by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor

Eureka returns to Syfy on Monday April 16 to complete it’s five year run. We reached out to our friend Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter) to get our readers an exclusive interview about what to expect for the final episodes of the series.

ComicsOnline: Eureka Season Four definitely leaned towards a more serialized form of storytelling. Will Season Five continue to focus on a more continuous plot, or will it return to a format of self-contained episodes? 

Colin Ferguson: Yeah, we are doing a very similar structure to Season Four where you have an arc that goes throughout the whole season, and it’s the best arc we’ve done. I watched the first three episodes fully completed and was doing DVD commentaries last week, and I’m so proud (I’m usually wildly pessimistic) and so stunned about how good the narrative that the writers put together. If there is anything that we are going to be remembered for with this being our Swan Song it will be this season. Our highs are higher. The darks are darker. The funny episodes are funnier…It is the best stuff that we’ve ever done.

CO: When we last saw your character Sheriff Jack Carter at the end of Season Four, he is faced with the revelation that his closest friends and loved ones are missing. Where is Jack when the new season begins? How did this revelation effect your portrayal of the character?CF: I can’t tell you where the season begins without wrecking things…I can say that it picks up not long after the take off, so we continue right where it left off dramatically. I will also say that “other things” affected my portrayal of the character…DUN DUN DUN.

CO: With this being the final season of Eureka, do you personally feel satisfied with the conclusion to the overall story, and for your character’s arc, specifically?

CF: Yes, I absolutely do. I think he started off as someone who was cagey and afraid to be a part of anything, then slowly over the course of the [first] season he became a good father, and became a good member and part of the community. I think the turn of it all, as many times has he has saved Eureka, at the series, Eureka has saved him. That’s the most poignant part of the salvation that I think we have…For me. Because it’s my character… and I am wildly selfish about it (laughs).

CO: Your show has featured some crazy technological developments over the past few seasons. If you had the choice to have one thing created by Global Dynamics in real life, what would it be and why?

CF: Oh, wow. It was more quirky in the first couple of seasons, so that answer was usually  something like “a hoverboard” or “something that can make me run fast”…But then it got really cool in the last season with the teleportation stuff and space travel. So what would I like? A SPACE SHIP! Why? Because it’s BIG! Who doesn’t want a space ship? I’d take a space ship – as long as it comes with the Boson Cloud Exciter to catch it when it landed.

CO: Did you happen to get any particular items from the set? If so, why did you select that specific item? (Don’t worry…we won’t tell anyone).

CF: I got my uniform, my badge, and my desk placard. That’s all that I wanted. They offered me other bigger stuff that I didn’t want. These are the things that I had connected to.CO: Do you have any favorite behind the scenes moments that you can share, from this season, or from past seasons?

CF: Mostly the laughter. No big joke or big stunt. Just all the times that we were at the cast-chairs laughing, or before we yelled action and were joking around, being the family that we were . That’s the stuff that we kept close and that is what I will always remember. That is probably a great sign. This was a great group of people. CO: What are you most excited about with these final episodes?

CF: That they’re good! Its simple. I am so excited that they are really good. It’s the best stuff that we’ve done. I always want to go out strong, and I would hate to limp across the finish line with as much work as we’ve put in over the years. This is by far the strongest 12 that we’ve done. The first 3 are unreal. Of the back 7 – some really “conclusion-y” type stuff happens. We get two of the funniest episodes that we’ve done – Jaime Pagila’s Directorial Debut “Jack of All Trades”, and Alex La Roche’s second one “Smarter Carter”. Those are the two funniest things that we’ve ever done. Love them! I think the fans are going to get what I always wanted them to get.

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Thanks again to Colin for taking the time to answer our questions.

Eureka: Season Five premieres April 16th at 9/8c on Syfy.

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