![]() He really had to go for reasons that, if there's ever a book sequel, will become clear. ![]() I think there are two reasons that Owen was so - let's call it succinct, so we don't kill him - in the "protect her" note, and one was a time thing. So watching those two actors perform in that scene, was a big few days for me. And the reason they go there is for this kid that they both love, even if it means for Hannah sacrificing Owen, and even if it means for Nicholas really sacrificing everything he thought he was capable of doing in the interest of having a relationship with his granddaughter. I thought about it in terms of almost being a three-act play in which they're meeting, they're in conflict, and the resolution is going to be somewhere neither of them thought they would ever go. But what we had here was that it was really a meeting of the mind and a manipulation. Because often, in a thriller or a mystery, that would be the moment where guns would come out blazing or someone would be choked from behind or what have you. ![]() Because when I wrote that in the book, everything in me was writing toward that exchange, toward that meeting. ![]() That would be the conversation between David Morse, the actor playing Nicholas Bell, and Jen, playing Hannah Hall, in episode 7. ![]()
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