DVD Commentary for Mommy's Bosses

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• Behr and Sweeny were glad to be done with the second season, glad that they "survived," and felt that they had "made it."
• Jacqueline McKenzie said that the she and Joel couldn't wait to open their scripts for this episode.
• McKenzie was glad that all of the running she did for this episode made it to the screen.
• She and Joel said it was tricky chasing the 4400 when they had done nothing wrong.
• Life is "never easy for Kyle."
• Chad Faust was hired to play a coma patient, but did very well with the character as it progressed.
• Chad Faust fell asleep and snored while playing his coma part for the Pilot, forcing Joel to reshoot a scene where he was talking to his sister Susan.
• The writers wanted to show more of Maia in season 3.
• Isabelle liked Dr. Burkhoff.
• Everyone liked the scene where Tom told Diana that Kyle shot Jordan Collier.
• Everyone said that this episode was easy to get caught up in.
• The color of promicin was a tribute to Jeffrey Combs's character Herbert West in the 1985 movie "Re-Animator," where he creates a similar looking serum that reanimates the dead. Promicin had reddish color to it when first shown, however it became bright yellow-green when Burkhoff gave it to Tom and Diana.
• The writers worried that Ryland would win the argument he had with Tom over the Firewall memo and the promicin inhibitor.
• Peter Coyote agrees with his character Dennis Ryland.
• The writers wanted Diana to wake up in bed with Marco in Wake-Up Call, but McKenzie objected.
• The quarantine facility from the Pilot was reused in this episode.
• There were many ideas about what would happen when Shawn "cured" Kyle of whatever made him kill Jordan Collier. One idea was to have a future human come out, but the writers didn't want to commit to what future humans would look like. The Gone episodes from the third season show that the future humans look very much like modern ones, however.
• The writers caution against using promicin, jokingly. Perhaps ominously, at the end of season 3 promicin was given away to everyone who wanted it.
• Many fans were too dumb to figure out that the guy on the beach at the end of the episode was Jordan Collier.

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