By Peter White. Season three of started with a tsunami enveloping Santa Monica pier and ended with a massive train crash. Gray and Kristen Reidel also serving as executive producers. Was the towering inferno of a train always the plan for that final episode?
We had talked about bringing Abby back, bringing Connie Britton back, for the finale, and the idea of the train derailment sort of happened simultaneously.
It was almost like, well, what if a call from like a train derailment came into the call center, and Maddie took a call from a woman who sounds like she knows an awful lot about the protocol. So, I asked her, and she said yes, and so, suddenly, I had where we wanted to go for the finale.
So, did I get to where I wanted to go? Yeah, completely. Like, exactly the thing that I had hoped for, we did. Does this give her character and Buck closure, is that her story now closed? So, I felt Buck need to sit across from her and look at her and say what the hell happened? So, if for no other reason than that, I think it allows Buck to stop attributing any growth on his part in the last year to his, you know, brief relationship with this one person.
Now, he can realize his train never came off the track. We finished production on both Lone Star and right before all this happened.
