Did Blythe dead on “countdown”? Jensen Ackles, Derek Haas, More Break Down Episode 8 (exclusive)
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Countdown Season 1 Episode 8 “The Nail in the Chair.”]
Hold a moment: a Countdown I just killed the head of the working group?!
The last episode ends with Blythe (Eric Dane) raising after his arrival for an late evening meeting in an alley and met with serious problems. Elsewhere, Oliveras (Jessica Camacho) tries to convince Meachum (Jensen Ackles) to speak to their boss about her tumor in the brain, and the two share for a moment outside her house. In addition, Shepherd (Violette Beane) receives a visit from her sister.
Below, star Jensen Ackles, Jessica Camacho and Bogdan Yasinksi and the creator Derek Haas break down these key moments.
Does Volchek just killed Blythe?!
Astapov (Pacha D. Lychnikoff) of the Belarusian Consulate finally agrees to cooperate with Blythe with Volchek (Bogdan Yasinski) with the intention of triggering a dirty bomb in Los Angeles. But when Blythe arrives in Reunion, in an alley that Astapov chooses, he finds the other dead man – then Volchek stab him on the side. He fled to the view of the headlights and left the knife to Blythe. But Countdown is not about to kill the character of Eric Dane, right?!
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“You will see in the first two minutes [of Episode 9] The strength and resilience of a guy who obviously had military training, was on several working groups, followed a training in the FBI, and that will take each ounce of his strength to even try to put a red rocket to get help, “said Haas.” You will see in these first two minutes of action that Eric is out of the record. And I like a show where we keep the public on its toes and you think that everyone will succeed, but they do not all come. “After all, the working group has already lost a member, Jonathan Togo’s Drew, in episode 4.
As to know why he wanted to increase the challenges like this at this stage of the season, “he has the impression that the scenario of the villain and the scenario of the working group took place anyway on a collision class. And I had not really had the chance to get out of Blythe from the office too much,” explains the creator. “I have always described it as he could argue politically as well as strategically in the working group. I wanted to see that he could be in the corridor of a senator, but also in the grain of Los Angeles, so it was really my first chance to get him out of the office and it was not so good for him. But I wanted to once with Volckek and it’s not so well. ”
We cannot help but ask ourselves if Volchek specifically targeted Blythe in addition to Astapov, or if it is just the fact that the agent appears.
“It is not a coincidence,” confirms Yasinski, stressing that he waited after killing Astapov. “He had to follow them, after somehow. He has a whole network and he has capital behind him. He can do things, he can hire [people]All kinds of things. I think it is his chance not only to take revenge on this threat, but also to play this movement of chess of higher level: whoever I can get. Maybe he didn’t know it was going to be Blythe, but I think it’s a good deal of Bogo. If you are going to be in this alley, it is a solid offer. »»
Meachum keeps the secret of Blythe’s tumor
After Meachum spoke to Oliveas of her brain tumor, she insisted that he said to Blythe. However, just as he is about to do in this episode, they are called to the scene when a Gallagher truck – which they traced on Volchek – is outside a federal building. (There is no bomb, but there are cameras.) Of course, Meachum does not want to be a bench, but it is not like that would prevent the business. But that is not the only reason he keeps silence.
“I don’t think he wants sympathy,” said Jensen Ackles. “I don’t think he wants the pity that could come with it to talk about your situation to someone. I think he wants to keep this as close as possible to the vest because he does not want people to look at him differently. So, I think he has somehow used a bench like the external excuse, but I really thought – and trying to play – that it was much deeper than that, whether it was around. I don’t want that. “”
Add Haas: “I actually think that what Oliveras tells him comes to him and that he will clean up. I do not think that it would never prevent him from continuing the investigation, even if he is sidelined; he does not really follow the orders of people anyway. But I think he wants to be clean because what she said has a lot of meaning and it is selfish.”
Jessica Camacho said Olivera would probably do the same thing as Meachum is, not just sitting on a beach to leave aside her last days, but trying to save the city, does that mean that she would also keep a diagnosis of her boss as he is?
“Honestly, I don’t know,” said Camacho. “She would not want to be back home, the feet knowing that people who want her to worry about, her partners, risk their lives in this very unique way to save so many people, and it’s a part of her DNA now, it’s in her cells to get up and go doing something on this subject. Risk.
She adds that Oliveras also considers the situation as “” I got it “. I think that is the reason why she keeps such a close eye. She has a lot on her plate.
Meachum & Oliveras moment
When Oliveras drops Meachum at home towards the end of the episode, the two share a time when he suggests crashing into his home (he will take the sofa) and even offers to make the sounds of his machine to his. She finally refuses him, telling him that she is not her ex-fiancée or her sister, so that would not work.
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“I thought this scene had proven to be dynamite,” Raves Haas. Regarding this slow burn, “what I want, it is these two that, in a very stressful, emotional and increased place, do not want to do this in the wrong sense and we think, did we do just because all our feelings were on the table? Not to mention that Meachum was going through what he could hurt.
For Oliveras, that situation is “Messy,” Camacho Says, “And she doesn’t like messy. She likes clean, She Likes Simple, Straightforward, and this potential situation is anything but that. It’s vulnerable and lyered. Together, and you see them Discovering this Other Kind of Pull, this Curiosity, this shared Kind of Knowledge That They have, this shared understanding, and this bond that is Kind of Just Naturally Organically Created that is clean traction. that.
Shops by Shepherd’s sister
As if to face the major threat to Los Angeles was not enough, Shepherd also has to face her sister, Molly (Michelle Deshon), visiting – although she does not answer her calls and told her mother that she cannot be there for the moment. The first thing Molly wants to do is to go out with her sister, but Shepherd refuses, reminding her that she is in a working group and tells her to think of someone other than her (and that it is not sure). Molly, in return, says that no audience there, she can save him for someone who does not know how she was. Yes, Molly bears the name of Haas’s mother, just like the bar on Chicago Fire East.
“I named the bar after my mother because my mother is from Texas, I have never drunk in her life, is a total teetotaler. And so I thought it would be as funny as the Fatiate sister is called Molly. It is an inner joke only for me and my family,” said the Creator.
“I thought it was a cool notion to do it where the younger brother is the one who gathered his life and the older brother is the one who must have hard love. You always try to return cards to the characters, especially when you have plans so that the program continues. “So now, a member of the public is going to be, what did Shepherd look like before joining the FBI?” [it’s] A little overview of Shepherd’s personal life.
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It is also a question of showing how family members react to a person’s work. “I think that in these programs, when you make a crime program, often people think that the life of the law’s application characters only concerns what is happening in the series, and all those who have already worked a job knows that in real life, it is not like that. They will be like:” Oh, you are dramatic “, explains Haas.” And this is true for FBI agents and the police group, a week. Most working groups sometimes continue for years, and life does not stop. And so I thought it would be an interesting dramatic element to have a family member who is not respectful of what’s going on in the world. “
This flashback
In a flashback at 2021, Volchek is brought by the LAPD to bribe a city official, and although he is in a district of LAPD, Meachum and Finau (Uli Latukefu) were therefore walking by speaking of a case.
“I loved this idea that – I think a lot about that, right?” I have been married for 30 years now and we met when we were at university and I wonder how many times our paths have crossed before that. I worked in a shopping center and in a shoe store in high school and I just wonder who exceeded me, I have no idea, and then our fates … and I thought the public was going to be real.
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