Claire Danes talked to the Guardian in 2020 about pivoting away from Brody’s loss of life from a artistic standpoint, detailing her and the remainder of the “Homeland” group’s experiences attending an annual “spy camp” occasion in Georgetown, Washington DC. The camp was a gathering place for folks from totally different elements of the intelligence world, together with the CIA and NSA. Invaluable information was shared between colleagues and their counterparts, all of which the “Homeland” crew would profit from when creating the storylines for the present. To Danes, it was a method to get to know totally different elements of the spy group, which might later be included into the sequence:

“We would meet at 9 and the revolving door was in fixed movement, depositing one story after which one other, and so they had been usually instructed by individuals who had very totally different ideologies and political positions. It was an enormous privilege since you actually did get to look right into a crystal ball from all these wonderful sources and get a reasonably clear image of what our actuality may be like in a yr’s time.”

The curiosity was a two-way road, too. The previous director of the CIA and NSA, Michael Hayden, mentioned having a protracted enter on “Homeland,” and revealed that the present’s crew received fairly accustomed to all of it:

“Quite a lot of occasions it was, ‘OK, what’s taking place now?’ We talked about that after which they talked about whichever plot they had been fascinated by. […] It is attention-grabbing, as a result of the extra we did it, the extra that they had our type of questions.“

With renewed curiosity and information within the spy world, the Showtime sequence would discover its second wind after killing off Brody, who had already overstayed his welcome by the tip of the third season.