Flashpoint s05e99 Episode Script

1 The cast is on the move.
That's it, everyone.
Stand by, camera one.
Here we go.
Five seasons ago, One of the SRU shot on to the scene.
Scorpion.
Copy.
An instant success, the show debuted to nearly 10 million North American viewers.
Don't see lady snipers too often.
That's kind of sexy.
What's that? A Remmie 700? I carry the vintage Colt myself.
- It's all good.
You want to - Put your hand up!! Lower your weapon! Since then, the fans have lived on the edge of their couches.
Put it down.
Put the gun down.
You heard me, put it down! We did all we could tonight.
Hey, I'm proud of all of you.
I'm damn proud to be a member of this team.
And it all comes down to this, the final episode.
Sam! We will not lose each other! Sam! Get up! Get out! Go! Sam, get out of there now! The final interview.
There's stuff bubbling up here.
How are you feeling about it? The Final Salute.
Today is the kind of day that we'll all look back at years from now and remember exactly where we were and what we did.
We have a chance to make choices here that we will be proud of.
Today's the day that we did not let fear break us down and turn us against each other.
This was the day that we took care of each other.
The day that we said "no" to terror.
Together.
I want us all to think about how we want to remember this day.
It's up to us.
Thank you Sargent Parker.
What do you think Spike? Cheesy? Not cheesy Boss.
Guys thank you so much for sharing this day with us.
It's the last day of shooting as a group.
Did you have to prepare in a different way today? Enrico, you want to start us off? Well, it wasn't different at all 'cause everything that we're going to be dealing with will be right at the surface for every one of us, I think.
Last shows are always easy to get to the emotional life of so, yeah, less is more.
Is that true for everyone? It's been what, the victory tour? No.
- It's been this last few - Depending how many days off you get during the week.
- All right.
- It's been fun.
Rico knows that the luxury of knowing you're ending and being able to see the end it's a luxury.
So he didn't have that on most of the show.
You don't get that, to go out on your own terms, and I think we've all all at least tried to savour and appreciate.
- Certainty, there's something - Yeah.
Yeah.
in the absolute knowledge that this is it.
You savour the minutia of the food, the hellos, everybody starts saying hello with much more sincerity.
Good morning.
I mean, you see the same people every morning at almost the same time, and, you know Night Ralph.
Yeah, good night Sam.
When constabulary Duty to be done to be done policeman's job is not a happy one happy one So it was July 2008.
That was when first episode aired and we did an interview with you where you predicted that it would be a hit.
I'd been involved in some projects that had done well, very well, and I just could tell the chemistry that we all had, and I had that gut, when I read the first script by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, I just felt it.
And as it came together, I mean, I felt that song writing with bands.
I could I just it's an innate sensibility you sometimes have and sometimes you get lucky, but I felt this was our opportunity.
Enrico, were you as confident about the show when it first premiered? - I followed his lead, - Yeah.
you know what I mean? There's something about him immediately that was so confident and for me, it was just this was just another job.
My character's name is Sam Braddock and he's a former JTF2, which is, yeah, well, believe it or not, those are Canadian special forces and they're bad-ass.
They're like British SAS, they're the best of the best, which is a bit of an honour.
And he's coming in for his first day to check out this new ETF which is the Toronto squad.
My expectations were very high, but, at the same time, it was all about what happened in the states.
You know, and I think we just didn't know if they were going to accept a Canadian-set show in the U.
S.
And as soon as we got those numbers and the next week, it went even higher, up to 9 million, then it was like, okay, I can see our next five years.
In a flash.
It was exciting.
I watched SWAT and talked to a guy who knew a guy who held a gun once.
because I always wanted to point my gun at a 45° angle and I go is that do people do that, Oh, yeah, man, they do it all the time.
And I go, on, okay, cool.
Amy Jo what - what were your Impressions - your first impressions of these guys down the line? Down the line or the first impression? Your first impression of this line up.
- Oh, down the line.
- Of these characters.
Start with Hugh, and we'll work our way down the line.
- First impressions? - Yes.
Um uh intense.
And then as I've gotten to know Hugh, he's hilarious.
But I found him very intense at first.
Rico, just a big heart that is really nurturing.
And I still feel the same way.
Like the dating game.
I didn't say this wouldn't be awkward.
Sergio, first impression was incredibly smart.
And thoughtful.
And I still have the same impression of Sergio but he's a bit more mysterious than I thought he was.
A lot of layers.
And David, I don't know You know what, all right.
David, first of all, when I met him, I thought he was just a nice guy but now I know after five years, that he's just a really good guy.
Like a really nice like a good friend.
That's good.
That's good.
Those relationships have deepened over the years.
That's not the case with every cast.
Thank God he's funny.
That would've ruined everything, huh? Coming up I was doing about 110 down Yonge Street and I got pulled over.
And the guy was.
.
he was hostile.
The cop.
Rico, I remember one of the first interviews we did with you five years ago, you said you were proud to play this role because of the connection to your brother.
Yeah.
Has that connection deepened with the years passing? Much deeper.
Because of it, I'm now associated with the Memorial Trust that deal with first responders, dealing with PTSD, and that that wouldn't have happened, I wouldn't have met those people and been more aware of what first responders go through.
It was just my brother.
Now it's a whole team of paramedics and firefighters and police officers all over the world.
It's not just fluff, it is intense, and these guys who do those jobs, it's fascinating and we as the public don't see it, you know.
We kind of go about our lives and these people deal with, you know, life and death, it sounds kind of cheesy, but that's what it is.
Sergio, we were talking before that you're a huge comicbook fan but specifically you are a fan of sort of those iconic superhero teams.
That's true.
Have you ever looked back and thought to yourself that in certain ways that's what you're playing here? Completely.
That was the template for me when I got Really? I knew it.
You're reading the audition, too, and you're like oh, my gosh, this is the Justice League.
Like these guys, they're all there.
Like, I like Superman, I like Batman, I like them all, but what I loved was the interaction between all of them when they're on the same team because that's when you get the textures of the relationships.
And how they care about each other and how they love each other and how they're all doing it for the same reasons together, So I was like I got to join a superhero team.
What are the chances of that happening, right? The kids, like they look at us like they're seeing Han Solo.
Had this kid, these - these brother, I had these two kids walking by, and they were looking at me while it was a crosswalk, and then I hear; "Flashpoint" guy, "Flashpoint" guy! And they go, see, see, see, it is.
David, this is not an easy role, physically, for anybody to play.
Who would you say had the easiest time with the running and shooting and all the physical, physicality associated with it? Sergio, actually.
Cause he spent the first three years I mean, he had to really work his fingers a lot on the keyboard.
Whereas we're all well, at least Hugh and Amy and I are running around.
These two got off pretty easy for a couple years.
How physical did it get? Well, it can yeah, no, there were times when I was thankful that I didn't break a leg or slip or crash a car, Amy did we did lose one camera.
That was my fault but I happen to be the best driver.
But it was hot and there are suits, we would lose ten pounds.
Since then we've never filmed driving sequences outside It's funny how we moved to blue screen.
Really, huh? Let me flip it.
Who had the hardest time with anything physical on this show? Michael Cramm.
That's true.
Just cause of balance issues.
- He's a little clumsy, that guy.
- Hand and eye cordination.
Did it result in a physical injury for any of you? Hugh almost lost that projectile almost took your eye out.
Yeah, they shot what are those things called? Squibbs.
They shoot the squibbs and it went through the shield because they put holes it in, right in my eye, and I had a flash of it's over, because I thought my eye was done, but it just hit there, and I got I'm lucky.
Lucky Irish.
One inch one side or the other and that would have been it.
Yeah, that was it, and then I was very well first I was hostile.
Towards the - Intense.
And then it was funny.
I got your attention, now I'm gonna make you laugh.
Now, the show is shot in Toronto, it's set in Toronto, which is unusual for an international series.
Now, for the Canadians here, how did that make you feel? Proud.
First of all, right.
Incredibly proud.
I can put it this way, I was doing about 110 down Yonge Street and I got pulled over, and the guy was he was hostile.
Cop and young as Sinclair.
Pulled me over, I'm like, gosh, "Flashpoint", you guys are great, go ahead.
It was a big deal for the city, too.
Like that was all of a sudden Toronto was pretending to be Detroit.
Yes.
Pretending to New York, pretending to be all those things.
And it looked sexy, it looked damn good too.
After the break, Enrico, there's stuff bubbling up here.
How are you feeling right now? Is there an episode that stands out, for whatever reason? For me right now, actually, the last these last two episodes are my favourite.
They really are.
The stakes are so high in them that as an actor, I'm having a lot of like I have something in my throat.
I'm having a lot of You can cry, if you like.
No, I'm not crying.
I have a frog in my throat.
We're all ready to go.
Anyway, the stakes are so high in these last two episodes that as an actor, I've been finding it really fun fully diving in because usually as cops we have to be more in control and the emotional stuff is for the guest stars and who get these great, amazing parts.
There was an episode this season where Ed Lain talks to a psychologist.
Which I loved because it was about post-traumatic stress.
You know, that's something that first responders and real police officers suffer from that isn't talked about enough so it was a big challenge for me as an actor and that's when I really turned to Rico for help because it was it was the episode to make or break my character, and Rico just, you know, he's like my brother.
When I need him, as soon as he's done his coffee in the morning, he's there.
He needs his coffee to wake up in the morning? Slow to rise, Rico? But it's that relationship, you know what I mean, that's what we get, you know, and that's the things that we don't think about when we are on that going to audition and be successful and look for validation or the nonsense of-of that.
Once you have it, you get to find the people that you care about, and you get to create something with people that mean something to you.
I think that transcends the whole idea of acting and, you know what I mean, you find connection, and you find reality in the pieces you work on.
I've been watching you two for this whole thing and Rico, there's stuff bubbling up here, this is not a how are you feeling right now? What he's saying he's saying - what he's saying is, Ben, he's proud that he's here, and he likes to be here talking about various scenes and episodes of "Flashpoint".
He has great love for the people who have worked with him here and and he really thinks Hugh Dylan is awesome, awesome.
You threw out the word "brother" Yes.
in talking about Rico, that's people throw that word family out when it's not really appropriate but there's something very there's a bond here.
This is a team.
Team One is a team.
And we learned how to live as a team.
The success of the show didn't make him more popular or him more popular or him more popular.
We together as a team were recognized for this show.
And that makes us connect in a way that puts us against the world.
We are together, we come to work together, together we go through that door together, everything is together.
And after five years, man, you can't fake that anymore.
You can't fake it.
It comes into our lives.
We're playing cops, and we want to do them right, you know.
And so when they come up and they, you know, secretly flash their badges and they don't say anything except thank you, you understand that you're painting them in a good light, you're not painting them as neanderthals.
We're not painting them as doughnut eaters.
You're painting them as people who actually care, and they all became police officers because they cared.
You know, things happen, things change, but the essence of why they do it is what this show is about.
There's the care, is the heroism, is the risking your life for the sake of protecting others.
Would you say that the show, if this relationship is on and off camera is central and the relationship itself has improved and grown over the years, is the show better today than it was on day one? Yeah.
This season will prove that.
It's just an incredible all of us.
You should have seen how we got our uniforms on the first season.
Where does this go? I think I need some tape, I don't know.
He has tape, I need tape.
Now you know, We're gone.
At one point did you guys know that you were on a set that was that was growing into a family? To me, it was that first roast, pig roast you had where Michael Cramm tripped in the woods and we had we all laughed.
We must have laughed for 90 minutes straight and it was close to the end of the season, the sun was out, and it was just one of those magical days.
And I think that was what, season two? And that's when I really felt I really felt like, you know what, these are my guys.
Can we talk about this pig roast for a second? - This guy.
-Is this a It's an Italian thing.
You know we just Frankie Gentile and Paola Perrin, who are the gaffers and the grips, the keys on the show, they're like Italian guys so we have that in common and started salivating when we were outside shooting in a park, we kept looking, you know, what this park needs is a pig.
And Frankie goes, you know, I know a guy, And the next thing you know he comes in with this cart, it's in the back of the trunk, I pay him a little cash, next thing you know, vegetarians are turning.
And they're all like salivating over the pig.
Up next What are you going to miss about me? What am I going to miss about you? I don't know, say something nice.
Enrico, what are you going to miss most about Amy Jo? Amy Jo has a beautiful ability to remind me of life outside the moment and how bigger life is.
She's my go-to person when it comes to taking those crazy chances and really believing in the power of creativity.
Amy Jo, what are you going to miss most about David? I'm going to miss sitting in the car for five hours at a time talking oh, talking crap or whatever, laughing and giggling, some of those car moments are pretty fun, yeah.
David, what are you going to miss most about Sergio? Sergio is pure at heart.
To me, he's what I would aspire to be as an artist.
I learned actually probably the most from Sergio and just how he was able to be all heart.
Sergio, what are you going to miss most about Hugh? He's a big brother.
He's been my big brother on this show from the start.
Watching out for me in a kind of tough love but love kind of way.
And I could always count on him.
And I could always believe it to be true.
And Hugh, what are you going to miss most about Rico? It's the same with all of these guys, because I know that when I get my phone out and I see any of their names, it's an immediate connection, and if they need me or I need them, I know I can count on them.
That's why I don't feel it, I don't feel that part over.
I feel the character Just make it up, buddy.
What are you going to miss about me? What am I going to miss about you? I don't know, say something nice.
Your need to get in my shots.
When I have a nice piece of dialogue that I would like to talk to Mr.
Mulroney about.
Now it's a two shot.
Still to come We're doing it.
We're doing it.
Holy cow are we doing it.
David, you know, finales are never small events.
And this one, you've got special guests on this one.
Yes, I had an opportunity to bring my parents into the universe, and so I flew them out as kind of a gift, thank you, I don't know what, and they ended up having a blast.
They got to be on set, they got to be in the movies, so to speak, it was the highlight for the season for me for sure to have my dad freaking out, checking his makeup and making sure everything's working.
Were you nervous for them? Your shabby suit.
I got to have my mom and dad come and play Sam's mom and dad which is a thrill, and came all the way out from Vancouver to do it.
They got choked up.
They're great actors.
I have to say that he was sounded as authentic here as he did at the real wedding.
Hey, now, come on.
- So.
- Come on.
Were you nervous for them? I was nervous for the show.
I didn't want them to, you know, ruin the takes or anything.
Your dad had a hard time.
Background, it was hard for his dad background.
- Not supposed to talk background.
- Yes, it was so funny.
I'm standing next to him, people come over to meet uh, you know, Sam's dad and Hi, how are you? Oh, oh, right, how do you guys do this? He would forget every time.
Does anybody else have any secrets that they can share about this finale? The energy level that we are committed to at this on this finale will not only destroy character perceptions you might have, you know what I mean, it'll-it'll-it'll will send you to another stratosphere of adrenalin and emotion.
We can promise that right? Can anyone else top that? You can't.
That's why he's good.
How do you do that, right? We're doing it.
We're doing it.
Holy cow are we doing it.
Today, where does "Flashpoint" stand sort of for you personally in terms of the professional experiences that you've had? Number one in my books.
Absolutely.
Number one.
Best five years, best chapter.
We'll have this forever, you know.
We've left a legacy.
Rico, are you going to miss it when people call you boss? Yeah.
Oh, God, yes.
Yeah.
I'm gonna miss when people stop calling me sarge.
You have to take it off your licence plate now.
So this is not the last we'll see of "Flashpoint" but thank you so much, and all the best to each and every one of you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And now we should go.
- You have to finish shooting.
- Watch your step.
Rico, can I take a gun? You know what, I think they're not locked.
I think we can get you something.
If you want an MP you want a Just something, something just something to protect the home.
What?