Revolution left us with some questions answered and many more questions to answer. After spending nearly half the season trying to get Danny back, they did and in turn found out that Charlie and Dannys mother is in fact still alive. Her and their father were part of a team of scientists who helped invent the very technology that resulted in the complete loss of power and technology around the world.
It’s still unclear how the small pendants went from localized power loss to worldwide. Or how the pendants now bring the power back instead of taking it away. Rachael built Monroe an amplifier which allows the pendants power to work at a much larger range, giving him the ability to use military helicopters, as we saw at the end of the last episode.
We had a chance to talk with the showers executive producer Eric Kripke and star Elizabeth Mitchell (Rachael Matheson). Here is what we can expect as we go into the second half of season 1, starting with episode 11 “The Stand”.
Quick Answers
We got to ask Kripke about the mystery and the reveals coming up and just what we can expect from the season 1 finale. He reveals that Rachael will give us a lot of information by episode 13.
Rachel reveals pretty much every single thing there is to know about why the blackout happened and every time I watch that scene, that scene that is like — and she’s brilliant in it — but that scene’s a hard swallow every time because you’re like wow we’re just saying it. And it goes against many of your baked-in sure weather instincts are not to have the scene that reveals every single thing in three minutes. And so we reveal really why the blackout happened but the card I think we have up our sleeve is I think the explanation really opens the door to a much greater story possibility.
He went on to explain that in the season finale:
It’s risky and it’s surprising that but I think it turns out okay because there’s so many other storylines about the characters, who they were, we ask a few more questions, we pose a few new mysteries. But I will say having just I’m literally turning in the season finale later today and having now in detail seen what happens through the end of the season, I think we answer most if not all the questions that are being posed. And then we start asking new ones but that is as is my way.
The Scientists
Many questions have been raised about Randall, Grace and the other group of scientists that have been revealed to be behind the blackout. We can say that starting with episode 11, which airs March 25th, we start to get a bigger picture of Graces role and what the location she was taken to is. In fact Kripke teases “the place where they are really starts to become important to story to the point where it starts to have its own gravitational pull in the story, not literally, figuratively, and every character starts getting drawn closer and closer towards it because it’s such an important location and because what Grace is doing there is so important.”
The Family Ties That Bind
Rachael, now back with her two kids has a lot of mending and relationship building to do as both Danny and Charlie have many questions for her. It’s a complex relationship that is only further complicated with a checkered past with Miles. There is clearly a strained relationship between the two of them and in episode 11, we will see a “moonlight scene between Miles and Rachael” that will shed some light on just what is hiding underneath all that unspoken stress.
Rachael has a lot more to deal with than just family, she has some personal scores to settle, most importantly with Monroe. Remember she build the amplifier for him and we see him launch the helicopters and in the mid-season trailer we know that a lot of death comes with this new technology. She partially blames herself but she promises to get them some power of their own and right her wrongs.
When talking about Rachael, Elizabeth had this to say.
She wants to be with her children. She wants to kill Monroe. I think that Rachel is somewhat, in my mind of course but everyone feels that way about their own character, such a tragic figure. She’s tried so hard to do the right thing for so long and she’s possibly one of the worst people I think. I think that her mindset is on survival and her mindset is on revenge and in a horrible awkward way her mind is on good parenting which she’s not very good at. But I think the sad thing was that she probably at one time truly was. So it’s just what this world has created and she’s a direct reflection of that.
So her mindset is revenge, love and trying to do the right thing.
We have much more to share once the mid-season episode airs March 25th on NBC so keep tuned and watch for more of our interview with Elizabeth Mitchell and Eric Kripke.
