[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Countdown Season 1 Episode 7 “Nothing Else Helps.”]
Detective Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles) lastly lets somebody in concerning the critical medical situation he’s been hiding from the duty power all season on Countdown within the Wednesday, July 23, episode.
The sequence premiere reveals that Meachum has a glioblastoma multiforme, a mind tumor. With the danger of surgical procedure or radiation outweighing the advantages, his physician recommends he simply reside out his remaining days in consolation with aid medicine. He, as a substitute, chooses to proceed to work, struggling complications which are beginning to have an effect on him on the job. He tells DEA agent Amber Oliveras (Jessica Camacho) he’s simply coping with migraines, and she or he provides him stronger medicine to assist in Episode 6. However in Episode 7, after he’s late to work and at first tells her the capsules are now not working because of the regulation of diminishing returns.
Close to the top of the episode, she stops by his place with a drug to disrupt his serotonin receptors, and that’s when he tells her he has a tumor and it’s terminal. He doesn’t understand how lengthy he has, he says, and he’s not going out staring on the sundown on a seaside, dipping his toes within the ocean. If he’s going out, he’s going out saving one thing, the town, its folks. (Sound like one other of Ackles’ characters?) So how a lot did Meachum need to confide in somebody, particularly Oliveras, even when a part of him didn’t need to need that?
“I feel that is type of the inherent wrestle with him, is he’s so used to type of staying guarded and staying behind his exterior, that he’s constructed up all these partitions as we do, these emotional type of barricades that we placed on ourselves,” Jensen Ackles tells TV Insider. “However I feel he’s now getting to a degree the place he actually doesn’t have anyone in his life. And I feel that it’s beginning to type of daybreak on him that possibly some cracks in his armor aren’t the worst factor, and he feels a connection together with her, clearly, and is possibly making an attempt to simply accept that that is coming on the proper time.”
Jessica Camacho says that Oliveras “understands” Meachum’s plan to presumably exit saving the town.
“I feel she respects it. I feel that’s what she would do, too,” she admits. “So I feel she understands, but additionally you begin to type of look after anyone, and also you’re now not taking part in the identical recreation. You need them to be okay. You need them to maintain displaying up. You need the very best for them. So regardless that she respects it — and I do know internally, she’s like, ‘Yep, I do know that I’d do the identical’ — it’s additionally this concern that may solely occur if you let anyone in a bit of bit.”
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