A/N: I know this story is marked as complete, and that it's not actually a story, but I figured I could update as I find information and interviews online to share with all you Gale fans.

The following is from Zap2It (dot) com (there's a video interview on this site with Gale about his previous role in Hellcats… I don't miss the show, but I love hearing his slight Southern lilt that comes across in this interview)

'The Secret Circle' E.P.: Gale Harold's Charles examines his choices in the face of tragedy

We're still recovering from last week's shocking episode of "The Secret Circle." Now that we've had a chance to watch it a couple of times (yeah, we do that), we're finding ourselves intrigued not only with the unexpected death of Nick (Louis Hunter) and its impact on his friends, but also on its impact on the adult characters.

The scene where Charles (Gale Harold) drowned Nick was one of the most powerful moments we've seen thus far in the series, particularly for Harold as an actor, who conveyed Charles' horror beautifully.

We spoke with executive producer Andrew Miller about just what Nick's death means for Charles in particular. Miller tells us that Thursday's upcoming episode gives us some new insight into Charles' character.

"His episode on Thursday is pretty amazing to watch," he says. "Gale, obviously, is such a gifted actor. What's so great about having guys that can play this wide range of emotions is that you just want to give them a ton to do."

We saw Charles murder Cassie's mother pretty coldly in the first episode of the series. He barely broke a sweat as his former friend burned to death. "With Charles, on one hand you get this diabolical evil that you see in the pilot, and on the other, you see this desperate, childlike, anguish and agony as he's dealing with this horrible thing he's done now," Miller tells us. "His true character lies somewhere in between those things."

Nick's death certainly has a ripple effect on the remaining five witches in his circle, but Miller says there will be consequences for Charles and Dawn as well. "You start going down a path, you choose this partner in Dawn to execute a plan, you just don't expect that it's going to lead you down this dark road," he explains. "The way he deals with Nick's death is going to be different from what he expects, what Dawn expects, and definitely from what we expect."

Miller understand the fans' strong reaction to the death, but implores that strong reactions are a good thing. "I'm sitting at the heels of a great storytelling master named Kevin [Williamson]. Vicki dying [on 'Vampire Diaries'] I'll never forget, and Anna dying I'll never forget. When that happened on 'Vampire,' and when Ian [Somerhalder] died on 'Lost' for that matter, it makes you go 'Okay, this is a show where literally anything can happen, and will.' That's the kind of show that I love as a fan and the kind of show that I love as a writer."

Now that the safety net has been yanked out from underneath us, we'll see another side of our favorite characters. "Sadly, for Nick and for Louis, what this death allows us to do is to examine the characters in a way that we couldn't have otherwise," he says. "In the face of real tragedy, who are you?"

When it comes to Charles, Dawn, and their secret from 16 years ago, Miller promises that we won't be waiting too long to understand. "We're definitely going to get answers. I'm such a huge fan of these kinds of shows, and I know how frustrating it is to spend a whole season being like, 'Maybe next week! Maybe next week!' so I don't want to play that game with people. At the same time, the mystery of 16 years ago is so complicated and there's a lot to discover, so I think we kind of get the best of both worlds. We are going to very soon be actively revealing information about what happened, in a satisfying way, not in a constant teasing way. At the same time, there's a lot to discover about what happened then, and even before."

The following is from E! Online (interview with Adam – who plays Ethan… comments about staring opposite Gale… and their previous experience on QAF).

We know we're getting older when we find the local drunk dad (see: Adam Harrington as Ethan Conant) the hottest character on a CW show (The Secret Circle).

Luckily, we're not completely shallow: Ethan is also a complex character haunted by a past he can't forget no matter how much he drinks, and fans can expect to see Nick's (Louis Hunter) shocking death to have a huge impact on Ethan (and his liver).

We chatted with Harrington about Ethan's "shocking" actions in tonight's episode—and that time he played the superhero version of Gale Harold. Say wha?

"I was really shocked by it," Harrington admits about tonight's episode, in which Ethan dramatically shakes up Adam (Thomas Dekker) and Diana's (Shelley Hennig) relationship. "You're not going to get away from something like that on a show like this. I was shocked and I'm just as shocked at the fallout it is going to have on people."

Fans can expect to see Ethan struggle with Nick's death in a major way as it brings up some not-so-cherished memories of all the loss he suffered 16 years ago. "It sends Ethan on a bit of a spin. He starts drinking and he gets drunk at Nick's wake, and unfortunately he says something to Diana that he shouldn't. And it has a serious effect on her relationship with Adam."

Ethan's drunken confessions will strain his relationship with Adam, and Harrington says episode seven will show the two "having a serious conversation" as Adam grows tired of asking himself, "How long can you deal with a drunk dad?" One topic they will be address is whether or not Ethan loved Adam's mother, which is "a big concern for Adam."

"I think what you're starting to see is a difference between what fate is and how fate will protect these people...Ethan views messing with fate [as causing] so much damage, like he implies that he did 16 years ago," Harrington explains. "Ethan is worried that Adam will follow in his footsteps and not do what he's saying to do and put himself at huge risk and danger."

Speaking of danger, there is certain someone in town who isn't a fan of Ethan talking to the kids: Charles (Harold). In fact, Charles almost killed Ethan in the pilot for talking to Cassie (Britt Robertson) about her parents. So will Chance Harbor's two hottest dads continue to butt heads?

"I think we will, but I think with something like that, as you saw in the pilot, when Ethan and Charles go head to head it's pretty dramatic so I don't mind that they haven't gone head-to-head because you know things are just simmering," Harrington says. "The more Charles gets kind of diluted with Dawn (Natasha Henstridge) and what they're doing and what they're not, and now they've killed Nick and Ethan is supposed to realize that he has to make a decision as to whether he is going to try and drink himself away or face these things ahead of him. You just know that they're going to go head-to-head again."

Shocking Death and What's Ahead for the Coven

The two actors share an interesting past, with Harrington playing a version of Harold's iconic character Brian Kinney on Queer As Folk. I played the superhero version of Gale, I played the fictitious super-version of Gale," Harrington says with a laugh. "Gale and I actually never met, but because of our experiences working on that show we had some acquaintances in common, it just kind of felt like an inevitability that we would meet. I think what is so much fun in this is that we were playing two different versions of the same character before and now we're just arch-nemesis. I have a ton of fun working with him and we just kind of locked into that animosity to each other early on."

Besides Charles, Harrington teases that Ethan will have to deal with another (and possibly bigger) threat in episode seven: Someone shows up from Ethan's past threatening to give Cassie details on what happened that long time ago. We see Ethan at the end of the episode make a decision as to how he feels about whether he wants to start actually get involved or not."

The Secret Circle airs tonight at 9 p.m. PST on the CW.