Two weeks ago, The 100 ended on a shocking moment, as Finn (Thomas McDonell] snapped and shot and killed several Grounders, after searching their camp for Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and the rest of the missing members of their group.

On the heels of that jaw-dropping event, and with the show back tonight -- after a week off -- for the first of three new episodes airing this month, I spoke to the 100's executive producer and showrunner, Jason Rothenberg, about what happens next for Finn and those who’ve seen what he’s done. Plus, we spoke about the current plights of Raven (Lindsey Morgan) and Lincoln (Ricky Whittle), the power structure at Mount Weather and if we might soon see the adults from the Ark team with the younger characters in a more direct way.

Eliza Taylor as Clarke, Richard Harmon as Murphy, and Thomas McDonell as Finn in The 100.

Raymond J. Barry as President Dante Wallace in The 100.

Paige Turco as Abby and Lindsey Morgan as Raven in The 100.

In various ways. Obviously Finn snapped but he’s a warrior and they’re in war right now. Bellamy, probably more than anybody, will be able to recognize that. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought those Grounders had his people. He found their clothes there. He found 48 people’s clothing hanging up behind that building, in the village that the Grounder told him his friends were being held. He of course, jumped to the conclusion, the only conclusion he could make in that moment, which was that they killed them. So he lost his mind in that moment. The whole time we knew the tragedy of that was coming, which was Clarke wasn’t there and the 48 aren’t there. So I think that’s going to be really hard for Clarke to reconcile for sure but he was trying to save her and I think eventually she’ll get to a place where she’s able to see that.It’ll be a while, for sure, but we did a lot of research into soldiers who have been involved in similar atrocities of war like that, the My Lai massacre and various things that happened in Iraq and are trying to skew as close as we can to real, psychological ramifications to things like that. For Finn, I think more than anybody, he’s going to have the hardest time processing it because he was able to say to himself, everything he was doing, he was able to sleep and live with himself because he was trying to find Clarke and he was going for the bad guys that had his friend. When he realizes that he was driving deeper and deeper into the wrong direction and that he killed people that were totally innocent -- at least of that -- that’ll be hard for him to deal with. That makes the ultimate goal of a Grounder / Sky People alliance that much more elusive. These are all things that are going to weigh heavily on him.I, from the very beginning this season, I knew that that would happen. When you start a season you have sort of flagpole moments or signposts along the way. You don’t know the whole story and things certainly change along the way in the writers’ room, but that was sort of one of the pillars that we were working towards. We knew that it was going to suck a lot of story time and oxygen out of for instance, Bellamy’s character. Bellamy’s character this season has been, I certainly would not say marginalized, but he’s given a little story ground, just in pure page count, to the story we’ve been telling with Finn. Now I think that all begins to change. That story’s been told. Now it’s about the outcome of that, the ramifications of that. And now we being to round the corner into we need to get those kids out of Mount Weather. How are we going to do that?One of the things I’m proudest of about this show and the villains is that there are no real villains. Everybody’s grey. Dante ultimately, by the end of the season, I think we’ll understand him quite a bit more than we do now. We’ll understand that he’s doing what he thinks is right but there’s a line that he won’t cross. His son, Cage is his name, will definitely have a different line and we do play sort of a palace intrigue between the two of them. Although, presidency is a hereditary title that’s handed down in this world. It’s much more like royalty than democracy. There’s been a Wallace in the office since the bombs. I think that’s a line that we hear Dante speak in the next episode and begins to unpack that story for us a little bit. And yeah, we do have Jasper and Monty in there. Monty certainly -- I love him -- has been sort of aware that things weren’t as they seem. He picked up from Clarke in that regard. Jasper has been slow on the uptake in regards to that, but I think he’ll come around. The story we tell with them is once you realize that you’re being held against your will in this place that you thought was so amazing, how do we stay alive long enough to hope to be saved from the outside?Actually, in episode six, an interesting group goes out on a mission. A combined grown up/kid group and we get to see that for the first time. And stuff happens on that journey. But yeah, it was easier last season to tell stories with those characters that they were the heroes of because the Ark was their domain and there were no kids to play in those stories. Now everybody’s on the ground and so it’s been a challenge in a good way to continue to have these fully fleshed out characters in Abby, Kane and Jaha that aren’t there just to support or just to be the mother, the father, or whatever of one of those characters. That’s one of the things I’m proudest of about those characters - that for a CW show, they’re not just there to be Mom. And that continues to be the case. The conflict between Abby and Clarke and the emotional bond between Abby and Clarke is a centerpiece of the show still but it also becomes… she’s now the leader. She’s now the Chancellor and her daughter is on a rise. Her daughter is going to threaten that position pretty quickly and what’s a mother to do? We get to play out that story pretty far. That’s a few episodes ahead but that’s where we’re going.

Continue to Page 2 as Rothenberg discusses the Grounders leadership, Lincoln and Raven’s plights and more.