'Homeland' season 6 spoilers: Will series regular Rupert Friend's character Peter Quinn return to the show alive?

After trotting the globe during the past few seasons, political thriller "Homeland" will be back in the U.S. territory as its season 6 will be set in New York to keep pace with the Presidential elections. While some erstwhile characters actually already met the end of their fictional lives, it will be a different fate for Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), with "Homeland" executive producer and creator Alex Gansa and Friend himself practically confirming that the character will be returning to the show's sixth season alive.

In an interview with the Entertainment Weekly, Friend said, "I hope he enjoys eating through a tube." He added that after several near death encounters of the character he portrays, Quinn will display changes and fans will get to know his more intimate and personal side despite his personality being very enigmatic in nature.

Gansa even remarked, "How Peter Quinn's character is gonna be dramatized this year is going to surprise people [sic], and it may not be what you think."

With regard to Quinn's relationship with Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), it is still wired in uncertainty given his physical state, although there is clearly an attraction between the two characters. Mathison read a letter from Quinn while he was in his death bed ironically fighting to be alive. Quinn expressed his sentiments toward Mathison in the letter and talked about how much she matters to him.

Apart from being two individuals who are damaged by the nature of their characters and their work, that "they recognize each other" is another, if not the foremost, reason why Quinn and Mathison are attracted to each other. Gansa explained to EW that essentially a human is hoping to find that one person in the world who "recognizes" him and Quinn and Mathison were able to find that person in each other. Whether or not this makes them a compatible romantic match is an entirely separate question which might be answered in the upcoming season.

As for Mathison, she herself will have to face some unresolved questions and issues. She will be expected to decide whether or not she will take on Saul Berenson's (Mandy Patinkin) CIA job offer. She will also have to respond to the proposal of her current chief, Otto Düring (Sebastian Koch). Mathison will likewise have to deal with Quinn's return and in such fragile physical state.

Gansa had this to say about Danes' character and "Homeland" as a whole: "Carrie is going to have a very different and singular journey this season than when she did when she was the station chief in Islamabad and when she was in Berlin, outside of the agency. The series is going to have a different feel this year, and it does every year, which is one of its strengths."

"Homeland" is set to return to the small screens bearing new twists and surprises later this year.