![]() ![]() It's impossible to think of Sharon saying "by any means." Although that is a legal term and it is a term that you sometimes hear, it is impossible to imagine Sharon saying those words. That was also something that we demanded of ourselves: This story had to be what they were prepared to do without Sharon. And what would the challenge be for the squad? We could not have told this story this way with Sharon in place. So we took on the assignment of, why would Phillip Stroh come back, and how can we tell his whole story? Who would his accomplice be-because he always has one. TNT had ordered us to do these longer-form stories-five-parters and four-parters. We always knew that we were going to finish with Phillip Stroh this year. She called from the road and shared our final day with us. So suddenly she had some time off in September her kids were out of school, and she and her husband went on a fall road trip and had a blast. She'd never had off, believe it or not! She and her husband had never had off in the fall, ever, in their whole lives. Mary called in on our last day of shooting and talked to everybody on speakerphone. But it also helped people accept it, like, "Okay, this is what we're doing." It really helped us appreciate the last few episodes we had together as a working family. It was a very, very difficult parting, and lots of people were hurt, angry, and upset. There was no reason other than the change in direction from our network why we should go because the audience wasn't asking us to go. When you think about it, a lot of the people who were here, we were together for more than 13 years we went through kindergarten and graduated high school together, and started off college. It was like watching your home disappear. Ages before other people, we were watching the show. ![]() And as we got to the very end, you saw, it could not have ended this way if Sharon had been around. I've felt an obligation to write from my soul to my heart this ending. They run and they run and they run people come to them and they arrive at them. I didn't do the right thing just for the people who are watching now. I feel like I did the right thing-not just for now. We wanted to give the show a mythic structure for its last four episodes, five episodes, and that's what we did. Also, I would point out that the character archetype who leads their heroes to the final battle but does not get to participate in that final battle, is as old as Western thought. This was the way we thought we could accomplish a lot of different goals, with this one action. How do we want to manage that?" And we also wanted to give viewers a chance to mourn with us as we fade to black-a chance to grieve the show and to accept that the show is over, that the show has ceased. Mary and I looked at each other and said, "This is obviously dead. I wasn't going to put her on the shelf and hold her there just to see if something would happen on some wild hope. This is what would have happened: Mary would have been trapped inside our show after it had literally died, and she would not be offered work. We knew the show was finished even though that has not been announced. There was a chance, actually, that they could've ordered more episodes after we finished the run, and we didn't want that to happen either. Not because we didn't know that they were going to do it-it's just that we didn't know they were going to do it then. Well, we had no idea they were going to cancel us before we even aired that was a huge surprise. ![]() Also, we knew we were not going to be back because of the way the network had treated us. Let me start with the creative reasons: I have an actor in a leading role who has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and I wanted to give her something extraordinary to play. ![]()
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