Homeland's showrunner Alex Gansa has confirmed that the Showtime spy drama will end with its eighth season.
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Last year, he revealed that he and his team were plotting to write season eight as the final chapter, and now he's told Deadline that he's "absolutely building the story to a conclusion".
"Barring unforeseen world events, we do really hope to go abroad for the last two seasons and to end the story there," he explained.
"We also hope to get Carrie back into the intelligence agency business. She's been out of it now for two seasons and I think it's time that she goes back into the fold and then winds up doing her job overseas somewhere."
And while they haven't fully planned out the whole finale, Gansa already has an idea and has been planting seeds in past seasons as to where it all ends up.
"You will see, even in season 6, some characters that have appeared in previous seasons reappear this season. That's one of the benefits of having so many seasons behind you," he noted.
"You have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that have a history with your current regulars, so you don't have to start from scratch."
Homeland kicked off its sixth season last night (January 15) in the US - and Gansa has revealed his fears that the show will become "irrelevant" following Donald Trump's presidential election victory.
Viewers were greeted by a "basically unrecognisable" Peter Quinn in the season six premiere, and Rupert Friend has been talking about how he went about it.
UK viewers will get to see the transformation when Homeland returns to Channel 4 at 9pm on Sunday (January 22).
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