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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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A Closer Look: Zach
Soap Opera Weekly
by Carolyn Hinsey, Published December 4, 2007
This week Greenlee saves a delrious Zach, and the pair are left with no choice but to work together to try and escape the bunker. Is that even possible? Let's ask Zach's portrayer, Thorsten Kaye.
WEEKLY: Zach's injuries cause him
to hallucinate
this week,
and he thinks Greenlee is Kendall. How does that happen?
THORSTEN
KAYE: Alcohol.
WEEKLY: Seriously.
KAYE: What Zach needs is for Kendall to be there, so Greenlee
pretends to be Kendall to help him. And she does help
him. It's a human moment. Hopefully, it will come
across that way. Not until later does she say, "Why did you
do what you did to Greenlee?"
WEEKLY: And then Zach tells Greenlee that Kendall was going
to confess to framing her in court but he stopped her?
KAYE: Yeah. He says to Greenlee, thinking she's
Kendall, "There's no way you're going to stand up and defend
her in court. Not going to happen." So Greenlee
knows Zach would have sent her to jail.
WEEKLY: Does that make Greenlee mad?
KAYE: Greenlee's always mad.
WEEKLY: What's the endgame of all this?
KAYE: That's a tough one to answer. because there's an
endgame on different levels for different people. Zach
eventually comes to see the good in Greenlee -- the trying and the
inability to communicate to other people what she wants. And
maybe not knowing what she really wanted and going about things in all
the wrong ways. I think what Zach realizes is that doing
things badly doesn't necessarily make you a bad person.
WEEKLY: So they have a mini-kumbaya and then Zach notices a
ladder high up on the wall that could lead to a way out. Were
those scenes an excuse for you to show off your muscles?
KAYE: Definitely not. The only gym I go to is
O'Flaherty's Bar & Grill. You got the wrong guy
there. That's the whole point. You have two people
here, and they're both injured. The two of them together will
make one person. Maybe together they can get something
done. They don't want to be stuck with each other any longer.
WEEKLY: Do they reach the ladder?
KAYE: Yes. Zach is able to make a rope ladder out
of Greenlee's crushed hopes and dreams, and they climb out.
WEEKLY: Seriously. Can you hint at how they get
rescued?
KAYE: I can't, because Zach and Greenlee think they're going
to die. And you're supposed to think they're going to die.
WEEKLY: Please. AMC would never kill
Zach. While all this is going on, Kendall receives a charm
bracelet that Zach sent her before he disappeared.
KAYE: Really? That was nice of me.