GRADUALLY, LIFE RETURNS to normal, or at least as normal as it ever gets for Paul. Which means that on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-June he’s in his office at their production company on a gruesome yet fascinating phone meeting with their medical expert for Plague. The show may not be a procedural in a traditional sense but Paul, Olivia, and their writers still need an understanding of the world their characters are living in. Once the call is done, he spins his chair back around to find Olivia leaning in the doorway, clearly judging everything. “Starting Take Your Daughters to Work Day early?” she asks. “I always bring the babies in,” Paul says. Vic and Claudia are on a blanket spread out next to his chair, where Vic appears to be trying to teach Claudia to play pat-a-cake. People love to

