What precisely was taking place to the prisoners — serial killers the world thinks have been executed — down within the top-secret Pit earlier than an explosion killed some and led to others escaping? That’s the large query for The Looking Celebration (Episode 2 airs February 10 on NBC after an early premiere), however what’s additionally necessary is catching these now on the market, and that’s as much as the group of FBI profiler Bex (Melissa Roxburgh), the CIA’s Jacob (Patrick Sabongui), and Pit guard Shane (Josh McKenzie). Given the character of what they’re doing and the secrets and techniques surrounding the Pit, it’s not a lot of a shock that belief is a little bit of a problem.
That’s “a scorching button for Jacob,” Sabongui tells TV Insider. “I don’t suppose he’s a man that trades in belief rather a lot. I feel the best way somebody in that line of labor survives for thus lengthy and excels and strikes ahead is an absolute lack of belief. I feel Bex hits a number of gentle spots for him and in order that’s the problem. However I feel he’s nonetheless engaged on accepting belief. He’s extra fascinated by having the ability to belief her allegiance. However I don’t know that he essentially doles out belief freely.”
Roxburgh’s Bex is on the identical web page. She’s “coming into all of this so blind that I don’t suppose she trusts anybody at first,” the star admits. However issues will occur over the course of the season to indicate her that her teammates are “on her aspect [and] do have her again, and so they’re a group.”
That additionally performs into her “taking at face worth” something Jacob — who was concerned earlier than she was introduced on board — tells her about what was taking place within the Pit after that time. Earlier than that, “she’s a profiler and so she’s studying individuals and clearly she is aware of individuals are going to lie or twist issues, however I feel by asking the entire questions that she might probably ask to whoever she will ask them to, she places collectively her personal package deal of data,” says Roxburgh.
However precisely how a lot does Jacob find out about what was occurring? “That’s one of many fascinating storylines to comply with is how a lot he thinks he is aware of and the way a lot he begins to find that he doesn’t know,” shares Sabongui. “It sort of relates again to the belief subject in that I don’t suppose he’s a blind rule follower, however he’s dedicated to the mission and if the mission is evident, he can keep on observe whereas additionally studying who he can belief, what new data he has and what reality he must drill all the way down to get to. And that’s one of many issues I like about this universe is that everyone’s duplicitous and also you by no means know what the Reality all the time is.”
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The Looking Celebration, Mondays, 10/9c, NBC