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“Their backs are truly against a wall,” Ben Schwartz told reporters earlier this week. “They’re scrambling to get air and not die, and killing anybody they can to get air.”

However, Marty’s problems aren’t limited to the boardroom. In Sunday’s season finale (10/9c on Showtime), he is also headed for a heated courtroom battle with his ex-wife and work rival Monica (Dawn Olivieri) over their son Roscoe. “The merger, while very important, is not as important as the things that happen between the characters,” series boss Matthew Carnahan said. “What happens… leaves everything… in a terrible state of disarray.”

Carnahan, along with stars Schwartz and Josh Lawson offered six other teases for the season finale, Season 2 and beyond:

1. Jeannie (Kristen Bell) may be the pod’s saving grace: Although every team member is protecting his or her own skin, Carnahan said Jeannie “takes a bullet for all of them.”

2. That doesn’t mean the team is sticking together: Carnahan said it’s not impossible for the team to be split up. “They may be completely blown apart from one another for an entire season or one of them may be stolen away. Those things all can happen within the context of this group,” he said.

3. Marty could really lose custody: After his surprise split with April — not to mention forgetting to pick Roscoe up at school — Marty is on thin ice with his son, which may not bode well for his day in court against Monica. The result of the custody battle “will change the entire essence of what the second season is and what home base is for [Marty],” Schwartz said. “If he goes home and there’s nobody there, [he's] a totally different human being. What does he do with his free time then?” Added Carnahan: “In the second season, how important Roscoe is really will begin to trickle in even more.”

4. But Roscoe’s impact will still be felt: Everyone knows that Marty is emotionally stunted since his mom’s suicide. But Roscoe’s growing up may force Marty to mend his immature ways. “As his own son begins to pass him up in emotional maturity, that’s not going to go well unless he changes,” Carnahan said. Lawson is excited to see just how Marty evolves. “What I’m looking forward to in Season 2 is how he reinvents himself. How he puts the new armor on,” he said. “I think he’s going to be even a bigger mother f—– because he’ll protect himself. He’ll put up thicker walls.”

5. Monica might also be changing: She’s got a new man and a new resolve to spend time with Roscoe. Could Monica really be turning over a new leaf? “What I’m interested in is her undergoing a radical transformation and what that might do. How that might upset her and Marty’s relationship,” Carnahan said, warning that this isn’t just another one of Monica’s manipulative moves. “For it to be interesting, it has to be some sort of metamorphosis that is authentic.”

6. Fans will learn more about Clyde (Schwartz) and Doug (Lawson) … eventually: The comedy went home with Marty and, to a lesser extent, with Jeannie, but the other two pod members remain a mystery, for now. “I’m really glad we didn’t in the first season. If a show is to have longevity as well, you do want to keep some aces up your sleeve,” Lawson said. “You want surprises in future seasons.” Schwartz agreed: To show “what their lives are like at home, I think that would be huge and I think to save that for next season is so fun.”

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The “House of Lies” actress is the latest to film a video ad for the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Americans for Marriage Equality effort. “It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can’t marry the one they love, and I can,” Bell, who will next be seen opposite Bradley Cooper in this summer’s “Outrun,” says in the new clip. “That makes no sense.”

Bell’s efforts earned the praise of HRC President Joe Solmonese. “Every day committed and loving gay and lesbian couples face the unfair reality that marriage is out of the question for them,” he said in an email statement. “Kristen Bell, like a majority of Americans, recognizes the injustice of this discrimination, and the harm it inflicts on families across the country.”

This isn’t the first time the 31-year-old actress has spoken out in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. Earlier this month, she told The Advocate that she and fiance Dax Shepard would hold off on tying the knot until until same-sex marriage is legal throughout the United States. “The reason we’re not rushing to get married is because I don’t feel appropriate taking advantage of a right that’s denied to my best friends,” said Bell, who names openly gay “Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto as a confidante. “Dax and I have talked about it a lot, and this issue is very important to both of us. We’re just standing up for what we believe in.”

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