This season is about dueling crime organizations. Noah, when did you realize the story needed a character like Oraetta Mayflower on the outskirts?
NOAH HAWLEY It's hard to separate the origins of it. I don't feel like I had a gang war and I was like, "I know! I'll put a killer nurse in it." There were two parallel ideas that for whatever reason I didn't separate.
I thought it was funny that they're basically two different crime movies that collide, and that there's no point at which Oraetta thinks she's in their movie.
They're always in her movie. I didn't want to have a hero cop, and therefore I needed the moral detective in the guise of Ethelrida [Emyri Crutchfield], the 16-year-old.
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