Even shows with a penchant for keeping dead characters around like ghosts could not kill him cause, yes? But the finale last season, which ended with Tommy (series star and co-creator Denis Leary), bleeding after being shot by his uncle Teddy (Lenny Clarke), there was no common trick: Tommy disappears for long enough to get a scary vision of his death.Exclusive: Rescue Me creator dish shocking season finale
"We would like to mention exciting and a little bit both ways," co-author and executive producer Peter Tolan told TVGuide.com. "You're starting the sixth year of the ranks and your main character just messed up when he's in one day. We need a way for this guy to turn his thoughts ... and dying experience will certainly make him step back and consider his life a little more. "
But while Tommy is appalled by what he sees, some sense of changes will take some time. "We would hope that he will learn something from their experience," says Leary. "But part of the joy of writing and the guy playing the guy that he is extremely stubborn and obstinate. Sometimes it takes some time for the message that through his thick Irish skull.
And his family does not make life easier. Teddy and Mickey (Robert John Burke) maintain close tabs Tommy to make sure that it is far from the sauce, and life at home with his ex-wife Janet (Andrea Roth) is complicated by a new habit of drinking their eldest daughter, Colleen (Natalie Distler). In addition, Sheila (Callie Thorne), Tommy's ex-boyfriend, even after Tommy get his son out of FDNY.
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"Tommy, finally, something happens to him personally, more along the lines of what happened to people all around him," says Leary. After Tommy's firing, there is definitely a lot of revenge in season 6 between Janet and Sheila. In fact, they join forces a little bit. What happens to Tommy surprising that it joins all those involved with him against what he did with his life.
"They're right to go" This is bulls ---. We know who you are - you are hopeless, "Tolan adds, noting that even a shot was not a final wake up call Tommy." Tommy want immediate results, and he wants everyone else to wipe the slate clean. It's just not working. ... In the fifth episode, he really hits rock bottom, which means its putting someone else in danger, too. "
With no one to turn to, seek the advice of Tommy's father Phil, a priest played by guest star Peter Gallagher (OC, Californication). "That's like saying to the believer, who, perhaps not fully consider themselves" Tolan said about Tommy and relationship Father Phil. "] [Tommy in search of answers about religion and faith and God's plan, which was constant through the life of the ideas in this series. With the master plan God, if these rotten things happen in life?"
Meanwhile, the city expects to close the firehouses in recession, and shooting Tommy moved him to fire the top of the hit list.
Despite this, Tommy has an ear's best friend Lou (John Scurti), which may be the key to help Tommy to understand his life.
"There's really not so many people in the world of Tommy that, get to talk to him, as does Lou", Scurti said. "When they are not in each other's throats, they truly care about each other. These two characters to keep bouncing off each other, and one keeps trying to tell a friend:" Dude, you are going in a car crash, and you do not know it. "
