I was a huge fan of "Second Chance" when it briefly aired on the Fox Network. I was very disappointed in the cancellation of it. It was a fresh take on a buddy cop show. It had the crime aspect, the science fiction aspect and the family aspect. It was very interesting to me to see a father and son solving crimes together where you had the one being by the book and the other one who'd skirt outside of the boundaries from time to time.

What really drew me to the show the most was the character of Jimmy Pritchard and his past. This was a complicated guy who was not going to win any father or husband of the year awards, and yet, his family however dysfunctional it was, stayed together. There was no divorce in his life. He spoke nothing but good things about his late wife who was the mother of his two children Duval and Helen but it was evident that the relationship was troubled. I wanted to explore why it was troubled.

It was clear that he loved his family for better for worse and he now had this second chance to make it better. I wanted to explore the past of Jimmy and because his relationship with his son was rocky at best in the past, I thought it would be interesting to explore the idea of what would happen if Jimmy's and Duval's paths cross another path but at different points in time...hence the character of Paula McCaffrey was born.

I have tried to take various elements from the show and expand on them. Two of the big things that I wondered about were Jimmy's wife and Duval's wife. We found out in the second to the last episode that Duval's wife had died one year earlier. I wanted to know how that happened. I also wanted to know about Gracie. She started out as a sweet kid and then turned into a rebel who was hanging out with someone she shouldn't have been. I felt that needed to be explored and I tied that into her mother.

Lastly, I felt that Duval's sister needed a better part in this story. Since we never found out what she did for a living in the show and she was initially living with Duval and Gracie, it made sense to me that perhaps she was possibly finishing school so I expanded on that.

I also loved the budding relationship with Mary and Jimmy and again, we knew very little of Mary's and Otto's past so I expanded on that as well while exploring the pitfalls that Jimmy and Mary might face in a relationship.

I have created other characters as I felt that had there been a second season we would have seen new friends and enemies come to light. I hope you all enjoy it if you enjoyed the series.

Shameless Plug: I would like to also suggest to any fans of Pride and Prejudice that my cousin has written a new story called "Giving Consequence" based on Pride and Prejudice. Her pen name is Lady Jaeza. While I have never read Pride and Prejudice nor seen any of the movies, I am enjoying what I have read so far.