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If the downside duo at the center of Max’s “Duster” did not consider the partners before, then surviving a hail of gunshots and a deadly Russian crime boss has surely cemented as a partners now.
In the sixth episode of the police drama in the 1970s in the 1970s, the creators Latoya Morgan and JJ Abrams, FBI agent Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson) followed his dangerous plan to infiltrate the Sixton crew (Keith David) by pretending to be his Russian interpreter. It was contrary to the wishes of his informant Jim Ellis (Josh Holloway), who did not care that she was so close to her day work as a salet driver. After having acquired the confidence of Saxton with his current Russian – something that Hilson learned for the role – Nina is quickly called for a meeting where he is looking for a agreement to obtain a mysterious case of a Russian gangster.
For the first time, Nina and Jim start to work together in the open air rather than in the shade, marking a huge change of rhythm for Hilson and Holloway.
“I think the issues were still high, but they were completely increased in this episode,” said Hilson Variety. “This episode has a huge arc because they make heads at first, but in the end, we feel more like friends and allies than ever.”
“Like real partners”, Holloway intervenes to say. “Until this point, it was a bit like rehearsal, and they even say that. But it is no longer a rehearsal; it enters my world now. There is a whole new level of confidence that must be there – or not. But after this agreement, I think they have mutual trust for each other who happens by this experience.”
“For this day, at least,” added Hilson, fissoring them both.
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Morgan says that one of the priorities of the episode was to show Nina and Jim, perhaps for the first time, with the depth of this mess. Before she goes under cover, Nina gives her true partner of the FBI Awan Bitsui (Asivak Koostachin) her medallion to return to her mother if her cover is blown. Later, when they are confronted with a probable death, Jim gives Nina the keys to his sheet for his daughter Luna if he does not go alive.
“They know that they have somehow plunged a toe through the line before, but now it becomes real,” explains Morgan. “She’s going under cover, and all bets are turned off. It’s not like in modern days when you can have a headset and the cavalry will run up to save you. They literally have no one other than themselves and each other to get them out. ”
Saxts brings Nina, Jim, his son Ben (Benjamin Charles Watson) and his bodyman brandishing Billy baseball bats (Evan Jones) for the agreement, and things go well at the beginning. Until the Russian asks all the presents to share a vodka plan with him, a demonstration of camaraderie before putting himself in business. Unfortunately, Ben always recoveries heart surgery, and the right alcohol plan mixed with his drugs makes it panic and frighten Russian. Fortunately, Jim intervenes to defuse the situation, transforming Ben’s recent health problems into an excited history on the way he has survived an attempted life of his enemies. Filtered through the impeccable Russian of Nina, the boss of the crime respects Ben’s perceived courage and accepts the conditions of saleton.
Speaking of the Russian of Hilson, even Holloway was impressed by watching her deliver him during the shooting. “You spoke so much Russian,” he said. “I couldn’t believe that she could have succeeded.
Hilson does not remember when, in the hearing process, Morgan and Abrams told her that Russian would be part of the character’s skills, but when she learned about it, she immediately started working with a tutor.
“I knew she had to speak fluent,” she says. “Not only be able to say these lines, but it also seems that she really knew what she said and could be able to go here and there. I really wanted to do things well. So I started it very soon, then we had a dialect coach on the set which was incredible.”
All this preparation led to this agreement, which Hilson had to play with confidence and a touch of fear when the Russian initially questioned her about the reasons why she knew the Russian. It shakes Nina for a while, before she finds her foot.
“It was so fun to film, but it was even more fun to finally have what to materialize and were done,” she said.
With the Russian – the language and the gangster – away, the crescendos episode in real action. In the previous episode, Jim made an enemy of Sal (Jack Topalian), a Greek gangster, who was left smoking when Jim helped the daughter of Saxton, Genesis (Sydney Elisabeth), the marriage of Saul’s daughter and to steal the bride (and her girlfriend) far from a financially advantageous organized union. Saul is now absent for blood, and he sends his henchmen to spy on the pair of saleton, then kill Jim once the Russian left. The two men shoot first and ask questions later, leaving Nina to show her skills with a pistol,
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During the shooting, Jim and Nina finally have their hands on the very important case that Saxton came, which, according to Nina, could contain enough evidence to make it fall. But in chaos, they cannot open it and see what all this is for. Instead, they have to “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid” which leave this situation, without damaging their covers.
“Billy is my main concern because he is already suspect and I feel him perfecting himself on us,” says Holloway. “So we can do nothing here in front of Billy, because he will sniff it immediately. But one of my favorite films is` Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid ”, so replaying this scene was fantastic. And the dialogue of the moment was so fast and full of mind, and I love that they are still arguing at that time while they were slaughtered. “
In the end, Nina saves Ben’s life, forcing Billy to eliminate her suspicions about her – for the moment. But the consequences of its new immersion in the salet operation must prove to be. To attract him here, the father of Jim Wade (Corbin Bernsen) and the mother-in-law Charlotte (Gail O’Grady) helped to train the infiltration agent on his game, which should concern Jim.
“Not only does their relationship deepened, but now my father is involved and my mother-in-law is involved,” he said. “There is this evolution of knowledge, because we also discover that my father also had doubts about the death of my brother. Doing it on board really gives Jim the permission to trust a little more in Nina.”
The episode ends with a smaller note with Nina’s ball wound which was breastfeeding Jim, a moment of persistent glances which seems to confirm that fans of romantic thrilling tension have already timed each other. Hilson says she thinks that it is the public to determine how to read the scene, which does not include a kiss, but certainly approach it.
Holloway, meanwhile, feared that a possible romance does not seem appropriate for the characters or the era. But history, he realized, is on their side.
“I was wondering if it was going to be weird, but if you put it in the world of the 70s, not so much,” he said. “People were more fluid around most of the problems. Was the age difference a great thing? Is the difference in breed one thing? Not really. It makes sense, because at the beginning, before he realizes that she is the FBI, it is very attractive. It’s just a man and a woman flirting. Their real professional relationship was antagonistic – but who knows where it could grow later. ”
Morgan says that the adrenaline of the wild shooting dropped their defenses, leaving them both more vulnerable than ever.
“They survived and they lived to tell the story,” she says. “For me, there is nothing more sexy than helping someone when they are injured. They had a little tequila, and the tequila can go to the head. But that’s it. There is this thing between them and no one else understands but them.”
But how sexy can it be sexy when Richard Nixon plays on the TV in the background?
“You don’t know what people are the problems!” Said Hilson laughing.
