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Will Hilary Swank's troublemaking reporter survive the season on Alaska Daily?

-  KATE HAHN

THE TRUTH CAN set you free. It can also get you killed. "Some people get aggressive and violent when the truth is revealed. They want to keep living their illusions. Journalists have lost their lives because of [that]," says Hilary Swank, who plays Alaska Daily's gruff, exacting newspaper reporter Eileen Fitzgerald.

Art imitated life in the fall finale's cliffhanger ending, which cut to black as the newswoman, in The Daily Alaskan's offices after hours, faced a gunman angered by her investigations. The self-described "concerned citizen" had been stalking and openly threatening the former NYC hotshot since she started working in Anchorage. (He even sent her a bullet!)