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Homeland Season 4 Release Date, Spoilers: New Trailer Out, Claire Danes Offers Plot Hints for Carrie

The fourth season of the highly-acclaimed political espionage thriller "Homeland" will be returning to Showtime on Oct. 5, 2014 and will feature 12 all new episodes. The majority of the scenes are set in Islamabad and Kabul, according to reports.

Season 4 will also see the return of the main and recurring cast including Claire Daines (as Carrie Mathison), Rupert Friend (as Peter Quinn), Mandy Patinkin (as Saul Berenson), Tracy Letts (as Andrew Lockhart), David Marciano (as Virgil), Corey Stoll (as Sandy Backman) and more others.

With the newest footage released by Homeland's YouTube Channel, fans and viewers who are eagerly waiting were able to caught a glimpse of what the show will be when it resume. In the trailer, it reveals that Carrie, the newly appointed Station Chief in Afghanistan, is back for another mission after a missile strike misses its target and kills a group of civilians instead.

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Questions now arise on who was the person behind the intel that tipped the U.S. forces to believe that the terrorist leader was there, and most importantly, was the strike even authorized?

Other videos from the channel include the 35-year-old star talking about what's "in-store for Carrie Mathison" in the forthcoming season. She revealed that her character must come to terms with the loss of Damian Lewis' Nicholas Brody in Season 3.

"That's her arc," she said. Carrie was pregnant with his child at the time.

After the tragic incident, Carrie will find herself "alarmingly-high functioning" in her job in overseeing drone attacks where she's "all work, all the time." Maybe this is her way of coping with the loss.

"Carrie's gonna get into a very messy and dangerous territory," Danes said. This could pertain to the investigation of the hit-list or the drone target accident.

"It gets ugly," the "Stardust" actor added. Watch the trailer below.

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