‘Homeland’ Season 6: New Trailer Features Peter Quinn [Video]

Homeland Season 6 is probably the most-anticipated season of the Showtime series, and one of the reasons for that is Peter Quinn’s (Rupert Friend) new storyline. The new Homeland Season 6 official trailer teases the mercurial character’s return, though one does not see him in the physical form.

The 2.45-minute long trailer ends with Quinn’s voiceover, putting to rest any residual doubts about him being alive. The Homeland Season 5 finale saw Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) removing comatose Quinn’s — who had suffered severe brain damage — pulse monitor. The closing moments of the episode suggested that she has either pulled the plug on him or smothered him.

Yours. Always. #PrayForQuinn #Homeland #HomelandFinale #HomelandSeasonFinale pic.twitter.com/pcfMt0LdhG

— Homeland on Showtime (@SHO_Homeland) December 21, 2015

The new trailer seems to have included a minuscule clip from a scene where Quinn perhaps speaks for the first time to Carrie after waking up from the coma.

“What happened to me?”

The previous season finale made it look like Quinn’s role might have come to an end. But, rather than keeping the fans on tenterhooks and making them wait till the Season 6 premiere episode to find out their favorite character’s fate, Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa lifted the veil on Quinn’s fate only a few months after the Season 5 finale.

In May, he confirmed to Entertainment Weekly (EW) that Quinn would be returning, adding that he would be a different man. Without revealing much about his condition, he said that the character’s new version is going to surprise people.

“How Peter Quinn’s character is gonna be dramatized this year is going to surprise people, and it may not be what you think.”

Moreover, Friend told EW that his mysterious character would show a more intimate and personal side in Homeland Season 6. And during Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour in August, Gansa revealed more details about Quinn’s return, according to TV Line.

“Quinn is alive — I can say that much. But we want to be really careful about revealing what his condition is. He suffered a major stroke last season… so he is a very changed and altered Quinn this year.”

Quinn had a “fairly rough ride” in Season 5, Gansa said, adding that he would not go through a similar experience in the new season.

“Quinn this coming season will really represent a very profound and familiar casualty of the war on terror for our audience. What he endured last year is different from what he’s going through this year.”

Details about the new altered Quinn as well as his physical and mental conditions are still under wraps. According to Danes, he is receiving therapy in New York, where Carrie is now based after spending the last season in Berlin, Germany. At Paleyfest: Made in NY in October, the actress said that her character has moved to New York to take care of Quinn.

Keep calm… #CarrieIsBack on American soil. ?? pic.twitter.com/lVqwSg8yXi

— Homeland on Showtime (@SHO_Homeland) November 17, 2016

The upcoming season marks the return of Homeland to the U.S. after two seasons — Season 4 was set in Pakistan (shot in South Africa) while Season 5 was Berlin-based.

The Homeland Season 6 trailer, which almost gives away the entire plotline of the new season, opens with a shot of New York skyscrapers, immediately followed by a brief scene of Carrie. There are glimpses of Elizabeth Marvel’s President-elect Elizabeth Keane as well. And the opening voiceover talks about the 72 days between the election day and the inauguration day on January 20, which very much sets the base for the new season’s storyline that was written to coincide with the real-life swearing-in ceremony.

“72 days between the election and January 20th. The most difficult transition of power in history.”

The entire sixth season follows the events and conflicts that erupt during the 72-day transition period — between Election Day in November and the presidential inauguration in January, according to the official synopsis.

“It’s a strange, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests, where a very fragile and complex transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect.”

The trailer hints at troubled relations between the CIA and the President-elect, and also mirroring reality, there is the arrest of a young Muslim guy on charges of terrorism. Carrie can be seen coming to his rescue and questioning the logic behind demonizing a whole community. In the new season, she is working at a foundation whose efforts are to provide aid to Muslims living in the U.S.

Watch the new official new trailer of Homeland Season 6 here.

Homeland Season 6 premieres on January 15 and it picks up several months after the events that took place in the last season’s finale.

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