The 100's Isaiah Washington Dishes All About That Shocking Return

Fan-favorite character returned to the CW hit series in one of the most shocking moments of the night

By Sydney Bucksbaum Oct 30, 2014 2:00 AMTags
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Warning! Major spoilers below if you have yet to see The 100 season two, episode 2, "Inclement Weather"...

We never thought we'd see Wells (Eli Goree) ever again on The 100, but we should probably just stop trying to predict anything about this show!

After Wells' brutal murder at the hands of a disturbed little girl in season one—the first major death of the hit CW series—his memory lingered heavy in many of the characters' minds, most notably his father, Chancellor Jaha (Isaiah Washington). But in tonight's episode, Jaha's oxygen deprivation on the failing Ark reached dire levels, causing him to first hallucinate that baby we heard crying at the end of the premiere (yes, it was fake!) and then none other than his dead son.

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"It was very special to have Eli Goree back," Washington told E! News. "Obviously, I was surprised when I got word that his character was killed off in the first season, because if you take Jaha's son from him, he doesn't have a wife, a mother, father, sister, brother, girlfriend, so his son is all he had. When he's at his lowest point, and Wells shows up at that moment, I thought that was very special. It's that turning point that gave Jaha the energy and fortitude yet again to do whatever it takes to get back to his people and hopefully lead them not into another nuclear holocaust."

Why did Jaha's subconscious choose a helpless baby and then Wells to motivate him to figure out a way to get to the ground? The 100's executive producer Jason Rothenberg told E! News that Jaha needed to see that his job wasn't done yet.

"We just needed him to realize that there was more work to be done," Rothenberg said. "He had taken his people to the ground but he hadn't yet delivered them safely to the promised land and that becomes a driving thing for him all season long."

That heartbreaking pep talk with his "son" gave Jaha the motivation he needed to hop on a ship-to-ground rocket and make his journey to the ground...but even though he landed safely on Earth, he, along with the audience, was in for a huge shocker.

He landed somewhere in the middle of a desert and nowhere near his people, meaning he could literally be halfway across the globe from Camp Jaha!

"It's just like life!" Washington said with a laugh. "Every plan always has a quirk in it. No plan is fail safe. What I like about him is that he takes everything and finds a way to make it work, but he's going to suffer the consequences of landing in the wrong place. But at the same time, he survived the trip! He's going to continue to remember the conversation he had with the hallucination of his son and that's going to propel him and he refuses to give up hope."

So what's Jaha's next move? How in the world is he going to get back to his people when he doesn't even know where he is or where they are?

"I don't know! He's still in the middle of nowhere right up until episode 10," Washington joked. "I don't ask Jason [Rothenberg] those questions. I like being surprised and I like not knowing where the character is going. I discover it moment to moment to moment. It's more authentic that way. But when the audience sees what he's going through, he's probably going to wish he was dead! Maybe coming to Earth wasn't a good idea at all!"

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But Jaha isn't the only one facing a life-changing journey. Raven (Lindsey Morgan) had to suffer through surgery on her spine to remove the bullet Murphy shot her with...all without anesthesia. Raise your hand if you actually had to look away from the TV during that horrific scene!

"Like everything else in our show, when there is violence, people are injured," Rothenberg told us of Raven's injuries from the season one finale. "Even though she survived it, it's real and people don't just bounce back from things like that. It's going to be something that haunts her and will make her life hard for the foreseeable future. She'll have a brace on, like a badass Mel Gibson from Road Warrior brace, for I think the entire season, or at least through episode 10, which we're shooting now."

But you tell us: which scene was harder for you to watch? Raven's painful surgery or Clarke (Eliza Taylor) ripping open her stitches on the metal corner of her bed to get into medical to find out what the people of Mount Weather were really up to?

The 100 airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on the CW.