SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the first episode of FoxsAccused.
Ultimately, he cant go through with it.
Only, he doesnt use the money for a trip.
Michael Chiklis, AccusedSteve Wilkie/FOX
So you get to take that real truth and process it adjacent to actual events.
DEADLINE:Why did you think this was the right story to kick off the series?
So will you yo stick with that one?
But we had to think: Is this going to be something?
Ultimately this one stuck with us.
We said lets not program out of fear.
What would you do if you knew?
Thats now become impossibly commonplace.
Were both in shock, traumatized and numbed by the frequency of it.
One of the questions people always ask is, Well, surely the parents must have known.
How could they not have known?
And that is that idea.
All dramatic things tend to start with a question, and a curiosity and thats what haunted me.
Then the whole idea of the idea of the parent or parents being legally complicit.
It was a line that I actually omitted initially from the cut.
It was always in the script.
So its just a challenging line.
Especially when it comes to your own child.
[Scott] is a neurosurgeon.
DEADLINE:Im glad you brought up that last line.
Shes obviously in denial from the very beginning.
He thought he was the protector but of course, couldnt bring himself to do it.
Then he actually learns from her that she wishes hed done it.
The fact that she reaches out for his hand was where we ended it before.
So just a moment of grace and acceptance.
DEADLINE:How did you craft the narrative structure for the show?
How did you know when was the right time to reveal certain pieces of information?
GORDON:Thats very similar to the central question of the show.
Its really trial and error.
What brings you back to these stories?
So you get to take that real truth and process it adjacent to actual events.
These are stories that really probably could only have been told, for a variety of reasons, today.
GORDON:Oh, my God, of course I worry.
I will say, trying to second guess or being afraid is not a good way to go.
I mean, after 9/11, they were even talking about pulling the show before it aired.
We had to revise it a bit, but I think in the end people wanted to process.
I think thats what dramas are meant to do make you think and make you feel.
Have you two spoken about this together?
How probable is Jack Bauers return?
GORDON:We mentioned it idly sometimes.
We dont want to do it just to do it, or just to bring people back in.
The trick is that that show was of a very specific time.
The real question is how does that show and that character come back today?
I dont think we could do24orHomelandtoday.
