asking you, just please take a look at it." I looked at it and it was like somebody giving me a hit of crack -- I just couldn't get it out of my system. I took the job not even because I wanted to do it; it was just because I would have been too resentful if anyone else had done it. And if I had to boil it down to one thing, I wanted to find out what happened in episode two before anyone else. It felt like an insane thing to try on television, but it's very rare to find good writing and interesting writing, and it's very rare also to find someone like Howard Gordon whose storytelling skills I respected a lot. I thought he was great when he wrote 24 and The X-Files . And I trusted Bob from Showtime who had done some amazing work there. I thought, "How often do circumstances come together to bring a talented group of people together with a great idea. You know, I'd be an idiot to walk away." I talked with Howard and Kyle about what it takes to keep these worlds straight. You're actually going through this stuff - so does it really feel like two separate universes? It does actually. I have two different sets of people I work with. I work with Wilmer [Valderrama] and Laura [Allen], who plays my wife, and whatever is going on that side of the story. And then I work