Trivia / Forever (2014)

• Actor Allusion:
  • Abe puts a much younger photo of himself on his online dating profile, which is of course actually a publicity photo of Judd Hirsch from early in his career.
  • In one episode, Henry lovingly describes a Jaguar car to the detectives. At their weird looks, he explains that he has a thing for Jaguars. Ioan Gruffudd owns a black Jaguar XK8 and loves driving it around LA.
  • Henry is seen dyeing his temples silver to try to fake that he's aging and ends up looking like Ioan Gruffudd did in a couple of films. Henry also mentions that he once got his nose flattened, like Ioan did in the 2nd Fanatic Four film.
  • Adam is revealed to be played by Burn Gorman; this isn't his first time dealing with the immortal.
  • Of course Abe would know what type of cap cab drivers would wear.
  • In a flashback to the 1980s, Abe is played by Hirsch's NUMB3RS co-star David Krumholtz, who played his youngest son in said series.
  • Isaac states in his first scene that he hates public speaking, but is still good at it. Cuba Gooding Jr. is well known for his Oscar acceptance speech where he managed to make the "playing off" music sound like the backdrop to a Rousing Speech.
  • Henry abhors slavery and tried to help some of the slaves to escape. In Amazing Grace, Ioan Gruffudd plays William Wilberforce, one of the main campaigners to end slavery in the British Empire in roughly the same time period.
• Actor-Shared Background: Donnie Keshawarz was in a rock band before becoming an actor, so the writers worked this into Hanson's background in "Punk Is Dead."
• Creator's Favorite: Ioan Gruffudd loved this show. When it was cancelled, he became so distraught that he couldn't put together a coherent personal statement and his wife had to step in for him.
• Deleted Scene: Several of the deleted scenes on the DVD release are attached to the wrong episode.
  • Two in the pilot. First, there's an alternate opening narration where we see Henry walking down the street in New York and the scene gradually changes around him to earlier times, cars replaced with older models and then horse-drawn vehicles, clothes and buildings changing to match. At the end, there's an alternate version of the last scene, where we follow Henry and Jo out to her car, and Henry impishly asks Jo if she can put the sirens on. Jo gives him an exasperated/amused/indulgent look, and asks him how old he is, but she does turn on the siren, at which Henry grins like a boy.
  • In "Look Before You Leap" Henry and Jo talk as they stroll across the university campus. Henry is feeling nostalgic about his university days. Jo went to night school until her husband got into law school. Henry encourages her that she's young enough to go back, stating that education is one of the great treasures in life. Jo teases him that his file says he went to school in Guam, which must have been "quite the party school."
  • In a scene cut from "The Pugilist Break" ^note but the link appears after "Fountain of Youth" Henry and Jo complain about gentrification. Jo asks Henry how ling he's been in New York, and he replies it's been long enough to know what a developer like Delgros will do to the neighborhood. Jo gets a call from Hanson that Raoul's cell is still transmitting, from the new playground under construction.
  • A deleted flashback in "New York Kids" has Henry and Abigail at the hospital, discussing getting Abe to the World Series game he's so excited to see. Henry says his shift will be over in an hour and he'll have plenty of time to get Abe to the game. Henry wonders why it's called a World Series when all the teams are American. Then a new patient comes in with a knife wound near the heart and Henry has to hurry off to treat him.
  • A deleted scene from "6 AM" ^note linked after "The Ecstasy of Agony has Henry and Jo looking for Pepper at the address given by his daughter but not finding any jazz clubs, and discussing their own fathers. Jo's brother refused to believe their father was guilty even after he was convicted. Henry says his father died a long time ago, that he was a product of his times and that they loved each other. Jo says she spent her childhood waiting for her father to show up for games, recitals, graduation, but he never did. Henry suggests her father was lying to himself, not her, about being there, promising to be the father he wanted to be. Then they hear faint jazz music.
  • A second scene from "6 AM" has Jo looking up her father in the Department of Corrections database. When Reece asks her about it, she blanks the screen and says he's just "some three-time perp." Lucas then announces intermission is over and he's got the next reel queued up, something involving a kitten and a bathtub of blood, presumably his old films from his college days. Reece asks how the movies have been, and Hanson almost tactfully says he's learning a lot about Lucas.
  • A scene in "Skinny Dipper" when Abe urges Henry to tell Jo that Adam calls him, carries on longer, with Henry showing Abe a picture of the bullet from the cab and Abe giving the same info about the gun that Hanson gave in the aired version. Henry asks if Abe has something similar and Abe shows him a gun of the same type but far too rusted to be able to fire.
  • A second scene from "Skinny Dipper" has Henry waking up in a hospital bed with Nora by his side. She tells him there was an accident at the asylum and he disappeared just like he'd told her he would. Henry tells her it destroyed him when she had him taken away, but now she knows he was telling the truth. The doctor who's been "treating" Henry at the asylum then walks in — it was all a test to see whether Henry was really "cured" of his "delusions" or not. The doctor assures Nora they'll resume treatment immediately. The look of betrayal and despair on Henry's face is heartbreaking. Henry then comes out of the flashback and calls Abe to check in on him. Abe reassures him that Henry has identified his stalker and the police are after him, if it were Henry he'd have fled to another country by now. Abe hangs up and goes to greet a customer — Clark Walker.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Abigail Morgan is played by American actress MacKenzie Mauzy.
  • The Frenchman is this in-universe (she's actually Japanese, not French) and is played by a Chinese-American actress.
• The Other Darrin: Abigail is portrayed by MacKenzie Mauzy in flashbacks from 1945 to the 1960s. Janet Zarish plays Abigail from the 1980s. They've appeared in the same episode, albeit in different flashbacks.
• Playing Hamlet: An older version than usual, as Abe is explicitly stated to be 69 years old, whereas Judd Hirsch is 79. He looks good enough for his age to make it plausible.
• What Could Have Been: During a Twitter Q&A in January 2016, Matt Miller explained some ideas that were considered for Season Two, which had been mapped out prior to the series's cancellation:
  • There would have been an immortal who cut off Adam's life support in order to resurrect and then team up with him.
  • Henry would have had a fling with a younger immortal (although it is unknown if this would have been the same immortal who resurrects Adam).
  • Through flashbacks, we would have met another one of Henry's past loves, a "Latin lover". We would have also met Henry's child with this woman.
  • Lucas would have been the next character to learn of Henry's immortality.
  • There would have been flashbacks to Henry's childhood, Abe learning to ride a bike, and Abe learning of Henry's immortality.
  • Lt. Reece would have had more of an expanded role.
  • There would have been more about Jo's past, including a story about her criminal father being the reason she became a cop.
  • There would have been a "wink-wink" hint that Henry inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes.