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I know things
didn't end well with the Bureau,
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but you caught Carroll.
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He didn't just
eviscerate 14 female students.
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He was making art.
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Carroll's ex-wife.
I'd like to speak to her.
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- I'm sorry I didn't call you. - It's been
eight years, Ryan. I got the hint.
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He's scheduled to be executed.
He'll only talk to you.
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I will be your friend, Ryan,
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even though you slept
with my wife.
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Calling in, signal 63!
Get some help now!
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Five guards are confirmed dead
from this prison escape.
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We need you in Virginia, Ryan.
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Three bodies were found murdered
in the last six hours.
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He's finding people
to help him.
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It's like they're his followers.
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This is just the beginning.
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Sync and corrections by n17t01
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- Hello?
- Hello, Ryan?
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It's Director Franklin, FBI.
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I'm not an agent anymore.
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I know things didn't end well
with the Bureau,
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but you caught Carroll.
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No one knows him like you do.
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The Following is, um--
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well, it's a thriller.
It's a drama.
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It's sort of an epic story
of good and evil.
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It's a story of one man,
Ryan Hardy,
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who has lost his mojo
in a weird way.
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This is a man
who's lost his life.
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He was a wonderful FBI agent,
and in the prime of his career,
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he was sort of shot down
by this one serial killer.
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He was stabbed in the heart,
literally.
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Ryan Hardy, when we meet him,
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ten years, he's been kind of
the walking dead, you know?
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No real focus to his life
and not doing much.
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Drinking too much.
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He's broken. He's a broken man.
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Then he gets this phone call, and he gets
a second chance at the career he lost.
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And that's kind of what our serial
killer, Joe Carroll, has intended.
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Because when Ryan Hardy brought him
down, he didn't see that coming.
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This is a narcissistic,
brilliant mind.
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"And an FBI agent from
Brooklyn was my demise?"
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That's not gonna do.
So he spends eight years in prison
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coming up with a way
to write his masterpiece,
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and he's placed Ryan Hardy
at the center of it.
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I need a strong protagonist,
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a flawed, broken man,
searching for redemption,
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and that is you.
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The time that
I was the most alive
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is the time that I was tracking
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and busting Joe Carroll.
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So being brought back
to the FBI--
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it's like a man reawakening.
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So he had access
to a legal library?
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Actual books or digital files?
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Digital. Everything's archived
in the library server.
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- He had internet access?
- He would've been restricted.
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Because that would
stop Joe Carroll.
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Joe Carroll, while he was in prison,
had gained internet access,
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and with that internet access,
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he had sort of started
contacting people.
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Then they realized that the same people
he was contacting on the internet
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were actually visiting him
while he was in prison.
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So they start to realize
that there's a following here--
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that there's actually a cult
of serial killers.
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Drop the weapon!
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Ma'am, ma'am, look at me.
Look at me.
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You can just hand
that thing to me.
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I never think
it's gonna be okay.
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I came up with
the back-story for this show
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several years ago
when I was doing
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all this research
on serial killers,
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and, of course,
the Gainesville Murders.
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I found that so insidious just
how he murdered all those women.
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Then when
they actually found him,
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I was like, "oh, he was just
a vagrant in the woods?
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Wouldn't it be better if he
was, like, this, you know,
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sort of this
charismatic professor,
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and he had some sort of great
literary purpose?"
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Then I took sort of an idea I had about
a cult and just merged them together.
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She'd never suspect them, and now
they're taking her straight to Carroll.
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It's like
they're his followers.
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Have you pulled the GPS?
Where are the satellites?
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- I knew you'd show up eventually.
- Do something! Move!
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I got a phone call, and they said Kevin
Bacon is looking to do a TV show.
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He actually is interested
in television.
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And I went, "Yeah, but--"
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I mean, it was beyond my wildest dreams.
We can't get Kevin Bacon.
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I read the script,
and I couldn't put it down.
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So many times when I went,
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"Oh, wow. I did not
see that coming."
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And I also saw a part
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that had the three things
that I was looking for.
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One was that the character
be heroic.
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Two is that if he's
going to be heroic,
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he has to be damaged,
complicated.
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And the third thing was that the stakes
have to be about life and death.
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- Who let him have this?
- Anyone could have.
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"Dear Ryan,
I enjoyed your book.
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Have you ever considered a sequel?
Best, Joe."
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I think he's letting us know
that he plans to kill again.
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I think that Ryan
Hardy has a very, very deep
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kind of connection
to Joe Carroll.
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I think that I admire Joe Carroll
in a strange sort of way.
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Joe Carroll is
a Professor of Literature.
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He sort of specializes
in the Romantic period.
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Edgar Allen Poe is his favorite
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due to sort of the gothic romanticism
of everything he writes,
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and just sort of how death
is about beauty.
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And I think that's the nature
Carroll's operating from
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in his mad, mad mind.
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He really is the devil squared,
you know?
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He's a really bad man.
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He's incredibly manipulative.
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He's manipulating all the time.
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Have you slept?
You look tired.
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It's important you take care of
yourself, preserve your strength.
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He's kind of up above
everybody else, looking down,
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because they're all
scrabbling around in the gutter
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trying to work out what the heck
he's gonna do next.
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You gotta toughen up, Ryan.
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You're dealing
with depraved minds,
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sick and twisted.
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That's what makes the story
so unpredictable.
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James Purefoy is gold.
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When he looks at you
in the eyes,
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it's a little scary,
cause you don't know
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if he's going to kiss you
or kill you, you know?
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He does have that ability, and I think
that's what makes a great villain.
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And he has a wonderful chemistry
with Kevin Bacon.
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She almost died--
the woman you profess to love.
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Poor thing.
That was the entire point.
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It was for you.
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The scenes that James and I
have together are--
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I mean, for lack of a better term,
they're very much cat and mouse.
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It's kind of like when the two big
gorillas get in the same cage,
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and that's always
exciting to watch.
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You saved the day.
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How does it feel
to be victorious?
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To kill the villain?
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I didn't kill him.
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That wasn't part of the plan,
was it?
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You have to believe that
this hero and this villain
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are connected and tied together
in this sort of intense way,
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so you need two riveting actors.
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I feel that's what I've got with
Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy
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is I've got this
amazing duo of actors
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that can really just go
at each other constantly.
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And it's so much fun to watch.
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Why are you doing this, Joe?
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The challenge, Ryan.
Accept it.
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You've barely even started.
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I have so many surprises
waiting for you.
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We know about the cult.
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I'm not a big fan of that word.
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I like to think of them
as my friends.
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Do you have any friends, Ryan?
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I will be your friend,
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even though
you slept with my wife.
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At the core of the
story is this love triangle.
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Basically,
you have good versus evil,
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you have your hero versus your villain,
and the woman in between them.
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Professor Matthews.
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Yes?
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I'm Agent Ryan Hardy, FBI.
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- Can I speak with you?
- Sure.
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Claire Matthews,
played by Natalie Zea,
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is sort of the love interest.
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Not just for our villain
but for our hero as well.
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Try Edgar Allen Poe.
You should talk to my husband.
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He knows a lot
about that time period.
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- You're married?
- Yeah. Yes, I'm married, Agent Hardy.
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Why? Are you flirting?
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Claire
Matthews-- she's married
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to James Purefoy's character,
Joe Carroll.
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And she,
throughout the investigation
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and the trial,
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ends up becoming very close
to Ryan Hardy,
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and a relationship is formed.
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- Kiss me.
- Are you sure you want me to kiss you?
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Uh, yeah. I'm very sure.
I've been sure for a long time.
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We have the
benefit of flashbacks,
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so we're able to see how the
relationship developed initially
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and how it's going
to redevelop.
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I want the audience to root
for them to get together,
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but at the same time,
it's almost an impossible love.
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I'm sorry I didn't call you.
I belong in your past.
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You deserve more.
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Annie?
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Maggie Grace plays Sarah Fuller.
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And Sarah was a sorority girl
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back when Joe Carroll
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was killing girls on campus
ten years ago.
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And it turns out that she was
the only victim who survived,
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because Ryan Hardy
saved her that night.
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And so, she's his trophy.
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She's the one thing that he
holds up that he did right.
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Nothing's gonna happen to you.
I promise you that.
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I really appreciate
you calling.
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I'm just, uh, happy
to hear you're safe.
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Maggie Grace is wonderful,
because she's playing this woman
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who we show in a flashback
what happened.
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And so, we see in present day
why she's so traumatized by it.
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Oh!
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Sorry.
Just letting you know
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there's two officers outside
the door if you need them.
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Sure. Thank you.
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One of the first things that happens,
when they realize in the pilot
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that this is bigger
than just Joe Carroll
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and that he has a following is
when they bring a specialist.
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Hello, Mr. Hardy. I'm Agent Debra Parker.
I'm new to the party.
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Annie Parisse is the actress
who plays Agent Debra Parker,
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who comes in, and she sort of
partners up with Ryan Hardy.
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Marshall Turner
thinks I should dismiss you.
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But he's remembering you for the man you
were ten years ago, not the man you are now.
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- And there's a difference?
- I hope so.
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'Cause Joe Carroll has cast you as a
main character in his psycho sequel,
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so I can't just kick you
to the curb.
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She's going to be
a very unpredictable woman,
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a very mercurial character.
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- I wanna see Joe.
- So you can break his other hand?
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She is already surprising
her fellow agents.
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- I think Carroll's--
- Carroll's using Poe's work as a religion.
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He's speaking to people
through gothic romanticism.
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Find the ones with additional
disorders. Jackpot.
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And her area of expertise
is going to shine some light
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on how Joe Carroll is working.
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I think it's time we use
that word nobody wants to use.
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So, we have a cult.
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Shawn Ashmore is wonderful
in the role of Mike Weston.
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He's this young agent
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and sort of--
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and sort of trying to become
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what Ryan Hardy used to be.
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He's young, he's eager,
he's smart.
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He's a technical wizard.
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Carroll never visited
the same web address twice,
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which suggests
he's using various URLs.
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- Who with?
- Well, there's the rub.
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Every time I access an
IP address, it mutates.
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The reason he's included
in this case
245
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is because at Quantico
246
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he did his thesis
on Joe Carroll,
247
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so he knows the case.
248
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He knows Poe.
He knows the poetry.
249
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He knows Ryan Hardy.
He knows everything about this case.
250
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So they chose
him for his knowledge
251
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and what he could bring
to the case,
252
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and now he's got this opportunity
to work with his hero Ryan Hardy,
253
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and it's sort of fun to watch
254
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how the mentor-student
relationship develops.
255
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Jordy looks to Carroll
the way Carroll looks to Poe.
256
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It's a godlike kind of worship.
257
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Is Carroll really
that powerful?
258
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He can inspire people.
It's a gift.
259
00:11:46,604 --> 00:11:48,338
Mike respects Ryan Hardy.
260
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I think he knows
that he was the one guy
261
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that could catch Joe Carroll
the first time,
262
00:11:52,976 --> 00:11:55,445
and he's probably the only guy
that can do it this time.
263
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Who are all these women?
264
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All names of women in Poe's
life and work that died.
265
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This show is evolving.
266
00:12:01,584 --> 00:12:03,552
What starts as
a very, sort of small story
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about one man and his little
group of followers
268
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sort of opens up,
269
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and week to week to week
it grows
270
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and grows and grows
until it becomes
271
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sort of a nationwide epidemic
and problem for the FBI--
272
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I've got eight, maybe
nine different handwritings.
273
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I want an analysis on each one.
How many prints?
274
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Four. Complete.
Several partial.
275
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This is so much bigger
than we ever imagined.
276
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You're going to want
to see this.
277
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What is that?
278
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Carroll is teaching him how
to become a serial killer.
279
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A show like this we're
constantly doing research for
280
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because we're dealing with the
world of serial killers, the FBI--
281
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you know, the FBI has opened up
their doors to us
282
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and have been wonderful
283
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with letting our actors
go out and trail with them
284
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and spend time with them.
285
00:12:52,946 --> 00:12:54,113
I think Kevin Bacon
286
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has visited the FBI
in New York several times
287
00:12:56,817 --> 00:13:00,019
and-- as well
as Annie Parisse
288
00:13:00,087 --> 00:13:01,586
and Shawn Ashmore.
289
00:13:01,654 --> 00:13:03,088
They've all sort of done
their research.
290
00:13:03,156 --> 00:13:05,991
I did the regular
sort of ride along,
291
00:13:06,058 --> 00:13:07,259
you know, FBI.
292
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You're looking at that,
293
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but what you're really
focusing on
294
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is other people.
295
00:13:12,531 --> 00:13:14,465
Carroll could easily convince
an unbalanced brain to do this.
296
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It's an exertion of power,
theatrics.
297
00:13:16,702 --> 00:13:18,335
Went to the Federal Building
in Los Angeles,
298
00:13:18,369 --> 00:13:20,370
and hung out at the FBI there.
299
00:13:20,438 --> 00:13:22,239
It was really interesting
just to go talk with them,
300
00:13:22,307 --> 00:13:24,108
just sort of get the rundown
on what it's like
301
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riding to a bust.
302
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Federal agents. Open up.
303
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And what it's like the first
time you kick down a door
304
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and run into a room where you don't
know what's going to happen.
305
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Hit it.
306
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Clear the room!
307
00:13:36,196 --> 00:13:37,140
Room clear!
308
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Our FBI agents
are part of the BAU,
309
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which is the Behavioral
Analysis Unit,
310
00:13:42,194 --> 00:13:44,395
and the agents I met with
at the FBI
311
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were also part of the BAU,
312
00:13:45,898 --> 00:13:48,933
and I spent some time with
one of their special agents,
313
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and he walked me through how they
would set up a command center,
314
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which we have in our script.
315
00:13:52,838 --> 00:13:55,507
He walked me through how
they would set up a man hunt.
316
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All the elements of our script
that I understood cinematically,
317
00:14:00,045 --> 00:14:01,879
but I really didn't understand
the reality of,
318
00:14:01,947 --> 00:14:03,713
the FBI was able
to kind of take me through.
319
00:14:03,781 --> 00:14:05,115
I have an address.
320
00:14:05,183 --> 00:14:07,417
Tetersburg is too close.
He'd never risk it.
321
00:14:07,452 --> 00:14:08,619
Unless they're hiding
under our nose.
322
00:14:10,021 --> 00:14:11,388
Go. Take Weston...
323
00:14:12,657 --> 00:14:14,291
And Ryan.
324
00:14:14,359 --> 00:14:17,994
Call ahead. Have the local
authorities meet you there.
325
00:14:18,062 --> 00:14:19,328
Every time we have a question,
326
00:14:19,396 --> 00:14:20,696
I have a woman at the FBI.
327
00:14:20,764 --> 00:14:22,298
I just call up and go,
"Well, what about this?"
328
00:14:22,366 --> 00:14:24,467
And she'll go, "Yes,"
329
00:14:24,535 --> 00:14:25,968
or she'll go,
"I cannot answer that,
330
00:14:26,036 --> 00:14:27,703
but it sounds like
it might be right."
331
00:14:27,771 --> 00:14:31,207
I think what's really great
about the style of the show
332
00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:33,075
and what separates us
from other shows
333
00:14:33,143 --> 00:14:38,246
is that we're not going so far
into the world of fiction.
334
00:14:38,314 --> 00:14:40,582
We're sticking with,
this is what they really do
335
00:14:40,650 --> 00:14:43,151
and this is how
they would really operate,
336
00:14:43,219 --> 00:14:44,586
and they have to move
so quickly,
337
00:14:44,654 --> 00:14:46,688
figuring these things out,
338
00:14:46,755 --> 00:14:48,423
and that's the thing I learned
most about the FBI,
339
00:14:48,491 --> 00:14:49,457
is they're human.
340
00:14:49,525 --> 00:14:50,659
They're not superheroes.
341
00:14:50,726 --> 00:14:52,159
They have to deal with
342
00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,460
real life challenges and
decisions on the fly.
343
00:14:54,529 --> 00:14:56,029
I came alone, Joe.
344
00:14:56,130 --> 00:14:57,731
Isn't that what you wanted?
345
00:14:59,867 --> 00:15:02,536
No. No!
346
00:15:02,604 --> 00:15:04,471
No!
347
00:15:04,539 --> 00:15:07,273
I think the show needs
to be as realistic as possible
348
00:15:07,341 --> 00:15:09,542
because that's
what makes it scary.
349
00:15:09,610 --> 00:15:12,712
It's not zombies.
It's not aliens.
350
00:15:12,779 --> 00:15:15,014
It's not vampires.
351
00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:17,817
It's a gritty, gritty,
kind of real show.
352
00:15:21,522 --> 00:15:22,655
Hello, Ryan.
353
00:15:22,723 --> 00:15:24,956
The show, to me,
I want it to feel real
354
00:15:25,024 --> 00:15:26,825
and I want it
to feel cinematic,
355
00:15:26,892 --> 00:15:28,360
and so we have Marcos Siega,
356
00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:29,428
who I've worked
with in the past
357
00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:31,162
and he's this wonderful director
358
00:15:31,197 --> 00:15:32,764
Marcos has done a wonderful job
359
00:15:32,832 --> 00:15:35,400
of sort of creating
this handheld visual,
360
00:15:35,468 --> 00:15:37,102
sort of a,
everything's unsettling.
361
00:15:37,169 --> 00:15:38,470
And action!
362
00:15:40,372 --> 00:15:41,905
Go around back!
Cover back!
363
00:15:41,973 --> 00:15:43,608
So even when you think
the camera's not moving,
364
00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:44,942
it really is,
365
00:15:44,976 --> 00:15:46,777
and there's this sort
of ever-present heartbeat
366
00:15:46,845 --> 00:15:48,412
going on throughout
the entire series,
367
00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,680
even in the most still moments,
368
00:15:49,748 --> 00:15:51,115
and I think that's sort of,
369
00:15:51,182 --> 00:15:52,350
that was sort of
Marco's design,
370
00:15:52,417 --> 00:15:53,917
which I thought
was quite wonderful.
371
00:15:53,952 --> 00:15:56,353
Don't shoot. I'm unarmed.
372
00:15:56,354 --> 00:15:59,188
It's you.
We've been waiting for you.
373
00:15:59,257 --> 00:16:01,924
Keep them out!
Keep everybody out!
374
00:16:01,992 --> 00:16:04,060
Get back. Everyone back.
Get back.
375
00:16:04,128 --> 00:16:06,730
It's a style
that is very fluid.
376
00:16:06,797 --> 00:16:10,700
It doesn't require
a lot of specific lighting.
377
00:16:10,768 --> 00:16:11,967
There's no big dolly moves.
378
00:16:12,034 --> 00:16:13,302
It's handheld.
It's organic.
379
00:16:13,370 --> 00:16:14,703
I want it to be creepy
380
00:16:14,771 --> 00:16:16,138
and mysterious
381
00:16:16,205 --> 00:16:17,673
and not to know
382
00:16:17,741 --> 00:16:19,808
what's coming around
every corner,
383
00:16:19,842 --> 00:16:21,310
and that direction
came from Marcos
384
00:16:21,378 --> 00:16:22,844
and from Kevin,
385
00:16:22,912 --> 00:16:25,981
talking about that it was
going to be dark and moody.
386
00:16:26,048 --> 00:16:27,382
Where is she?
How did she get out here?
387
00:16:27,449 --> 00:16:28,716
I don't know.
388
00:16:28,784 --> 00:16:32,253
I think that the look
of it is fantastic.
389
00:16:32,321 --> 00:16:35,623
It's edgy and dark.
390
00:16:35,691 --> 00:16:36,658
I feel like this show
391
00:16:36,725 --> 00:16:37,892
has more in common with films
392
00:16:37,959 --> 00:16:39,960
than I do some
television shows.
393
00:16:40,028 --> 00:16:42,163
It just has that sort of raw,
gritty--
394
00:16:42,230 --> 00:16:44,798
it's handheld,
so it moves very fast.
395
00:16:44,865 --> 00:16:47,768
I would liken it to 24 if I could.
396
00:16:47,835 --> 00:16:49,002
What I liked about 24
397
00:16:49,069 --> 00:16:51,037
was it was that sort of
nail-biting thriller,
398
00:16:51,105 --> 00:16:53,273
that every single week you felt
like you were getting this movie.
399
00:16:53,341 --> 00:16:54,841
It's that kind of storytelling,
400
00:16:54,909 --> 00:16:56,476
where you almost can't keep up.
401
00:16:56,544 --> 00:16:58,845
When you have so much
happening in every episode,
402
00:16:58,913 --> 00:17:00,813
you're sort of just
digesting one piece
403
00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,549
when you're being
taken over to the next thing.
404
00:17:03,617 --> 00:17:06,251
Get the lights.
405
00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:07,986
Get the lights!
406
00:17:08,054 --> 00:17:09,789
It's just really
exciting for an audience.
407
00:17:09,856 --> 00:17:12,891
My dream is that people
will come into work
408
00:17:12,959 --> 00:17:14,193
on Tuesday morning
409
00:17:14,260 --> 00:17:18,262
and stand around
the water cooler and say,
410
00:17:18,331 --> 00:17:19,764
"Could you believe
what happened last night?"
411
00:17:31,041 --> 00:17:32,541
One of the things I like most
about this show
412
00:17:32,609 --> 00:17:34,043
is that I don't think
413
00:17:34,111 --> 00:17:36,011
there's a lot on network
television quite like this,
414
00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:37,279
or even on cable.
415
00:17:37,347 --> 00:17:39,047
As a writer, you sit down and
you try to come up
416
00:17:39,115 --> 00:17:40,548
with something
you haven't seen before,
417
00:17:40,583 --> 00:17:42,217
and we've all seen scary shows.
418
00:17:42,285 --> 00:17:43,685
We've all seen murder stories.
419
00:17:43,752 --> 00:17:46,855
We've all seen crime,
serial-killer type shows,
420
00:17:46,922 --> 00:17:49,791
but I just wanted to sort
of do my version of it.
421
00:17:49,859 --> 00:17:51,960
I want to do
sort of a cable show
422
00:17:52,027 --> 00:17:53,361
on network television.
423
00:17:53,428 --> 00:17:55,062
I want to do the world's
scariest show,
424
00:17:55,130 --> 00:17:57,531
but I also want it to be
emotional and intense
425
00:17:57,599 --> 00:17:59,400
and dramatic.
426
00:18:00,602 --> 00:18:02,269
Sorry, didn't mean
to scare you.
427
00:18:02,337 --> 00:18:04,638
In order to make
the stakes high,
428
00:18:04,706 --> 00:18:05,639
people die--
429
00:18:05,707 --> 00:18:07,908
people that you see,
430
00:18:07,976 --> 00:18:09,275
people that you grow
attached to,
431
00:18:09,343 --> 00:18:10,776
people you don't like so well.
432
00:18:10,844 --> 00:18:12,078
No one is safe on this show.
433
00:18:12,146 --> 00:18:13,346
They could all die
at any moment.
434
00:18:13,414 --> 00:18:14,981
With somebody writing
like that,
435
00:18:15,049 --> 00:18:18,951
it just feels
that much more lifelike
436
00:18:19,020 --> 00:18:20,520
and also that much
more terrifying
437
00:18:20,587 --> 00:18:23,789
because you truly can't
count on what's coming next.
438
00:18:27,293 --> 00:18:30,396
You shouldn't be here.
You know you're going to die.
439
00:18:30,463 --> 00:18:32,531
I hope people are continued
to be surprise,
440
00:18:32,598 --> 00:18:33,865
not just by the fear element,
441
00:18:33,933 --> 00:18:36,301
but by the twists and turns
442
00:18:36,369 --> 00:18:37,536
that the characters take,
443
00:18:37,603 --> 00:18:39,004
and the growth
of the characters.
444
00:18:39,072 --> 00:18:40,804
You should get some sleep.
445
00:18:40,906 --> 00:18:42,340
Don't go.
446
00:18:44,243 --> 00:18:46,344
I don't trust anyone but you.
447
00:18:46,412 --> 00:18:47,845
This show feels very immediate,
448
00:18:47,913 --> 00:18:49,280
very scary, very real.
449
00:18:49,348 --> 00:18:50,748
You never know
what's going to happen.
450
00:18:50,815 --> 00:18:52,116
You never know who's safe.
451
00:18:52,184 --> 00:18:53,484
You never know
who's going to go next.
452
00:18:53,552 --> 00:18:56,353
You never know
who could be the bad guy.
453
00:18:56,421 --> 00:18:57,754
There's been a new development.
454
00:18:57,821 --> 00:18:59,756
Three bodies were found
murdered in the last six hours.
455
00:18:59,823 --> 00:19:03,193
It's just kind of a chilling,
you know, idea
456
00:19:03,261 --> 00:19:06,829
that anybody at any moment
457
00:19:06,897 --> 00:19:12,134
in any part of your
professional or personal life.
458
00:19:12,202 --> 00:19:13,669
He could've gotten to them,
459
00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:16,405
and they could be
part of his cult.
460
00:19:16,473 --> 00:19:18,174
I've never seen a show like
this on prime time.
461
00:19:18,208 --> 00:19:19,908
It looks like a movie,
462
00:19:19,976 --> 00:19:24,846
and it has a sort of a sense
of dread and reality about it.
463
00:19:24,914 --> 00:19:26,048
It gets under your skin
464
00:19:26,116 --> 00:19:28,250
in a deep and disturbing way.
465
00:19:28,318 --> 00:19:30,018
He's conditioned them.
466
00:19:31,921 --> 00:19:35,690
The only way to truly live
is to kill.
467
00:19:35,757 --> 00:19:36,958
I think, week after week
468
00:19:37,025 --> 00:19:39,927
the fans are going to get
a really amazing ride.
469
00:19:39,995 --> 00:19:42,897
It's going to be
a fast-paced thriller.
470
00:19:42,965 --> 00:19:45,733
I think there's
always going to be surprises.
471
00:19:45,801 --> 00:19:47,469
I've read eight scripts,
472
00:19:47,536 --> 00:19:49,036
and every single time,
473
00:19:49,105 --> 00:19:51,272
as I'm going through,
474
00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:54,609
I go, "Whoa, I did not see
that coming".
475
00:19:54,676 --> 00:19:58,045
I didn't think that character was
going to go in that direction,
476
00:19:58,113 --> 00:20:01,048
or I didn't think that person
was going to die.
477
00:20:01,116 --> 00:20:03,651
And I think it's scary as hell.
478
00:20:03,719 --> 00:20:05,953
I mean, I think it's one of the
scariest things on television.
479
00:20:06,021 --> 00:20:07,554
What's my sequel about, Joe?
480
00:20:07,622 --> 00:20:09,656
It's going to be
a collaboration.
481
00:20:11,325 --> 00:20:12,926
We're going to write this
together, Ryan.
482
00:20:12,994 --> 00:20:14,961
Writing about murder and mayhem
is my happy place,
483
00:20:15,029 --> 00:20:16,930
but I'm getting to do this
now with Kevin Bacon
484
00:20:16,998 --> 00:20:18,431
and James Purefoy
and Annie Parisse
485
00:20:18,532 --> 00:20:20,000
and Shawn Ashmore
and Natalie Zea,
486
00:20:20,067 --> 00:20:22,002
so it's been very exciting
for me to be able to do this,
487
00:20:22,069 --> 00:20:24,937
and so I think,
if people give it a shot,
488
00:20:25,005 --> 00:20:26,338
they'll get
emotionally involved.
489
00:20:26,405 --> 00:20:28,907
This is merely the prologue.
This is just the beginning.
490
00:20:28,975 --> 00:20:31,309
I'm trying to infuse it
with great characters,
491
00:20:31,377 --> 00:20:33,946
great drama,
great relationships,
492
00:20:34,014 --> 00:20:39,317
all told under this umbrella
of a thrill ride every week.
493
00:20:39,385 --> 00:20:41,885
If this ends with anything
other than your death...
494
00:20:42,522 --> 00:20:44,356
you better plan on a rewrite.
495
00:20:46,299 --> 00:21:00,594
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