Interviewed by TV Insider’s Meredith Jacobs, 9-1-1 Lone Star showrunner Tim Minear breaks down the season 2 finale and reveals how a phone call with Billy Burke changed some major plans and how Owen’s fight with Billy ‘gives him a sense of purpose’.
Now that the show has been renewed by FOX, all we have to do is to be patient and wait for it to come back next January. Filmimg should start this summer.
MJ: How much are you planning on having Billy around? I love the scenes with those two.
TM: I do, too. It’s so funny because when I asked Billy Burke to come back this year, we were talking about the serial arsonist story. And for a while, Billy was going to be the arsonist. It’s just how you figure out a story. You have all these different possibilities and what’s the answer to it? Billy called me, and I didn’t have any scripts. I told him, “This is what I’m thinking. This is what I would like to do.” And he said, “Do I die?” At that time I said, “Yes, there’s going to be a big heroic death for Billy. And he’s going to help Owen take down the arsonist and everyone will have suspected it was Billy, but it won’t have been and he’s going to die.” Then he asked me not to kill him. It’s not like he was saying he wouldn’t do it, but he’s like, “You’re bringing me in to kill me.” At that moment I realized, “Well, I guess I don’t need to kill him.” That was the moment where I got the idea that he could come back in the finale and be the new deputy chief and just throw a giant wrench into the works. Because I do love those characters together. And I think Billy is such a great character because I really like him and every time you feel like you can finally trust the guy, he’ll turn around and do something morally ambiguous. I love that.
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