Let me tell you something. However, there was still a big question on everyone’s minds: How was the series going to write out this character? In season two, Alex was killed after a truck crashed into the motorcade she was traveling in.

PRESIDENT TOM KIRKMAN: We’re going to keep doing drafts until we make this line work. Yes, statistically speaking, it’s hard to fathom this ever happening to you. PRESIDENT TOM KIRKMAN: And he puked here too. First up?

A few times, I bet. I assumed this role, per constitutional tradition, as a designated survivor. Then, it did.

PRESIDENT TOM KIRKMAN: Stomach flu, Alex. I know that I was not elected. 32: 11 "Grief" Timothy Busfield: Keith Eisner: February 28, 2018 () 3.72: Ten weeks after Alex's death, Kirkman has to resolve a diplomatic mission turned into a hostage crisis in Cuba while still coming to terms with his loss and confronting the imprisoned driver who killed his wife. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Amy Coney Barrett; Supreme Court, The Walking Dead season 10 finale spoilers: The stakes of the big battle. I’ve always thought that.

I’m just some guy who suddenly has to do the job, you know? Natascha McElhone leaving Designated Survivor, Alex Kirkman role; why? Chris takes a stab at guessing what happens in ABC’s new Kiefer Sutherland-as-president drama, Designated Survivor. By visiting this site, you consent to have cookie data stored. FIRST LADY ALEX KIRKMAN: What are you thinking about? But as your president, I don’t intend to simply designated survive, but rather designated thrive.

And I kind of understand it a little more clearly now that I’ve heard it a few more times and you explained it, but I think it’ll confuse a lot of Americans too. As we confront these challenges together, I intend to lead this country with the resolve and determination worthy of this office.

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The other night, we were in some stand-off with Iran and I was terrified, if you want to know the truth.

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December 15, 2017 @ Chicago PD interview: EP Rick Eid on Atwater’s big story, Burgess & Ruzek. Have fun at soccer practice. He threw up here. With the music that accompanied the news, there is only one way to describe this big reveal: Devastating. But as your president, I don’t intend to simply designated survive, but rather designated. Anyway, you’re only 10 years old and I’m not really sure why I’m telling you all of this. We have all the scoop for you! And then I laid here awake in this bed and spent hours imagining Dwight Eisenhower covering every square inch of this bedroom with projectile vomit. Just completely terrified. The Designated Survivor winter finale contained one of the biggest shockers of the entire series to date in the closing minutes. PRESIDENT TOM KIRKMAN: Take FDR, for example.

Right? It doesn’t matter who you are — President of the United States, Michael Jordan, the emperor of the moon, everybody — when the flu lines you up in its sights, you’re just a guy puking his guts out. Now launch the damn nuclear missiles at Antarctica like I ordered. PRESIDENT TOM KIRKMAN: Let me tell you something.

ADVISOR 2: I think to Paul’s point, if there’s a way to take that basic message — about how you won’t settle for simply being a competent, mediocre president, but a great leader — and incorporate it into the rest of the speech somehow, that’s what we should strive for here. Maybe the most important public figure of the 20th century.

TOM KIRKMAN’S DAD: And so, son, Congress instituted a policy that one member of the president’s cabinet would not attend the annual State of the Union Address, just in case — God help us — some catastrophic event killed the entire government.

Though it seems incredibly unlikely, I hope I’m never the designated survivor. Also, ‘emperor of the moon’? December 14, 2017.

Maybe the First Lady was going to be killed off, or maybe something else would happen that would send her far away from the show’s orbit. Maybe the First Lady was going to be killed off, or maybe something else would happen that would send her far away from the show’s orbit. And then I laid here awake in this bed and spent hours imagining Dwight Eisenhower covering every square inch of this bedroom with projectile vomit. Photo via ABC. The very specific set of circumstances and events that would have to take place in order to lead to that seems basically impossible. Were you shocked by how Alex died? FIRST LADY ALEX KIRKMAN: I’m sorry, I guess I just don’t see why this is reassuring to you in any way. And, like me, none of them were immune to a vicious stomach virus or even food poisoning. I just — maybe it’s the word ‘designated.’ Like, I don’t know what it means to “designated survive” or “designated thrive.” It comes across as a little nonsensical, with all due respect.

And so, my fellow Americans, I stand here humbled before you. If you want to read some more news on that subject, you can do that just by heading over to the CarterMatt link here. With Wednesday night’s episode being the winter finale, there were many teases out there suggesting that this was going to be the episode that changed the Kirkman family forever. ADVISOR 2: It’s a clever line — designated survive versus thrive — and I know you want it to work, but it just keeps tripping me up.