Homeland Season 5 Spoilers: Time Jump and Carrie's Love Life with Quinn

Showtime's Homeland is in between Seasons 4 and 5 right now, which just means we have plenty of time for spoilers.

The following comes from the "Ask Ausiello" column at TVLine:

Question: Too early to ask about Homeland Season 5? -Gerry
Ausiello: It's early-ish, but I've got a few nuggets for you. Season 5, which picks up nearly three years after the events of the Season 4 finale, will find Carrie and Saul somewhat estranged. 'As we open the season, Saul is back in the CIA and Carrie is out of it,' exec producer Alex Gansa shares. 'So that's going to create, by definition, a distance between them.' Carrie will also be apart from another former colleague - Quinn. Speaking of the almost-lovers, Gansa admits the writers room remains divided on 'how much of the connection between Carrie and Quinn... is actually romantic [versus] operational,' adding, 'How much is just that they recognize each other so well? How much is the desire for both of them to move on past this job that they do. Those are the questions that we're wrestling with. We wrestled with them last season. We're wrestling with them again.'"

Speaking of that time jump:

"It's going to be at least two years later and so many things will have changed for Carrie," showrunner Alex Carey tells E! News. "She's a mother, and most notably, she's not in the CIA anymore. She has a new purpose and passion and I can probably tease that that's not going to last long. She's going to have a relationship with German intelligence, and that's going to be one of the more interesting relationships this season because they are an ally, but it's a pretty rocky relationship regardless."

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