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Well, I loved the movie. The movie was
fantastic and Bradley was so incredible.
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Taking an idea like that
and bringing it to television
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seemed like a no-brainer for us.
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We had talked about it a lot, actually,
once the movie had been successful,
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that there seems like
such a potential for more story.
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CRAIG: To adapt a popular movie
for a weekly series
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is an interesting and fun challenge.
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You have to put your finger
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on what really appealed to people
about the movie
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and try to preserve that soul
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while bringing it into a structure
that can support a weekly format.
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- WOMAN: We're rolling.
- MAN: Shall we take it from the top?
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- Yeah. Why not?
- [LAUGHTER]
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Aren't we at the top?
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JAKE: It's been really fun.
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I think that was the joy
of reading the script
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is to see where this timeline starts
in succession with where the movie stops.
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One really interesting thing about
the film is Bradley Cooper's character.
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He cared about people,
he was a loving guy
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and had people's best interests in mind,
but there was something nefarious.
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There was a trickster element
to that character.
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We did look back a lot at the movie
for touchstones,
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but we didn't really feel like we had to
owe too much to the actual movie
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because, for one thing, Bradley Cooper
gave us a lot of license
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and said, "Do what you need to do
to make the show good
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and fun for Jake and the audience."
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But also because we very quickly
started feeling confident
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that the story that we were telling
didn't do a disservice to the movie
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but hopefully added to it in a way
that made the movie resonate more
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while also making the show better.
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Every show, especially
when it's coming from source material,
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needs to kind of find
its own voice eventually,
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and so we starting launching
from the world of the movie.
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When Craig created Brian Finch,
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he created him
almost as not Eddie Morra.
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We got to have a lot more fun
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and I think because Brian
is so different than Eddie,
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Limitless the TV show is so different
than Limitless the movie.
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BRIAN: My brother's
medical school textbooks
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were still at my parents' place.
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Nobody else could figure out what was
wrong with my father. Why can't I?
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ALEX: The show kind of has everything.
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There's a tremendous amount of action
but a tremendous amount of heart.
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It's a real character drama at its core.
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I would say, like the movie,
it's a hard thing to pin down.
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It is dramatic,
but it's also action-packed,
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and it also has a sort of a quirky side.
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Excuse me, everyone,
I'm robbing the place.
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Sorry. Just try to stay calm.
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You can hit the silent alarm now.
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I think it is really
sort of a fresh approach
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to an episodic of this kind of nature.
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Bradley Cooper
is an executive producer on Limitless.
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What's this thing? And then bam. Yeah.
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CRAIG: And it's a very unique thing
to be able to make a television show
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with the biggest movie star
in the world
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and we're thrilled
to have the opportunity.
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You wouldn't get to me until I say that.
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He has so many great insights into how
this NZT pill can affect a character,
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the physical properties of it and how
enticing and how dangerous it is.
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We'd been trying to figure out
how the show could go on
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and have a life in a cyclical way.
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There's mathematical equations
we had to solve
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because there is this thing of this drug
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and we've already established
the language of the TV show
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because of the movie.
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We were lucky with the other
collaborators to come up with an idea
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and, you know, see it to fruition.
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It's about time you and me talked.
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Even before we started developing it,
we heard that Relativity,
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who did the movie, was thinking about
shopping the rights to do a TV show.
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And Craig Sweeny was someone
who was also really interested
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in doing that as a show.
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The network was very interested in the
concept and asked me to think about it,
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and so I created the character of Brian
and they said, "We like that."
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ALEX: Bradley and I go all the way back
to Alias together.
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We've worked together for a long time.
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Getting to work as collaborative
producers has been so great.
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He contributed huge, huge ideas
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to I think what ultimately became
the foundation of the show.
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- [COUGHS]
- Do you know who I am?
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HEATHER: Craig Sweeny and I
were on a plane flying to New York,
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where we shot the pilot,
and when we took off, we had no cast.
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So we literally were drinking wine
on the plane,
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"I don't know.
Why are we even flying here?"
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"We both have families.
This is ridiculous."
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So I think we closed Jake's deal
on the plane
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and then were able to make an offer
to Jennifer when we landed.
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JENNIFER: Jake is fantastic.
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It's almost like
when you hear him speak the lines,
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it's as if he's coming up with it
on his own.
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It's all very, very natural.
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I'm not gonna take your gun.
I know you'd get in trouble for that.
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ALEX: Jake has shown incredible range
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in his ability to play the guy
who's just the down-and-out loser
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who realizes his life
could have been something else
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but maybe he's not quite able
to achieve it,
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to the guy who suddenly is more
than he ever could have imagined.
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That's a real range to be able to play
both of those characters
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and yet find the heart
and the continuity between both.
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Don't move. Hands in the air.
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It's really hard to find a female
who is attractive
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and who you believe can carry a gun.
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So when Jennifer wanted to do it,
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the only tricky thing was she was
seven and a half months pregnant.
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So we kept saying, for her sake even,
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"No, you're not gonna wanna
run around on a set."
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"It's like an action show with a gun."
She really wanted to do it.
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To Marc Webb's credit, you could watch
that whole pilot and you would not know.
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I mean, the way he shot her, the way he
dressed her, it was pretty impressive.
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REBECCA: Why did you ask us to bring
Eli Whitford in for questioning?
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What did you expect to find
in his apartment?
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CRAIG: The Naz character
I wanted to have a sophistication,
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to have the suggestion of a life
before she became a federal agent,
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and so when we learned
that Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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was available
and interested in the part,
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we did backflips and cartwheels
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because she is so naturally elegant
and self-possessed.
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She's fantastic and very commanding
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but also incredibly approachable
in her character.
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It's nice to have two strong female
characters in a room together.
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We reverse-engineered the compound.
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The pictures on the right
were taken a year into the study.
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My God.
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The program was called off
after the first two fatalities.
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They just... closed up shop?
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Hill was someone
who we'd been fans of for a long time.
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He did CSl: New York, so obviously
the network is all huge fans too.
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And I remember,
once we were in New York,
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Craig having me get on the phone
and convince him
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and explain to him
what he saw for that character,
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and Hill's just game for anything.
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When you're doing a TV pilot, you get
to set up a language for the show.
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Part of this world had been created
in a previous film,
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but we're developing
a new kind of cinematic language.
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It's very important, I think,
at the beginning of that process
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to create a very firm, very specific
foundation for who these people are.
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I think my father was on NZT that night,
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and if I can figure out
where it comes from,
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maybe I can figure out
what happened to him.
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CRAIG: New York City
is an important part of Limitless to me,
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because no city is harder on you
when you're down
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or better on you when you're up
than New York City,
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and so I always wanted it to be
where the show was set.
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There's the scene in the movie
where Eddie Morra's first taken NZT
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and he comes home and sees
his dumpy apartment and he cleans it up
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and there's like
900 different versions of him.
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And so we did a similar scene
in the filing room,
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basically, you know, a rig set up
to dolly across the entire room
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at the exact same speed take after take,
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and then they'd have me
doing something different each time.
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Again and again and again
and again and again.
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There's that dinner scene
that in fact we did 36 costume changes
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and had to replicate what we were doing
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so that it has this thing
of like time passing.
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So we thought, "This is not a regular
show. This is somewhat different."
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If Brian's gonna take NZT anyway,
then every time he takes it,
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he basically becomes
the smartest person in the world.
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That's a resource.
Let's make it our resource.
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You're talking about
putting him to work?
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I just remember Craig Sweeny's face
when I said,
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"Well, after the pilot,
what can happen?"
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He said, "Oh, anything could happen"
and his eyes just lit up.
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BRIAN: Those two guys?
They're my official babysitters.
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They've got names, I think.
I just call them Mike and lke.
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Ike and Mike
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and became fan favorites, it seemed.
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CRAIG: When we conceived
of the characters of Mike and Ike,
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we said there would be these two guys
who were following Brian Finch around.
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They're his bodyguards,
he's not sure how he feels about them,
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and so he just calls them Mike and Ike.
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We knew
that we were going to strategically
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withhold their names
from the audience.
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Oh, damn. [BLEEP]
Look.
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The less we told the audience,
the more curious they got
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about both Mike and Ike.
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I'm not sure who got more Twitter love,
Mike and Ike or Brian's sweater maybe.
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Just another shift
at the genius factory, boys.
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Mike is strictly against
the use of drugs.
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I remember we auditioned
with some scenes
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that probably were omitted later on,
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but one of his criteria is that
he doesn't believe in medication.
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Like he had a football injury in college
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and they gave him oxycodone
and he refused to take it,
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and I think that was one reason why
they hired him to be the pill handler
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because he has no inclination
to do drugs at all.
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- I'm sorry. Uh...
- Brian...
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- Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
- RACHEL: Calm down, OK?
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- Oh, my God!
- You're totally overreacting.
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I don't think we really knew
where the roles were gonna go.
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And you know what, if this is
becoming a thing, you call him Ike.
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Every twist, every rounding of a corner
has been a lot of fun.
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- My name's Sands.
- Just Sands, huh? No first name or?
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We meet Sands in 103 and we sense
that he's not to be trifled with.
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We looked like we we're going down
a certain road and then I appear,
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on behalf of Mr Morra, to explain that
maybe we're not going down that road.
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When I give you an assignment, you will
do it exactly the way I tell you to.
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Otherwise I will take steps to ensure
that you do it correctly the next time.
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It's been fun, actually, because
a lot of the scenes I did with Jake
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are quite intense and very assertive.
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There is no one you call family
or friends who I can't touch.
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He doesn't smile too much,
which means I can do all that sort of...
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acting thing we do,
you know what I mean?
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Is everything OK here, guys?
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Of course. Come, sit. We're just
getting to know your new girlfriend.
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When we meet her,
she's playing Piper on NZT
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and so she is fully kind of zoned in,
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very similar in the way that Eddie is,
on a different plane.
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She is kind of a vision
of what could become of Brian.
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Over a long enough time period
is he gonna become a killer?
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If Morra ever finds out
that you are still alive,
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then everything
that means anything to me is gone.
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They're the only people they know
who can really connect
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to the experience of being on it.
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BRIAN: Basically, that all took a week,
in between all the, uh, you know...
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Let's just say it was a very full week.
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Yeah, and they get along, you know,
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so, yeah, there's the camaraderie there,
definitely.
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Where are you going?
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I can't just leave.
Your mom made meatloaf.
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These heroes and heroines
are taken out of their lives, right?
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They just have romance and work.
But this has a different thing.
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This has all the mess of a family
as well that complicates his life.
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Ten dollars?
That's what you think I'm worth?
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Dad, just take it. Then you'll be
my lawyer and then we can talk.
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First they told me
he was sort of a working-class guy.
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I was working class
and then all of a sudden I'm a lawyer.
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So that's interesting.
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We will see them in court.
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We will depose every last one of them
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and make them admit that they are
running a secret medical experiment
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on a scared kid
who actually hasn't hurt anyone.
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OK, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Series are great that way, you know,
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if you have writers
who are creative and gifted
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and understand the music and the rhythm
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of the story
and the actors playing the characters.
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You ran like a rabbit
and now you're gonna die like a snake.
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Why would I say that?
That doesn't even make sense.
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The show is a lot more funny and fun
than the pilot,
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which has moments of funniness
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but is actually much more
kind of tense and thrillery.
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Episode three was our big shift
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into what the show
is gonna actually be going forward.
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- Throw him to the piranhas.
- No! No!
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Marco Ramos
never fed anyone to piranhas.
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I don't think any of us knew
when we started in the pilot
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that the show was gonna go off
in the manner that it has,
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successfully and happily
and with such imagination.
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You want a what?
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I want a headquarters. And it should
say that on the glass outside.
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"Headquarters!"
With an exclamation point.
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That was the first time where I was
like, "Man, if we can make this work,
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that might be pretty cool,"
but I didn't know.
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Sometimes you read it and you're like,
"People might hate this."
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It was as far off the rails
as we'd been in that point.
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You ready?
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I better get a promotion for this.
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It was kind of like the first
really wacky jump in our world
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and it came out so well
cos we all just said,
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"OK, let's all take the leap. Let's go."
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Did you guys know
the resort you sent me to
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was one of those Club Bacchanal places?
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You know, clothing optional?
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It was just so much fun to work
within a large cast
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specifically for that episode.
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You're walking a very brave path,
my friend. Stick with it.
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- Anything we can do to help?
- Tell Mike I said he can go...
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OK.
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Acting out all those different
kind of movie trailers and scenarios,
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that was so much fun.
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We are dealing with an engineered virus.
That's right, a second one.
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Our only chance
is to find patient zero within 24 hours.
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- ALL: Break!
- The comedy worked out really well.
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And we should stay ready, because as
soon as James gets out of deprogramming,
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the world might call on us aga...
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- Um...
- Mm-hm?
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Craig wrote a lot of really great jokes
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that gives us
the eponymous headquarters!
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We actually keep a sticky note
with an exclamation point
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outside of our writers' room,
an homage to that episode.
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Because the show goes
in such oddball directions sometimes,
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if I don't stay the course
on telling the truth
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and keep some sort of accountability
to the CJC and the FBI
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and what our main function is,
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then I think we run the risk
of losing our credibility.
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JAKE: He has to make more and more
morally questionable decisions.
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I think that's kind of the wrestle
with trying to hold on to your humanity
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when you're taking NZT.
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Since Brian has committed to holding on
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and salvaging his relationships
with his family, with people around him,
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it's ended up causing a lot of pain
and discomfort in his life.
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We knew there was gonna be
a procedural aspect
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and we knew that there were
some heavier parts to the show.
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The whole show has surprised me.
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I thought it was going to be
much more standard procedural,
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you'd begin a story
and by the end of it, it's over.
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Was I surprised Finch
stayed out in the field? Of course not.
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He probably heard the word "undercover"
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with that expression
that means exclamation point.
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Undercover.
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It's evolved into this comedy/drama
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and you never know
what's gonna happen week to week.
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All right. Screw, marry, kill.
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Um, Mike, Ike or... Taurus.
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Remember, the bomb maker? Go.
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There have been moments when
I've thought, "Is this a frat party?"
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"Is the whole thing just a giant kegger?
What's going on?"
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[YELLS] You chopped off my fingers!
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So if I may coin a phrase...
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...it's basically Arm-ageddon out there.
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Oh, come on, guys, that's basic.
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The season's been amazing.
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I mean, Craig Sweeny is definitely
one of the most talented writers
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we've been able to work with.
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He's tried a lot of riskier things
with the show
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which in lesser hands
we'd be really nervous about,
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but when he walks you through
what it's gonna be,
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we just are like,
"You know what? We're all in."
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He's been right.
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It's been amazing.
I'm really proud of it.
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BOTH: Yeah!
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We told the story we wanted to tell
for a season
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about Brian
becoming used to being on NZT.
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I feel like we closed it in a way
that feels satisfying,
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so I'm really happy
with what we came up with.
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You're still here?
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Show's over. Go to bed.
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Go.
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