[We wanted] to create a show in which those guys are baked into the DNA of it.
None of us involved ever wanted to do a mission-of-the-week show just about catching bad guys.
CAVELL: That is one of the fundamental questions of the show.
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Thats the starting point for the series.
Boreanazs character, Jason Hayes, gets put up against the newcomer Clay (Max Thieriot) pretty immediately.
Where does that relationship head?
Does it become a mentorship?REDLICH: I think that is where it is headed.
Theyre away 300 days a year.
In the pilot, you never break from the perspective of the team.
We dont see the bad guys before they do, we dont even go home without them.
Does that continue?CAVELL: Yes.
And we want to be faithful to that.
I was going to ask about that, if theres a romantic undertone there.REDLICH: Were actually not sure.
Their work really transcends politics.
Going after Osama Bin Laden, thats really not a partisan issue.
Were not simply going after Arab terrorists every week or Muslim terrorists every week.
The SEALs operate everywhere.
Were in Brazil, were in Africa, were in Paraguay, were in Estonia.
