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In the Season 2 finale, the Travelers — led by McCormack’s Grant MacLaren, who assumed the life of an FBI agent in the first episode — are forced to commit a serious breach of protocol thanks to the equally mysterious antagonist, Vincent. He orders the group to reveal themselves to the world or put their loved ones in peril. It’s a lot more complicated than that, of course. But the bottom line is that the team will have a lot of cleaning up to do when Travelers returns.

“We’ve got some secrets we’ve got to contain, before the whole world finds out,” McCormack says. “That’s the journey of the first few episodes, trying to get back to some kind of normalcy. Our normalcy is that we’re here, we wait for our missions, the Director tells us everything and we trust the Director. The one overall thing I would say about Season 3 is that we start to question where our orders come from. Who is giving them to us? Have we been on the right path all along? That creates, particularly in my character, a lot of strife. He’s referred to as a boy scout. He is a true believer and it’s hard (for him) to question.”

McCormack, who also produces the show and directed both the Season 2 finale and Season 3 premiere, will start filming Season 10 of his beloved sitcom Will & Grace four days after Travelers wraps. The Toronto native, who divides his time between Vancouver and L.A., announced the third season of Travelers in March with a tweet that highlighted the pure Canadian DNA of its cast and crew. On Tuesday, the series took home two awards at the Rockie Awards Program Competition in Banff. One was for best sci-fi, fantasy and action series while the other was the Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content.

Medicine Hat native MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper of Mississauga, Manitoba’s Jared Abrahamson and Vancouver’s Reilly Dolman play McCormack’s fellow travellers, making the series a purely homegrown phenomenon.

“I had read the script, which I loved, but I wanted to hear more,” McCormack says. “I said (to Wright): ‘Now, you are going to have to search far and wide for these other four travellers, because these are intense roles.’ He said ‘Nope, I found them all in Vancouver.’ And he did. They are amazing.”