Other Conference Call Highlights:

David Maples on the story focus of In Plain Sight:

"It’s about Mary Shannon, played by Mary McCormack. She is a Marshal attached to the Witness Protection Program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The official title of such people are WITSEC inspectors, and WITSEC stands for Witness Security. And the show is about from week to week we have a new witness, and Mary has to deal with whatever problems arise out of people, some criminals, some innocent witnesses to crimes who have had to testify and leave their lives behind. Mary has to deal with the problems of people having their lives yanked away from them and completely reinvent themselves from scratch, something she’s very good at. She deals with other people’s problems really, really well. And that’s played in contrast to her seemingly total lack of ability at dealing with her own problems in her own personal life, which is also a strong component in almost every episode.

"There’s some element of Mary’s person life confounding her. And we try to thematically, as much as we can, although we don’t do it in a really overbearing way I don’t think, we try to tie those two story lines together somewhat thematically between the witness story and their problem and Mary’s personal problem, and the problem of her family and the other people in her life."

Maples on casting the supporting actors:

"Down the line, every one of our cast members are not the obvious choice to play the part, from Cristian [de la Fuente] and Paul Ben-Victor as Stan and Nichole as the troubled younger sister to Leslie [Ann Warren] as the mom. In every instance there were other people who came in who, on the surface of it, might have been better choices, but in each case there was something about each one of these actors that brought something to the part that - it was impossible not to cast them. In every instance, with every one of these people that we cast, including Todd Williams, I don’t want to forget him, it wasn’t close. It wasn’t like there was 1 and 1A, and flip a coin, who are we going to cast. In every one of those instances, almost the minute we read them it was like, 'Okay, we found that part. Let’s see if we can make a deal and move on.' So we’ve been really, really lucky with the casting."

Paul Stupin on whether shooting in New Mexico was More Challenging than Los Angeles:

"I can tell you without a doubt, absolutely. I mean first of all, most of our cast basically moved down to New Mexico for the four months, five months that we were shooting. And that certainly causes a little bit of a disruption in everyone’s life. The other thing is what New Mexico brings to the table is an incredible sense of texture, an incredible feel, a blue sky that just stretches on for what seems like forever. And I think, visually we got something that you haven’t seen on television before."