‘Alert’ Boss Breaks Down Shocking Premiere Cliffhanger & Teases ‘Surprising Answers’ Ahead (Exclusive)

Jason Grant and Nikki Batista got the astonishment of their lives erstwhile their son, Keith, returned 6 years aft being abducted. The fractured household was reunited by Keith coming backmost into their lives, but the last moments of the Alert: Missing Persons Unit bid premiere hinted that each is not what it seems. Is Keith truly their son? Or is helium an imposter?

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Alert co-creator John Eisendrath astir that jaw-dropping twist. Jason and Nikki some enactment for the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, and John revealed however they’ll beryllium impacted by the questions surrounding Keith.

Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez successful ‘Alert.’ (FOX)

“I deliberation that’s 1 of the things that I emotion is that experts successful this area, similar experts successful galore areas, tin get wholly blindsided erstwhile their emotions are getting successful the way,” John said. “There are galore stories successful this peculiar area, wherever parents are truthful hopeless for the idiosyncratic who’s travel backmost to beryllium their kid that they conscionable disregard things, and rationalize distant immoderate and each sides that mightiness not beryllium the case.”

The Blacklist EP continued, “In this case, we person their girl Sydney a quality who is unequivocal from the opening astir feeling similar this is not her brother. The parents are dealing with that information and trying to process wherefore successful the satellite their different kid is truthful adamant, and we volition instrumentality the assemblage done each antithetic types of stories and permutations that will, for a while, instrumentality america deeper down the rabbit spread of the is helium oregon isn’t he. I deliberation successful a communicative similar this determination are galore antithetic twists and turns erstwhile you deliberation you cognize the answer, but past the reply isn’t what you deliberation it’s going to be. And past you’re definite you cognize the reply and then, oh, wait, bent on. That’s not what I thought. I deliberation it’ll beryllium an incredibly amusive thrust that I anticipation the assemblage volition bask going connected arsenic they’re trying to conjecture whether oregon not helium is oregon isn’t their son.”

The last moments of the occurrence showed Keith ripping pages pertaining to his disappearance retired of his diary. John pointed retired that the assemblage deserves “real answers each measurement of the way, truthful we volition archer stories that are precise concrete. We volition bash each of the imagined testing, questioning, and investigating, and I’m reasonably assured that we person a fig of precise astonishing answers for each of the assorted efforts that are going to get made successful the effort to corroborate whether oregon not helium is, successful fact, their son.”

Scott Caan arsenic Jason Grant. (FOX)

After Keith’s disappearance, Nikki and Jason’s matrimony fell apart. Nikki gets engaged to 1 of her chap co-workers, Mike, successful the bid premiere. The co-creator revealed however Nikki and Jason’s narration volition alteration present that Keith is (supposedly) back.

“Now that their kid they judge has been brought backmost to them, they are inevitably going to wonderment sooner oregon aboriginal whether having had their household made full again by the instrumentality of their child, what is the repercussion for their relationship? It is the benignant of crook of events that I deliberation the assemblage tin basal for everyone,” John told HollywoodLife. “They’re going to basal for I anticipation Nikki and Jason due to the fact that they didn’t get divorced due to the fact that 1 of them cheated connected the other. They didn’t get divorced due to the fact that they treated each different poorly. They got divorced for a precise sympathetic reason, and present I deliberation radical tin basal for them.”

He continued, “But bent on, Mike’s specified a saccharine guy. I anticipation that immoderate of the assemblage volition beryllium rooting not against Jason but for Mike. I consciousness similar it’s precise uncommon that you tin person a emotion triangle wherever you tin basal for everyone.”

Over the people of the season, arsenic the assemblage questions whether oregon not Keith is truly Keith, the question astir whether oregon not Nikki and Jason volition get backmost unneurotic volition besides arise. “I deliberation that we volition decidedly beryllium telling stories that enactment Nikki and Jason successful precise affectional situations that either explicitly oregon implicitly marque them deliberation astir the days erstwhile they were unneurotic and a blessed couple,” helium said.

Dania Ramirez arsenic Nikki Batista. (FOX)

From the get-go, Nikki and Jason’s daughter, Sidney, is hesitant astir Keith. John teased the fallout of however the erstwhile mates volition woody with their daughter’s doubts astir her brother.

“They volition disagree connected whether oregon not to and however to woody with Sidney’s insistence that Keith is not her brother. As overmuch arsenic the communicative volition bring them together, it is simply a hard 1 for them. It is wide and affectional and they won’t ever agree. There’s going to beryllium a definite equilibrium betwixt however this communicative brings them unneurotic and however it tests them.” Alert: Missing Persons Unit volition aerial Sundays connected FOX.

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