The Odyssey goes to develop into the scene of a secure heist on Thursday’s (March 20) “On line casino Week” episode of Physician Odyssey, and 9-1-1‘s Angela Bassett shall be bringing Athena’s detective expertise to bear for the onboard investigation.
The request for her presence, because the look-ahead teaser reveals, will come from Don Johnson‘s Capt. Robert Massey because the ship turns into a gambler’s paradise off the coast of Los Angeles.
For Johnson, the chance to work with Bassett has been a very long time coming. “We’ve recognized one another a very long time, however we’ve by no means gotten to work collectively. And she or he was joyful,” he advised TV Insider. “Whenever you get Angela to set, you go, ‘Okay, I’m simply gonna take her hand and let her lead this dance,’ and he or she’s a fairly good dancer.”
After all, contemplating what occurred final time she was on a cruise ship — let’s simply say her honeymoon was a catastrophe at sea — it received’t be straightforward for her to hit the deck once more.
“They’re gonna get her on very reluctantly, however… when there’s a name to obligation, she’ll be there,” Bassett defined. “It is a name that she has to just accept. She’s hoping to get on there, discover the perpetrator, and get proper off, however after all, that doesn’t occur. And so there’s slightly bit of hysteria, as you’ll be able to think about, ’trigger she doggon’ close to misplaced her life and her husband’s life, so there’s slightly nervousness that rises up in her, however she’ll simply must energy by it.”
Bassett stated of the plot, “There’s somebody who’s making an attempt to sneak on board who isn’t presupposed to, so she goes to get him off, finally ends up setting sail, sadly, so she’s simply obtained to make one of the best of it.”
One one that will get pleasure from a change of tempo with this case is Joshua Jackson‘s Dr. Max Bankman, who will help to Athena in her seek for the suspect and revel in that non permanent oasis from the love triangle and being pregnant drama that’s knowledgeable the again half of the season to this point.
“I feel as a person, it’s good for him to have slightly break from impending fatherhood and heartbreak and all the remainder of it,” Jackson stated. “It’s a breather episode within the midst of that storyline.”
Whereas Max will observe Athena’s lead on the case to assist “ferret out who’s truly behind lifting these jewels off the boat,” Jackson stated the physician will nonetheless have an opportunity to do his job alongside the way in which. “After all, there’s at all times a medical aspect, and that turns into a part of the reveal, and it’s a part of how Max places among the issues collectively. However it’s, as we name it, the massive tuxedo episode. I’m in my black and white for numerous the time,” he teased.
“For Max, it’s like a enjoyable sport,” Jackson continued. “I feel he enjoys it completely as a result of it’s a legal investigation run by the eyes of The Odyssey. So it turns into a cat-and-mouse sport, and that is, in some ways, our Ocean’s Eleven episode.”
The truth that a 9-1-1 crossover episode like that is occurring on Physician Odyssey‘s maiden voyage on tv, Johnson stated, proves as soon as once more, “There are not any limits on this present… It has legs. It has dynamics that we will proceed to play with and discover and hopefully thrill our audiences.”
“That’s the facility of Ryan Murphy,” Jackson added. “It speaks to the huge quantities of success that he has had and continues to have. However I additionally suppose it’s the brilliance of this present that he put collectively for us is that we will be all the things… We simply completed up these two action-adventure episodes [in “Shark Week”], and now we’ve got a heist episode, after which we’ve got the spring break episode [“Sophisticated Ladies Week”] and it’s slightly raunchier… We’ve completed weddings with very critical overtones and a threesome and cosmetic surgery, and there’s limitless methods to take this story. I’ve by no means labored on a present the place every episode is principally its personal self-contained story, its personal little film, and it’s been a whole lot of enjoyable.”
Physician Odyssey, Thursdays, 9/8, ABC