

One such scene includes Wolgast braiding Amy’s hair as she finally admits to him the full extent of her new abilities.

Heldens admits she didn’t expect to follow so many characters during this time period, since she still considers Wolgast and Amy the “beating heart” of the story and because the time they spent in the book after escaping Project Noah was “a lot of people’s favorite section in the book.” Heldens calls the scenes in which Wolgast is preparing Amy for the days when he won’t be around for her “some of the most beautiful work we’ve done all year.” … And then of course with Wolgast and Amy.” “Then when we’re with Richards we’re at a local level - he’s in Las Vegas with Babcock. “We were following the epidemic at kind of a global level through because they fall in with the World Health Center, so they’re seeing how the world is reacting to the crisis,” Heldens says. The 100-year time jump was the biggest, but first, the show flashed forward a much shorter amount of time as key characters watched 11 major areas in the United States fall to individual viral reign as each of the convicts-turned-immortal supernatural beings went home and began to feed. While the first of these two episodes were focused on characters such as Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Lila (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and Amy escaping Project Noah as the virals also broke out of their boxes to begin their takeover of the world, the season finale pushed the story forward in time in two distinct but extremely significant ways. However, she was happy to see the plan they made stuck because “they really are a good one-two punch.” Heldens says as she and her writers’ room broke story for the season, they operated under the impression that they would “probably” run this way but didn’t allow themselves to assume the scheduling plans they had made would turn out to be definite. She is completely a warrior now,” Heldens says.įox aired the last two episodes of the first season of “The Passage,” entitled “Stay in the Light” and the apt “Last Lesson,” back-to-back on Mar. “I remember the little girl at the fair and then…to see her with those braids and she looks just so ferocious and brave, that to me is what, when I watch the last episode, gives me chills. More important than the world Amy had inherited, though, Heldens wanted to focus on who the girl was in 2116.

We wanted to really allow ourselves time to get with our production designer and really make that wall look the way we wanted to look for Season 2.” “We wanted to really send that signal, but also you’ll notice it’s kind of in silhouette you don’t see too much detail. “For the people who read the book and love the book, which I count myself one of, we wanted to show the wall of the Colony,” she says. But because the moment came at the tail end of the episode and lasted only for one scene of Amy (Saniyya Sidney), barely aged at all thanks to Project Noah’s virus flowing through her veins, heading to the Colony, Heldens wanted to offer the audience just a peek at what could come to be should the show get renewed. Heldens acknowledges that such a drastic change also allows for re-piloting in a way. “It just seemed like such a huge, game-changing reset.” “Jumping 100 years in the future and all of the questions that raises is one of the better cliffhangers of my career,” Heldens tells Variety. The season finale of “The Passage,” adapted by Liz Heldens from Justin Cronin’s trilogy of novels, paid off a promise set up at the very start of the source material: It jumped forward to 2116 to see what the world looked like 100 years after the virals broke out of Project Noah and ended the world. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the two-hour first season finale of “ The Passage” that aired Mar.
