Speaking about the reveal in the Season 1 finale that Abbot has a prosthetic leg, Gemmill that they knew the reveal would happen from “the get-go,” and they wanted something to connect him to how well he was able to perform during a mass casualty scenario.
Gemmill said, “We wanted to make Abbot a vet, and his experience in those scenarios, those situations, inform him somewhat as a doctor. And when we got to see how well he performed during the mass casualty because he’s been in, unfortunately, those kind of situations before, and that seemed like if he suffered an injury, a pretty significant one, as a result of that, I think it makes for a more interesting and a more sympathetic character.”
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