CR: I think more than anything Dory is such a big figure of denial. They all are in different ways. They all are representative of the types of denial that you see in people nowadays. So in the first season Dory is projecting all of this baggage onto the mystery and trying to make it give meaning to her life. Now she’s killed someone—and we haven’t killed anyone—but we still have to be able to relate to it as much as possible. The way that we do that is through the way we get into denial about everyday things or how you ignore mistakes or bad actions you’ve done in the past as a means of justification. That’s where the irony rests this season and to us it was also the richest thing to explore.

Did you ever consider an angle to this season that started off differently? These guys covering up the murder seems like the only choice to go forward with here, but did you talk about them going to the police or anything else?

SB: I think we always wanted them to cover up the murder. We did discuss different ways to show that though, whether it was a jump in time to after the cover up or something else. But we definitely wanted this horrible thing to be hanging over their heads.

Were you guys excited to get to have Chantal as a character in the cast now and someone you can have in this mix of people, too?