There’s a lot of mountains in Montana, which might explain all the cliffhangers inBig Sky.
What will this rescue mean for the show?
But ultimately, he admitted his role in the kidnapping to her.
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With Legarski caught, what will Ronald do next?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is the winter finale, but it’s only episode 5.
JONATHAN SHAPIRO:Any time you work on aDavid E. Kelleyshow you plan.
And then you throw the plans out if a story takes you to places you didn’t expect.
From the beginning, David created a rollercoaster ride.
How long can you keep these poor women locked up in a trailer?
At some point, it just becomes sadistic.
Were there any conversations about rescuing them but leaving both Legarski and Ronald at large?
Some of this is the result of adapting something that already existed, the wonderful C.J.
Box books that tell this story.
The thing is that you’re free to’t make them wait too long.
Will he still be a threat?
What can we expect from him going forward?
He’s a complicated animal.
It’s hard to know whether he feels regret.
I think he feels regret.
I think he feels compulsion.
I think he feels that old-fashioned concept of guilt.
But I also think there’s a tremendous sort of animalistic instinct for survival.
He could turn his life around.
He may turn it around.
I, for one, am rooting for him, but I don’t have a lot of hope.
I’m not sure Ronald has admitted he has a problem.
Merilee has issues with Rick, but she also fiercely defended him to Cassie.
How might she react to the news of his death and what hes been up to?
And one of the great things about being married is your spouse occasionally has to forgive you.
See this was like when people asked me who did it onThe Undoing.
I don’t know what to say to you.
If I tell you, you’d be unhappy.
And if I don’t…
Cassie is a private detective.
Her actions are justifiable, but she still shot a cop.
Will she have to face questioning or legal ramifications for it?
There will be repercussions.
There will certainly be repercussions and there’s the absolute possibility of there being legal repercussions.
It’s in the midst of this kidnapping.
So it’s a complicated question.
You were originally set to be 8 episodes now youve doubled to 16.
How does that change your storytelling or the arc you had planned?
We always have a go at plan for success.
In our minds, we’d always thought that that we would be going beyond the 8.
Cassie and Jenny are just extraordinary characters and not people we’ve seen portrayed.
It’s sort of a neo-noir Western.
The difference is the lawmen are law-women and not the sheriff.
They’re free, in a way, to pursue justice without the constraints of official authority.
I think everybody started their careers on internet TV.
Maybe not, but I did.
So, I’m sort of used to this process.
There’s a tremendous amount of freedom within the framework of constraint.
If you know you’ve got 10 episodes, you know exactly how you have to plot the story.
You’ve got to be prepared to always start strong, and have a strong ending.
Since the show premiered, theres beenan ongoing conversation and pushback from indigenous groups.
Will that come forward or play a more direct role in the storytelling at any point this season?
There’s a conversation, and that’s to my mind, a great thing.
Frankly, we had always intended to include indigenous people’s involvement.
It would be wrong not to portray that.
We always thought we would.
The source material, the C.J.
Box book that we' re specifically adapting, these were the characters.
To be true to the material, we’re working with those characters.
What they did was not kidnap girls like we’re seeing in the pilot.
They kidnapped other types of women.
But this is a point that’s very important to me.
I did civil rights prosecutions.I was a federal prosecutor.
I also handled cases on Native American reservations, involving fraud against the tribes.
But I welcome the conversation.
This show was a hunt for these missing girls.
Now, theyve been found.
So, whats next?
Does it become a different show?
Do we still stay with the three of them in the aftermath?
It’s going to be just as fascinating.
How would you tease the premiere in January?
