[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Countdown Season 1 Episode 2 “Dead Lots of Times.”]
Prime Video’s new drama premiered on June 25 with the primary three episodes, and contemplating what number of occasions Jensen Ackles‘ Supernatural character, Dean Winchester, died (together with in a Groundhog Day scenario, when he was dragged to hell after promoting his soul, and within the sequence finale, on a routine hunt), the title of the second actually stands out — because it’s mentioned by his Countdown character, Detective Mark Meachum.
However no, that was not a Supernatural reference, creator Derek Haas says.
“I’d love to assert it as a Supernatural reference,” he tells TV Insider with amusing. “However that’s the title of the episode. To me, it simply speaks to that, lots of people have informed him, ‘You’re lifeless,’ that he’s been in all of those moments earlier than, and guess what? He’s a survivor. In order that’s what he’s [saying there].”
That line comes as Meachum goes undercover because the muscle to Oliveras’s (Jessica Camacho) runner, with the duty drive suspecting a cartel helped smuggle radioactive supplies into the U.S. that may gasoline a Chernobyl-level occasion in Los Angeles. She worries about his head bothering him within the automobile — she doesn’t know he has a mind tumor — and checks his information of their backstory. When he will get particulars fallacious, she desires to name it, however he assures her he’s kidding.
After they’re in entrance of Oliveras’s contact, he remarks that Meachum seems like a cop and at one level through the back-and-forth asks if he desires to die in the present day. “Oh, I’ve been lifeless numerous occasions,” Meachum says. His cowl, in the end, holds.
Regardless of Meachum’s physician recommending he simply discover a seashore someplace, take as a lot reduction remedy as he can, and reside out the time he has left in as a lot consolation as attainable, the detective isn’t doing that. As an alternative, he’s throwing himself into this case.
“I believe he’s resigned himself to not laying down, not giving up, and successfully he’s acquired a little bit of kamikaze in him,” Ackles informed us. “He’s like, hear, I’m not simply going to take a seat on a seashore and wilt away. He even says, ‘If I’m going to exit, I’m going to exit saving one thing.’ And I believe that it does give him a way of objective. It offers him a way of price to have that versus simply crawling in mattress and declining. There’s a struggle that exists inside him no matter what his situation is. And he’s going to proceed to struggle.”
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