EW:In last week’s postmortem, you said the threat to pregnant Winona (The Following‘s Natalie Zea) would yield one of the best scenes the series has ever done. You did not lie.
GRAHAM YOST: The idea of a big shootout in the nursery just appealed to our dark, twisted Justified sense of a really horrific place for something like this to happen. The first time they did it, Winona shot the bad guy in the leg, and then Raylan [Timothy Olyphant] took over. Then they decided to try it once or twice with her actually firing as well. That was just an option we had in editing, and we went for it. We thought it was cool to see her firing the gun at this bastard.
Will the baby be born next season?
It is our expectation that we would see little Raylette or Raylene born in season 5. [STV note: Please don't go with those names. Those names are terrible!]
Did you always know how this would ultimately play out: With Ava ending the season in handcuffs?
We wanted her to end the season in handcuffs, the question was what was it going to be [a result of], and we danced around many different things: Was she gonna kill Johnny in a public place and get arrested for that? Was she going to kill [Officer] Mooney? I remember getting a call from the room and they had this pitch for them trying to move the body, and I thought that’s cool because it’s kinda gruesome, and weird, and it allowed for a lot of sick, funny jokes.
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GRAHAM YOST: The idea of a big shootout in the nursery just appealed to our dark, twisted Justified sense of a really horrific place for something like this to happen. The first time they did it, Winona shot the bad guy in the leg, and then Raylan [Timothy Olyphant] took over. Then they decided to try it once or twice with her actually firing as well. That was just an option we had in editing, and we went for it. We thought it was cool to see her firing the gun at this bastard.
Will the baby be born next season?
It is our expectation that we would see little Raylette or Raylene born in season 5. [STV note: Please don't go with those names. Those names are terrible!]
Did you always know how this would ultimately play out: With Ava ending the season in handcuffs?
We wanted her to end the season in handcuffs, the question was what was it going to be [a result of], and we danced around many different things: Was she gonna kill Johnny in a public place and get arrested for that? Was she going to kill [Officer] Mooney? I remember getting a call from the room and they had this pitch for them trying to move the body, and I thought that’s cool because it’s kinda gruesome, and weird, and it allowed for a lot of sick, funny jokes.
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ADAM BRYANT, TV Guide: Given that the Drew story wrapped up before the finale, you didn't have something like last year's bloody showdown. It was a considerably quieter finale.
Yost: We found ourselves referring to Quentin Tarantino's work a lot in the last third of the season. The way Kill Bill was structured, there was the big huge shootout at the club and [then] all of the confrontations got smaller and smaller until the very end when Thurman is sitting across the table from Carradine. The last episode starts really big [with] Raylan and Winona versus these three thugs in the nursery. Then things got smaller and smaller until it's just Raylan and Nicky Augustine in the back of the limo. We didn't feel that we would be satisfied if Raylan just pulled a gun and shot Nicky.
Boyd seemed conflicted when he accepted Duffy's proposal. Will he definitely see that through?
Yost: Yes. I mean, he wants money and he wants security and all of that. But he also is just obsessed with his loss of Ava at this point and what is he going to do about that.
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Yost: We found ourselves referring to Quentin Tarantino's work a lot in the last third of the season. The way Kill Bill was structured, there was the big huge shootout at the club and [then] all of the confrontations got smaller and smaller until the very end when Thurman is sitting across the table from Carradine. The last episode starts really big [with] Raylan and Winona versus these three thugs in the nursery. Then things got smaller and smaller until it's just Raylan and Nicky Augustine in the back of the limo. We didn't feel that we would be satisfied if Raylan just pulled a gun and shot Nicky.
Boyd seemed conflicted when he accepted Duffy's proposal. Will he definitely see that through?
Yost: Yes. I mean, he wants money and he wants security and all of that. But he also is just obsessed with his loss of Ava at this point and what is he going to do about that.
Source: TV Guide
I'm so glad Justified will be back next year. Got any early scoop on Season 5? — Evan
ADAM: Walton Goggins seems pretty confident that, after Ava's arrest, we'll see more of heartbroken Boyd next season, despite his new heroin partnership with Wynn Duffy. "He has everything that he's ever wanted, except the only thing that really mattered to him," Goggins says. "To be away from Ava is his worst nightmare." So, will Ava's sad fate inspire Boyd to turn his back once and for all on his outlaw ways? Probably not. Then again, Goggins says, "In the life that he's chosen and the price that he's ultimately paying, I think this is a man who will probably be disgusted with himself. I don't know that he's ever felt that before."
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ADAM: Walton Goggins seems pretty confident that, after Ava's arrest, we'll see more of heartbroken Boyd next season, despite his new heroin partnership with Wynn Duffy. "He has everything that he's ever wanted, except the only thing that really mattered to him," Goggins says. "To be away from Ava is his worst nightmare." So, will Ava's sad fate inspire Boyd to turn his back once and for all on his outlaw ways? Probably not. Then again, Goggins says, "In the life that he's chosen and the price that he's ultimately paying, I think this is a man who will probably be disgusted with himself. I don't know that he's ever felt that before."
Source: TV Guide
