Countdown stunned viewers with the August 13 episode by closing out one case and opening a brand new one. And that first case did come to a definitive finish for Volchek (Bogdan Yasinski), who had been planning to set off bombs at The Vine. However in stopping him, Meachum (Jensen Ackles), preventing off debilitating signs from his mind tumor, took the shot when he wanted to and killed him.
Yasinski discovered that was coming when he acquired to Episode 10. When he signed on, he didn’t know something about his character. When it got here to his character’s demise, he was somewhat “unhappy,” he admits to TV Insider. “He’s a really efficient particular person. May have finished numerous issues. His résumé — managed a posh crew, worldwide crew in transport — would learn very properly. It was transfer, however I assumed possibly there was an opportunity to flip him. Possibly there was a negotiation there. Has he made some errors? Don’t all of us, proper? No person’s good. However he didn’t blow up something but, proper? Sure, he stabbed. Possibly they might have used him sort of like a Hannibal Lecter kind of situation.”
He’s fast, nonetheless, to inform us he doesn’t suppose Volchek may have been flipped. “He was fairly set in his methods,” says Yasinski.
However he wasn’t the one dangerous man the duty pressure took down. As Bell (Elliot Knight) realized, somebody needed to tip off Volchek’s group about an LAPD and S.W.A.T. raid that turned up empty. With S.W.A.T. beneath the DA’s purview, he knew it needed to be Valwell (Merrick McCartha), who stored inserting himself into the investigation and had the transactions in his checking account to show it. Bell arrested him. Knight agrees that was satisfying, particularly given Valwell’s historical past along with his father, which he’d tried to make use of.
“The storyline with Valwell is absolutely Bell’s, I assume, private story inside the present that’s the reflection of his private drive that we get to see. And so I feel it’s not simply that he’s attending to do his job and produce about justice and produce down somebody who’s corrupt, but it surely’s additionally there’s a household tie, there are stakes along with his father, and it’s nearly one thing that’s been used towards him to attempt to pin him right into a life the opposite aspect of the road, and the episodes main as much as that, we see Bell considering that provide,” says Knight. “‘Is that one thing he desires to do if he’s so pushed to rise to the highest — which is what Bell does need to do — if he desires to be the director of the FBI sooner or later, is that this the way in which that he will get there? Possibly that’s the proper technique to go about it.’”
Due to that, “I feel it’s not simply bringing him down but additionally understanding that he selected the best path for himself is double satisfaction,” he continues. “And I’ve to say it was a reasonably enjoyable scene to shoot as properly on the steps of Metropolis Corridor. It felt fairly epic for him.”
With that case wrapped up, the duty pressure disbanded, and with Shepherd (Violett Beane) going to D.C., she requested Bell to regulate her sister, Molly (Michelle DeShon). After the 10-month time bounce, he instructed her he had one thing to inform her about Molly. The subsequent case interrupted them earlier than he may say extra.
Knight acknowledges there’s fairly a bit unknown about what occurred in these 10 months, “however I feel he cares about Shepherd. Shepherd loves the job that she has and is clearly dedicated to it and has an enthusiasm for it the identical method that Bell does, and that’s the place that they actually join. I feel we see them having dinner and so they’re having a good time and so they’re connecting extra socially. I feel that Bell sees the way in which that he can principally step up for his pal and his teammate by serving to her out with a household situation.”
He is aware of the way it appears to Shepherd — that one thing occurred between Bell and Molly — however he factors out his character remains to be very a lot a thriller in lots of points, together with the truth that we have now but to go house with him. (“I’m personally pitching for the spinoff, Countdown: Go Dwelling With Bell, and I feel it might do nice,” Knight laughs.) “There’s room there for some extra revelations positively,” he teases.
As for the potential for romance between Bell and Shepherd, it’s the aforementioned thriller surrounding his character that has Knight hesitant to take a position. “I don’t know if he has room for one thing like that. I don’t know if he’s keen on one thing like that. However they positively have an vitality between them, however not every part is because it seems. And so that you by no means know what would possibly occur there,” he says.
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