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Mystery Woman’s ultimate goal was unveiled in whatnow serves as the series finaleofDeceptionthough not without a few twists.
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The photo would unlock the location of the fortune, which she believed was Cam and Johnny’s inheritance.
Well, and hers.
No, she’s not their sister.
But she doesn’t provide the proof that would exonerate Johnny.
Hence, Cam decides he’s going to break out his brother.
But Johnny doesn’t want to break out withhim.
And with that, the series ends.
For me, I don’t think that Cameron would have been trapped in jail for too long.
He would save himself by trying to do some magic tricks and hiding.
With the DNA test or fingerprints, they would realize what had happened.
He would be out of jail, but that’s only the beginning of it.
I think that would have been a huge twist on our show.
Did Johnny, at any point this season, actually realize who MW was from his childhood?
I think the coin moment is where he’s starting to put it together.
Throughout the story, we essentially wanted to get into a little bit of how memory works.
She’s essentially doing this very personal thing.
Was there more to her motivations than money that we would’ve discovered next season?
Oh yeah, absolutely.
We had worked out much more of peeling the layers of her story.
That would all be played out.
And that would be a neat role for Johnathan to explore.
MW says the money is their inheritance, but would she have ultimately screwed them out of it?
But I always find that characters change over time.
Over time, I’d like to see the relationship develop between the two of them.
Because I do think that Johnathan would be intent on screwing her over.
They’re both smarty-pants in that way.
Jack and Stephanie had such great chemistry; I would love to explore that.
You end the finale with MW revealing her name to Johnny, but not the audience.
So, what’s Mystery Woman’s name?
No, here’s the thing about the Mystery Woman: She’s an Ashley.
I think she’s definitely a Tiffany.
What is her real name becomes a thing where it’s like, she has lots of names.
I just like calling her Mystery Woman.
I’m like, “Maybe we don’t.”
Did you ever give her a definitive name in the writers' room?
Yes, there is.
A part of me doesn’t want to say, though.
Yeah, we had a really cool name.
We did come up with something, but I’d rather it stay mysterious.
Was Stephanie playing her own mother in this finale as well?
You really can only get Stephanie to play Stephanie.
That was Johnny who pushed Kay away at the end, right?
It’s like Kay actually opens up, and she opens up to the wrong brother!
Yeah, that’s true.
She’s breaking a lot of rules, that’s who she is.
But she’s saying it to the wrong brother.
And Johnathan, he had his own plans.
How would the team have reacted to Johnny screwing Cam over?
I think it would be complex.
I also think that over those 36 hours that Cam’s in prison, he only makes mistakes.
He comes up with escape plans for Winslow.
I think that, for the team, it’s complex because they all have different motivations.
We love [the Deception team] actors on the show, and we wanted to explore that more.
So I think for Gunter, Gunter is a little more aligned with Johnathan.
We wanted to see what had happened to Gunter, and why he would be loyal to Johnathan.
She still has feelings, Johnathan’s her ex, so it’s a complicated thing.
So that would have been a really fun thing to explore.
But I think at the beginning of the season, they would definitely be after them.
But we would have fun twisting that around over the course of it.
Any other blue-sky things you had in mind for season 2?
Or things that you wish you got to do that you never had a chance?
Oh, it’s funny, there was so much stuff that we wanted to do.
But there was still other things that we were excited about.
We wanted to do an episode with missing subway trains, subway cars disappearing.
We wanted to do a D.B.
We jam-packed every episode with something.
There’s stuff that we were kind of planning for season 1.
We wanted to do more of that.
That would be fun.
Is there hope for continuing on in some forma short or a comic book or something?
Yeah, I’d love to figure that out.
I think that right now, who knows?
