[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Countdown Season 1 Episode 9 “10-33.”]
The Countdown process pressure could also be about to lose considered one of its personal — and no, not the agent who was stabbed on the finish of the earlier episode.
Episode 8 left off with process pressure chief Blythe (Eric Dane) being stabbed by Volchek (Bogdan Yasinski), and it actually doesn’t look good contemplating all of the blood he loses dragging himself to his automobile to activate his sirens to alert somebody to his location. The group rushes to the hospital, involved, earlier than heading to the crime scene to see what they’ll discover as soon as they get a standing replace — due to an previous pal of Oliveras’ (Jessica Camacho), Julio (Eddie Aguirre), being a health care provider there — and know he’ll be in surgical procedure for an hour.
Blythe goes to be simply wonderful and even argues in opposition to staying on the hospital for commentary for lengthy. However did creator Derek Haas ever think about killing him off? He tells TV Insider he didn’t.
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“I had this all mapped out from once we first began, so the scripts had been already written earlier than we ever started. So I imply, after all, if you’re writing one thing, loads of occasions in your mind you’ll simply be like, ‘Oh, what if I did that?’ Typically that wins the place you’re like, ‘Oh, they received’t anticipate this as a result of I didn’t even anticipate it after I was writing it,’” he says. “After which typically you simply follow what your plan was, so there wasn’t an actual plan to kill him off. I needed to see what resolve he had beneath that very polished exterior.”
However we’re involved about Meachum (Jensen Ackles), who’s getting worse due to his mind tumor that solely Oliveras is aware of about. On this episode, he practically falls off a roof chasing a suspect due to his complications and vertigo. However was that but the wake-up name he wants?
“I feel every considered one of these episodes that he has is a wake-up name. I feel he’s beginning to actually wrestle together with his mortality, and as a lot as he can shove it away and shove it down, which might be what he’s lived his life doing with any sort of emotions that aren’t comfy, he’s changing into much less and fewer in a position to disguise it and to maintain making up excuses for it as a result of now it’s taking place in entrance of others,” admits Ackles. “So yeah, I feel the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
The duty pressure does uncover Volchek’s plan: set off bombs on the Vine. However what’s worse is Finau’s (Uli Latukefu) household is there. That is once more the place having the season mapped out got here into play for Haas.
“I actually like what we name lengthy throws. You don’t all the time have the prospect to try this on these sort of reveals. We did it on Chicago Hearth a number of occasions the place you’ll simply calmly present one thing, and also you’d suppose that’s all that story was about, however then a lot later, you carry it again into play. And so I actually needed to fulfill his household early. He’s sort of the little John to Meachum’s Robin Hood, and I like the concept that he’s acquired this loving household, not a jerk household who doesn’t respect him. They genuinely look after him and imagine in him,” the creator explains.
“And so what higher hazard than to place that household into the thick of Volchek’s plan? Happenstance, however plan. I assumed it will carry private stakes to a possible terrorist assault as a result of I simply take into consideration in these assaults that occur in actual life, that these victims have households,” he provides. “We simply see them as names loads of occasions in newspaper articles, however they’ve lives and households and all these issues. So the truth that we’ve met this household earlier than makes it larger than simply he’s attempting to explode an enormous business buying space.”
Oh, and in the event you suppose that Julio could be a complication in Meachum and Oliveras’ sluggish burn, effectively, you’d be proper.
“I feel as anybody can be who met Oliveras and re-met her after being childhood mates, he’s most likely like, ‘I keep in mind that woman. She was wonderful again then. She appears nonetheless wonderful.’ Why wouldn’t you need to stumble upon her once more? I feel that he sort of speaks for any viewers member watching this present. So yeah, it’s a complication as a result of he’s not a foul dude. He looks as if an excellent man,” says Haas.
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