monster/hunter
This post contains spoilers for AGENT STOKER Episode 405, beware!
As a writer, I’ve worked on shows where characters were killed off. It’s not really that fun, because it means more than just the news that you’re losing a character people love (and just about every character is loved by some part of your audience). It means also that you have to end your relationship with the wonderful actor who played that role. I once worked on a show where it fell to me to break the news to one of the actors that we were killing his character off. He was so sad about it, and I didn’t love it either, but it was out of my hands. It’s no fun to be having that conversation.
But one of the great pleasures of working in a highly supernatural show like AGENT STOKER is that nobody really has to be dead forever. Indeed, in the very first episode, Agent Caliban was killed but just two episodes later, we were able to speak to her ghost. And in this very season just two episodes ago, we brought back Simon Diaz from the dead with a little time-travel to avert his previous and unfortunate transformation into a vampire.
And so it’s a special pleasure of Episode 405 that we’re bringing back a character who was killed wayyyyy back in Episode 111. Agent Prynne is a member of the Night Brigade who has become as dangerous as the threats they face. After the death of his wife, he’s become an obsessive hunter of monsters — and maybe it’s made him a monster himself.
Agent Prynne is played by Tom Irwin, the sort of actor we’re thrilled to have in AGENT STOKER — we delight in working with performers who have years of experience and yet you probably don’t know most of them by name. Recently he’s appeared in multiple episodes of THE MORNING SHOW as an intimidating network exec, but his credits go back decades and include everything from WITHOUT A TRACE to SAVING GRACE to MY SO-CALLED LIFE, where he played the heroine’s father.
When Agent Stoker and Dianne continue their hunt for missing members of the Night Brigade, they weren’t expecting to hitch a ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway where Agent Prynne would return. And similarly, Tom himself was pleasantly surprised to discover that Agent Prynne didn’t have to have met his maker three years ago — that his unsettling southern maniac could have cloned himself, the better to hunt monsters!
With clones in the mix, we can promise that this isn’t the last you’ve heard of Agent Prynne — but meanwhile, can you guess what OTHER deceased character makes a mysterious return next episode??! Good luck!!