BWW Interviews: 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY Producers Discuss Tragic Death of Fan-Favorite Character

The season finale of 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY aired on Monday, and recently Showrunners and Executive Producers Manny Coto and Evan Katz spoke to reporters about the show's successful return to the air. Yesterday, BWW posted the majority of that conversation, but we saved the spoilers for after the finale aired.

Whether or not you watched last night's finale, check out my review of the episode, and the season as a whole in the latest edition of BWW Spoiler Alert! In the final episode of the season, Jack Bauer's on-again, off-again love Audrey Raines Boudreau is killed by an assassin sent by Cheng Zhi.

When asked about why they chose to use time jumps in the final episode:

Manny Coto: Given that tragic ending, we knew we wanted a dénouement that would take place after people had processed what has happened. We knew that that would be a good place for a 12 hour time jump, and it felt right to do the time jump at that point.

You give William Devane quite a memorable last scene, and I think that scene's going to mean a lot to a lot of people. It's such a powerful scene, and congratulations on it, but can you talk about what's behind that?

M.C.: Just on a personal level, myself, having come from a family that has lost a sibling and having seen how my parents reacted to such a tragedy; there really is almost no tragedy worse than to lose one of your children. We knew that Devane was in this position of having this disease that was going to take him over, and it just felt like that his mind would have to go there. This is not a kind of pain that is going to be solved, this is not a pain that's going to go away.

Devane, his character takes comfort in the fact that he won't remember, and that's really the only way that this kind of tragedy ever gets resolved. The pain of something like that is never going to fade. He goes to this place, and it's a very dark place; it's a thought that's tinged with even a greater layer of tragedy, the fact that he's actually going to forget his daughter, but he's going to forget the fact that she also died in this horrible way. It felt like an honorable way to touch upon his situation for the season. Devane played it beautifully, it's one of his best moments in the season and we were very, very, very happy with the way it came out. Obviously, I think whatever you write, obviously, will come after the premiere, right?

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