Below, EP Josh Safran breaks down the latest episode and looks ahead to whats coming next.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You spokelast week about how each weeks lesson and future storyline has a theme.
How would you define this weeks?
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Is it about everyones fears?
JOSH SAFRAN:Its not fear.
And in the present, its about everybody in the CIA knowing their pressure points.
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When you say weaknesses, that means emotional weaknesses.
This isnt emotional weaknesses; this is about the things in life that freak you out.
Right, theyre things that rile you up, that make your stress monitor turn red.
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So why did this theme make sense for this weeks story?
Because its something that actually does happen [at the Farm].
All of the stories that you hear here about their pressure points are consistent with the character moving forward.
And all of that is not a one-off in any way for these characters.
We go deeper and deeper with them every episode.
Why was it important for you to have Harry open up like this?
All of us over here think its just so good, so were going to leave it at that.
Its our mostOceans Eleven,Out of Sightepisode yet.
And what exactly was he doing for the AIC?
All I can say is that the answers are not going to be drawn out.
Once you know what he was doing, youll understand why they needed a hacker.
I just figured maybe you had all been binge-ingMr.
Its so funny, because we did joke aboutMr.
Our joke was we should put him in a hoodie, but actually we already had aMr.
Robotallusion in the series.
Now when you go back, youll see.
That was our allusion.
Shelby learns that Miranda has been turned in this episode as well.
What can you tease about what Shelby can possibly do next?
Shes kind of alone in this now.
The next opening she can find shes going to have a go at use to stop Miranda.
I dont want to give it away.
Again, episode 5 is really good.
We just had so much fun with that whole sequence.
Did you ever have any other character in mind to be the double agent?
No, it was always Miranda from the very beginning.
After all this, who would you say is in the most danger in the future storyline?
Quanticoairs Sundays at 10 p.m.
