SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for From Season 4, Episode 10.

The season 4 finale of MGM+ horror series From brought a lot to a head, including the dreaded event that was teased throughout the season’s back half: Henry giving in to the Man in Yellow’s hallucinations and trying to kill his son Victor. It may not have been the finale’s most shocking moment, but it was one of the most painful.

Actors Scott McCord (who plays Victor) and Robert Joy (who portrays Henry) spoke with TVBrittanyF.com writer Kelsey Yoor to discuss the evolution of their father-son relationship. They also spoke about how they prepared to play this particular story arc, and where they think Henry and Victor are headed in the future.

Kelsey Yoor: How have you played the evolution in both of your characters? There’s Victor alone in Fromville and Henry dealing with that guilt essentially for decades.

Scott McCord: Yeah. And I think Victor is dealing with that guilt as well. Whatever Victor’s existence in this place has been, being there the longest… We talk a lot about that together—that he’s holding this guilt towards his father about the fact that that lifetime lost could be my fault, because I didn’t do anything. I didn’t try.

Robert Joy: You didn’t make your bed! [Laughs.]

McCord: But truthfully, we—Robert and I—do a lot of work off the page and outside of the set together when we’re not shooting.

Joy: We have our own two-person workshop, away from the set. Often, a day or two or even a week before we shoot a particular scene, we’ll sort of workshop it together. We’ll get it together.

From Season 4 added so much stress about Henry, particularly setting him up to kill Victor. Robert, what was your reaction when you read that was the storyline? And how were you toeing that line?

Joy: Fom an actor’s point of view, it’s gold, because it’s filled with change and uncertainty and curveballs. You don’t always want to have something that’s easy to play. You don’t want just the easy underhanded pitch that anyone can [hit]. You want to be able to deal with some curveballs and some challenges. And this [season] is filled with that kind of material.

Because there weren’t enough challenges!

Joy: Yeah. [Laughs.] He thought it was going to be the relief from his guilt of the forty years, and he’s getting a second chance to love his son—and then he screws up. Really badly.

McCord: So badly. So bad.

How do you see the relationship growing and changing from that very big delineation into From Season 5?

Joy: I actually asked the writer at one point—I saw him [when] he came to visit the set of this other show I’m doing called The Institute—I asked him, “Does Henry end up in a straitjacket?” He said, “No, no straitjacket.”

But I think with Henry, there are elements already that I think I’m going to be the protector. And by the end, people are saying, what are we going to do? And [Victor says], I’ll take care of my dad! He’s the one who’s taking care of me, even though.

A lot of the theme in From has been these characters forced to grow up, like Ethan and Julie. Victor has been kept in this really unfair arrested development state, and now he’s been forced to do a lot of stuff at once. We all really want Henry and Victor to make it out alive, make it home. But if you don’t get out, do you guys have an idea of how you would like each character’s story to end?

Joy: I think I’d like it to end where Henry sacrifices himself. That would be lovely. That’s what I think. It’s like A Tale of Two Cities. I go to the guillotine. Leave me all alone.

It was the best of towns, it was the worst of towns.

Joy: Yeah! Back to Camden, Maine, where [Victor] always wanted to get back to with your lunchbox.

McCord: Yeah, I want to wind up with my lunchbox. You know, but I was hoping that we would both get out.

Joy: It wouldn’t be the most dramatic, but…

Has there been anything besides the “I might have to kill my son” that’s been very scary or surprising to you to in Season 4? And is there anything scares-wise that you’re hoping continues on into the next season?

Joy: Yeah! The scariest storyline for me was to watch Sophia inundate herself, the Man in Yellow being inside her. With Sara trying to find her spiritual path and realizing that’s in jeopardy now because of Sophia. I desperately want Sophia and the Man in Yellow to have a comeuppance. That’s what gets to me the most. It upsets me.

McCord: His whole thing about this is where it gets… What’s his line? The Man in Yellow says, this is his favorite part. But it’s basically the idea that everyone’s going to turn on each other.

Joy: Yeah. And I think that’s beautifully portrayed, how he’s getting so much pleasure. Sophia, you can watch her drinking in the conflict as if it’s a glass of wine.

I felt it was very parallel to “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, The Twilight Zone, where if you mess with everybody, they tear themselves apart.

McCord: Great reference, by the way!

Joy: Explain it to me. I don’t know.

McCord: You haven’t seen that one?

Joy: I don’t think so.

Well, you’ve given me an amazing interview. So now I’ve given you some Twilight Zone homework. I feel like that feels fair.

Joy: That’s fair. Yeah. I need to do my Twilight Zone homework.

I really appreciate speaking to you guys today. And I am out here cheering on that we get through a faraway tree or something, and both of you come home unharmed.

Joy: I hope you get what you want!

From airs Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on MGM+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of MGM+.

Follow Kelsey Yoor on Instagram at @itskelseyytime.