But the final trick pulled at the end of this week’s episode was quite the doozy.
Only it wasn’t a trick after all.
Is that really Tony’s dead body, or yet another ruse from the master illusionist?
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Did Silas who has a history of violence seriously just bash the dude’s face in?
And where’s Percy?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:We’re going to start at the very end.
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First off, can you confirm that is Tony’s body with his face bashed in?
MATT NEGRETE: I can confirm that, yes.
With these grifters, you never know.
It’s a decent con, but by all appearances… No, it’s Tony.
So let’s do some follow-up questions which you’re going to have to dance around.
We don’t know.
When Iris came in and was looking around, she saw Tony’s body… His face bashed in.
Silas' bloody wrench was right there.
There was a trail of blood that went out through this broken window.
It does not look good for Percy.
Then what are we to make of the bloody Silas in that stall?
Obviously, we saw him earlier not looking too happy with the way things are going.
I think Silas is someone who has a hard time maybe fitting in with others.
He and Iris were sort of hitting it off.
Now that Tony and Percy were on the scene, that definitely changed things.
During the earlier Truth or Dare game, we saw that Silas opted not to drink.
Then at the end there, we see him clutching this open bottle, which could be booze.
You brought up the Truth or Dare game.
That rite of passage we all went through is not even part of their post-apocalyptic upbringing.
Those are always the things that for me and also the writers, we always look for.
Playing drinking games is a rite of passage.
Percy’s definitely more worldly.
He’s seen more, he’s probably done more.
Yeah, it’s just a final detail we decided to throw in there.
Let’s get into the Huck of it all.
We see all these flashbacks to her days as a Marine.
What is her relationship to this fellow marine with the scar of his cheek?
He is her spotter.
She’s a sniper, he is her spotter.
They have this professional relationship.
As a sniper, you depend on your spotter.
Your spotter is everything.
You have to be simpatico with the other in that situation to not get yourself killed.
That’s obviously something that weighs on her to this day.
That seems kind of extreme.
Huck’s an extreme person.
She saved people, but she also had to kill people to save people.
That’s something she lives with every day and that’s her reminder.
Yeah, it’s definitely a more dramatic reminder, but a reminder nonetheless.
It’s one thing to disobey a direct order in the military.
That’s a big deal.
It’s another to shoot and kill your fellow troops.
This is something that feels so profoundly wrong with her.
That’s just not something she can do.
Ultimately, she finds a way out by kicking the lights and doing some damage to her fellow soldiers.
You think she made the right call?
I had a lot of discussions with [actress Annet Mahendru] about this.
One of the questions she asked me after reading the script is, “Was it worth it?
Did she save more people than she killed?”
That was something we talked about, and I think she did.
For her, it was definitely worth it.
It also ties in directly as she relates her own experience to Hope.
We see Hope then take that in and agree with that.
I guess then the question to you is: Will Hope remain strong in that way?
Will that secret remain a secret now?
Does this at least for now put this issue to bed somewhat?
I would say it’s put to bed for now.
I think that Hope’s takeaway here is that she’s doing exactly what you said.
She’s living with the bad so other people can remain innocent and pure.
I think that’s what she wants for Elton.
That’s where she’s at now.
I do think it will probably take something potentially profound for that to change.
So, we’ll see if that happens.
Okay, so what’s coming up next onWorld Beyond?
That cliffhanger will be resolved very soon going into the final stretch of episodes.
I think it’s everything coming to a head.
The final three episodes really deal with this group, what’s happened so far and the aftermath.
I’ll say that relationships will be tested.
We’re going to see some riffs between characters that I think are going to be surprising for people.
The CRM will also factor in in a big, big way as we get into this final stretch.
Yeah, I’m really excited for people to see it.
Next week’s episode is really fantastic.
The stakes are just getting higher and higher as we ramp up to get into the season.
