DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): Carolyn [Strauss] was the one who said, “That character has legs. Don’t kill that character so quick.” She was wounded and not killed at the end of Season One, and Carolyn made compelling arguments about the show going forward and the need for a strong female lead on the cop side, that we were short on female leads and that it was a perspective that could allow us things that we otherwise would not have.
