is video of investigators inside the mall searching for evidence. tonight, howard county police say they have tentatively identified the shooter, and say they believe that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. investigators are still looking for answers about what led the man to open fire inside. shots rang out shortly after 11:00 this morning. three people, including the gunman, were found dead at the store on the mall's second level. now, the name of the gunman has not been released, but police say that he was armed with a large amount of ammunition. news4's erica gonzalez is live at the columbia mall tonight with new information about more weapons found on the shooter. erica? >> reporter: just a few minutes ago, police revealed they located a bag next to the shooter. inside the bag, two crude devices which have been disabled. some sort of an attempt at making explosives with fireworks. >> boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: 11:15 this morning. >> they just kept shooting and it didn't stop. >> reporter: witnesses say an unidentified gunman fired up to ten shots.