What effect did that have on the story you were trying to tell?
So that was always on the books.
I feel like going forward, you should always shoot the finale a little in advance just in case.
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CHRIS FEDAK:We did have to take a day and turn two episodes into two scenes.
Would you also have explored more of Malcolm missing Eve (Molly Griggs) before her death was revealed?
There are threads that it’s possible for you to pull that we went very quickly over.
You could have these huge bottoms just dropping in the first act.
This penultimate episode just doesn’t let up with all of that stuff.
It was very exciting to us there is so much in this episode!
There are two other episodes in it.
We’ve been warned.
SKLAVER:I don’t know how you might prepare yourself, truthfully.
It is such an explosive finale.
Okay, well let’s get into it a little bit.
The last episode ended with Malcolm’s arrest.
Where do we go from there?
We liked the idea of that duality and that tension.
This central question of our show is this idea of “Like father, like his father.”
Is Bright like his father?
That was always something we were drawn to from the pilot episode and all season long.
And now Endicott could be forcing him to confront that.
What makes Nicholas Endicott such a dangerous adversary for Malcolm to go up against?
We wanted to see what we could do with him.
He reveals it to Jessica.
That just felt like a theme we wanted to see: Everything comes back to an emotional reason.
We always have to imagine our killers as tragic figures who we want to understand.
It’s not his tragedy, it’s a tragedy for everyone else around him.
It’s kind of this optimistic view that we have.
The way that Dermot fell into the role he’s just amazing.
At every turn, he’ll do something unexpected that somehow makes you smile and make your skin crawl.
He’s just so good.
He played the cello from his home and it was recorded and it put into all of it scenes.
So everything that is scary about Nicholas Endicott is coming from Dermot Mulroney.
Any parting words to set up this explosive episode?
SKLAVER: The last two minutes of our finale are honestly what I’m most proud of.
It’s what Chris and I had always envisioned for the first season.
