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FOX Execs Tight-Lipped on '24' Cliffhanger'
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FOX Execs Tight-Lipped on '24' Cliffhanger'
Wed, May 21, 2003 07:02 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The assassination attempt on President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) on Tuesday's season finale of "24" served more than one purpose.
That's all that FOX executives are saying at this point. Something about not ruining next season is behind their refusal to reveal more.
"I can confirm for you that an attempt at assassination has been made on the president, and we don't know what will happen," FOX Entertainment President Gail Berman told reporters Wednesday (May 21) about the cliffhanger ending.
FOX Chairman Sandy Grushow offers this helpful hint: "The only thing we can tell you is that Palmer will not win 'American Idol.'
After one of the men behind this season's nuclear-bomb plot was taken out in the finale, a mysterious, European-accented guy on a boat phoned in Plan B. As the show closed, beautiful assassin Mandy (Mia Kirshner) -- unseen since the third episode of Season 1 -- shook Palmer's hand and apparently passed some nasty biological agent on to him via a plastic covering on her hand.
Berman does allow that the attempted assassination probably won't be " the driving force" behind next season, but it does fit in somewhere. Mandy's reappearance was also a nod to loyal viewers of " 24."
" To bring her back as the person involved in the assassination attempt last night was a huge, big deal for fans of the show. ... It was a tip of the hat to loyal viewers," Berman says. " It also has to do with the story, but I'm not going to go there."
The real-world question of whether Haysbert will return to the show is up in the air. At the moment, Kiefer Sutherland is the only regular locked into a deal for next season."
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