Remember how “The Walking Dead” was so pleased with itself after leaving fans wondering if Glenn (Steven Yeun) might somehow manage to avoid his vicious, bloody fate from the original comics at the end of season 6 … only for the major entertainment outlets to blunder in a couple of weeks later and announce Yeun’s casting in Bong Joon-Ho’s “Okja,” inadvertently ruining the gambit? Had you been paying close attention to the news cycle around “Alphas” in late 2010, you would have gotten a similar heads-up that Vincent’s future wasn’t looking too rosy, back when Cartwright was newly attached to star in Michael Karnow and Zak Penn’s Syfy superhero drama.
Despite that, Hanson already had a plan for getting Cartwright back on “Bones,” had “Alphas” quickly fizzled:
“Also, I’ve always thought in the back of my mind that should the Syfy series go away, I wish it only ill, that is one of the few characters that you could conceivably bring back as a relative or where you can laughingly say, Vincent Nigel-Murray is dead but Nigel Vincent-Murray is still alive. And because he can do a million accents; he is such a chameleon and we actually had a good little weep. I think that’s everyone when he left.”
Chiming in, Nathan added, “Oh, it was terrible,” before (jokingly?) claiming, “We called the other show and told them he stunk and they shouldn’t hire him. We did everything we possibly could, but they just …” Whether the show’s producers actually went so far as to trash talk Cartwright’s name to their “competitors” or not, it’s clear they and everyone else on “Bones” treasured their Squinterns like proud parents. It’s no wonder Deschanel wept her eyes out saying goodbye to them in the final season.
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