So we’re all caught up on the story of Dinah and the Brothers of Nablus, but surely there are other goodies from this week’s episode that went unnoticed? Thankfully, you’ve got us goofy folk to share what we know.
As this episode was actually shot before The Tower…, this truly marked Stephanie Jacobson’s first days on set as Jesse. In fact, the first scenes she shot on our show were with Derek in bed! Nothing says “nice to meet you” like playing footsies under the covers.
The set used for Dr. Ostrowski’s dental office is actually the reconfigured set previously used for Ellison’s FBI office (as well as Dr. Sherman’s office). It lives on one of our sound stages here on the Warner Bros studio lot.
Speaking of reusing sets, the slick hotel pool where Jesse lounges may look like a location stolen from an episode of Entourage, but it’s actually the same pool (completely redressed) that we used to shoot all of the underwater footage during Cromartie’s Johnny Cash/FBI massacre last season. Props to our good gals and guys that cleaned out all of the old blood. We tease.
When Cromartie skips ahead of the line to talk to Rita, the social worker, at the halfway house, he tries to tell her that he’s her uncle. In turn, she responds sarcastically, “And I’m Angelina Jolie.” Ironically enough (we swear we didn’t know!), Jillian Armenante, the actress, is actually close friends with the star of Changeling — and even co-starred with her in the film Girl, Interrupted!
We did intentionally script the grocery items John and Riley pick up at the store. After all, the Connors only seem to eat a few things — pancakes (see: the series Pilot) and turkey meat (see: John’s snack in Gnothi Seauton). Buy what you know.
Cameron executes the waste of space robbers in the bowling alley because they are liabilities — they know where the Connors live, who they are, etc — right in front of Sarah. If this scene mirrors another one from earlier in the series, it’s intentional. When Cameron shoots Enrique in Gnothi Seauton, Sarah struggles with it and even slaps Cameron. But Sarah doesn’t react to the murders in Brothers of Nablus. Has she simply grown accustomed to Cameron’s strategy? Or did Andy Goode rebuilding the Turk actually teach her a lesson?
Robber Tristan Dewitt’s short film is called The Lightning in My Wires and won second place in the Sandusky Film Festival, 1993. Sounds… artsy. Meanwhile, the amazingly cool film Tristan pitches his friends at the bowling alley (Abraham Lincoln fighting zombies) is an actual film that a few members of this here T:SCC writers’ office have been working on for some time now. Keep your eyes peeled for it in the future…
Brothers of Nablus was written by Ian Goldberg of What He Beheld (and Related, the WB series) fame and directed by bigtime TV director, Milan Cheylov.
And who can forget Cameron’s fight to get back her purple leather jacket? True fans will recognize that jacket from the first season (she wears it to the high school a few times), as well as this publicity photo. Ahhhh, crazy robot.
