‘The Rookie’: Nathan Fillion on Nolan’s Emotional Confession to Harper

Speak about being caught between a cop and a tough place!

The Rookie‘s John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) discovered himself in a no-win scenario this week because the LAPD handled the fallout from final week’s drive-by capturing that left Harper’s husband James (Arjay Smith) and community-center volunteer Kylie (Maria Zhang) clinging to life. (Happily, each survive.) With the cops scrambling to search out the shooter — a neighborhood gang member named Connor (Levi Meaden) — Nolan was pressured to disclose that he’d noticed James and Kylie in a clinch shortly earlier than the crime, even supposing the data would have a two-fold influence: First, it meant telling his former T.O. and beloved colleague an terrible fact about her marriage, and secondly, it might forged critical suspicion onto the devastated Nyla (the large Mekia Cox), who had arrested Connor 18 months earlier. Had she maybe employed him to take out her untrue husband out of jealousy?

“It actually was breaking Nolan’s coronary heart to should be the one simply to harm Nyla in any approach, form or type,” Fillion advised us in our Booked: The Rookie Aftershow. “And but he’s honor-bound. He has to say one thing in that scenario.”

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Discovering a minor shortcut, Nolan as an alternative knowledgeable Sgt. Gray (Richard T. Jones), Wes (Shawn Ashmore) and Angela (Alyssa Diaz) of the kiss, which Gray then let Harper learn about with out revealing his supply. Finally, nevertheless, Nolan got here clear together with her…not nearly being the one who reported the scenario but additionally about his immense respect and love for her. It was a ravishing scene that served as a testomony to the lengthy historical past these two have shared since Nyla joined the Mid-Wilshire Division in Season 2 as Nolan’s very brusque coaching officer.

“I believe I added a bit or two to that [scene] simply to ensure we’re masking all of the bases of how essential she has turn into to him,” famous Fillion of the second, by which Nolan emotionally reveals that she had turn into “in no small approach, my hero,” with an inventory of belongings that may clearly be utilized to each the character and actress. “I imply, let’s not overlook, initially, Mekia Cox…what an extremely gifted younger girl enjoying that a part of Nyla Harper. Let’s not overlook how terribly antagonistic that relationship was when she first arrived on our present. How indignant and reduce off she was, how guarded she was and, over time, what a journey she has made, what an arc she has created.”

And Cox is just not the one costar the so-gracious Fillion is gushing over. Watch the complete aftershow with Fillion above as he discusses two of his different main women, how that is one of the best job he’s ever had, and why he’s so “tremendous” enthusiastic about his upcoming position as Inexperienced Lantern Man Gardner on this summer time’s Superman. It’s mainly heroes throughout with this one!