When I spoke with Mann last month at an ABC party, where another reporter and I peppered him with questions of the kind he said he'd had himself, Mann was looking forward to finding out what happens in this week's show.
"Literally, tomorrow, we get the script for [episode] 15, which answers all of those questions. We have been begging them, begging, on bended knee, for anything. Nothing," he said.
"Tomorrow morning, we get the script, it has the answers. And I mean, that's the beauty of . . . Mike Kelley. It's just that he delivers what he promises. He's not trying to sort of extend this into some arbitrary kind of endless thing that never gets" resolved.
Not that it's over: There'll be seven more episodes in Season 1, but tomorrow's "wraps up that piece of the story" told in flashback in the premiere, he said.
Kelley, "he's all about instant gratification. And so all I've been told is that this episode is a monster."
In the absence of actual information, Mann's happy to improvise. His character's hookup with the duplicitous - and apparently insane - Tyler (Ashton Holmes) having ended, um, badly, he's looking forward to Nolan's next love interest, whoever he (or she) turns out to be.
"I genuinely believe that when he said he was a 3 on the Kinsey scale that that was what he believes about himself," he said of Nolan. (On the Kinsey 1-6 scale, 3 would put the character halfway between "exclusively heterosexual" and "exclusively homosexual.")
