Carrie Mathison from "Homeland" might have given up her past with the CIA, but that does not mean that the CIA is through with her just yet.
Showtime just released a suspenseful and action-packed new trailer for the fifth season of the spy thriller, and in it, Carrie (played by Claire Danes) is now working as the head of security in the private sector in Germany.
The initially reluctant mother is seen spending a lot of quality time with her daughter and seemed to have given up her life of drama and pain, but when a data breach threatens the CIA, Carrie finds herself drawn back in to her old life.
The espionage situation spirals out of control and familiar faces begin reappearing - Saul Berenson, Peter Quinn, and Dar Adal. "Please tell me I'm wrong, but it looks like they got all the documentation on our surveillance program with the Germans," says a worried Saul. The woman sitting opposite him answers, "You're not wrong."
A mysterious woman approaches Carrie to check and see verify some of the information she has obtained, but Carrie answers, "I can't even look at it," mentioning the agreement she made with the agency. Their conversation was photographed and handed to Saul, who was informed that Carrie's conversation with the woman happened the same day as the breach.
"You think Carrie's involved?" Saul asks, while Dar Adal slams a table.
"Maybe I knew some day the past would catch up with me," Carrie says in the trailer.
Showtime president David Nevins said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the show's writer-producer Alex Gansa might find a new antagonist for Carrie, adding that the villain will be chosen for creative reasons.
"We're not necessarily going to stay now and forever focusing on U.S. relations in the Muslim world. It's a show ultimately about U.S. foreign policy, U.S. intelligence in the 21st century at a very difficult time. So we're exploring a few different possibilities and may change it up a little bit," he said.
Nevins said they might take the show all over the globe - be it Africa, Europe, and back again in the Middle East, or maybe even the U.S.
"The real franchise of the show is how difficult it is to be America in the world in the 21st century, how difficult the choices are. I think that's a story that will remain relevant for as long as they can come up with new stories," he said.
