The first look at the explosive second season of "Quantico" has been released, and it promises a lot of twists in Alex Parrish's new mission.

Based on the action-packed trailer, Alex will have to face a whole new set of challenges as she joins the CIA in the upcoming season. This could mean that she might be in an awkward situation with her friends who remained at the FBI, since the two agencies are known to be constantly in disagreement with each other.

Meanwhile, showrunner Josh Safran revealed in an interview with TVGuide that the pacing for the show's sophomore season will not be as fast as the previous one.

"Season 2 is much more contained," Safran said. "It unfolds slowly and it is not somebody on the run. ... The CIA is about intelligence. It's about how are you cultivating and using intelligence, which is a slower boil. It still has all of the great twists. It's not a bomb going off every week."

Alex will also meet several new faces in the upcoming season, including Blair Underwood as CIA officer Owen Hall, Aaron Diaz as the inquisitive and go-getter photojournalist named Leon, and Russell Tovey, who will portray the role of the "charming-yet-dangerous mash-up of an adult Artful Dodger and Thomas Crown" named Harry Doyle.

The official synopsis for the sophomore season of "Quantico" season 2 reads:

"Alex finds herself at "The Farm," the CIA's mysterious training facility. As Alex navigates the dark world of espionage, far different and more dangerous than what she's learned before, she's pulled into the center of a deadly conspiracy that not only threatens the lives of this country's citizens, but the lives of countless others across the globe. This conspiracy calls everyone around her into question, be it new faces from the CIA or old ones from the Bureau. Prepare yourselves for another thrilling and heart-stopping adventure loaded with surprises you won't see coming".

ABC will release the premiere episode of "Quantico" season 2 on Sunday, Sept. 25.