The Passage ended its first season with an action-packed two-part finale that rocketed the show into the future.
Season 1 was all about the buildup to the apocalypse, which began in Episode 9, “Stay in the Light,” when the nearly unkillable vampiric former humans called “virals” escaped from Project NOAH, and continued through Episode 10, “Last Lesson,” as America was overrun by the vampire pandemic. Then, in the final moments of the season, we jumped forward in time to the post-apocalyptic future, with Amy (Saniyya Sidney) — still looking the same age nearly a hundred years later — arriving at the gates of a desert fortress that’s one of the last strongholds of humankind. Learn more information here about this topic.
Along the way, we lost Dr. Nichole Sykes (Caroline Chikezie), saw Clark Richards (Vincent Piazza) become Shauna Babcock’s (Brianne Howey) resentful eternal lover/servant, watched Dr. Jonas Lear (Henry Ian Cusick) try to redeem himself for creating this plague by attempting to recreate the cure from memory, and saw the family of Amy, Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), and Lila Kyle (Emmanuelle Chriqui) break apart. As Lila set out for the CDC in Atlanta, Amy saved Brad with the last dose of vaccine after he was bitten — killing some humans in the process — and then fled, heading out into the world alone.
The Passage has not officially been picked up for Season 2, but creator Liz Heldens is proceeding as if it will. She talked to the TV Guide about the process of making Season 1, which went through extensive reimagining and pilot reshoots, as well as her plans for Season 2. She revealed some fun behind-the-scenes tidbits, like the fact that the writers call the psychic scenes “mindscapes” — “When we started the season, I was like, ‘Well, since the virals can’t talk, we gotta find a way for them to talk to each other,'” she said. “So we came up with this idea: There’d be mindscapes where they could be their human selves.” Heldens also dropped some hints about who survives the 100-year time jump. Read on for the conversation.
