In Countdown Season 1, Episode 10, "The Muzzle Pile," Team Hurricane finally comes face to face with their target, Volchek ( Bogdan Yasinski ). They neutralize the threat, and in less than half the episode, the team is disbanded and everyone moves on. A ten-month time jump finds them back together working on a new case, and it feels like the show has moved on to a second-season plotline . Series creator Derek Haas discussed this time jump in a new interview and revealed that indeed, the team was on to a new case. “When they [Amazon] told me it was going to be 13 episodes, I thought, ‘That’s a really long stretch for one case,'” he said of why he decided to end the Volchek story at that point and pivot. “And then I thought, ‘How interesting and novel would it be if I started a
'Countdown' Creator Explains How Episode 10 Just Reset the Clock With That Insane Time Jump

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