It was the first episode that we shot and the reason it got ordered that way is because it takes place in winter. I can’t believe this was the first episode that you shot. “Because she had gone to that extreme, she could know that character in a way that she didn’t before,” Nora tells THR.īelow, in a chat together with THR, the showrunners go inside the filming of the episode that was also directed by Johnson, share his reaction when they first pitched the idea, discuss its overarching impact on Charlie (whose fate will be revealed in next week’s season finale), and share just how invincible Charlie Cale is now that Poker Face is getting a second season.

And how bringing Charlie to the brink of death helped shape Lyonne’s approach to the character as they continued to shoot the rest of the show. What’s most surprising, in chatting with the Zuckermans, is to hear that the episode was actually the first one they filmed of the 10-episode season. He nearly gets away with it, if his ankle bracelet hadn’t been swiped by Charlie - who is last seen clutching it and still-breathing in the final moment. To cover his tracks, Trey kills both Jimmy and Morty, and leaves Charlie for dead in a tree where he previously dumped the other body. As Charlie puts her human lie detector skill to work, she realizes that Trey has killed in the past, and that both Trey and Jimmy covered up the dead body. When it’s revealed that Charlie is in fact the injured party, the two women end up stranded in a motel lodge with Trey and his friend Jimmy (played by David Castañeda). The episode pulls off a bait-and-switch, after first suggesting Charlie’s on-the-road companion, Morty (played by Everything Everywhere All at Oncestar Stephanie Hsu), as the possible victim. When a winter blizzard blows out the power - and his GPS ankle monitor - Trey (Gordon-Levitt) goes on a wild drive through the storm and hits a woman, who is later revealed to be Charlie.

The episode introduces Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the weekly villain, with the Johnson favorite playing a white collar criminal on house arrest for insider trading.

“And having Charlie as the victim was this really kind of jaw-dropping realization that we could do something like that within the structures of this show.” “We have always endeavored to stay true to our structure and to our formula, but find new ways to tell a story in there,” Lilla Zuckerman, who co-wrote the episode with her sister and fellow showrunner Nora Zuckerman, tells The Hollywood Reporter. Seth MacFarlane's 'Ted' Prequel Series Releases Trailer, Premiere Date

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