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What I have seen, more than that, is that Reddington’s life, up until the point where he turned himself into the FBI, and probably because of the myriad of reasons why he did that, was ready to take a shift, anyway. SPADER: I’m not so sure whether they’ve changed him. Given our show, I don’t think anything is as simple as it may appear. It’s funny, I wonder whether that will continue to be the most important question that people ask or wonder about or are curious about, as the show goes on, or whether the more immediate stories and relationships, and the nature of those relationships, will eventually become more compelling.

And once you’ve started taking all of those back roads, the back roads become much more interesting than the destination. You can have an idea of the larger art, but the lifespan of the show dictates how circuitous the route has to be.

That makes it hard to have a very specific roadmap. Our show could last two years, or it could last seven years or more.

#JAME SPADER SERIES#

It is very, very hard to predict roadmap of a television series, especially a broadcast network television series that does not have a finite lifespan. Now that you are in Season 2 and you see the clues that have been dropped, how do you feel about it? You’ve said in the past that you would be disappointed if Red turned out to be Elizabeth’s father because you thought that would be too easy. And she is someone who has been living a very different life, away from him, until the events of the day drag her back into his life. SPADER: I can’t, except that she is someone from his past, and it’s a very complicated relationship. What can you say about Mary Louise Parker’s character this season, and how Naomi is tied to Red? I don’t know if I can really speak to that, in an articulate way, without telling you something that I shouldn’t tell. But, it will be very hard predict how this season unfolds and whether that will translate into major characters on our show disappearing. One wouldn’t have to be a wizard to realize that we will be in a cliffhanger situation where, for very practical purposes, we are going to need people curious and hanging in there. SPADER: There is no question that, on our show, we attempt to turn things on their ear when we are able, and that is certainly a very effective way of doing that, but it really has to relate to story, and it did last year. He has to conduct his relations with the FBI in a very different manner, considering the events of last year. That has entirely changed, in the second half of the first season and going into the second season. Prior to that point, he was conducting in-person communication with the FBI taskforce. The protocol for how Red operated changed dramatically. But it was clear, after the incursion at the FBI facility, everything changed. I think that will only increase and change direction. I think that was something that he felt he needed to flush Fitch out of the bushes and get him to engage. His relationship with Fitch, played by Alan Alda, really didn’t come to the fore until he turned himself in. By making such a dramatic move as that, he put a lot of people into play that were still in the shadows. But then, also, the avenues that would be open to him by an association with the FBI were necessary, considering what he saw in the near future, which we’ve already gotten a taste of. SPADER: I think that the circumstances had reached a tipping point, where he felt that he needed to make tangible contact with Elizabeth Keen. She may be assuming that it was her father, but we’ve never said whether it was her father or not.Īt this point, what are Red’s feelings about working with the FBI? Will he be as cooperative as he was, last season? The other thing to remember is that Elizabeth Keen has spoken of a memory of being in a fire when she was a child and somebody pulling her out of that fire. That is just percolating for a little bit. JAMES SPADER: We are shooting Episode 4, right now, in the second season, and that story has not been extrapolated on. What can we expect from that part of the story, this season? Question: In the Season 1 finale, we saw the burn scars on Red, after we had heard that Liz’s father rushed into a fire to rescue her.

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