Joanna Robinson

Does he take a shot of whiskey?

Does he drink orange juice?

Like every choice defines and limits at the same time.

And suddenly your every man becomes that man, depending on how the art director has decorated the apartment set.

And I didn't want anybody to know this man except in a professional capacity until it became impossible for him to keep up his professional mask anymore.

And then you get to know about his personal life.

That was a sort of rule for everybody.

Like the less we know about them personally, the more professional, the better.

And then we'll learn a nugget or two and that nugget will be defining in that moment, but it'll be specific to that moment.

The audience will then get a glimpse when it's appropriate.

So everything on that front was by design.

To not define him, but you want to know that he didn't handle loss well.

He has an abandonment issue.

He didn't deal with the loss of his mentor and having to be responsible for that as well.

Whether that's the only time he's experienced that or whether abandonment is a triggering thing for him that predates Adamson is something that we are, I am, playing with.

So whether that becomes revealed or not, blow bust.

So I think this is something that Noah Wiley had in his mind as sort of like a biographical sketch for his character.

And then he just decided to say the thing in the last episode.

I thought it was like fairly awkwardly executed in that final minute.

So that might be a reason why we didn't dwell on it.