[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 5 “Til Death.”]
Don’t mess with Nyla Harper (Mekia Cox). That’s what the newest episode of The Rookie proves.
It was in Episode 4 that the LAPD found there’s an unidentified serial killer — whereas apprehending Harrison Novak (Noel Fisher) — and Nyla ended up in her personal mini-horror film; she was stabbed with a needle and quickly paralyzed. And so when she returns to work in Episode 5, she’s very decided to seek out who was accountable. “After having one thing so traumatic occur to her, she is now jolted into motion,” Cox explains on TV Insider’s Booked: The Rookie Aftershow. (Watch the total video above.)
Nyla trusts her intestine when it tells her that the person they assume might be answerable for the killings isn’t and as an alternative, it’s Liam (Seth Gabel), whose merchandising machine firm provides the hospital they had been investigating when she was attacked. However they don’t have sufficient on him to arrest him. “She’s sensible, so she is aware of she will’t, however there’s part of her that simply needs revenge,” admits Cox. “There’s part of her that simply needs him behind bars instantly, however she is aware of that if she doesn’t take the fitting steps and do that in the fitting method, that there’s no method he’s going behind bars and he may do that once more and he or she doesn’t need that.”
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However Nyla does make certain Liam is aware of on the finish of the episode that the LAPD will likely be watching him. She is aware of he’s used to being the neatest man within the room, however she additionally is aware of that he can’t assist what he’s, and whereas he could also be disciplined for some time, he received’t have the ability to cease. When he takes one other sufferer, she guarantees, they’ll be there. He’s gotten away with all the pieces as a result of he moved within the shadows, however now he’s within the highlight and he’ll keep there till she finds a solution to hold the murders on him and lock him away for good.
“That was nice,” Cox says of that monologue. “It’s good when you’ve got that. We don’t have, as actors, monologues usually. However that was a pleasant little chunk and I bear in mind doing it and simply trying into his eyes and I used to be fully Harper in that second and I used to be like, ‘You about to really feel this.’”
Gabel will likely be again. “He comes up once in a while,” Cox teases.
Earlier within the season, Nyla and James (Arjay Smith) had issues after she was shocked by questions concerning the LAPD from folks from the group (greater than she’d anticipated) upon strolling into their home. After, she’d stated she was frightened they obtained married too quick. How a lot did she imply that?
“I feel Nyla reacts. She reacts and he or she reacts harshly typically, however it’s positively a response to the battle and it’s her fault. She’s the one who stated, let’s get married. However I feel she’s questioning all the pieces in that second and he or she’s annoyed and he or she is aware of that he’s annoyed as properly,” Cox explains. “And there’s been lots of that, I feel, lately for them and he or she doesn’t know what to do about it. So she’s greedy for straws. She’s making an attempt to determine what the most effective factor is to do.”
They are going to be “examined quite a bit” in these subsequent few episodes, she teases. Plus, within the Valentine’s Day episode, which features a gala (“that is the episode the place all of us dress up and fancy”), “there’s a relationship that involves a head surrounding the 2 of them.”
Watch the total video above for way more from Cox, together with filming that scene in 704, the Nyla-Angela (Alyssa Diaz) partnership, Nyla’s relationship with James, and the Valentine’s Day episode.
The Rookie, Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC