'Homeland' Season 5 release date, plot news: New season to air Fall 2015

Award-winning drama series "Homeland" is slated to return this fall for its fifth season. The premiere date, according to Showtime, is still to be announced.

Season 5 will pick up two years after Carrie Mathison's disastrous stint as chief of Islamabad station. Following the execution of her colleague and ex-lover Sergeant Brody, Carrie struggles coming to terms with her guilt and disillusionment and finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin. There she joined a private security film and quit working for the CIA.

German actor Sebastian Koch is slated to join the cast and will be Carrie's boss. Miranda Otto is Allison Carr, the chief of station of CIA's Berlin, while Sarah Sokolovic will play the part of an American journalist. Alexander Fehling is Carrie's new boyfriend from the German intelligence.

In an interview with Indiewire, Director Lesli Linka Glatter let slip the new themes that will be addressed in Season 5.

"The big picture? Putin. You know, cyberterrorism. ISIS, of course," she said.

The admission came months after Showtime President David Nevins announced last January that their creative team will be "steering away" from the Islamic terrorist plot line.

"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," said Nevins as reported by Entertainment Weekly.

As for the intriguing kiss that Carrie and Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) shared at the end of Season 4, fans are clamouring to know whether there is a potential romance between the two. Glatter hinted to Indiewire that there might be.

"They're both very complicated people, and they understand each other because they've done such similar things. So I could definitely see that happening. I don't know if I think it would be the healthiest relationship for either of them," the director said.