'Covert Affairs' Season 4 Part 2 Spoilers: Annie's on the Run, Calder Tries to Help His Colleagues

As viewers already know, "Covert Affairs'" Annie is still very much alive. In this Thursday's mid-season premiere, fans will see that Annie (Piper Perabo) is sporting a new look "postmortem," and has a whole new set of complicated problems. 

Executive producers Chris Ord and Matt Corman spoke to TVLine about the remainder of the season, including how ex-lovers Annie and Auggie (Christopher Gorham) are dealing with the situation, if Annie can ever come home and the changed power dynamics at play back at the CIA. 

Ord said that when the new season starts, Auggie will not run after Annie right away, even though he may want to. "He's a soldier," Ord said. "He honors the mission." 

Although the situation parallels what happened with Auggie and his ex-wife, it's different because Auggie knows that Annie is actually alive, which "makes it harder is some ways," Ord said. 

Now that Annie has faked her own death, fans are wondering: can Annie ever come back? "That's the essential struggle of these back six episodes: Can you come back to who you were? Do you even want to? And if you did, would you be the same person?" Corman said. "Because this type of experience where you're so on your own and alone, it changes a spy forever."

Although the producers didn't share exactly what is developing with Annie, they did say that they shot more scenes on location in Europe and Hong Kong because she's on the run. 

As for Calder (Hill Harper), Ord shared that he has "skin in the game" after what he did for Annie.

"If the CIA finds out that he did this, they're not going to be thrilled, and so he has co-opted into our team, he said. "Now, that doesn't make this all an easy alliance, but in the same respect, we've enjoyed that journey with Calder where you've seen him come from being the sheriff to this person that our characters are concerned about. But then we realize that he was just searching for the truth. Now, he knows that Henry is up to no good, and he's going to try and help our characters achieve the same goal in the back six."

Auggie and Joan (Kari Matchett) are going to try to achieve their goal from within the CIA building, even though they've been demoted. Now that Joan has been relieved of her duties, Corman said that there will continue to be power struggles. "Throughout this back six and going forward, the shifting sands of power are very much in play," he explained. 

Joan's relationship with Arthur (Peter Gallagher) is definitely strained, but they are inching closer to reconciliation that is "born out of shared tragedy," Corman previewed. "It doesn't mean it's easy," he added. "He's [Arthur] still got a lot on his plate, a lot of legal issues. But because of the grief that they're sharing, because of the fact that they're having a baby together as well, they're both making attempts be together rather than apart." 

Corman also shared that the Henry (Gregory Itzin) storyline will be put on the back-burner, signaling that his days as the show's central villain may be coming to an end. "He won't be as much of a focal point as he was this season, but he's a great character and someone that we love to write. So we don't know exactly yet what's going to happen to Henry," Corman said. 

Watch the premiere of the second-half of the fourth season this Thursday, October 17 at 10 p.m on the USA Network.