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"What I love about him, and love playing in him, is he's absolutely relentless. I've always said this. That's my favourite part of who he is, and how I played him in the pilot. He's just like a wild dog. He's relentless, and whatever he puts his mind to, he will do. The only thing that will stop him is if you kill him, because once he gets his mind to something, he will accomplish it."

"He's relentless; if he's on board with you and he's after what you're going after, I think he's a great soldier to have."

"[...]so I've put it into Murphy a little bit, that kind of chess player mentality he had. Now Murphy has that, which is cool. I'm just treating it like, yeah, the ground kind of taught Murphy how to think two steps ahead and be wary of everything."

"He's a human being, he has the capacity to feel and be anything at any given time. His compassionate side was just dormant for a long time, it was never dead though."

"That poison inside of Murphy, this aggression and anger, is definitely still there, and is just waiting for something to tip it over. It's like a little vial of poison inside of him that gets spilled and starts to infect everything.

And the thing about Murphy is that he's better when he's like that. You never see Murphy be more successful in getting what he wants than when he's the 'bad Murphy,' as people like to call him. When he has that poison inside of him – kind of like Venom in Spider-Man – he can get just about anything he wants. But it's usually not the right thing that he wants."

"He could be anything he wanted. He could be a leader. He'd be the best soldier you'd ever have – I don't mean in a fighting way, I mean someone on your team who can get the job done. If he believes in something, there's no one better. He's willing to put himself on the line, endlessly. There's no stopping what he could be. He has so much power, not physically, but he has this kind of relentlessness, this wild dog attitude that can't be stopped. But that goes for both sides. I think there's so much on both sides he could accomplish."

"I always said that Murphy's never been at more of a risk than when he fell in love with Emori. I think that if he was just always by himself, I don't think this guy would ever die. He would die at a ripe old age of like, 87, with a crap ton of battle scars on him, but somehow he would've lived. With the love in his life I think that - I think with everyone - it makes you vulnerable and it makes you weak. In a good way. There's nothing more to life than love, I truly believe in that. But it will be what kills him."

"First off, they started doing the cockroach thing because you just can't kill me. And that's fair. I can't die. However, from the very beginning of the pilot, I had already likened him to an animal. So now everyone's like "oh, cockroach, cockroach, cockroach" - no, I already had one. I already based him off an animal specifically. It was the whole reason of him, I likened him to- the way I wanted to play him, because he wasn't very important in the pilot, and I was like "I'm gonna have fun with him, I'll try to figure something out."

So I made him sort of a spitfire, you just can't - he's flinchy in his movements and the aggression comes out of the blue, and just kind of like he can't control it. So he's like a feral dog. Always my thing was he's a feral dog who had been beaten a couple too many times. And now when there are humans around him, you don't know if it’s gonna like - some of them will cower, but they'll probably just bite out, and that's what he does. He just has been- life has kicked him and kicked him and kicked him and kicked him. To the point where he's so fiery in his ways and his reactions to things, he just kind of snaps out. So I'd say like a feral dog, a very skinny, wiry feral dog that's probably mentally not doing great. That's Murphy."

"I had to think of a reason why Murphy isn't good when times should be happy — like, what's the reason he can't be happy, if things are okay? And the thing that I came up with is that he has so many issues inside of himself that he still needs to resolve — like the death of his parents, and still blaming himself for that — and maybe even a slight chemical imbalance that sometimes people can be afflicted by, in their brain chemistry. So he's better in pressure-cooker situations because there's a reason for feeling the way he's feeling; he can feel bad and feel sad and feel all these things, it's 'allowed' in situations like that. But when things are okay, Murphy is maybe too ashamed to talk about it. He can't tell people that sometimes he just can't get out of bed, that he can't do these things, that he's just not okay inside. He's too proud."