Note to all TV Fanatics: now might be a good time to take a coffee break from work. A coffee break that lasts, oh, about 20 minutes.

Showtime has put the first third of the Homeland Season 2 premiere online, giving fans a chance to catch up with Carrie and company a few weeks prior the September 30 opener titled "The Smile."

As previously reported, the premiere will skip ahead a few months and find Claire Danes' ex-CIA agent humbled by events from season one. What, exactly, will she be up to when we make contact again? What about Brody? Saul?

Answers await...