When "Homeland's" fourth season ended, Claire Danes' Carrie Matheson was not in a good place. Her love affair, if you can call it that, with Peter Quinn fizzled before it even got going while her mentor and friend Saul Berenson made a deal that she cannot stomach. The only good thing that can be said of last season's final episode was that Carrie was at least able to experience a breakthrough with her mother.

Now that the show is set to return in a few months, the Internet has been rife with speculations on what will happen on "Homeland" next. But one thing is certain, Carrie is so far away from the Middle East.

Showtime's official description for "Homeland's" fifth season revealed that there will be a two-year time jump.

"Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the 'war on terror,' Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm," the network shared.

Since Quinn is out of the picture (and presumably somewhere in Syria conducting dangerous missions), a new man is said to be in Carrie's life. "Inglorious Basterds'" Alexander Fehling has been tapped to play Jonas Happich, a lawyer for the During foundation and Carrie's maybe-boyfriend.

The ex-station chief of Islamabad is also in a new line of work. While it is still not clear what her job is, reports say that she will be working under philanthropist Otto During. There have been hints that During, played by Sebsatian Koch, will be season 5's newest nemesis.   

Aside from Danes, show regulars Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend and F. Murray Abraham will also be coming back. They will be joined by Fehling, Koch, Sarah Sokolovich and Miranda Otto. Sokolovich has been cast to play an American journalist also working for During while Otto is with Allison Carr, the CIA station chief of Berlin.

The new season will run for 12 episodes when it returns in autumn 2015.