La Brea Boss Talks Fall Finale Twists, Gavin's Chilling New Vision and Whether [Spoiler] Is Gone for Good

Matt Webb Mitovich
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The following contains spoilers from Tuesday night’s La Brea fall finale on NBC.

As NBC’s La Brea brought the first half of its 14-episode second season to a close on Tuesday night, the Harris family put 1988 in the rear view mirror, after they, Levi, Sam and Riley managed to outwit some Lazarus guards stationed at the Hollywood sign sinkhole. (Boy, those ATVs proved handy!)

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Levi elected to stay behind in 1988, while Sam and Riley joined the Harrises in leaping back to 10,000 B.C., all hoping to make their way back to 2022. But before taking said jump, Gavin was blindsided by a new vision — of a future moment, where Eve is dying in his arms!

Elsewhere in the fall finale, Ty bested Taamet in a “fight to the death” (or yield), unaware that Scott had convince the Exiles’ leader to throw the match in trade for being quietly freed. Afterward, Ty suggested to Paara they they get married. Oh, and Lucas, after being healed by Taamet’s mysterious elixir, got smooched by Veronica.

TVLine spoke with La Brea showrunner David Appelbaum about what Gavin “saw,” is Levi is in fact out of the picture, the Season 2B plan and more.

TVLINE | This larger season was divided exactly in half. Did you have a mission for where the first seven episodes needed to take us, and what the second seven need to do?
Yes, yes. The first seven episodes from a larger point of view have been about getting Josh back from 1988 and reuniting the [Harris] family. There have been lots of other stories interweaving, with the many other characters and different mythological things, but from a bigger perspective it was about bringing that family back together. The audience now sees that they are back together, but things aren’t that simple. They’re going to be thrust back into the world of 10,000 B.C., where being a family isn’t such an easy thing. We’re going to be complicating Gavin and Eve’s relationship and their relationship with their kids, but what will continue to be at the heart of the show is the quest to get back home, to get back to their time.

There will be a number of other things going on — Gavin’s relationship with [his father] James, dealing with the problems the [Lazarus] building presents, this vision that Gavin has at the end of Episode 7, of Eve and her death…. We have 13 series regulars who all have their own stories, so it’s like a puzzle putting all these stories together. Everyone has a lot going on, but that’s the thrust of the back half of the season.

TVLINE | It’s funny, when someone in this episode mentioned Gavin’s past visions, I asked myself, “I wonder if there is any scenario where he gets visions again?” And sure enough…
That vision of Eve’s death is really going to drive a lot of conflict in the back half of the season, because it might be right around the corner. It’s going to be a real problem — how do we prevent that? It’s going to complicate all the relationships, knowing that that is a thing that could happen.

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