[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 Episode 4 “Sophie.”]
The newest Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit case is private for Chief Inspector Invoice Houston (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), and consequently, he comes to a decision that he wouldn’t essentially have below different circumstances.
The lacking particular person in query is Lieutenant Sophie Kirby (Donna Benedicto), who, alongside along with her husband Sergeant Adam Kirby (Kurt Yaeger), served below Houston. After a truck crashes into Sophie and a buddy’s automobile, faux EMTs arrive on scene and kidnap her. When MPU finds their ambulance, there’s a bullet from the munitions middle by which Adam works. Houston doesn’t query it and as a substitute tells Kemi (Adeola Position) to seek out him.
“He trusts his group,” Warner explains to TV Insider. “He supervises the unit, however that is what they do each day. So I believe he has to, despite the fact that he’s overseeing it, go together with their intestine.”
He additionally goes with their plan to rescue Sophie, despite the fact that it will imply nice threat in the event that they’re caught. The plan requires stealing weapons from the bottom for an alternate. He says he’ll be proper beside them in the event that they get caught. But when this hadn’t concerned folks he knew, he wouldn’t have accepted that plan “as rapidly” as he did, confirms Warner. It’s simply not who he’s.
That goes again to trusting the unit. “There may be that added private funding of, ‘I obtained to get my folks.’ So I believe simply having the mixture of these two,” he says. “It’s one thing that if it did go south, he’s invested sufficient that he would take the hit with them. I actually imagine that about him.”
Houston is somebody who believes in construction and guidelines and did have issues with Jason’s (Scott Caan) cowboy ways, however his opinion is altering the extra he sees of the unit.
“I imagine that the extra time he spends with MPU and Jason particularly, there are extra conditions the place he could be open to bending the foundations as a result of on the finish of the day, it’s about getting outcomes and that’s what MPU does very nicely,” Warner tells us.
His first episode was the second of the season, by which the group’s boss, Nikki (Dania Ramirez), was killed. Now, the unit wants a pacesetter, and on this episode, Houston approaches Nikki’s husband Mike (Ryan Broussard) about stepping up. He did ace the lieutenant examination final 12 months, and whereas there are nonetheless just a few folks forward of him within the promotion listing, it’s nothing that may’t be politicked. Mike tells him he’s undecided, then, on the finish of the episode, turns him down. As Mike explains to Jason, after every little thing that occurred, some issues got here into focus; he doesn’t belong at a desk, doing paperwork and in control of everybody however reasonably out within the subject with him.
However in accordance with Warner, his character hasn’t fully dominated him out to guide the group. “I believe Invoice is sensible sufficient to present him time. I believe Invoice additionally respects there’s nonetheless the grief that Mike hasn’t allowed to essentially occur but. So I believe Invoice will get, okay, he’s going to want a while,” he explains, including he needs him to alter his thoughts.
Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit, Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox