"Homeland" fans who are anxiously waiting the Showtime hit series' fifth season already know that the new installment will take place two and a half years after the previous season and that its storyline is set in Berlin.

CIA case officer Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, will be with the U.S. government no more; instead, the protagonist will work for a private security firm in the German capital.

And according to E! Online, "Homeland" producers are currently also looking for a new little redhead to play Frannie, the daughter of Mathison and longtime prisoner of war Nicholas Brody, interpreted by Damian Lewis.

Frannie would be about 3 years old in the new season, the site estimated, which will make her "a child who is far less easy to ignore." And her daughter is not the only thing the former counterterrorism ace will have on her personal-relationship plate during this new chapter in her life: Writers are promising a new love interest for Mathison -- "a lawyer who is her intellectual equal."

"Oh, and Saul better watch out because Carrie will also be getting a new father figure," E! Online quipped mysteriously.

"Homeland" will be the first U.S. television series for which an entire season is filmed in Germany, the local Süddeutsche Zeitung noted, recalling that the show's fourth installment was set in South Africa. The storyline, meanwhile, will once again focus on the Middle East and could also take in recent events in Ukraine, showrunner Alex Gansa told the Guardian.

In many ways, fans can expect a "reboot" of ths series, given the new location and the end of the relationship between Mathison and Brody, the German movie blog Filmfutter anticipated.

Carrie "has to tackle feelings of guilt and disappointments ... and her relationship with Saul had seen better times, as well," the website explained. "But as was the case with Jack Bauer, her expertise will most certainly be needed by the CIA, and she will be drawn back into a world she had tried to abandon," Filmfutter speculated.