00:00I need you to drive me to Cissus.
00:03No thanks.
00:05I need to get something.
00:10So this is the episode where Harmony Cobell goes home.
00:14This is where she got her start.
00:17Lumen pulled a lot of natural resources from this place,
00:20one of those being the people.
00:23I think Cobell is one of several promising people
00:26who were sort of co-opted and taken away from this town,
00:29and it was left gutted.
00:31And so she is for the first time going back
00:34and seeing what their effect is on the real world
00:37and what they leave in their wake.
00:39The town is older than I remembered.
00:42Frailer.
00:44That was really interesting to get to explore
00:46a whole different world with that
00:48and learn about Cobell as a human being
00:50and what the source of her pain is.
00:54We get to see some of where Cobell has come from
00:57and this very strict structure that she came up in
01:01and what happens to people who rebel in this lumen culture.
01:05You are not welcome here.
01:08How do you find sympathy for a character like Harmony Cobell?
01:11For something like that, you have to go back to when she was a child
01:15and ask the question, who hurt her?
01:17You know, who brought her into this?
01:19So we knew that Sissy was going to have to be
01:22this seemingly irredeemably lumen person,
01:25and Jane Alexander fits so perfectly into that world
01:29and she just immediately got the character.
01:32Such a disappointment you've proven to be.
01:36Patricia is such a brilliant actor.
01:38She is fearless, she'll take chances.
01:41She's playing such a cold, mysterious character in the show,
01:44and to see her in a totally different environment when she goes home
01:48and her not being in charge
01:50and how she's being treated like the little girl that she was by her aunt,
01:54you see that vulnerability and you see where the toughness
01:57and the hard exterior comes from.
02:00There's aspects of Harmony that people are not really aware of
02:05and part of that is her sentimental past.
02:08I think when you have ideology blending with religion or structure,
02:13sometimes you really like that as a kid that grew up in chaos,
02:17and yet you may have complicated feelings
02:19because within all of that chaos there still may be love.
02:23And I don't think that's really something Harmony wants to look at.
02:30We were tasked with finding a coastal town where Cobell grew up
02:35and Jess, our cinematographer, brought up Newfoundland.
02:39Jess had done a film years ago in Fogo Island
02:42and she's like, we've got to go see Fogo Island,
02:44and Ben and her and I did.
02:45We went up with Ryan and everyone just loved it.
02:47There was a lot of crazy changing weather, lots of wind,
02:51but I thought it was nice to work with a different environment.
02:55It was really incredible filming that, just the landscape itself.
03:00It was just so cinematic.
03:02We were at this place in the world that was so hostile of an environment
03:06and it was interesting that Harmony had grown up there.
03:09It was so cold and icebergs are floating by.
03:12I felt like it was very much in keeping with Harmony's inner landscape.
03:18Basements are always a big thing on this show.
03:21There's always this sense of what is hidden underneath the floorboards
03:25and what are we keeping tamped down.
03:28And for Cobell, I think that's a big part of it,
03:30is realizing that she's been used by the Egans
03:33and that she hasn't been given her proper due.
03:36My designs!
03:38Circuit blueprint, base code, overtime contingency, Glasgow block, all of it!
03:44And so that combined with the pain that she's seeing
03:47that they've caused to her hometown and to the people that she used to love,
03:52these are things that are slowly turning her.
03:54I'll see you around.
03:58But we're still not sure what exactly she's planning to do.
04:02So listen, Mark has been reintegrating.
04:04Tell me everything.
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