![]() The tough thing for us when writing the show is trying to make sure each character tries to maintain that moral center where, at least in their minds, they believe they’re doing the right thing. So putting Ari down, in their minds, is the moral thing to do. Also, Ari could damage them and Paul could end up in jail because of it. We tried to set Ari up as a really bad guy and Briggs knows: If he lets Ari know, if Ari gets into the system, who knows? Could Ari escape? Could Ari do whatever else? Yeah. … The difference is for somebody like Jakes or Johnny or Charlie or Paige, there still is a very intense moral compass happening and the real hard part is when you know somebody bad like with Ari. Will we find more about her? Hopefully it’s much more interesting than what she’s led on.įor our agents, there’s a big difference between them crossing the line and their bosses knowing they’ve crossed the line. If we get a season four, a lot is what happens with Jakes and Courtney. He’s got this beautiful woman now who’s perfect by his side so for Jakes there was really no choice. He’s not going to do well in a cage, and decides to be on the run. They’ve all been complicit in so much that Mike throwing out that threat that of, “Oh, by the way, lawyer up,” Jakes was warning about lawyering up last year, and it becomes the final straw for him. We were stumped because those are the things where you reveal them and you think that wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but in this case, I actually thought it was good.įor us, a lot of it was just looking at Jakes’ character and saying, “Where does this guy go?” Jakes has always been the guy who complained and he came out here for his kid and all this stuff, and everybody in this house has become so damaged by everything that’s happened. We had never figured out that one until the finale. Jakes has always talked about - even from the first season - that there was a secret that Briggs had on him, this favor that was owed. What about Jakes’ storyline in the finale? We debated how best to do that but we decided finally just to have Ari leaning up against that pillar with his eyes closed. That was something we had worked out early on. He has to take on Ari’s sins by killing him to protect everyone in the house. We also knew from the beginning that for everything with Ari, there was only one outcome: that Briggs has to take on the role of executioner. For Briggs, we asked, “How do we get out of this?” By manipulating things so he can sweep things under the rug. … In the real case, the agent that ran him like Briggs was running Ari is still serving time in prison. We really copied the Whitey Bulger story. ![]() When he sees that nobody is going to help him, he starts using Mike’s diary as a guidepost. ![]() Briggs, in episode five after Colby dies, decides, “I’m going to go after these guys” - that’s actually when the plan begins to form. Mike says at one point, “I gave Briggs a road map to my mind and he ran with it,” and that really was the idea for Mike’s death even last year moving forward. The idea that Mike would have this near-death experience, come back and feel that he had been given a mission, we realized that’s a really cool thing for Briggs to manipulate. ![]() What we looked at was, OK, Briggs is really good at manipulating people and especially manipulating Mike. People had asked me, “Did you ever plan to kill Mike?” and the answer was no. There were really three big storylines we wanted to play with this year. How did you decide on this finale? How did you reach this conclusion? See where we take it,” creator Jeff Eastin tells THR.”] My real hope is that people thought it was worth the ride. We just hoped that it was going to be compelling and interesting. It’s some of the better stuff I’ve ever worked on in my career. … I’m really, really proud of those last two episodes. We treated the last two episodes as a big two-parter. ![]() This year was really about building the arcs up from the beginning and trying to give them some, hopefully, really good endings - from Briggs’ execution of Ari to Jakes running with the money - all that we built into it. I have to admit in the past, we’ve said, “Alright, we have to top ourselves this year.” On White Collar, because we had those midseason finales, in six years we kind of did 12 finales. How much pressure did you feel to top that or one-up that huge twist? You were coming off of a huge finale last year that really threw people. ![]()
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