(We) felt like we'd told David Palmer's story, we knew that there was no place more to take him. So it was a convenient way to sort of jump-start the year. |
At this point, having done it for as long as we've done it, there's a certain amount of faith you have in the process that we're going to do it. |
He was able to cite chapter and verse from the seasons. |
I can tell you that this year, we've actually decided to go smaller with the story line as compared to last season. We'll see a collision between Jack's former self and his current self. And he'll be at the center of the action as opposed to on the outside looking in as he has the past few seasons. |
I hope people will understand, I hope they'll be affected by the loss and I hope they'll miss him. Because if they do, we'll have all done our jobs. |
I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much. |
I think Carlos' recovery is probably as realistic as getting from Century City to the Ontario Airport in seven minutes. |
I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know. |
I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it. |
One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash. |
Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out. |
She's coming back. We can't tell you how. We can't tell you for how long. We can't tell you how it ends. But, other than that, we can tell you anything. |
Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law. |
The big question everybody has about Martha is whether she's Chicken Little or the boy who cried wolf. There's a heavy burden in being married to a powerful man, particularly when you're not up for the role. |
Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it. |