Warning: Spoilers for the Lethal Weapon Season 1 finale, "Commencement," follow below...
Welp. Clayne Crawford's Riggs has taken out Cartel hitman Gideon, ending the life of the man who ordered the hit on Miranda, but everyone's favorite crazy cop isn't done yet. No, as we saw at the end of Lethal Weapon's Season 1 finale, Riggs is off on a suicide mission, determined to take down Cartel boss Tito Flores.
Murtaugh's not about to stand by and let his partner get himself killed though and in the final moments of "Commencement," Roger heads out, off on a mission to bring Riggs back (even if he had, earlier in the episode, asked to be reassigned to a new partner). But what will Roger do when he finds Riggs? Will he arrest him or help him complete his mission?
I spoke to Lethal Weapon EP Matt Miller about the end of the Season 1 finale, along with Riggs' unique style, the Delgado reveal, and some of the plans for Season 2.
IGN: At the end of the finale, Roger's off on a dangerous mission to bring back Riggs. But is he really going to do that or will he join the fight against Flores? It was sort of ambiguous.
Matt Miller: We don't know. And that's part of the idea with that cliffhanger. But what he does realize, towards the end of this episode, is that he's not going to let Riggs drown. And that's something that Riggs, if left to his own devices, would do. He was prepared to be drowned and to die. And Murtaugh has realized, by the end of this season, that no matter how crazy this guy is, no matter what he's put him through, he's not going to let him do that.
IGN: With it being revealed that Riggs' father-in-law, Delgado, was working with the Cartel, will Riggs be able to trust in family again?
Miller: I think it certainly it makes him a whole lot more mistrustful, sure. And even as we go into Season 2, and I don't want to go too deep in to Season 2 right now, but in Season 2 we're going to dig even deeper into Riggs' past. And learn some things about his own family and that will help us understand why he acts the way he sometimes acts and puts people at a distance.
IGN: Was it always the plan to have Riggs go after someone beyond the man who killed his wife? Gideon's dead, but now Riggs is out to take out a major crime boss and die doing so.
Miller: Yeah. I didn't know all the moves we were going to make, or the act breaks and things like that for the season finale, but I knew roughly what I wanted to happen. I knew roughly what I wanted the episode to be. I knew what the last shot of Season 1 would be, which was that helicopter shot of Murtaugh. I knew all of that before going into and writing Season 1.
IGN: I love Riggs' look on this show. The hair, the jacket, the one pant leg untucked. Did it all come about episode to episode? How did this evolve?
Miller: Clayne [Crawford], bless him, is very very committed to Riggs. We did this sort of hair and wardrobe make-up tests before the pilot was even shot and you know it's a lot of photographs being taken and a lot of studio and network heads looking at pictures and messing with his hair and messing with his mustache and he kind of freaked out a little bit. Not freaked out in a bad way, he just got uncomfortable. And so he and I went out and had a couple of beers and we sat and talked about the character and who we thought this guy was. And about Clayne wanting to inhabit the character. Everything from wardrobe to hair to the mustache. Everything. What does this guy look like? And we had a really great talk about it. And I'm also very trustful of both Damon and Clayne when it comes to them wanting the best for their characters and understanding their characters and making it be a true collaboration. And feeling ownership of the characters where they can be creative in all those different ways.
IGN: The show has it's own tone and feel. It stands on its own very well, but if you are familiar with the movies then there are these little references and Easter Egg-type parts to latch onto as well. Was Murtaugh being tortured with defibrillators here a way of looking back at the first movie when Riggs was the one getting shocked?
Miller: Yeah, that was 100% supposed to be a nod to the movie. There's a different dynamic slightly, of course, and we always do a different spin on things. We've never really ever taken anything directly from the movies. The Leo Getz character is a little bit different, it's all sort of different. But in the final action set piece I wanted to do a wink and a nod to the action set piece of the first Lethal movie. So it was this idea of one of the characters getting tortured with electricity. The character who's doing it is even Asian which is a nod too. I tried originally to get someone who looked like Al Leong (Die Hard, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) but it didn't work out.
IGN: Riggs and Palmer were just starting out with a new relationship, but after the Miranda news, is there any hope for them now? Will Palmer return for Season 2?
Miller: I think the idea is to continue to use Palmer as a character on the show, sporadically. Both because of the storytelling we want to do and also, candidly, because of Hilarie Burton's schedule. She's an actress, you know, who lives in upstate New York with her husband who's an actor on The Walking Dead (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and she had to take care of her family and all that so we are going to use her sporadically throughout Season 2.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.
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